Chapter 3180

"Snowy Mountain Hall" was the main venue for the All-Souls Festival soon. This was also the place where tribes at the foot of the snowy mountain held meetings together. Other festival celebrations would also be held here, and no one except tribal leaders and elders was allowed to enter here at ordinary times.

Xia De, an outsider, of course, did not get permission to enter and visit. However, the Kane old priest who led Xia De to visit the local area took Xia De to visit a local funeral.

Locals regarded the snowy mountain as a holy mountain and would not easily bury corpses there. Burial was not popular here either, but the traditional method of water burial was adopted.

When Xia De and Kane old priest walked along the small road in the town all the way to the westernmost pier, they stood on a high place, watching people at the pier solemnly saying goodbye to the coffin that had been placed on the wooden raft. Presiding over this funeral was another young priest in the village, but he was just an ordinary person.

The form of the funeral was very similar to the funeral in the city: saying goodbye to relatives, reciting eulogies, and recalling the past. After the farewell ceremony ended, everyone sang spiritual songs with local style in a low voice together. The singing was ethereal and beautiful, but also had the roughness of island fishermen.

Then the wooden raft was pushed into the sea and drifted away with the water, and was finally pushed by the waves and disappeared at the end of the sky.

In general, everything here was still very interesting for outsiders. Since arriving in this world, he had seen the most scenery of various steam-era cities, and although the cities were different, the similarities were very many. Only the "Kyle-Todd Town" he visited this time looked simple but full of vitality.

Without discussing the convenience of people's lives, everything here looked so fresh and different. Xia De felt that Dorothy would definitely like this place. The stories taken from this kind of place were absolutely completely different from the city.

The political system of the city-states at the foot of the snowy mountain was also one of the places Xia De was interested in.

There was no "village head" here, but managed jointly by "tribal leaders" and "elders." Tribal leaders were usually ordinary people, responsible for the management of all political, diplomatic, economic, etc., affairs in the village, while elders were generally served by ring warlocks, responsible for religious, priestly, wedding, funeral, etc., activities. They uniformly managed the ring warlocks in the tribe, and local ring warlocks were basically priests.

Of course, priests were not necessarily ring warlocks.

So when visiting Kyle-Todd Town, Xia De asked Kane old priest whether the mayor of the town was the tribal leader here, and then he got an affirmative answer.

It was just that the mayor of Kyle-Todd Town was not on the island now. He and the mayor of Time Wheel City went to the capital of the Principality, Lomari, together. Grand Duke Lagerson called everyone to a meeting—because of the important status of this island in the Principality, important meeting town-level administrative officials would also participate.

Xia De guessed that the content of the meeting might be related to the upcoming talks between Casenrique and Delarion.

The two walked and stopped in the town. Most people here knew Kane old priest, and from time to time someone would greet him. And Kane old priest introduced Xia De as a "distant relative" of Elder Harald, so people were not curious about what the handsome young man from the north was here for.

At lunch time, the group of people who went into the mountain had not returned, so Kane old priest entertained Xia De for a meal at home. Priests did not forbid marriage. The old man of age lived with his wife and his eldest son's family.

It could be seen that this family was still centered on Kane old priest, so for the guests he brought, the family was also very respectful. As for the content of lunch, it was fish meals again, but paired with cheese and cured meat. Because it was a guest visit, there was syrup-boiled apple as dessert after the meal.

However, outsiders felt very embarrassed to visit other people's homes empty-handed, so he carried a large piece of fresh beef and a few carrots before entering the door, and "carrot stewed beef" was added to the lunch table.

Local people had unique cooking methods for this dish, but Xia De felt that the taste was still not as good as the maid ladies he was familiar with.

After lunch, Kane old priest estimated that the group of people going to the snowy mountain would be back soon, so he didn't take Xia De to wander around, but went to the mountain pass where he entered the mountain in the north of Kyle-Todd Town to wait with him.

There was also a wooden city wall and gate here to resist wild animals and prevent people from hunting in the snowy mountain.

Xia De and the old priest stood on the high sentry post on one side of the gate and chatted while waiting for the return of the group. He introduced himself as a "writer traveling in the Old Continent," and talked about the northern cities he had been to, but didn't talk about the southern Green Lake, Moon Bay, and Vesta Forest where major events had occurred recently.

And Kane old priest basically didn't set up defenses for Xia De. When Xia De asked about more situations of Elder Harald, he was also willing to share with Xia De.

For example, when talking about the old man wearing a cow-horn hat he saw yesterday, he jokingly asked "do you want to play a game of Luo De cards," and Kane old priest proved that the elder was indeed a Luo De card master, and he also liked to accept challenges from outsiders on weekdays.

Even when Time Wheel City applied for the "Big City Player" in 1856, Elder Harald also contributed.

"Actually, locals generally call him 'Great Elder'. The 'Snowy Mountain Hall Assembly' composed of five high-ring Great Elders is the political core of the local Fatum tribe in the true sense. Great Elder Harald's experience can be considered legendary. He was born in an ordinary family in the local area. When he was young, he left this island to travel all over the Old Continent, and even went to the Archipelago Kingdom and the New Continent.

After returning at the age of 23, he was blessed by the Holy Mountain and became a ring warlock. Later, he experienced the division and civil war of the tribe, the war with outsiders, and the alliance with the Principality of Lagerson, and finally had today's situation."

"This reminds me of an old priest I met during my travels. He served the church all his life and never married. Although he was only a priest, he was very respected in the local parish."

Xia De said with a smile, but Kane old priest shook his head:

"Then Great Elder Harald cannot be compared with that old priest. He was married when he was young, and he had three wives. This is one of the few flaws he has. However, the Great Elder's family is still happy. Among three sons and two daughters, one awakened the ring warlock talent, and there is also a granddaughter..."

He hesitated for a moment, thinking in his heart whether it was appropriate to say this, so Xia De shook his head:

"It doesn't matter, it involves the secrets of your tribe, you don't have to tell me."

"Actually, there is no secret. The Great Elder has a granddaughter who is very talented, and it can even be said that she is the most talented young person born on this island in 500 years. If there is no accident, she has a great possibility of becoming the next Great Elder after the age of 40, but she is unwilling to stay on the island and has basically not lived here since she became an adult."

"Young people want to see the outside world?"

Xia De expressed understanding of this. Kane old priest leaned on the windowsill of the sentry post and looked at the mountain road outside:

"That's probably it, but it also has something to do with her very fierce teacher. Actually, when that girl was born, the previous generation of elders had a prophecy that she would be attracted by the brilliance of the sun, and would be... let's not talk about these. However, she might come back this year. You know our All-Souls Festival, right? She might come to participate in this year's All-Souls Festival."

Elder Harald told him last night to test the attitude of this young man who came from afar but was accepted by the snowy mountain toward the All-Souls Festival. Although it was not to the point of really finding an outsider to help at the All-Souls Festival, having more helpers was always right.

Xia De was also interested in the topic of the All-Souls Festival:

"I heard from city people about the All-Souls Festival, and I will definitely come to see it when the time comes. People in the black market told me some ways to celebrate the festival, and also said that during the All-Souls Festival, the spirits and elements on the island..."

Boom!

The loud noise in the distance covered the second half of Xia De's sentence. The shocked two looked at the direction of the snowy mountain from the window at the same time, but could not see any abnormality from here.

"Avalanche?"

Xia De, who had no life experience in the snowy mountain area, asked, but Kane old priest's expression was very ugly:

"It's not an avalanche, or the sound is from... can you follow me into the mountain to see? It seems something happened."

He did not set off with Xia De immediately, but first let the young man who watched the door send a letter to the town, and only then set off into the mountain with Xia De. In this way, even if they couldn't come back, or if this matter was caused by the young man from outside, someone would continue to investigate.

The old priest who was familiar with Fatumunster Snowy Mountain, although only low-ring, did not walk slower than Xia De in the snowy mountain. He could find a way in many places that seemed to have no way. The two walked without words, and it took 20 minutes to reach the mountainside from the foot of the mountain.

This was indeed not an avalanche, or such a loud sound did not cause an avalanche of Fatumunster Snowy Mountain.

The cave at the destination was located on the slope of the snowy mountain. When he left the small road cut out in the mountain and climbed the slope on the snow, before the two really came to the accident scene, Xia De had already sensed strong whispers of elements:

"Be careful, I'll walk in front."

Kane old priest pointed the way behind, and when he approached the cave on the mountainside on the snow, a figure flew out of the cave directly. Elder Harald, who was Eleventh Ring, rolled several times on the snow before stopping. When he got up, his right hand covered his left chest, and his left hand leaned on his staff to try to stabilize his body.

He spat out a mouthful of blood directly on the snow, his eyes staring dead at the entrance of the cave. The long sword, entangled in black light and unable to see the shape of the sword body, appeared first, and then the afternoon sun of winter illuminated the middle-aged woman holding the sword.

Her face was pale, but her eyes were pure black. She was over two meters tall, and the clothes she wore looked like an ordinary housewife, but under the skin of her body, it was like being embedded with steel plates, with strange metallic colors.

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