Throne of the North

"Is this the power comparable to that of a sanctuary knight?"

Ryan was shocked. With just one sword, he killed the demon giant.

The crown has returned to Ryan's hand. As the power of this sword fell, the heroic spirit Goncalves also fell into a deep sleep. This is what the Amethyst Master said, the artifact has only the last remnant left.

If it weren't for Ryan's deer spirit blessing, the heroic spirit should have dissipated directly after releasing this sword, and the crown would have been broken, and it would have fallen into eternal death with the continent of Exner.

With the death of the demon giant, the cultists also began to flee to the distance in fear, and the Crucible City erupted in a tsunami-like carnival.

"We won!"

Ryan rode a warhorse with his knight attendants walking in the Crucible City. Wherever he passed, all eyes were full of enthusiasm.

Indeed, victory in war can bring trust and respect. Even those serfs will feel that they can live better under such a lord.

In front of everyone, Ryan also announced that he would remove the original slave status of all the soldiers on the city wall and turn them into freemen.

Such a decision was not entirely for the purpose of enhancing his own prestige, but more for the purpose of bringing these people to the frozen land territory.

Slaves are the wealth of the lord, so they need Ryan to provide them with food every day, but the freemen in the frozen land territory have to find their own way to eat.

Not working hard? If you don't work hard, you can't even eat, and you live worse than serfs.

But the slaves in the Furnace City at this moment don't know. They are surprised by the arrival of this change and shout for the kindness of the noble master.

In the next day, Ryan sent soldiers out of the city to investigate the traces of the cultists. It was not until he knew that the cultists had indeed escaped that he placed the plane gate in the center of the Furnace City.

It's not that he didn't think about avoiding this war before, but after considering it, he found it impossible.

The plane gate is so big. The Furnace City has a population of nearly 20,000 people. It takes a long time to pass through the plane gate.

During this time, once the group of demons' followers rushed into the city, it would definitely lead to an extremely chaotic situation.

And once the plane gate appeared, the Furnace City would definitely not be able to keep the abyss monsters out of the city.

With a retreat, everything would be different.

In addition, Ryan still needed to plunder the entire Furnace City. He needed wealth. There has never been a moment when he needed wealth more than now.

Because the population of the Furnace City was too large, the population of 20,000 people appeared in the frozen land. It was not only a problem of chaos in all aspects, but more importantly, it was the scarcity of food.

The food from the Imperial Chamber of Commerce has arrived, but how long can those foods last?

Ryan needs wealth, a lot of gold coins and things that the southern nobles like, to trade for enough food.

Without food, he can't feed so many people, without food, he can't support more troops, and without troops, he can't open up more territory.

It can only be said that the frozen land has ushered in the first population crisis.

But it is not impossible for Ryan to give up these 20,000 people.

Ryan stood at the ruins of the Mage Academy. The air here was no longer warm, but a chilling cold. The artifact disappeared, and the furnace completely lost its last temperature. In just a few hours, the temperature of the Furnace City was as bleak as the autumn wind.

Such a temperature difference caused many old people in the Furnace City to pass away. They could not bear such cold.

Ryan, who knew the result, could only let the people of the Furnace City cross the space portal in batches to the Frozen Territory.

"Let some soldiers who participated in the Furnace City Defense War go to the Frozen Territory first."

After the order was given, the Furnace City also calmed down in the short bustle. Many slaves and civilians were desperate, thinking that Ryan had given up on themselves, and stayed at home wrapped in clothes to welcome death with the Furnace City.

The north wind blew, and it snowed in the Furnace City in the morning of another day.

"This is the first snowfall in the Furnace City in a hundred years."

Behind Ryan stood some former nobles, who looked at Ryan's back with awe and changes in their identity.

Before the space portal came out, they still had the glory and pride of the nobles, but when the plane door that the Furnace City had not touched for hundreds of years was easily released by Ryan, all their dignity disappeared.

At this moment, they looked at the flying snow in the Furnace City, and their eyes did not have the aesthetic sense of this quiet snow city, but fear and despair.

In the more than a hundred years of the continent of Exner, no story would praise winter.

Everyone knew that in the cold northern border, there was only endless cold and insatiable hunger, and even wild animals could not survive in the winter.

Ryan closed the plane door, not only making the civilians and slaves who could not see anything at the bottom feel desperate, but also the descendants of the nobles from the noble families were also uneasy.

The Crucible City has gradually entered the same cold winter as the North. If they cannot leave with Ryan, they will eventually die in a cold night.

"Death and cold will fill this city, but before it dies completely, there is still soil that can be planted here."

"Although most of the soil has been dug up and taken away, the remaining land still needs to be used, especially near the Mage Academy, where the soil is still fertile."

Ryan turned his head and looked at those who chose to follow the noble council to the battlefield, and said:

"I want you to stay here for a while, at least until this winter, to plant the land here, I need a lot of food."

"I have already told you about the birth of the Lordship system. When you go to my territory this winter, I will give you three places, three Lordship places, and I can let you walk through the plane gate with at least 500 gold coins of wealth."

"This is my kindness, and it is also an answer you cannot choose."

Ryan's words made many of the people in front of him clench their fists, but as Ryan said, they had no choice.

Stay here, a dead end, no one thinks they can survive this winter.

And once they decide to become Ryan's people, they have no right to choose.

After Ryan finished speaking, he turned around again and looked at the Furnace City covered with snow. Without the heat from the underground furnace, even the exhaled air seemed to be condensing into frost.