Through the main mission released by Annan, Lin Yiyi and Jiu'er immediately knew what they should do next.
That is to ask Atalanta where the "Heart of Justice" might go.
And Atalanta didn't hide this at all.
After asking about the current map of the world and her approximate "death date," Atalanta had a rough guess.
"According to my future arrangements, I will probably go to the cold winter area in the north."
She answered honestly: "If I die in the north, then I should hide my [heart of justice] in the far north."
Although the "Winter Region" in the imperial era was also a Grand Duchy, it did not completely overlap with the later "Winter Principality".
In such a cold and difficult-to-cultivate area, there are very few living resources. Only by spreading out the several gathering areas as much as possible can more fishery and forestry resources be harvested, and better fishing and whaling be possible.
The Black Sea today was still called the "Whale Bone Sea" at that time.
As the name suggests - whale bones are scattered throughout the sea.
But after the collapse of the unified large barrier, the Winter Principality, which adopted the matryoshka model of using blizzard barriers to isolate gray fog and small barriers to isolate blizzards, could only gather on a large scale. And those cities in the most peripheral areas,
Just give up.
Just like now, in the northernmost part of the Principality of Winter, there are the "Six Provinces of the North" that were in rebellion before. They are actually stuck in the middle by the big barrier, and some cities are exposed outside the barrier.
But a long, long time ago... the "six provinces of the North" can only be regarded as the more northerly parts. If the Principality of Winter was cut into ten equal parts from top to bottom, they would probably only be around the third part.
From the northernmost point of the present Principality of Winter, and continuing some distance further north, you will reach the area now known as the "Amber Sea" - because amber can occasionally be seen floating in that ocean.
Crossing the Amber Sea and continuing further north, you will see endless glaciers.
——But in fact, there were still people living deep in the glacier.
They are a strange gathering place composed of a group of elf scholars who believe in "good ways", as well as some dwarves and giants with extremely thick subcutaneous fat and strong resistance to severe cold.
The height of the giants is more than three meters, and the highest can be five or six meters... while the dwarves are usually about one meter, and the shorter ones are even less than one meter. But it is precisely because of this large difference in height,
On the contrary, they can live together very well, forming a strange symbiotic relationship.
——Until the great barrier is broken.
Because the ethnic group reproduced so smoothly, there were too many old people and children. They did not have time to retreat to the Principality of Winter at the first time, but delayed for several days... In the end, a considerable number of people died outside.
There were only three dwarves, who were out on official business or traveling in the cold winter area at the time, so they survived and just escaped the disaster.
The endless glaciers where they used to live is the so-called Far North. It is an extremely remote place, even completely far away from the edge of civilization, and is very suitable for placing holy bones.
First of all, the holy bones cannot be placed in crowded places, let alone a city. However, they cannot be thrown into the wild... because if someone passes by, its seal may be released.
Based on the information provided by Atalanta.
If she did die in the cold winter, and the [Heart of Justice] was with her at that time, and she had the opportunity to choose the place of her death.
She will definitely hide her heart of justice and her corpse in a corner of the extremely cold place...
But there is another possibility.
If she thought her ascension ceremony was perfect and planned to ascend...then she should be in the "Whale Bone Sea" or Amber Sea at that time. In that case, Atalanta would have no time to hide her righteous heart.
"...But it's unlikely to be in the Black Sea."
Annan thought.
Because the body of water now called the "Black Sea" in the west of winter is connected with the surrounding areas of Noah. If the Heart of Justice is in the Black Sea, it should have been discovered by the fishermen long ago...at least it will
There are rumors.
Since [Heart of Justice] has been lost for hundreds of years, not even a single rumor has been heard.
It is most likely sealed somewhere unknown.
The "Amber Sea" where there are no living animals now, or the glacier further north are both possible.
...Then the problem arises.
No matter Anna, Kafni, Maria or Salvatore... none of them have the ability to cross the Great Barrier. They are all genuine extraordinary beings. As long as they leave the Great Barrier, they will die suddenly...
And if an ordinary person is allowed to leave the Great Barrier and go to a place where the air and water are polluted by gray fog, and only raw fish under the ice can be eaten...
You have to sail all the way to the center of the ocean, or cross endless glaciers - after retrieving the Heart of Justice, you still have to run back alive.
...This is too difficult.
Even the compass will malfunction in the gray fog, and more than half of the rituals will be out of balance due to too much curse content in the air. All food and water carried are easily rotten, and even dried meat cannot withstand three days.
And food that has not been dried will not last even one day.
As long as you are injured once, the wound will never heal, but will get worse day by day; as long as you get sick, it will never heal and will gradually become serious.
In such a harsh environment, even if you have a heart of justice, how can you bring things back smoothly?
But while waiting for Kafni and others to come back.
Annan's eyes suddenly turned and noticed someone.
That was one of the attendants who came from the cold winter with Annan.
"Master Key", Jacob.
——Not an extraordinary person, but an excellent ritualist who is good at improvising and has the ability to teleport over long distances.
Jacob noticed the gaze and looked back blankly.
"It's okay, go to sleep."
Annan just smiled and said nothing more.
But he already had a plan in mind.
——Since Salvatore has already seen Chiron, just wait until tomorrow to see him. It is already very late tonight... It will be almost one o'clock in the morning when he comes back.
Senior Salvatore had to go to sleep at three o'clock in the morning - and he himself took energy potions before going out with Kaifuni and the others.
Even if it was to take care of his body, Annan would not pull him away at this time and let him take him to find Chiron.
Maria and the others came back quickly after that, without any accidents on the way. The two players and Salvatore were all left at the door of Salvatore's house by Maria.
And she took Kaifni back to the palace - no one noticed along the way.
But around seven o'clock the next morning... someone knocked on the door of Annan and Maria's temporary residence.
This is undoubtedly quite a rude move.
However, the situation is urgent and must be reported to His Majesty Annan.
After Annan heard it, he was also stunned for a moment.
This incident was completely beyond his expectation.