stjorthotic Chapter 60 The Confusion of Blade Winter
Chapter 60 The Confusion of Blade Winter
Chapter 60 The Confusion of Blade Winter
"It was still here yesterday."
Haji repeated the sentence.
He slowly pulled the suffocatingly heavy battle axe from the weapon rack beside the mammoth.
The black axe blade gleamed with a bloodthirsty, cold light under the reflection of the snow.
"So that means you're trying to tell me..."
"Even a bunch of peasants with only level two towers could vanish without a trace overnight, carrying their houses and city walls, right under my nose?"
Haji roared suddenly, his voice echoing like thunder across the vast snowfield.
"Do you think I'm stupid?!"
boom!
The massive battle axe did not strike Karl.
Instead, the wolf slammed violently onto the open ground next to it.
The earth trembled violently.
A terrifying force erupted instantly, and the permafrost cracked like a fragile biscuit, spreading out a fissure several meters long in an instant.
The shockwave, carrying pebbles and ice shards, slammed into Karl's face, cutting countless fine, bloody gashes.
But he didn't dare to wipe it.
They didn't even dare to hide.
He simply buried his head even lower, his forehead pressed tightly against the cold ground, his blood staining the white snow.
"My lord, please calm down! My lord, please calm down!"
"Your subordinate would never dare to deceive you, sir! There must be some trickery involved! That baron must have used some kind of smokescreen!"
Carl screamed, his voice shrill and piercing.
Haji was panting heavily, his chest heaving violently.
anger.
A sense of humiliation at being mocked burned wildly in his chest, almost reducing his reason to ashes.
He was a general under the command of the mighty Winter Lord, a fourth-tier powerhouse, known as "Winter of Blades" Haji.
They assembled a large army and charged in with great momentum.
The result was like a punch thrown with all its might; the wolf landed hard on cotton.
The frustration of having nowhere to use his strength made him want to kill someone.
"A smokescreen?"
Haji sneered and leaped off the mammoth.
The heavy combat boots pounded on the frozen ground, making a teeth-grinding squeaking sound.
He walked to the large pit that should have been the location of the White Wolf Territory's city wall.
Squat down.
He stretched out his nailed fingers and picked up a handful of soil.
The soil is still fresh.
There was even a faint, warm scent lingering inside.
Those are the marks left by the scorching power of magic.
And that nauseating, lowly plant odor.
"It's not a smokescreen."
Haji's eyes narrowed, his pupils shrinking to the size of pinpoints.
"They really moved away."
"They even dug up the foundation."
"This way of moving—"
Haji stood up, his gaze sweeping over his surroundings with a somber expression.
Even the greediest goblins leave behind a mess when they move.
But it's too clean here.
It's abnormally clean.
unless----
They didn't move it by hand at all.
"Sir! Look over there!"
Suddenly, a sharp-eyed guard pointed to the distant sky and exclaimed.
Haji suddenly turned his head.
Look in the direction the guard is pointing.
On the distant horizon, deep within the snowfield, which humans consider a death zone.
A strange, dim golden light pierced through the swirling snow, appearing and disappearing intermittently.
That's not sunlight.
It was an ancient, cold light, full of mechanical texture.
And under that light.
A colossal, breathtaking steel silhouette, like an ancient beast awakening, moves slowly and steadily across the land.
Mobile city.
Haji's pupils dilated instantly.
Those are relics from the Golden Age.
It is a forbidden place that even we ourselves are wary of.
How did it end up there?
And—it looks like it's been activated?
"I see----"
Haji suddenly burst out laughing.
He grabbed Karl, who was kneeling on the ground, and lifted him into the air like a chick.
The large hand gripped Karl's neck tightly, the nails digging deep into his flesh.
"Cough—cough cough—"
Karl kicked his legs desperately, his hands weakly pounding against Haji's arms, which were like iron clamps.
"See that? Useless trash."
Haji pointed to the giant steel shadow in the distance.
"The mouse crawled into the tin can."
"Is this what you mean by 'completely unprepared'?"
Click.
A crisp sound.
Karl's arm was ripped off by Haji.
Blood gushed out and splattered on the pristine white snow, a horrifying sight.
"Aaaaaaahhhhh!!"
A heart-wrenching scream pierced the sky.
Haji casually tossed the unconscious Karl into the snowdrift without even glancing at him.
He pulled out a piece of black ice crystal that was vibrating strangely from his pocket.
That was a communication from the Lord of Winter.
A deep, indifferent voice, devoid of any emotion, exploded directly in Haji's mind.
"Haji."
Just two words.
Haji, a giant over three meters tall who had killed countless people, seemed to have had his spine removed, and slammed heavily to the ground on one knee.
That arrogant and overbearing demeanor vanished without a trace in an instant.
Instead, there was absolute submission and awe.
"Your Majesty."
Haji lowered his head, even slowing his breathing.
The voice of the Winter Lord was devoid of emotion.
"Just now, I saw a change in the location of White Wolf Territory on my map of strange artifacts."
"He entered that mobile city of the Golden Age."
Haji's heart skipped a beat.
really.
That damned baron, he's not dead at all.
They recklessly barged into the mobile city!
"Your subordinate—your subordinate will go and kill him right now!"
Haji suddenly raised his head, his eyes flashing with ferocity.
"Your men will immediately assemble the troops and launch a full-scale assault on the mobile city! We will bring you his head!"
"idiot."
A cold snort came from within the ice crystals.
The surrounding temperature dropped by more than ten degrees in an instant, and Haji's beard was instantly covered with a layer of white frost.
He was so frightened that he immediately kowtowed to the ground, not daring to breathe.
"That was a war fortress from the Golden Age."
"Even though it has been abandoned for hundreds of years, the remaining defense mechanisms inside are enough to grind your small force into mincemeat."
"That foolish human thought it was a refuge."
"Actually, that's his grave."
The monarch's voice carried a hint of condescending mockery.
"Without the corresponding authorization, any intruder will be eliminated by the city's internal security system."
"He won't live past tonight."
Haji was taken aback.
Then it dawned on me.
Yes!
That's the legendary mobile city!
It's full of those crazed ancient mechs and all sorts of unseen deadly traps.
Even his own third-tier experts would be severely injured if they went in.
A baron with only a level 2 tower leading a group of second-tier witches in—isn't that just courting death?
It's probably been cut into pieces by now, right?
"The monarch is wise!"
Haji immediately flattered him.
"Then—what should I do?"
"Watch him die."
The monarch said calmly.
"But anything can happen. What if the life signs at that coordinate haven't disappeared by three days?"
"That means that the city's defenses have been completely destroyed over the long years."
"By then—"
The ice crystals suddenly turned scarlet.
"At all costs, attack that little bug hiding in the mobile city and take control of the mobile city."
"If we can't take it, we'll destroy it."
"I don't need an uncontrollable variable existing beside my bed."
Zi—
Communication was cut off.
The ice crystals lost their luster and fell into Haji's palm.
Haji gripped the ice crystal tightly and slowly stood up.
He gazed at the silent steel behemoth in the distance, his sinister smile growing ever wider.
"Did you hear that, my men!"
He turned around and roared at the bewildered soldiers behind him.
"That was a gift from the monarch!"
"That reckless brat walked right into the meat grinder!"
"We don't even have to get our hands dirty!"
Haji laughed heartily, his laughter filled with unbridled joy.
The frustration of missing his punch had vanished.
In his view, Lorraine was already a dead man.
He was just a dead man who hadn't quite cooled down yet.
"Pass down the order!"
Haji waved his hand, pointing the axe blade in the direction of the temporary camp.
"Let's set up camp right here!"
"Bring all our big guys over here!"
"Siege beasts, nightmare knights, and those ice behemoths—bring them all over here!"
Since the monarch has spoken for three days.
He'll wait three days.
These three days were just enough time for his heavily armed troops to assemble in the snow.
Three days later.
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Haji licked his chapped lips, the murderous intent in his eyes almost solidifying.
"If that kid is lucky, he won't be killed by those iron lumps."
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"Then I'll personally send him on his way."
"I want him to know that, compared to those mindless machines—"
"It's even worse if it falls into my hands!"