The snow-covered woodland seemed to have experienced a fierce battle. The snow and bushes were full of corpses of winter wolves. The corpses were turning into black particles, dissipating like black smoke. The victors of the battle obviously belonged to the other side that was not lying on the battlefield: the human Knight from Cruz.
Yoakam looked at this scene expressionlessly, while slowly moving along the open space between the woodland. 'Kacha', a leather boot stepped into the snow. "Damn it." Yoakam cursed in a low voice. He frowned, lifted his foot, took off his boot, patted the boot to shake out the snow inside, and then put it on again.
A grayish-white winter wolf came out of the bushes and whimpered a few times at him. Yoakam looked up and rubbed his chin, "About a quarter of an hour? They have fled to the north? "
"Who are they, the people from Cruz?"
"I think so, there is no one else in this forest except them."
"Don't worry, they are just stubborn. They can't run far."
The winter wolf whimpered in a low voice. Yoakam seemed to understand what the beast wanted to express and stroked its forehead with his hand.
Although he was no longer as arrogant as he was in Ampere Seale, he had indeed been killed once in that war. He had died under the swords of the disorderly soldiers when he was fleeing, and the injury he had suffered at that time had left an indelible scar on his body. Right now, his skin was as white as paper, lacking luster and moisture. His exposed arms and palms were so shriveled that they looked terrifying like skeletons. One of his eyes was permanently blind, so he wore an eye patch with a hollow skull pattern on it to cover it.
There was also a fatal wound on his chest, caused by a heavy sword that had not healed yet. The gap under the wound led to the ribs and pierced his heart, but the heart that was once born as a human had long decayed and no longer pulsed. Instead, it was replaced by a blazing white flame.
All of this was because of the deal he made with those unnamed beings when he was alive. They promised him the power of immortality, and he did enjoy this power after death, but in a different way.
He became an undead.
Only after becoming an undead could he understand how painful it was to be immortal. His soul fire was constantly burning his memories of the past. Pain, regret, anger, sorrow, and all sorts of negative emotions lingered in his heart, tormenting him day and night. Day after day, human emotions were gradually worn away. Only cold hatred for the past was left in their minds.
Although he had become an undead, it wasn't as if he had gained nothing. Those unknown existences had indeed fulfilled their promise and given him power. Summoning the Winter Wolves in the forest was just one of them.
This was a power that was far beyond the mortal world. It was completely different from the shallow power that humans had built on authority. It was a real power that could be controlled.
More and more Winter Wolves appeared in the forest like ghosts. The wolves split into small groups and ran in all directions.
Yoakam listened attentively, and soon there was a long howl in the distance. He sneered. His pets had found the other party's trace.
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In the open space in the forest, several Winter Wolves circled around the bodies of their companions. They raised their heads as if they were smelling the blood in the air. Then the leading wolf let out a long howl and turned to chase in one direction.
Such a scene was playing out everywhere.
The wolves soon found more traces. The bodies were buried under the snow, in the thorny bushes, and some were even hidden on the trunks. Along the way to the north, there were more and more traces of such battles. As if sketching out such a scene, the Cruz Knight fought and retreated, but they could never get rid of the wolves' pursuit.
Marquis Yoakam followed behind his pack of wolves and examined each corpse one by one. The sword wounds on the corpses confirmed his conjecture. At first, the Kirrlutzians still had time to dispose of the corpses or bury them under the snow, but later, they had to leave the battlefield hastily and leave the bodies of the winter wolves in the forest.
Moving forward, the young men simply fled the battlefield. Most of the bodies of the Winter Wolves stayed in the position where they were killed.
This meant that the Cruz people had no time to dispose of the bodies. They were fleeing in panic.
On the other hand, it also meant that the wolves were getting closer and closer to them.
Yoakam followed unhurriedly. He sometimes had time to look up at the bright glacier in the north: if the other party knew the real name of the glacier, they would regret their choice.
It was not a natural glacier, but the outer wall of the Holy Cathedral of the Hibernator buried by the glacier.
To get around the wall, they would have to go around the entire central area of Milos' Breath.
About a quarter of an hour later, the wolves stopped in front as if they had found something.
Yoakam separated the pack and walked to where they stopped. After he saw what his pets had found, he could not help but smile like a winner.
It was footprints. A long series of footprints was so eye-catching in the snow. The footprints left by the Cruz people went all the way into the Elson Black Pine Forest in front of them in a panic.
"They don't even have time to clean up the footprints. It seems that they have noticed me." Yoakam thought for a moment and snapped his fingers. He let the wolves spread out, and like a large net, they filtered through the entire forest in front of them.
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Freya and the others struggled through the Black Pine Forest, and the steep ice wall was already in front of them. The blue stag was still leading the way. It moved vigorously along the broken ice zone at the edge of the glacier, jumping from one sloping ice surface to another, never slipping or losing its balance. It was as steady as walking on flat ground.
But this road was a bit difficult for the young people of the Folded Sword Knight Regiment. Even though almost everyone of them was a master in the Gold Realm, and there was no lack of Gold-level strength like Brund, there were still people who slipped from time to time.
Due to Freya's own meager strength, Maynild and little Pero took special care of her, but even so, she still fell several times. The first time she fell, she hurt her arm, and the second time she knocked her forehead, so that it still looked red, as if she was about to cry at any time, which made her very embarrassed.
Because of this, the speed of the team's progress became slower and slower, and everyone seemed a little silent. Not only did this steep glacial cliff seem to have no end, but also because the forest was getting quieter, which meant that the white demons had begun to pass through the Black Pine Forest behind them.
'Crack –', Brund casually threw the frozen stone-like dry food into the snow, splashing a cloud of snowflakes. He saw the lump of food roll down the steep terrain, and finally fell into an ice crevice and disappeared. If they fell here, everyone might face the same danger. Those ice crevices were connected to the bottomless glaciers, and if they accidentally lost their footing, there was no hope of climbing up by themselves.
Not to mention a place like Milos' Breath, even in the great glacier east of Fanzin, there were countless adventurers who disappeared under the glacier every year.
He felt cold and hungry, and his eyelids were as heavy as lead, but unfortunately, they did not have time to stop for a little rest, let alone make a fire.
"How long is this deer going to take us along this glacier, if we go on like this, we'll be caught by the winter wolves behind us." Alea could not help but complain again, "It took us a lot of effort to drive them away."
"No one will think you're mute if you shut up." Brund replied snappily. He didn't know where this guy found so much nonsense. "The wolves will also slow down when they cross the glacier. Only that guy can walk leisurely in this kind of terrain."
As he said this, he stared at the blue shadow in front of him.
But it was at this moment that someone in the team suddenly let out a low cry, "Look over there!"
Alea was about to retort, but when he heard this low cry, he could not help but turn his head. Everyone, including him, saw a few white shadows appear at the edge of the Black Forest in the distance.
They were obviously wolves, and they had apparently discovered the traces of the Cruz people trekking on the edge of the cliff. They glanced over from afar, then turned around and went back into the forest.
"Oh, hell, what do you have to say now?" Alea looked back at Brund with a gloating expression.
"What's there to be happy about for you?" Although he said so sarcastically, Brund still smacked his lips and muttered to himself, "How could it be so fast."
"Haha," Alea laughed as if he was not afraid of death, "To be able to see you suffer, I have no regrets even if I die."
"If you want to die, you can jump from here, Alea," Little Pero listened to this guy's words getting more and more outrageous, and finally said coldly, "No one will hold you back."
Strangely enough, as soon as the short Cruz young man from Vincennes opened his mouth, Alea immediately shut up. He laughed awkwardly. "I'm just saying. Besides, I really can't walk anymore. If the commander orders me to stop and cover the rear, I definitely won't refuse. I'll have a good fight with those beasts."
"There's no need," Freya did not know whether to laugh or cry. She really admired little Pero for being able to discipline such a guy into obedience. When she was the captain of the militia, there were also some slippery bastards in the team, but compared to Alea, they paled in comparison.
The Cruz Knight in front of her really subverted her impression of the Cruz people.
"It's stopped." While everyone was arguing, Lolo was the only one who was still staring ahead. At this time, he suddenly saw the beautiful blue creature stop near an ice wall in front of him. It looked at the human side, as if to tell them that they had arrived at their destination.
What happened next caught everyone's attention. "Let's go and have a look." Little Pero spoke first.
So Alea and Brund also stopped arguing, and the team moved on. About a quarter of an hour later, they arrived at the place.
But the next moment, everyone was stunned. When they got closer, they found that the glacier had caved in here, forming a narrow canyon.
The misty canyon, like a crack split by lightning, appeared in front of the people of the Folded Sword Knight Regiment …
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