Mage Joan

After the three-month "Winter of Sword" is over, the most terrifying "Wolf Winter" will befall the world.

At this stage, the threats facing mankind are not only cold currents and ice arrows, but even the souls of the dead cannot escape from the sea of ​​bitterness. They are imprisoned by the supernatural blizzard and transformed into fierce ghosts, wandering ghosts.

As for the livestock and beasts, the spirits after death will also be bound by the "Fumble Winter" and reincarnated in the wind and snow into the cruel subspecies of the cold subspecies such as the winter wolf, in order to fill their stomachs and ruthlessly hunt down the remaining humans, making There are hordes of evil wolves all over the land, and there are few people.

This is the meaning of "Wolf Winter".

But don't think that after the "Wolf Winter" you will be able to usher in a turning point.

In fact, "Fumble Winter" including "Wind Winter", "Winter of Sword" and "Wolf Winter" is just the prelude to a more terrifying disaster.

After the three winters, not only will the weather not get warmer, even the sun will be blocked by heavy plumes of clouds, and the light will become a rare thing in the eyes of the world.

Winter snow, icy rain, and evil wolves will continue to ravage this catastrophic silver world, and the temperature will continue to fall. If the living people lack the magical protection against low temperatures and curses, and are not of cold blood, then they will receive a little flesh and blood. Injuries, wounds will continue to bleed, unable to heal naturally, just like suffering from severe "hemophilia."

These years of little hope, even according to the most optimistic predictions, will last for centuries.

After that, the world of Vares may still usher in a new era of melting snow and reappearing sunshine, but what does that have to do with you and me?

In terms of probability, an ordinary person, including his relatives, friends and children and grandchildren, would have been dead if he could not survive the end of the Ice Age.

Even on the day when all the hardships come, the number of survivors in human society is negligible, and it is doubtful whether human civilization can be rebuilt.

Recalling when he was young, Qiao An listened to Kandy and Lao Bai chanting the lament about "Fumble Winter" in "The Prophecy of Sybil", recounting the glory of the Asa Protoss in the past, feeling the current downfall, in fact, how much is in his heart. Some disapproval.

At that time, he was too young. He thought that as long as he worked hard, there would be nothing difficult in the world. He thought of the continuation of the world and civilization too simply. He felt that the main reason for the decline of the Asa people to today’s fields was not natural disasters and man-made disasters, but them. I can't live up to it.

If the ancestors of the Asa people were able to unite and actively resist the disaster when the natural disaster came, at least the advanced technology and valuable knowledge they had mastered at that time were properly preserved for future generations to inherit and carry forward, and they would not be reduced to today by white people. Civilization crushes, despise it as a "barbarian".

However, as he got older and experienced, Qiao An gradually realized that his previous ideas were both naive and arrogant.

Don't the ancestors of the Asa people want to keep the fire of civilization?

Of course they thought, and in fact they did the same. There are countless back-ups of civilization. The ancient Asa tribe relics that are often unearthed in various parts of the world are witnesses.

Among these relics, the buildings with the highest level of protection are usually not temples, but libraries.

It is a pity that these lone boats carrying civilization have not been passed on to their children and grandchildren as the ancestors wished.

In that desperately long ice age, it was very difficult for the Asa people to survive just struggling, and there was no room left to rejuvenate the civilization of their ancestors.

If you push back from the results, in fact, the Asa people are already a very remarkable and very successful descendant of ancient civilization. After all, they have survived and thrived to this day, with a total population of millions of people.

On the other hand, those intelligent races of the same age as the Asa tribe in ancient times were almost all extinct in the dark age of "The Twilight of the Gods".

They also created an ancient civilization that was not inferior to the Asa Protoss. Now, not to mention the revival of civilization, even the heirs who can remember the glory of their ancestors are no longer found, and the entire ethnic group has completely disappeared from the history of the world civilization of Vares. , There are only a few ancient cultural relics, broken relics, for future generations to remember.

With a sigh, Qiao Ann's mood grew even worse.

Judging from the current momentum, the "Wind Winter" has clearly arrived, and to resolve the crisis within three months and prevent the arrival of the "Sword Winter", the most urgent task is to find out the culprit of the catastrophe, the "Devil Wolf". Mother "Angel Poda.

But the problem now is that in the past two months, he has exhausted all the means of detection and detection, but he can't find the whereabouts of Angel Poda!

The young mage couldn't help worrying, and couldn't figure out even if he wanted to break his head. Where is the evil old witch hiding?

Angel Boda was probably protected by the divine power of the "primitive lord" Zeuxker, blocking all investigative spells below the demigod level.

Qiao An has not yet reached the realm of a demigod, so he can only count on the emperor of the Far East to use his contacts and intelligence network to find the whereabouts of the "Mother of the Demon Wolf" as soon as possible.

Roland's reply hasn't arrived yet. Early the next morning, Qiao An first received an unexpected letter. The sender was Metatron, the "spirit princess" of Oedis.

After reading the letter, Qiao An's expression changed slightly, and he went to the headquarters to find General Vassar, frankly confessing that he had personal affairs to deal with and had to leave the barracks immediately.

After the Battle of Leiden Port, the Continental Army will rest in the city for a period of time. There is no battle plan in the near future. Qiao An has nothing to do in the barracks, and Vaasa did not stay.

Qiaoan sent Rebecca and other friends one by one goodbyes, and finally returned to Wild Boar Island, and instructed Inanna to return to the Cloud City with the Adamantite Fortress, cast her own spells and teleport to the stone tower on the outskirts of Oedis, and change back to Gnostic form.

Qiao An paced back and forth in the tower study, recalling the news revealed in Metatron's letter, and it was a long time since he could not calm down.

He stopped in front of the window and looked at the city of Oedes. The street lights seemed to be much dimmer than usual. There were broken buildings everywhere on both sides of the street. They were all the fact that he led a raid by the beholder in the form of Mitra not long ago. The damage caused by the Distian period has not yet been completely repaired.

The slightly bleak scene in front of him prompted the young mage to feel guilty.

In the past two years, he has lived in Udinese and Oedius under different identities, examining the social ecology of beholders and mind-severs,

From the perspective of a researcher, he should treat the two equally. However, emotionally, he seems to have more preference for the beholder family. When the mind-separation and the beholder are in conflict, he often stands by the beholder. On the one hand, in fact, it caused a lot of harm to the Mind-Diver Clan.