As the soldiers packed up and walked out of the forest, the guards who were being escorted saw a man in the snow ahead. When they saw his face clearly, they couldn't help but gather around.

The man sat in the snow as if the snowflakes had buried most of his body. The devil knows how long he's been sitting in the snow!

"Your Excellency the High Priest...... Are you okay?"

It turned out that he was the former commander and patriarch of this group of frontier warriors, and the former high priest Eric, who was wanted by the Holy Light Island.

Eric slowly opened his eyes and looked at the group of loyal men who were gathered around him.

"Forgive me, O God, I am a sinner, I die and I die, why should I bother my people and my brothers!"

"Your Excellency the High Priest...... We don't regret following you!"

"I made you prisoners of war, and now you have no home to go back to, so you can only choose to bury your bones on the Great Wall of Ice and Snow!" Eric's voice choked.

The prisoners of war wiped their tears, and even more so, they were already crying!

"Your Excellency the High Priestess, you are here?...... You are still their commander, you have to lead them to live and reunite with their families!" Gu Shiyu walked up and helped Eric with both hands.

"Your Royal Highness, he is a criminal wanted by the Holy Light Island! If we catch him, we can get a great reward from the Holy Light Island!" Sauron, the commander of the First Legion of the Royal Guard, waved his hand, and a large group of elite swordsmen and cavalry warriors surrounded him.

"Zoro, it's up to me to decide here! We live in this world, and there are other more important things besides money!" Gu Shiyu immediately stopped loudly: "Eric is my friend, and he also has His Majesty King Yusaia! His Majesty and I have unanimously decided to protect him, if you force him to be captured, then draw your sword first!"

In front of Gu Shiyu's stern expression, the swordsmen and knights stopped one after another.

Who would dare to do anything with you? You are not only the Prince Regent of Erathia, but also the husband of His Majesty the King! Wouldn't it be treason to do it with you? Not to mention that you are one of the bravest warriors in Erathia!

"Zoro, you don't need to be embarrassed! Actually, the Kendall commander of your First Corps also knows about this! I'll explain it to him when I get back to Ironfist Castle!"

"As you wish!" Zoro hesitated for a moment before bowing to Gu Shiyu, and then led his warriors to begin to line up.

"Thank you, The Chosen!" Eric staggered to his feet, his lower body numb.

It's not that he can't resist the cold or the heat...... He wasn't afraid of these wolf-like soldiers! For him, these bad weather were like a gentle breeze and drizzle on a spring day. He just wants to calm himself down, or punish himself for his sins in a masochistic way!

I used to be a sin atoneer in the vast snowy plains, are you also atoning for your sins?" Gu Shiyu looked at Eric and said, "You didn't do anything wrong...... You are still the greatest shaman in my mind!"

"My fault was to be too merciful to my political enemies!" Eric said with a wry smile, "Now that I think about it, I could have wiped them all out in the first place, regardless of any resistance or public opinion...... Will you repeat my mistakes?"

For such a question, Gu Shiyu was completely unable to answer. He turned around and shouted to the group of prisoners: "Brave warriors, you have done nothing wrong! You have only been defeated in a battle of great disparity! You are still warriors, although you are now the night watchman!"

The prisoners of war stood silently in the wind and snow, listening to every word he said.

"I know that the duty of the Night's Watch is to bury their bones on the Great Wall of Ice, and I also know that if the Night's Watch deviates from their duty and oath, not only the Night's Watch themselves, but also their loved ones...... But I won't do that! I will allow your relatives to come to the Great Wall of Ice and Snow to reunite with you, and you can even carve out a field at the foot of the Great Wall that is enough for you and your relatives to live! Because I still think you are still brave and unyielding warriors! And warriors choose to fight, not to die, but to live better!"

Are you telling the truth? Looking at this hero who had saved his own life, a fire rekindled in the gloomy eyes of the prisoners of war.

"Remember, you are not fighting for your own honor, you are fighting for your own loved ones, you are still fighting for peace and light in the whole world!!

"You are not alone! Look behind you, there is a huge forest here! And I am sure that more people will come to their senses and choose to join you and fight with you until the darkness no longer threatens any of us!"

The prisoners of war puffed up their chests and tapped their shields with spears and iron swords.

Is this still a thwarted army? Not at all! They have rekindled their fighting spirit, eager to prove that they are still indomitable warriors with victory!

Gu Shiyu walked among the prisoners of war, receiving their cheers.

"Your Royal Highness, it is inappropriate for you to do this...... I think you should report your decision to His Majesty or Commander Kendall first!" Zoro whispered behind him.

"I don't think there's anything inappropriate!" Gu Shiyu stopped, pointed ahead, and said, "You look around, and then tell me, what do you see?"

Zoro looked around for a moment, then hesitated and said, "Your Royal Highness...... All I saw was a large snowfield. ”

"What I see is a large area of uncultivated land under this snowy field!"

"Your Royal Highness, they are nothing more than night watchmen on the frontier, and if you reward them with land, they will become farmers, and they will no longer be like warriors......"

"Sauron, do you know your soldiers? Many of them are farmers, merchants, and craftsmen! Unlike the nobles, they serve as soldiers for survival! If soldiers not only fail to get ahead, but live worse than death, then what do they do as soldiers? I don't know if you have counted, how many people a soldier has to serve him?"

Zoro scratched his head and said, "Although there are many men, stables, and handymen in my troops, they also have to fight like soldiers......"

"A soldier's clothes and armor, the weapon in his hand, the food in his mouth, all that need to be provided. If you are injured in battle, someone has to provide medical care. I have a rough estimate that a soldier must have at least ten men to serve him, so as to ensure that he has enough combat strength! If we don't take their families and let their families serve them, then these night watchmen will inevitably spend a lot of time on trivial matters, do you think they will train and fight well? Moreover, if we do, when war comes, they will definitely resist desperately, and will never retreat!"

"Why?"

"Because they have their relatives standing behind them, they have no way out!" Gu Shiyu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Think about it, you should understand!"

Helena came to Somla's side. Eric seemed a little frightened of this old witch who had lived for thousands of years, and he bowed respectfully to her: "Hello, Lady Helena!"

Helena looked at Gu Shiyu's back, as if she was talking to herself: "High Priest, do you think he will be that person?"

"He definitely is!" Somla nodded affirmatively, "When he first came to the Holy Light Island to compete, he was only the weakest of the five contestants, but he grew up so fast, it was almost surprisingly fast!"

"But he's still not as good as Quinn......"

"I guess you're referring to Tanan! I've heard Quinn's story...... There are also many prophets who believe that Tanan is Quinn, who has been reincarnated more than ten times. But I believe that sooner or later, the Chosen One will pass Tanan! If the two of them join forces, they may be able to change the world!"

"What are you thinking at the moment?"

"Helena, our time is coming to an end! If we can't change the world with all our lives, let us help them change!"

The sunlight tore a hole in the gray clouds, shining golden sunlight on the white earth.

After so many days of coming out of Tekken Castle, this is the first time everyone has seen the sun!

Is the blizzard about to stop?

The long army swayed through the snow, with no end in sight.

Gu Shiyu felt very strange, Helena seemed to be always avoiding herself these days, and even her eyes tried to avoid him. He was tempted to talk to her, but when it came time to camp, Helena hid in her mushroom hut and refused to come out.

Could it be that I did something wrong? After thinking about it, he always felt that there was nothing wrong with him.

Whenever he returned to the camp in the forest at night, he would habitually go to the mushroom hut to make a fire, drink a bowl of hot mushroom soup, and then wander around the camp with his arms swinging, chatting with the soldiers about some inconsequential jokes, and finally returning to the tent, where he slept with Eric and listened to his experience.

How long have they been gone? Gu Shiyu can't remember. I just feel that the further north I go, the more cold the wind becomes. The wind blew up the snow as thick as gravel, and rushed into the soldiers' eyes, noses, mouths, and ears, or piled up in their necks.

The soldiers had put on everything they could put on, and even the palms of their hands were wrapped in thick strips of cloth. Otherwise, the palm of the hand will stick to the cold weapons and armor, and a layer of skin will stick off if you forcibly tear it open!

Frostbitten soldiers abound. Gu Shiyu once asked Eric to use advanced dimensional gate magic to lead the troops to fly to the Great Wall of Ice and Snow quickly, but Eric always said that he was not the commander of the first legion of the Elasia Royal Elite Guard, and he could not control the elite guards of more than 10,000 people, nor could he control Helena's forest warriors. All he could do was lead his thousands of old subordinates to teleport through the dimensional gate.

Is it necessary to use the dimensional gate to lead people to fly and gain their absolute trust? In that case, then forget it! Gu Shiyu thought to himself, if you take these people to bounce like fleas a few times, and no one can find them in the end, how can I go back and deal with Saiya and Kendal, let alone explain to Holy Light Island!

When they climbed the snow-capped mountain in front of them, it was flat ahead. As far as the eye could see, there was a huge stone castle at the foot of the mountain.

Is this the Great Wall of Ice and Snow? We've finally arrived at our destination! People are jumping on the snowy mountains and cheering loudly.

"This is not the Great Wall of Ice and Snow!" Eric poured cold water on everyone, "This castle is called the City of Stone Weirs, and it is the northernmost castle in Erathia. It takes another five days to reach the Great Wall of Ice. ”

"I see that the terrain of this castle is quite dangerous!" Gu Shiyu nodded again and again: "It just chokes the throat of the mountain range, if you don't enter Erathia through this pass, you will have to climb the vast and towering snow-capped mountains on both sides of the castle!"

"No one can climb those snowy mountains alive!" said Eric, "and those snowy mountains stretch for thousands of miles, and they are all barren." The cold wind is raging on the top of the mountain, as long as there is a wind, the temperature drops very quickly, and it is difficult to find a shelter from the wind, and people will be frozen in an instant!"

"It seems that this castle can only guard the living, but not the ......dead," Gu Shiyu expressed his worries.

"Yes! This castle was actually built to prevent the night watchmen from the north from escaping south! Anyone who walks out of the gate of the stone weir city is equivalent to a dead man! Because the gate is barely open to anyone outside the gate! Any night watchman who tries to escape the Great Wall of Ice and Snow will either have to find a way through this castle or freeze to death on the snowy mountain! And these snowy mountains are nothing to the undead, because they have no life at all, unless they are buried by a huge avalanche, or fall from a cliff face and break to pieces!" Eric said with a wry smile.

"Eric, I don't understand, isn't the ground entrance to the Dejia Undead the isolated island in the far north, how did they get here?"

"The Undead aren't good at digging holes, but their allies, the Nigons, aren't far away. The Witch Clan is a creature that lives in an underground cave, and after so many years of exploration, they have long since explored the direction of the veins of the lower rock formations, and found a way to invade the entire Big 6 through the underground cave. ”

"Let's go down the mountain!" Gu Shiyu sighed, "I hope we can successfully block the undead army of the Grim Reaper Bellerion from the Great Wall of Ice and Snow!"