Chapter 43: Ed's Ice Dragon
"We're still alive, so there's always a way. The elf said optimistically.
He'd been through worse than that, trapped with a group of dwarves in a collapsed corner of a mine - but there was a group of dwarves there, and more dwarves in the mine. It didn't take long for them to clean it up as if it had never collapsed.
The only dwarf here is a skeleton lying on the ground.
Ace sat on the side staring at the skeleton in a daze. Norway was worried about his situation, but no matter how much he tried, the young man refused to speak.
There was still light in the room, and the glowing crystal ball on the table hadn't dimmed because of the mage's departure, which probably didn't belong to the mage in the first place. But the pale glow had no soothing effect.
Ace stood up suddenly, taking off his robe to cover the skeleton.
"It won't be long before we're going to be like that. "Unless Mozzy can get oversized and make a hole for us to get out." She picked up the tired and paralyzed little thing, held it up in front of her, and stared at it eagerly: "Can you, Xiao Mo?"
Mo Qi snorted inexplicably, his moist black eyes blank and innocent.
"At the very least, if we die here, you can still get out. Tess rubbed her nose against its soft little belly, "Don't worry, I won't eat you even if I'm hungry." ”
Norway looked up at the roof, which was also made of stone, but there were already quite a few cracks. Judging by the feeling of walking down the passage, the soil above is not very thick, if they can let one of them collapse-
He shook his head, he needed to have precise calculations to avoid the entire roof from collapsing, and he was neither an architect nor a dwarf, and they had to be very, very lucky to succeed, and today, the god of luck was clearly not on their side.
Ace was looking at the same place.
He was able to crash through there and turn back into the words of a dragon. A stronger place than this will not hold him.
If only he could make the elf and the girl unconscious......
There was a low thud on the ground, and the roof began to shake, and stones fell, and the earth slid down from the crevasses that began to widen, and several thick roots emerged from the cracks, writhing like giant snakes.
Norway grabbed Ace's arm and quickly stepped back. Ace struggled forward, instinctively dragging the bones out of the dirt, but realized it was pointless.
"That necromancer, probably trying to make sure we're dead this time. Novi said with a wry smile. Tess had already run to him quickly.
More dirt and stones fell, and the two pillars that had been tilted for thousands of years finally fell to the ground.
"Stand back over the table!" roared the elf, the great wooden table heavy and sturdy, perhaps protecting them.
Ace struggled to break free of the hand he hadn't let go.
"It's too late. He said, his voice unusually calm.
It was a very short and long moment. When the elf saw something tearing Ace's back clothes, he thought he was dreaming.
-- That's the wings.
White wings.
Even if there were doubts, witnessing that wonderful situation was quite a shock even for a four-hundred-year-old elf. At the rare jaw-dropping of Norvi, they quickly stretched out, enveloping the elves and Tess underneath. Huge, silvery-white bodies occupy their entire line of sight.
“...... !" Tess burst out of the foul mouth she'd been banned for years.
Norway didn't bother to reproach her. They were grabbed by a pair of strong hind paws, and with a loud bang they rushed out, and in a sudden burst of bright sunlight, their brains seemed to stop working altogether as they watched the ground that was caving out of a large crater farther and farther away from them.
They're flying.
Not long after realizing this, they quickly descended again, and were rudely thrown to the ground, and the sky swirled.
The surrounding trees cracked with a crisp crack beneath the dragon's body, slamming their heads at them, only to be swept aside by the ice dragon's impatient tail. When they finally struggled to get up and saw the immobile body under the ice dragon's front paws not far away, they realized what it was doing with that flutter just now.
It caught the necromancer.
Perhaps it was too much surprise, or perhaps it was too much power expended, but this time, the cunning mage could not escape.
He laughed maniacally under the grasp of the ice dragon: "I ......"
There was a soft thud, and blood splattered. The ice dragon simply tore through his body. It should have done this the first time it pressed him under its claws, instead of listening to what he was talking nonsense.
The sight frightened Tess somewhat, and she couldn't help but shrink down behind Norvi.
The ice dragon raised its front paws and stared at the blood on it for a moment, and Tess was worried that it would stick out its tongue and lick it, like all legendary evil creatures......
But the ice dragon lowered its claws in interest and turned to walk over to them.
Its heavy footsteps made the ground shake slightly. Norway had to look up into its eyes as it approached, but he didn't take a step back.
"Is...... Iscontia, is that you?" he asked aloud.
The ice dragon stopped, obviously surprised.
"That's not my name. It rumbled, more irritated than angry.
"Then I'll call you Ace. The elf didn't insist, "Thank you for saving us, again." ”
The ice dragon blinked, and even though it turned into a dragon, its gaze was not much different when it was overwhelmed.
As the elf tried to approach it, it jerked back and began to flapp its wings.
"Wait......" The elf had to turn his head sideways and put his arm in front of him to resist the breathless wind pressure, until the ice dragon flew into the sky before he could catch his breath and finish the sentence: "Ed has always wanted to find you......"
He looked up at the sky and watched as the white figure that was rushing upwards finally turned into a small white dot and disappeared from his vision.
He didn't know if it had heard him.
"When did you suspect that he was Ed's Ice Dragon?" Tess asked behind him, not too surprised. She simply sat down on the ground with the wind pressing.
"His eyes turned golden several times. "I've heard Ed tell the story so many times that it's hard to forget any details." ”
"I thought you didn't find out. ”
"I'm an elf...... What about you?"
"I'm a thief. ”
After a moment of silence, Tess smugly muttered to herself, "Now I have a better story." ”
Norway laughed, frowning again as his gaze swept over the bloody corpses on the ground.
He walked over and crouched down to take a closer look at the miserable mage. If he hadn't had to kill them, he might have escaped without incident. He wondered how a necromancer knew of Ancrane's existence and what he was looking for. If it was to find some kind of ancient elven magic, he had to make sure that it would not fall into the hands of any evil.
"What the hell is there to see in that dead pile!" cried Tess, refusing to come any closer.
The elf found what he was looking for in a pile of entrails, and with disgust he picked it out with a twig. It was a stone tablet half the size of a palm, carved with symbols and what appeared to be elven script, but he couldn't read it at all.
"Whatever it is, you don't want to take it with you!" Tess warned him from afar.
Silently, Norway found a stone, lifted it up and tried to smash it, but hesitated to stop in mid-air, then lifted it again, and stopped again.
In the end, he sighed helplessly: "Tess, one day I will die of curiosity." He wrapped the blood-soaked slab in a few dead leaves.
“...... Forget it, I'll save you then. The red-haired girl resigned herself to fate, "Also, throw that thing in the water for me to wash a hundred times!!"