Chapter 1 A Snow-Covered Town

The terrible cold wind blew on the earth, rolling up the flying snow in the sky, making the sky and the earth become chaotic. When you walk on the road, there is more than half a meter of snow on the ground, and it reaches your thighs when you step on it, making it extremely difficult to walk. There were no people to be seen on the main road between the villages and towns, only the boundless snow, drifting silently. This is the southernmost town in the southern part of the Yarra Continent, the southernmost town of the Neville Federation, and some people believe that it is also the coldest part of the entire human territory, and it is the limit of what ordinary humans can bear. Walking another 120 kilometers south from Bingjie Town, you can reach the Bailong Dominion with a territory of less than 500 square kilometers, and through the Bailong Dominion, you can enter the Warcraft Forest like the mythical Ice and Snow Country.

Here, there are only two seasons in the thirteen months of the year, and the winter is covered with snow and ice for nine months, and the earth can only be seen in the summer for four months. The harsh natural conditions make it difficult to pass through here, and under normal circumstances, there is no need to pass here, so this land, which is obviously fertile, but difficult to cultivate due to the harsh natural conditions, has become a forgotten world in the Neville Federation.

Beyond this forgotten world is the Warcraft Forest, which is covered in ice and snow all year round, and is also the second largest forest in the Yara world. The Warcraft Forest covers an area of nearly 400,000 square kilometers, and there are only four months a year without snow, and the tall and sturdy coniferous evergreens take advantage of these four months to grow as best they can and fully enjoy the warmth of the sun. After four months, the cold returns and the green vegetation is covered with white again, allowing the forest to return to a world of ice and snow. There are a large number of Warcraft active in this country of ice and snow, and they are all high-level Warcraft, which is the second most diverse place on the Yala Continent, and there are hundreds of thousands of Warcraft of different sizes combined, and this characteristic is also the origin of the name Warcraft Forest.

Most of the demonic beasts in the Warcraft Forest are ice-attribute demonic beasts that can only live in a cold environment, among which the gold-level demonic beasts with the largest base can only exist here as food, and the dominant ones are mainly tens of thousands of legendary demonic beasts, close to the southernmost part, and there are even many demigod demonic beasts inhabiting there. Such a climate and environment, such a strength of Warcraft, make the Warcraft Forest a place that most adventurers are afraid of, although there are a large number of precious materials here, you can get a lot of gains, but the corresponding danger is also much higher than other places, many high-level adventurers would rather go to the overseas misty area islands to adventure, rather than come to this world covered by ice and snow.

However, the most interesting thing in the Warcraft Forest is not these, the real most interesting thing is the towering mountain range in the middle of the forest. Every peak in the mountain range is inhabited by a large number of wild animals, but there are surprisingly no high-level demonic beasts, and the high-level demonic beasts are instinctively afraid of this mountain range and refuse to approach this place even slightly. Their perception was correct, as the mountain range had a name called the Dragon Range, and it was home to the Guardians. In this towering mountain range, there are nearly hundreds of dragons, each healthy adult dragon has the strength of the demigod level, the heritage of the whole race is very terrifying, throughout the history of the Yala world, there are only the three-eyed clan in the first age of mythology, and the sea clan of the third and fourth ages, and the dragons have the strength to fight. However, people are not worried that the dragons will invade other races, the dragon's duty is to protect, which is a setting that the father Yara has made when he created the dragons, and it is almost impossible to change them due to their personality characteristics.

When there is no world crisis, they do not have any ambition and curiosity, they are always very lazy lying in the hole, thirteen months a year, I am afraid that nine to ten months add up to sleep, the remaining months are in the process of preparing to fall asleep or waking up, only once or twice a month when they wake up to go out to hunt, the rest of the time is to enjoy the pleasure of sleep. Obviously has great power, is content with the status quo and lives a leisurely life, except for hunting, I don't know how to use this power to obtain any benefits for myself, which makes other intelligent beings very incomprehensible, and in the end it can only be attributed to the masterpiece of Lord Yara, as for whether the real reason is related to the father Yara, then no one knows.

However, although most intelligent beings do not understand, there will always be some strange people in the big world. These people come from all races, and they greatly appreciate, envy, and even worship the dragons' attitude to life, and then worship the dragons themselves, and they yearn for a leisurely life like the dragons, but they can't do it in the group of intelligent beings. Therefore, it is unknown when some people spontaneously gathered in the southernmost part of the Neville Federation in the forgotten land, which was the closest they could reach to the dragons. They began to settle here, battling the cold and the occasional monster that escaped from the forest, while slowly forming a self-sufficient and unique society completely different from the outside world. These people aspire to live like dragons, and even aspire to be dragons, and as they reproduce from generation to generation, their way of thinking is getting closer and closer to that of dragons, and even their habits of life are getting closer to those of dragons.

Time has passed, thousands of years have passed, and when the Neville Federation was established hundreds of years ago, the population of this group of people who call themselves the Worship Dragon Church has grown to more than 2,000 people, forming seven or eight villages, and the social structure has become quite stable. In fact, they don't have any social structure, in fact, they have become completely humanoid dragons from the inside out. I don't know what the reason is, maybe it's the stimulus of the environment, maybe it's their belief that has been rewarded in some way, since an unknown time, these people actually have some dragon characteristics, some have dragon-like vision, some have great power, and some even have the ability to breathe, although these abilities can't be compared with the dragon itself, but they are far beyond ordinary creatures. Of course, correspondingly, their hearts are almost the same as those of dragons, the same ease, the same laziness, hunting, annual planting, as long as they accumulate enough food for their families to consume for a year, they will live indifferently in their own residences with peace of mind, without any interest in the outside world.

The existence of such a group of people makes the nascent Neville Federation also quite a headache, it stands to reason that this land does not have any political power to compete with the Federation, and the only border is the territory of the Federation, so it should be counted as a part of the Neville Federation, but, on the one hand, this land does not see any possibility of use, on the other hand, this group of people is relatively powerful, it is obviously a fool's act to go to war with such a group of people for a useless territory, and although the dragons have not made any response and expression to this group of worshippers, no one can be sure that if they really attack or even destroy this group of creatures with dragon hearts, what will be the reaction of the dragons, so after thinking about it for a long time, the Neville Federation finally decided to divide this area into a Dominion, nominally belonging to the Federation, but in fact it is completely governed by the Dragons themselves, or in other words, there is no one to govern normally. Thus, the nominal Bailong Dominion was born.

If people want to enter the Warcraft Forest, they will definitely pass through the southernmost town of Neville, Frozen Town, and they will also pass through the Bailong Dominion, which is the only path with people, as for the other directions, there is only the vast snow field that cannot see the edge, if you get lost in this snow field, I am afraid that it will not take a few days, and the lost person will become one with the snow field, and only when the ice and snow melt in the next year, can it be discovered. For many years, adventurers who want to enter the Warcraft Forest will choose to cross the frozen town in the short summer, and the adventurers who dare to enter the forest in winter are very few, and often they don't see one or two in a hundred years. However, this generation of frozen townsfolk is lucky, as they are lucky enough to meet each other in their lifetimes.

It was noon on the 7th of December, and although it was the hottest time of the day, and on a normal day, at this time of the day, there were always some people who came out of their rooms to do their own business, but today no one wanted to do that, and everyone preferred to hide by the warm fire, cursing the hateful weather of the day while they roasted it.

It's snowing today, and it's heavy snowfall, and large flakes of snow are falling from the sky, making the temperature outside unbearably low. There was not only snow, but also wind, and the bitter wind swept the snowflakes up as they fell, swirling in the air, and the snowflakes carried fine pieces of ice that were carried by the wind and slapped against the town's buildings, making a crackling sound. No one wants to go outdoors for a long time in such weather, that kind of behavior is simply devastating to themselves, even if they feel a little bored at home, people are more willing to go into a lively tavern, order a glass of the strongest potato wine, and let the alcohol warm their cold body.

The medium-sized tavern is home to more than fifty townspeople, which is not a small number for a town of more than four hundred, and their presence fills the tavern with the aroma of spirits, bacon, and an unacceptably rich body smell. The townsfolk each held a pungent liquor in their hands, and the loud conversation caused a noise in the tavern.

This was supposed to be the most common scene in several taverns in Frozen Town for hundreds of years, but at this time, the door of the tavern was pushed open. (To be continued.) )