Thousands of mountains are always pits

Aila never thought that the general of the human race would pay a visit in person.

As the leader of Fengyun Kyushu, especially as a king who hates the human race to the extreme, it has been a long time since she has seen such a human race who recklessly hit her with a gun.

The human races she met in the past were ordered by her to be thrown into the Colosseum for fun, or directly rewarded to the orcs for a tooth-beating sacrifice, and no matter how bad it was, they had to pass the physical examination, and reluctantly agreed to send those weak human races to the tents of various lords— — As for being a slave or something else, that's none of Ella's business.

After all, Ayla knows that it has been too long since that moral and noble era of the gods.

It has been so long that a person like her who does not kill or indulge indiscriminately because she can only feel happy from conquest and revenge can become a moral model and a symbol of support.

After the Era of Gods, Kyushu entered the Era of Humanity.

Churches and royal families have ruled the mainland for thousands of years.

However, as the blood of the royal family dries up day by day, Kyushu's unanimous default history has progressed to the end of the human era.

With the decline of the human race and the sudden emergence of the other eight major races, the mainland of Kyushu began to move.

The earth-shattering earthquake that broke out in 180 completely separated the Kyushu continental plates that were originally linked together.

Terran lost control of the other eight states.

It was in such an era that Ella sprung up suddenly.

"Your Majesty? Are you going to send someone to kill her?"

In the snow-covered fortress, an ice lamp hangs from the edge of the wall, and the faint light inside sends out questions that flicker on and off.

This is a castle created by ice and snow magic.

Standing tall in the forest, it looks like a huge and gorgeous ice sculpture from a distance.

The fortress is like a flower on the high mountain, guarded by countless ice and snow warriors constructed by magic outside the gate. Under the moonlight at night, it looks like a star falling from the sky, overflowing with low-key and luxurious light, eclipsing everything in the world. All goodness is in it.

Everything here, whether it is guards, servants, or personal maids, is all ice and snow puppets created by Ella with magic.

Ayla's invincible army is half her own and half from others, but they are all stationed on the outer edge of the ice castle.

No one can walk into Ella's castle.

And no one can come near Ella's side.

——Except for the corpses killed by her own hands.But Ella has not been on the battlefield for too long, so she has almost forgotten the feeling of death.

I just remember the blood sprayed on my body, with heat.

It was warm.

But it will soon be frozen into a blood-red ice cube by the coldness brought by her bones.

"Let her in."

Ella sat high on the throne, lazily playing with the crystal ball.

The silver-white dark lines spread from the nails to the wrists, like snakes in the dark night, and also like the Milky Way hanging in the starry sky.

I haven't communicated with the human race for a long time. I don't know why, but Ella suddenly became interested.

The icy blue door slowly opened, and the icy fangs protruding from both sides opened their clenching teeth.

The military boots belonging to the visitor crushed the ice slag that fell to the ground due to friction, and the hard sound was swept in by the wind from outside the door, sweeping across the empty castle.

"I knew it was you when I heard the name." The visitor didn't salute, but looked at Ayla fixedly, her voice was cold and hard, with a trace of old familiarity, "Ayla."

Ella looked up in astonishment, the crystal ball she was playing in her hand almost fell off the throne.

***

Ella never imagined that she would meet Ikabel here.

It's true that she hasn't had a good communication with the human race for a long time, and the last one who had a serious conversation was Ikabel.

Strictly speaking, they have known each other since childhood.

Ella was born in a remote village where the human race gathered.

After the earthquake, Kyushu was divided, but the human race occupied most of the territory.Even if it is far away from the center of the kingdom of the human race, there are countless similar gathering points of the human race.

Ella has been an outlier in the village since she was a child.

Not just because of her father, who was an alcoholic and gambler, or her mother, who was famous for being promiscuous, but also because she had a rare light blonde hair and inherited her mother's voluptuous beauty.

In the Blanc Empire, the royal family was proud of dark colors.

Or it's just because only the human race can be born with pure skin color with black hair and black eyes, so the dark color shows the nobility unique to the human race.

So the members of the royal family all have black and bright black hair, the nobles have all kinds of dark colors, and the common people have colorful hair, but the ones that are light to the extreme are often symbols of other races—or it shows that her body is flowing and Not pure human blood.

Many people suspected that Ella was the product of her mother and some other race—as for whether it was an elf race, an orc race, or something else, no one cared, after all, these races were not as noble as the human race.

The mother died because of her dystocia, although Ella seriously doubted whether the woman really wanted to give birth to her - I heard that the woman wanted to ask the priest to get medicine for abortion, but the fake priest sold fake medicine.

And the reason why her nominal father raised her was not pure.

It is said that some nobles like this kind of mixed-race human beings. Ella's mother was born beautiful, and she is no worse than Ella.

As Ella grew older day by day, she began to realize her situation, and vowed viciously that one day she would leave this ghost place.

In order to find out how to survive in this world, Ayla had been mixing with hunting groups to learn skills secretly.

Of course, the people in the village were not so kind. They occasionally brought orphans who were excluded, and more elderly people who had lost their mobility—so that they could drop them to buy time when they were in danger.

Poverty and hardship make sacrifice natural.

What's more, Ella is also a good cook and good sewing skills. She is young but has a resolute personality. She doesn't talk much but works diligently. She is a perfect logistics staff and sacrificial reserve team.

When Ella met Ikabel, she was seven years old and went hunting with the team into the depths of the ice field.

They encountered a dire bear and the team was wiped out.

Only because of her small stature, she was lucky not to be the primary target of the ice field bear.

But after killing the other prey, the dire bear finally set its sights on the thinnest and most harmless little girl.

***

Ikabel swore that when she saw Ayla being carried in the snow, she pressed the trigger for some reason.

She never thought of interfering with the internal affairs of ordinary humans.

She had been told since she was a child that their family served the noble ice god—because they were favored by the gods, they had unique silver hair and gray eyes.

They are different from other human races.

But occasionally, when going out to exchange for some necessities of life, you will be excluded and paid a price because of the "favor of the gods".

Ella was the first "kind" she had ever seen, with light blonde hair that shone like the sun.

So she shot without thinking, but Ikabel missed a rare shot, and the target deviated from the left arm to the heart.

He bleeds profusely and dies.

It also attracted the ice field bears that were dormant nearby.

***

It was at this time that Ella knew her other "race".

The ice bear rushed towards her, and with the smelly wind, she felt like her blood was about to freeze.

Under the extreme danger, Aila couldn't move. She held the bow used to save her life in her hand, but she couldn't remember it, and even if she remembered it, she couldn't pull it away.

Her strength is too weak, and she has been frozen unconscious by the blizzard.

At this moment, a silver light flashed in front of her.

It has the same color as this land, cold, cruel, silver light without a trace of warmth.

The straight steel sword pierced the icefield bear's heart from front to back, and the red blood flowed along the blade on the snow like a scorching rose.

The sword-wielding man turned his head back, with gray eyes against the light, his silver hair tied into a ponytail hanging behind him, and his body was wrapped in a white fur made of ice field bear skin.

The bright white sunlight cast a shadow on the facial features of the visitor.Even so, Ella could see the white patch covering the man's left eye, and then she noticed that the man's left arm was also empty.

There are rumors in the village that the Skaar people hunting in the Northern Territory have the belief of devils.They believe in evil gods, and the gods will take part of the bodies of babies born in the village, but in contrast, they have amazing force and physical strength.

Inhuman, cruel, and extremely xenophobic.

They are natural fighters.

Also a born executioner.

Ikabel's long sword was pulled out from the bear's body, with a icy cold light, the tip of the sword reached Ayla's throat, and Ayla didn't doubt that the woman would kill him in the next second.

Her blood was solidified at this moment, and if one could peek inside the blood vessels, one could even see patterns like snowflakes.

Ayla didn't realize that her whole body was covered with a thin layer of ice crystal armor, and a huge magic circle appeared on her back, condensing countless ice edges, pointing directly at the target.

Ikabel thought that Ella was about to strike, and instinctively put the point of the sword against her throat.

But this action further stimulated Ella, the corners of her mouth were drawn upward by the dazzling cold wind, her blond hair was pulled into sharp long arrows, and together with the bursting ice edge arrows, ten thousand arrows were fired together!

In the mainland of Kyushu, there are nine races. The Snow family is born to control the snow, and their blood is sparse. Before the earthquake, there were rumors that this race had become extinct.

Ella Snow.

This is the girl's full name.

Ikabel suddenly guessed——

Maybe the reason she shot was just because of the girl's name.

Very beautiful, very moving.

In the ancient language, it means "the glacier that never melts".

***

"Thank you for protecting me all the way." Ella traveled to the edge of the ice sheet, and reluctantly said goodbye to Ikabel.

The girl sent an invitation to her only human friend in her life: "Aren't you really going to leave with me?"

Ikabel shook her head, and she put the sword and crossbow back on her waist: "Our family has been the guardian of the Icefield God for generations, and we will not leave the Icefield forever. This is a family rule."

"Okay then." Ella tiptoed and hugged Ikabel gently: "I will miss you."

"Me too." Ikabel wrapped his arms tightly around the girl's slender waist.

The first day they met was not pleasant, and even Ikabel couldn't guarantee that he would be able to escape unscathed under such an array of arrows.

Fortunately, Ella passed out the next second.

Frostbolt disappeared into the air because the source of magic power was cut off.

Icabel notices an unnatural blush on Ella's face.

Years of malnutrition made Ella weak, and the fierce fight she had just experienced made her whole body tense.

Ella has a fever and is in serious condition.

Ikabel thought for a long time, and finally decided to cure this "kind".

That's how they met.

After that, Ikabel escorted Ella all the way to the edge of the ice field, and the two girls formed a deep friendship along the way.

For Ikabel of the nomads, this ice field is like no one's land for her.

Ella has just awakened, and she is not very familiar with magic control, so she stays by her side in every battle, and rescues her if she is in danger.

"You are already an excellent mage." Ikabel looked into Ayla's eyes seriously and said, "Better than any mage I met in the ice field, I sincerely hope that you can find your own people. "

"Thank you." Ella looked away shyly. She stood on tiptoe and whispered in Ikabel's ear, "I will send you a message when the time comes. If you have the opportunity, you must come to my house as a guest...it's impossible If you do, I'll convince them to move here and be your neighbors."

"my pleasure."

When Ikabel answered, the roots of his ears turned red.

Because Ella softly dropped a kiss on her ear.

***

"What happened after that?" Ella held the crystal ball in her hand, regained her dignity and arrogance before she lost her composure, stared into Ikabel's eyes, and asked casually, "Why did you become the general of the Kingdom of Blanc? "

As a commoner, he broke the entrenched class of nobles and was a rising general who rose rapidly in the war.

"I……"

"Don't come here."

Ikabel took a step forward, and the magic puppet immediately solidified from the ground and hovered upwards. The sharp edge pierced her throat. The young general subconsciously pulled out his one-handed sword and cut off the attack.

"Feel sorry……"

Ella turned the crystal ball embarrassingly, and the warrior stopped instantly, crunching and twisting, forming a string of ice-colored rose vines, which bloomed in Ikabel's palm, forming a rose flower with sparkling ice crystals.

Facing Ikabel's puzzled question, Ella looked away and said, "I hate humans instinctively."

***

Ikabel and Ella left the ice field.

After escorting Ella away, she returned to the tribe, only to find that the entire tribe was missing.

No death, no blood, just missing.

The giant glacier guarded by the Horde—the legendary final resting place of the ice god—glowed faintly white.

Ikabel didn't know what was going on.

In the past, because of the blessing of the ice god, the Skaar people were not afraid of severe cold.

But now she stared at the glacier glowing white, but felt sharp.

Ikabel felt that he was being abandoned by this glacier.

She searched the spot for a long time, and finally found a crooked handwriting near her igloo: "Escape—"

escape from here.

Escape from this cage-like ice field.

Ikabel was at a loss. No matter how high her force value was, she was still only a child under ten years old.

She hesitated for a long time, and finally was forced to leave the ice field because it was too cold.

Meanwhile, rumors arose.

Some people say that the evil god sleeping in the ice field has awakened, and all the explorers who have recently entered and exited the ice field have never returned; Because of the rare snow disaster in a thousand years, the weather became colder than before, so all the creatures in the ice field migrated out.

In this regard, Ikabel dismissed it.

It's true that the weather is getting colder, but it's almost winter.

Creatures did not decrease, the human race migrated away because of fear, and only the Skaals disappeared.

She is the last of the Skaar.

Icabel felt abandoned by the gods he believed in.

She wanted to go to Ella, but couldn't get started.

Ayla went to her people.

Ikabel also intends to find a tribe that does not reject her.

None of them were found.

Ikabel joined the adventure guild, and quickly gained respect due to her outstanding combat skills.

It coincided with the rise of other racial forces. When she went to the Kingdom of Blanc to perform a mission, she met a moderate officer who invited her——

"You have the appearance of a foreign race, but you shed undoubted human blood. Are you willing to sacrifice your life for a more tolerant human race?"

Ikabel thought of Ella.

She agreed.

This army is composed of mixed blood and enlightened human race.

Ikabel quickly rose to prominence, and she fancied that if her fame could rise, it would definitely attract Ella to join.

Although it also encountered great exclusion and resistance, the Kingdom of Blanc, which had internal and external troubles, gradually gained a firm foothold.

Ikabel led this army to be invincible and quickly quelled the domestic rebellion.

Wherever he went, he used a gentle policy to appease the aliens, and his reputation was quite high, which made many nostalgic and older aliens see the glory of the age of the gods.

In the Age of Gods, the nine major races did not interfere with each other and were equal to each other.

Among them, the goddess of light, represented by the human race, loves the people like a child and saves all beings.

I heard that the newly-rising general is also the old servant family, no wonder he has such a charismatic personality.

Among the Kyushu, the Human Race's Blank Kingdom occupies the largest territory. Because of its abundant products, it is relatively civilized.

The human race is strictly hierarchical, but it treats alien races much more friendly than other barren lands.

This is why Ikabel can represent the rise of the centrists.

But outside of the Kingdom of Blanc, the property is even more barren, and the race competition is more cruel. In places beyond the reach of the king's law, the only thing left is to fight and kill each other.

Ella went in the opposite direction from Ikabel.

She saw more primitive desires and barbarism, and also accepted the baptism of a set of jungle laws that are completely different from civilized society.

At the edge of a certain continent, after escaping a trap designed and captured by a group of human wizards, she completely lost confidence in the human race, and finally gave up her desire to find them.

Perhaps as the rumors said, the Snow family has already died out.

She just so happens to have the last of her blood flowing.

Ayla's purpose in life changes from finding to surviving.

The most indispensable thing on the mainland of Kyushu is hatred.

Under the flames of ancient blood magic and hatred, a group of black shadows quickly gathered around Ayla.

They live in the ice and snow, sweeping the world with the blizzard.

Invincible, unstoppable.

They are preparing to end the Epoch of Man.

Icabel had just quelled the last civil rebellion.

From the study of the rebel clan, she found something about the era of the ancient gods.

She likes to collect related things - after all, she has been trying to find out the real reason for the disappearance of the Skaal.

In the past, Ikabel found some bits and pieces, but today this is the most complete.

She pieced together some maps, and was too shocked by what she found to speak.

When he came back to his senses, Ikabel heard the tip that the kingdom of Blanc had been invaded by another state.

The leader of the invaders was named Ira Snow.

Ella doesn't have any meaning in the human language, but in the syllables handed down by the Skaal population, it has a special meaning:

A glacier that never melts.

Ikabel suddenly remembered those old mythical nursery rhymes that her mother held her in her arms and sang to her when she was a child.

——Singing is both the past and the future, the history in memory, and the myth in time.

"The great ice god finally slept under the glacier and turned into thousands of snowflakes. One day, it will roll up and create a storm on Kyushu again. Our family will sacrifice our lives to become the sharpest ice edge, and the most A solid barrier, from dawn to sunset, dedicated to duty, until death."

So when the guard asked her what her defensive deployment was, Ikabel replied softly: "I want to see her."

***

Ayla can manipulate ice and snow.

She seems to be a born ice and snow mage, so she doesn't need to sing or use a staff.

She has icy blood and holds an ice scepter.

This is what Ikabel knew very early on.

The awakening of the Ice God requires a price.

Ikabel only knew about this not long ago.

The awakening of the divine meridian requires the sacrifice of everything from the servants of the gods - including flesh and blood, blood, and even life.

The servants of the gods dedicate everything to the gods.

In return, the gods give believers absolute power.

When she was young, she saved a young god who had just awakened.

And the awakening of this god is at the cost of her people—or more sacrificed flesh and blood in the past.

A long time ago, the servant of the god fell in love with the god he served.

And the human race that the gods hate the most is her only servant.

"Even so, do you still want to dissuade me?"

Ella stood up and walked to Ikabel step by step.

Until this time, Ella did not have a familiar shadow of Ikabel.

She was still very thin and weak, but she was determined and determined to move forward. Every time she took a step, the sound of the collision between the ice cubes floated into Ikabel's ears along the snowflakes.

"Yes." Ikabel looked back firmly.

Ella stopped just a few steps away from her.

"If destruction can eliminate hatred, the most important thing I should do now is to pierce my sword through your heart."

"You can try." Ella evoked a sarcastic smile.

"Have you ever thought about what will happen after overthrowing the kingdom? Is it to re-establish a kingdom that overwhelms the human race? How is this different from what you encountered before?"

"There is a difference." Ella looked innocent, "I became the perpetrator."

"What about me?" Ikabel asked, "I'm also a human race."

Ella laughed lightly, emitting the melodious tone unique to girls.

She carefully pulled out Ikabel's saber—it was a small dagger, straddling the sword that killed the ice bear—and gently held the blade in her palm.

Ella held the blade, put the hilt against Ikabel's chin, and raised it slightly.

Arrogant, disdainful, arrogant.

"What do you want me to do?" Ikabel asked.

Ella smiled and said, "There is everything in this palace, but there is just a lack of a slave."

***

The unstoppable aliens retreated.

Not a single war broke out, and not a single drop of blood was shed.

Everyone was shocked.

It's just that when the cutting-edge general came out of the fort, he was covered in blood.

Rumors spread everywhere. Some people said that the general successfully assassinated the leader of the foreign tribe, and the foreign tribe lost their backbone, so they were powerless to resist and retreated like a tide; Some people say that the foreign race is just a tactic to delay the attack, and the current retreat is only brewing greater turmoil...

No one knows whether it is true or false.

It's just that within a few days of the news of the withdrawal, the general resigned from his official position and disbanded her army.

Afterwards, a fire broke out in the royal family of Blanc, and all the black-haired nobles of the royal family died here, and the palace was occupied by a race of different colors.

Without Ayla in command, the Alien Legion quickly disintegrated internally.

A large number of people have defected to other powerful influencers.

Kyushu ushered in the first snow this year amidst the turmoil.

***

Ikabel sat in the wooden house, thinking about the reunion that day.

In her astonishment, Ella was caught off guard, holding a dagger and piercing her heart firmly.

If destruction could kill hatred, Ayla managed to do so.

They have each other's expectations for the future. What Ikabel didn't expect was that Ella's suicide would only cause her heartache.

Ikabel hurriedly stopped Ella's bleeding—fortunately, the other person's body temperature was extremely low, and even the blood loss was slower than others.

"Is this better?" Ella asked softly while lying in Isabel's arms.

Ikabel's hands were shaking: "I don't know..."

Her hands were covered with blood, her pupils were full of panic, "I really don't know..."

"That's it." Ella closed her eyes regretfully.

In the dense snowy night, someone pushed open the wooden door of the hut in the forest.

"You're right..." In the snowstorm, Ella took off her fur coat, and was embraced by Ikabel who came up.

Her embrace was very warm, dispelling a lot of the coldness in her blood.

Ever since Ella pierced her own heart with that sword, her body temperature has become even colder.

In the weather of more than ten degrees below zero, there is no trace of white gas coming out.

"...You are right, this matter is not as happy as I imagined." Ella sighed softly in Ikabel's arms.

The joy of destroying the black-haired royal family is far less than the reunion with Ikabel.

Such abjection and misses made Ella start to reflect on the choices she had made in the past few years.

"I want to break up the ice floe."

Ella was hugged by Ikabel on the recliner, and she covered her with a thin blanket, and the fire in the fireplace illuminated her pale face with blood.

Floe ice was Ella's confidantes when she traveled to the mainland in her early years, and she was also her life-and-death acquaintance.

They are all a group of lives destroyed by the human race.

"Wait a little longer." Ikabel didn't quite agree. "I just let my personal guards leave temporarily. As long as I order them, they will still come back to me."

Ayla grabbed the soft flesh at her waist jealously.

"Your Majesty." Ikabel was tickled by her, and hurriedly begged for mercy, "Now is not the time to be petty."

Ella snorted softly.

She escaped a few pieces of ancient parchment from her arms and put them on the table beside her.

"I don't understand why you collect these?"

"Of course it is to better protect you, my lord."

The cold wind blows from the gap in the wooden window, rolling up the parchment cover, revealing the ancient text inside.

The first blizzard rolled up the scrolls of old, and the gods descended with them.

The era restarts.

The old gods die.

A new god is born.

"Then why don't you read it?"

"What's the rush? The night is still long."

The night shattered in the blizzard.

The dim light of the fire in the fireplace licked the fragile dead branches.

In the uneasy night, turbulent and swaying, collapsing from time to time, every inch is lost.