The Great Wall of Ice, which belongs to the northernmost boundary line of the Wanqin Empire, is the dividing line between the northern ice field and the empire's territory, and is surrounded by the empire's most elite Snow Wolf Legion.

Geographical Minutes of the Imperial Encyclopedia

Autumn and August of the year 291 in the continental calendar

In the Qingyu Forest in the southern part of the Central Asian continent, the sun is gradually tilting to the west, the crescent moon is slowly rising from the distant eastern sky, and the curtain has quietly drawn down at dusk, and there are few pedestrians on the road at this moment every day.

The only road leading to Nanyang City in the Qingyu Forest was far away and a boy walked by, and in order to hurry to the next inn to stay, he was moving very fast.

The boy wore a slender double-edged sword at his waist, a simple leather armor on his chest, and a tight-fitting black power suit wrapped in a cloak, and walked forward.

The sky gradually darkened, the birds and insects chirped in the forest, the cool breeze blew, and the boy's face showed a look of exhaustion after a day's journey.

The boy turned a small corner, and saw a group of caravanserais sitting behind a big tree on the edge of the forest on the right side of the road, four carriages were parked behind the caravan, and the camels and horses were lying on the ground with their eyelids on the verge of falling asleep, and several caravans were laughing and laughing.

Somewhere further inside, there was a small river that bent in the wind, and the wind blew from the other side of the river with a cool dampness. The little boy who had been on the road for a day looked ahead and still couldn't see the shadow of the inn, and saw that there was a group of business travelers to accompany him in this rare shady place, so the little boy put down his bags and decided to spend the night here.

An elderly merchant who was talking noticed someone coming, stopped the conversation and looked at the person who was gradually approaching, and when he looked closely, he found that it was a boy.

"Is there anything you need help with, little brother?" asked the older businessman very enthusiastically.

"Excuse me, uncle, can I spend the night with you here?" the traveler greeted an older businessman.

"Little brother, where did you come from, why did you go out alone?" asked the older merchant when he saw a boy of about sixteen years old approaching, and was very worried.

"Uncle, I'm from the southern border town, I'm going to Nanyang City, I just finished the ceremony this year, I want to go to the recruitment of the Longyou Mercenary Regiment!" the boy replied. The border town is located in the south of the Qingyu Forest, and is a military town on the southern border of the Wanqin Empire.

"You're here to rest with us today!" the merchant pointed to the clearing beside him, with a blanket on it, motioning for the boy to sit down.

"Thank you, uncle. The boy unpacked his bag and placed it beside him, and sat down.

There were 5 people, the oldest looked like he was in his 50s, one looked to be in his 30s, and the others were about 20 years old, each wearing fur clothes, and the carriage was full of goods telling them that they were a group of caravans who were delivering goods!

In Central Asia, at the age of 16, you can enter adulthood, you can get married and have children, you can enlist in the army when you need to, you can exercise your own judgment independently, and you can also join or organize mercenary groups.

"I still go to the border town a lot, and I even transported a horse to that side in the first few days. But the Longyou mercenary group is not easy to enter! Little brother. The elder merchant brigade's eyes were full of reverence when he heard about the Longyou mercenary group, "Good luck, little brother!"

At present, the mercenary team on the Central Asian continent can be divided into eight levels according to their rank: S, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and the mercenary level is also these eight levels.

Classes E, F, and G are low-level mercenaries and mercenary organizations;

The mercenary team and mercenaries of this level are the grassroots of the mercenary world, and because of the strength level, such mercenaries or mercenaries in such a team can only accept some relatively simple tasks and have a relatively low income. Not every mercenary is content with the status quo, for some unspecified level missions, these low-level mercenary teams and mercenaries will also accept to pray for a piece of the pie, because of their strength, the mortality rate of such mercenaries is very high when receiving relatively difficult tasks.

Rank C and D are mid-level mercenaries and mercenary organizations;

Mercenaries of this level can be said to be the pillar of the entire mercenary world, and they generally already have a considerable scale. With the consent of the Imperial Ministry, it is possible to garrison some towns and collect garrison commissions.

Class B is a high-level mercenary or mercenary organization;

The mercenary groups and mercenaries of this class can be said to be the representatives of the entire mercenary world, accounting for more than 30% of the number of mercenaries and mercenary teams in the entire mercenary world, and high-level mercenaries or teams are only composed of this one class. For high-level mercenary groups, mercenaries are often mercenary organizations that mercenaries rush to join, and such mercenary organizations will have specific people to train new mercenaries so that their level and strength can be quickly improved.

S and A are super-level mercenaries or mercenary organizations;

It is known that there are only four super-level mercenary organizations in the two continents, and it is said that the strength of this level of mercenary organizations is enough to compete with a small and medium-sized country, and if there is a good time, it is also enough strength to open up the territory and create a new country, and such mercenary organizations are already the object of special attention among various countries and tribes of various races.

The A-level mercenary group Longyou Mercenary Group is one of the three super-level mercenary teams in the Central Asian continent, and its mercenary members cover the Wanqin Empire, the Trona Empire, and the Avinian Kingdom. Legend has it that there is also a mysterious army that never appears.

"Uncle, are you going to Nanyang City?"

"Hmm! We're going to Nanyang City to make deliveries. The older merchant pointed to the carriage behind him.

"Uncle, why don't you hire mercenaries?" the boy asked.

"Hehe, don't we have you!" said the merchant with a smile. "We've been walking this road for several years, and it's such a short road, so we won't encounter any danger. ”

During the conversation, the elder merchant traveled and learned that the boy's name was Li Xiangfeng, and after being a soldier, his father was a hundred sergeants in the right army under the jurisdiction of General Zhennan of the empire, and his mother was a priest of the right army. Born in a border town, his parents did not return from a campaign ten years ago when the Wanqin Empire suppressed a rebellion against the Northern Ice Fields. Now only the grandfather is left.

Indeed, after walking through the Qingyu Forest and then 4 kilometers to the northeast, you will reach the city of Nanyang, the older business traveler thinks that in the past few years in the Qingyu Forest, the only road has not heard of robbers, businessmen!

In the middle of the night, Li Xiangfeng lay on the blanket spread on the grass, unable to fall asleep for a long time, "the Great Wall of Solid Ice, the Northern Ice Field", the two words that made the people of the Wanqin Empire talk about the tiger's color change, repeatedly whispered in his mouth, "Mercenary Group, Longyou Mercenary Group, Father, Mother" The drowsiness has gradually attacked, and Li Xiangfeng's mouth is mixed with incoherent words.

The bright moon had imperceptibly climbed up the branches, and from time to time there was the chirping of night insects in the distance! The little boy and the business travelers who had been running around all day gradually fell asleep.

Not far from the caravanserais, a group of green eyes gradually appeared, experienced hunters can see at a glance what they are, wolves, forest wolves, forest wolves in the Qingyu Forest, once a hunter once said such a sentence: If encountering wolves in the forest is a nightmare, then encountering a forest wolf is a disaster.

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"The Great Wall of Ice, the Northern Ice Field" are two words that make people in the Wanqin Empire and even the entire continent talk about color change, and their main formation dates back to a major change a hundred years ago:

In the 102nd year of the continental calendar, two demon-level summoners Shen Fengyu and Shen Gongyu fled to a place called "Xiaowan Village" in the northernmost part of the empire in order to resist the empire's pursuit, and the empire sent two high-ranking warriors, a senior Taoist magician, and two great magicians to arrest them.

Tens of thousands of residents around the war fell victim to the war, the plague was continued to spread by the residents who escaped, and the plague from the other world became the deadliest killer at that time.

In the autumn and September of the same year, the Imperial Cabinet quickly made the most correct and cruel way to deal with it, isolating the plague area in the north, prohibiting anyone from entering and leaving, and those who violated it would be killed! Summoned all the ice magicians on the whole continent to carry out the ice sealing operation on the northernmost territory of about 30 million square kilometers of the empire, 9 archmages, 67 magisters, more than 500 archmages, thousands of intermediate mages, basically more than half of the ice mages on the continent participated in the implementation of the ice operation, they either voluntarily or by order.

That year, the other places that should have been in the cold season were exceptionally warm, and the other places that were supposed to be the wet season in that winter were exceptionally dry, and the magic elements of the ice and water systems converged to the north of the empire from all directions, and the magic cast lasted for more than 3 months, and more than 30 million square kilometers of territory were frozen up, and more than 1 million residents were besieged in it. After the mercenary conflict, the Great Wall of Ice was built, a 100-meter-high structure that runs from east to west to isolate the northern ice fields from the empire.

- "Chronicles of the Continent"