Chapter 18: Underground Wandering
At midnight, the lights were still flickering, and it would be another night that would be difficult to sleep for Holguin, the lord of Ice City and the leader of the entire Northern Alliance, not so much the cooperation of the Northern Alliance with other countries, but the cooperation between the Northern Alliance and Tris Oaks, which was precisely due to the sudden appearance of the King of the Yellow Wind and his White Order to occupy Glar, which made it difficult for the Southern States to protect themselves and make it difficult to withdraw. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info knew in his heart that Tris Oakes was not to be trusted, and since he was a child, his father, Maripeau, the old lord of the city, had always told him that Queen Serena had forgotten his duty. Whoever it is, even God's earthly agents, can be corrupted by the lust for power in the world. At that time, of course, he didn't understand the meaning behind the displacement of the dwarves caused by the Tris Oaks attacking the dwarves in the Blue Mountains, nor did he understand the intentions of Tris Oaks and the Gerry caravan to go to sea in search of the New World, he only knew that the enemies of humanity were not only from the northern wasteland, but also from the humans themselves.
Tris Oakes' intelligence service had already entered the north, and Holguin had caught those spies from time to time, which confirmed what his father had said, but he still couldn't guess what the real purpose of the so-called Queen Serena was. I don't know how long this earthly agent has been on this continent, Tris Oaks may be as old as Ice City, but Queen Serena must be much older than Ice City.
"When you're old, you may not be able to figure out something. Holguin kept reminding himself that he felt his body aging every day, but he didn't feel fear, his aging represented the growth of a new generation, his throne would eventually be given to his children, and death was a gift from the goddess Freya. And the existence of Serena is completely inconsistent with the principle of natural equilibrium, and her mind may be more stubborn than that of an old man like herself, and the harm to the world outweighs the good.
External worries are unresolved, and the interior of the North has begun to become unstable, many countries want to seek their own development, and begin to break through the ancient agreement of the Northern Alliance, Gutenberg is particularly radical, the last duel is definitely not the end of an era change, but the beginning of a new era of great changes in the North, he is worried about abandoning the traditional North, whether it can still be as strong as before, "Although the Saad Obelisk has fallen, it has also planted the seeds of change in people's hearts." Warlocks do more harm than good. ”
Holguin knew very well that the Six Kingdoms had come back to him this time only because of a common enemy, and it was the existence of a common enemy that kept this broken alliance alive, and that the outcome of the war could determine the survival of humanity, and whatever the outcome, the structure was the curtain call of the old king and the decline of ancient traditions, which could not be avoided.
The next generation of leaders in Ice City is also a major headache for King Holguin, who has three children, namely the eldest son Esselton, the second daughter Radna, and the younger son Luan. The eldest son is brave and warlike, with the demeanor of Holguin's youth, but he is reckless and impulsive, which worries Holguin very much; the second daughter, Radna, is also a warrior on the battlefield and has the same calm mind as her mother, but her mind is elusive even as a father; the younger son Luan is the smartest of the three children, but he does not like war, nor politics, nor does he want to be a king, but likes to do research, which is really incomprehensible to the people of Icetown. So Holguin sent Luan to study with the Grand Druid Deraci, hoping that he would feel the royal mission given to the Depoli family by the goddess Freya and return to the right path, and after three years of training, Luan learned to master the medical skills of the druid, but he did not hear the words of the goddess Freya, and even Deraci said: "Luan is a medical genius." Maybe that's what Goddess Freya wants. ”
King Elgin knew from then on that Luan could not be a candidate for kingship, and that his older brother and sister were competing to become the next king.
The door to the study opened softly, and Radna appeared in the doorway, "Father, you haven't rested yet. ”
"Aren't you too? Aren't you supposed to hunt the Ice Giants in Olechik?"
"That's Exeton," Radna shut, "I've just returned from escorting their guide." ”
"Look at me, old fool, I should really get a good night's sleep, did the journey go well?"
"Everything went well, and I didn't let go of a ghost on the road. ”
"With you doing things, I am at ease, and I hope they don't let us down. ”
"It's up to them how many people will die in this war. ”
"yes. ”
Noitora and the others successfully came to the buffer zone between the Ice City army and the outpost of the Dark Legion on the northern front, facing the ice and snow on the road, he was always cranky, thinking that his team except for Captain Komac and Zeno were all relatively alternative characters in the entire legion, and his earlier decadence made the upper echelons very dissatisfied, "Wandering Heart" It is also a well-known nickname, the deputy regiment commander always wants to let himself go to the gate of the barracks, fortunately thanks to General Lucretius's force to protect Neutola from this difficulty; of course, Taylor's reputation is much worse than his own, many people will say harsh things to Taylor, and the medical corps obviously doesn't care about this, even the inspection committee of the escort corps that wants to intervene in everything has nothing to do with Taylor, this has always been a question in Noitola's heart; Later, he was expelled from the institute for inappropriate remarks about Queen Serena and became an ordinary soldier, and the strategist Lucian was a notoriously melancholic maniac who had nothing to do with "Anna" and sometimes uttered an astonishing phrase, the most classic of which was, "When you think life is too bad to be any worse, reality gets worse." Gris, on the other hand, is a loser in the test of time, and for the major legions, it is out of sight.
Just when they arrived at the once fortified northern defense complex, it was already in ruins, with only a few stone pillars and broken rooms, the outpost was on the northern front line that was once distributed, but it was not very dense, the guide told Neutorah: this outpost, although it looks sparse, but the horror lies underground, it is full of visible and hidden holes, the main force of the goblins is not on the ground, as long as the battle horn blows, they will swarm out of the hole, and when they retreat, they will flee into the hole, its complex underground passages, so that humans cannot pursue, if the main force of the dark legion comes, it will be a big battle, so it is impossible to recapture the northern front line by surprise attack, even if it crosses the northern front, how to deal with the counterattacking dark army is a big problem, and if you don't know anything about the deployment of forces after the northern front, you can't completely occupy it, and the job of the Neutola team is to solve this problem. The druids completed their mission and left.
The seven men cautiously advanced, preparing to sneak over the northern front, and at this moment, an exclamation came from the rear of the team, Philo did not find the well-hidden goblin cave, stepped on the air, fell in, and Lucian grabbed Philo's arm and fell in.
"It's really a good start. Neutora thought to herself.