Amanda Mountains.
The Loen Kingdom had established a defensive line here. During the very first wave of raids, it had once been breached, only to be retaken later.
What followed was a repeated tug-of-war.
Every day, cannon fire and human voices could almost always be heard throughout these mountains.
This place had become a human meat grinder.
Both sides had left behind countless corpses here.
Even as the weather entered the depths of winter, the situation did not change, nor did the turning point people had anticipated arrive.
On the contrary, the Amanda Mountains defensive line had been completely breached and utterly lost several times.
Using blizzards as cover, the Feysac people were only discovered each time when they had already reached the vicinity of the defensive line.
Not far from the beginning of the Amanda Mountains stood a tiny village, home to fewer than a hundred households.
In fact, before the war began, it had been even more sparsely populated.
After the war broke out, many people from Midseashire and elsewhere had wandered here. Finding that this village had not been touched by the flames of war, they stayed and settled down.
Gradually, the village's population grew.
This village called Villa lay within a valley. The passage leading in and out of the valley was hidden by woodland and difficult to discover.
That was why it had been preserved amid the war.
Most of the village houses were made of wood, with the occasional one or two stone houses.
Because the wind and snow had continued without pause after winter began, the passage in and out of the village had already been completely sealed off. The villagers had no intention of going out either.
They were happy that no one came to disturb them, and even less willing to