The mist-filled canyon, like a crack split by lightning, appeared in front of the crowd of the Folded Sword Knight Regiment. This crack divided the entire glacier, making the mortals look incomparably small in front of this masterpiece of nature. When Freya looked up at the fragmented section of the glacier, she felt as small as the dust at the feet of a giant.
The long and narrow crack stretched for several miles, forming a winding path between the intersecting and slanting ice. On the cliffs on both sides, layers of ice, icicles, and icicles formed, making the entire canyon look as intricate as a maze.
"This is spectacular!" Brund muttered to himself, and behind him, the young Knight from Cruz also looked at the scene with amazement.
"Where's the stag …?" Faced with such a scene, Alea had to admit that they had been following the stag for some time, but even so, it could not change his stubbornness.
"It went in." The mountain Knight Rollo replied affirmatively.
"But I don't see its shadow now, does it want us to go in? That's not very good, there are traps under these ice walls, reminding me of the dangerous wilderness valleys in the Sukalas Valley when we were training. As the master, even if it doesn't stay to lead the way for us, it should at least say 'please'. Besides, God knows how long this canyon is, what if it's a dead end inside? "Alea asked rhetorically.
Rollo glanced at him and was too lazy to argue with this guy.
In the end, it was little Pero who came out to calm the situation. "Well, Alea is right. Although the Holy Spirit guided us here, we still don't know what's ahead. I suggest that we split up a scout team from the team, just like we did when we were training in the winding valleys of Sukalas."
Brund frowned, "But we were doing survival training at that time, and now we have a pack of Winter Wolves trailing behind us. Wouldn't it be too slow if we split up a scout team and groped our way forward?"
"We can only make this choice. The terrain in the canyon is intricate like a maze, and it won't be easier for those Winter Wolves to track our tracks inside than outside." Little Pero shrunk under his bearskin coat and shook his head slowly, "Let's see what the commander has to say."
Everyone turned to look at Freya, only to find that the Erouine girl was staring at the ten-thousand-year-old glacier in a daze. Her gaze had long drifted off somewhere. She stood there, as if listening and looking, as if something in the ice was talking to her, and it was not until little Pero called her two or three times that she came to her senses.
"Ah, what's wrong?" Freya was slightly startled and looked at the others. "What happened just now? The wolves have caught up? "
"No, I didn't." Brund shook his head. "But you, Sir Commander, what happened? Did you notice anything?"
Freya looked suspiciously at the blue, steel-like glacier. She had indeed discovered something, but that wasn't the main reason for her absent-mindedness. She felt like something had happened, but she couldn't remember what it was.
She thought for a moment and slowly shook her head. "Regarding everyone's opinions, I do have an idea. I just don't know what Mr. Little Pero and Senior Maynild suggest. "
Maynild looked at her, and little Pero replied directly, "Just say it, ma 'am."
"I want to ambush Marquis Yoakam."
"What!?" Before little Pero could speak, Brund blurted out in surprise, because in his opinion, the Lady Commander's performance had been nothing more than mediocre. Although she had some convincing qualities, when it came to brains, not to mention little Pero, who was recognized as the brains of the knights, she was even slightly inferior to himself.
In fact, her previous performance had also illustrated this point. Her command of several battles was like the most standard textbook – that is, you could neither find any highlights nor faults.
He could not imagine why she would suddenly come up with such a risky and radical idea. It was simply not like two things done by one person.
Little Pero was also silent for a moment. This time, it was Maynild who spoke after a moment of consideration. The woman, who graduated from Erouine's Royal Knight Academy with the best grades and quickly became an official Knight and was promoted to Captain of Knights, asked in her usual cold tone, "Why do you think so?"
"… Actually, I've always had this idea, Senior Maynild," Freya's tone softened a little in the face of this stern senior, as if the majesty she had accumulated with great difficulty had turned back into the little girl from the countryside of Bucce in an instant. She said weakly, "It's just that I haven't found a good opportunity before. The terrain here is very much to my liking. Erouine's Infantry Tactical Drill said …"
"Don't worry about the drill, tell me what you think." Maynild sighed and interrupted her a little impatiently.
Looking at the conversation between the two, the young people from Cruz could not help but laugh. They really could not imagine that such a 'weak' commander could lead them to this place. Even in the Cruz Empire, these guys were labeled as unruly. Other than being obedient under Veronica's command, most of the superiors who had been in charge of them would probably put them on the list of headache-inducing existences, which they were proud of.
But it had to be said that sometimes, people's encounters were very strange.
Probably feeling that some of the Cruz Knight's shoulders were shaking, Freya blushed, but she still answered seriously, "Yes, Senior. After all, the Winter Wolves are monsters. If we find a way to kill the person who commands them, then they can hardly pose a threat to us anymore. We can't always be on the run in this world of ice and snow. "
"How can you say that we're on the run, we're carrying out the established tactics." Alea hurriedly corrected her, but because his movement was too big, it affected his wound, causing him to grimace in pain, "The Folded Sword Knight Regiment will never run away from the enemy, Sir Commander, you have to remember this."
"You shut up, the Folded Sword Knight Regiment does not defeat the enemy by bragging." Brund glanced at the guy, then turned back and asked, "But the question is whether we can kill him, Sir Commander, this is risky. That guy obviously won't appear at the front of the wolf pack. If we can't succeed in one blow, we may be surrounded by the wolf pack. "
"What's more …" He hesitated, "What if the silver monster is with him?"
"I say, boy, how can you achieve great things by being overly cautious?" Hearing Brund's objection, Alea immediately sang the opposite tune, "Things on the battlefield are all about luck. If you can predict the enemy 100%, then what's the point of fighting a war? Why don't you just ask him to send a messenger to surrender?"
"Haha, that guy might really send a wolf to surrender to you, Brund, do you understand the wolf language?" The guy asked gloatingly.
"It doesn't matter if I understand wolf language or not. What matters is that you just opposed it and now you support it. Alea, can you Inir people not be so two-faced?" Brund was finally angered by this guy's provocation and could not help but sneer coldly.
Alea, however, did not care and replied indifferently, "That was just now, and now is now. Just now you supported it, so naturally I had to oppose it. Now that you're against it, I'm going to support it. What, do you have any dissatisfaction? "
"I don't have time to be dissatisfied with a guy like you-" Brund was so angry that he wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by little Pero. The short Cruz Knight put his hands in the sleeves of his bearskin coat, and at first it was as if he did not hear the argument between Brund and Alea. It was not until now that he spoke, "Everything else is fine, but have you thought about what to do with the silver monster?"
This problem was also a problem that plagued the entire Folded Sword Knight Order. If it was just the Winter Wolf and Marquis Yoakam, they would have turned around and fought their way out.
But the problem was that the elusive silver monster was too terrifying, and in the battle the night before, it left a deep impression on everyone.
Even Freya, who proposed it, could not help but fall silent when she heard this question.
Was the silver monster there or not, and if it was, what should be done with it?
… …
"Lucky guy."
Yoakam could not help but sigh as he stood at the crack of the glacier, looking up to admire the majestic natural beauty. He unconsciously turned the emerald on the Ringed Snake Ring, just like when he was still in his castle, he would do some subconscious little movements when he was thinking, as if it would help him calm down.
It was just that the cold wind here could not be connected to the pleasant climate of his territory near the Gray Mountain, and the owner of the ring no longer needed such little movements to keep calm. The undead's mind was as cold as ice, and this was just a habitual action.
Before the wolves discovered the rift, he couldn't believe that this group of Kirrlutzians could find such an exit so coincidentally. Who would have thought that this group of Kirrlutzian knights could find the only rift outside the Holy Cathedral of the Hibernator by accident?
White Gorge, this should be the name of this place. Before the Cruz people arrived here, he and Arreck had spent several days looking for this crack, but in the end, they found nothing and had to go back through the main gate guarded by the frost dragon.
Who would have thought that he would actually find this place in the midst of this chase?
Although he was a little upset that the Cruz people had escaped again, he was also a little surprised to find this shortcut, and even felt that it was an unexpected gain.
At this time, several wolves emerged from under the glacier. They howled a few times at Marquis Yoakam, who quickly understood the meaning of his pets.
The Cruz people really entered the canyon.
"They are really bold," Yoakam curled his lips, "But forget it, it doesn't matter. They can walk for a while, but not forever. They will soon understand that only you are the masters of the glacier. I'd like to see how far those lucky guys can run. "
Two winter wolves came to his side, and Yoakam stroked their silver mane with his cold and dry palms and sneered, "Let's go, this hunt is far from over."
The winter wolf seemed to understand his words and lowered its head and whimpered a few times.
Yoakam heard the whimpers of his pets and frowned, "Don't worry about that guy, he is a lunatic, a psychopath. They are just the servants of the Twilight Dragon, and they are self-righteous. Don't think that others don't know that they have been defeated once in ancient times. If their race is really as powerful as they boast, how could they be defeated by the Azure Knight? In the end, they still have to rely on our strength. "
"All Things Become One. How could those guys who only know how to kill and only know how to use brute force understand that they are nothing more than fighting creatures created by Chaos?"
He patted his pet's forehead, "Of course, I understand. That little girl may be a little strange. I have heard rumors about her. I suspect that she is the daughter of the Earth Knight, Everton. Oh, the Royal Faction claims that the traitor is dead, thinking that we don't know about their clumsy lies. But it doesn't matter, our first goal is still to kill those Cruz Knight. Letting them stay with Veronica is a hidden danger, which is something that the old guy Arreck doesn't want to see. As for that little girl, she can't escape anyway. "
"Go, my pet, chase them until they have no way to escape."
Yoakam said loudly. He looked up, but did not realize that behind the layers of ice walls above his head, in the crevices of the glacier, sharp arrows were placed on longbows, moving in the direction he was moving.
At this moment, even Alea, who had been chattering incessantly, held his breath, and all the Folded Sword Knights hiding on the ice wall looked nervously at the Winter Wolves around Yoakam that were like a rolling torrent.
The wolves were crossing the Marquis and entering the canyon.
"Fortunately, we stayed," Brund was an orthodox Knight. Although he had learned archery, he was not good at it. So at this moment, he stood behind everyone with a longsword in his hand, and when he saw such a scene, he could not help but wipe his cold sweat, "If we continue to run, we will be surrounded sooner or later …"
It was not until this moment that he really looked at Freya with some admiration.
But at this moment, the girl from the countryside of Bucce frowned deeper than everyone else.
She did not expect that the number of Winter Wolves would be so large.
… …
(1) The Sucaras Valley, located in the north of Cruz, was the natural habitat of the petrifying lizards. It was the existence of the Cruz Empire as a military restricted area all year round, but contrary to other people's speculation of a training ground, this place was actually a high-quality crystal mine, but since the empire discovered this place in the Year of Thunder, there had been no way to defeat the petrifying lizards and steadily mine high-quality magic crystals from here.
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