Mutants are the general name of the Hannesa Alliance for those who are about to become hanging things, in addition to those who have obvious mutations at the beginning and lose their minds, there are many hidden mutations, usually no different from ordinary people, but mutations will occur when they are emotional, and with the mutation and temporary or even permanent loss of reason, these mutants are also the main objects of the Hannesa Alliance's internal arrest during this time

The Hanosa Alliance was relatively mild in capturing those mutants at first, but as some of the mutants were stimulated to resist the captors, causing casualties, the official arrest of these mutants by the Hanosa Alliance became extremely severe, and as long as the captured resisted, they would immediately kill them on the spot.

Some of those who have mutated physically are lucky enough to find a ship that will take them south, avoiding the forces of the Hanosa Alliance, avoiding the monster-filled Miria and heading to the legendary refuge of the mutants, the port of Venaya.

However, those who know the situation do not think that those people are really lucky, because even if it is much safer for ships to go from the sea than from the road, it is not absolutely safe, because the dense fog that occurs at sea often changes suddenly, moving towards the coastline and moving to the sea for a short time.

In this case, if those ships do not dock in time and abandon their ships, they will be swallowed up by the dense fog and disappear forever.

It was for this reason that many people did not choose this route even if they had the opportunity to sail south, and these and others who did not have a choice decided to head north, into the ice fields, and leave the hostile Hanosa League.

Although the mutated body will be stronger than the normal person, the physique will become better, and it will not be easy to get sick, but the Black Forest swamp is still a dangerous place for them, and huge and ferocious monsters will emerge from the swamp at any time to devour the humans they see as prey.

However, compared to the monsters hidden in the swamp, the mutants themselves are more dangerous, because no one knows when the other mutants around them will suddenly mutate, and no one knows whether the mutants around them are good or bad, so there are often many mutant groups that have fled to the north and are attacked by their own people.

Randall and Mister are from the Kingdom of Sigmar, who came to the continent of Veron mainly to study the Black Forest, and they have settled in Miria for four years in the past.

They were luckier than most of the people in Miria City, and before Miria was drawn into the war, the two of them had been invited by the Hanosa League to go to the National Research Institute of the Hannosa League to work on the Black Forest swamps.

In the night when the mutants appeared, the two of them also appeared, but their mutations were hidden, and they were so deeply hidden that it was difficult to see where they mutated unless they were naked.

As a result, they were lucky enough to escape targeted captures, but the good fortune soon came to an end, as the church and hunters responsible for capturing mutants had already begun to conduct a full-body examination of the suspects.

So, the two of them took advantage of the fact that the matter was not exposed, found a secretly organized mutant escape team, joined it, and went to the Northland for refuge.

The reason why they chose the Northlands instead of the South, in addition to worrying about the safety of the ships, is more important is that their own scholars are at work, although they went to the Northlands last time and found nothing, they got a useful news, this news is worth exploring, so when they decided to leave the Hanosa League, they did not hesitate to choose the Northlands as a place of refuge.

Thanks to the two of them's research on the Black Forest swamps, as well as their own luck, their fleeing party did not suffer any major casualties when passing through the Black Forest swamps, except for four people who were attacked and killed by the creatures in the swamp because they did not heed their warnings, and the others were intact.

After coming to the Northlands, because the two of them had lived in the Northlands, knew the essentials of life that the others did not know, knew where to build a settlement for the winter, and could find food to help them survive the winter, the refuge team elected them as leaders, and established a village of mutants in the Northlands near the edge of the Vinovi Mountains, and reluctantly settled.

With the ability of mutants in the village, they were able to catch a lot of prey from the mountains, and they were barely able to live in this cold place, and after life settled down, Randall and Mister began to think of exploring the legends of the Northland tribes again.

This legend about the Northland tribes was the last time they came to the Northlands, from the mouth of a Northland tribe, and it didn't mean much to the Northlanders, but it meant something unusual to the two Black Forest scholars, Randall and Mister.

This legend, like the legends of the ancient tribes of the South, speaks of the origin of the tribes, but the difference in this legend is that the origin of the entire Northland tribe is the origin of the entire tribe, not just one tribe.

Legend has it that the common ancestor of the Northland tribe was originally the heir to a powerful tribe in the south, but because their tribe was involved in a war that should not have happened, the tribal chief died on the battlefield, and he and his brother were hunted down by other powerful people in the tribe and lost everything.

In the course of the pursuit, he and his brothers were scattered, and were seriously wounded, not far from death, but he was lucky enough to be saved by a white deer, and the white deer also took him away from the tribe, took him to the Northlands, and taught him the abilities that he should have in the Northlands.

After that, this man lived in the Northlands, and through his abilities, he gained the respect of the tribes who lived in the Northlands in the early days, and was later elected to become the chief of a tribe.

At the end of the legend, he led the tribe he ruled to annex all the tribes in the Northland, forming a huge tribe that had never been seen in the Northland, the White Deer Tribe, and became the king of the Northland, and now all the tribes in the Northland are descendants of the White Deer Tribe.

The reason why Randall and Mister are very interested in this legend is because when they were researching the Black Forest in Miria, they found that the establishment and development of the Fran Empire, and even the subsequent ups and downs, were more or less closely related to the legendary white deer in the Black Forest.

Moreover, from an ancient document from the Royal Library of the French Empire, they found that the emperor who established the first dynasty of the French Empire did not even have a name, not from any tribe around the Black Forest, but from the Northlands, and that the emperor had always used the white deer as his flag and coat of arms, until later it was replaced with a shape of the coat of arms.

Coupled with the fact that later, the Knight King of France was able to go to the Northland alone, and then gathered a large number of Northland warriors in a short period of time to help him restore the country, it can be seen that the relationship between the Royal Family of France and the various tribes of the Northland is extremely close.

Therefore, both of them judged that the Fran royal family was likely to be the descendants of the chieftain of the White Deer tribe in the legend of the Northlands, and the secret of the French royal family must also be in the White Deer tribe.

The place where Landall and Mister chose to build their village is in a small valley on the edge of the Vinowian Mountains, and it is a very suitable place to settle because of the trees that have enough to keep warm and the animals that come here to escape the cold storms.

This is also the place they had been told to them by the Northland tribe they had met a few months ago, and it is said that sometimes the Northland merchant tribe would choose this place if they went to the vicinity and encountered an ice storm in the north.

However, these Northland tribes only use this place as a temporary shelter for a short time, because in the leeward part of another hill not far from here, there is a remnant of the White Deer Tribe, and according to the rules jointly designated by the northern tribes, they cannot establish a permanent tribal settlement near the ruins of the White Deer Tribe.

It was because of the remains of the White Deer tribe that Randall and Mister chose this small valley away from the Black Forest swamp instead of another place closer to the Black Forest swamp when discussing the settlement with the others.

Now that the fleeing people have settled down for the time being, Randall and Mister have decided to go to the White Deer Tribe ruins to check on the situation.

So, just ten days ago, they gathered some food and made an excuse to leave the settlement.

Although the two of them have a very well-developed plan, the more perfect the plan, the more easily it is to be disrupted by accidents, just like they have planned to spend a day going to the ruins of the White Deer Tribe, spending half a day surveying the ruins, and then taking a little time to return to the settlement.

But as a result, they were confronted with an unpredictable ice storm halfway through, in which they could not walk in the snow at all, and had to build igloos on the spot to escape the storm, following the methods of the Northland tribes.

However, they completely miscalculated the duration of the ice storm, which they thought would stop in a day or two, and it didn't stop for six or seven days, and it seemed that it would not stop even after another six or seven days.

Although Randall and Mister had prepared a lot of food in advance, thinking that they had prepared enough, after six or seven days, no matter how much food they had prepared, they had almost exhausted it.

They knew that if they continued like this, they would have almost zero chance of surviving, so they might as well try to go back while they still had some food on them, and if they were lucky, they should be able to return to the settlement.

Only, just as they had made the perfect plan beforehand, their predictions were also wrong, and they got lost in the ice storm and walked on and off for two days or so, still not reaching the settlement.

Although, the mutation of their bodies makes them extremely resistant to the cold, but this resistance also has a limit, two days of walking in the extreme cold storm has made their body's resistance to the limit, they have no doubt that as long as they fall, then what awaits them is freezing to death.

"I'm sorry, if I hadn't insisted...... Mister said apologetically, looking at Randall who was next to her to shield her from some of the snow.

"It's none of your business, it's my choice, and I'd love to unlock the secrets between the royal family of France, the Black Forest, and the Northlands, even if I didn't have you. Randall said with a trembling voice.

The two of them had already used a lot of strength in this conversation, so after they finished speaking, they didn't talk anymore, and moved forward silently, they couldn't figure out their current position, they could only move in the direction of the wind, because that side must be the south, as for whether they could find a suitable shelter over there, they could only try their luck, but in view of the previous encounter, they didn't expect much from their luck.

After some more distance, they had to stop, because the most dangerous ice storm in the Northland Arctic Storm had appeared, and if they didn't want to be cut through the ice, they needed to dig a makeshift shelter in the ground to avoid the sharp ice.

This was not the first time they had encountered such an ice storm, so when they sensed that something was wrong, they immediately stopped, took out a simple wooden shovel, and with what little strength they had left, quickly dug a wall of snow that was just enough to block the two of them.

After the snow wall was dug up, they couldn't wait to go in, and the two of them hugged each other tightly, feeling the only temperature on each other's bodies.

Perhaps sensing that their bodies were weakening rapidly, they might no longer be able to get up from behind the snow wall after the Ice Storm was over, Mister couldn't help but turn to his lover and ask, "If we survive, would you marry me?"

When Landall heard this, he didn't think about it, so he nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Mister didn't say anything more, clinging to Randall's arms, waiting for their final moments.

However, just when they had given up all hope, they suddenly felt the ground tremble violently, as if something huge was trampling on the ground and approaching this direction.

The two people waiting to die behind the snow wall were stunned after feeling the tremor of the ground, and soon they realized something, and they all exclaimed: "Tribal hunting!"

A few months ago, they had participated in a hunting festival of the northern tribes, where they had seen how the hunters of the tribe drove the giant Guta beasts on the ice field to run back and forth on the vast ice field, draining the strength of these giant beasts, and then used the steam crossbow to create wounds on their bodies, slowly consuming them to death.

At that hunting festival, it was not the superb hunting skills displayed by the people of the northern tribes that impressed the two of them, but the tremor of the ancient tower beasts as they ran, as if the earth would crack under the feet of these giant beasts, just as they felt now.

"How is this possible? How can any tribe hunt in an ice storm?" both of them wondered after the surprise.