In the fifth year of the Elf Calendar, the early December of the first year of the Silver Month. That is when Jones just returned home. At this time, Gray had not issued an ultimatum, but anyone knew that he was going to fight in the Northern Expedition. All countries had already begun to actively prepare for the war.

...

In the territory of Lombak, a barbarian empire in the north of the Celtics continent.

Just after a heavy snow, the whole world was covered with white areas. Trees and houses were all covered with snow.

The crow stood on the branch and shook his head and looked around, occasionally taking off, shaking off the snowflakes all over the ground.

A gust of wind blew, mixed with ice crystals.

Remote border town.

The towering fortress in the middle of the town stands quietly, also covered with snow. It is different from the architectural styles of the south and even the Gustav Empire. The fortress here looks very rough, crooked, not very beautiful, or even very traditional.

Around the fortress are large and low-rise residential buildings that are covered with snow so that they are almost invisible.

The sky has not yet completely cleared up, and the snowflakes are still falling intermittently.

The streets were empty, as if the whole world was frozen, not even half a figure. Oh, not only was there no figure, but there were no footprints. This means that no one had gone out for at least a few hours. If it weren't for the rising smoke from the chimney, it would have been thought that this was an abandoned town.

The weather is very cold, very cold, so cold that a sneeze can cause a piece of ice to fall out, so cold that almost no one wants to move.

...

In a daze, the blood elf Andrew opened his eyes and then slowly closed it.

"Are you awake?" A pleasant voice came.

Andrew's ears trembled slightly.

"Are you okay?" the voice asked again.

Andrew suddenly widened his eyes and woke up. He quickly sat up, shrank to the corner of the bed, and habitually made a spell casting gesture.

The girl who appeared in front of him was a girl with a ponytail, long golden hair, a pair of amber eyes and a delicate face.

Wearing an emerald green headband, with a green gem on the headband. Wearing an emerald green short skirt, with a light armor on the skirt.

Like Andrew, she also has two pointed ears, but that ear is bigger than Andrew's.

At this moment, she was smiling and looking at Andrew: "Don't worry, you're safe."

"I'm...safe?" Beads of sweat as big as beans slowly slid off Andrew's forehead.

"Yes, you're safe." The girl patted her breasts and said, "I've rescued you."

"You saved me?" Andrew was a little confused, and he half-squinted his eyes and began to recall it hard.

"Didn't I save you?"

"I remember...before I fell into a coma, I was fighting a green dragon. Did you defeat the green dragon?"

The girl's expression froze clearly, and she pouted and said, "No, you remembered it wrong."

"I remembered it wrong?"

"Yes. Have you forgotten? You were kidnapped by sinful slave traders, who were about to sell you. And a passing mercenary group happened to find this, so we saved you."

"Mercenary Group?" Andrew became even more confused.

"Don't you remember it? It's okay, many people will lose their memory briefly after being frightened. Just take a break." The girl picked up the warm water placed next to her and handed it to Andrew.

After taking the bowl, Andrew sniffed it with his nose, and after confirming that there was nothing that shouldn't be found inside, he drank it in one sip.

"I'll prepare dinner for you, and you can eat it in a while. The taste may not be appropriate, after all, you are an elf. But it's better to eat something. You've been in a coma for a day." As he said that, the girl stood up and left with a smile.

Only Andrew was left in the room, sitting quietly on the bed.

This is a simple room, or a room that cannot be more simple.

The walls are piled up with earthen bricks, and all the bricks are exposed, without even the traces of painted.

It looks only a dozen square meters in size, an old bed that looks like it has been repaired countless times, a rough table, and two rough chairs. Apart from that, there is nothing.

Oh no, there is also a charcoal pile, right next to the bed, built with bricks.

All the objects in the room exuded the same breath: poor and dirty. Even the blankets covering Andrew's body felt the same. This made the blood elf who was used to being exquisite and elegant.

In fact, there was still something in the room that made Andrew feel comfortable, and that girl was the girl. From the perspective of the elf, the girl's appearance was still very good, and she could even be called beautiful. The key was that her clothes were very decent. However, now she left, so the style in the room was unified immediately.

This is awful.

Of course, Andrew obviously has no time to think about this problem now. He has more important questions to think about.

"I was rescued by the mercenary group? But how do I remember being attacked by the Green Dragon?"

Things have to start half a year ago.

Yes, it is the well-known battle at Xianyu City.

As we all know, Andrew ran away at a critical moment and became the only person who defected in the entire Silver Moon Knights. Unfortunately, Gray won the victory of the almost impossible war.

When he heard the news of Gray's victory, Andrew almost fainted.

Can you understand that feeling?

Just a few years ago, he was the chief wizard of the Mage League. Although he pretended to be a human being, he was a wizard after all, wasn’t he? A wizard with a prominent and noble status. Although due to his identity, he was forced to cooperate with the Holy See and obey the Holy See’s dispatch to help them do some dirty and tiring work. However, it doesn’t matter. After all, the opponents are all weak, so he settled it casually, and his life can be said to be enjoyable.

Later, he took on the damn mission... You know, when you go to the Lion King to deal with Gray. So he fell, not only fell, but also became Gray's servant and a member of the Silver Moon Knights.

He was almost desperate. After all, even an elf could not kill a lich. This means that he could only stay in the Silver Moon Knights for the rest of his life.

You ask him how he feels while staying in the Knights of the Silver Moon?

Well... this is really hard to say. At the beginning, he just wanted to survive first and then find a way later. After a long time, he actually quite agrees with Gray's style. But...

"I think there should be justice in this world, and someone should uphold justice, and someone should punish the evil people. Grey did the right thing. But I hope that when I am a evil person, I can be punished without punishment. You know, people always want to do whatever they want, and the same is true for the blood elves."

Overall, this passage is a true portrayal of his heart.

"I'm happy to applaud justice, but it's better not to have anything to do with me. Especially when the one who does the bad thing is mine."

If he could, he would have wanted to leave the Silver Moon Knights. After all, he is different from others. He is the powerful combat power of the original Silver Moon Knights after Gray, Catherine, and Vivian. Without the constraints of the vows, he could live more comfortably, just like before he joined the Silver Moon Knights.

Later, the opportunity arose, something happened to Gray, his identity was exposed, and he was in danger.

There are two reasons why he didn't go to save Gray. One was that he was afraid of death. The other was that he had wanted to leave long ago. Although even if he didn't want to leave long ago, he would run away because of his cowardice.

In short, things were like this, he ran away. He stayed under Grey for four years, and then on the eve of Grey's real rise, he ran away, giving up his honor and status that was already close to him, and even giving up the opportunity to walk in the human world as a blood elf.

Is there anything worse?

Of course there is. That is, Gray became the Lich King, and he became the number one wanted criminal on the mainland.

Is there anything worse than this?

Gray is powerful, and he must forget his past and leave. After all, contacting anyone he knew before may be betrayed and sent to Gray. Even if he is powerful, the same is true, because the ones who come to capture him will be Catherine, Vivian, and even the Lichs of the Bone Holy Light Church. Anyway, he can't beat anyone.

There was no way, he had to escape.

In fact, this is the case when he had done this before, and he fled his tribe. This is the second time, so he can be said to be familiar with it.

After spreading the map, he quickly selected an escape target in the north. Gray's power was in the south, so he would run north. The Gustav Empire was definitely not good, and the Lombak Empire could be given priority.

"The road is long, so I have to find a way to solve the problems along the way. After all, it is too easy for me to find a way to solve the problem."

Find a helper?

No, Andrew thought of a more amazing way. Disguised as an ordinary blood elf and fell into the hands of the selected slave trader.

Because the elf slave trade is illegal, the slave trader will definitely find a way to transport him to the Lombak Empire without knowing it. In this way, he will not have to think about anything, and naturally someone will help him solve it.

Even because the blood elves are precious, slave traders along the way dare not neglect the food and use of them, let alone abuse. There is nothing at all.

Andrew just needs to use magic to deal with the slave trader after arriving at the right place.

In fact, this is not the first time he has done this. In the past, when he first escaped from the hometown of the blood elf, he often did this. He cheated on food and drink, hid his identity, and even made money if he couldn't do it well. After all, slave traders are quite rich.

The whole plan was going smoothly, and the slave traders tried their best to find all kinds of paths that no one could walk on. Andrew stayed leisurely in the carriage. In a few months, they traveled through most of the continent and finally arrived in the territory of the Lombuck Empire.

The harvest time finally came, and when Andrew had just untied his shackles and was about to rob the slave traders as capital for his new life... they were attacked by a green dragon.

"So, at which point did she save me? Mercenary Group? Why don't I remember the mercenary group? And I don't seem to have seen her before. If I had seen her, I would definitely remember her. After all, she is pretty."

Sitting on the bed, Andrew felt his head hurt a little, probably because he had been unconscious for a day and a night. In my memory, he was hit by the green dragon's tail and then fell into a coma when he was preparing to cast a spell. To be honest, that was really cruel, and Andrew felt that he was lucky.

After thinking for a long time, Andrew didn't think of any reason, so he simply lay on the bed and fell asleep in a drowsy way.

...

The territory of the Lombak Empire can be said to be completely different from the human city-states in the south and even the Gustav Empire in the north. Most of the places here are plains. However, there are many plains, which does not mean wealth, and it is even the opposite.

Most of the so-called plains here are deserts, sands, permafrost... In short, there are very few good places, poor, and cold. The most precious of them are two large grasslands and two rivers.

According to the territory area, the Lombak Empire was a large empire larger than the Gustav Empire. According to the practical area, the Lombak Empire could only be equal to the Isaac Kingdom. Even if it was calculated by population, it was at best a Principal of Bert.

However, if calculated based on combat effectiveness, it is the size of the Gustav Empire. Strictly speaking, the Lombak Empire is much stronger than the Gustav Empire.

Yes, it is such a place. It is powerful and poor. Because of the isolation of the Gustav Empire, its influence on the human world can be said to be minimal. In most cases, when people consider the human kingdom on the mainland, they will even deliberately ignore it. For example, the Holy See has never set up a parish here.

Even the current White Bone Holy Light Holy Church has not extended its power to this place.

Why?
To be continued...