Chapter 142: Legend of the Frost Giant
The beast king is a unique existence. Perhaps its combat power is not stronger than that of ordinary fantasy beasts, but being able to command ordinary beasts of the same species is indeed a huge advantage.
The black-waisted snake king, pangolin king, and giant horned deer king of the Youguang Valley all have extraordinary value and provide population resources for the territory.
Russell's red-eyed rat king is also a beast king, but he has just developed his potential.
But even if his potential has just been developed, you can feel its extraordinaryness.
The reason is simple. Since Russell subdued the red-eyed rat king, the black-waisted snake manor in the territory has never had a rat infestation. The rats no longer steal food or destroy furniture, but look for food in the wild or go to the "supply point" to eat.
In each village, Russell has people set up supply points to feed food at regular times and points to strengthen the rat group.
The treasure hunting rat team and the sentinel rat team are under construction.
However, if you want to really take shape, you may have to wait until you have contracted the red-eyed rat king and can communicate more clearly before you can do it.
The team paused for a while at the Gale Manor.
Grandmother Ingrid prepared a gift for her son and his family to take to Merlin Yujiuhua.
"I'm old, so I won't go to Bluebird Castle to visit the old earl this year." Old lady Ingrid said naggingly, "Let the little ghost fires send birthday wishes to the old earl on behalf of my grandmother, and wish him to live to 195 years old!"
The founding monarch of the Grand Duchy of Shadow Flame, the dragon knight Quentin Shadow Flame, lived to be 195 years old, which is the longevity record of the entire country.
So wishing others to live to 195 years old is a very auspicious saying.
"Grandmother, we will definitely send your blessings to grandpa." The eldest brother Roland waved his hand and did not stay any longer.
After bidding farewell to old lady Ingrid, the team continued to head north into the Red Bat Cave, and passed through the Red Bat Cave and entered the ice and snow.
This time there was no overwhelming knight group, only a small team of knights guarding four carriages.
Slowly moving forward along the ice and snow Great Wall.
They arrived at the first cold spring point smoothly, and after a short rest, they continued to move towards the second cold spring point. By the time it got dark, they had already reached the third cold spring point, and their speed of movement was much faster than the Knights' clearing of snow ghosts.
They camped in the cold spring point at night.
The servants wrapped themselves in thick clothes and were busy making dinner.
Baron Roman accompanied Mrs. Meryl, who was wrapped in a fur coat, and quietly walked to the top of the patio of the cold spring point to enjoy the night view on the snowfield.
Russell was originally planning to take a rest, but Lola came over: "Father and mother are going to see the stars, Russell, shall we go too?"
"Where is my eldest brother?"
"Roland went on patrol."
"Okay, I'll take you to see the stars." Russell smiled and rubbed Lola's hair, messing up Lola's hair that she had finally combed.
"Hateful Russell!"
"Do you want me to accompany you to see the stars?"
"Huh... Russell, no, brother." Lola learned to change her face. Before, she always called her brothers and sisters by their names, but now she has learned to call them brother.
"Let's go!" Russell pulled Lola out of the cold spring.
In fact, the night sky of the snowfield has no attraction to him at all. When clearing the business road, he participated in the night watch and was tired of watching the stars.
But now, accompanying his sister to watch the stars, it is another mood.
There are also sunny and cloudy days in the snowfield. Although the wind and snow are still howling on sunny days, the sun is very bright. At night, the stars are also bright, and you can see the endless and dense stars on the entire sky.
"There are so many stars. I always thought that the snowfield was cloudy and I couldn't see the stars." Lola exclaimed.
"The wind and snow in the snowfield are the power of the snow demon from another world." Russell explained softly, "In fact, the snowfield also has spring, summer, autumn and winter."
"Spring, summer, autumn and winter?"
"Spring, summer, autumn and winter are the four seasons. In ancient times, when the snow demon did not invade our Longmian Continent, there were four seasons..."
Most of the history of Longmian Continent has been buried under thick ice and snow. The invasion of the snow demon caused a world-destroying natural disaster. Humans survived for thousands of years in the disaster, and almost all the brilliant civilizations were lost.
It was not until the dragon awakened that humans rose again and created the current civilization.
However, the opposing ecology of ice and fire is completely different from the change of seasons in ancient times, and the warm season and ice age come alternately.
Basically, more than half of the year belongs to the warm season, which will last for about six to ten months. Then it will enter a shorter ice age, which may only last for two months or six months, which is not fixed.
Among them, the hottest two months of the warm season still retain the name of "summer" in ancient times, called the hot summer season.
The other spring, autumn and winter have been lost in the long river of time. Only some words that have continued to this day may still contain the colors of spring, autumn and winter.
Children like Lola no longer understand the meaning of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Even most ordinary farmers do not know the existence of spring, summer, autumn and winter. In their concept, there is only the alternation of ice age and warm season.
"Spring, summer, autumn and winter are formed by the sun providing us with power... But the power of the snow demon is too strong, and the sunlight cannot penetrate the snowfield, so there is a snowstorm that has been frozen for tens of thousands of years and keeps howling... Only a dragon can break the ice of the snow demon."
"So that's how it is!" Laura understood, "But why did the snow demon invade Longmian Continent?"
"That, I have to ask the snow giant later."
"Snow giants may not know that, but we humans have killed many snow giants, and we still don't understand where they come from." The eldest brother Roland came over at some point and threw a warm piece to Russell and Laura each. Roasted sweet potato.
"Hurry up and eat it while it's hot...I'm telling you, the Snow Giant is not enough to see." Roland stopped patrolling.
He squatted next to the two of them, gnawing on roasted sweet potatoes, and said: "If you really want to know where the Snow Demon comes from, you have to capture the legendary Frost Giant!"
"Frost giant, what is that?" Laura opened her eyes wide.
Russell also pricked up his ears. There were very few records about frost giants. He had only seen them in some knight novels, but the descriptions were vague.
Roland said with a smile: "The frost giant is the true source of the snow demons. The entire Longmian Continent was frozen because of the hands of this frost giant. The frost that shook off its body turned into those snow demons, and the ice it spit out His saliva turned into a snow giant."
"It sounds no different from what was described in knight novels." Russell was a little disappointed with Roland's story.
Roland shrugged his shoulders: "Not many people have even seen the Snow Giant... Only Lord Etrus in our Netherworld Valley has actually seen the Snow Giant... Well, to be precise, he has seen only one of the Snow Giants. Only feet."
That day, Ethras was fighting in the windy and snow-colored world. The Shadow Flame Dragon fought with the Snow Giant in the distance, and the shadow could not be seen clearly.
When Ethras saw clearly, a big foot dropped from the sky and shattered the earth, and then Ethras fainted.
If Earl Merlin hadn't saved him when he led the remnants of the Knights to retreat, Utteras might have froze to death on the snowy field.
Russell tried to dig out more: "Brother, do you know anything else about the legend of the Frost Giant?"
Roland spread his hands: "No, that's all I know. I'm not a scholar who studies the occult."
"Tch, it's boring." Russell yawned, stood up and prepared to go back to the cold spring point, "Let's go, Laura, go back to bed..."