Super Righteous Player
Chapter 782 - 322: Nightmare: Do Not Speak the Truth_1

Chapter 782: Chapter 322: Nightmare: Do Not Speak the Truth_1

Yes.

They were unwilling to survive in such dirty, vulgar, and dangerous environments, yet they had been eliminated and abandoned by The Holy Nation’s society, and could not return to the heavens.

Therefore, those of the lower classes could only set up one tent after another near The Holy Nation, raising cattle and sheep, and growing barley. When selling the cattle and sheep to the merchants of "the heavens" or "the underworld," they used the money earned to buy some foreign specialties and advanced products from The Holy Nation, struggling to continue living a life as The Holy Nation’s people.

Many from Winter who traveled to The Holy Nation either became mercenaries in the upper levels, selling their lives to one power after another; or they went to the lower levels to herd cattle and sheep.

Of course, many of them would rather herd sheep in The Holy Nation than wait to die in Winter—at least the days of herding sheep, though poor, didn’t carry the risk of freezing or starving to death.

With the average intelligence of Winter people and their simple, primitive values, they were easily outwitted to death in places like The United Kingdom and the Underworld characterized by constant intrigue. Basically, the closest, safest, and most friendly job they could find was working on the docks or construction sites in Noah.

Of course, that is now.

If it had been in the past, when Noah still had foreign trade with Winter, the latter would have been quite a bit wealthier... like Frostwater Harbor, for instance.

This port once belonged to Winter as a landing and foreign trade harbor. Later, when the great barrier of Winter contracted, it ended up inside Noah’s great barrier, but still nominally belonged to Winter.

This is also why, even though Winter people had powerful defensive weapons like Frost Beasts, they still could not retake Frostwater Harbor; it is also the reason why people of Noah did not station troops at Frostwater Harbor.

Because Frost Beasts couldn’t cross the sea, Transcendents couldn’t leave the great barrier, and Grandmother’s Priests were only skilled at defensive warfare.

And so, Frostwater Harbor was quickly abandoned by the people of Winter.

But, if they could resume trade with Noah, which possessed rich resources of timber, minerals, and food, it would be a good thing for the economic revival of the entire Duchy of Winter, and those border nobles wouldn’t have to wait to die there.

The subway could transport only limited goods after all, and these were mainly confined to the large cities in the central region.

And if they were the only ones who could transport goods, there would inevitably be a premium.

Winter had several ports both in the north and south. If they could reopen these ports and restore trade with Noah... even sticking close to the border of Noah and traveling south inside their great barrier to enter The United Kingdom, they might even be able to rebuild trade routes.

From the territory of Winter to Frostwater Harbor by ship, even the shortest distance is less than two hours! And the total duration of the journey outside the great barrier wouldn’t amount to more than half an hour... such a distance poses basically no harm to the bodies of ordinary people.

This meant they could finally resume the transport of bulk cross-national goods by the tonne.

Since the new Grand Duke was willing to go abroad and personally visit Noah for state affairs, it was a good thing for the entire Duchy of Winter.

At this time, those who went to trouble, assassinate, or delay the new Grand Duke were enemies of those border nobles urgently in need of resources.

—Simply by releasing a piece of information, Annan had successfully divided those border nobles from within.

Destroying some enemies, attracting some friends, and then using those newfound friends to confront the remaining undecided enemies... In Annan’s first week of accession, he had successfully dispersed the internal turmoil of Frost Speech Province across the entire nation.

Such strong execution, such deep planning, such decisive courage.

He was like a figure holding a sword stained with the blood of northern nobility in one hand, and a bag filled with wealth and supplies in the other.

It wasn’t a completely harsh and inhumane rule—if he had simply wanted to destroy all his enemies, they could have united against the Winter family.

However, Annan had no intention of being hostile towards them... Instead, he personally went on a state visit. Moreover, with the Tyrant of Noah having passed away and a new successor yet to be appointed, the support of the Grand Duke of Winter was an extremely important bargaining chip.

Needless to say... with the personal abilities Annan exhibited on behalf of the Duchy of Winter, it would be very easy to exchange for a contract to "reopen the trading ports." And if he pushed it a little farther, he might even be able to purchase large quantities of wood and iron from Noah at a cheap price.

The special local products of Winter, apart from marble, amber, the skins and blood of Frost Beasts, include a large amount of silver, copper, and tin mines... and also a small amount of lead mines.

Lead, as a metal, is also an extremely important transformation material for the Wizards of the Heath Tower of Black, as well as the most crucial and expensive dragon materials.

Although "Hairdressers" are not great at communicating, aside from The Holy Nation, where that idol group composed of seven dragons resides, "Hairdressers" are the easiest dragons to find.

Through trade, a certain amount of dragon materials can still be obtained. Winter also has some giant skeletons and elven and centaur corpses, all buried under the thick snow.

Once the ports are reopened for trade, once these goods resume export, they will no longer be so poor.

In the blink of an eye, it seemed that everything was filled with hope.

This put an immediate stop to the thoughts of rebellion among the nobles who had just considered it.

And, while the northern nobles were being raided by the Hand of Winter, these silently subdued local nobles undoubtedly added to Annan’s prestige. Those not so well-informed who still wanted to test the young new Grand Duke were intimidated by this silence.

The most evident result was the obvious reduction in the pressure of governance.

Those ministers who had started to entertain small ambitions after the death of Grand Duke Ivan immediately resumed their diligent work attitude. The whole of Winter returned to its stable operation.

And Annan couldn’t possibly set off immediately after sending out the letter.

His provisional departure was set for ten days later—the letter was delivered instantly through a ritual, and a week was left for arguing and chatting on Noah’s side.

In this week, Annan could at least watch Husky and Thirteen Spices complete this three-person instance.

"Are you guys ready?"

Annan asked, "I will be watching over you from the outside... The difficulty of this Nightmare is only hard, not Twisted. So it won’t have any bizarre characteristics or particularly great dangers.

"I have performed ’Ritual: Mental Fortification’ and ’Ritual: Strengthening Soul’ on you. This will allow your thoughts to be calm and swift in the Nightmare, with ample mental strength without fatigue.

"For the first entry, prioritize exploration. Don’t aim for purification in one go... understand?"

All three nodded in unison.

The next moment, they lay on their respective beds.

And the altar beneath the wolf’s paw emitted a pale blue light.

[Uncleansed Nightmare Shard detected]

[Nightmare Shard has been bound]

[Level Requirement: Must be of the same tier]

[Class Requirement: None]

[Special Requirement: Three people must enter simultaneously, with at least two having a close enough relationship; and among the three, there must be at least one female and at least one male]

[Requirements met, falling into Nightmare in ten seconds, ten, nine...]

In a slight tremble—they entered into the Nightmare.

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