Lord Kipling Snow Owl was kind, but he was a meticulous and very serious person when dealing with matters related to the defense of the Ice Peak Fortress and the service of the Goddess of Truth. Just as he tried his best to take care of everyone in the Fortress, he would not relax the standards for Fitch - only through enhanced rituals can he become a full member of the Fortress, and this would not change anything.
"This is your badge, and your number is on the back." The old man took out a black iron eagle-head badge and explained to Feiqi how to use the badge: "When the eagle-head badge comes into contact with the holy badge used by the goddess priest, white light will be emitted in both eyes. This is how you prove your identity. Usually, hang the badge on your body, it can feel whether there are evil forces around it, and remind you with vibration."
Can detect evil forces? Then wouldn’t I turn on the full-day vibration mode? If this happens, it will become very troublesome to explain. Fortunately, I hung the eagle-head badge on the chain and put it around my neck, pressed against Fitch’s body, and it didn’t shake.
"In this way, you are the official member: Feiqi Snowman Bingfeng." The old man Kipling opened his arms, hugged Feiqi enthusiastically and forcefully, put his face on his face, and said after parting, "Okay, you hurry up and go down the mountain."
"Going the mountain? I don't want to go down the mountain." Feiqi shook his head: "I stayed at the Ice Peak Fortress this winter."
"You have already had the status of a formal member, bid farewell to your past identity and history, and now you are under the protection of the church, you can go down the mountain. The winter wandering souls of the Ice Peak Fortress are still a bit dangerous. You can go down to avoid it in the first year. Isn't this our previous plan?"
"I believe you, I don't believe them." Feiqi said, and the old man understood. "The news will always be relatively lagging. Even if I make an eagle badge as big as a washbasin, I can't avoid assassins. Someone wants to kill me on the way to exile, and I almost succeed... We cannot believe that those guys who can send assassins will stop."
"Young Master, you have been assassinated on the way? I don't know..." Eddie widened his eyes
"Do you remember a woman in my room that night?"
"Which day?" Eddie tilted his head slightly, and it could be seen that she was really trying to recall: "There are so many, what is it..."
"Of course it's the last one! Use your brain more often! No matter how unbearable Mr. Hall is, he can't keep his interest after encountering assassination." Feiqi snorted, and then made a perfect fake scene for the assassination: "Fortunately, the hallucination effect of the alchemy potion appeared, and the assassin had the hallucination of stabbing me to death, and then left on his own, otherwise..."
"So after that, young master, you will speed up all the way to the Ice Peak Fortress?" Eddie nodded vigorously: "Now I finally understand what's going on."
"We can't call him Young Master in the future, especially when there may be assassins outside." Old Man Kipling thought for a while, and finally agreed to Feich's request: "We cannot be sure whether the assassin has left or whether the mission is over, so it is indeed dangerous for you to go down the mountain now. Okay, stay on the mountain. Eddie!"
Eddie walked up and took a document from the old man Kipling. "Eddie, this is the official document from the former second son of the Hall family, Feige, with the fortress's holy emblem mark on it. You bring it to Earl Hall, and he knows how to use this document."
"In addition, after you go down the mountain, go to Collingwood Town to find Giles, give him a detailed explanation of the situation on the mountain, and then take the guards back. I guess it will start snowing tomorrow, so you will set off today."
Eddie left, wrapped her thin body tightly in her warm thick clothes, riding the last horse of the Ice Peak Fortress, leaving alone along the mountain road in the gust of frost, disappearing into the gray mountain path. Fitch stood on the city wall and saw her for a while. The enhanced soul Hawkeye could see far and see through. He found that Eddie's soul flame had some good changes, becoming more lively and confident than before, perhaps because of revealing the secret and removing part of the burden.
"I wish you peace all the way."
At this point, there are only three and a half living creatures left in the Ice Peak Fortress: Old Man Kiplin, Instructor Kelly, Fitch Snowman, and the half of the black ghost cat is midnight. They are about to face the test of winter snow and wandering souls.
The Ice Peak Fortress was closed as a whole, the suspension bridge was raised, the door was closed, the gaps in the windows were blocked, and the holy emblems of the Goddess of the Truth Thunder were hung on many walls. Feige followed Cale, placed spare candles and lamp oils everywhere in the castle, and stocked up food, potions, firewood, and carbon in the tower.
"The snow will keep falling, and there is no need to worry about the supply of water. It is enough. The fuel for heating and cooking is the big problem." Since Feich decided to stay and it was his first time here to spend the winter here, Kelle told him in detail. "We will transport firewood into the tower whenever we have time, and they all piled it into various rooms - including yours."
"It's okay, I just have a room to sleep."
As a full member, Feich had his own room: a small compartment facing the platform on the third floor of the tower, with no windows, three by five meters in size, and is currently filled with firewood, with almost no gap from the floor to the ceiling, leaving only a small gap for a single person to walk sideways.
"There are a lot of pine and fir inside, and I like that flavor. After using firewood, it will be empty inside. Besides, the firewood room is better than the charcoal room. Why are you preparing so much?"
"More?" Kelly shook his head: "Remember, don't have such strange fantasies. In fact, firewood is always used faster than you think. If you need to prepare a bonfire for heating when camping outside, remember one sentence: I feel that you have enough firewood, remember to double it."
"Before the large-scale appearance of the wandering soul, there may be a wave of animal attacks. Don't worry, the fortress will protect us. If a fool animal hits and dies on the city wall, do you know what to do?"
"Pick it up and eat it?"
"It seems you are not stupid, but your ideas require enough prayer to achieve them." Kelly continued: "The scale of wandering souls in the past five years is not large, and animal invasion has not happened. This means that we can only rely on the food we have reserved for the winter."
Feiqi shrugged. There was not much delicious food in this world. He was busy studying spells and did not have the energy to figure out how to make delicious food, so it didn't matter what he ate - it was the same low level anyway. Moreover, the Ice Peak Fortress originally only left Kiplin and Kelle to deal with the winter. Now with him for more, the situation will only be better and not worse, and there is no need to worry.
"The most important task you have in the past two days is to remember which areas in the fortress are protected and which places are channels left for the wandering souls. If you remember wrongly, you will hit the wandering soul without preparation, and you may faint directly and be killed by the wandering souls who are rushing over one after another. Always pay attention to the black iron eagle head on your chest. If it vibrates, use meditation to observe the surroundings immediately, and then go to the safe area as soon as possible."
Fitch has heard about the Wandering Souls many times from Kelly and Kipling, and is already familiar with it. The tower of the Ice Peak Fortress is like a lighthouse. When the mountain is blocked with heavy snow, it will constantly attract Wandering Souls to come, and then use the magic array on the top floor to save them. The magic array needs personnel to check and maintain regularly, and the people who stay behind will have close contact with the Wandering Souls. Therefore, the fortress uses the goddess' magic runes and the Wandering Souls image lantern to create a safe area to protect the safety of people during their activities.
"You can never take it lightly, and you must take good care of your cat." Kelly glared fiercely at midnight who had been following Feige's feet: "Feich, humans are more important than cats, don't waste your life for it!"
Kelly always talks about death and death in Fitch's ear, which makes him very upset. But Kelly also hides some useful knowledge in these annoying words, mostly from the words of the Taoist priests obtained from experience, so even if he is annoyed, he has to listen.
As I listened, the snow fell. The ridge quickly disappeared into the gray clouds, and the hillside gradually covered with snow. Standing on the platform to watch the snow scene outside, Feiqi felt a sense of insignificance when facing the vastness: even the majestic and majestic mountains were just a corner that would be easily covered in the vast world.
"The snow will be heavy this year because my knees hurt like never before." Old Man Kipling now has to use the help of the support frame, which is quite inconvenient to move. "Maybe, there will be a lot of wandering souls this year."
Feiqi helped the old man sit down on the chair on the platform and helped him wrap his clothes tighter: "Sir Xue Owl, your legs and feet are inconvenient. Just leave it to us if you have anything to do. There is no need to run up and down more than ten times a day."
"I also need a little exercise to not let my legs be completely destroyed. Alas, this kind of life will have to be over until the new chief priest sent by the higher authorities. However, Bishop Nathaniel still did not give an accurate reply this year. Now, no one wants to come to places like Bingfeng Fortress, and prefer to go to bustling cities or lively aristocratic territories."
"What would happen if those wandering souls were not saved? Will it cause serious disasters?"
The old man's eyes became deeper, and there was a hint of helplessness hidden in his expression: "I really want to say that the Ice Peak Fortress is important, but in fact the wandering souls never cause any major disasters. They will wander in the mountains and hurt those creatures who don't know how to leave, but rarely leave the mountains. After the establishment of the Ice Peak Fortress, the only function is to give a safe environment for small towns close to the mountains, such as Collingwood, to establish and maintain."
"Because it is not important, it becomes a place to exile sinners?"
"The church status of the Sunset Mountains is completely different from that of the capital, and it is also different from the situation of the border between the southern part of the Principality and the Scale Country of the Scale Country: it is neither prosperous nor a place to make achievements." The old man said to Fitch earnestly: "Life here is boring and boring, and often calm. Although in theory you have the opportunity to get indulgences and leave here,... I can't bear to tell you that unless the manpower here suddenly becomes particularly sufficient, you will not be able to get enough indulgence points."
"I basically gave up this idea with a boss like Gresham. And, at least before I finished reading the library and completing my expectations of learning spells, I was not going to consider this issue. Of course, the first issue to consider now is still this winter or the Wandering Soul."
Chapter completed!