The vast plains covered with snow washed away the sorrow of Annan's departure from the family domain.

After entering December, the already bitterly cold weather continued to be colder than the previous day, and even forced this team of knights, composed of all professionals, to build a snow house in the forest when the snowstorm hit.

Annan saw that the knights who went to the roadside to solve personal hygiene would carry a wooden stick, and he didn't know what it was for, and he didn't want to know.

Frostbite and hypothermia in this kind of bad weather are normal, but they escort a generous lord. The expensive inner armor and hot soup in the snow and ice kept them on their way at breakneck speed, leaving behind the convoys they encountered along the way who wanted to seek refuge.

But later, these methods could not withstand the cold after the sun disappeared, and even choked on the cold when breathing without covering the nose. The team had to be changed to travel during the day and rest at night.

Annan thus had a new understanding of the harshness of the northern border, and then extended a good news and a bad news: the sea of Xingyue Bay was cold, and it was not an ice-free port, so winter came, and the shipping route was cut off.

The good news is that it's a magical world, and cities can float in the air, so can a port never freeze.

Blom said the North was a remote place that rat people didn't want to come to: half of them froze to death in a year.

Annan echoed that no one wanted to come to the north because of the rat infestation in the south, which meant that the rat people were not as terrible as the winter, which caused Blom to laugh more than once.

A new day arrives, and Annan, as usual, inspires the magic ring, and a large wind elemental emerges.

Annan released the wind elemental, and the summoning was lifted after ten minutes anyway.

These days, Annan only summoned one earth element, and the rest is either the wind element or the fire element, and when encountering the fire element, you should also be careful not to go too far, so as not to be blown out by the cold wind before the summoning contact.

The next day, the second water elemental finally appeared.

Annan picked up two stones and stuffed them into the water elemental's body to distinguish them, and used the portal to send the water elemental back to Breeze City.

Xingyue Bay is temporarily unable to contact due to heavy snow closures, and the hardness and strength of the cement from Michael Alchemy are close to the requirements. Annan asked Michael by the way, why does the magic ring activate a spell once a day?

"Because the magic ring automatically replenishes the mana."

"Why does a magic item drain mana like a spellcaster?"

"Because magic items are made from the caster's soul. For every magic item crafted, an innocent spellcaster dies. Michael joked, "Have you ever seen a puppet, a piece of wood with no mechanism and no soul, how can it move and understand commands?" This is the principle of alchemy. Interested in reaching out? ”

"I'm a warlock." Annan refused Michael's invitation, "Then what can be done to speed up the replenishment of the magic ring?" ”

"It's okay to create a magical environment."

Meditation is the use of magic materials to make the surrounding magic abundant, Annan estimated the cost of replenishment: from a day to 12 hours requires a dozen gold coins, that is, 30 gold coins a day - this price invites the blue dragon, not to mention moving to Xingyue Bay, Annan can even live in the blue dragon's lair.

No matter how much money "The Fall of the Mage Tower" makes, Annan has no choice but to let Michael continue to buy magic rings at the Mage Tower.

On the eleventh day after leaving Ausulond, the knight who was in front of him returned to the convoy and told Annan and Blom that the snowstorm of the previous day had blocked the road.

Either clear the snow to pass, or take a detour to the city of Zorn, 50 miles away.

"It's actually going to be faster, and the roads around town are better." Blom said.

"Let's take a detour, then."

It just so happens that there aren't many magic materials left, and the town can spread magical images. The team turned around and returned to the fork in the road a few miles ahead to the city of Zorn.

Zorn City is not a city like Breeze City or Plenty City, and it has a population of only tens of thousands—because this is a lord city.

The elite knights surrounding Annam and the insignia of the king of the north on the body made the city guards on the city wall dare not slack off, dare not stop them, and rush to the castle to report the arrival of the king of the north.

It didn't take long for the city guard and the steward to arrive at the convoy and invite Annan as a guest on behalf of Viscount Hein.

"Just a viscount, you have the right to choose whether to see him or not."

Blom said to Annan, who hesitated.

Annan bowed his head and politely refused the expected butler: "I'm sorry, but I'm in a hurry to rush back to Breeze City, and I can't visit Viscount Haiyin." ”

I brought up the matter of magical images. He didn't have much hope, but he didn't expect the butler to come back and say that Viscount Haiyin patted his chest and agreed.

Zorn City is not as rich as Breeze City, and it does not have as many people and nocraties, and "The Fall of the Mage Tower" is not expected to earn more than one or two thousand jinnars...... But there is no additional cost anyway.

Annan opened the portal and told the ogre to hurry up: "I'm in Zorn City, let Olmedo send some people to bring the Eternal Magic Stone." ”

The butler left in awe with the people from the City Lord's Mansion who had passed through the portal. The team continued on its way, but was about to leave Zorn City when they encountered a pauper cowering under a shack without walls.

Annan asked Blom to distribute the grain to them:

"If you want to live, go to Starmoon Bay in the west of Breeze City after spring, which is my territory."

But the numb poor did not want to give up hope of life and prayed to Annan to take them away.

Annan swept over these people, including children, old people, and women.

"How far is Zorn City from Starmoon Bay and Ausulond?"

"1500 miles and 1500 miles." Blom replied.

"Tell Viscount Hain that I agreed."

……

Viscount Hein had the characteristics of a Northlander, rough and strong, almost like Aunt Susan. But this viscount has a delicate heart-

After watching the end of "The Fall of the Mage Tower", he wiped the moist corners of his eyes:

"I thought the king of the north would be as cold as the wind, but I didn't expect it to be as ...... as us"

…… Who are you?

While Viscount Hein was immersed in sentimentality, Annan said: "I have seen many homeless people in the city. ”

"Those displaced people are there every year, bringing chaos and death, and by the next spring there are not many people alive...... Dear King of the North, do you have a solution? ”

"Uh...... I can take them. ”

"Thank you so much, you're as kind as the rumors."

Of course, Annan could see that the rugged and delicate lord was doing this deliberately: "It should be my thanks. On the day the moon bay was built, I hope to invite you as a guest. ”

"I will be there myself."

Regardless, it's a win-win. Annan received hundreds of new lords and new business, and Viscount Hein received the friendship and lightening of the burden of the king of the north.

Send the dream-like outcasts back to Breezy through the portal, say goodbye to Viscount Hein, and continue on their way.

Zorn City became the only episode on the way home, and the bandits who dared to go out to raid at this time would only become ice sculptures, and the nezumi only dared to hide underground and shiver. With nine days to go before the apocalypse forecast, Annan has finally returned to the loyal town of Hirabayashi after Starmoon Bay and Breeze City.

(End of chapter)