Simulate the heavens from Faerûn

Chapter 175 Passing Fire and the Anointed 【Subscription】

The sky is clear and blue, spotless. A pale golden setting sun hangs in the sky, and little lights and shadows shine in the sky.

"Huhuhu..."

The fierce cold wind roared across the endless snowfield, unbridled and powerful. The goose-feather snow tilted towards the snowfield under the strong wind, as if it was going to turn the whole world into a vast white snow world.

In this harsh environment, there is a black line slowly moving in the strong wind and heavy snow, slowly but firmly.

Looking closer, it turned out to be a human convoy, filled with carriages pulled by cows in the snowy wilderness.

Some of the oxcart carriages are large, roofless boxes filled with dark black ore. They are now covered by thick snow and can only be seen through the corners bumped by the heavy snow.

However, there are still more carriages with roofs and windows, but now the windows are tightly closed, and only human figures can be seen from the light and shadow revealed in them.

Pavel Blanchard was sitting in the carriage, looking at the brazier that was flickering on and off. He used iron pliers to pick out a small black square ore mixed with golden lines from the cloth bag he carried with him, and put it into the brazier. In an instant, The car became a little brighter, and the temperature also rose a little.

Pavel teased Aunt Gianna's son Shawkat for a while, poked Shawkat who was wrapped into a small ball, and said with a smile: "Shaukat, are you bored in the carriage? Do you want to go outside and take a look? ?”

Shaukat glanced at the window and listened to the howling cold wind coming from it. He shrank his neck, shook his head, ran and threw himself into Aunt Jaina's arms and said, "I won't go, it could freeze to death." …”

Pavel smiled and said: "Shaukat, we are people who have lived in the hoarfrost, how can we be afraid of the cold..."

"Don't go..."

Pavel shook his head slightly, stood up, and said to Aunt Gianna: "Aunt Gianna, I'm going out to see my dad..."

"Well... Pavel, go ahead. It's quite cold outside. I don't know if Jeremy can bear it after walking for so long... Thank you for your hard work. Bring him another bottle of wine... But Don't let him get drunk..."

"Um...Okay, Aunt Gianna..."

Pavel took out a jug of wine from the pile of items in the carriage, opened the carriage door, and saw a man under the eaves, illuminated by small glass lights, leaning against the carriage with a long sword in his arms. Covered with a thin layer of snow, his head was lowered, as if he was dozing off.

"dad……"

"Well...it's Pavel..."

Jeremy heard a strange noise and opened his eyes with excitement. He held his hand on the hilt of his sword and looked around cautiously. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that it was his son Pavel. He murmured to his son and saw the wine in his hand. , his eyes lit up, he quickly stretched out his hand, and the snow on his body was shaken off.

Pavel quickly handed over the wine.

Jeremy took the wine jug that was still warm, opened the spout, and took a big sip with his head raised.

A hot burning sensation spread from the mouth along the esophagus to the stomach. Suddenly, I felt a burning sensation, and my whole body felt comfortable, as if even the coldness I had experienced along the way had been removed.

Jeremy burped with satisfaction and stuffed the wine bottle into the chest of his fur coat. He touched his red nose and waved to his son Pavel, motioning for him to sit over.

Pavel sat down next to his father and looked at his weathered father, who was full of vicissitudes of life. He couldn't help but burst into tears because he knew that most of the reasons why his father became like this were to provide him with a better environment. and conditions.

The father and son leaned together and talked under the light of the small lamp.

"Pavel, this time we returned to Pat City, and we settled there... Then, I will find a familiar classmate to train you well. When the time comes, you will definitely stand out when you participate in the selection, Blanchard Family The future lies with you..."

When Pavel heard this, looking at his father's old appearance, his Adam's apple moved, but he still said:
"Dad, I will, I will definitely carry forward the Blanchard family. When the time comes, I will give birth to two sons, no, three sons, and let you train them well..."

"But, Dad, do we have to leave Heiqi Village and go to Pat City? Isn't Heiqi Village very good? That Pat City, I don't even know what it is like..."

Jeremy turned his head and looked at Pavel, the son who was born in Heiqi Village and has been living in Heiqi Village. He has never been to Pat City. His eyes couldn't help but feel a little moist. He reached out and touched Pavel's head. said:
"Pavel, I know you are reluctant to let go of Heiqi Village and the home where you grew up. However, you have to know that the black stones in Heiqi Village were mined a week ago. This week, the remaining scattered black stones in the mine were also removed. The collection is finished..."

"People in the village are reluctant to leave Blackstone Village, but you know what Blackstone means to the village... We must leave and return to the main city of Pat City..."

"The Lord of the City has made arrangements for us heroes. He will not treat us badly. You have to believe that everything in Pat City is better than that in Heiqi Village... Think about when I left Pat City..."

Pavel looked at his father who was lost in memories and didn't know how many times he told him about his life in Pat City. He fell silent. He didn't speak, but listened carefully to his father's story, because no matter how many times he heard the story from his father's mouth, he fell into silence. , Pavel felt novel, as if he was listening to a fantasy story, and he was yearning for it.

For as long as Pavel can remember, through the teachings of the village church and chatting with everyone, he has known that he lives in a world shrouded in the cold of hoarfrost. The diffuse hoarfrost is eroding the entire world, and there are countless monsters wandering in it.

And the only thing that protects mankind is the great god - the Eternal Sun.

He drives away monsters with the radiance of the sun during the day, suppresses the erosion of hoarfrost, and bestows flames on living beings to continue the hope of survival and struggle.

Because the brilliance of the sun during the day is relatively smaller, weaker, or more ignored by people. After all, this is a common and normal state, so people are relatively more mindful of the flames given by the great gods.

People call it the Guardian Fire, or the Fire of Light, the Fire of Life, the Fire of Hope, the Eternal Fire, and use it to build human settlements to survive in this apocalyptic frost hell.

The settlement is completely dependent on the power of fire, the stronger the fire, the bigger the settlement.

The most powerful protective fire is the Holy Fire of the Royal City, which is also their largest settlement. All villages, towns and other settlements are within the scope of its power radiation and exist around it. What is worse than the Royal City is the main city. That is, the capital and main population center of a place.

And the Heiqi Village where Pavel lives is such a settlement, which regards the mining of black stones in Pat City as its mission and livelihood.

Now that the black stone mines in Heiqi Village have been mined, the tasks assigned to Heiqi Village by the main city have been successfully completed. For the sake of personnel safety and saving materials, the people of Hei Qi Village were ordered to move back to the main city.

And Jeremy is from Pat City. He has been a Pat City person since before the white frost came. In other words, this is the case for the older people in Heiqi Village.

And according to Jeremy's story, Pavel knew that Jeremy was not only originally from Pat City, but also experienced the legendary Divine Celebration.

"At that time, white frost came and the temperature plummeted. I don't know how many people and lives were frozen to death... When I was a child, I often swam naked in the Pablo River next to Pat City, once a year. You can swim in six or seven months, and you can also wear light clothes. At that time, there were many fish, shrimps, water birds, and all kinds of things..."

"It's all gone now. The Pablo River has been frozen into a whole lump of ice. Fish, shrimps, and water birds are all frozen in it. Well~ If you want to see it, when you get to the Pablo River, peel off the ice covering it." Snow, you can see them in the ice, but they are motionless..."

Jeremy said with a nostalgic look on his face, full of sighs and regrets.

"That year, I was only a year or two older than you. Because the hoarfrost came very suddenly, and only the great statue of the Eternal Sun could protect the world, under the leadership of the first Pope Andrea Kramer, , we prayed to the gods and begged for their salvation... Later, the Pope received divine revelation - the Divine Glory Celebration, and held a large-scale prayer ceremony to let the glory of the gods shine on the world..."

"Back then, the Pope was still lobbying the city lords in various cities to let everyone know the news. I also saw him from a distance... He is a loving and great man..."

"The Divine Glory Celebration was a success. I even saw the great Crown of the Eternal Sun. He responded to our prayers, shed light, bestowed divine grace, told us the news of hoar frost, and taught us how to survive the hoar frost. Frost……"

"Soon after, about seven days, the Great Crown sent His messengers to us. They generally call themselves demon hunters. They are said to be brothers from other worlds. They are all believers of the Great Crown, but we generally call them For those who bear the fire.”

"Master Firebearer not only helps us resist the monsters from the wilderness and hoarfrost, but also teaches us to master the power bestowed by the great crown of the Eternal Sun—becoming a Firebearer..."

"Among them is my teacher Miles. He is also the first fire bearer who arrived for the first time. He said that there are five schools of fire bearers due to their different strength characteristics, and he is a member of the Wolf School. Geralt, the master of the Wolf Faction, is my ancestor. I heard that he was very powerful, but unfortunately I have never seen him in person... The teacher stayed here for a long time and taught many students. In the end, he died to protect us..."

"I'm not good anymore. I'm a little short of it. I failed to become a real flame bearer. I'm just a lamp bearer. For the future of mankind and my family, I went to Heiqi Village and stayed there for 15 years... Pavel, you must become A Wolf Faction Firebearer..."

……

pain.

excruciating pain.

Unparalleled severe pain, like a bison pushing its horn into the head and twisting it, tearing apart every nerve.

Pavel was awakened from his drowsiness by pain.

"Ah...why does your head hurt so much?! Well, dad, is he okay?"

Pavel opened his eyes and found himself lying between the carriage and the carcass of the cow in the snowfield. He was pressed tightly by the wreckage of the carriage and he tried to get up.

However, the next moment, he was stunned.

What is creepy is that there are many people lying in random directions on the snowy field. They are motionless and lifeless.

Obviously dead for a long time.

The hair on the back of Pavel's head suddenly exploded.

Pavel forced himself to calm down. As his eyes moved, he discovered that the corpses on the ground were all members of the relocation team from Heiqi Village to Pat City.

In the center of the pile of corpses, he was held tightly by a hand.Its outer layer is a grid surrounded by gray metal, and its inner layer is thick translucent glass, from which a small flame that seems to be extinguished at any time can be vaguely seen.

And the light emitted by this fragile flame illuminates the world within a radius of [-] meters.

Beyond the hundred meters of fire, there was a fierce snowstorm and boundless darkness.

There is no night sky, no stars, no moon, and no sun.

Pavel's mouth opened wide, and he couldn't even breathe. There was only a violent fear in his head.

"This... the whole army was wiped out? Could it be that dad... I'm the only one?"

Pavel felt a strong chill.

While panicking, Pavel suddenly saw meteors streaking across the distant sky.

His mind was touched, and he immediately remembered that this was the rescuer of the main city.

In the impression of his memory, his father once said that hoarfrost is vast and the snowfield is endless. The main city is their only refuge. Only this small area has the existence of life and order. The boundless darkness Zhongquan are all irrational monsters.

There is a type of people in the main city called Fire Bearers. They are combatants who have mastered the power of fire or light. They are the only weapons that protect the main city against monsters and hoarfrost. They are also the regret that my father has always been thinking about. and expectations for him.

The area where ordinary people can move is the area that the power of the main city can reach.

And here, it is within the power radiation range of the main city, and it is very close to the main city, so close that it only takes less than half an hour's drive.

The migration team lost contact here, they must have found something unusual!

"Hey!"

Pavel shouted, hope suddenly rising in his heart.

"I'm here! I'm here!"

Pavel waved wildly, and the meteors in the sky seemed to have noticed this and flew towards here.

"Okay! We're saved!"

At this time, Pavel faintly heard the painful moans and cries coming from around him. It turned out that the wind was too loud just now, covering up other sounds. In addition, he had just woken up and was full of panic, so his brain directly filtered these sounds. sound.

Pavel wanted to see which of his fellow villagers were still alive, and wanted to know about his father Jeremy, but he was lying on the ground now, pressed by a pile of debris, unable to move or do anything.

The meteor fell to the ground and the fire disappeared.

Thirteen rescuers came out.

Most of these 13 people were wearing gray cloaks and holding lanterns in their hands. Their arrival made the air brighter, the sky became wider, the shadows and visions disappeared, and the depressing feeling was greatly weakened.

Headed by a young woman.

He has a handsome face and looks no more than 20 years old. He is wearing a strange black and white robe with an extremely conspicuous Eternal Sun Church logo on the collar.

"Do not be afraid."

She spoke softly, her voice soft and clear, like a lark in the valley.

The companions around the girl dispersed and began to survey and clean up the scene.

The lamps they carried were relatively simple and not as bright as the one in the pile of corpses, but they should be able to illuminate a few meters around them.

"Maybe they rely on this to walk in the wind and snow." Pavel thought to himself.

Two people came to him. A burly white-haired man took out a stone with a slight white light and placed it in front of his eyes. He said coldly: "Speak."

"Ah?" Pavel was confused, "What did you say?"

But the man has put away the stone.

"No trace of corruption."

He seemed to be checking his condition, while the other lady squatted down, throwing aside the wreckage on his body, groping his body with soft little hands, as if checking his body, and said softly:
"Relax, don't be nervous, the guardian is here, everything will be fine."

Pavel was a little at a loss, but fortunately the groping didn't last long. The lady's hands were quick, and in just a moment she had turned him upside down, searching every corner.

She stood up, gently held his arm, lifted him up gently, and said with a smile: "The injury is not serious, just take two steps."

Pavel felt confused. Am I hurt?
Pavel didn't feel anything was wrong except for the headache that had been bothering him since he woke up.

But with her help, he got up, and after taking two steps, Pavel felt pain all over his body, as if he was limping in one leg.

"What's going on? Have I been hurt secretly?"

She smiled and said: "No strenuous exercise. The bone will take three to five days to fully heal."

Pavel agreed dumbly, but suddenly felt a little sad again.

Looking up, everyone at the scene was busy nervously. They quickly collected the items scattered on the ground and touched each corpse with a light golden stone. I don't know if it was an illusion, but Pavel felt that the cold corpses It seemed to have calmed down.

"That's the Purification Stone."

The lady next to him explained it to him empathetically.

"It can purify the hoarfrost corpse curse and help their spirits rest in peace. Please don't be sad, they will return to the embrace of the fire."

Pavel felt trembling in his heart and said nothing. He was very worried about his father's safety.

Because he knew that in this cold world, fire and light were their spiritual totems.

He saw a man walking up to the lamp in the pile of corpses, carefully releasing the corpse's hand from the lamp ring, gently opening the top cover of the lamp, and pouring some pale golden powder into it.

In an instant, the lamp became brighter, and the flame in the lamp stabilized, no longer looking like it was about to go out at any time.

The leader smiled and said, "Great, the fire is not polluted, it's just that there is not enough ashes."

At this time, Pavel used the bright firelight to see clearly the surrounding situation and the fallen people.

"Ah?! Dad!...you...how...oooo"

Pavel saw his father Jeremy not far away, lying motionless on the snow, his body covered in blood, and even his most precious sword fell on the snow...

Pavel's mind went blank for a moment, his heart felt cold, his whole body lost his strength, he fell to the ground, and burst into tears.

His father is gone. The stern but gentle father who devoted most of his life to him. When he can breathe a sigh of relief, enjoy the temporary glory, and when his life is about to be greatly improved, he goes...

Pavel is the only one left...

The lady next to her looked at Pavel who was crying and said:

"Your father has left. As an anointed one, you must be strong. This is what your father wants... Your father has not left. He will watch you and pray for you in the Lord's Kingdom of God... "

She patted Pavel on the back, said no more, and left quietly, leaving space for Pavel.

After all, this is what everyone who survives in Hoarfrost must face...

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