In the icy mountains and forests, the elk's speed is not affected by the snow and ice.

The Kobold and the giant's nemesis, Tormund, who have lived farther north in the Thern Mountains since childhood, have become immune to the cold of snow and ice.

The only one who felt the cold was Will.

Ever since the strangers and ghouls came, the cold here was different from the cold under the Ancestral Fist Peak.

The further you go, the more eerie there is in the cold air.

Although it was a night march, the visibility in the snow and ice was very high.

Will was guarded by two young griffins, and he walked at the back of the line.

The undead knights Bunyan and Gale are sleepless day and night, Harlock and Tormund can sleep on the back of a walking horse, and the old Ranger Will is no slouch at this.

The farther north he went, the more clingy the cold became, giving Will an extremely uncomfortable feeling.

Will closed his eyes and began to sleep.

He believed in the undead knight Bunyan and the flames and azubra above his head, and he believed in the abilities of the dog-headed Harlock and the giant's nemesis, Tormund. They are the northernmost Terrans.

It was dawn, and Will woke up on horseback, and after a good night's sleep, he felt refreshed.

Blaze and Aquamarine let out a warning sound.

There is a situation nearby.

The woods were quiet and snowy, and Will's face was hidden in his hood, and he saw nothing unusual.

The dog's knife and the giant nemesis Tormond's axe were all revealed.

The undead knight Bunyan and Gael the Mouse in front did not show their weapons.

Then, Will saw the ice and snow move, and white gnomes appeared.

Children of the Forest.

For the first time, Will saw the Sons of the Forest, dressed in snow-white.

The hoods of these people are also snow-white, and their faces cannot be seen clearly.

Blaze and Azurite didn't get orders from their masters, and only hovered low altitude, chirping menacingly.

There were twelve sons of the forest, and Will was impressed by the short bows and quivers they wore on their backs. The shafts and feathers of arrows have magic patterns on them.

Bunyan seemed familiar with the sons of the forest, and he and Gael jumped off the elk and conversed with the sons of the forest in a peculiar syllable language.

Will searched for memories, he had some secrets about the Children of the Forest, a language he had heard from Cren the Green and Fred the Goldcoat when he was in the Lake of the Eye.

Will could understand some of their conversation.

But he remained silent.

After a while, the Sons of the Forest led the way, with Bunyan Stark and Gale following behind.

The dog-headed Harlock and the giant's nemesis, Tormund, gave Will an inquiring look, and Will nodded, and the three followed.

The road is getting rougher and the mountains are getting taller.

Will knew where they were going, and he understood the last conversation between the Sons of the Forest and Bunyan.

The team gradually deviated from the northward course of the Seon Mountains and instead turned northwestward.

The two griffons had already flown away. They are the most loyal magical flying beasts, but they are also free. They may have gone hunting, they might have gone to scout, they might have gone to play in the air, but Will had no idea what his two pets were doing.

All he knew was that they would come back when they had had enough, and that they would come back in time if there was danger on the ground. They were high in the white mist, and Will couldn't see them, but they could see Will.

*

In the camp of the Ancestors' Fist Peak, the cavalry team led by Taryn Ash and Hound Dog gathered and began to move slowly along the Ruhe Ice Road.

They had to go all the way slowly north, and they couldn't go as far as the Ruhe Valley.

Once a ghost is caught, the griffon will come and inform them where to pick them up.

"Big man, why is Lord Will in such a hurry to catch the ghouls?" asked Tyronn Ash.

"I don't know!" Taryn Ash told the truth.

The hound frowned, but his face was hidden in his hood, and no one could see it: "You don't know?"

"I don't know!"

That was the end of the conversation.

In the hound's heart, Will trusted Taryn Ash as if he were family, and he thought Taryn Ash knew why. The big man did not lie, and the hound trusted his own judgment.

The procession of twenty horsemen marched slowly, each of them riding two or three horses, each of them the best horses.

In addition to the transfer, the vacated war horses also have a mission, which is to pack ghouls.

The bags and ropes for the ghouls are ready.

The Hound only knew that Lord Will wanted to catch as many ghouls as possible and bring them back to the Wall.

This gave the hounds a strong feeling that Lord Will was going to keep the ghouls in captivity like pigs and sheep.

Thinking of this, the hound laughed silently.

He thought Will was an incomprehensible weirdo, but he didn't doubt Will's reason for doing so, though he couldn't figure it out himself.

Think about it, ghouls in captivity, how is this possible?

*

A day later.

The Children of the Forest led Bunyan Stark, Gail, Harry, Tormund, and Will to a cliff in the Thern Mountains.

There is a valley below the cliff.

The valley to the northwest is far from the direction of the ghoul army due north.

An army of ghouls and strangers from the land of eternal winter due north, they will follow the path of the Free Folk with the goal of the Wall of Desperation.

"It's here!"

The Son of the Forest, who was the leader, gestured and lay down in the snowdrift.

Their costumes blend well with the whiteness of the snow.

Bunyan Stark and Gale jumped off the elk, and the cat's waist walked to the edge of the cliff, and when he lay down and looked down, the valley was full of black ghouls.

They are like black sculptures.

Kobold and Tormond and Will all jumped off their horses, and the cat waisted over and looked down, and the valley of black rocks was densely packed with ghouls.

Will was taken aback when he knew he was here to catch ghouls.

There is also an army of ghouls on the west side of the Sean Mountains, if this army of ghouls does not go to the Ancestral Fist Peak, but to the mountains of the Sean Mountains, the road in this mountain is to figure out with the Frost and Snow Fang, and at the end of the mountain range of the Frost and Snow Fang is a large canyon, and on the other side of the Grand Canyon, it is the westernmost part of the Great Wall of Desperation, and there is a shadow tower that leads directly to the Great Wall of Desperation.

If this army of strangers detours through the Fang of Frost and Snow, they can also surprise the Night's Watch and the cavalry regiment of the Free Folk from behind.

Will's back was covered in cold sweat.

Although he knew that the Aliens were intelligent magical creatures, he also underestimated the military strategies of the Aliens. In the valley west of the Sarne Mountains, who would have thought that there would be an army of strangers?

Will noticed that the snowflakes did not freeze on the ghoul's body, and that the ghouls were black after death, regardless of the color of their clothing during their lifetime.

Will was originally full of confidence in his various deployments, and even more confident in his twenty-mile-long flame array, but if this army of aliens raided the rear of the Ancestral Fist Peak, the legions of the Ancestral Fist Peak would be surrounded by the aliens, and in the Ancestral Fist Peak, most of the senior generals of the Night's Watch Legion and the Free Folk Legion were concentrated, and the Savage King Mance Red was also among them.

Will knew he couldn't do without the Alliance of the Children of the Forest.

Outside the Wall, the undead knight Bunyan Stark is trusted by the Children of the Forest.