He turned his head and indeed saw the white-haired young man's face covered in frost.
Next in his sight were more than ten heavily armed Jadran heavy infantrymen behind the forest. The Jadran people were one of the most common mercenaries in Erune, almost as if these residents of the Abyss Sea Region were naturally professional soldiers. In fact, this tradition has a deep-rooted origin; the constant conflicts among the eleven portal city-states in the Jadran Region have frequently resulted in wars which in turn fostered the mercenary profession.
A typical Jadran mercenary should be wearing a set of finely crafted and heavy scale armor, with a flame steel spear strapped to his back, covered by a large shield half the height of a person, and carrying a longsword and hand axe at his waist—these are their tools for livelihood, the only inheritance every Jadran receives from their fathers.
