Chapter 806: Chapter 681: The Leader

Xu Shuo didn’t eat a single bite of the last batch of roasted meat.

The Duke of Silver ate the majority, Zuo Fang stealthily ate a small portion, completely forgetting to earn Dedication Values from the Holy Court. After finishing the meal, everyone clapped their hands and prepared to take action.

“I have sent people to closely monitor that White-robed Bishop, let’s head to the Far North Mountain Range first, where the situation is more severe.”

The tone of the Duke of Silver brooked no argument.

Everyone was now within his Silver Castle, so even if there were objections, it probably wasn’t the time to raise them and forcefully implement changes.

Unless everyone decided to forget everything and start fighting on the spot, listening to whoever wins.

But there was no need for that.

The Duke of Silver had already arranged the horses, and Zuo Fang, who arrived later, didn’t even need to change his clothes, bringing the wetness of the snow with him as they left once again.

One of the advantages of the Silver Castle being close to the city wall was that people didn’t need too much cover, simply leaving from the castle’s side gate, riding into the night towards the distant Far North Mountain Range.

Although the mountain range seemed not far, from the City-State to the Far North Mountain Range, it was actually a journey of several tens of kilometers.

However, on the way, there were no forests or cliffs, just occasionally some crisscrossing hills and low bushes, the rest being ice plains and frozen soil.

Snowflakes whirled, and three figures seemed to be submerged in a vast expanse of cloud-like snow.

“There used to be quite a few forests here, but in order to observe the movements of the Magical Beasts of the Far North Mountain Range more conveniently, they were cleared, and afterward, they just stopped growing altogether,”

The Duke of Silver mentioned offhand when they passed through a dense bush.

Be it chopped off as soon as it appears, or cut halfway through growth, not even leeks could withstand such cutting.

In this harsh environment of icy lands and snowfields, it was already difficult to grow, so after being cut down hundreds of times, that forest simply ceased growing, with only some resilient bushes still bravely sprouting.

But the plants here were not green.

Their colors were monotonous, a dull, lusterless grey.

The branches of these plants were as hard as steel, even the leaves that grew were embedded with ice crystals, capable of slicing open human skin with a bit of force.

There was no sense of charm at all, making the already dead-silent ice plains seem even more desolate.

Xu Shuo turned his head to look around.

On the snow, there were many pits and holes of various sizes, some apparently from hail, while others, from the footprints, were clearly from some large species.

Over hundreds of years, this place has suffered numerous incursions; in fact, building a great wall here might have some use.

But the resources of the Silver City-State were not sufficient for them to create such a defensive ring for themselves, and the Varo Royal Family was also not keen on dedicating manpower and resources for this.

Normally, it was defensible after all.

So why bother with the effort?

Completely unnecessary!

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After spending almost half an hour,

Everyone finally arrived at a corner of the Far North Mountain Range, at the foot of Aige Peak.

The swirling snow and misty fog intertwined, making it hard to discern the peak from the sky, unclear where exactly the summit was, and even more unclear where the end of this mountain range lay.

Bright moonlight poured down, only revealing a cold, chilly expanse of pure white snow.

This foothill had a garrison of the Silver Shield Legion.

Since the three of them might want to discuss some secrets outside of this world, the Duke of Silver did not let others follow, instead leading the two of them up the mountain himself.

The terrain here was complex, but it was not difficult for the three players to traverse.

Soon, they reached the peak of the mountain.

Looking from the peak, in the distance was a vast canyon filled densely with dark moving masses, huddled together exuding bursts of icy blood qi.

However, the darkness was not because those things were black, but because there were so many of them that they formed a deep color.

In this boundless icy landscape, that area was particularly prominent, unable to be concealed even by the night.

Duke of Silver calmly stated, “This is what I wanted to bring you here to see. It has appeared since the night of the battle.”

The densely packed things in the canyon.

All of them are Magical Beasts!

There’s no need to count them; just by looking at how they fill the entire Aige Peak Canyon, one can estimate there are no less than hundreds of thousands of Magical Beasts

Moreover, the entire Far North Mountain Range is vast and boundless, and this is just Aige Peak, close to Silver City-State. Perhaps there are even more Magical Beasts lurking in other places!

Zuo Fang clicked his tongue, his fear of crowds triggering, and he rubbed his own arms.

“How many were there that you fought against that night?” he asked.

“Just about two or three thousand, and they seemed to be gathered hastily from the local Magical Beast Race that often wandered nearby. So if it weren’t for that bloodline suppression, we of the Silver Shield could have completely captured that woman,” Duke of Silver frowned as he spoke.

His originally calm and mellow emotions seemed to fluctuate when talking about this matter, showing how much it still bothered him.

A promised fair fight.

Yet that woman resorted to cheating!

When he realized he was suppressed by the bloodline and even mocked face-to-face by the opponent, Duke of Silver felt an uncontrollable rage, and it was this speck of fury that actually made him activate the Character Card.

Good. It seems that the character itself also looks down on this bit of Elf bloodline!

But the side quest is indeed difficult.

—-[Making Silver City-State no longer suffer from Magical Beast attacks.]

Difficult to start, even harder to complete.

Although the character itself had already wanted to leave the Far North, as a legacy guarded generation after generation by his family at Silver City-State, it was impossible for the character to not have any feelings about this.

From the content of the side quest, this affection appears to be extremely profound; even if he wanted to leave, he planned to arrange everything here properly first.

But Duke of Silver felt that unless the Magical Beasts in the Far North Mountain Range were completely eradicated, and perhaps even the Elf Clan extinct, such attacks could never end.

To eradicate one clan for one city?

It does sound very passionate.

But it has to be done.

Although Duke of Silver felt it was impossible, he still arranged for the Silver Shield Legion to delve deep into the Far North Mountain Range for exploration.

And then they discovered these congregated Magical Beasts.

“Not just here, we’ve already found three places in these past few days with a great number of Magical Beasts, and Aige Peak is the closest to Silver City-State. This is why I dare not leave the Far North,” Duke of Silver said slowly.

There are too many eyes on Silver City-State.

People from the Holy Court, people from the Empire, even people from the Elf Clan could be possible.

If he left and soon after Silver City-State was overwhelmed by the Magical Beast Army, the side quest would end before it even started.

It could even affect the ultimate faction quest, where there truly would be nowhere to cry.

Looking at the Magical Beast Army that had overrun the entire canyon in the distance, Xu Shuo pondered for a long time before finally speaking, “So, what do you plan to do?”

Duke of Silver, however, looked at him, “What do you think I should do?”

The man’s silver-white eyes were calm and emotionless, meeting another pair of equally tranquil eyes, with a faint cold qi clashing between them.

Zuo Fang looked at Duke of Silver, then at Xu Shuo.

Although he was not sure what was happening, it seemed like the two were probing each other.

Zuo Fang never felt that Xu Shuo was someone who would proactively follow others’ arrangements and sincerely accept others’ suggestions–this guy never properly listened to what others said.

Nor did Zuo Fang think that the Duke of Silver would just sit by passively; on the contrary, the latter had quite proactive ideas about capturing others.

Both of them had their own ideas.

But if they weren’t planning to each do their own thing, this team definitely needed a leader.

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