The Shadow of the Crown of Snow [Western Fantasy]

After the initial severe coma passed, Selene ushered in a more ordinary sleep like usual.

Strangely, she was still dreaming.

Selene hasn't had a dream for a long time.She always makes herself tireless during the day, and only when the sun sets does she find that her body and spirit are sinking in a turbid fatigue.There's nothing wrong with that, she comforted herself.She really didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

She is used to her father being the only heir, she is used to everyone around her questioning her, she is used to the Nagrand Empire's covetous eyes on the territory of the Nord Kingdom, and she is used to everything she was born to bear and must bear.

Therefore, it is impossible for Selene to feel that there is any problem with such a schedule. After a busy day, she will fall down on the soft bed at a certain time, wrapped in a thick blanket and fall into a dreamless sleep.She has always lived like this, stretching the string to the limit during the day, and slowly stretching it out at night. There has never been a single string that broke because it was stretched too tight, and there was never a single time when the string was broken. String slack.

She lived like walking on thin ice, only had time to deal with the identity of Queen of the Kingdom of Nord, not enough time to deal with the identity of Selene.

Only in front of Hecate, she has her own emotion and soul, she is the real "Selene".

In Selene's dream, her young self was taken to Xiye City by her father, and then exchanged with Joshua on the border.She was taken to the Kingdom of Nagrand as a proton, but it was not Hussain who she saw. The eldest son of King Cole became a young man who was as gentle and polite as Joshua, and unwilling to start a war. After he came to the throne, The Nagrand Empire and the Nord Kingdom ushered in real peace. Selene returned to her own country after only staying in a foreign land for three years.

Without Hussein and his war, without Hecate who was destroyed by magic and recreated, and without the god-making plan that the Northland learned from the Penglai people, everything was-everything was happy.

But if this is the case, Selene will not be able to meet the current Hecate.Of course, this person is not her sister, she has her own soul and will, and she just continues to live in this world as Selene's sister.

Selene heard from the warriors that if there is training during the day, or if you are tired for other reasons, you usually don't dream too much. People only dream when they are too relaxed and leisurely.

So Selene suspects that she is actually going to die, probably only when she is about to die, can she let go of everything in the world and have a happy dream.

Before that, she had always felt that her attitude towards death was calm.She can only be aware of her identity as the monarch of the Nord Kingdom, but not her existence as Selene. She wants to fulfill her wish as a monarch, and she must let this country survive no matter what, and she does not want the Nord Kingdom It perishes in its own hands.However, her wish as Selene was squeezed to the point where she even forgot her first priority as a human being: to live.

Selene is now starting to fear death.Because after death, Hecate will never be seen again. Although he lives in her body, although he is close at hand, he will never be able to see her, and he will never be able to embrace her.

She thought that restoring the country was the reason for her to live, but in fact Hecate was the support for her to live.

Thankfully she survived.She opened her eyes in a daze, and what she saw was the ceiling of the military tent. Seeing that she had woken up, a soldier guarding her hurriedly ran out to call the military doctor. When the military doctor arrived, Selene had fully recovered. After regaining his sanity, he whispered about his physical condition: "The wound on my back hasn't fully healed, but it's not too painful. I don't need painkillers. It's just that I don't have any strength in my body and can't exert myself."

"Okay, okay, I see." The military doctor put down the medicine box in his hand, helped her up from the bed and sat up, "I'll change your medicine first."

"Where's Hecate?"

"At the front."

"Commander Gu should be in the camp, right? Call her over for me."

"Okay." The military doctor cut off the bandage and tied the knot skillfully, "I'll call it for you right away."

When Gu Yinuo walked into the military tent, Selene was leaning on the bed and flipping through the blood-stained scripture on the cover, without raising her head, she asked Gu Yinuo: "How long have I been asleep?"

"Three or four days."

"No wonder I'm feeling tired." Selene put the book back on the bedside table, "How's the situation these three or four days?"

"what's the situation?"

"What else can happen? The situation on the front line, the situation of the half-orcs."

"Don't make your expression so heavy, the situation is much better than you imagined." Gu Yinuo sat down beside her bed with a half-smile and handed her a glass of water, "I'm serious, if Hecate wasn't in Naina If Grand is the proton, but grew up with you, I really don't know who will succeed in the end."

"If it's between me and Hecate, the Northlanders will definitely prefer Hecate."

"Really? From the perspective of me, an outsider, they also like you quite a lot."

"It's one thing to like, but another thing to be in a group. Besides..." Selene frowned, "Although Hecate and I look very similar, her appearance gives people a kind of Northlander look." Feel."

The so-called "Northern people's feeling" is partly the prejudice of other races in the Hindley Continent towards the Northland, such as rough and barbaric, and partly is the self-recognition of the Northlanders, such as the snow leopard.It can hide in the snow and take the enemy's life silently, or defeat the enemy in a frontal fight. It is elegant and powerful, beautiful and proud.

This also basically sums up the feeling of Hecate.Therefore, she quickly got rid of the traces of growing up in the Nagrand Empire and became a more "standard" northerner than Selene.

Gu Yinuo shrugged his shoulders: "Indeed, just like I can never really integrate into Talis' council, no matter how much I behave like a Talisian, as long as they see me, they will naturally ostracized me, as if it were some customary habit."

"Most people on the continent of Hindley actually have some problems like this, but we are mutually exclusive, while the Penglai people are regarded as different by everyone on the mainland." Selene put the empty cup on the table, " Are you sure Hecate is okay?"

The Talis Central Army lacks actual combat, but has never slackened in training. It can be called a good regular army in terms of combat capability and equipment. There is only one thing that makes them weaker than other experienced legions, that is Easy to collapse.

Selene can guarantee that even if there is only one person left in the Guards Corps, that person will not just sit and wait for death, but will use all his strength to kill a few more enemies until he also dies under the blade.Looking at the mainland, there are not many armies that can do this. Some regular armies will even run away regardless of orders as long as the formation is dispersed. Many soldiers were not killed in the fight, but were trampled to death in the chaos of their own team. .

The military strength of the Nord Kingdom is not only reflected in the personal strength of the soldiers, but also reflected here. Even the smallest local army will not break up and flee like this.

Whether it is cavalry or infantry, the huge momentum after forming a formation is always very bluffing, and it also gives comfort to the recruits who are new to the battlefield. After all, stand with their companions and face the enemy side by side. After this psychological comfort disappears , most of them will immediately turn around and run away.There are indeed not many people who can "defy death" like the people in the North.

It is precisely because of their high fighting spirit that they can still maintain after being completely dispersed that Selene can successfully use the command method of fragmentation. Talis's Central Army was also trained by Selene to get used to this tactic , but no matter how talented Hecate, who is a novice commander, may not be able to break it up into parts in such a delicate way. If they attack in a formation, they will expose their weaknesses in front of the half-orcs.

"Even if Hecate doesn't have the ability to command, she's fine. She can really confuse people's hearts. As long as she leads the charge, even the most cowardly soldiers of the Central Army will never hesitate or fall behind."

This sentence made Selene slightly stunned. She pretended to raise her hand casually to touch the holy book on the table, and confirmed that the power of faith she felt just now was not an illusion.Hecate is a god of war, and she cannot give special blessings to her believers, but as a god, she can subconsciously gather the power of belief from believers, and at the same time mobilize the emotions of believers, making them follow Hecate unconditionally.

The power of faith that can be faintly felt in the scriptures is still very weak, but it gave Selene a little hope of surviving.

Maybe Hecate can rely on his own strength to step over the threshold of the gods little by little.

"Selene!" Familiar shouts and footsteps finally came from outside the military tent, Gu Yinuo smiled at Selene clearly, got up and walked out of the military tent.

Hecate saw that he had just returned from the battlefield.She was still wearing that silver-white armor. Not only was the armor covered with blood, her exposed skin and hair were also stained with sporadic blood.She didn't hold a crescent blade, she didn't have any weapon in her hand, and she had a crossbow in her waist? The bag of bow and arrow was also empty. Selene caught a glimpse of the hastily bandaged wound on her tiger's mouth, and looked at her weakly: "It is necessary to work so hard. ?"

Hecate, who was kneeling by the bed, grabbed her hand and nodded desperately, thinking it was wrong, he quickly shook his head to correct his answer.

"Hold this. Hold it." Selene shoved the tome into her hands. "Don't move."

Then she took a deep breath and put her hand on the unfinished holy book.

The power of faith slowly condensed in the palm of her hand, and Selene heard a voice that sounded like Hecate's, muttering and repeating.

"Come with me. Come with me to eternity."