"Palm Rock! Palm Rock is here!" Cheers of joy started from the guards at the front of the caravan and spread to the end of the team. At this moment, all the people who were immersed in their journey invariably faced the knife-like wind and snow and headed forward.

Looking over, although most people did not see the mention of Palm Rock in the cheers due to vision, wind and snow, etc., there were still some people who vaguely saw the shape of Palm Rock and looked at the people around them excitedly.

Tell about what you saw.

This is undoubtedly very good news for the entire Ice Bear Caravan. Even though their leader Philoria mentioned that they were approaching Palm Rock a few hours ago, they have been marching in the snowstorm for the past few hours.

The hardships had long exhausted their energy and spirit. Now this news undoubtedly gave them a shot in the arm, giving them inexplicably more strength and speeding up the pace of the entire caravan.

It even returned to normal traveling speed.

Palm Rock is a rare large hill in the snowfields of the North. The entire rock is shaped like a huge palm lying on the ground. Although it is not the best shelter from the wind, it contains a geothermal heat that makes the ground hot all year round.

As the water rises, the heat melts the surrounding snow and gathers into hot water pools that almost never freeze. Because of the existence of hot water pools, some trees grow here that can block wind and snow.

Due to the barrier of the Palm Rock itself and the surrounding trees, as well as the temperature of the hot pool, people traveling to and from the snowfield can still survive here even if they encounter a blizzard as severe as the Black Storm.

The accelerating caravan soon arrived at the forest circle outside Palm Rock. Because the snowstorm was so strong, a large number of trees were blown down, which virtually made it more difficult for the caravan to move forward.

Seeing this situation, Philoria decisively found a suitable depression, and then ordered the caravan people to move the carriage filled with goods into the depression, and then drove the huge ice bear to knock down the downed trees.

It was piled up around it, forming a barrier to protect against wind and snow.

After doing all this, she asked the caravan people to travel lightly. As for the goods and carriages, they were temporarily left here to pick them up when they continued on the road after the snowstorm.

After unloading the goods, the people of the caravan made a gesture and continued to march towards the main part of the forest where the Palm Rock is. Perhaps it was because they were traveling light, or perhaps because the Palm Rock was so close that they could have a good rest.

, All in all, the caravan moved through the woods much faster than before. After a while, they walked out of the small woods and came to the bottom of Palm Rock.

The geothermal heat of the palm rock should be directly underneath the rock, so the geothermal heat will spread along the bottom of the palm rock to all sides, so that the hot water pool formed by the melted water will surround the palm rock.

Because the geothermal temperatures obtained are different, the water temperatures in those hot water pools are also different. Some water temperatures are as high as boiling water, while others are only above the freezing point. Only a few hot water pools have water temperatures suitable for humans. There have been people in the past.

I thought about connecting these large and small hot water pools with ditches, which could balance the temperature and increase the number of pools suitable for humans, but in the end this plan failed. The reason for the failure was that the rock under the Palm Rock is very hard, no matter how sharp it is.

It is difficult to cut through these rocks with a hard mining pick. If you insist on carrying out the project, the amount of money spent in the end is definitely a huge number, so the plan has been abandoned. You can still see it abandoned next to some hot water pools.

Tools here.

The location where the Ice Bear Caravan arrived was not very good. The hot water pool here was filled with scalding hot water. The heat emitted also contained an inexplicable odor. Staying here for a long time would make people feel sick, so the caravan immediately

Under the guidance of someone familiar with Palm Rock, we moved towards the nearest hot water pool with a suitable temperature.

Soon, the caravan arrived at the suitable hot pool. Because the snowstorm brought a lot of ice and snow, the water after melting the snow was much more than usual, which increased the melted water in several surrounding hot pools.

The area of ​​the pool also spread, and eventually connected together to form a small lake.

This was not a good thing for the caravans, because the expansion of the hot pool made the land around the hot pool suitable for camping very muddy after being unfrozen and no longer suitable for camping. They had to find a new suitable camping location.

Fortunately, this location was easy to find, because someone had already found it for them in advance. In the forest beside the dark hot pool, a striking bonfire was burning there. From the light emanating from the bonfire, one could clearly see what should be surrounding the bonfire.

In addition to a large cleared area, there were more than a dozen people sitting around the campfire.

Seeing this situation, Philoria immediately ordered to camp in that open space. Although this was a bit against the rules, the caravan was very tired now and had no extra energy to continue looking for other suitable places to camp.

As the noise caused by the march of the caravan spread to the bonfire, the dozen or so people resting around the bonfire were alerted. It was seen that they did not have any salutes or other items around them, but instead took up weapons in a well-trained manner.

, retreated into the shadows outside the light of the bonfire, vigilantly observing the noise on the caravan's side, and checking the surroundings from time to time to guard against being detoured and attacked.

It is not difficult to see from the actions of these people that they all have rich experience in dealing with the current situation and are veterans of living in the snowfields. However, this veteran does not mean that they are tribesmen who have been living in the snowfields all year round, nor are they businessmen traveling through the trade routes.

Team members, they are more likely to be bandits lingering on both sides of the trade road, waiting for opportunities to plunder.

Being a bandit in the snowfield is not an easy thing, nor is it something that can make one rich overnight, because most of the caravans in the snowfield will join together to form a large caravan with many guards, who want to rob this place.

A large caravan will only work if the tribes in the snowfield act collectively.

In the past, the Snowfield tribe would indeed play a part in the banditry business at certain times, but with Movitlu taking the lead, more than a dozen large snowfield tribes and the southern caravans have concluded a trade agreement, and basically the Snowfield tribe will no longer plunder.

After all, others have given enough wealth to you, so why bother to rob it? Not only will there be a lot of casualties, but you may not be able to grab enough wealth, and you will also get a bad person.

Due to its reputation, no caravans will do business with it anymore, so the tribes in the snowfield will not only not rob the caravans, but will actively maintain this trade route.

Most of those who are still doing robbery in the snowy fields are just pretending to be robbery, but are actually doing other things. For example, some hostile chambers of commerce hire bandits to attack their enemy's caravans, thereby disrupting the other party's normal trade.

etc.

In this state of vigilance, the front guard of the Ice Bear Caravan soon walked out of the woods. This team of guards consisted of ten people, all of whom were strong Movit warriors. They also had rich experience.

When he walked out of the woods, he had already taken out the shield with the emblem of the Chamber of Commerce and put it in his hand, and the weapon was unsheathed.

"Come out! If you are not hostile, we will not attack you, even if you are those gray gophers." The man as the captain said to the first evacuees hiding in the shadows of the woods.

This sentence not only expresses their attitude, but also sends a warning. If the other party does not give a correct response, then they do not mind getting rid of the other party to avoid any accidents when they camp and rest.

At this time, those who came here first to escape the blizzard couldn't help but secretly curse their luck. As people who have lived in the snowfield all year round, they naturally recognized that the emblem on the human shield was the emblem of the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce.

Although the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce is not particularly large among many snowfield chambers of commerce, it can still be ranked among the top ten, and its strength can definitely be ranked among the top three. After all, the owner of the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce is a one-man army of War Bear Priests.

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Faced with this situation, they all made the same move without any discussion, put away their weapons again, and then walked out of the shadows of the woods with open hands, completely showing their most harmless side.

, At the same time, the leader among them even louder said: "We are just ordinary people hiding from the wind and snow, and we don't dare to be enemies of the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce. We can also give up the bonfire here to your association. I only hope that your association can keep it."

There is an open space for us to rest, and we will leave immediately after the black storm subsides."

Just as this man finished speaking, he heard someone from the Ice Bear Caravan escort taunting: "Tibeto, how dare you, a butcher with your hands filled with the blood of innocents, claim to be an ordinary person? Aren't you afraid of the sleeping Snow Mother?"

Will you wake up laughing after hearing this?"

"Damn it?" After hearing the other party's ridicule, the leader couldn't help but cursed secretly. At the same time, he couldn't help but put his hand back on the weapon he had just put away. Seeing this, his companions also shook their hands again.

On the weapon.

Just when their identities were revealed and the first refugees were about to fight off the guards and escape with their trophies by the campfire, a dull sound of footsteps came from the woods behind the caravan guards, and then they saw a forest falling.

Going down, a road formed, and then a huge figure came out of the woods.

The first evacuees were stunned by the scene before them. Their eyes not only fell on the hill-like ice bear, but also on the body-building woman who was like a little giant sitting on the ice bear's back.

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At this moment, they all couldn't help but feel desperate. If before they were still confident that they could repel the caravan guards in front of them and take away their trophies, now all they could think of was running away. As for the trophies, everything was gone.

Disappeared from my mind.

With little need for an order from the leader, everyone made the same move, turned around and fled into the woods, all planning to use the obstruction and shadow of the woods to escape the ice bear caravan's hunt.

However, they obviously underestimated the power of the War Bear Priest. After Philoria let out a war cry with a special rhythm, an invisible cold air was generated out of thin air and surged towards the woods ahead in the form of scattering. In an instant,

The dozen or so people who caught up and fled were frozen into icemen by the extremely cold air without even making a move to resist, and the surrounding woods were also frozen into ice withers.

"Go and chop off their heads. You should be able to exchange for some bounty on Movit Road." Philoria jumped off the back of the ice bear, her movements were as agile as a snow leopard, but after she landed, she did not immediately give any orders. The people behind started to set up camp, but walked to the campfire and asked towards an empty space that ordinary people would see: "Isn't your Excellency the same group as those guys?"

The caravan guards were stunned when they saw Filoria's movements, but soon realized something, and stood vigilantly behind Filoria, ready to protect her at any time.

"No, I'm just a traveler passing by the snowfield to escape the wind and snow." At this time, a male voice sounded in the open space, but the strange thing was that except Philoria could hear this sentence clearly, and Except for being able to remember and think about the content of this sentence, everyone else completely ignored it, as if they couldn't hear it, just as they completely ignored the man wearing the costume of a southern traveler sitting by the campfire.

Philoria also noticed that only she could see the southerner in front of her, and no one else could see or hear her. This unprecedented phenomenon made her couldn't help but be curious, and asked: "All my subordinates can't see or hear." How did you do it without being aware of your existence?"

The caravan guards standing behind Philoria looked at Philoria talking to herself with blank expressions.

The southerner who was asked explained: "I just reduced my sense of existence to the extreme, just like you don't care about the snowflakes under your feet. In their eyes, I may be even more inconspicuous than the snowflakes."

"It's amazing. Your ability is definitely suitable for being an assassin." Philoria couldn't help but praise, and continued to ask: "Is this your awakened extraordinary talent?"

The man smiled and replied: "No, this is a kind of witchcraft. You don't need to awaken anything. You only need to learn and practice to master it."

"Witchcraft? You only need to learn and practice to master it. I have never heard of this ability." Philoria asked with a curious expression on her face: "Can I learn it?"

"Okay." The other party nodded.

An excited smile appeared on Philoria's face, and when she was about to continue asking, the voices of her men came from the woods behind her. Although these sounds were not loud, they made her realize that now was not the time to talk to others. .

Now that it was clear that the mysterious southerner in front of her was not an enemy, she began to give orders to the caravan men behind her to set up camp, and designated several campsite locations, all of which avoided campfires. Then she handed over all matters to the merchants. The various supervisors of the team, and she asked her War Bear companions to shrink in size and sit next to the campfire with her, and eagerly said to the southerner: "I am Philoria, the president of the Ice Bear Chamber of Commerce, you should Have you heard of me?"

Write a book

"Of course I've heard of it, the youngest war bear priest, the Valkyrie on the snowfield." The southerner smiled and nodded, stretched out his hand to Philoria, and introduced himself: "Leo Dodd, a wizard."
Chapter completed!