Riding on black ponies, Rhodes and Caroline made their way to the barren lands north of Blackhammer Castle. Far from the dark forest, it is covered in snow and ice all year round, and there is almost no grass.

They were accompanied by Alves, Yeskovich, Celta and Sibes, who traveled thousands of miles north before winter arrived, not to see the famous Kislev Wall.

As the northernmost state of the human world, Kislev has always been a bridgehead against the invasion of Chaos. The country has made countless efforts to defend itself against Chaos invasions, the most recent of which occurred about two hundred years ago, when the Chosen Eternal Chosen Asabaku led hundreds of thousands of Chaos armies from the north to the south, sweeping across Kislev.

Later, under the leadership of the Imperial General Magnus the Pious, the entire Old World Order faction unites and heads north to defend against the Chaos invasion. The decisive battle took place under the city of Kislev. In that magnificent battle, Magnus the Pious finally defeated the commander of the Chaos Legion, the Eternal Chosen Asabakul, with a single hammer. Ended this vigorous chaos war.

It was also during this war that half of Kislev's land was scorched, and Parag, one of the three major cities, was reduced to a ghost town, where the walls were polluted and eroded by chaotic energy, sprouting self-consciousness and growing tentacles and eyes, buildings wailing in the middle of the night, and terrifying cries echoing across the rooftops and grounds, chilling.

But one way or another, as chaos faded, an era of peace arrived. With the advice and support of the Empire, Tsar Kislev rebuilt the Great Wall of the North, a great wall that spanned the north of Kislev, and after more than ten years of construction, it stood again north of Kislev, isolating Kislev from the barbarian kingdoms of the north. At that time, the army stationed at the Great Wall could be said to be the elite unit of Kislev and the most experienced unit in the entire Old World. They resisted stubbornly in the face of the Chaos invasion and grew up in the baptism of war.

However, great times are always fleeting, and peace and prosperity are like a hotbed that corrodes people's souls all the time. When the comfortable life replaced the hard years of the Golden Iron Horse, everything began to change slowly. The absence of a strong foreign invasion for a long time made the rulers of this country relax their vigilance. The garrison of the Great Wall is getting smaller and smaller, and the quality of the troops is getting worse and worse. At first, it was still a regular army. Later, it became a militia, a temporary conscription, and then later, no one wanted to go to the north at all. It's dry, cold, barren land, and snow melts only three months of the year. As a result, the Great Wall gradually fell into ruins and became a place of exile for prisoners...... Thieves, murderers, hooligans, and those who could not repay their debts were all sent to the Great Wall of the North to garrison them.

Here, without the pride and ambition and vigor of the year, those hooligans, ruffians, murderers, and thieves were exiled here, and their belief was no longer to defend their families and the country, but to escape the death penalty, after all, exile to the Great Wall, so that they could live, and if they committed a crime, they had no backers in the city, only a dead end.

It is a pity that in the years when the Great Wall was deserted, these death row prisoners and outlaws even stood on the Great Wall and sniped at a major invasion of the northern tribes. Tens of thousands of Norsca invaders died in that battle, the corpses were piled up at the foot of the Great Wall, and the bloodied guards of the Great Wall cheered for victory, however, the news reached the city of Kislev, and the tsar did not care about it, how could a group of death row prisoners, scum, fight to defend the country and defend the Great Wall.

After that, the Great Wall was completely abandoned. No one was stationed anymore. In its place, there was the rise of the North. Castles slowly developed south of the Dark Forests and Savannahs, and these castles were the prototype of the cities of the North, which were originally used to provide food, grass and supplies for the defenders of the Great Wall, but after the Great Wall was deserted, there was no longer a defense line in the north, and the northern border became the northern barrier of Kislev, responsible for defending the country from barbarians and all kinds of strange beasts.

Revisiting the old place, thinking of this history, Rod couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. Those ruins and broken walls lie there quietly, as if telling the overlapping of years, things are people. The decline of a kingdom always begins with the hearts of the people, when the people no longer have a sense of national honor, when the people forget the cruel wars of the past, everything begins to irreversibly decay. No matter how prosperous the economy is, cities are just a hotbed for some people.

Although the Great Wall has collapsed, you can still feel the grandeur and magnificence of this ice and snow wall from those tall boulders. Rhodes picked up a piece of gravel with a heavy weight in his hands.

"This stone may be older than the history of Blackhammer Castle, and the Great Wall is made up of countless such cornerstones. "Hundred Flowers Literature

Rod sighed as he breathed in the cold air.

"I really wish I could live in that era and see the Great Wall. ”

Bear Knights captain Sibes chimed in.

"One day, we will rebuild this wall. ”

Under the pale canopy, Rhodes turned to the crowd and said. You can see the surprised look on everyone's face. Even Caroline couldn't understand her husband's decision, "You mean rebuilding the Wall?"

"Well, it's not completely destroyed, lo and behold, the ruins, the tall boulders, they can be repaired. In some areas, even an entire wall, it looks like an old beast, however, the skeleton is still there, and as long as it is repaired, it is still a tenacious giant. In the future, we will need it against the Chaos Invasion. ”

Rhodes returned earnestly.

Everyone still disagrees, now that the Civil War is in a stalemate, and the Civil War is not over, Rhodes has thought of something so far away. Even if it can be rebuilt in the future, it is not something that should be considered now. However, Alves, the chief manager, stepped forward and expressed his support for Rod's idea.

"We should do this, the King of the North wants to rebuild the Wall, but not now. ”

The little dwarf raised the corners of his mouth and said loudly—

"The Great Wall is the Great Wall of Lady Keighrie, and even the Great Wall shared by mankind throughout the Old World. We must rebuild it, this is humanity's line of defense, the pride of Lady Kesley. All Mrs. Keith should know about this and be involved in the project. The King of the North means that what we want to rebuild is not only the Great Wall, but also the faith of Lady Kesley, and what we want to rebuild is the glory of Kislev. ”

After Alves finished speaking, he winked at Rod. Obviously, he sublimated this decision, and he put the otherwise insipid sentence to good use. Rod knew what he wanted to do as a "military advisor". He wanted to use the rebuilding of the Great Wall to make a fuss and let all the Lady of Kislev know the determination and confidence of the King of the North - he raised an army, not only to overthrow the Blood Queen, but also to give the people of Kislev a stable and stable home and rebuild the majesty of Kislev.

The offensive of public opinion is always so important in a civil war......