Chapter 174: Geography and the Human Heart
The general topography of the western continent is generally high in the north and low in the south. The snowfields in the north are higher and colder plateaus. This vast and icy plateau, like Siberia in the northern hemisphere of the earth, is the birthplace of all cold spells in the entire western continent. The Leighton Kingdom, known as the "Snow Deer Kingdom", occupies the entire snowfield on the map, but in fact, there are only residential areas in the two warmer climates in the east and west of the snowfield, and the cold land in the middle of the snowfield is almost a forbidden area for life.
The capital of the kingdom of Layton was in the west, not very far from the border between Thrace and Layton. That's why the Thracians were able to easily take the royal capital through the winter raid. If Leighton's capital is in the east...... Then it will not be able to keep the territory of the west at all.
The eastern territory of the Leighton Kingdom consisted of a number of Dominions, which were largely not subject to much control by the state other than the collection of taxes. Of course, this is a helpless thing, what is the saying on earth? Too far from heaven, too close to America, woohoo lament......
A little south from the northern plateau, there is a long mountain range, generally known as the "Big Screen Mountains", and a more elegant one can be called the "Tianping Mountains", which is low in the middle and high on both sides, which largely blocks the cold currents that flow to Thrace and West Vanlyka, but not so much the cold winds that blow to the grasslands. Therefore, in the northern part of the western continent, it is warmer on both sides and colder in the middle.
And further south, a little south in the middle of the western continent, there is a "great mountain range" that has two branches, one in the middle of the kingdom of Thrace, and the other is the Norma Mountains on the former border between Thrace and Morlai, and the two mountains probably meet on the border between Thrace and Trera, which now belongs to the county of Dracula. Then it began to rise steeply, stretching a little north to the west, and then breaking abruptly at the end of the prairie, disappearing into the vast forest on the border between Trera and West Vanlyca.
This great mountain range blocked the cold wave that had basically lost its strength thousands of miles south, along with the little rain left, so that the mountain range to the south, first the Gobi, then the grassland, then the forest.
By the way, the "Reckless Crossing the Earth" castle of the traversers is located in the southwest of this grassland, not far from the forests to the south.
The topography of the north-central part of the Western Continent is roughly like this. So in general, the situation of the savannah encountering a cold wave really cannot be regarded as very rare. Small-scale cold waves occur almost every year, forming a "white disaster" level, roughly once in ten or twenty years, as for the terrifying "big white disaster" - if you are lucky, you will never encounter it in a lifetime. But if you are too lucky, good enough to become a legendary powerhouse, you will definitely encounter several times in your life.
Therefore, when the news of the Great White Disaster came, the great shaman Iron Tooth of the "Fierce Mountain Boar" tribe suddenly realized that the opportunity he had been waiting for for almost eighty years had come!
As one of the few great shamans in the steppe after the Four Great Shamans, the Great Shaman of Iron Tooth is an ideal man who has always wanted to push the Orcs and Thrace to further strengthen their connection - with the Orcs dominating them, of course. And the opportunity he had been waiting for was that Thrace was weakened, and the orcs were marching west because of the White Plague.
It was hard to wait for such an opportunity, but he finally waited for it.
Therefore, after receiving the news of the Great White Plague, he immediately set off to the royal capital of Thrace, trying to persuade Jon, the "Prince of the Galloping Horse", to come forward and become a mediator between Thrace and the orcs to fulfill his ideals.
Prince Jon didn't want to agree to him at first, in the eyes of this prince, Thrace was once the world's first power after all, even if the years were unfavorable, it still had a strong heritage, and it was definitely not something that a mere orc alliance could shake - the orc alliance had also fought Thrace several times in history, and each time it suffered heavy losses and little gain, so that when it encountered the White Plague, it mainly went to fight West Bunlyka.
But the Great Shaman of Iron Tooth did not give up, and persuaded him three times and twice, especially recently, and he came up with a very important example that really impressed Prince Jon.
He talks about the fall of the Edwards.
Prince Jon is an old friend of the Edward family, his mother had a good relationship with the elders of the Edward family during her lifetime, and then in his generation, the relationship with the father and son of the Edward family is also very good, and the two sides can be described as irreversible friends.
When the Edward family made that windfall, he also helped out in it. However, he is a martial arts idiot, and he is interested in improving his force, but he is not very interested in making money, so he is not deeply involved.
As a result, he witnessed the Edward family's fortune and its eventual demise.
During the demise of the Edward family, he did not speak well of it - the character of his brother Richard, he knew much better than others. If the prime minister Leopold hadn't died, he would have been able to try to persuade him, but since Leopold was dead, the Edward family would have only one fate, "burial".
At that time, his heart was very cold when he saw all this happening. So he became more and more martial and stupid, and became more and more ignorant of the world.
However, the Great Shaman of Iron Tooth punctured his illusions.
"The only reason why you are still alive now is because the little prince has not grown up. The iron-toothed shaman said coldly, "When the little prince grows up, you, an uncle who is strong in martial arts, has a lot of prestige in the royal family, and is still a respected uncle on the grassland, will have to retire - ten years at most, and you will only have ten years left in your life at most!"
At that time, Jörn also defended: "When the time comes, I can retire and go back to the grassland to recuperate, and become a hermit who raises cattle and sheep." ”
The Great Shaman of Iron Tooth just sneered, "Are you sure that Richard's son, the king who was taught by the Assassin Alan Vena, will allow you to retire alive?"
Jon couldn't argue with that.
The little king may not be very old, but his style of doing things can already be seen to be quite ruthless - presumably because his teacher was a cold-blooded killer. When this nephew grows up, his uncle, who is in the way, is afraid that he will really not be able to get out of the way.
In that case, of course, he didn't have many options left......
Seeing the Great Shaman of Iron Tooth use teleportation to leave, Prince Jon sighed and left the reception room to the underground martial arts training hall.
He casually took off the gun and shield from the weapon rack and waved it vigorously, although he sweated a little, but his heart was even more annoyed.
Tossing his weapon aside, he lay on the ground, just in time to see a spear hanging on the wall not far away.
The pitch-black spear glowed uncomfortably under the illumination of the magic crystal, and on the tip of the spear like a drill, dense magic runes flickered from time to time, and the sound of a ringing could be faintly heard.
This is what he spent ten years of hard work on, collecting precious materials, and searching for treasures created by famous craftsmen, dragon slaying spears.
Originally, his dream was to hold a dragon slayer gun and join forces with his friend James Edward to destroy an evil dragon that endangers the world, leaving a reputation as a dragon slayer warrior in history.
It's a pity that things are not human, and now only this spear hangs there coldly, and there is not even a target to challenge.
Prince Jon let out a long sigh and clenched his fists.
"The Great Shaman is not a man to be trusted, but his words make a lot of sense. He said to himself, "How can a manly man leave life and death to someone else's decision! Even if I want to die, I, Jon Thrace, will die vigorously on the battlefield!"