Some people are busy traveling away from home, while others are busy returning to their hometown.
Atwood Teutonic, who served as the envoy for the Centaur Khan and facilitated a peace treaty with the Tauren, also embarked on a journey back to his homeland after demonstrating that he had the ability to "allow the Centaur to annihilate the Northern Griffin Legion".
distance.
He left his hometown when he was eight years old and was already very unfamiliar with the north.
After the onset of winter, the north looks desolate and chilly, with the ever-grey sky covering the withered earth. The strong new wind never stops whistling, carrying dead grass seeds and soil residue and beating hard on people.
Atwood, wrapped in a cloak with the brim of his hood covering half of his nose, rode his horse slowly back to the place where the Teutonic family had lived for generations, relying on his already thin memory.
Unlike other lords, the Teutonic family did not place their residence in the center of the territory, but at the northernmost end of the territory.
If you go further north, you will find the hills and valleys that separate the northern grasslands and the extremely cold places.
According to legend, this was to allow the family's knights to rush to the battlefield as quickly as possible to defend against the centaurs, and also to temper the will of the knights in a harsh environment.
Moreover, the residence of the Teutonic family is not a castle, but a collection of simple houses.
This was the decision of the first Teutonic king.
First, he felt that building a family castle was a waste of financial and material resources.
The environment in the north is harsh, the population growth is very slow and the food production is not abundant. Instead of squeezing out financial and material resources to build castles, it is better to use them to supply the Teutonic Knights. In this way, after the war against the Centaurs is over in autumn and winter every year, we can
A few more soldiers would have a chance to go home alive.
The other is because of the Teutonic family's oath to wear the crown.
For the Teutonic family, the crown is a responsibility and a commitment to protect the north to the death.
If one day the Centaurs invade the north and attack the place where the Teutonic family lives, then all the members of the Teutonic family will die in battle!
So, what's the point of building a castle?
After all, "The first person to die on the battlefield was Teutonic, and the last person to leave the battlefield was also Teutonic"!
But what he didn't expect was that hundreds of years later, the members of the Teutonic family would not die in the war against the Centaur invasion, but would be destroyed by the fear of the Mills royal family.
The decision to not have a castle meant that when the Teutonic family was attacked by the Griffin Legion, they lost the chance to wait for their vassals to come to rescue them.
But this is also one of the reasons why there was no new owner here after the fall of the Teutonic family.
The harsh living environment close to the extremely cold land, the geographical location that is not suitable for central surveillance and control of the entire north, and the worthless simple houses make the Northern Griffin Legion and the traitorous Hughes family disdain to occupy this place. Even the sycophants
Their new vassals generally believed that the land should be returned to desolation, with the Teutonic family completely fading out of history.
Of course, this is just the official statement.
In the entire Teutonic homeland, all northerners are more willing to believe in another reason - the innocent Teutonic family that was exterminated has turned into a ghost and haunts this land, so that the executioners who are attached to the Holy Empire dare not occupy it.
Haunted by ghosts...
This statement is very much nonsense.
Because this kind of imaginary thing that scares me has never appeared in the world.
When many people first heard about it, they thought it was a fantasy made up by northerners to express their dissatisfaction with the Teutonic family.
But in fact, this is not groundless.
After the fall of the Teutonic family, the empire once settled some family members of the Griffin Legion here.
As for these family members who have settled here, starting from the third winter, every year when the water turns to ice, ten of them will disappear silently out of thin air!
Yes, disappeared into thin air.
There are no signs of assassination, no signs of invasion by ferocious beasts from extremely cold places, and not even the bodies of these disappeared people can be found.
There is no age limit for people who disappear, women, children, old, weak, young and old.
The process of disappearing is also very strange.
Some people slept in the house with the doors and windows closed at night, but the next morning the doors and windows were still closed, but the people disappeared; some couples fell asleep hugging each other, but woke up the next day to find that their partner was gone.
Traces. What is even more frightening is that when these people disappeared, their hounds tied under the eaves did not notice anything strange all night and did not issue a warning sound.
In the seventh year, the soldiers of the Griffin Legion gathered together to petition, saying that they were unwilling to let their family members continue to live here.
They came to the north to resist the Centaur invasion in order to accumulate military exploits so that their families could live a better life, rather than letting their families become sacrifices to the ghosts of the Teutonic family.
Becoming a sacrifice was what their family members suspected out of fear.
Because people disappeared out of thin air and no bodies were found, they thought that the Mills royal family must have betrayed the ancient contract and destroyed the Teutonic family, which angered the Teutonic ancestors of all generations, so the dead Teutons turned into ghosts and came to take revenge! And!
In order to appease the anger of the Teutonic ghosts, the Mills royal family placed them here over the years and offered them as sacrifices to the Teutonic ancestors!
Otherwise, how to explain people disappearing out of thin air?
And why do ten people disappear every winter, instead of one more or one less?
Fear comes from the unknown.
This speculation quickly spread among the families of the Griffin Legion, and swept through the entire Teutonic homeland like a plague.
The vassals who had betrayed the Teutonic family, and the families or individuals who had benefited from the destruction of the Teutonic family, generally developed a fear of the Teutonic family, and gradually showed signs of deifying the Teutonic family.
This also made the Mills royal family feel anxious.
The biggest reason why they destroyed the Teutonic family was that the Teutonic prestige in the north was too high and threatened the rule of the empire. How could they allow the prestige of the destroyed Teutonic family to become even higher!
After the Northern Goddess Religion failed to resolve the ghost incident, His Majesty the Emperor asked the Illuminati Religion, which has always been rooted in the Middle Earth Plains, to send clergy to the north and promised that they could turn the Teutonic family's residence into a church of the Illuminati Religion as a symbol of their faith.
This is the pedal to the north.
Of course, the premise is to solve the mystery of the ghost incident.
Even if it cannot be solved, people's fear must be resolved so that people no longer mention the Teutonic family.
Unable to refuse the royal family's request, the Illuminati Cult had no choice but to promote the greatness of the God of Light while choosing a hundred priests to enter the Teutonic homeland.
Yes, they don't want to take over this hot potato at all.
It becomes clear when you think about the pros and cons.
If things go as expected and the ghost incident is successfully resolved, it will not bring much benefit to the spread of the Illuminati Sect's beliefs.
In the northernmost part of the Teutonic homeland, there are almost ten days of perpetual night every winter!
This makes the Illuminati very embarrassed.
It cannot be said that the eternal God of Light is unwilling to protect his people during these ten days.
Moreover, people in the north have believed in the Ice and Snow Goddess Cult for thousands of years. Trying to change their faith is no less than a dream! Investing a lot of financial and material resources in the operation will probably result in nothing.
And if they cannot solve the mystery of the ghost, not only will they face the ridicule of the northerners, but even the Griffin Legion who originally believed in the Illuminati will begin to doubt their faith!
There is no profit to be gained from success or failure, so why bother!
In fact, they are very self-aware.
Under the leadership of a powerful archbishop, more than a hundred clergy moved into the Teutonic family's residence during the winter. After making complete preparations, they did not change the result of ten people disappearing out of thin air.
The archbishop, who had a very firm belief, also became ruthless.
In the winter of the second year, he only brought nine guardian knights who had vaguely reached the threshold of the strong and settled in the residence of the Teutonic family, vowing to solve the mystery.
Then, they disappeared from the world forever.
The greatest contribution of this powerful archbishop was to give the Pope a very suitable reason to reject the Mills royal family's request to let the Illuminati Sect send people there again.
After all, even the strong ones have disappeared!
If you want to solve the mystery of the Teutonic Ghost, you can only ask your demigod to come and find out for yourself!
But for some reason, the Mills royal family did not have this intention, and His Majesty Uther Blundor also remained silent.
Inevitably, after this incident, the place where the Teutonic family lived became a taboo place, and no one dared to set foot within a fifty-mile radius after winter.
However, not everyone is afraid.
This winter, Atwood came in, full of expectations to meet the ghost.
Because he left home when he was eight years old!
I have been wandering alone in the far south like a rootless duck for nearly thirty years.
For him, home is already a very unfamiliar word.
The scenery of his home, the voices and faces of his mother, brother and sisters were all blurred in his memory; if he hadn't occasionally looked at the reflection of his face in the water to imagine his father's appearance, he might not even have remembered that his father also had a face.
A long and narrow face with a straight and narrow nose.
Going home has always been his expectation, and it is also the belief that supports his life in the world.
After nearly thirty years of loneliness, helplessness, and ever-present deep thoughts, he had many, many things he wanted to talk to his family.
Even though the other person is already a ghost, it doesn't change his enthusiasm.