Chapter 70: Ice Beetle

After Arthur and his party actually entered the Ice Valley, they realized why this place was called the Ice Valley of Despair.

First of all, it was extremely cold, Arthur's strong body was shivering from the cold, and Joan was wrapped in three layers of leather clothes, and only two eyes were exposed on his body.

Then there is the rugged terrain, there are no smooth roads in the ice valley, you are climbing up and down all the way, and you have to be on the lookout for magical beasts that may jump out at any time.

The vitality of all kinds of creatures on the ice field is beyond imagination, and there are still monsters to survive in such cold and extreme conditions.

After two hours of going deep into the ice valley, Joan could no longer walk, and the team had to stop to rest. Sino blasted open an ice cave with his fighting spirit, and everyone temporarily rested and replenished their strength in the ice.

Joan eagerly piled up the fuel and lit a fire while starting to cook a pot of soup. There's nothing like a bowl of hot soup to dispel the cold and fatigue in your body.

"I really don't understand why the giants choose to live in such a ghost place. Joan muttered as she drank the soup.

Sino took the initiative to explain: "In recent years, the wars between various races have basically revolved around fighting for the most suitable living environment, but the giants have rarely participated. On the one hand, the giants are strong individually, but the number of people is too small to win the war between the races, and on the other hand, the giants seem to have a special mission, and they are guarding something on the ice field. ”

"I see. Joan was holding the soup in her hand, and a piece of ice ballast happened to drip into the bowl.

"The ice melted so quickly?" Joan had just looked up when the second piece of ice ballast fell into the bowl, only to bounce out of the bowl as soon as it fell in, and Joan threw the bowl with a flick of her hand.

What kind of ice ballast popped out of the bowl? It was a small white worm with a large oval thumb. The white worm had six legs, sickle jaws, a carapace on its back, and a terrifying bouncing force, and it jumped on Joan's arm and opened its mouth to bite, biting a small hole in Joan's leather coat in one bite.

Thankfully, Joan wore three layers on the outside, and the bug didn't bite him. The recent Arthur wolf kiss blue short knife appeared instantly, and the tip of the knife was picked on the bug.

But to Arthur's surprise, the Excellence-level short knife failed to kill the worm, and the tip of the knife seemed to cut into the steel bean, only cutting its body away.

The sound of crushing ice overhead kept sounding, and small white worms were struggling to emerge from the cracks in the cracked ice.

"Get out of here, it's an ice beetle!" Shino recognized the bugs at a glance.

Don't look at these small things, they are ancient creatures that existed before the war of gods and demons. The hardness of the ice beetle's body is comparable to that of a thousand-year-old ice, and it can be frozen in ice for thousands of years without dying, and a little temperature can wake them up from the ice.

Although the ice beetle is not large, it is more ferocious than the monster, they like to eat the flesh and blood of animals, once they bite through the skin, they will burrow into the body until the flesh and bones of the prey are completely eaten, and then they will be frozen and hibernate again in another place.

After these ice beetles hit the ground, they immediately pounced on Arthur and the others, and Shino punched forward, and the sweeping fighting energy knocked all these small insects away.

Although the ice beetle was knocked away by the fighting spirit, none of them died, and after landing on the ground, they jumped again, and more and more beetles came out of the ice cracks one after another.

These terrible little bugs can't be easily killed even by warriors.

Arthur and the others took advantage of the opportunity created by Sino and quickly retreated from the ice cave. Shino returned his hand to the ice cave with all his strength, and the ice cave was completely collapsed with one punch.

Sino's intention was to block the hole and seal the beetles in the hole, but he didn't expect more ice beetles to emerge from the shattered ice. Although these little insects can only jump on the ice, they are two or three meters away when they jump, and their speed is not at all under the full strength of a captain-level martial artist.

Since he couldn't run away and could only eliminate these little insects while retreating, the sword in Shino's hand spun quickly in front of him, and all the insects that collided head-on were bounced away.

Spence slashed out with a sharp sword, only the ice beetle that happened to be under the blade was slashed, and most of the remaining beetles were slashed away by the overflowing fighting energy, and they rolled a few times and jumped again.

The warriors deal with the ice beetles, and the real cannons fight the mosquitoes.

Arthur wanted to burn it with fire, but the condensed burst fireball was not even a quarter of the size of the usual one, and the extremely cold temperature greatly limited the fire magic. The fireballs that exploded in the swarm could only burn the surface of the beetle's body to black, and it could not kill the ice beetle.

Joan encountered the same embarrassment as Arthur, and the summoned "Rotating Fire Shield" was frozen out after only a few turns, and the usually surging "Earth Fire Plain" was only left with a circle of flames that spread at a rapid pace.

The little giant Buku also came up to help, and smashed it with a thigh-thick black iron rod. Buku unexpectedly became the person who killed the ice beetle the most, and when he went down with a stick, a few new smashed insect corpses would be added to the stick.

Pure power strikes have become the most effective means of dealing with the Ice Beetle.

Buku smashed hard, but it didn't take long before he screamed. It turned out that several ice beetles had crawled on his body and began to bite and burrow into his body.

Buku's massive body left too much space for the little bugs to attack. Arthur had to pull Buku aside first, pick the beetles out of Buku's body one by one with the tip of his knife, pick out one and crush one with the tip of the knife.

These ice beetles can't be killed or shaken off, and Shino shouted to Arthur in a little hurry: "You two run away with Buku first, and Spence and I can stop them." ”

Before entering the Ice Valley, Sino and a few of them were forced to run away by some small insects, which shows that the ten dangerous places are not in vain.

Arthur was not polite to Sino, and ran away with Buku, because he knew that with the strength of Sino and Spence, even if they couldn't kill these bugs, their lives would not be in danger.

Arthur and Joan had barely run a hundred meters when there was a fluttering sound overhead, and a flock of strange birds flew from nowhere.

These strange birds are small, covered in white feathers, with long black sharp beaks, striking red feet, and sharp claw tips that are golden.

The strange birds pounced directly on the ice beetle swarm, and when they flew by, they swallowed the beetle with a deep beak and a peck on it, and the ice beetle on the ground hovered twice at low altitude and was eaten by a small half.

As if they had encountered a natural predator, many beetles had already burrowed into the ice crevices. But the sharp beaks of these strange birds can easily pierce the ice and catch them out and eat them.

Arthur and Joan stopped running away, and watched with great interest as these strange birds hunted.

Shino and Spence took the opportunity to fly over quickly, "Run!"

"Aren't those beetles almost eaten already?" said Joan, disapproving.

"Run, the Golden-clawed Ice Sparrow is more ferocious than the Ice Beetle, and the worm will come to eat you after eating it!"

Before Sino could finish his words, many strange birds pounced......