Some people are busy traveling away from home, while others are busy returning to their hometowns.

Atwood Teuton, who served as an emissary for the Centaur Khan and led to a peace pact with the Minotaurs, also set out to return to his homeland after demonstrating his ability to "allow the Centaurs to annihilate the Northern Griffon Legion".

Having left his hometown at the age of eight, he was already a stranger to the north.

After the winter, the north is depressed and slaughtered, the eternal gray sky envelops the withered yellow earth, and the strong wind never stops whistling, carrying dead leaves and grass seeds and dirt slag on people.

Wrapped in a cloak with the brim of his hood covering half of his nose, Atwood, with his already thin memory, rode slowly back to the place where the Teutonic family lived.

Unlike other lords, the Teutonic family did not place their address in the center of their territory, but instead located it in the northernmost part of their territory.

If you go further north, you will find the hills and valleys that divide the northern grasslands from the extremely cold land.

According to legend, this is to allow the knights of the family to rush to the battlefield to defend against the centaurs in the fastest time, and it is also out of consideration for honing the will of the knights in a harsh environment.

And the Teutonic family lived not in a castle, but in a simple house.

This was the decision of the first Teutonic king.

First, he felt that building a family castle was a waste of financial and material resources.

The environment in the north was harsh, the population grew very slowly, and the food production was not abundant, so it was better to supply the Teutonic Knights than to squeeze out the financial and material resources to build castles. In this way, after the battle against the centaurs in the autumn and winter of each year, a few more warriors will have a chance to return home alive.

The other is because of the oath of the Teutonic family to wear the crown.

For the Teutonic family, the crown was a duty, a practice to defend the north to the death.

If one day the centaurs invade the north and attack the Teutonic residence, then the members of the Teutonic family should all be killed!

What's the point of building a castle?

After all, "the first person to die on the battlefield was a Teuton, and the last to leave the battlefield was also a Teuton"!

But what he didn't expect was that hundreds of years later, the members of the Teutonic family did not die in the war against the centaur invasion, but fell in the jealousy of the Mills royal family.

The decision to not have a castle meant that the Teutonic family lost the opportunity to wait for the vassals to come to their rescue when they were attacked by the griffin legion.

But this is also one of the reasons why after the fall of the Teutonic family, there was no need for a new owner here.

The harsh living conditions of the frigid lands, the unsuitability to monitor and control the entire North from the center, and the worthless and humble houses made it disdainful of the Northern Griffin Legion and the traitor Hughes, and even the sycophants of their new vassals generally believed that the land should return to desolation and fade into history with the Teutonic family.

Of course, this is just the official statement.

In the entire Teutonic homeland, all the northerners preferred to believe in another reason—the innocent exterminated Teutonic family had become ghosts and haunted the land, so that the executioners attached to the Holy Empire would not dare to occupy it.

Ghost haunting.....

This statement is very much like nonsense.

Because this kind of imaginary thing, which scares oneself at oneself, has never appeared in the world.

The first time many people heard about it, they thought in their hearts that this was a fantasy made up by the northerners because they were unhappy with the Teutonic family.

But in fact, this is not unfounded.

After the fall of the Teutonic family, the empire once housed some of the families of the griffon legions here.

And these family members who have settled here, starting from the third winter, ten people will disappear silently every year when the water turns into ice!

Yes, disappear into thin air.

There was no trace of being assassinated, there was no trace of the invasion of fierce beasts in the extremely cold land, and the bodies of these people who disappeared could not even be found.

There is no age limit for those who have disappeared, and there are women and children, both old and weak, and young and strong.

The process of disappearance is also very weird.

Some people sleep in the house at night with the doors and windows closed, and the next morning the doors and windows are still closed, but the person disappears; Some couples fall asleep in their arms, but when they wake up the next day, they find that their other half is gone. What is even more frightening is that when these people disappeared, the hounds they were tied under the eaves did not notice anything unusual all night, and did not sound a warning.

In the seventh year, the warriors of the Griffin Legion petitioned and said that they would not want their families to continue to live here.

They came to the north to defend themselves against the Centaur invasion to accumulate military merit and make life better for their families, not to make their families sacrifices to the ghosts of the Teutonic family.

Becoming a sacrifice is the speculation of their families under fear.

Because of the weirdness of people disappearing out of thin air and not seeing their bodies, they think that it must be the Mills royal family who betrayed the ancient contract to destroy the Teutonic family, which angered the Teutonic ancestors, so the dead Teutonic turned into ghosts to take revenge! And in order to appease the anger of the Teutonic ghosts, the Mills royal family placed them here all these years and sacrificed them to the Teutonic spirits!

Otherwise, how to explain people disappearing out of thin air?

And why do ten people disappear every winter, not one more or one less?

Fear comes from the unknown.

This speculation quickly spread among the families of the griffon legion, and it swept through the Teutonic homeland like a plague.

Vassals who had betrayed the Teutonic family, and families or individuals who had benefited from the fall of the Teutonic family, were generally fearful, and gradually showed signs of deifying the Teutonic family.

In this way, it also made the Mills royal family feel anxious.

The biggest reason for their destruction of the Teutonic family was that the prestige of the Teutonic family in the north was too high and threatened the rule of the empire, how could they allow the prestige of the fallen Teutonic family to be even higher!

After the Northern Goddess Cult was unable to resolve the ghost incident, His Majesty the Emperor requested that the Illuminati, which had always been rooted in the Middle-earth Plains, send clergy into the North, and promised that they could turn the Teutonic family's residence into a church of the Illuminati, which would serve as a stepping stone for the spread of faith to the North.

Of course, the premise is to solve the mystery of the ghost incident.

Even if it can't be solved, it is necessary to dispel people's fears and make people stop mentioning the Teutonic family.

Unable to refuse the royal family's request for the Cult of Light, he had to preach the greatness of the God of Light while selecting more than a hundred god staff to enter the Teutonic Homeland.

Yes, they don't want to take over this hot potato at all.

Just think about the pros and cons.

If the ghost event is successfully resolved, it will not bring much benefit to the spread of the Illuminati faith.

In the northernmost part of the Teutonic homeland, there are almost ten days of eternal night every winter!

This embarrassed the Illuminati.

It cannot be said that the eternal God of Light is unwilling to shelter his people during these ten days.

And the people in the north have been believing in the Ice and Snow Goddess Cult for thousands of years, and trying to make them change their faith is no less than a fool's dream! Invest a lot of financial and material resources to operate, and the result in exchange is also likely to be a bamboo basket to catch the moon.

And if they can't solve the mystery of the ghost, not only will they face the ridicule of the northerners, but even the griffon legion, which originally believed in the Illuminati, will begin to doubt the faith!

Success or failure is unprofitable, so why bother!

In fact, they are very self-aware.

More than 100 clergy, under the leadership of an archbishop of the strong realm, lived in the residence of the Teutonic family in the winter, and after making complete preparations, they also did not change the result of ten people disappearing out of thin air that year.

The archbishop, who was very strong in his faith, was also ruthless.

In the winter of the following year, only nine knights of the cathar who had faintly touched the threshold of the strong entered the Teutonic family's residence, vowing to solve the mystery.

Then they disappeared from the world forever.

The greatest contribution of this powerful archbishop was to give the Pope a very suitable reason to reject the Mills royal family's request for the Illuminati to send people over again.

After all, even the strong are gone!

If you want to solve the mystery of the Teutonic ghosts, the only way to solve them is to ask the demigods to find out for themselves!

But for some reason, the Mills royal family didn't have this in mind, and Uther Brundo's crown was equally silent.

Inevitably, after this incident, the Teutonic residence became a forbidden place, and no one dared to set foot within a radius of fifty miles after the onset of winter.

However, not everyone is afraid.

This winter, Atwood came in and was looking forward to meeting the ghost.

Because he left home when he was eight years old!

Alone in the far south, he has been wandering like a rootless weed for nearly thirty years.

For him, home is already a very foreign word.

The scenery of his home, the sounds of his mother and brothers, and his sisters, were all blurred in his memory; If he hadn't occasionally imagined his father's face by looking at the reflection of his face in the water, he might not have remembered that his father also had a narrow face and a straight, narrow nose.

Returning home has always been his expectation, and it is also the belief that supports him to live in the world.

After nearly 30 years of loneliness, helplessness, and constant longing, he has a lot to say to his family.

Even if the other party is already a ghost, it has not changed his enthusiasm.