In the extreme north, the sky is freezing and everything is withered, but even the ten thousand miles of ice field within the Arctic Circle was once the battleground of the "gods" in the age of mythology. To this day, the mysterious power left over from the age of the gods is still echoing in the depths of this ice layer, like ghosts stubbornly entrenched on this planet, calling hollowly in the cold winter the glory of the age of mythology—and Here, it is really suitable to be the final bastion of the witcher.
It was not the first time for Hao Ren and the others to step into the Arctic Circle, but they had never traveled so deep north like today: Their goal was the North Pole, one of the two coldest extremes in the world. Standing on this endless ice sheet, listening to the cold wind whistling by her ears, Vivienne seemed to recall the most distant fragments in her memory—the years after the end of the last ice age on the earth However, the cold has not completely left this world, and large areas of land and sea are still covered by ice. Vivienne woke up on such an ice sheet.
"Is it possible that the place where you woke up for the first time was at the North Pole?" Hao Ren asked curiously after hearing Vivienne's emotion, "Then if we dig down here, can we still dig out your remains? ?”
"It's just an ice field, who knows if it's the North Pole," Vivienne shook her head, "And what is a relic, I'm still alive, okay?"
On the vast and boundless Arctic ice field, a rustic Big Dipper car parked behind a steep ice rock. Hao Ren and his partners got out of the car and observed the surrounding situation outside. But there is really nothing worth observing in this place: as far as the field of vision is, there is only a dull and monotonous snow and ice, and there is silence on the ice field that has not been disturbed for thousands of years. Although human beings have set foot on the north and south poles to explore, after all, this is a bitterly cold place where it is difficult to survive. On the Arctic ice sheet, there are still most of the places that no one has ever set foot in: and Hao Ren and the others must go like this route.
In this deserted place, there is not even a hair.
Bai Huo still wore her tattered witcher uniform, but added a fleece sweater inside. This kind of flimsy attire really didn't look like what she should wear in the Arctic Circle, but everyone at the scene was not afraid Hot and cold Superman, no one cares about the sense of disobedience in this dress. The witcher girl didn't pay attention to the discussion between Hao Ren and Vivian. She just stood not far away and looked up at the starry sky silently, silently calculating something from the position of the stars and the state of their light.
At this time, the North Pole is shrouded in polar night. And it is currently the darkest moment, the stars in the sky are clearly discernible, and the exceptionally clear atmospheric environment makes it very easy to observe the stars. Bai Huo looked up at the stars and breathed a sigh of relief: "The astrology hasn't been messed up yet, and Corpus' ancient armaments probably haven't been activated yet. It seems that the Presbyterian Church hasn't been able to knock down all the energy nodes yet."
"Can you see it by looking at the stars?" Hao Ren also went to look at the sky side by side with Bai Huo, but the stars in his eyes were stars, and he himself didn't quite understand the principle of astrology magic. "I've been traveling in space a lot. Those are just shining stars, thousands of light years away from the earth. What power can they really provide to your magic?"
"The power of the astrology does not lie in the stars themselves, but in the artificial meanings given by the astrology as a chessboard. Even if the stars are not there, the astrology magic can still work," Bai Huo explained casually. "In fact, we just use the stars as a coordinate system to construct the spell."
"After the Industrial Revolution, it became very difficult to use astrology magic in some areas," Vivian muttered beside her, "The coordinate system became blurred. And the hand-drawn astrolabe is not accurate, and it is recorded by memory." All the stars are too brain-intensive. Many wizards living in Europe have given up on this project."
Hao Ren didn't realize it all at once: "Why?"
"Air pollution. There's also light pollution in modern times. It's a fatal thing. It takes half a catty of eye drops to account for a star, and many astrology masters have cataracts because of staring at the sky," Vivien pouted. "Other things, I admire human beings, but I can't admire this one. They don't give astrologers a way out..."
Hao Ren was speechless for a moment, and coughed twice to get rid of this weird topic. Start asking about White Fire's next move: "We're already here, how far are we from the 'fortress' you mentioned?"
Bai Huo looked at the ice field under the dark night. Ordinary people would probably lose their way immediately when standing here, but she has lived on this ice sheet since she was a child, experienced on this ice sheet, and can accurately locate everything on the ice sheet just by intuition. She pointed in a certain direction: "Walk that way, and you will reach the 'interlayer' of the Ice Fortress for about ten kilometers. Judging from the astrology, the Ice Fortress should still be in our hands."
"What is the relationship between that Ice Fortress and 'Corpus'?" Hao Ren was very interested in the base camp of the demon hunters. He still didn't understand the reason why this nagging is a hidden space or an ancient secret realm. What kind of logic is it, "is it a gate?"
"It can be said like this," Bai Huo nodded slightly, "Corpus is a different space that existed in ancient times, just like Tartarus, Asgard, and Olympus back then, but it is more Stable, wider, and more mysterious. It can be said that this incredible space is also one of the important reliances for the demon hunters to gain the upper hand in the battle of the end of the myth. The entrance and exit of Corpus are located at the North Pole and are completely fixed on the That location, so in order to defend their fortress, the first generation of demon hunters built a tower with powerful magic power at the entrance and exit of the different space, called the "Tower of Stars". Part of this tower is in the real world, and part of it extends To Corpus, it assumed the function of a passage. Later, as the power of the witcher continued to grow, the predecessors began to expand the part of the Tower of Stars in the real world, and slowly the tower was expanded into a huge fortress —that's the Ice Fortress."
Lily's ears twitched: "So now the Order of the Elders is suppressed by you in the Corpus space? Although they have an advantage in combat power, as long as the Ice Fortress and the Tower of Stars are still in the hands of 'normal demon hunters' Come on, the Presbyterian Church can’t escape?”
"That's right, this is our only advantage," Bai Huo smiled wryly, "We summoned brothers and sisters from all over the world to fight back the Presbyterian Church from the entrance of Corpus, and paid nearly ten thousand people to destroy the Keep the tower down."
Hao Ren didn't say a word, just knelt down and scratched the ice and snow with his fingers. After a while, he raised his head: "It's not safe to open the gate of the Legion in the Ice Fortress. It's the entrance of Corpus. The space structure may be unstable. Open the gate." There may be an opportunity for the Presbyterian Church to take advantage of it. If you have no objections, I think this is a more suitable place to open the door."
Bai Huo had been holding back a question all the way, and finally couldn't help it: "So you are going to use the portal to send your 'army' over? Do you really have an army?"
"Nonsense, now that we've come here, do you still think we're planning to use these few people to fight against the Hundred Thousand Elders?" Hao Ren rolled his eyes, then looked at the few friends around him, except for the cat who was taking care of the fish at home. Besides, he brought out all the thugs from "Hao Ren's Sanctuary" this time, even Nangong's parents were not left behind, but these are still not the main force of the operation, and the main force of the operation is still 800 light-years away. On the New Ayrim planet, under the organization of La Nina, they are getting ready to go, waiting for the moment when the portal opens, "My troops are far away from here. To be honest, if it weren't for your elders to attack me once they activated those ancient armed forces, It's a trouble too, I don't want to spend such a big money - you owe me a big favor."
Bai Huo listened to Hao Ren's words in a daze, and nodded seriously: "I will keep it in mind, as long as you can help the witcher get through this crisis, I will swear allegiance to you."
Hao Renxin said that in what age it is still popular to swear an oath of allegiance, and to follow the normal script, he should let the defeated girl in front of him agree with him, but he felt that if he really wanted to say this, it would be easy to be caught on the spot. I was beaten to death, so I still swallowed those unrealistic thoughts, and started to dump all kinds of bits and pieces from the portable space.
It will be his biggest move ever on the planet:
Build a demon portal and summon an army of 100,000 from alien planets!
Oh no, according to the work report, what he wants to call is 100,000 peacekeepers—that sounds much better.
(The manuscript is running out of time again... I will update it for a while, and I will prepare a big news by the way...) (to be continued~^~)