CHAPTER XVI

And God said, Follow in my steps, and hear my words, and thou shalt not go astray.

The eastern ice field of the Sean continent is the only place bordering the sea, and the world outside the continent is almost entirely understood by the drunken words of the sailors, but this is enough for the closed Sean continent.

There are several relatively warm climates in the vast ice fields, and many people can't imagine that there are such green places in the snow-covered world, and Warren is one of them. Warren, the size of a medium-sized town, has the most crowded and lively crowds in the entire ice field, as it is the last gateway to the Black Market of Appalia and the closest point to the harbor.

Snow-capped mountains and livestock abound, and every morning tall orcs spew white air into the Hammer Tavern, and are thrown out of the door when the sun goes down. That morning, a rickety figure slipped out of the back alley of the tavern with a cowering bent side, and as soon as he reached the alley, he was stopped by two dwarfs of his height.

"Fieldes, what are you carrying?" the serious-faced dwarf was the first to speak, and the ugly features were squeezed together to be really "pleasing to the eye". They are the managers of the tavern, and the only people who do business in Warren are gnomes, because orcs, a species that only knows how to drink and kill, are disdainful of getting involved.

"Little one, hand over the things, no one can steal anything from the Hammer Tavern. Another brown-haired midget stared at him, smiling at the dust in his fingernails, his eyes shrewd with an incomprehensible shrewdness.

"Good morning, two adults. The human boy looked back at the way he came, and simply showed his skinny nature, waved his hand to say hello, and sucked his stomach slightly, letting the things in his arms fall down a little.

"How could I steal something, I wouldn't do such a tasteless thing, you two casually ask in Warren, which one of you mentions that I don't give a thumbs up to Field? ”

Listening to the child's serious words, the two dwarfs looked at each other and smiled, and the brown-haired dwarf stretched out his hand and sneered: "Little guy, I didn't give a thumbs up, do you see if I have a thumbs up?"

"Hey, hey, adults are really joking. Fielders touched his bulging belly and smiled as he slowly approached, reaching out to take something out of his bosom and muttering regretfully.

"Be careful!" As soon as the serious-faced dwarf spoke, a puff of white powder was sprinkled on his face, and at the moment when they subconsciously closed their eyes, a weak figure swished out from among them, accompanied by crisp laughter, Fieldes's proud voice became farther and farther away: "Stealing?

When the dwarf wiped the powder off his face, and found that it was only flour from the kitchen, and that the thief was nowhere to be found, he was furious, and jumped like a penguin, three feet tall, and cursed in the back alley of the tavern.

The figure of the young man ran out of the city in one breath, stood still, took a deep breath of the cold air of the early morning, and a sly smile appeared on his face. At this moment, three small heads peeked out of the grass not far away, and when I saw him, I immediately ran out happily.

"Xiaofei, what good things did you steal from those monsters again?" the chubby child snorted and looked curiously at Fieldes' bulging belly. Fields gave him a blank look, proudly unbuckled his belt, and dropped something all over the ground with a hula. The three partners immediately surrounded him with joy.

"Wow! blueberry pie, and barbecue, whoa, whoa, whoa......" The partner snorted excitedly, and you pushed me and began to grab it. The chubby one was more stable, looked at him with some doubts, and asked, "Xiaofei, why did you steal so much this time?" The next time those dwarfs see you, they will definitely not let you go." ”

Fields squatted lazily on the ground, shook his head when he heard this, and sneered: "They didn't invite me in for a drink when they saw me before." As he spoke, he quickly fished out a copper plate from the food pile to prevent it from being swallowed as food by his hungry companions.

"Akon, I'm going to be away for a few days, and that's all you've had to eat for the next few days. Fields fiddled with the copper plate, "I still had some flour, but I accidentally lost it on the way." ”

"What is this?" Hearing this, the fat man immediately pushed away the two insatiable companions, put the rest of the food into a cloth bag and pocketed it in his arms, and looked at the copper plate in his hand suspiciously.

"I don't understand. Fieldes glanced at them, shook the copper plate in his hand, and said, "This is a sailing compass that can guide the way." ”

"Oh. ”

"Where are you going?"

"There!"

The fat man looked in the direction of his finger and said in surprise: "You still have to find that woman, Xiaofei......"

Fields waved his hand, stood up with a serious expression, looked at the towering snow-capped mountains, and said softly: "Acan, this is probably the most willing thing I want to do in this life." ”

The fat man sighed, knowing that he couldn't screw his stubborn temperament, got up and took out the bacon from the bag and stuffed it into his hand, took off his tattered coat and put it on him, held his shoulder, and whispered: "Go and come back quickly, don't let us all starve to death and come back." ”

Fields looked at him, his nose was slightly sore, he tugged at the corners of his mouth, patted the fat man on the shoulder, turned his head and ran away.

Snow mountains are not uncommon in the eastern ice, except for the icebergs that are marked like knives and axes, the most are snow-capped snow-capped mountains. Fielders ran desperately towards the highest snow-capped mountain outside the city, and by his height, the height of this snow-capped mountain was undoubtedly a thousand that he could not stack.

As the saying goes, Wangshan runs a dead horse, and looking at the snow-capped mountains in front of him almost makes Fields run and break two calves. The further he went down the hill, the cooler it became, and his snot often accompanied by tears during his run, but he usually just stopped and bent down to catch a few breaths, and then ran wildly again, like a pack of fanged wolves behind his buttocks.

No one knew why he was looking for the woman or why he was so anxious.

After two days, he broke the worn-out leather boots under his feet, ate up the pitiful barbecue in his arms, cheekily rubbed a few passing carriages, and suffered countless rolls of eyes, and finally came to the foot of the snow-capped mountain, and Fieldes looked up at the top of the mountain with his dirty face, and looked firmly at the top of the mountain, looking at the world hidden in the mist, just as the hope of his trip, unpredictable.

Fields bent down to take off his leather boots, which had become completely tattered, and put them on again was a drag. He tore off the hem of his shirt, strung his boots and hung them around his waist, wiped his nose, gritted his teeth, and climbed to the top of the mountain.

"If I could, I would have thought about being the king of this world. ”

Silently reciting the words that I had seen on the wheel of the car that was regarded as my life motto, enduring the sharp pain of the snow chips cutting through my face like a knife in the cold wind, and slowly climbing high like a stubborn little wolf. As far as the ice is concerned, Warren does not believe in tears, the mixed races here, the limited living conditions do not allow any poor to share the little extra resources, in the words of the Warren themselves, it is the hearts of the people here who have long been frozen like icebergs, even the most tragic and hot tears do not want to melt it. Therefore, the orphans do not have the luxury of receiving any generous facilities, but can only live as vigilantly as rats in the sewers.

Before he reached the halfway point of the mountain, Fieldes's feet were completely unconscious, trembling and touching the dark face, and pulling the corners of his mouth self-deprecatingly, now even if the dwarf is hung up and beaten, there will be no pain in the middle, in addition to the copper plate in his arms, there is still a little warmth on his body, and even the bird in the crotch of his pants is frozen and shrinking. Swallowing a stinging throat, his vision began to blur a little, and he knew that it was not because of starvation, because he had been hungry for three days and had not felt this way.

"If I could, I really wanted to be the king of this world. ”

Exhaling a breath of white air, Fields squinted at the top of the mountain far away, grabbed a handful of snow on the ground and put it in his mouth, followed by a shiver from the inside out, and continued to grit his teeth and crawl towards the mist-shrouded place.

If the spring breeze is warm at the bottom of the mountain, then the top of the mountain can definitely be called a sea of wind and clouds. The top of the mountain is covered with perennial snow, and to speak here you must tear your throat open and shout to drown out the sound of the howling wind, and turn the steep corner into a hidden cave, from which from time to time a low snoring sound can be heard. It was a sound that even the largest orcs in the ice field couldn't make, and the snoring shook the snow at the entrance of the cave. And at the entrance of the cave, there stood a graceful figure wearing a fur cloak, calmly looking at the churning sea of clouds, frowning slightly, standing for a quarter of an hour, and finally sighed and took steps towards the wind and snow.

Just as Fielders' stiff fingers could no longer hold the snow blocks, and his vision finally blurred and lost focus, a slender hand grabbed him by the neck and quickly swept up the mountain.

"Oops!" Field, who had woken up, jumped and looked around until he saw the woman standing at the entrance of the cave, and then let his little beating heart gradually slow down the beat.

"Awake?" the woman stood at the entrance of the cave, not looking back, but asked indifferently.

"Hehe, you saved me, right?" Fields rubbed his head in embarrassment, regretting that he hadn't actually climbed the snowy peak.

"By the way, Miss Reethe, this is what you want. Fieldes patted his head, took out the copper plate from his bosom, and ran to the woman's side with a reddened compass in his red hand.

The woman took off her cloak and hat to reveal a stunning face, none other than Reth Sibyll, the Scepter who was having afternoon tea with the Pope in Frederick's Chapel. She took the compass from Field's hand, looked at it carefully, and then turned her head to face the young man who almost took her life because of his unintentional words, and asked calmly: "What do you want, Fielders AndrΓ©?"

"If I could, I would like to be the king of this world. The young man's lowered head slowly lifted up, and he said slowly, word by word.

"Why do you think I can give you the world?" Reth put away the compass with interest and turned his head to look at the sea of clouds.

"Hey. Speaking of the pent-up dream in his heart, Fields became relaxed, he went to the mouth of the cave and found that the wind was too strong, so he had to shrink back a little, and whispered: "I have been an orphan of Warren since I was a child, no parents, no family, even the only friend is an orphan like me, we have survived by picking up leftovers from taverns and other people's backyards, of course, sometimes the means are not so clever, we will be found by the master's family and beaten up, we are often hungry with blue noses and swollen faces, like rats wandering the streets of Warren in the middle of the night." ”

"But, we survived. The young man's eyes were full of sorrow, and he rubbed his still stiff face, and said in a flat tone: "Moreover, the advantage of surviving is that we have the keenest intuition of danger and hope, more than beasts. ”

"From the first time I saw you, I knew I wanted what I wanted, and you could give it. Field's eyes sparkled.

"Perhaps, I can give you a direction. The woman turned slowly, as calm as ever, "as a reward for the compass." ”