Churches all over the mainland, regardless of whether they are related to the North Kingdom, received news from the Holy See on this night, knowing that a disaster that may endanger the entire world has taken shape.
Jenkins, who set off against the direction of the Snowman Legion, hadn't walked a third of the way all night. The destination he is going to is a city further north than Hot Spring Town, which is the real extreme north.
After resting for the night, I boarded the train together with more than 200 givers from 8 local churches. Jenkins had some headaches from the overnight train journey. The noise of the train journey was not suitable for sleeping, but he must rest now.
Chocolate didn't seem to be resting well either, and when Jenkins was reading under the dim kerosene lamp in his pajamas, he meowed a few times from time to time. After dinner, Jenkins had nothing to do. The church prepared a lot of materials related to the Snowman Legion for him. He needs to read these materials before arriving at the front line, which is very useful, at least Jenkins can know what kind of ghost he is going to face.
"How did it become like this? I obviously just accidentally came to the Northland, how can I stop the catastrophe that exterminates human beings all at once?"
He was thinking dejectedly, looking through the documents on the desk with the flickering light amidst the background sound of the train running.
It has been snowing lightly since the night, and even though the train traveled all night, it did not leave the area where the snow fell. This is not a good sign. The power of the Snowman Legion has already affected the celestial phenomena in the northern part of the mainland. Perhaps their power is far beyond current expectations.
The actual situation was even worse than Jenkins expected. He boarded the train to the front line on Tuesday night, but the train journey ended abruptly without even completing a night.
It was pre-dawn on Wednesday, and Jenkins lay in bed with the brown cover of Ice and Snow: Mysteries of the Ancient Elements covering his face.
He wore a cloak to keep him out of the cold over his pajamas, but the cloak was all rumpled from being fully lying down. Last night he read until late, and it was rare for him to fall asleep while reading it. It's not dawn yet, and the cat isn't playing tricks on him, so Jenkins is still sleeping comfortably, without dreams.
"Meow?"
The cat lying next to Jenkins, almost resting its head on Jenkins' face, let out a sleepy sound. Sleepy-eyed Chocolate raised his head in a daze, raised his small front paws to wipe his eyes, then tilted his head and looked towards the front of the train.
"Meow~"
It cried again, and patted Jenkins' face with its paw. Although Jenkins is not fat, but because the cat is very hard, he still pressed the skin of his cheeks a little.
"Sleep well, it's not time for breakfast yet."
Jenkins, who was not fully awake, muttered that this was just an instinctive reaction. In fact, he didn't realize what happened at all.
He raised his hand to paw the cat, then turned his back to it. The book on his face fell under the bed, making a loud noise, but Jenkins knew it was not time to get up, so he turned his back to the cat, curled up slightly under the quilt, and was still asleep.
"Meow~"
The cat looked at Jenkins' back with a reproachful expression, and then stood up on four legs. He trotted to the bedside to look at the books falling on the ground, then jumped over the towering quilt, and came to Jenkins again.
"Meow~"
It let out another baby cry, and at the same time stretched out its front paws to grab Jenkins' nose.
"Don't make trouble."
Jenkins pushed its claws away again, and then pulled the quilt to cover half of his face.
Chocolate squatted quietly in front of Jenkins, looked at him with amber eyes for a while, and then gave up on waking the man up.
It squatted there looking at Jenkins for a while, and looking at the front of the car for a while, and occasionally raised its paw to rub its cheek.
bang bang bang~
The annoying noise of the moving steam train, but after getting used to it as the background sound, I can barely fall asleep. But this time the noise was a bit too loud, and it was not at all like the rhythm just now. Instead, it seemed as if the cars in front had escaped from the track.
"Um?"
Jenkins, whose consciousness was still on the verge of lucidity and fuzziness, couldn't immediately understand whether this was a dream or reality. But the next moment the carriage he was in shook violently, and then he flew up from the bed, all the moving and immovable things in the room tilted to the left at the same time.
Jenkins, who just opened his eyes, with his excellent dynamic vision, can even see the sticky liquid flying out of the teacup, and can see the cat flying in the air while still maintaining a squatting position.
"Oh, chocolate!"
Jenkins subconsciously reached out and grabbed the cat by his side.
The body rolled in the air, and the gravity and potential caused Jenkins and the car to fall sideways.
"Damn it!"
He yelled and left a phantom in place, then activated [Cat's Elegance], and leaped down extremely sensitively.
Kicking the car, using the reaction force to turn around suddenly, the phantom above has disappeared, this is because the position of the phantom is still and the car is still moving.
Stretching out his right hand, he grabbed the flying pillow and stuffed the cat into it, then shouted:
"Chocolate hold on, I'll be back soon!"
He suddenly disappeared in the falling car, and because of the interaction of various complex forces, the subsequent falling car did not fall according to the trajectory of the car where Jenkins was, so Jenkins replaced the phantom and appeared in midair.
The cold wind made him shiver in his pajamas and bare feet. What I saw before my eyes was the derailment of the train running on the bridge across the river. Now one-fifth of the carriages have fallen under the bridge, and the carriages behind will obviously have the same fate.
"I'm only a fifth-level gifter~"
He fell while talking, and in the process of falling, the ice archer wrapped in blue and white cold air appeared behind Jenkins.
She jerked Jenkins up and disappeared. When Jenkins reached high in the sky at an extremely fast speed, the ice archer appeared behind Jenkins again, and drew the bowstring against his arm.
Phew~
The first blue light arrow shot out, hitting the contact point between the wheels of the train still running on the rails and the rails. Instead of causing explosive damage, the arrows formed an extremely thick ice that tried to freeze the rails and trains together. But because the speed of the train was so fast, the layer of ice was instantly torn apart.
But that was enough, the first arrow of light slowed the train, followed by the second and third arrows that shot from the archer's bowstring as if end to end. The continuous blue light vectors continuously exchange momentum and kinetic energy between the train and the rails, and the piercing sound of brakes means that this has worked.