October, the day after the night of the full moon.
This was a traditional holiday on the Pande Continent—Goddess Blessing Day, also known as the Winter Solstice Festival.
The people of the Pande Continent believed this day marked the beginning of winter.
As winter arrived, people prayed for the goddess's blessing, hoping to survive the harsh winter safely and welcome the warmth and blooming flowers of the new spring.
On this continent, cold winters often meant disaster and death.
Over the past thousands of years, whenever winter came, the mountain savages of Misty Mountain would mobilize in force—during winter, the entire north of the continent would be blanketed in ice and snow, while cold air from the north collided with ocean monsoons from the west, causing widespread ice storms.
The Misty Mountain Tribes, who lived amid ice and snow year-round, were unaffected by such harsh conditions. But warriors from the heart of the continent were another matter.
The biting winds and ice would leave most kingdom warriors unable to fight effectively. Whether people or horses, their combat strength would be greatly reduced in such an environment, and scouts and watchtowers would be far less effective as well.
Every advantage and disadvantage came from comparison.
In other seasons, the poorly equipped and tactically inept Misty Mountain Tribes were no match for kingdom warriors or Gatu cavalry.
But in winters like this, they became extremely terrifying enemies—arguably even more frightening than the Gatu people. The Gatu Grasslands were only in one place, and their routes and targets could be traced. It was either Long River Town or Lion Lake City, or else Xiaolu City in the Raven Kingdom of the Northern Territory.
But the Dengjier Mountains stretched from north to east, forming a partial encirclement around the entire northern region of the