Maybe it's an accident, but this time the things on both sides of the evil god's head that I don't know if it's the ears or the gills actually moved a few times.

The elephant jellyfish, named Dangji, travels north along the frozen river.

During this time, they had encountered several lonely evil gods wandering in the practice ground at close range.

But for some reason, all the gods just looked at them from the bushes or the other side of the hill and left.

Maybe they think of Lifa as an accessory to Dangji, but then there will be a question, that is, why did the three-headed giant-type evil god attack Dangji?

The only reason Lifa could come up with was that the evil gods who passed them by while moving were all like Dangji, and they didn't look like humans at all.

When she turned her head to seek Kirito's opinion, she didn't expect that this Kirito would start to doze off in such a situation.

Lifa clenched her fists again, but with a quick idea, she reached out and grabbed a large handful of snow that had accumulated on Dangji's back.

Before the snowball objects were about to disappear, Lifa quickly threw them through the collar of Kirito's black coat.

"Wow!"

After being directly hit by the cold effect, Kirito jumped up with a strange scream.

And Lifa said good morning to him and asked the question just now.

Although a look of annoyance appeared on Kirito's face for a while, he said casually while thinking about it, "...... In other words, did there also a struggle between the evil gods who were more like humans and the evil gods who looked like wild beasts......"

"Perhaps...... Maybe the humanoid god will only attack Dang and his companions......"

Ünzheim was probably just introduced in the new training arena in the big update a month ago, and due to the high level of difficulty, it is almost always unexplored.

If this was some kind of event, then Lifa and the others were probably the first to notice it.

If the general evil god hunting team found out about the battle between Dangji and the giant, then they would all watch the tiger fight from the sidelines, and wait until Dangji was killed, and then directly fight the giant-

"Well, the only one who knows all the inside story is the programmer who knows the inside story and this incident. Let's just let it be. ”

After Kirito finished speaking, he lay back and used his arms as pillows and raised his feet.

After sighing at Kirito's overly relaxed attitude, Lifa thought about casting a freeze spell on her if she fell asleep again this time, and looked at the timetable in the corner of her sight.

Once upon a time, the blue-and-white numbers were already more than three o'clock in the morning.

For Lifa, who has been going offline by 2 a.m. at the latest, the next is uncharted territory.

She sighed in her heart, 'I even stayed up late because of online games', while touching the short hair at her feet.

This strange evil god didn't pay any attention to the person on his back, and just continued to walk at a certain speed-

When it climbed the hill buried by snow and ice, it finally stopped.

"Wow ............"

Lifa moved to near Dang's head, then looked ahead, and then let out a loud exclamation.

A cave appeared in front of her eyes.

And it's a cave of incredible scale.

Its diameter is so wide that it looks like a blue mist on the other side, and a huge vertical cavern opens its bloody mouth right in front of it.

The steep and upright cliffs are buried by deep layers of ice, which descend from the transparent white of the upper part to form light blue, blue, dark blue, and finally pitch black.

No matter how much you concentrate and look down the cave, you can only see a deep darkness.

"I don't know what will happen if I fall...... "Even Kirito said in a nervous voice.

"It can't be a bottomless pit, right?"

Lifa and Kirito stepped back together, preparing to return to the center of Dangji's back.

But the evil god's body was the first to move.

- Is it to throw us into this hole?

Lifa screamed inwardly, but fortunately the evil god didn't seem to be such an ungrateful monster.

It folded all twenty feet inward, keeping its back balanced and letting its massive body descend.

A few seconds later, the lowest part of the body hit the snow. The god purred a little cry and began to suck his long nose into the inside of his body - and then stopped completely still.

“………”

Lifa and the others looked at each other before they flinched and got off their backs.

After leaving a few steps, I looked back and saw that it was no longer an elephant jellyfish.

It tucked its head and body under its body, and what was waiting there now was just a very ordinary big steamed bun.

“…… What the hell is this guy going to do......"

Kirito said blankly, and Riffa took a few steps past him before patting the fur off the evil god.

"Hey—dang. What are we going to do next?"

But the god didn't react at all, and after Lifa slapped it hard again, she felt a change in the touch on her right hand.

As the two of them sat on it and moved, their bodies felt as elastic as resin cushions, but now they were all stiff.

Lifa worries if it died from completing its mission, so she quickly leans one ear against the fur.

As a result, a periodic heavy bass boom came from the depths of the interior, and Lifa took her face away from the evil god with peace of mind.

Looks like he's still alive, right?

The damage from the giant's attack is no longer a problem, and the HP bar indicated by the yellow arrow has now been fully recovered.

"So...... Could it just be that we're just asleep? We can't sleep yet?"

When Lifa pursed her lips and angrily tugged at the evil god's hair, Kirito behind her suddenly spoke, "Hey, Lifa." Look at it, it's spectacular!"

The root of the World Tree, which looked like an inverted cone from a distance, was now almost directly above their heads.

Giant icicles are surrounded by black roots that are entrenched everywhere. It should be about as wide as the vertical hole below.

If you look closely, you can see that there seems to be some kind of structure inside the icicles.

Through the clear icicles, you can see that there are passageways and halls inside, and the torches in them also glow blue through the icicles.

"Truly spectacular...... If it were all a labyrinth, it would be the largest labyrinth in ALO......"

Lifa sighed as she unconsciously reached out her hand.

However, the distance to the lower end of the large icicle is at least 200 meters, so even the dark elves who can fly underground cannot reach it.

"How can I get there......

After hearing this question, Kirito seemed ready to say something.