When the first ice storm from the Endless Ice Field entered the Northlands, the deserted Ferut became lively again throughout the summer, and the tribes living in the Northlands came to this huge city one after another to spend the winter, waiting for the arrival of next spring.

Rock XVI was the gatekeeper of Ferrut, which was the hereditary position of his family, and his family has held this position since the day the city of Ferrut was founded, and it can be said that their family has witnessed the entire history of Ferrut.

There are many hereditary official families in Ferrut, such as the Rock Family, but few families can be as old as the Rock Family, and those families that are as old as the Rock Family are some not adapted to the life of a city like Ferrut and give up their positions and return to the tribe, and some of them perish for some reason.

The Rock Family has been able to serve as the city gate official for so long, and there has been no change, except that the members of the Rock Family who have held official positions in each generation know how to judge the situation and know who can be offended and who cannot be provoked, and more importantly, because of some documents about Ferut in the Rock Family.

The reason why the chief of the Rock tribe at that time was able to become the city gate pavilion was mainly because the rock chief at that time, that is, the later Rock I was a student of the knight king's most trusted subordinate, Count Filin, and obtained the will of the knight king to record the daily affairs of Ferrut when he served as the city gate officer.

In order to be able to fulfill the will of the knight king, Rock I learned French by heart, and was also the first chieftain of the Northland tribe to learn French, and also learned to draw, while recording the daily affairs of Ferrut, he also drew all kinds of changes in Ferrut, and this matter was also passed on, and the patriarch of each Rock family was serving as a city gate official at the same time, but also recorded the changes of Ferrut with words and pictures.

It is precisely because their family has so many years of information about Ferrut that their family's reputation in Feirut is extremely high, and even the royal cadets of the French Empire need to borrow various materials from their family if they need to revise the history of the Northland tribes.

Rock XVI inspected the gates of the city for which he was in charge as usual, then walked to the top of the city wall, entered a specially built wind tower of the Rock family, came to the top and sat beside the fire that had been lit long ago, opened the window on the side, and looked at the scenery outside the window, while carefully drawing the scenery on the animal skin paper on the table.

From a very young age, after he was chosen as the heir, he had to copy the Panoramas drawn by his ancestors over and over again in the family library, and when he copied these panoramas, he also had a very detailed understanding of the changes in the city of Ferrut.

Originally, the city of Ferut was only one-twentieth the size of the current city of Ferut, and the current tribal council of the city of Ferut was the city of Ferut at that time.

According to the records of the ancestors of the Rock family, when the city was first built, not all the tribes were willing to settle here, and less than twenty tribes in the entire Northland tribe obeyed the will of the Knight King, and among these twenty tribes, except for the Antler tribe, the other tribes were small tribes about the same size as the Rock tribe.

In this regard, the French Empire did not show any strong demands, giving people the feeling that they did not care about Ferrut here.

Because of the attitude of the French Empire, several tribes who had already settled here gave up their positions in the city, retreated, and returned to the ancient custom of wintering on the Northland ice fields.

It wasn't until later that the tribes of the Northlands found that they had enough food to spend the winter in Ferut, and they didn't have to worry about the cold winds of the Northland, and they didn't have to worry about the hungry beasts of the Northland, and so on, that the tribes of the Northlands joined the city of Ferut one after another.

Because of the large number of Northland tribes settled every year, the original size of the city of Ferut was no longer enough to cope with the arrival of so many tribes, so the French Empire had to expand the city again and re-establish several tribal settlements outside the city walls.

To this day, this expansion is still not over, as the population of the Northland tribes grows and more and more people spend the winter in the city of Ferut, the city has to expand outward again and again, and each time it expands, in addition to building various settlement buildings, it also builds walls to defend against wind and snow and wild beasts, which makes the city of Ferut more than one wall.

Starting from the tribal council district of the Ferrut tribe to the outermost wall, there are now thirteen walls, which divide the entire city into thirteen layers in a circle, and the more tribes live near the inner ring, the higher their status in the Northlands.

Everyone who saw the city of Ferut thought from the bottom of their hearts that the city was definitely an impenetrable city from the outside, because the walls of thirteen walls with twenty towers were enough to hold back the attack of any army, including the legendary Knights of the Francis.

In the past, Rock XVI thought the same thing, believing that Ferrut was the strongest city in the world, and that no one could break it unless it was a god.

But when the new Emperor of Farrin visited the Northlands half a year earlier, preparing to select the royal guards from among the warriors of the Northlands, it was only when Rock XVI and the other tribal leaders who were based in Ferut realized that their old ideas were ridiculous, and that a city that could never be breached was a joke.

He still clearly remembered how embarrassed the behemoth looked when he appeared in the air, and he was not ashamed of it, because there were still many people who behaved like him at that time, and several of the elders of the tribal council were even frightened, and no one dared to say to this day that he was no longer afraid.

There was no doubt that no wall was useless in front of that behemoth flying in the air, and Ferut was as fragile as a defenseless baby in front of it.

They can only be glad that this flying fortress belongs to the Emperor Fran, and Ferut is also the Emperor of Fran, otherwise, they may not be able to stay in this city with peace of mind.

To this day, Rock XVI vividly remembers being received by the Emperor of Farran, and was also awarded the title of Earl for his contribution to the city of Ferut, and he was also the first family patriarch of the entire Northland tribe to be awarded the title of count.

Originally, according to his title, he could easily get the status of a council elder, but he rejected the proposal to become a council patriarch, and still served as his city gate officer, which is not to say that he does not want to be a noble council elder, but because the ancestral precepts of the rock family stipulate that the patriarch of the rock family is not allowed to hold any other position except for the position of the gate official of the city of Ferut, otherwise the identity of the patriarch must be removed.

If he becomes the patriarch of the council, then his patriarch status will automatically disappear and be handed over to the second person in the family who is qualified to inherit the patriarch's position, but the identity of the earl is bound to the identity of the patriarch, and if he loses the patriarch's identity, he will also lose his status as an earl, so he is naturally not qualified to become the patriarch of the council, so in the end, he is left with only one choice.

At that time, he was still annoyed that he had not been able to become the patriarch of the council, and even complained from the bottom of his heart about the broken rules left by his ancestors, but now he was extremely grateful for his ancestors' decision, and he also trusted this family rule that he once spurned, believing that this rule was the reason why the Rock family was able to gain a firm foothold in this city.

He still remembered that just after the departure of the Emperor Fran, more than twenty tribal chiefs claimed the position of patriarch of parliament by virtue of their newly acquired nobility, and after becoming patriarchs of parliament, they fought with the original patriarch of the old council, and the battle between the open and the secret continued, and it became bigger and bigger, and finally turned into a civil war of the resident tribes of Ferut.

In this civil war, which lasted for half a month, except for the Rock family, all the families in the city participated, and a large number of people died every day, and at the end of the day, there were only more than forty of the more than seventy resident tribal families left.

Those who disappeared were either wiped out by rival clans, or they were defeated in the battle and left Ferut with the others and returned to tribal life.

These urban families who have turned back into tribes still retain a lot of the ability to spend the winter in the Northlands, but for those tribes that have completely become urban families, their escape is just a lasting, they can't get any supplies from Ferut in the winter, they don't have the ability to spend the winter in the Northlands, and all that awaits them is death.

The severity of the civil war in Ferrut also alarmed the other tribes of the Northlands, because both the surviving families and the families that had disappeared and fled were more or less related to them, so several large and medium tribes of the Northlands sent people to Ferrut before the onset of winter to deal with the matter.

And this matter can not be dealt with by the tongue of a few tribes, and Feirut's family also has an extraordinary background and will not let go easily, but with the follow-up Northland tribes coming to Feirut City one after another, the power of the Northland tribes is getting bigger and bigger, and finally the Feirut family gradually loosened its mouth, and promised half a month ago not to pursue those who fled from the family, and returned the real estate and part of the property in those family settlements, of course, provided that those families are willing to return to Feirut.

After announcing this decision half a month ago, they asked the merchant tribe to spread this decision to the Northlands, and as a result, until three days ago, the last merchant tribe, the Longhorn tribe, returned to Ferut for the winter, and only one of the families who fled returned to Ferut, while the other families seemed to be planning to die rather than give in.

Those families who would rather die than give in did gain the respect of many tribes, which led them to secretly send a lot of supplies enough for these families to survive the winter, provided that they could find a shelter in the winter.

Thinking about things, Rock XVI finished a new panorama of Ferrut, and then just waited for the right time to add it to the family library with a little color.

Just as Ferrut was taking out paint from a nearby cabinet and preparing to color the picture, the sound of an argument coming from the gate below ruined his good mood.

He closed the window, placed the picture on the bookshelf next to it, and walked out of the small room at the top of the tower, and walked down the stairs to the bottom of the city wall.

At this time, there were already some people around the city gate, and some people who were obviously dressed as tribes were arguing with the guards at the city gate, and the careful Rock XVI saw that the totem poles of their tribe were on the sleighs of those tribesmen, and the shape of the pillars should be from the Longhorn tribe.

It's just that what caught the attention of Rock XVI was the bloodstained animal skin bags on the sleds of these Longhorn tribesmen, because he had many years of experience, he could see that these animal skin bags must contain human heads, and if you count the number, there are nearly a hundred people.

This immediately reminded him of something bad, and he subconsciously guessed that this was because some families in the city hired these merchant tribes who were familiar with the terrain of the Northland to hunt down those fleeing families in order to get rid of the troubles forever.

Thinking of this, Rock Sixteen immediately showed a displeased look on his face, although the Northland tribes couldn't help but kill each other, but they would not kill all the hostile tribes, and buying murder like this was a taboo among the taboos, so he already had a very bad impression of those people from the Longhorn tribe, and decided in his heart that no matter who was standing behind the Longhorn tribe, he would also teach these people who broke the rules a lesson.

"What's going on? Why are they all blocked at the gates?" Rock Sixteen asked, looking like he had just arrived and didn't understand the situation, as he walked up to everyone.

"My lord, it's none of our business, they're making trouble in this matter. Seeing his boss appear, the captain who guarded the gate breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly explained: "According to the rules, we must check all the items entering the city, and when we want to check those bags, they stop us and blame us for not respecting their customs." ”

The man at the head of the Longhorn tribe immediately stood up and explained: "This lord, we are from the Longhorn tribe, it's not that we are unreasonable, it's because these things are the prey of our participation in the cold winter tour, once these bags are opened, the qualifications of these prey will also be lost, and we will be tantamount to leaving this trip in vain." ”

"Winter Tour?" Rock 16 was stunned for a moment, looked at the people of the Longhorn Tribe next to him, and found that they were all young people, and except for the person who was the leader, no one else had the warrior mark of the Winter Tour, so he believed this person's words a little, but he still asked: "When did your Longhorn Tribe's Winter Parade treat people as prey?"

"People?" The leader of the Longhorn tribe was stunned, and hurriedly said, "Your Excellency, you are mistaken, these are not people. ”

As he spoke, he perhaps felt that this explanation alone would not convince Rock XVI, so he opened one of the pockets to reveal the contents of the pocket.