Flying snow, bottomless ice sheet cracks, towering peaks, and cliffs so narrow that only two or three people can pass through at the same time - these are the only sights that can be seen to the east of blood skeleton valley.
The howling wind, mixed with cold and piercing frost, almost covered the whole sky. The snow all over the sky indicates that the winter of death has come to duanjie mountain.
The coldest winter has begun.
For the imperial legion, the most difficult problem in fighting North of duanjie mountain is never supply and logistics, nor is there an insufficient supply of troops, but every time the first biggest snowstorm begins, the whole North will fall into ice cave hell!
In such severe cold, it is difficult to dispatch an army, even a small number of elite Rangers; So that the fortress of duanjieshan has to shrink its troops every winter, so as not to reduce its personnel in non combat.
Not to mention the east of blood skeleton Valley, it is no longer a place where living life can survive - even werewolves, minotaurs and other demon communities living on the ice sheet choose to go south every winter.
In particular, the ice wolf people cross the broken boundary mountain almost every year, loot and sweep in the North led by Prince saklan, raze one village after another exposed wilderness or simple fortress, and wantonly kill unarmed farmers.
Of course, more often than not, before they start looting, they will be surrounded and hunted by the Rangers of duanjieshan fortress, most of them will be wiped out, and only a few can escape back to the north; Then plunder south again next year.
Exterminating countless monsters and killing not only ice werewolves are always the trouble of duanjieshan fortress.
But now, in the east of the hell like blood skeleton Valley in the ice cave, there is a huge "Legion" of thousands of people marching along the narrow road in the mountains!
From a distance, it looks like a gray "River" passing slowly. The continuous sound makes the ice walls and snow on both sides of the mountain tremble.
At the end of the horizon beyond our sight, more "streams" are gradually converging - there is no noise and conversation. In the roaring wind, we can only hear their stiff and slow, rolling like a torrent, and continuous stepping sound.
This dead torrent is moving slowly along the snow mountain whistling in the north wind towards the east of blood skeleton valley.
A loud roar echoed over the snow mountain. In the snowstorm, a black feather Eagle circled down from the sky and stood firmly on the shoulders of the black haired wizard.
The dignified Loren lay on the edge of the cliff and looked down. Not only the mountains, but also the narrow cliffs were lined up with rotten corpses and Demons marching in formation!
Isaac, lying beside him, almost stretched out his head and stared at the sight he had never seen before; The expression of Lucian on one side was even more difficult to see. He clenched his teeth from beginning to end, and his eyes were filled with the words "impossible" under the tip of dark blue hair.
"The Holy Cross is from his grandparents..." Isaac, who got up with great effort, swallowed his saliva: "I... I said, how many monsters are there?"
"I don''t know."
The grey pupil boy bit his lower lip, and his right hand holding the hilt of the sword trembled: "even according to the least number, I''m afraid... It won''t be less than 10000!"
"Ten thousand?" Isaac took a breath. "I remember all the defenders of duanjieshan fortress... Almost ten thousand people?"
The ugly Lucian nodded heavily.
Although Lucian guessed that the invasion was probably true when the rotten corpse demon appeared, he would feel shocking only when he saw it with his own eyes!
"Lord Loren!"
The grey pupil boy "pa!" pressed the black haired wizard''s shoulder and looked at him seriously: "I know I swore, and I''m no longer the guard of duanjie Mountain Fortress - but this information is really crucial. We must return immediately and convey it to crown prince Connor!"
After hesitating for a moment, the black haired wizard shook his head calmly: "not now."
"Not now?! do you know duanjie mountain fortress..."
"I know that the strength of duanjieshan fortress may not be enough to resist a northern demon invasion!" Loren interrupted Lucian with a sigh:
"From the moment when the search team was killed and the sentry tower was destroyed, his highness connord noticed that the invasion was approaching, and probably beyond our imagination - but the problem was that he didn''t have enough evidence to prove this, and he didn''t know what happened in the blood skeleton valley."
Lucian was stunned.
"What''s more, even if we go back now, it won''t help - first, no one will believe the three of us; second, if we really say so, telling them that an army of demons is moving east will probably have the opposite effect!"
The grey pupil boy frowned slightly, obviously understood.
Even if they really believe their words, I''m afraid most people will think that the goal of this demon army is not the Empire, but somewhere else. The final result is absolutely unimaginable
One side of Loren gave him a meaningful look, and a trace of worry flashed through his pupils.
Now it seems that the prince of sakran may have expected that this invasion is likely to be different from any previous one, so he asked Brandon to go north to find clues.
More importantly, if Brandon dies in the north, since there is no demon invasion, Connaught also has a good reason to "revenge" and gather the strength of the whole Saxophone Empire to launch a massive "expedition".
If Brandon is hard enough and finds the clue, Prince saklan, as the commander of the fortress on the broken boundary mountain, can also have enough reason to concentrate the power of the whole empire in his hands.
In other words, no matter what the outcome, it is an absolutely favorable outcome for Connor de sallion - whether Brandon and even the whole team going north can come back alive or not, it doesn''t matter to him from the beginning.
Since there is nothing to gain, there is no loss to him. This is a "business" that can make a steady profit without losing!
"Wait, if that''s true... It doesn''t make sense!"
Isaac frowned and suddenly "interrupted" and said, "I''ve seen the records of the wizard tower. From the first generation of the Empire to now, there have been nine demon invasions - of course, this should be the tenth time."
"All the nine invasions, without exception, took place near Xuegu Valley and duanjie mountain, and all before the beginning of severe winter - if it were the same as before, these large-scale popsicles would have gone to attack the fortress of duanjie mountain!"
"What do you mean?" the grey pupil boy reflected alertly.
"Isaac means that this'' invasion ''is different from any previous one - if the demons in the north have really completed the assembly, they should have invaded the fortress of duanjie mountain before the severe winter!" Loren continued:
"As a result, in addition to winning more preparation time for duanjieshan fortress and making the fortress more difficult to bite, it is impossible to have any advantage over them!"
Feeling the bitter cold of the north wind, the dignified black haired wizard slightly clenched his palm.
Yes, if their goal is really duanjieshan fortress, they and Brandon don''t have to do anything at all, because the demons who haven''t marched to the South can''t easily capture the fortress.
But what if their goal is not duanjieshan fortress?
What if an evil god Apostle who assembled this army of demons from the beginning actually had another intention?
"Lucian, I have a question."
"Please say." aware of the dignified expression of the black haired wizard, the grey pupil boy didn''t dare to neglect.
"I need you to judge." Loren slowly raised his right hand and pointed to the end of the disappearance of the demons: "according to the ''march route'' of those rotten demons, where is their most likely destination?"
"The most likely... Destination?" Lucian was stunned and lost in thought; The next second, the silver gray pupil was shrinking in fear:
"Ned... Hogg --?!"