When the first ice storm from the endless ice fields entered the Northland, Ferut, which had been deserted throughout the summer, became lively again. The tribes living in the Northland came to this huge city one after another to spend the winter, waiting.

The arrival of next spring.

Panshi XVI is the city gate officer of Ferut. This is a hereditary position of his family. From the day the city of Ferut was founded, his family has always held this position. It can be said that their family has witnessed the success of Ferut.

the entire history of.

There are quite a few hereditary official families like the Panshi Family in Ferut, but few families can be as long-standing as the Panshi Family. Those families with the same long history as the Panshi Family are somewhat unable to adapt to urban life in Ferut and have given up.

Jobs have returned to tribes, and some have perished for some reason.

The Panshi family has been able to serve as city gate officials for such a long time without any changes. In addition to the fact that each generation of Panshi family members who hold official positions know how to assess the situation and know who can be offended and who cannot be provoked, the more important reason is that within the Panshi family,

Some literature about Ferut.

The Panshi Family was just a small tribe in the North at first. When the Knight King built Ferut, the Panshi Tribe was not even qualified to participate in the ceremony. The chief reason why the Panshi Tribe chief at that time was able to become the City Gate Pavilion was mainly because at that time

Chief Panshi, later known as Panshi I, was a student of Count Felin, the most trusted subordinate of the Knight King, and received the Knight King's order to record Ferut's daily affairs while serving as the city gate officer.

In order to be able to fulfill the will of the King of Knights, Panshi I carefully learned French. He was also the first chief of the Northland tribe to learn French. He also learned to draw. While recording Ferut's daily affairs, he

He also painted the various changes in Ferut, and this matter was also passed down willfully. While serving as a city gate officer, each patriarch of the Panshi family also recorded the changes in Ferut with words and pictures.

It is precisely because their family has so many years of information on Ferut that their family's reputation in Ferut is extremely high. Even the royal students of the French Empire need to borrow various information from their family when they need to revise the history of the tribes in the North.

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Panshi XVI inspected the city gate he was responsible for as usual, then walked to the city wall and entered a wind observation tower specially built by the Panshi family. He came to the top and sat next to the long-lit stove, opening the

While looking out the window at the scenery of Ferut, he carefully drew the scenery stroke by stroke on the animal skin paper on the table.

Panshi XVI has painted city panoramas like this countless times in the past. Ever since he was very young, after he was elected as the heir, he would copy the paintings drawn by his ancestors over and over again in the family library every day.

Panoramic views of Ferut. While copying these panoramic views, he also gained a very detailed understanding of the urban changes in Ferut.

The original Ferut was only one-twentieth of the current size of Ferut City, and the current Ferut Tribal Council District was the then Ferut City.

According to the records of the ancestors of the Panshi family, when this city was first built, not all tribes were willing to move here. There were less than twenty tribes in the entire Northland who obeyed the will of the Knight King, and among these twenty tribes

Except for the Antler Tribe, the other tribes are all small tribes about the same size as the Rock Tribe.

In this regard, the French Empire did not show any strong demands, giving people the feeling that it did not care about Ferut.

Because of the attitude of the French Empire, several tribes that had already settled here gave up their posts in the city, withdrew, and resumed following ancient customs to spend the winter on the northern ice fields.

It was not until later that the tribes from the North discovered the benefits of spending the winter in Ferut, having plenty of food, and not having to worry about the cold winds in the North, nor the hungry wild beasts in the North, that the tribes from the North joined one after another.

Arriving at the city of Ferut.

Because a large number of northern tribes settled in every year, the original size of Ferut City was no longer enough to cope with the settlement of so many tribes. Therefore, the French Empire had to expand the city again and re-establish several tribes outside the city walls.

settlement.

To this day, this kind of expansion has not ended. As the population of the northern tribes increases, more and more people spend the winter in Ferut City. The city has to expand outwards again and again. Every time it expands,

In addition to building various settlement buildings, city walls were also built to protect against wind, snow and wild beasts, which made Ferut City have more than one wall.

Starting from the Ferut tribal council area to the outermost city wall, there are now thirteen city walls. These walls divide the entire city into thirteen layers. The closer the tribes living in the inner ring are, the more they live in the inner ring.

The status in the northern tribes will be higher.

Everyone who saw Ferut City believed from the bottom of their hearts that Ferut City was definitely a city that could not be breached from the outside, because the thirteen tall walls with twenty towers were enough to block the attack of any army.

Including the legendary Knights of France.

In the past, King Rock XVI also thought the same way. He believed that Ferut was the strongest city in the world. Unless it was a god, no one could break it.

But six months ago, when the new Emperor Fran visited the Northland and prepared to select the royal guard from the warriors of the Northland as usual, King Rock XVI and other tribal leaders stationed in Ferut realized that they had a past

Those ideas are multi-modal absurdities, and the idea of ​​a city that can never be breached is simply a joke.

He still clearly remembered how embarrassed he looked when that huge creature appeared in the sky. He was not ashamed of this, because there were many people who behaved similarly to him at that time, and several elders in the tribal council were even arrested.

I was so scared that no one dares to say that they are no longer afraid to this day.

There is no doubt that any city wall is useless in front of that behemoth flying in the air. Ferut is as fragile as a defenseless baby in front of it.

Now they can only be grateful that this flying fortress belongs to Emperor Fran, and Ferut also belongs to Emperor Fran. Otherwise, they may not be able to stay in this city with peace of mind.

To this day, Panshi XVI still clearly remembers the scene of being received by Emperor Fran. He was also awarded the title of earl for the Panshi family's contribution to the city of Ferut. He was also the first among the entire Northland tribe to be awarded the title of earl.

The head of the family with the title of earl.

Originally, according to his title, he could easily obtain the status of a parliamentary senator, but he rejected the proposal to become a parliamentary senator and still served as his city gate officer. This does not mean that he did not want to serve as a noble parliamentary senator.

It is because the ancestral precepts of the Panshi Family stipulate that the patriarch of the Panshi Family is not allowed to hold any other position other than serving as the gate officer of Ferut City, otherwise he must lose his status as the patriarch.

If he becomes the elder of the parliament, then his identity as patriarch will automatically disappear and be handed over to the second person in the family who is qualified to inherit the position of patriarch. However, the identity of the earl is bound to the identity of the patriarch, and he will lose his identity as patriarch.

, he also lost his status as an earl, and naturally became ineligible to become a senator in the parliament, so in the end he only had one choice left.

At that time, he was still upset that he was not able to become a senator in the parliament, and even complained from the bottom of his heart about this broken rule left by his ancestors. But now he is extremely grateful for his ancestors' decision, and he also repays this clan rule that he once despised.

I have great trust and believe that this challenge of rules is the reason why the Panshi family can firmly establish itself in this city.

He still remembered that just after Emperor Fran left, more than 20 tribal chiefs used their newly acquired noble status to ask for the position of parliamentary senators. After becoming parliamentary senators, they fought for immortality with the original old parliamentary senators, overtly and covertly.

The battle continued and became bigger and bigger, and eventually turned into a civil war among the permanent tribes of Ferut.

In this civil war that lasted for half a month, except for the Panshi family, all the families in the city participated. A large number of people died every day. When it finally ended, more than 70 resident tribal families finally

There are only about forty left.

Those families and tribes that disappeared were either completely wiped out by rival families, or they were defeated in the battle, left Ferut with others, and returned to tribal life.

It doesn't matter if these urban families who have returned to tribes are now new families. They still retain a lot of the ability to spend the winter in the north. But for those tribes that have completely transformed into urban families, their escape is just a matter of survival.

, they were unable to get any supplies from Ferut during the winter, and they no longer had the ability to spend the winter in the North. All that awaited them was death.

The ferocity of Ferut's civil war has also alarmed other tribes in the North, because both the surviving families and the families that have disappeared or fled have more or less kinship with them. For this reason, several major Northland tribes have

The tribe and the medium tribe sent people to Ferut before winter to deal with this matter.

This matter cannot be handled by the words of a few tribes. Ferut's family also has extraordinary heritage and will not let go easily. However, as the northern tribes came to Ferut City one after another, the northern tribes also had an extraordinary foundation.

The growing power of the local tribes finally made Ferut's family gradually relent. Half a month ago, they promised not to pursue the families who fled and to return the properties and some properties in the family settlements. Of course, the premise is that those families are willing to return.

To Ferut.

After announcing this decision half a month ago, they asked the merchant tribe to spread the decision to the North. As a result, until three days ago, the last merchant tribe, the Longhorn Tribe, returned to Ferut for the winter, and only one escaped family returned.

When they arrived in Ferut, the other families seemed to be willing to die rather than surrender.

Those families who would rather die than surrender did gain the respect of many tribes, which also led them to secretly send a lot of supplies for these families to survive the winter, provided that they could find a shelter from the wind during the winter.

While thinking about things, Panshi XVI completed a new panorama of Ferut. Next, he only needs to wait until the right time, add a little color, and put it into the family library.

Just when Ferut took out the paints from the cabinet next to him and prepared to color the picture, the quarrel coming from the city gate below ruined his good mood.

He closed the window, put the picture on the bookshelf next to him, walked out of the small room at the top of the wind observation tower, and walked along the stairs to the bottom of the city wall.

At this time, some people had gathered around the city gate. Some people in obvious tribal attire were arguing with the guards at the city gate. The attentive Panshi XVI saw the totem poles of the tribes they belonged to on the sleds of the tribesmen. Look at the shape of the poles.

They should be from the Horned Tribe.

However, what caught the attention of King Pan Shi XVI was the blood-stained animal skin bags on the sleds of these long-horned tribesmen. Because of his many years of experience, he could tell that these animal skin bags must contain everything.

It's a head, and if you count the number, it's nearly a hundred people.

This immediately made him think of something bad, and he subconsciously guessed that this was because some families in the city, in order to eliminate future troubles, hired these merchant tribes who were familiar with the terrain of the North to hunt down the fleeing families.

Thinking of this, Panshi XVI immediately showed a displeased look on his face. Although the tribes in the north could not help but fight each other, they would not kill all the hostile tribes. Things like buying murderers to kill people were even more taboo.

, so he already had a very bad impression of those people from the Horned Tribe, and decided in his heart that no matter who was standing behind the Horned Tribe, he would also teach these people who broke the rules a lesson.

"What happened? Why are everyone blocked at the city gate?" Panshi Shiliushi walked up to the crowd and asked as if he had just arrived and didn't understand the situation.

"Sir, it's none of our business. They are making trouble unreasonably." Seeing his boss appear, the captain guarding the gate breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly explained: "According to the rules, we must check all items entering the city.

When we checked the bags, they stopped us and blamed us for not respecting their customs."

The leader of the Longhorn Tribe immediately stood up and explained: "Sir, we are from the Longhorn Tribe. It's not that we are making trouble unreasonably, it's because these things are our prey for participating in the winter tour. Once these bags are opened, these

The qualifications of prey will also be lost, and our trip will be in vain."

"Winter Tour?" Panshi XVI was stunned for a moment. He looked at the people from the Horned Tribe next to him and found that they were all young people. Besides the leader, none of them had the mark of a warrior who had passed the Cold Winter Tour.

, so he believed this man's words a little, but he still asked: "When did your horned tribe treat people as prey during their winter tour?"

"Humans?" The leader of the Longhorn Tribe was startled, and said quickly: "Sir, you are mistaken, these are not human beings."
Chapter completed!