Dawn and Darkness (I)

The Northlands were unfit for human survival, but people lived there.

Ryan led a large party into the Northlands. There were no roads across the snowstorm-covered land, but fortunately, the team from Frozen Earth Territory knew the way well. Following the scent of faith, they entered Morning Radiance Town in the Northlands.

This place belonged to Archbishop Adriana. It had once been nothing, but now houses stood amid the wind and snow. Above every house hung a lamp, providing warmth like the sun.

Without anyone noticing, there were already two or three thousand people here. Every one of them was a devout Dawn Believer. They had abandoned the warm lands of the South and entered the freezing Northlands to follow their Archbishop Adriana.

"Good afternoon, Archbishop Adriana. These are the supplies delivered for this quarter."

Thanks to the Empire Emperor's generosity, Ryan had far more supplies on hand. Sending some here was also within the scope of their original agreement.

Adriana looked at Ryan, then shifted her gaze to the party behind him.

Ryan would not come here without reason.

"It's like this. I brought some believers from the Church of Dawn. They cannot pledge loyalty to me, so I thought they might be better suited to serve under you, Archbishop."

The knights behind him brought the nuns out of the carriages. After seeing Morning Radiance Town, the nuns stopped struggling and raging. They stared at everything around them in shock.

"Thank you, Mr. Ryan."

Archbishop Adriana spoke sincerely and had the believers behind her lead the nuns into the town's church. The nuns who had resisted so fiercely in Frozen Earth Territory like mad dogs suddenly became meek sheep.

While the supplies were being sorted, Ryan wandered through this astonishing Northlands town.

The town was not large, but many