Annan followed the "teacher" out of the narrow and dimly lit alley.

She looked up at the gray-white sky.

Annan could clearly see that there seemed to be a gray-white barrier in the far sky. It looks like frost in the middle of winter, when the morning dew condenses outside the window.

On the outside of the frost shell, you can even faintly see the howling snowstorm with the naked eye.

Annan knew that this was not an enchantment set up by his grandmother to keep the curse out. Rather, it is a thermostatic barrier set up by the edict wizards of the Tower of Storms.

In the very center of a large metropolis, there is a semi-automatic device called the "Large Barricade Generator".

A semi-automatic execution spell created by an edict spell that refills an enchantment that would have lasted only three days indefinitely. As long as you keep replenishing materials, you can maintain the enchantment forever.

Annan had asked from Daddy Vasily that this kind of enchantment in the Duchy of Winter was actually fully automatic. One of the things that many ritual masters don't want to make public is that "rituals don't have to be 'human' to participate", in order to prevent the automation of rituals.

The "automatic ritual" has already possessed a considerable level of technology in the Duchy of Winter and the Religious Kingdom. This directly cost many ceremonists their jobs.

They can't even find other jobs.

Because if a ceremonial master loses his job, he actually loses the "necessity of existence". After all, every ritual master is dangerous, and no one knows how much knowledge they have in their heads, whether they will perform a dangerous ritual one day in the future, or if their surroundings will be drastically deformed because of a failed ritual.

- It is true that there are some rituals that can only be performed by people. But this is actually because in some rituals there is a special condition that "must be performed by a living person with self-awareness".

But the effect of ritual is directly related to its cost.

Due to the cost, it is impossible for the impoverished Duchy of Winter to cover the entire city with an enchantment that is too effective. Although this barrier is called a "thermostatic barrier", its main function is to keep out cold winds and heavy snow.

The chill seeping from the ground still could not be dispelled...... It's like a huge, transparent glass cover.

Even so, these megacities have become the last hope for the winter people.

What was really used to block the Grey Mist Curse was the freezing blizzard itself, which could freeze even the curse.

But although the blizzard can freeze the curse, it can also freeze ordinary people, ordinary beasts and crops......

As a result, the subway usage rate of the Duchy of Winter is dozens of times higher than that of other countries, and it can be said that it has been completely civilian.

The subways of other countries are only used for importing and exporting and transporting transcendents in and out of the country...... The kingdom of Noah was even preparing to build an overground railroad specifically for domestic passenger and freight transport.

However, for the Duchy of Winter...... Not to mention ordinary people, even transcendent beings are almost impossible to go from one city to another alive.

Another meaning of [being able to freeze the curse] is that the transcendent will not receive mana replenishment in a blizzard.

In a never-ending blizzard, even the metal is frozen and cracked, not to mention that the temperature is even lower than the blizzards of other countries...... As a result, they could not even build an above-ground railroad.

In the snow in the wild, almost all of them are corpses.

Most of them were illegal transcendents who had been expelled from the city and left to fend for themselves - ordinary people could be beheaded if they committed a capital crime, but the transcendents could not.

If they die, they will cause trouble for the people of the city......

But being expelled from the city in the dead of winter is basically the same as sending a canoe and a day's food and water to exile a person from the ship, and the mortality rate is about the same.

Ordinary people can only take the subway.

But "Bella" – that is, Annan today – is different.

Werewolves have a hard time getting subway tickets, and Bella is a werewolf with no money.

If Annan didn't guess wrong......

She should have braved the never-ending blizzard, step by step in the field full of heavy and deep snow, across dozens of miles, from one enchantment to another.

…… Annan himself didn't know how exactly Bella did it.

But in short, Annan was taken directly to the subway station by the "teacher".

It is not the same as the subway station in Annan's impression.

In the brass-hued station, there is a faint roar that looks like an old factory. The water on the ground was slightly frozen, and there was a creaking cracking sound when someone walked up to it.

The crowd gathered bustlingly, talking to each other. The mouth and nose breathe out a white mist rhythmically.

Although it is a civilian subway, the people who come and go are still very decently dressed.

In other words, they come here to take the subway only after they are dressed decently.

And among them, Annan, who was dressed in shabby, looked very strange.

"This is your first time on the subway?"

Looking at Annan who was looking around, the old man glanced at Annan.

There was no emotion in those cold eyes.

But Annan only showed a simple smile, and responded sincerely and warmly: "Yes, teacher!

"It's the first time I've taken the subway in my life!"

Her excessively loud voice attracted the people around her to look at her with slight disgust.

But she didn't react in any particular way, but didn't care about the gaze of passers-by.

- Annan is indeed not lying.

This is indeed the first time in Annan's "life" to take the subway.

The old man just reached out and grabbed Annan's arm and let her lean against him, while the other hand inadvertently revealed the ring that exuded cold air, and at the same time silently raised his head and scanned the crowd.

When the surrounding passers-by saw the ring, their faces immediately changed. They immediately turned back and pretended not to see anything, not even the sound of conversation.

Although Annan knew that it was rude to speak at this time.

But out of the need to play, Annan still asked curiously: "Teacher, are they afraid of you?" ”

"I'm afraid."

The old man replied simply.

There was not the slightest fluctuation of emotion in his pupils.

He led Annan into the train that had just arrived and sat down in the front seat of the first carriage. Annan was hidden by him in a window, closer to the inside.

After sitting in his seat, Annan continued to ask:

"Why? And they did not sin. ”

"Because they know they're not perfect."

The old man replied slowly, "They all know that they may commit crimes in the future. That's why they're afraid of me. ”

"Is that right?"

"Yes."

The old man calmly replied, "You must also make them fear you like this." The more they feared, the less they dared to sin.

"You have to keep in mind too...... We are not righteous, but enemies of evil. ”

Annan raised his head and heard the moment he heard this.

Annan suddenly felt the world around him, and in the blink of an eye, it became scarlet-

Intermittent screams, roars, and weepings came from all directions, as if in deep water.

It's like a TV with a bad signal.

The bustling subway station suddenly shook a few times, and then the scene completely disappeared, turning into a dimly lit room.

It was cramped, dim and damp. It's more like a bathroom than a hospital room......

His body changed to a man in his twenties—he was wearing only underwear, his hands and feet were tied behind his back, fixed to a chair, and he was gasping for air.

- It's like you've just woken up from a nightmare.

"Are you awake?"

A gloomy, eunuch-like voice sounded behind Annan: "Then let's continue...... Mr. Denton. ”

(End of chapter)