Shadow Covenant

Chapter 149 "Winter Songs"

A cat, or a cat living in a luxury carriage, then its identity is open to question.

It is very likely to be the magic pet of the caster, but magic pets are generally more mature and wise, and this kind of childish cat behavior is more like the group of pixies deep in the forest who love to play tricks. The same is true, hiding and hiding, and when you don't pay attention, it will jump out and scare you.

It should be just looking at the new members of the business group.

Feeling that the gaze was not malicious, but with curiosity, Woody didn't pay much attention to the gaze cast from time to time in the carriage, but when he got to the back, the gaze also accompanied Woody sideways on the right side of the road and After Inom's carriage paralleled, it gradually disappeared.

Embarking on the journey to the Northland again is a brand new experience. He never left the Northland during the past half a year in the golden year of his previous life. There is no such ease and tranquility.

Since Palermo's geographical location is surrounded by hills on both sides, after leaving the city, they are not greeted by a smooth road, but a zigzag road that twists and turns upwards. On the hills, many cars can already be seen The horses move slowly on the narrow roads, and most of them will walk separately on the hills, the three-forked roads extending to various city-states like tentacles.

Half an hour later, when Woody climbed up to the highest point of the hill on his dark traveling horse and looked back, he could just see the panorama of Palermo. The whole picture of Mo.

Originally huge and magnificent, with tall walls and tapered towers, the breathless Palermo has now become as delicate and small as a model, and the whole building is off-white, so that it seems to be inlaid in A jewel on a stretch of coastline.

There are still people coming in and out of the city gate, but now they are only as big as ants. Perhaps this day is a memorable day for him to leave the city, but for most Palermo residents, this is just another day. An ordinary day.

But the usual will be broken after all, and the devastation he saw when he stood here in the previous life appeared in his memory.

It wasn't too sad, just a little melancholy for a second, and Woody immediately put these useless emotions behind him, turned the reins, controlled the horse's head and followed the carriage.

"Goodbye!"

But the moment he turned around, he silently bid farewell to the people he knew in his heart.

He doesn't know how long this trip will take, but it will definitely be after next year when he comes back again.

The next journey is considered safe and stable, but it is also normal. The noise of the motorcade and the movement caused by the carriage, the monsters with a slightly smaller number of people dare not approach at all, not to mention that it is less than ten miles away from Palermo. There are still a lot of reclaimed farmland and working farmers below. Generally speaking, it takes half a day's journey to truly enter the wilderness.

However, this business group moved much faster than he expected, because they hardly rested, except for a short stop at noon before continuing on the road. The tired horse untied its lasso, and Woody learned from Inom that the culprit who had bought the horses from the Palermo Mule Market was the person in charge of the Wrathful Winter Merchant Group.

It is said that it was because the caster responsible for guarding the merchant group suddenly received an urgent task and needed to return to the Northland as soon as possible.

And if you want to increase the average speed of the entire business group, you have to use the lives of the horses as consumables. According to Inom, they basically walked for 12 hours every day for the past two days, until it was dark and they couldn't see them. Will stop and look for a suitable spot to camp.

Like other business groups on weekdays, in order to make the horses live longer, they basically only act for eight hours a day, and there are at least two rests in the middle.

But this is more in line with Woody's wishes. After all, he also wants to arrive at Rosent earlier. In this case, he is expected to arrive in Koval Forest before the middle of the month. The Plan of the World Whale.

Although he still doesn't know the location of the Astral Whale, he only knows that it likes to haunt areas where mortals are sparsely populated, but he knows that in a tavern in the Northland, in the tavern in Seven Towns in Spring Awakening Moon (March) next year There will be quite a few people posting multiple similar surveys out there, looking for quests.

— "Winter Songs."

——"Entrustment description: Dehava Drumhammer, the mayor of Kalin Town, one of the "Seven Towns" on the frozen lake, found that the number of reindeer raised in the town this year did not increase but decreased after the winter. Sanya, the forester who used to be a fisherman, said that in the warm winter mountains, he heard the singing of whales that can only be heard in the sea, and he hopes you can go to Carlin Town to investigate..."

——"Consignment reward: a piece of high-quality salted fish meat, a pair of reindeer antlers, a piece of hardhead trout bone..."

——“The Whale of the Mountain.”

——"Description of commissioning: Fran Wujie, the sheriff of Nangu Town, one of the "Seven Towns" in Frozen Lake, discovered that after the winter celebration, two famous hunters in Nangu Town disappeared without a trace, along with a group of outsiders. It is said that the last time I was seen, someone saw the two hunters leading a group of outsiders in the mountains and forests as guides. They seemed to want to go somewhere in the mountains. One of the hunters, Quinn Koch He is his close friend. He hopes that someone can help him find the trace of Quinn. The last time he disappeared was in the frozen soil valley entering the Nuanyang Mountains. It is said that someone in the Giant Bear Tavern heard the target of the outsider. Hunt the huge creature in the mountains, the whale."

——"Entrustment reward: 100 gold coins, a piece of high-quality winter wolf skin."

……

There were many missions like this at the time, but because he was in the Northland, what Woody remembers most clearly is the event that all the missions in Seven Towns all point to the mutated Nuanyang Mountains.

At that time, many local players were attracted to pick it up. He was one of them who had just lifted the ice and traveled to the Seven Towns. It is considered that there is no return without success.

At that time, he didn't know that what he was looking for was the astral whale.

It was only later, based on the inferences of the good people on the forum at that time, that I realized that what appeared there was likely to be the famous astral whale, because only it could swim naturally in the air without water, soaring in the air with an anti-gravity attitude. Above the sky and sea of ​​clouds.

Therefore, in this life, Woody plans to go to the Nuanyang Mountains to wait early to see if he can meet the giant creatures depicted in the mission, cruising on the top of the mountain.

Anyway, he promised Verando that he would go to St. Lawrence, the capital of Baviallo, to look for her before next summer, which is still more than six months away.

More than half a year, not to mention anything else, is enough to reach the end of the ice sheet and climb the highest peak "Dragon's Back Peak" located in the Fang of the World, not to mention just a small short-distance adventure in Seven Towns.

Of course, his first half of the time was not ample, and he was very nervous.

Because if he wants to really encounter the whale depicted in the mission, then his time is definitely not to arrive at the Nuanyang Mountains on the eve of March, but to enter the Nuanyang Mountains during the Winter Celebration (mid-January), that would be the best opportunity.

In fact, there is actually only less than two months left for it.

And these two months, regardless of the time spent on the road to reach Seven Towns.

He still has to spend half a month to get the token certificate that can make the Star Whale agree to give him a ride, and this he has to travel hundreds of miles away from Seven Towns, which is located in the city-state at the southern end of the Sea of ​​Floes A Fisherman's Wharf.

The bottom of the water there will produce a rusty old lantern engraved with stars in the game. There is a chance to get it from fishing, and that is the "boat ticket".

It is the group of astral whales that once guided them to come here, opened up new signposts, the gifts and blessings of the channel creatures.

It looks like a discarded magic item on the outside, but as long as you light this discarded lantern when you meet the astral whale, it will set a time to meet you next time in your mind.

As for why he knows so clearly, it is because after the corrupt mother tree came to Asenland, the space planes were all blocked, and when they could not leave this plane, some players sorted out various leaving plans, which mentioned The travel of the star whale, and the crucial ticket information will not be missed.

This is why he said that time is very tight. Otherwise, he would have nothing to do when he was full, and he would join the Angry Winter Merchant Group. Obviously, as long as he went along the way, he would choose to take the shortcut to the Northland in the Koval Forest, because that This way really saves time.

Time is very important to him...very important.

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Because the business group did not advance along the coastline, but chose the trade route that passed through the Whispering Forest and then crossed the golden plain.

This is a trade route that is not considered popular.

Therefore, the road along the way became narrower and narrower, and the number of other caravans encountered became more and less with the intersection of the fork. In less than half a day, the hills on both sides gradually changed from the outline of the town buildings and farmland that could still be seen, to the taller trees.

Unknowingly, about six hours after leaving Palermo, they had already left the hilly foothills and came to the range of the Whispering Forest.

The Forest of Whispers covers an area of ​​about ten square kilometers, and it appears as a long strip on the map, like a log cutting off the link of the trade road between the north and the south.

And most of the caravans choose to pass through the forest, and the Nudong Merchant Group is no exception.

The big trees with luxuriant branches and leaves reduce the brightness of the road to a dark level. Only the broken sunlight occasionally cut by the gaps in the leaves falls to the ground, mixed with the unknown birds and insects in the jungle, and the sound of the carriage wheels rolling in the trees. It was particularly harsh in the environment of Gao Linshen.

At this time, the noisy carriage guards also began to take it seriously, and started their daily work during the trip.

Woody saw with his own eyes that there were many guards passing by him on horseback. They were scattered at the nodes where the business group might be attacked.

Of course, there are still a group of guards whose duty is not to guard, but to clear roadblocks and scout the road. They take the lead and walk in the forefront of the business group, just like the sharpest part of a spear. If the road conditions change, then they will The carriage will be notified to rest on the spot and wait until the road obstacles are cleared before setting off.

Of course, their more tasks are to clean up and drive away the monsters that are active in the forest.

The Forest of Whispers is the same as many forests in Asenland. Apart from beasts such as bears and tigers, monster lairs are very common here. Their range of activities is like fish swimming in waters, and they are widely distributed.

As long as it is raining and the road is slightly muddy, you don't need to dig through the bushes to see the potholed road and many fresh footprints that are bigger than house cats.

These are the traces left by those kobolds and goblins when they went hunting. After all, only the diverse environment of forests and other creatures can satisfy their daily survival and the important task of tribal reproduction.

If it is true that people only rely on robbing humans to make a living, then there won't be so many monsters in the wilderness, and where there are a little less, they will all starve to death.

And in the final analysis, the millennium time that humans have been active in Asenland is still too short compared to the time that monsters have lived.

The appearance of human beings only added a hunting choice to the monster's diet and choices.

Soon, the unexpected happened, about two hours after entering the Forest of Whispers.

With the sound of horseshoes, a guard of the business group rode back, and under his gesture, the business group that had been advancing at a constant speed suddenly stopped on the road, as if taking a simple rest, and Woody also from In Inom's mouth, he knew the reason for stopping.

"It's okay, don't worry, we found a small caravan that was killed in front of us, it seems to be made by a group of dire wolves, and the guards are driving them away."

Inom didn't care, and didn't even show much worry on his face, and said to Woody very easily.

He didn't encounter too many such things all the way back to the north from the south, almost once every other day.

But very few hands on.

Because almost all traveling business groups understand that monsters cannot be killed cleanly, so most of the choices when encountering monsters are often not killing them, but relying on sound and skills to drive them away.

Doing it is a last resort. From top to bottom, caravans that can save both goods and lives are worthy of the trust of traveling merchants. Multiple guards or merchants join in.

　Push the author's book, dnd Longwen, but I believe most people know it
　　
　
(End of this chapter)