The Kingdom of Eternal Night and Elsa, the Snow Queen.

Chapter 66 The Kingdom of Eternal Night and Elsa, the Snow Queen. (Please continue reading)

Today's admission ticket to the pub is Snow Beer.

The Snow Knight is a legendary knight who rose to prominence in the north. It is said that when he was born, snowflakes were falling and the north wind was howling, and that season was the Fiery Moon.

Every era and every nation has its share of legendary stories.

Li Wei drank the wine and entered the tavern.

He hadn't been here for a long time. Li Wei could detect all sorts of people's breathing, talking, banging on the table, drinking, and other actions and sounds through his basic vibration perception.

At that moment, he felt as if he possessed a low-level version of spiritual consciousness found in fantasy novels.

He straightened his clothes, sat alone at a table, sipped his wine, and listened to the tavern's bards recount the legendary tales of various knights.

Li Wei thought to himself, perhaps one day in the future, when he becomes a living legendary knight, and passes by this little tavern again, listening to the bard tell his own story, whether true or false, with exaggerated artistic techniques, it would be a unique experience.

"I will become a legend, I will."

Li Wei sat in the tavern from dusk until dawn, listening to the conversations of wandering knights and bounty hunters from all directions. From the rough and boisterous men reeking of alcohol, he roughly understood the current situation.

The refugees he had seen earlier, frozen to death by the roadside, had come from further north.

Since the millennium, it seems like the whole world has entered a mini ice age, getting colder year by year. In the far north, where people could barely survive in previous years, the living environment has become increasingly harsh, and the summer season has become shorter and the winter season has become longer.

And it wasn't just the northern regions of the Emerald Kingdom; the northern regions of the neighboring Tuva Empire also suffered from the same harsh climate.

However, neither the Emerald Kingdom nor the Tuva Empire was considered to be in the far north.

The region most severely affected by this unusually cold winter is the country located in the far north of this continent.

The Eternal Night Kingdom, known as the "Land of Winter," is the master of the far north.

This is a kingdom that worships the "Goddess of Ice and Snow," and its ruler is Elsa, the "Snow Queen," who is said to be the "Daughter of God."

Many of these refugees fled from the Kingdom of Eternal Night.

If it were just severe cold, that wouldn't be a big deal.

After all, the people of the Eternal Night Kingdom have lived in a frigid land for generations and can barely adapt.

Most terrifyingly, some refugees claimed that they saw snow monsters or evil spirits during the blizzards, which brought even more violent blizzards than before. The Ice and Snow Church called them "snow demons."

In the past, people would not have believed such things, but with the increasing frequency of "evil spirit" attacks in various places in recent years, even the Holy Radiance Church has begun to admit that there are indeed some kind of "evil spirits" in this world.

The church defines evil spirits as "the devil's minions," born from the seven deadly sins of humankind, and caused by the fact that the people of the kingdom are not faithful enough to the merciful Father in heaven.

Therefore, in recent years, the church has used this as an excuse to start large-scale construction in some remote places where there were no churches before, such as the place where Livy's Blackwater Valley is located, and to encourage believers to have a more devout faith in the Father than before, and only the Holy Light of the Father and the Holy Sword of the Knights of Glory can subdue evil spirits.

In short, people today generally believe the rumors about the Snow Demon.

In Icewind City, people are in a state of panic. Some wealthy nobles have begun to migrate south to Green Forest Province, to the warm south. Some nobles are going all the way south, planning to move their entire families to the Molten Kingdom, which worships the "Eternal Flame".

Listening to everything happening in the tavern, Li Wei let out a soft breath and muttered to himself, "This world is getting more and more chaotic."

"Evil spirits, snow demons, the Brotherhood of the Wilderness, the cry of the dead bird, ambitious nobles, the Emerald Kingdom in name only, and the open and covert struggles between various theocratic powers..."

"Living is really damn hard." Li Wei thought of the frozen bones on the road.

"However, the price of serfs is expected to drop significantly during this period, so it might be a good time to buy more serfs to take back." Li Wei stood up. Having sat there all night, he had a pretty good understanding of the situation outside.

In the end, he still posted the commission in a corner of the Shining Tavern.

"Requested content: Giant Breathing Technique or other breathing technique lineage diagrams."

"Commission fee: Starting from 10 gold, negotiable in person. If interested, please contact Mr. Geralt the White Wolf, the collector of Breathing Techniques, through the Shining Tavern."

Li Wei didn't hold out any hope of finding the Giant Breathing Technique, but it couldn't hurt to give it a try.

Moreover, even without the Giant Breathing Technique, it would be excellent to collect other breathing techniques.

After leaving the tavern, Li Wei's figure disappeared into the darkness. He walked into an empty alley, and as he walked, his body began to change. In the end, Li Wei's physique was completely different from before.

He put on the "White Wolf Mask," which he had forged himself, made of refined iron with a touch of mithril.

This is modeled after the "Deathbird Mask," and it can prevent poisoning and protect the face.

He also personally forged the "Frostmourne" 2.0 version, which contained a piece of mithril the size of a baby's fist. This piece of mithril alone cost Li Wei two hundred gold coins. Only such a top-quality weapon could withstand the ravages of "Ripple Power" and fully unleash the power of the Golden Cross Slash!

He also forged a slightly inferior knight's longsword for Fred, which he also fused with mithril. Both father and son had suffered from poor weapons, and such a thing must never happen again!

Li Wei took out a small bottle containing a highly poisonous substance.

Frostmourne is smeared with "Tears of the Spider-Man," and so is the Black Serpent Dagger.

Everything is ready; the killing begins.

……

South of Icewind City stands an abandoned ancient castle. This nameless castle, dating back hundreds of years, is now dilapidated and rumored to be haunted by evil spirits.

Whether the appearance of evil spirits is real or not, the castle has long been uninhabited, and no one would come to this eerie and strange place.

Passing through the dimly lit corridor, a hidden world unfolds within – this is the secret stronghold of the Deathbird's Voice in Icewind City.

Inside the castle was a converted training ground, where young members of the Deathbird organization, who had been found in Icewind City and the surrounding area and possessed the talent to practice the Siren Breathing Technique, were practicing assassination techniques under the guidance of someone called a "mentor".

Their faces were either numb or fanatical as they practiced and recited the contents of the Praise of the Shadows.

"Only those who leave death and fear behind can become true assassins. What is an assassin? We walk in the shadows. We can see the real world that the ignorant cannot see. Light is just an illusion, a delusion. Shadow and darkness are the true nature of the universe."

"Only in this way can you become shadow servants of the Lord of Shadows after death, and be immortal forever."

A mentor was explaining the teachings of the Shadow Lord to the organization's members, while also assigning assassination missions to some rookie assassins. After finishing all this, he tied a letter he had written to the leg of a red-eyed raven. He had been ordered to investigate the whereabouts of the organization's top assassin, Iron Mountain, but had been unsuccessful. He wanted to pass this message on to the Pale Shadow.

According to his mentor, Tieshan was ordered to assassinate Baron Li Wei of Blackwater Valley, but there has been no news of him since. The organization is not even sure if Tieshan has carried out the assassination, after all, Tieshan is a disciple of a major family and a top assassin, and he has always acted independently.

The mentor was more inclined to believe that Tieshan had not carried out the assassination mission, because he had sent people to investigate from afar and everything in Blackwater Valley was normal, with no indication that the lord had died.

Moreover, the mentor believed that with Tieshan's high-level knight status and mastery of two breathing techniques, he would be unlikely to fail if he were to carry out the assassination.

If Iron Mountain fails, then within the Sound of the Dead Bird, only the Five Shadows can succeed.

However, it has been many years since the Five Kage personally assassinated a junior.

The mentor released the crow in his hand, intending to transmit the investigation results to the Pale Shadow.

The red-eyed crow had just taken flight when a burst of void-like explosion occurred.

An arrow pierced the crow's head, and a figure wearing a white wolf mask appeared at the end of the corridor, behind which lay the corpses of two gatekeepers.

With the arrival of the white wolf, all taboos are lifted!

Thanks to zli100

(End of this chapter)