quicksilver blood

Chapter 265 The Trampled Glory
The snow was getting bigger and bigger, and the biting cold wind kept making a sharp howl like a wolf's howl.

When the heavy snow comes in late thirteen, it will be colder than at any other time of the year.This means that the real winter will come in three days.

The cold wind blowing on the face hurts more than a knife cut, even if you are in the house, you will be shivering from the cold.

Under the cold wind full of negative energy, no matter whether it is a wooden or stone house, there is no ability to isolate the cold air; if the fireplace is not carefully taken care of, it will go out inexplicably.And as long as the fireplace is extinguished, just talking in the house can create clouds of white mist.

And from the end of December to the end of January-in less than 30 days, there will be a lot of snowfall every day.The thickness of snowfall in three days can be close to one meter.If you don't pay attention to cleaning, it only takes a few days, and the heavy snow will block the cracks in the door.

On days like this when the snow never melts, how to clear the snow itself is a problem that cannot be ignored.

In the Farnes world, a large number of people freeze to death every year in winter.Its number is far greater than any war or large-scale infectious disease outbreak.

Corresponding to the extreme cold in winter, after the end of August, the harvest month, there will be more than ten days of heavy rain.Although not many people will die in the rainstorm, almost all crops will be drowned by the rainstorm.And this level of heavy rain means that there will inevitably be floods or tsunamis in summer.The reason why every city's drainage system is so advanced is for this reason.

Of course, the weather in the world of Farnes wasn't all that extreme to begin with.

To be precise, it was after Gaia's father fell into the Twilight Seed that the twice-a-year catastrophe moon appeared.

This level of coldness is close to frost-covered hell. Under the severe winter, some kind of creatures will become extinct every year.It's so cold that you don't have a physical constitution of more than [-] points. Just moving will consume three times the physical strength.And every once in a while, people who walk in the heavy snow will have to do a test. If they fail, the cold air full of negative energy will temporarily deduct a little physical attribute.

If the physical attribute is reduced to below ten points, a certain amount of environmental damage will be caused while the physical attribute is reduced.When the physical attribute is lower than three points, every time the check fails to deduct the physical attribute, it may directly cause instant death damage.

A large part of the reason why the White Tower has a high status is because they basically won't be frozen to death by cold winter.

It's not that the wizards have developed any antifreeze potions.It's because the Great Barrier of the White Tower will filter out the negative energy in the cold wind, making this cold winter that even professionals can't stand into an ordinary winter like early December.

However, Orm's sympathy for wizards seems to end there.

With a large number of cracks appearing on the Great Barrier, the real Winter finally entered the White Tower.

Many wizards who were born in the White Tower and will eventually die in the White Tower felt the coldness in the air more and more clearly.The cold air continuously pulled from the ground can numb the feet even through the boots.

By this time, the meeting in the third tower had begun.The constant explosions, mercenaries suddenly bursting out of the crowd, and other misfortunes have also gradually subsided, and it seems that the situation has become stable again.

With the snow getting heavier, the territory of the White Tower became calm again.

— except for one.

A hale and tall old man stood silently in front of Roland and Xila.

"Claude... sir."

Roland was silent for a long time, then he opened his mouth and greeted in a flat voice: "Long time no see. I hope you have a good time in Sivir's country."

What appeared in front of Roland was Claude whom he had personally killed in the past.

However, that is not the image that the living can have.

Claude's body was translucent golden, and his pupils turned into brilliant golden, shining in the night.

And his expression is not always the same kind smile as before.His lips were pursed and curved downward, carving a harsh arc, creating two deep furrows in his cheeks.Old Claude's eyes are no longer always squinted, but slightly opened, giving people the feeling of an old lion waking up.

Rather than saying that Claude has changed...it is better to say that this is the true posture of Claude as an apologist.

It is completely different from Claude, who has lost his fighting spirit and is aging from body to spirit.This is an apologist who is full of fighting spirit, in his heyday, and exudes a murderous aura like the ancient sword in the tomb.

When Roland saw him, it was as if he saw the hot-blooded, cold-blooded executioner who had fought endlessly all his life, killed more than a thousand heretics, and had his hands stained with the blood of the same kind.

He couldn't help but feel a pity.

If Roland met Claude like this at the beginning, then maybe everything would develop in a more interesting direction.

But, now...

A complicated look appeared in Roland's eyes.

He realized something sad...about Jupiter IV and Claude.

In order to confirm his thoughts, Roland walked towards Claude in the form of a saint without fear.

"So, what do you want to do? Claude?" Roland smiled gently, but there was no smile in his eyes. "Kill me? Or hand me over?"

"...Long time no see, little Roland."

Claude sighed, and as Roland approached step by step, he gradually raised the cane in his right hand: "I didn't expect that it would be like this when we meet again..."

Golden and transparent light spit out from the staff sword and formed a slender light pillar. The intense high temperature turned the snow around the light pillar directly into steam.

It was the Sword of the Sun Worshiper, but it was more like a spear than a sword.

Not to mention being chopped or pierced, even if you get close, you will suffer huge damage.

That was the weapon used by Tyre's royal guards when he was the Sun King, and it was also the prototype of the staff sword used by Claude.

"How's Claudia?"

The golden flame around Claude was transpiring, and he asked Roland in the same flat voice.

Roland didn't show the slightest fear, as if the two were just chatting: "She has found her brother. Now she is with Ms. Anvilia."

"Really. She is with her, so I can rest assured. "

While saying this, Claude stabbed the Sword of the Sun Worshiper at Roland with the momentum of thunder.

But Roland just moved slightly to the side, avoiding Claude's offensive.

"Why? Your student is in the hands of the biggest heretic in the world."

"Don't fool me, the biggest heresy in the world is Esther the dragon hunter. If you were my student, I would ask you to copy "The Hundred Unforgiven" five hundred times as a penalty."

While chatting with Roland, Claude attacked Roland with a swift attack.

However, the attack method is extremely monotonous.

"Sorry, Your Highness Saint Cloud..."

Xi La, who stood aside, hesitated for a long time, but still walked forward resolutely.

A golden shield phantom gradually emerged on his arm.

"Please stop. I don't think Roland is evil..."

"——I can't stop."

Claude sighed and interrupted Sira.

"I can't stop... I understood it before, I'm afraid I misunderstood Roland... But my body is not controlled by me at all."

While repeating his words again, he raised the sword of the Sun Worshiper in his hand, and stabbed heavily into the empty space with lightning speed.

"Run, Roland."

Claude said softly.

This is already what he can do, the last resistance.

(End of this chapter)