The snow was getting heavier and heavier.
Huge flakes came down in waves, blowing straight into people's faces, covering the sky and the earth.
Because the snow was too thick, the scarecrow could no longer hop around. It could only rely on Nostradamus to turn into a giant stone man, grabbing the scarecrow in its hand while walking.
As for Daji, she had already curled up straight into Ethan's arms, shrinking into a small trembling ball. It was just too cold.
The temperature had dropped way too fast.
When Ethan had just come out of the Land of Treasure, it had only been a few degrees below zero.
But in less than half an hour, he could clearly feel the temperature dropping by a large chunk again. When he sneezed, even his spit would freeze into tiny ice bits in midair before falling down.
No wonder Daji was cold.
Ethan pulled out two self-heating coats. He put one on himself, and the other over that smooth head, oh no, that head that still had one strand of hair left. Instantly, he felt the whole world warm up.
Daji stretched lazily in his arms, hugged him tight, and fell asleep again.
His body had finally warmed up. But after walking for a while, Ethan noticed that the hand holding the reins had turned purple from the cold.
Even with gloves on, it was useless. His hand was already stiff and completely unresponsive. He could even feel that almost every ten minutes or so, the temperature would drop another one or two degrees.
If this freezing kept up, he might have to amputate.
This weather was ridiculously cold.
Luckily, Ethan remembered that he had learned the blueprint for self-heating clothes before.
Sure enough, he quickly found it in the magic book.
[Self-Heating Gloves: After putting them on, you'll know just how important a pair of cold-resistant gloves is in winter. These gloves are quite durable. Not only can you chop firewood freely without wearing them out, you can even use them for farming without your skin peeling. Crafting Requirements: Advanced Beast Hide 2008/1, Hemp Thread 482/2 (Water Ghost Azure Silk 4106/2), Fire-Attribute Beast Core 127/2]
[Self-Heating Insoles: Suitable for all kinds of Gale Boots, Sprint Shoes, Sports Shoes, Slippers, and more. As long as you place these insoles inside, you'll have a pair of warm self-heating shoes. Definitely the top choice for keeping your feet warm in winter! Can withstand extreme cold down to minus fifty degrees! Crafting Requirements: Advanced Beast Hide 2008/1, Hemp Thread 482/2 (Water Ghost Azure Silk 4106/2), Fire-Attribute Beast Core 127/2]
"Not bad! Not bad!"
Ethan nodded repeatedly and casually crafted a pair of gloves and a pair of insoles.
It was just that these two items consumed quite a few fire-attribute beast cores. You had to know, a self-heating coat only needed one fire-attribute beast core. But whether it was the shoes or the gloves, each required two fire-attribute beast cores.
There was no helping it. After all, you've got two feet and two hands.
You couldn't just cut one off, right?
[Crafted: Advanced Beast Hide -2, Water Ghost Azure Silk -4, Fire-Attribute Beast Core -4]
Very quickly a pair of fluffy white gloves appeared in Ethan's backpack.
When he put them on, it instantly felt like sticking his hands into a woman's embrace. Warm as spring in a flash, plus that soft and gentle texture.
It was unbelievably comfortable.
As for the insoles, they were a bit flashy and messy-looking, like the fur of some not-so-good-looking animal.
Although Ethan had no idea what animal it had been skinned from, that black-with-brown, brown-with-a-bit-of-gray fur color was honestly ugly.
No wonder it was used to make insoles.
After all, using such low-quality patterned advanced beast hide to make coats or gloves would really be too ugly.
It had to be said, the system in this world was quite user-friendly.
It seemed to understand human preferences very well.
"Hyah!"
After putting the insoles in, Ethan finally felt much warmer.
As his whole body heated up, he no longer had to hunch over and shrink his neck while riding back. Instead, he charged full speed toward the territory.
As for the stone man and the scarecrow, even though their names had the word "man" in them, they weren't human anyway, so whether they felt cold or not had nothing to do with them. Ethan just focused on rushing back.
Along the way, he really did run into quite a few of those so-called Ice Galls.
Those things had half-meter-long spikes and were pure white all over. Unless you put them under sunlight, you wouldn't notice that their long spikes looked like icicles, sharp and long.
And these things hid in the snow and ice. You could step on one at any moment and get hit.
If Ethan hadn't been riding the bone horse, he really didn't know how many he would have stepped on along the way. But precisely because he was riding the bone horse, things were different.
Because along the road, he actually did step on quite a few Ice Galls.
Only… he stepped them all to death.
That was how Ethan knew what they looked like. On his way back, he also casually collected quite a few Ice Galls that had been crushed to death.
But he didn't have time to study them carefully right now, so he just let them sit in his backpack. He would research them slowly after returning.
Maybe it was because walking on snow was difficult.
Ethan ran for almost an hour from the Land of Treasure before finally returning to the villa.
"Neigh! Neigh!"
When he reached the villa gate, Ethan quickly pulled on the bone horse's reins.
He slowed the bone horse down so it wouldn't charge straight into the villa. Forget injuring the territory's people, even damaging the flowers and plants wouldn't be good!
"Lord, you're finally back!"
At that moment, when Guard Five saw Ethan return, he hurried over with several members of the guard team.
Seeing that the people in the villa were all fine and that the buildings hadn't suffered any damage, Ethan finally let out a long breath of relief. He jumped off the horse and said, "Guard Five, did something happen?"
"Yes, Lord."
After speaking, Guard Five pointed toward the pet enclosure and said, "While you were away, the strangling vines caught several intruders. We tied them up and locked them inside the pet enclosure."
"Intruders?", Ethan looked surprised, "Witches?"
"Not witches. Six men, and they were wearing military uniforms!", Guard Five continued reporting, "Unfortunately, by the time we discovered them, it was already a bit late."
"Three of them had already been strangled to death by the vines. Now there are only three left alive."
"And two of those are injured. One has both legs broken, and the other has a broken waist."
"Miss Doctor came to check on them, but she wasn't sure whether you planned to treat them, so she only used a few recovery skills to keep them from dying for the time being."
"You've already done very well," Ethan tossed the reins to Guard Five and said, "I'll go take a look."
"Yes, Lord."
"Oh right, have the others all come back?", Ethan asked casually as he walked forward, suddenly remembering the other territory members.
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