Late at night, most of the people fell asleep, and the downstairs began to make a living.

Neo was lying on the bed boredly looking through his books, and a few shouts came from downstairs, and then, a terrible scream rang out, and the barbarian brothers began to kill downstairs.

Neo got up and stood in front of the window, which was facing the door of the inn, and Neo pushed open the window and took a deep breath, the cold air soaking into his lungs and refreshing.

Snowflakes were falling lazily from the air, and in the distance on the streets, people were rushing to the inn.

Neo laughed in his heart, it was really a man who died for money, didn't he hear the screams here? One by one, they rushed to their deaths.

At this time, the inn was already in chaos, and the unlucky bandits could not even stop it, and with each attack of Hodak, one of the bandits was split in two, and Kazak turned into a whirlwind of death and ruthlessly harvested the lives of the bandits.

The bandits outside who don't know want to rush in, for fear that they will be robbed by others if they go late, but the people inside are desperately rushing out for their lives, and there are many bandits running fast on the streets outside, horses and people spitting hot air, and they come one after another to polish the sickle of death.

Neo watched quietly in front of the window, until there was no more figure in the distance, Neo stepped out of the window and came into the air outside the hotel, the black-haired young man's clothes flew in the air, and only then did someone on the ground find Neo's figure in the air, and he shouted in despair: "Extraordinary cultivator, extraordinary cultivator!" We can't escape, spare your life, my lord. ”

Some of the bandits fell to their knees in the snow in despair, but Neo turned a blind eye, and the ancient and obscure language sang in Neo's heart, and without warning, the snowflakes in the sky in front of the inn suddenly intensified.

The snowflakes were as light as nothing, and when they landed on the bandits in front of the inn, they immediately froze people into popsicles.

Among the bandits, some of them wore light leather armor, some of them wore thick armor, and they held all kinds of weapons in their hands, and the snowflakes drifted by, whether they were leather armor or steel armor, and the weapons in their hands, all of them were as if they had been hit with a heavy hammer, and all of them turned into dough in front of this gentle snowflake, and all their equipment was twisted and cracked.

The sturdy and thick talisman had been transformed into a strange torture instrument, the deformed armor squeezed the human body into a strange shape, and the bandits who had not been dead for a while let out a scream that was not human.

Along with these snowflakes appeared a white whirlwind visible to the naked eye, and the whirlwind swept through the human body, and the living life was immediately crushed into pieces.

Shattered flesh and blood were frozen to pieces by the extreme cold. Clusters of blood-red particles burst through the wind and snow, like fireworks set off by the Grim Reaper.

After only a few breaths, these people disappeared into the sky without even leaving their full human form, only the broken armor scattered everywhere and the scarlet blood on the ground proved that they had been here!

The waves of the sea of spirit gently lapped the embankment of thought, and Neo closed his eyes slightly, feeling the power of the ice blade, praising the goddess!

The inside of the inn turned into hell, and Whorworth and the convoy came out in a horrified state of vomiting.

Neo looked at them wordlessly, then nodded at Pantanvili and Hyfeld, and the two of them galloped through the streets of the town, shouting: "Residents of Whitebark Town, today are the lords of Maple Grove, transcendent warriors, patrons of the goddess of ice and snow, Lord Neo-Anderson has come here to eradicate the bandit accomplices of Xiaoqingshan, and Lord Neo said that the bandits on Xiaoqingshan will not have much time to get away with it." From today onwards, bandits who turn themselves in to Maple Grove within a month will be forgiven and even pardoned! A month later, Lord Neo will lead the troops to exterminate Xiao Qingshan, these people should not make a mistake about themselves, and quickly abandon the darkness and turn to the light. ”

Later, the inn was set on fire, and Neo and his party left the area and ran to their hometown.

The blazing light of the fire lit up the night sky and loudly announced Neo's return to the Frostmoon Lords of the Northlands!

"I'm almost home." Wowards was all smiles. It's been almost three months since I left Maple Grove, and I'm finally going home.

Wauwards got up from the car and looked back at the fully loaded convoy, and then at the two brothers Neo and the Barbarian in front of the convoy, the cold wind was blowing like a knife, and the warmth in his chest was stirred without a trace.

The wheels rolled with a grunt, drawing a simple trajectory on the ground, and the road under his feet was covered with snow because no one had walked for a long time, and the men of the convoy took out a broom made of thick branches to sweep away the snow in front of the convoy, revealing the road full of weeds underneath, the withered yellow and rotten weeds had not been cleared for a long time, paved the entire road, and merged with the woodland beside the road.

Neo looked at the road surface that could barely distinguish the road, and sighed secretly in his heart, how could he be so poor that even grass grew on the road, more than ten years ago, when his father sent him to school, the road was quite smooth, what happened to him all these years? What kind of life are those people in Maple Grove living?

As the road widened, the trees on the side of the road began to recede, until they reached the far horizon, and in the middle of the wilderness, several houses slowly came into Neo's field of vision.

The distance between the houses was extremely far apart, and it seemed lifeless in the wide wilderness.

There were several figures in front of one of the houses, and a group of people stood in front of the house and said something.

After these people saw Neo and his party from a distance, they separated two figures from those people and rode quickly towards Neo and them.

"Is it Steward Warworth? How did you go for so long? The two people who came over greeted each other from afar.

When they came closer, one of them greeted enthusiastically: "This is Young Master Neo, right?" Hello, do you remember me? I'm Pierre, and we played and trained together when we were kids. ”

The greeting man was young, looked about the same age as Neo, and was wearing a very old piece of chain mail, some of which had fallen off the iron rings, and looked a little tattered and hung on his body.

The young man was thin and thin, with a traditional knight's sword at his waist, smiling at Neo.

Afterwards, the young man pointed to the older man who came with him and introduced him to Neo: "He is Stevens, Master Neo, do you still have an impression?" ”

The man smiled and bowed slightly to Neo on horseback, a saber hanging from his waist and a slightly worn shield hanging from his horse.

Childhood memories came flooding back to his heart, and Neo smiled and gave Pierre a hug, "Of course I haven't forgotten, I also brought you a gift." ”

Pierre said happily: "Great, what kind of gift?" Take it out and take a look. ”

Wauwards stepped forward and said with a straight face: "What's the hurry, there are no rules, I'll talk about it when I get home." Also, Lord Neo is now the lord of Maple Grove Town, and he wants to call Lord Neo. ”

Worwards had followed Neo's father for many years and was the elder of Maple Grove, second only to Neo's father in prestige in Maplewood.

Neo couldn't refute either, so he could only divert the topic and point to the people in the distance and ask, "What are you doing?" ”

Pierre replied: "Well, this year's winter came too early, the grain harvest failed, and some farmers have not paid their taxes, and today my father sent a few of us out to collect them." ”

Pierre's father, Lloyd, was the tax collector of Maple Grove, a small town that had several officials to manage the daily life of the town.

Neo and the others talked as they walked, and soon came to the front of the house, and the people in front of the house also noticed Neo and them, and they all turned their eyes to Neo and the others.

An older man greeted Warworth: "Hehe, Warworth, it looks a little like you from afar, so I called Pierre to make sure." Then he turned to Neo and smiled: "Young Master Neo, old Taylor greets you!" Remember old Taylor? ”

"Remember, Uncle Taylor, you're still in good spirits." Neo responded with a smile.

Taylor is also the elder of the town, and like Pantanvili and Hyfeld, he is one of the few Knight realm cultivators in the town.

Taylor looked at Neo and said, "Grow up, if your father sees you the way you are, I don't know how much he likes it." Hey, that's a pity. Taylor let out a long sigh.

Warwards said, "Don't talk about that. How many of you, why don't you come to meet Master Neo? ”

He pointed to the two Hodak brothers and introduced them to the crowd: "They are the new guards of the adults, the Hodak and Kazak brothers. The two of them are the future warriors of our Maple Grove Town, and they are a family who will fight side by side with everyone in the days to come. ”

The barbarian brother bowed slightly and smiled in response, and Taylor opened his mouth to praise: "What a mighty man! Is it a highland barbarian? ”

Taylor had traveled across the continent in his early years, so he recognized the Hodak brothers at a glance.

The Highland Barbarians have a reputation as rare warrior companions, and Tyler looked at Neo with a little more surprise when he heard Warwards say they were Neo's new bodyguards.

Neo smiled and said, "Yes, Uncle Taylor, the two of them and me, and you, we will be a family from now on, and we will get to know each other slowly in the future." ”

Neo pointed to the house and asked, "What's going on?" ”

Warders also swept his gaze to the others, and Taylor sighed and said, "Hey, this winter has come early, the grain harvest has failed, and you know the situation in the town, if the taxes don't come up, this winter will be very difficult." ”

Neo looked at the house, and the simplicity of the house revealed a deep poverty!

There are four walls and one door, there are no windows, and the door only has a square hole in the wall, not even a door panel. The roof is a thin layer of straw.

Neo dismounted and walked to the house, and when he reached the door of the house, he smelled a foul and moldy smell.