Wizard From Afar

Snow peaks towering into the clouds, mountains in succession, goshawks across the sky—On the endless northern plains led by Prince Sackland, there is only one place to see These.

Boundary Mountain Fortress.

The only barrier in the northern part of the empire is not an isolated fort that stands like a Knight, but a large fortress group built along the entire mountain range of the Duanjieshan mountain range. As the "core" stretches to the east and west sides, it cuts across the World of Ice and Snow in the north.

From the highest spiral peak of Duanjie Mountain to the Grey Bay near the Misty Sea in the west, Duanjieshan Fortress has seven fortresses and twenty watchtowers. These fortresses form a tight The defense system is used to ensure surveillance of the north.

No matter in any era, the threat from the north has always been the most deadly enemy of the empire-the centaur of the east, the Jonah family of Boe Duchy and their scimitar hussars, and the dwarves of the southeast mountains. , Is being closely monitored by the reloaded Knights of the Torino family all the time;

The Fried family in Northwest Lothar and the Oud family in Southwest Arles have not encountered trolls and ogre for hundreds of years. The invasion; even the elves of Yasul overseas did not have the slightest advantage in front of Eboden's ocean-going fleet.

Because of this, in the face of the only deadly threat, the empire will at all costs. He spent a lot of money and most of the manpower and material resources of the Prince of Sackland, creating the invulnerable, indestructible and indestructible and The "door" of impregnable!

There is no other reason-if the northern part of East Sacrament is occupied, the remaining plains will have no buffer at all; across the Gem River is the Imperial Capital Golovin. When the time comes, it is about to fight a life-and-death imperial defense battle with Evil God's monster army under the city wall of the capital.

Of course, even so. The fortress of Duanjieshan is not a wall that has blocked the north. It can still bypass layers of fortresses and invade the north of the empire.

But in fact, the real "Boundary Mountain Fortress" in a broad sense is far more than that-there are not many towns on the northern plains under Prince Sackland, but rather strong castles. Scattered on the northern land like morning stars.

These castles are usually responsible for training recruits for the Fortress of Duanjieshan, domesticating war horses and pack animals; once the north is invaded, the villagers in the surrounding villages can hide in the castle for refuge, and resist the invasion as much as possible. The army of monsters used beacon towers and rangers to ask for help from the fortress.

At this time, two Legion garrisoned a total of 6,000 heavy infantry all year round, plus twice as many auxiliary soldiers, the fortress of one thousand heavy cavalry became a sharp sword behind the invaders , Can penetrate the heart with a sword at any time!

Exactly how it was formed has long been unknown, but among the many legends about the "north", it was the ancient kingdom that used some special power to shape the natural nature of the north and south. The dividing line between them separates their ancient kingdom from the south, making it impossible for outsiders to easily set foot on their territory.

Of course, this is just a saying circulated in tavern poems, and similarly, there are also the devil's transformation, which fell from the sky, and a certain ancestor of the Desalion family drove the giant dragon to build... …

In the orthodox years of the empire, it was "the barrier built by the Holy Cross for the human empire to separate the devil's hell from the Human World", which is also the most convincing to the world.

Of course, as the wizards in the empire became more and more prosperous, there were more and more doubts, and many doubts made this statement increasingly untenable.

"Probably more than ten years ago, I remember that it was when I was a child." Brandon Desalion, who was lying in the carriage comfortably, spoke in a nostalgic tone. The "wizard consultant" sitting across from him jokingly said:

"There is a wizard from Eboden-well, I remember it was called Wegener? It was a crazy old fogey, and suddenly ran to Imperial Capital Golovin’s cathedral told Archbishop that the formation of Broken Boundary Mountain was not due to external forces, but the result of the drift and collision of two continents. It has nothing to do with the divine force of the Roche of the Holy Cross. This was what he said at the time. "

"Well, I guess the ending of this wizard may not be very good." Loren eyebrows raised.

Hanging, beheading, or a cross?

"Innocent Archbishop is the kindest person I have ever seen in my life. Even for many wizards, he is lenient and seldom angry." The corner of the prince's mouth showed a playful smile. :

"That was the first time he sent a wizard to the stake for'blasphemy'-poor old lunatic, very interesting guy."

"I saw him burned alive, his clothes turned into charcoal, his flesh was burned like a big candle, and he screamed and screamed until his throat was also swallowed by flames. I can’t call it out at all."

"...Then, it turned into a pile of scum." Brandon’s smile became more and more ironic, and he twisted in the carriage and changed. A more comfortable posture:

"Wegener and Innocent Archbishop had a debate. Wegener was sent to the stake, and Wegener became a pile of black firewood. ——Wizard consultant Loren Torino, what did you find from this story?"

What did I find?

Looking at Brandon who blinked at himself, the black hair wizard with his mouth twitching showed an expression that wanted to laugh but desperately suppressed:

"People are killed...just Will you die?"

"..."

In an instant, the awkward atmosphere in the carriage reached its peak.

"Um...cough cough...your theory is really impeccable." Brandon twitched his lips with an expression like disdain:

"But I see But it’s something else; I saw the “proverbs” and “miracles” in the doctrine of the Holy Cross, how pale and weak!"

"Even a benevolent believer like Innocent Archbishop, It is also absolutely unacceptable for a wizard to tell him that we are alive and that the world we live in is due to certain reasons, certain coincidences, not because of the miracle of the Holy Cross, let alone because of the mercy of the Holy Cross that we can live in this world!"

"They are scared." Loren whispered meaningfully.

"Yes, they are scared-the Holy Cross and Holy Cross Church have created a wonderful, sacred and artistic dream, so that ordinary people don’t need to think, and they don’t need to think about living in this beautiful So when the wizards appear, they will be so angry, because the wizards pierced the dream and told them that all this is not so beautiful."

"I always felt that this This is the real reason why the church from start to finish is hostile to the wizards-because only they will question and ask questions; the believers of the Holy Cross cannot explain all this at all."

"Maybe It’s because they can’t explain.” Loren looked at His Royal Highness silently: “Maybe it’s because the truth is so cruel that they didn’t dare to speak!” Logan of the Hat", Loren became more and more suspicious of the connection between the so-called "wizard origin" and the Holy Cross.

There is also the legend that Logan once visited, Niederhogg, the capital of the giant dragon kingdom...Does it really exist?

If yes, what will you find there?

Thinking of this, Loren couldn't help but laughed softly in his heart-even if he knew it, what good would it be. Let's not talk about how the wizard advisor of his Royal Highness can leave the fortress of Broken Boundary Mountain and go to the north, even if it succeeds?

I don’t even know where the so-called giant dragon king city is, and the prince Brandon Desalion is notoriously unwelcome in the fortress of Duanjieshan.

I won’t be implicated...no, that’s impossible, I should definitely be implicated.

At this point, Loren has absolutely incomparable "confidence" in Brandon.

"peng!"

Just when two people were enjoying the rare comfort and quietness, a muffled noise came from the carriage. A Knight wearing heavy armor, gray hair and blue eyes, about forty years old, pushed open the car door.

Loren and Brandon smiled tacitly when they saw the visitor.

This is the Cavalry Captain of the Broken Boundary Mountain Fortress, who prepared that special "Welcome Ceremony" for them.

"Salute to you, Your Royal Highness!" Knight didn't seem to feel that he was unwelcome. His scorching eyes directly ignored the black hair wizard next to him, staring at Brandon lying there:

"We have arrived at the Fortress of Duanjieshan!"