Although the Great Wall of Desperation has blocked the cold currents blowing from the Siberian permafrost, the northernmost region is still as cold as winter, and the summer season is as short as sand between the fingers, and the warmth has been lost before you can feel it.

Coniferous pines and cypresses stand tall and bring a little green, but the large lake is still covered with thick ice.

On this date in previous years, the townspeople had been digging caves in the ice, fishing and hunting, and accumulating food for the long winter, but this year there was not even a single figure to be seen.

Due to the influx of adventurers and caravans into Vinisha, the price of land has risen, and the townspeople have already sold their properties at high prices and moved to the main city with gold coins.

When Downton arrived at the meeting point, he was half an hour ahead of the scheduled time.

The voices were loud and crowded, and the white breath exhaled from the mouth seemed to melt the cold.

Downton roughly counted more than a thousand people, and these adventurers were all like him, waiting for their respective teams to gather.

The dimensional rift was three hundred meters away, a strip nearly thirty meters long and no more than five meters at its highest point, and it looked like a hole had been torn out of space.

A faint spatial turbulence overflowed, distorting the vision slightly.

The farmer who found it was undoubtedly lucky, because there was always turbulence in the rift in the plane, which would erupt from time to time, and if he happened to hit the tsunami, he would be torn to pieces.

An elite thousand-man army of the Duchy of Browning had been stationed nearby, setting up camp, guarded by the plane rift at all times, and anyone who wanted to enter had to pay a hundred gold coins for the journey, and upon return, they had to pay part of the tax according to the harvest.

Although everyone is complaining that the taxes are collected too harshly, looking at the teams that have made a fortune, they still can't wait to enter the secret realm with the idea of 'gold panning'.

"This is the accepted rule on the mainland. Whichever country is in the plane rift, which country has the right to collect tolls, of course, as an obligation, they must send troops to garrison the rift to ensure the safety of both sides of the plane. ”

Who knows what kind of area is on the other side of the secret realm, in case the adventurer is ambushed by the natives of the secret realm or the people of the West as soon as they pass. It was a tragedy.

One of the warriors drank wine and sat on a blanket, chatting with his companions around him, but not many people paid attention to him, and when Downton approached, all eyes were on him.

"Is there anything wrong with you?" a female warrior of twenty-seven or eighteen stood up and asked Downton,

"Hello, I'm Downton. Downton stretched out his hand. "Head Anthony told me to assemble here at three o'clock in the afternoon. ”

Downton was not mistaken, because wooden signs were erected at each meeting point with the names of the teams written on them.

"Tsk, has the regimental commander looked away, why did you pick a teenager?" the drinking warrior stared at Downton, trying to see him through.

"This kind of child has no hair, what can he do but make a mess?" one bearded man was also expressing dissatisfaction, although the others did not say. But the look of disgust on his face says it all.

The Uncharted Raiders is a very dangerous activity, and no one wants to run into a Scrapwood teammate.

"Hello. I'm Rebecca, the deputy head of the Denver Nuggets Adventure Team, and welcome to you. The female warrior smiled and shook Downton's hand.

Downton nodded, this woman was a little pretentious, and she treated people well. It doesn't feel indifferent and contemptuous.

"Are you ready?" Rebecca was an immigrant from the Kuta Empire, with a slightly dark, wheat-colored complexion, but a fairly healthy appearance.

"Alright!" Downton glanced imperceptibly around the soon-to-be-accomplished adventurers out of the corner of his eye, "The Denver Nuggets seem to have some misreputations." It's almost time to meet, how come there are only twenty-six people?"

"Who told the strength of the adventure group that it depends on the number of people in the team?" Homer was helpless, "Of course, this is an indicator, but it is more about the strength of the team members, if all of them are at the adjudication level, this team is enough to crush an adventure group composed of a hundred war ranks." ”

"Need to check it out for you?" Rebecca tactfully cared, in fact, she was worried that Downton was not ready, but just looking at the first impression, she felt that this teenager was very reliable.

He was leading a war horse, carrying a popular deerskin backpack on his back, two on both sides of the horse, all of which were stuffed to the brim, and then three large rhinoceros skin sacs, filled with water.

"No, I've checked it five times. ”

In order to save horsepower, Downton took down the supplies of the war horse.

"Hmm!" Rebecca approached to help, focusing on his equipment, which was about combat effectiveness.

He was dressed in unnamed leather armor, with a weapon hanging on each side of his waist, all wrapped in white bandages, and the type was invisible.

On his feet were a pair of long military boots with a dagger stuck in the shaft, and in addition to that, he carried a palm-sized combat bag that was supposed to contain various potions.

"Boy, I'll help you!" a young man with triangular eyes walked in with a smile on his face, and without waiting for Downton to reply, he ripped off the cloak that was around the horse's neck.

The eyes of the surroundings stared at each other.

A kite-shaped shield hangs next to the neck of the war horse, although there is no rust on it, but it looks a little old, and it can't be named, but no one underestimates it, because it is of good quality, exudes a faint white light, not to mention, there is a pair of white wings above the shield, as gorgeous as the wings of an angel.

"Hey, this is the shield of excellence?"

Triangle Eye gasped, and even the alcoholic warrior was stunned.

In addition to the metal used for forging, the brilliance emitted by the equipment also comes from the rune enchantment engraved on it, which is undoubtedly very high-quality, and the lowest is also excellent, with a price of more than 500,000 gold coins.

"What are you doing?" Downton frowned, pulling his cloak over it.

As a paladin, Downton can't say anything without a shield, and this is a shield of order, and attacks below the war level can't break the defense.

It's too dangerous in the secret realm, protection is always the first place, Downton will bring one even if he is stupid, if it weren't for the order armor shining and too eye-catching, he would still want to wear a set to go out.

"Hmph, what do you mean by that? Everyone will act together in the future, and sooner or later they will have to understand each other's details. Not to be outdone, Triangle Eye said, "I don't want to give my back to a teammate who hides my strength!"

"Then it's okay for me to strip you naked and take a look?" Downton glared back, if he weakened his momentum at this time, he would be looked down upon by all kinds when he entered the team, and those who had no status would never be respected.

"Yo, you're arrogant?" the other young man stood up, obviously with Triangle Eye, he was an archer with a longbow and an arrow bag on his back.

The others didn't speak, they didn't stop it, they looked at all this indifferently, this is all common sense in the adventure world, even if they enter the secret realm, the guy who doesn't get recognition won't be teammates, Downton is too young to make people feel uneasy.

"I'm really arrogant, you haven't seen it yet!" Downton replied, seeing for the first time the law of the jungle in the adventure world, where a person's right to speak, any interests, are won by fists.

Triangle Eye drew his long sword, and the tip of the sword pointed at the tip of Downton's nose, and tapped it slightly.

Seeing that Downton didn't move a single step and didn't blink his eyes, the others were a little relieved, at least this young man was bold enough.

"Alright, that's the end of the welcome ceremony, let's do it here. Rebecca played a round field, slapped off the long sword, and pulled the war horse to the side to feed the materials.

"Hmph!" Triangle Eye and the archer walked away shoulder to shoulder, unaware that if his sword moved a little further, divine vengeance would be initiated.

Not to mention killing Downton, he himself would be hit hard in an instant.

The drunkard and the bearded man looked at the shield that was hidden by the cloak, and then at their own piece, and envied, if they knew that order was at the perfect level, maybe they would have to rob it.

"I really envy Dupont, his strength is so strong, even if he rides a nightmare war horse, no one dares to covet it. ”

Seeing that the war horse was dragging more than two hundred pounds of supplies, the movement was inevitably a little sluggish, and Downton sighed slightly, if it was replaced by a Sherman war bear, holding two thousand pounds would not affect the run.

The atmosphere of the team was dreary, no one spoke, and Downton found that there were three small groups of twenty-six people, and these people should know each other, and other than that, there were newcomers like Downton.

While waiting for Anthony, more than a dozen adventuring groups arrived and began to march towards the dimensional rift, and the people around them spontaneously applauded and blessed them.

Even if everyone will become competitors after entering the secret realm, at this moment, everyone hopes to get the blessing of others and finally return triumphantly.

"Haven't you seen it? It's a custom in the adventurous world. A short, round-faced man sat down next to Downton and introduced himself, "My name is Dongba, and I'm a shooter." ”

Dongba's figure was slightly fat, and he carried two cedar longbows, one long and one short, and his hands were not idle, grabbing a piece of dried meat and stuffing it into his mouth.

"Deputy Commander, when are we leaving?" Bearded and anxious, "What about the Commander, you won't release our pigeons, right?"

"Absolutely not. Rebecca was confident, "The head of the regiment will leave when he arrives." ”

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting. ”

Anthony's voice came from afar, and he had rushed back with a convoy of horses with a dozen men in front of three o'clock.

Dozens of meters away, in the chaotic voice, Anthony's strength can be imagined.

Some members of the group understood that this was the head of the regiment nicknamed 'Melon' showing his strength, otherwise he would not be able to subdue everyone.

"Commander, you can join us. A bearded man chased after him, pleading incessantly, "I'm a third-order judge, and my strength is very good." ”

"No, you have been injured, although the rank is not low, but the strength is estimated to be around the fifth order of the war. Anthony refused, "Don't take me for a fool." ”

The men noticed that the bearded man was followed by two women carrying large bags and small bags, which seemed to be a mother and daughter. (To be continued......)