"Shhh...... Ha ......"

The musketeers in the front row hugged their muskets and exhaled white mist.

"Boom...... It wasn't so cold the other day......"

Two groups of musketeers descended one after another between the undulating spikes that looked like fertile farmland covered with snow, and behind them, the walls of Starmoon Bay loomed.

"It's warm when you fight." His companion crouched behind a snowdrift that fended off the cold wind.

The changed cotton clothes were worn by the musketeers in plate armor, and they looked like they were stout.

Amy came from the south, the kingdom of the south. But the cold in the north still made him unbearable: "Can we let the Fire Elemental Master make a few fires in the future?" ”

"Fire elementals have more important matters." Lossy passed by.

"Captain Soldier!"

The two musketeers hurriedly straightened up.

Rosie waved his hand: "Wait a little longer, if the sun doesn't come out yet, we'll make a fire." ”

Their luck was not so good...... Or rather, not bad. It was overcast after the blizzard, so a warm campfire lit up in the woodsburgh.

The two musketeers warmed up behind their backs, but their chests were still cold.

The soldier who couldn't turn around stared at the snow forest in front of him: "Amy, do you know that the plate armor of the northern winter is sweet?" ”

"And that kind of thing?" Amy touched the plate armor curiously, "Are you lying to me......?"

"My ancestors were followers of the Frost Lady, do you think the gods would deceive her people?"

Amy was skeptical, but she couldn't take off her plate and try it, so she set her sights on his plate.

"Don't-"

It was too late for him to shout again, and Amy leaned close to her plate armor and stuck her tongue out—glued to it without any accident.

It just so happened that Fermi patrolled here, and even if they were not his own soldiers, they couldn't help but say: "We are on the battlefield, we have to be affectionate and go back to be affectionate!" ”

"Ahh

"It's not...... It was his tongue that stuck to the plate armor. ”

Seeing this, Fermi grabbed a ball of snow and threw it on the musketeer's tongue, pulling them to the campfire.

Amy forcibly pulled her tongue out in pain, glaring at Fermi.

"Let's just say it's sweet."

Amy smacked: "It seems to be really ......"

Fermi walked away with their jokes, and the laughter around them tempered the oppression and coldness.

It didn't take long for the atmosphere to fall silent again. They lay behind the undulating wooden thorns as if they were lying in a trench, and they were roasted on fire. At some point, there was an unusual wind sound in the "crackling" sound of the wet wood around me......

A black tide emerges from the depths of the snowy forest.

……

The final checks are underway at Starmoon Bay.

The workers of the northern mines and the southern gold mines have long since withdrawn, and the buildings on the city walls have been emptied. Moon Harbor and the Textile Mill are the only two places that are still busy. The former seized the last time to catch the catch, the latter in the hurry, even in the mill, where only Copperbeard and her apprentice locked themselves up to study howitzer shells.

Smokes rise from snow-covered eaves chimneys, and residents smoke and marinate mountains of sea fish. Food is the last thing they have to worry about.

Underground in Xingyue Bay, ten large water elements gather clear water day and night in front of the reservoir. The water source is deep enough not to be contaminated by the rat people.

Earth elementals were also busy: they carried oil, ammunition, artillery, and other supplies to the city walls. Elementals don't need to rest, they don't need to eat, they don't complain, and it's hard to find a life better suited to work than them - the nezumi may be fine, even the food is saved, they eat themselves - but this is not in line with the concept of Starmoon Bay.

"Ice has appeared in the bay......"

In the morning, workers at the shipyard came to talk to Annan.

"Keep watching." Annan said, thinking about calling the bard and handing him the "bay trap" - the bay without any shelter is actually a trap.

In the north, the sea does not freeze until December in the past year, and this year it will be slightly earlier because of the snowstorm, but it will be half a month later.

When the nezumi are unable to hold down the walls for a long time, they will split off towards the frozen bay and then step on the thin layer of ice, which will become their burial place.

"I'm just a bard!" The bard just wants to be lazy in the tavern.

"You don't think the magic images were taken for nothing, do you?"

"Damn! I knew you didn't have a good heart for me to play Andy! The bard cursed and went to the bay.

This guy is so mysterious that he still doesn't want to reveal his name...... Fast seemed to have said his name once, and then said it was a fake name.

Annan kept in touch with Breeze City. The nezumi approached Breeze City earlier than Starmoon Bay, but compared to Annan's unscrupulous means, Olmedo only sent the knights in the city. According to her, the Knights who rushed into the rat tide were like sinking into the mud, getting slower and slower.

Look, what a jealous tone. The nezumi are just mud, so what are they doing these days? Playing with mud?

"Where's your side?"

So when Olmedo asked about Starmoon Bay, Annan's desire for victory made him say indifferently: "My musketeers seem to have rushed into a ball of cotton." ”

“…… The Order of Knights had killed tens of thousands of nezumen in a few charges. ”

"I drowned hundreds of thousands of rat people just by releasing some water."

Ormedo didn't know what to think of, and let out a sound of disgust.

It didn't take long for the fire raven to bring an unexpected guest.

When the magic scroll opened, the tall, illusory figure of Lady Winter, clad in dark blue fur, appeared.

Annan didn't know what Mrs. Rindong was looking for at this time, and he couldn't wait to ask the long-buried question: "What the hell is going on in the royal capital." ”

The tall Lady Winter knew what Annan was asking...... The Montreal family, the Mage Tower, the nobles did not betray humanity. ”

So is it really the same as Olmedo guessed, and Wang is planning some kind of conspiracy?

The nobles on high could not see the mortal dust, but Annan could see: "What about those who died because of the rat people in those fallen lands?" ”

"Dead people don't speak."

Annan fell into a long silence.

Lady Winter didn't continue the conversation, "We're close to the Vault, and there's your share in there. ”

Annan wanted to shout at Madame Winter for taking your dirty money...... But now he is so poor that he is about to sell himself.

Bell Bell Bell –

The rapid sound of the bell echoing over Starmoon Bay allowed Annan to escape from it.

"I'll stop talking."

The nezumi are coming.

……

Distant bells echoed from behind, and the musketeers gazed at the rat tide emerging from the snowy forest. Did Lord Annan kill 100,000 or 200,000 rat-men these days? But they still seem to be so many......

The sound of wings fluttering suddenly came from high in the sky, and the musketeers looked up and saw the blue dragon and the thirteen white dragons flying from Xingyue Bay.

The voice of Annan Reeves, Lord of the North, Nezumi Buster, Lord of Starmoon Bay, echoed above the heads of the musketeers:

"The north is big, but we have no way to retreat - behind us is Xingyue Bay!"

(End of chapter)