The Shadow of the Crown of Snow [Western Fantasy]

Selene seemed to have lost all sound.

She only relied on the support of the scepter to allow herself to stand on the ground, and looked down at Hecate being held up by two tall soldiers and taken to a safe fortress, then she slowly raised her eyes, trying to force Return your attention to the battlefield.

But she only thought that there was no snow today, and the sun in Nord was rarely so bright that it shone on the snow, making the long bloodstain behind Hecate even more shocking.

It doesn't have to be.Selene took several deep breaths, trying to calm down her rapid heartbeat.Not yet.

You just never see her hurt, so it's serious.She tried to tell herself that.

Without the commander's order, the offensive of the Wind Blade Corps has obviously weakened a lot, and the defense is no longer as tight as it was just now.Selene quickly injected the power of faith into the scepter again, causing the entire legion to retreat slowly. After the Snow Wolf Legion stopped, she confirmed that Nagrand's army would not take the opportunity to chase into the Cracked Rock Fortress.

Before this battle, all she could think about was how to use the troops in her hands to fight a beautiful victory with the weak over the strong and the few against the many, so that Nagrand could miscalculate Nord's strength. Now that Nord is afraid, she can buy breathing time for herself and the whole country.

Nagrand sent the Royal Legion to the border between the two countries, trying to swallow the Nord Kingdom with all its strength; but if the Nord Kingdom sent the Guards here, it would be a dead end.

Nagrand's setback on the front line is nothing more than stopping the troops and taking a rest. Maybe they can come back with the support of the Holy Church of Wilton in a few days; if Nord loses the outermost line of defense, the situation will only become more severe. How could a city and fortress stop the Nagrand cavalry galloping across the vast snowfield?

At that time, probably only Nord's year-round snowstorm can make this country perish later.

The line was slowly retreating, and Selene began to concentrate on commanding the Snow Wolf cavalry squad.

In terms of command, Hussein is far from talented, let alone as admirable as Selene, but his rich experience in actual combat cannot be surpassed by talent alone.

In the battle with a huge disparity, even the Snow Wolf cavalry could not get much advantage. Seeing that a group of Nagrand cavalry was about to enter the gate of the Cracked Rock Fortress, several feathered arrows flew from Selene at the same time. He shot out and accurately hit the lightly armored knight on horseback, allowing the snow wolf knight to safely return to the fortress and close the city gate again.

Selene glanced gratefully at Wendy who led the archers to rescue her, and turned her head to watch the Nagrand army below the city gather in a neat formation under Hussein's order and began to retreat.

She was thankful that the people of Nagrand did not pester her too much, when she suddenly realized that Hussein was staring at her.Because the distance was too far, Selene couldn't see Hussein's expression clearly, but she could clearly feel the sight.

More smug banter than cold hostility.

"Wendy." Selene dropped the scepter, and she was a little unsteady due to the excessive use of divine magic. She staggered a bit, and then held on to the brick wall next to her, "Where is Hecate?"

"We sent her back to the room, and the military doctor gave her a simple bandage just now..." Wendy hesitated for a while, "The ice blade disappeared, but the wound left behind was huge."

Selene stayed on the spot for a while, and before her body fully recovered from the overdrawn state, she hurried to find Hecate.

It hadn't even occurred to her before that Hecate would be injured, too.

Hecate is like a lone leopard on the snowy field, an agile hunter in the dark night, and a warrior standing in the wind and snow. He always kills the enemy neatly without getting hurt, and keeps the cat alive even if he falls into the mud. The elegance of the class, never the embarrassment of retreat and serious injury.

She pushed open the door and saw Hecate, and she knew what Wendy's previous hesitation meant with just one glance.Hecate's armor was taken off, and a bandage was neatly wrapped around his lower abdomen, but the blood oozing from the bandage was faintly black.

The military doctor still stood aside and did not leave. He tightly squeezed the remaining bandage in his hand in fear: "Your Majesty, the weapon that hurt her must have been poisoned, otherwise it would be impossible to stop the bleeding..."

"I see." Selene approached Hecate and gently put her hand on her wound, "You go first, other soldiers still need you."

Selene murmured the prayers in the Holy Book of Light, praying for the magic of healing to take effect on Hecate.

She had never experienced such powerlessness in her life.Born as the first heir to the royal family, although it is only a northern country that can be called a "big country" except for its land area, it also grew up in the royal palace with dignity and dignity. In every aspect, she was impeccable. blameless.

The only setback in Selene's life was the sudden death of her father. Unlike when her mother died, she was an ignorant child who had nothing to bear except grief. After her father died, she was forced to provoke the burden of the entire country.

Even then, she was full of confidence.Because she knew that she had a loyal teacher and prime minister Raymond, a legitimate heir, and the ability to govern a country. She never feared or escaped.

"Selene..." Hecate struggled to open her eyes, she was still gasping for breath from the pain, her voice was intermittent, "Divine spells... don't work for me..."

Selene didn't answer her, or she didn't know how to answer. She gathered more power of faith in her hands in vain, but the light of the healing technique couldn't penetrate into Hecate's body, and slid gently from her skin. After that, it floated away, filling the entire room.

The wound under the bandage still showed no signs of healing, and the blood flowed more and more, soaking the sheets under Hecate's body, and she became weaker due to excessive blood loss.

Suddenly there was the whisper of a beast behind her, and Selene turned her head suddenly, and saw the snow wolves tamed by the Windblade Legion—they were kneeling on the ground.

Not on your stomach, but on your knees.The proud snow wolves bent their front paws and knelt down to the dying Hecate.

Their pure white soft fur occasionally mixed with gray was also stained with the blood left over from the battle just now, and then accompanied by a long howl, dots of white light shot out from their blood-stained fur. Come out and gather on Hecate's wound.

"This is... the power of faith?" Selene wiped away the tears on her face, carefully stretched out her hand to touch these light spots, and clearly felt that although they were different from those used by the believers of the God of Light, they were The real power of faith.

Hecate didn't even have real experience in fighting with snow wolves. The snow wolves of these snow wolf cavalry were only close to certain people, and there was no reason for them to come specially to treat Hecate.

But Selene knew that the name Hecate was always closely connected with the snow wolf group in the legends of the northerners.

When her father told her the origin of her and Hecate's names, his favorite story was the story of the three goddesses who ruled the moon together in the Northland.

"Selene on the full moon and Phoebe on the new moon rode together on a pegasus, and Hecate on the dark moon also wanted to join her, but the pegasus didn't get close to her. She went to the snow field alone and caught a snow wolf and came back as her own. mount, and then ride the snow wolf together with the other two goddesses to patrol the land where the people of the Northland are."

One of the reasons why the Nord Kingdom does not believe in the God of Light is that they have their own myths, and their nature makes them less willing to accept foreign things, and Selene and Hecate's father Roy is even more faithful to these myths. Lovers, more than half of the manuscripts in his study are collecting and interpreting these stories.

If there is really any connection between Hecate and Snow Wolf, it means that he chose these two names for his two daughters not just because of his liking for the story of "Three Goddesses of the Northland".

He's hinting at something, and that hint can safely follow Selene and Hecate until they discover the meaning of their names for themselves.

Selene remembered the leather notebook filled with strange symbols.

The wound on Hecate's abdomen not only healed, but also disappeared without a trace in just a few minutes, and the place that was pierced by the ice blade had grown complete flesh and blood, which was flat and smooth, and no injury could be seen Mark of.

She yawned, scratched her head with some embarrassment and said that she was sleepy, and before Selene could reply, she lay down on the bed sheet still stained with blood, making even sound of sleeping.

Selene gently closed the door, returned to her room, took out the small notebook that was carried with her, and spread it out on the table.She thought for a while, picked up the pen and paper, and carefully drew on a piece of blank parchment according to the shape of one of the symbols.

When the Windblade Legion was finished resting and everyone was about to go to sleep, she asked Wendy to gather the soldiers, and then held up the piece of paper with symbols drawn on it.

"Sorry for wasting your time a little bit. Everyone here, does anyone know this symbol?"

"I know it." A soldier who finally got close to the paper lifted his crooked helmet, raised his head and shouted to Selene, "Your Majesty, this is Penglai script."

"Penglai characters?"

"Yes." The people around gave him a way spontaneously, and let him walk in front of Selene, "My hometown is very close to a seaside city-state where Penglai people live... so I can recognize that this is Penglai. Word."

"So, you just know that these are Penglai characters, and you can't read their meaning?" Selene put away the parchment with some disappointment, "Maybe the Talis Alliance can find the Penglai people..."

"Your Majesty." Wendy, who was standing aside, reminded Selene, "There are people in the Kingdom of Nord who know how to write Penglai."

"Who?"

"Your teacher, our chancellor, Mr. Raymond."