The snow is getting heavier, and the sky is full of goose feathers flying in the forest. The tall coniferous trees are swaying as if they are trembling. The strong wind passes through the woods, and there are strange sounds, as if the devil from hell is roaring or wailing.
A vision appeared, heavy snowflakes swirled around Ryan, and white divine fire appeared inside the forest.
A great will has arrived. This will is full of violence, anger, brutality, and ferocity, but it is also full of strength, courage, glory and faith.
"A good sacrifice." In the void, a rough and bold voice appeared in Ryan's mind: "A really big, rare mutant wild boar?"
"Yes, I will dedicate it to you, the great Wolf God." Ryan muttered silently in his heart, knowing that the White Wolf God of War would definitely hear it.
"..." There was a feeling of satisfaction in the void. Mutated creatures weighing hundreds of kilograms made the Wolf God have a strong interest. Yurik liked this. He liked fighting, drinking, and showing his courage and strength.
strength.
Ryan completely relied on melee combat to kill such a very powerful mutated wild boar. The Wolf God liked this. He liked his followers to show courage and strength and use the most primitive, simple and crude means to kill their prey.
The white divine fire condensed in the air, opening the door to another world. A giant white wolf that was as big as a buffalo jumped out of the door. It devoured the wild boar's carcass in a few mouthfuls, then turned around and picked up the rest.
Part of it jumped into the portal.
After that, everything fell silent, and only the white flames remaining in the air showed that the messenger of the Wolf God had arrived.
"Well, you won't even leave me a pig leg!" the White Wolf Knight complained casually.
"White Wolf Knights may not all be White Wolf Knights, but White Wolf Knights must be White Wolf Knights."
——Archbishop Maras Bilderhoven of the White Wolf Church
The former refers to the title, and the latter refers to the advanced profession. Just like Ryan, his title is White Wolf Knight, but his advanced profession is not White Wolf Knight. Any knight has a chance to win as long as he performs well enough.
The title of White Wolf Knight means becoming a member of the White Wolf Knights. If the knight chooses the advanced profession of White Wolf Knight, then he must become a member of the White Wolf Knights.
Theoretically, the White Wolf Knights are not actually under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Nord. The headquarters of the White Wolf Knights is located in White Wolf City (Wolfs City) in the Empire's Volrich Territory. It is also the capital of the territory and is elected by the Empire.
Ruled by Manfred "Iron Wheel" Adalbert, this territory is connected to the Kingdom of Nord, but it has the same barren land and harsh weather as Nord. The land here is covered with almost airtight
The dense black forest, so the brave White Wolf God of War is the belief of many people here. The White Wolf Temple is also built on the cliff of White Wolf City. A large number of White Wolf Knights guard it. The White Wolf Knights of Nord
The regiment is actually just two companies of the White Wolf Knights.
The white wolf god of war, Ulric, has existed for a very long time. He appeared on the continent to perform miracles when humans were still growing up and drinking blood. Charlemagne, the founding emperor of the empire, is said to have received a lot of help from him, but the personality of this god of war
He is unpredictable. He rarely responds to the prayers of believers, and the church does not provide much welfare or relief. The rituals and trials that can please the White Wolf God of War are too dangerous. This makes the White Wolf Church more than a thousand years after the founding of the empire.
At that time, the scale of national worship shrank a lot.
After shaking off the snow and mud from his body, Ryan quickly went down the mountain. Good luck favored the Kingdom Knight again, and he hit a rabbit with a throwing knife.
Coming out of the forest, bonfires and smoke had already risen in the abandoned village. Estelle, who was standing on the fence and sentry, immediately spotted the returning kingdom knights and signaled the guards to open the city gate: "Mr. Lane? There are trees in the forest ahead.
When he fell down, there was also fire, was that your masterpiece?"
"Exactly, is there anything else?" Ryan entered the abandoned village and let out a sigh of relief.
"No, most of the people were cooking in the big room in the middle, and we didn't notice any enemy attacks." Estelle jumped directly from the wall and landed lightly: "Do you want to participate?"
"No, I have dealt with the bandits and that huge creature, and I will leave the rest to you." Ryan shook his head. He now went to the big house to participate in the gathering, and the end result was that he became a bard.
Walking to the door of the arranged cabin, Ryan reached out to push the door open and found that the door was bolted: "Theresa?"
"Ryan?" The door opened. The sorceress wearing a plush coat and a purple silk skirt confirmed that the visitor was Ryan, then let him in, and then locked the door: "You have been here for a long time, I will give you hot water."
It’s already burned.”
Magic lamps have been installed in the house, and the goose-yellow light illuminates the interior of the house. The large hole in the wall has been sealed by the sorceress using magic combined with wooden boards. The fireplace has been reinstalled and a pot of hot water is boiling inside.
"Ah, it's nice to have a woman who can boil a pot of hot water for me after fighting hard outside." Ryan took off his chain armor and sat cross-legged on the carpet: "By the way, why isn't it thick soup?"
Woolen cloth?"
"Tsk, you guy." Teresa's beautiful face turned pale with the cold. As soon as she sat down, she took the quilt next to her and wrapped herself in it: "Okay, the ingredients are ready, you can cook."
Ryan didn't say anything. He used the corn, ham and vegetables sent by the caravan to cook a pot of corn, vegetable and ham soup, then took out a knife to skin the hare and hung it in the fireplace to roast.
"Teresa? How are you? How do you feel about going on an adventure?" Ryan kept moving his hands and took the initiative to start the conversation.
"It's not bad. Traveling is not as difficult as imagined." The woman nodded, her thick black hair hanging down like a waterfall, flashing with a faint light.
"Ha~ Really?" Ryan smiled disapprovingly.
"Okay, okay, Ryan, I know you take good care of me, why don't I express my gratitude to you?" Teresa certainly knew what the man was laughing at, and the woman pouted: "You know? Apart from you,
I have never been so close to any man and stayed in a hut at night."
"Yes, yes, yes~ Then I should feel a great honor? As your bodyguard?" Ryan looked at the sorceress sideways. Ever since he met her, Teresa's behavior in front of others has been aloof.
It's really an honor for her to look like a little girl pouting like this.
"As a teammate...you have experienced the battle?" The sorceress quickly noticed the snow and mud on Ryan's chain mail.
"Yes, I encountered bandits and mutated creatures." Ryan told the sorceress what he had experienced before, including the bandits and the big silver boar, but he hid the matter about the white wolf God of War Yurik.
While talking, a large pot of corn, vegetable, and ham soup was also ready. Ryan filled it in a bowl and handed it to the woman.
"This is very strange. You let those bandits go without destroying them or helping them. You just gave them some bread?" The sorceress took the wooden bowl with some curiosity on her face: "Their life and death depend on you.
It's not like you to have them in your hands, but you didn't change their current situation."
"What can I do? I kindly offer money to help them. This is what churches such as the Church of the Goddess of Mercy and the Church of the Moon do. Kill them? They are also people of the Nord Kingdom and our compatriots. As a Nord, I
The knights of the Kingdom of Germany can kill a few extremely vicious people, but killing them all is too much, unless it is really necessary." Ryan shook his head: "Actually, it's easy to say, this place can't support so many farmers.
, the existence of the nobility is destined to have an upper limit on the number of people the region can bear, and this upper limit will become less and less as time goes by."
"You don't want to use your own money to help others, and you don't want to cause random killings. It really suits your style." The sorceress nodded. Ryan respects the most basic moral bottom line. He possesses the eight virtues of a knight, hating evil and promoting justice.
But compared to the somewhat pedantic paladins or the priests who serve the goddess of mercy, Ryan is also a treacherous person.
I like to bargain and seek more benefits for myself.
To sum it up in the words of his mother Aurora: "Ryan's characteristics are tolerance within the rules and kindness at the bottom line."
He is young, powerful, humorous, and knowledgeable. He is a good companion during the journey. After staying with him for a long time, Theresa felt that she had met him before in Winterfell, the capital of Nord.
Those young knights and nobles are scum.
"Where's that mutated wild boar?" The sorceress is only interested in Ryan's handling methods rather than those bandits who fell into bandits because they couldn't survive. In the sorceress's view, these people are low-level people and consumables.
After she figured out what Ryan was thinking, the topic stopped.
"It's just a powerful mutant creature. It's the same as griffons, manticores, and hippogryphs." Ryan turned the iron bar, and the roast rabbit kept spinning in the fire of the fireplace, and animal fat dripped on the wood.
Sparks flew from the pile, and the smell of barbecue gradually spread.
About a thousand years ago, the Chaos God came to the northern wasteland, and the northern wasteland was gradually corrupted. Decades later, the first Chaos God-chosen "Unifier" Moka appeared, and he assembled an army that exceeded
The Chaos Army of half a million people opened the Gate of Chaos. Although this Great Patriotic War, which is little known to the people of the empire, is hidden in the long river of history, its scale and brutality far exceed all wars in the history of the empire, even contemporary inventions.
Even powerful firearms cannot match it. The successive victories of Moka's army caused the energy of chaos to surge, and the breath of the dark god blowing from the north bathed the entire old world. This gradually transformed the material world into the realm of chaos.
The founding emperor of the empire, Charlemagne, who was over 500 years old at the time, also assembled all the imperial troops, dwarves and even the incarnate gods to march north to meet the enemy, and carried out the fifty-fourth and last great war in his life.
expedition.
In that tragic battle, Roland, the greatest knight under Charlemagne, sacrificed his life for a road leading to Moka's position. Charlemagne and Moka had a duel that shocked the ancient times. In a bloody battle day and night
In the novel, Mokar forced Charlemagne into desperate situations several times, but in the end Charlemagne seized the opportunity and successfully showed Mocar's head to the public, and the Chaos army collapsed.
Although the army of Chaos has faded, the influence of the wind of Chaos has penetrated into all aspects of the main material world, and many mutated creatures were born. The most famous ones are the half-lion, half-eagle creature like the griffon, the ferocious scorpion
Tailed lion, half-deer, half-bird hippogryph, etc.
"The erosion of Chaos brings corruption and depravity, but it also gives birth to powerful magic and creatures." Ryan nodded: "Have you seen the dark elves?"
"I've seen it in the library, but I haven't had any contact with it." The sorceress nodded. She liked Ryan's talk about some of the unwritten rules and knowledge on the continent, and she learned a lot from it.
"Among the dark elves, there are specialized beast tamers who tame these mutated beasts for battle. Hehe... Most of the dark elves' beast tamers are women. They hold whips, and sometimes they are not only used for fighting and taming.
Beast..."
"Lian!!!" Teresa's voice rose.
"Okay, hehe, I mean, actually we humans are the same, for example, the most elite gryphon knights in the empire, and the Archduke of Leinster in Britannia rides a large hippogryph.
As for the manticore... well, many parts of the manticore can be sold for a good price." The knight of the kingdom used a knife to separate the roasted rabbit and said with a smile: "The mutated wild boar is called silver in the records of imperial scholars.
Porcupines have long-range attack capabilities, their fur is very hard, and their weak point is their soft lower abdomen. It’s just a little strange.”
"A bit strange?" The sorceress tore into the roasted rabbit in small bites. Ryan's skills were really good. Mixed with the spices, the rabbit meat was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and the meat was delicious and chewy.
"Well, it's a bit strange. Logically speaking, when the weather is so cold, wild boars will not appear in northern areas like Nord. Even if they do, it is really strange that wild boars will actively wander around in the forest this season, even if they mutate.
, The animal instincts of the past will still be retained. In this season, most wild boars will look for warm nests to avoid the cold. They will only come out at noon and afternoon, and will take the initiative to appear at night, which is somewhat abnormal." Ryan touched his chin,
He keenly felt that something was not quite right.
"Maybe it's just a coincidence? There's not enough food or something?" Teresa didn't take it seriously. The temperature in the room gradually increased due to the efforts of the fireplace. The sorceress let go of the quilt, revealing her slender and white neck like a swan.
, wearing a string of pearl necklaces, her noble and elegant temperament was fully displayed in front of Ryan. The woman looked lazy and relaxed on the quilt: "Anyway, as long as you hold him back, my magic can send him to meet the God of Death.
"
"But I'm worried, Theresa, do you really understand Bert? In other words, do you really understand what a witcher is?"