In the northern sea, the city of Willandra, a city shrouded in snow and ice for most of the year, in front of the city is a white mist of the Northern Sea, and behind the city is the Tibetan gas range covered by towering peaks and snow for thousands of years.

The layout of the whole city is like leaning on a huge slope ornate cloth belt, two cross-shaped interlaced main streets, dividing the whole city into uphill and downhill areas.

At the top is the somewhat dilapidated little castle of the Austens, and below it are the stacked houses, which look like a beautiful cloud in the clouds, and the dense spires of the houses loom in the white morning mist, as if in a dream

This is the only way to the main city of the Austins, so it has experienced many wars, but the city is still tenacious, no matter who occupies it, it will not pay too much attention to building defenses, because the whole city is a huge defensive slope, as long as a small number of troops hold the passage uphill, you can let the enemy come from afar

Everywhere you can see here are crystal clear icicles under the eaves, like a row of upside-down swords, hanging from the eaves corners on both sides of the street, as the temperature will warm, these icicles will make a ticking sound, forming a clear and bright water flow between the sloping city streets, flowing down the steps, rolling like white waves, and making a beautiful jingling sound like music on both sides of the street steps, so the word Willandra, which means water waves in the northern language, aptly represents the characteristics of the city

It's already June, but the temperature in Willandra is still only about 3 degrees, a blizzard from the north has just stopped, and the city is full of thick snow, and the icy cold wind rolls the snowflakes and hits the faces of the Austins who are covered and head down

In such cruel weather, most people rarely go out unless they are trying to make a living. Only a few merchants braved the snow and ice, and drove the carriage to its predetermined destination with great difficulty, and the cold wind blew the branches of the trees on the side of the road through the old windows of the wooden frame on the carriage, making a sound like sharp fingernails scraping through the glass. In the city's low, old port district,

Two stout male reindeer dragged a bright black four-wheeled carriage, like a lightning gallop from the entrance of the port, in the empty center of the port came to a sharp stop with a great arc, the ruts scraped heavily on the white ice "pop" white flying ice and snow splashed in all directions, hitting a low earthen wall not far away,

"Whose car is this?" said a group of merchants who were baking a fire in the corner of the harbor, standing up in some surprise. In the north, only nobles are qualified to ride the reindeer carriage, because in the eyes of the northlanders, the reindeer is the mount of the ice god of the North Sea, and only noble people are qualified to drive it, and under their gaze, Urcondo, the head of the business alliance in the northern cold region, stepped down from the carriage and tightened the cuffs of his collar with his hands. looked at the situation in the port with a cold expression,

"This is the port of Willandra?" Ulcondo frowned slightly as he looked at the Austin merchant ships floating and sinking in the harbor with the water.

The morning sun shines on the icy water, as if weaving a faint white glow on the sea. The tall masts of the various ships moored in the harbor cast long shadows in the morning light.

The ships docked at the port of Willandra City are not all traded, most of them are used as a docking point for supplies, Willandra is located at the intersection of the central sea and the northern sea, and has crossed the narrow southeast headland, and the merchant ships will always choose to dock at the Wilandra 50 miles away from the southeast headland for replenishment...,

Because of the defeat in the previous war with the Russians, the Austins had issued an order forbidding all merchant ships from leaving the port, but with the signing of an alliance treaty with the Russians. The Austins in charge of this place have lifted the order to close the port,

Every qiē in the port began to return to its original state, and the merchant ships that came and went quickly returned to their previous levels, or even more, because they heard that the Dorok and the Falcon Empire were at war with each other recently, and the Dorok people were desperate for a batch of iron ore to forge weapons. But all sources of iron ore were cut off by the Falcon Empire,

The Dorok people, who lost their land trade routes, now do not hesitate to offer twice the price to buy iron ore flowing from the northern cold regions, which is undoubtedly a strong stimulus to the economy of the northern cold regions.

The number of merchant ships coming and going to and from Dorok has surged a lot in this half month, in addition to the merchant ships coming and going, there are also some Austenian fishing boats mixed in, this kind of fishing boat is very small, often only two sails are enough, so it is also called two sails, very easy to recognize, in order to obtain high profits, even these two sailing ships have joined the ranks of transportation, but the probability of these small fishing boats being able to reach safely is extremely small

After waiting in the harbor for a while, Ulcondo chose to stay at an inn near the harbor, and at eight o'clock the next day, when Ulcondo got up to exercise his body on the balcony, he happened to see three Austen's sailing warships slowly sailing into the harbor.

The dragon and eagle flags of the Austins fluttered on the top of the warship, and there was a neat queue on the deck.

Sure enough, a little later, he received a message that it was the local lord Austin Carlos who had returned, and that Ulcondo had heard of this Violent Bear's Claw among many Northlanders,

The blessed warrior who dares to fight the giant beast on the ice, the famous general who makes the enemy tremble on the battlefield, but unfortunately this hero in the eyes of the Austin people has been a bit miserable recently, because of the alliance treaty with the Asou people that ceded the southeast cape, so that this former famous general can be said to be like a mountain and a river, and he had to submit his resignation to the king of Austin, asking to return to his territory to recuperate for a period of time.

"It seems that this hero of the Austens is also the life of a scapegoat!" With such feelings, Ulcondo was dressed and went downstairs alone, he needed to go to the port to continue to star, waiting for the merchant ship with a special mission to arrive, according to the normal sailing speed, if nothing else, the merchant ship should arrive within a week, for this era without communication tools, such a cross-time estimate is already very good,

Due to the surge of merchants in the port, all the rooms in the hotels are fully booked, but there are not many actual customers who can actually see them. Most people check in for the night and leave early in the morning, and there are not many people in the lobby of the hotel, so Urcondo orders a breakfast at a leisurely pace. While watching the situation in the harbor through the window, he occupied a table alone,

Shoving the last piece of dry hard bread into his mouth, Ulcondo got up from his seat, he needed to go to the harbor to have a look, it was his task, because it was confidential. Although he is the head of the business alliance in the northern cold region, he can only do it himself, and what he claims to the outside world is to return to China to report on his work.

At this moment, the door of the tavern was pushed open from the outside, and a biting cold wind blew in

I saw several big men with strong looks walking in with a slender man on his head, the man with a black hood on his head, and his eyes swept across the hall like a sharp sword.

"What a sharp gaze!" Ulcondo's eyebrows furrowed slightly, shrinking his neck, and the ass that was just about to be raised sat down again. Pretending to be a down-and-out businessman, he didn't know why, he felt like a lone wolf in the wilderness from the other party, just like he had carried the entire tribe by himself,...,

His actions still did not escape the attention of the other party, and after hesitating for a while, the black-robed man who was surrounded by the other side seemed to have noticed something, and walked straight to the place where Ulcon was sitting, and Ulcondo gave way slightly to the side of the stairs. Didn't deliberately dodge. But the black-robed man who was walking stopped opposite him

"Long time no see, Ulcondo!" A low, somewhat jerky voice came from the other side with a little excitement, and Ulcondo almost jumped up from his seat,

"You...... Are you ......" Urcondo looked up in disbelief, his eyes flickering, and he also recognized the identity of the black-robed man. This is a man who should have died a long time ago, when he was a mercenary in the cold of the north, he met a young Austen nobleman, and in a fierce battle, it was Urcondo who risked his life to save him from the pile of dead people, and the two became friends in life and death.

It's a pity that in a naval battle with the Beka, this excellent and amiable young Austeen nobleman went out as the captain of the ship, that time, the Austin army was annihilated, thousands of soldiers have sunk forever into the icy North Sea with the warship, the Austen nobleman led more than 100 people on the ship did not survive, and Ulcondo escaped because he was sick and did not board the ship, but he was also expelled by the Austin army as a deserter, for the Dongting people who are proud of the battle, it is definitely a shame that Urcondo does not want to mention, so although the tribe knows that he has been in the northern cold for 2 years, no one has ever known his experience in the northern cold land

"Ulros, you're not dead?" Ulcondo's body trembled slightly, and he stood up from his seat in surprise.

"Death doesn't belong to me!" said the black-robed man on the other side in a brisk voice, uncovering the black robe on his head, revealing half of his face full of hideous scars, and under his dark brown hair, a pair of bright eyes, looking at him with a little cunning and smugness

The young man sat down opposite Ulcondo with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, "Why, I'm scared, I'm still waiting for you to introduce me to the beautiful and amorous beauty of the Eastern Garden! You can't break your word, I heard that in your Eastern Garden, if you don't keep your promise, you won't be able to marry a woman!"