The Shadow of the Crown of Snow [Western Fantasy]

Divine arts were destined to be used for "suppression" from their birth, but what they pursued was not physical victory, but spiritual control. In addition, the God of Light has always been a benevolent image of a god, so divine arts are extremely important. There are few ways to directly cause an attack, and even if there is, Selene cannot fight the entire army with one person.

So she thought of summoning a blizzard to slow down Nagrand.Such a large-scale magical power consumes too much power of faith, no matter how much she accumulates, it is not enough. Fortunately, she remembered that there was a small statue in a corner of Xiye City.

That statue is the young Hecate.

Roy never publicized the proton exchange and Hecate's sacrifice, but on the day Cole brought Joshua to the border, Roy took Hecate and stayed in Xiye City for one night.In fact, not many people knew about this matter. Lawrence was not the city lord at the time. According to Roy's instructions, he only provided food for their father and daughter, and a place to rest during the journey.

But the daughter of the city lord knows the identities of the father and daughter. She happens to know a craftsman in the city who is good at carving statues. She found a pen and paper, drew Hecate's appearance, and then sent it to the craftsman, asking the craftsman to cast it for her. took this statue.

People in the North don't like to travel or go out, so this matter is only spread in a small area in the city.The people of Xiye City often come to this statue under the city wall to present bouquets of flowers for her dedication and bright smile, and spontaneously wish her happiness.

The northerners who had never believed in anything left in the statues the purest power of faith that would not be rejected by divine arts.

The Nagrand army, whose march was delayed by the blizzard, started to attack Xiye City after three days and three nights. At this time, the Wind Blade Legion and the Falcon Legion had already made sufficient preparations, and the residents of the city also had the choice to escape. Opportunity.

The Nord army is like a plate of sand. Under Selene's command, it looks chaotic, but it actually spreads out in an orderly manner. The sand smoothly blends into the enemy, and then gradually eats away at the enemy.This is Selene's consistent command style. With the combination of divine arts and the individual combat capabilities of Nord soldiers, the effect of this tactic is maximized, and this time is also the most successful one of this tactic.

Once fighting in close quarters, magicians lose the ability to resist. They only have robes on their bodies, and the means of attacking are only crude magic. After losing the advantage in numbers and unable to besiege the enemy, most magicians dare not confront them head-on. Seeing the northerners approaching, they ran away in panic, which made their failure come faster.

Selene was also convinced that the magic Nagrand used to capture the Cracked Rock Fortress relied on the power of faith accumulated over the years, and in the short term, they would not be able to reproduce that overwhelming formation again.

But the number of magicians is one thing, and Nagrand's regular army is another. The Falcon Legion, which has absorbed the remnants of the Windblade, is getting stronger and stronger, but it can't stop Nagrand's army from advancing towards the Frost-covered City. pace.

All they have achieved so far are useless victories one after another.

The fall of Xiye City was much later than Selene expected.Lawrence insisted on living and dying with the city he guarded, and refused to retreat with him. He sent a group of people to escort Selene and Hecate out of the city, and stayed in Xiye City with the rest of the army.

"Wendy, you take them first and leave Hecate and a team of scouts to me."

"His Majesty?"

"Hurry up and go to the next city." Selene ordered word by word, "I'll be fine."

In the eyes of several scouts, what Selene was going to implement was a bold and crazy plan, but they still brought back accurate information for her: As Selene expected, Hussein did not come to the creek at all. Yecheng, he probably returned to Nagrand when the Cracked Rock Fortress was breached, and now most of Nagrand's army is led by another commander, heading towards the next destination, leaving only a few soldiers in the city —and Burke.

For Hecate, it was not too difficult to climb up the city wall after nightfall, and then avoid the guards' eyes and ears to enter the city.

Like an agile cat, without making any sound of footsteps or breathing, she nimbly walked through the streets at night, walking towards the only brightly lit tower now.Hecate was an excellent warrior, and even an excellent assassin. Even the walls that went straight up and down couldn't stop her, let alone this tower that was not so heavily guarded.

Burke was sitting at a desk with his back to the window, working on papers.The room that originally belonged to Lawrence was stripped of all traces of the Northlanders, and became like the decoration style of the Nagrand court. Hecate was afraid that Burke would see himself in the reflection of the silverware on the fireplace, so she clasped her hands on the window sill , to prevent her figure from being reflected on it, and after confirming that there was no movement in the room, she jumped into the window with all her might, and swung the crescent blade towards the position that had been determined.

There was no one else in Burke's room, and Hecate would kill him before he could utter any cries, and then go back out of the city through the window, even if he provoked a guard or two along the way, Hecate was confident that he could find him before they made a sound. Get rid of them before coming to the companions.These Nagrands may not find out that their Legion Master is dead until midnight or even tomorrow morning.

However, Hecate's movements froze in mid-air.She was trapped in a huge hollow ice block, just like the ice blade that stabbed her that day, this ice block appeared out of thin air, but it actually existed.

Hussein, who was wearing the Nagrand officer's light leather armor, turned around slowly, showing a creepy smile: "Why are you so surprised? The method you can use, can I not use it?"

Hecate's crescent blade was frozen in the ice, and more than half of the blade was exposed. She held on to the handle tightly, trying to give it to her.

"It's such a pity for such an excellent weapon. Why didn't you obey orders?" Hussein touched the edges and corners of the ice cube with his hand, ignoring Hecate's struggle that made the ice cube shake around. "But it doesn't matter. Once I find the right materials, I can make another one. According to the Holy Book of Light, human beings are the most proud masterpiece of the God of Light, and a person like you who is created is probably my most proud masterpiece." gone."

Hearing the key words in his words, Hecate subconsciously stopped his movements.

"You know about unicorns, and their cousin Pegasus, why do you reject them so much?"

"...Because they are generally only close to believers of the God of Light."

"No, they just smell the same kind of sacrifice on you... Unicorns can recognize souls."

Hecate successfully pulled out the crescent blade, and the ice shattered, but Hussain just raised his hand and immediately filled the hole in the ice.

"Yes, unicorns. It's not easy to catch live unicorns, and even the best archers in Nagrand can hardly keep up with their speed, but if all I want is corpses, those useless priests We can still think of a way. A small part of those unicorn corpses were used for experiments, and the rest were perfectly integrated into Hecate's body by the magicians who joined at the beginning."

He suddenly didn't use "you", but used "Hecate". Hecate, who was trapped in the ice, felt a panic, but she didn't dare to stop her movements, and tried harder to cut open with the crescent blade. This ice wall.

However, Hussein has been holding the scepter tightly, and the light of the power of faith is continuously pouring out, and the speed of the ice block strengthening is far faster than the speed of Hecate's destruction.

"Hecate does have incredible speed, like a unicorn. But I don't think that's enough, not enough." Rather than talking to Hecate, Hussein seemed to be muttering "Fortunately, I am the emperor of Nagrand, and I can get a lot of materials I need. Do you think you are from the Northland? No, you just look like it, because none of us has much advanced art." So we just gave you the look of Hecate. You're not Northlander, Nagrand, or even human - you're certainly not Selene's sister, and I'm looking forward to her discovering this The expression after one o'clock."

Hecate wanted to contradict him, wanted to tell him that Selene hadn't reacted as he'd imagined, but she felt something stuck in her throat, and she couldn't say a word.

"How strange, I have never had a child, but sometimes I feel like you are my daughter, this should be like the God of Light treats human beings as his children? Of course, I am not as good as the God of Light □, so I respect your choice, you chose the Nord Kingdom, you are from the Nord Kingdom, I will not force you to return to Nagrand, nor will I treat you in the same way as I treat ordinary Northlanders— —” Hussein stroked the sapphire in his hand, “Believe me, if you are the one being auctioned, the slave market is no fun at all.”

"In addition to the ability I gave you, there are a few soul fragments in your body that I don't know where they came from. I think it may be these damn soul fragments. After a long period of repulsion, I can no longer control you. .I don’t know what those northern savages are doing, but since you can’t be used by me, I will get rid of you as soon as possible and prevent you from falling into anyone’s hands.” Since Hecate entered the room, Hussein Meeting her eyes for the first time, the magic he could use to control her was gone, but those green eyes were still a nightmare in her heart.

The ice was spreading to the inside bit by bit, but Hecate felt relieved instead.

At least she knows who she is.