Throne of the North.

Chapter 372: The Place of the Gods, the Last Half Month of Preparation

Baron Ryan's wedding will be held in a month. The news quickly spread throughout the North Wind Province. All the nobles were congratulating him, but also expressing regret, because they had once been matchmakers for Baron Ryan.

Marriages between nobles are the nobles’ favorite banquets to attend. Nobles who enjoy luxury will be even more extravagant on that day, and will also meet many other nobles at such banquets.

In this land, only devout faith, loyalty to the emperor, the death of nobles and the marriage of nobles can attract all nobles to come. Not coming is considered to be impolite, ungentlemanly and lacking good moral values.

Everything else can be shirked, including the coronation of the nobles, except these things.

In fact, these things also have a common core, that is - inheritance.

The piety of faith represents that you and your family serve the great dawn as before. The loyalty of the emperor represents that the land you own is still called the territory granted by Emperor Flor. Needless to say, the death of the nobles, the inheritance of the new and the old is the most obvious. The marriage of the nobles is also not much different, representing the beginning of the further continuation of the bloodline.

What? A bastard? If nobles can admit bastards, can they still be called bastards?
Even the emperor can't do that, and even the gods don't dare to recognize their sons everywhere.

The nobles will all arrive, and the Frozen Territory will be even busier. Even more than 10,000 people who were building cities far away were called back to build the Frozen Territory.

"Hurry up, hurry up! You bunch of damned peasants, the road from Xijiao Mountain to Lingdu City must be repaired, and the width must not be less than two carriages!"

Butler Beard was more serious than ever before. He kept scolding the people who were repairing the road, then handed it over to others and returned to the frozen land territory to oversee more work.

"The distance between these ginkgo trees should not be less than three meters and not more than five meters. Be careful. Do you see these golden leaves? They are the illumination of the gods. They are more precious than your blood."

“Even in winter, they never wither!”

The golden leaves of the ginkgo trees dot the snow-white frozen land, making the land glow with golden brilliance.

In the streets and alleys of the frozen land territory, there was not a single snowflake on the houses, and even the gutters were constantly being cleaned.

"The frozen land must be extremely clean to welcome its mistress. From now on, all of you must go barefoot when you go up to Rhino Horn Mountain. I want to see that there is no mud on your feet!"

"Those trees and flowers planted on Rhino Horn Mountain, covering the soil with fallen leaves, you have to understand that they have always been growing here, and they sprouted because of Baron Ryan's arrival."

Bild's voice was loud in the Frozen Territory. On the roads within the territory, the knights were shaking their metal armor on their tall northern war horses, heading towards the snowy world in the north. They had to clear out the orcs in the north and not let them get too close to the Rhino Horn Mountain.

One month is a bit too short for the nobles, but fortunately Ryan's frozen land territory has a large population, which can alleviate this part of the pressure.

Ryan's mind also became nervous, and he spent more time in the Frozen Territory than in the Other World, but as luck would have it, the scout he sent to the north of the Other World came back.

"We found... a living relic."

Living relics? Ryan frowned and listened to the scout's next description.

"There are tens of thousands of hounds occupying that place. The wind and snow are rolling up into the sky, turning into a tornado that connects the sky and the ground of the ruins. We can't get in at all, but those hounds can actually come and go freely."

This is why the scouts said the ruins were alive, and they had a terrible guess on their way back.

"We may have found the spirit of the hound."

Ryan wanted to kill the creature that killed the hound, so the first thing he had to do was to find the other party. Unexpectedly, the place where the god was was found so quickly by accident?
"Take your men and set up camp there immediately. Don't get too close. Just keep an eye on the movements of the gods."

Ryan ordered that he needed to ensure that the gods were always there until he had all the means ready.

However, the scout was a little hesitant.

"Lord Ryan, when we came back, those hounds were chasing us. Maybe, maybe they have alarmed the gods."

Mortals can observe the location of gods up close, so how can gods not sense it?

Ryan went to the city of Scala, where there were more people. Many of them were kneeling on the ground, prostrating themselves in fear towards the direction of the arena.

"The gods are punishing us. They have sent their warriors!"

"It's over. It's over. We will be angry for betraying Him. He will kill us all."

Ryan arrested some people and interrogated them, only to find out that some villagers outside the city had fled into the city and were attacked by hounds. The hounds, which were originally gentle to them, suddenly became violent, and their strength and speed doubled.

Caught off guard, many people died.

This result made Ryan look gloomy. Those who died were his own people, especially those who had not provided Ryan with spiritual wealth.

Death can never provide anything.

You know, only an ordinary human can provide a tiny bit of spirituality to Master Ryan. He originally had little spirituality, and now he has completely lost it.

Ryan was heartbroken, so he transferred all the Bucks Legion to the other world and let the Violent War Bear Legion continue to clear the northern foothills of the Frozen Territory.

"Kill those hounds wherever they come from."

Ryan gave the order, and the rumbling of iron hooves rushed in all directions. The hounds could deal with ordinary people like Gam who didn't dare to resist at all, but facing the powerful northern war horses and knights, the power given to them by the gods could not prevent them from causing any casualties to the Buck Legion.

Ryan also found Fenrir's people. In this world, not everyone is beyond his command.

Fenrir's people, who were defeated on the battlefield and surrendered under the order of the Wolf King, brought all their spirituality to Llane at the beginning.

"Use your method to summon the wolves on the snow and let them kill the hounds. I think the wolves are better at hunting these enemies that have existed for hundreds of years than humans."

Ryan knew that every night, the people of Gam would open the cages and let the hounds go out to hunt for food.

The food they hunt is wolves, because only wolves can travel at night on the snow.

Just like the people of Garm and Fenrir, they can be considered as a feud.

As Ryan's order came down, thousands of hounds were killed, and the remaining hounds disappeared in the wind and snow. They bared their teeth and gathered together in the ice and snow.

Outside the Tyrael Forest, sensing the cavalry's retreat, hounds emerged from the crevices of the mossy stones, their pointed ears erected, and with low growls, more and more hounds appeared at the edge of the forest.

At that moment, the wild beasts in the forest stopped roaring and huddled in their dens, shivering. The hunting dogs shuttled lightly through the forest, heading towards the city deep in the forest.

The city gates were not closed, and the hounds rushed in. The people of Gam looked at the hounds who were staring at them indifferently with great fear.

Seeing the hounds coming, the people of Gam knelt on the ground, and did not dare to resist even when the hounds began to kill indiscriminately.

"We beg the gods to forgive our mistakes."

……

When Ryan arrived outside the Tyrael Forest City, the city gates were closed. He could smell blood in the air, but the smell did not attract any beasts in the forest.

Ryan didn't say anything. He rode on his warhorse, stretched out his hand, and a lance fell into his hand.

Ryan raised the lance over his shoulder. The whistling of flames was like the roar of a dragon. The next moment, the lance pierced through and pierced into the city gate carrying flames.

He continued to stretch out his hand, and the soldier behind him handed him the lance again.

No nonsense, the terrifying force and terrible speed made the lance fall on the wooden gate again.

One after another, Ryan was silent throughout the whole process, constantly bombarding the city gate with his lances. The hard stones were shattered in front of his power. After hundreds of lances pierced through, the city gate finally cracked open.

Boom boom! ! !

The thick wooden door fragments shattered on the ground, revealing the situation inside. The hounds and the humans of Tyrael Forest City formed an army. "It seems that you have chosen your side again."

The hounds roared, and thousands of hounds and humans rushed out from the broken city gate. The hounds rushed towards the Stag Legion madly, and their sharp fangs and claws were their only weapons.

"Kill them all!"

Ryan drew out the knight's sword and led the legion to charge without hesitation. In front of two thousand cavalrymen, both hounds and humans were dying continuously. They paved a path, which was the road trampled by the cavalry's charge.

On one side was the belief in gods with no way out, and on the other side were the massacres in this war. After a whole day, the war ended in tragedy. The last hound and the last human were also killed. Outside this forest city, Ryan stood on a pool of blood and among the corpses.

He made sure not a single hound survived, and not a single human breathed.

Slowly walking towards the Tyrael Forest City, this city is even more tragic than the outside, even bloody.

Countless Gam people who did not resist were killed by hounds, their flesh and blood were bitten and torn. He came to the outside of the arena, and finally, Ryan walked in for the first time.

There were tens of thousands of bodies outside the city and more than 20,000 bodies inside the city. More than 30,000 people died in one day.

Wars involving gods are a death-defying affair.

More than a hundred years ago, countless lives died in the pan-dimensional war between gods. Perhaps the answer is found at this moment.

At this moment, he felt endless malice. The blood that filled the air gathered into a ferocious hound that roared at him, wanting to devour his soul, but he was unable to do so.

Ryan ignored the clamor of the hound spirit and kicked open the wooden planks covering the mine in the arena.

Gradually, the survivors crawled out. They hid here when the chaos came. No matter whether they were strong or weak, they did not dare to face all the living things that appeared in the city.

"The gods want to kill you, and you dare not resist, but I am different."

"If He wants to kill me."

Ryan turned around and swung the sword in his hand, and the flaming sword energy tore through the bloody hound above the arena.

"——I will find a way to kill Him first."

Everyone looked at Ryan in fear. They were not afraid of Ryan's words, but an extreme fear. They were so scared that they couldn't even open their eyes or make a sound.

Ryan turned and left after saying this. At this moment, his spiritual balance actually began to grow.

All the people of Gam were moved into the city of Skala. The silver mines did not need to be mined for the time being, and they just stayed in the city to mine gold.

Outside the city, Ryan led the cavalry corps on patrol, galloping across the snow, looking for any remaining hounds.

Three days later, Ryan returned to the Frozen Territory and put the plan to suspend population migration on hold.

"Originally, we were planning to use the city construction to relocate the people of Gam, and then focus on dealing with the hound spirits. But now we won't do that for now."

Ryan wrote a letter to purchase weapons to kill gods, but he did not expect that the weapon of mass destruction would be Earl Clayton himself. Although it was unclear what means were used, it seemed that it was too late to relocate the population at the moment.

Moreover, the wedding day is coming soon, and the troubles caused by the migration of 100,000 people cannot be solved in a month.

In the next half month, the entire frozen land was completely renovated. Even the fences of the goat shed, pig shed and deer shed were new. Although the town at the foot of the huge Rhino Horn Mountain had no city walls, when viewed from a high vantage point, the entire town had a strong atmosphere of prosperity, with countless horse-drawn and ox-drawn carts shuttling through it.

In the other world, the hounds were not completely cleared out. Ryan didn't understand why there were so many hounds all of a sudden. Where did they come from? It couldn't be that the gods had molded them out of their own flesh and blood. What did they eat in the ice and snow? Were there so many prey for them to hunt?

There is no other way. The Stag Legion can only keep clearing out the hounds from this alien world. Otherwise, the people of Gam will not have the courage to resist them. The will of the gods can easily kill those humans who have served the hounds for many years.

Wolfskin Ulf was brought to Ryan. He had been to the Frozen Territory, but was brought back to stabilize the people of Skala.

"The spirit behind the hound is angry, but even so angry, he can only command the hound to attack me. How much original power do you think the spirit that gave you power has left?"

Ryan asked, but Ulf didn't dare to answer the question and stood there in silence.

Ryan held the hilt of the knight's sword in his hand, and finally did not force this guy. After witnessing the extraordinary world for a few years, he already knew the influence and dominance of the belief in gods on mortals.

If we really talk about power, the power of the gods exceeds that of the Emperor of the Flor Empire by far.

"I'll give you half a month. You can choose another answer after half a month. But during this half a month, there can't be any chaos among the 100,000 people in Scala City. I don't want anyone to collude with the hounds outside to open the city gates."

"Fenrir's people will guard the gate. They are your enemies, and you know that well."

Ryan stood up and left, but stopped at the door and turned around and smiled.

"Oh, even if you lead people to attack the city gate, you probably won't be able to capture it."

Wolfskin Ulf took a deep breath and was a little angry, but Ryan was right. The blessed people of Fenrir became stronger, and their fighting power crushed the people of Gam. Even he could not deal with dozens of people at the same time.

What's more, he no longer has the wolf skin and can't turn into a beast.

And those people of Fenrir were even more trusted by Llane, and they guarded all the granaries, city gates and walls.

"You don't have to be so anxious. In half a month, I will give you a result that will save you from hesitation."

Ryan walked outside, and Wolfe could only see the sunset glow shining on him, with his back casting a long, narrow shadow on the ground.

He was shocked.

"Half a month?!"

He guessed what Ryan wanted to do, but why would it happen so quickly, in just half a month? At the same time, he was extremely conflicted and panicked.

Make a choice in half a month? No, this half a month is probably the time for him to make a choice.

But Ulf couldn't help thinking about what Ryan had just said.

What if... he really succeeded?

Wulf became angry and wanted to lead the 100,000 Gam people of Skala to launch a final counterattack. Even if the final result was death, they would fight for the great gods.

Wolfe's eyes became as deep as a wolf's, and at this moment, Ryan's last voice fell.

"If you really need a belief to identify your goals and beliefs, then believe in me."

"What the gods can give you, I can also give you. What the gods cannot give you, I can still give you."

Ryan's words made Wolfe freeze in place, his tall body seemed to have lost all his confidence at that moment.

Ryan blessed him, and terrible power surged in his body. His flesh and bones were trembling. He was hungry.

There is only half a month left. It is said that the teams of Earl Clayton and Viscount Melendez are already on the way. It is no small matter for a great noble to travel in person in the empire. Earl Clayton's actions attracted the attention of many people in the empire.

Ryan also had to stabilize the people of Gam for half a month, because Ryan conquered their land through military war, but this conquest has not yet turned into loyalty. The rule brought by the war requires strong military combat power to maintain this rule, so he had to give Ulf some eye drops. As long as he, the son of the doomsday, does not cause trouble, there will be no overall unrest in the city of Skala.

And half a month later, things did come to a conclusion. Either Ryan and Earl Clayton, who came here under the pretext of his offspring and marriage but actually wanted to deal with the gods, were defeated by the gods, or they succeeded in killing the gods and devouring their divine essence.

(End of this chapter)