Chapter 18: The Ice Crystal Phoenix

【Freljord Underground, Ancient Ice Cave】

Jax and Udir walked one after the other in an ice cave, almost losing the concept of time, an icy smell in the air, almost no sense of flow, and darkness filling the passage. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It's like a place of independence.

The gaze can't penetrate the darkness, but the Pupil of Destiny can't do that, and even the Pupil that can penetrate the Wheel of Fortune can only see the vast ice mist of ice blue.

Jax hadn't heard of this place, and neither had Udil, it seemed to be an old, forgotten place that held some untold secrets.

Udir tried to spread his arms, his longest middle finger barely touching the glacier-covered rock walls on either side—probably a passage for two people in parallel, not spacious, but they didn't seem to have to worry about hitting the wall at all.

"It feels so weird." Jax said suddenly.

"It's really weird." Udir said. "But there doesn't seem to be any hostility to this power."

"Agreed."

The road was not straight, it was winding, they seemed to be in a narrow cirque valley, turning left and right with the natural ice path.

The more this happened, the more strange it felt to them - for they were supposed to see nothing, to perceive nothing, like flying insects in black-painted jars, which should have hit walls everywhere, but it was surprisingly smooth. They don't think about when to turn or why they want to go on, but their bodies seem to hear what they want to do, and they just do it naturally.

A light gradually appeared in front of them, although it was also a blue light with a cold feeling, but it also made them speed up their pace.

Their vision suddenly widened, and it seemed to be a huge U-shaped valley, deep underground, without sunlight, forming a large moraine landscape - the dome and ground of the cave were covered with ice picks and blue crystals, and sharp spikes rose from the ground, like frozen spears, waiting for outsiders.

Only in front of them was a small path that snaked through the middle of the ice spikes, as if to guide them to the ice tower in the center.

The spiral staircase wound around the outer layer of the ice tower like a coiling dragon, and the ice tower seemed to reach the dome, but the layers of ice mist floated in midair, blocking their view of the upward search.

"It's kind of like Ice Dome Peak. But it's very different. Udir looked at the spectacular spectacle and said slowly.

"I've heard that it's the highest peak northeast of Freljord, and it belongs to the Iron Thorn Mountains in Noxus." Jax said from memory.

"I've found that people outside the Northern Regions always like to memorize something that doesn't matter and call that thing knowledge." Udir laughed at him, and the exhaled air was immediately condensed into a white ice mist by the cold. Then there was a certain look of nostalgia on his face. "That's where Freljord's aura is strongest, and it's said that someone strong enough can see through the fate there."

By this time they had reached the staircase, and the two men looked at the snow-covered stone steps, hesitated for a moment in place, and then stepped onto the staircase.

"It's better to know your fate but not to go against it, it's better to not know it from the beginning, at least that's easier." Jax said with a sigh as he stepped on the snow of the stone steps, followed by a sudden cold wind.

It had been calm and the air was barely moving, and since it was deep underground, it was impossible to have wind and snow.

But from the moment they stepped into the stone steps of the ice tower, large patches of snow and ice spikes rolled up in the cold wind, and rushed towards them, and the clothes on their bodies seemed to have lost their ability to protect themselves from the cold, and let the cold wind pass through and hit their bodies, as if this was not the cold of nature at all.

"Meet again," Jax heard a gentle female voice say to him. "The owner of the Pupil of Destiny."

As they climbed upwards, the force that drove them forward seemed to come from behind them, and the air was like a cold iron chain wrapped around their bodies, but soon they began to crave this cold air, because the higher they went, the thinner the air became, and it became more and more difficult for them to breathe.

The mist-shrouded tower gradually revealed a dazzling blue light, and they got closer and closer, as if the clouds were clearing. Udir and Jax fell several times and got up again, as if elves were hiding in the snow, deliberately pouring into the cracks of their coats.

Udir couldn't bear the cold, and wanted to use the power of the fire phoenix to resist it, but his prayers didn't seem to reach the beast spirit, maybe everything here was just an illusion, maybe he did make the phoenix fire cover his body, but now the mind imprisoned in the illusion by this strange power couldn't feel that kind of warmth.

Their hands and feet are stiff, and their bodies instinctively transfer all the heat to the more important torso.

The ice tower finally crawled at their feet.

At the top of the tower was an open and flat area, with a huge piece of ice standing in the center, which seemed to be a huge bird's egg, and its delicate shell was like a beautiful natural gem, it was so huge that it made people feel that the giant birds it hatched were also extraordinary.

The force behind him seemed to turn into pressure, and Udir knelt down before the dome, and then his body was pressed into the snow, tiny thorns piercing his skin.

Jax's knees trembled, and a great deal of force seemed to be added to him, but he still struggled to maintain his standing position, and he took a step in such a situation, and walked towards the huge egg, his palm pressed against the eggshell.

In the eggshell like a sapphire, a young and handsome face was reflected, and the purple magic array was reflected in his right eye, making the whole person's temperament shrouded in a strange and mysterious.

The wind stopped in an instant, and on the snow-covered dome, a young girl walked slowly towards the two of them with her bare feet, she was as beautiful and proud as ice and snow, and even the ice surface on which the jade feet stepped rippled with a sapphire-like streamer, like a divine grace, and her long silver-blue hair trembled gently, accompanied by the sound of footsteps on the ice, echoing in this empty valley.

Her body was illusory, feeling like a projection.

Udir recognized her breath, his mouth wide open, and he bowed his head reverently in respect. "Phoenix Spirit ......"

Jax smiled lightly (casually, of course, he didn't believe in beast spirits), "It's still the same, Avinia." ”

"You're the same old way. A guy who has been fighting with fate all his life, I am an ancient god, and you don't kneel. ”

"I got the Pupil of Destiny to change the world, but in the end, I found that nothing had changed but myself. The world is like an intricate network of roads, and I pull people along the way, and fate will still bring them to its desires in another way. In his words, there seems to be a kind of sadness like a winter river flowing to the freeze.

"If not, you won't be able to use these eyes to avoid all the signs of death." Anivia looked at the person in front of her, not only was the cloak and mask different from the white-robed young man, but the look in her eyes seemed to be gone.

"That's right. It's just that I can't resist it, it seems to have countless minds, countless ways to deal with the unexpected. I can only see the moves, although fate is the same, like a game, but it has prepared every response plan before I make a move, and everything I have is under its control...... I don't know anything about it. ”

"Actually, you've done a great job. So what are you looking for, Rigginad? Anivia's eyes twinkled.

The name made Udir speechless again.

The corners of his mouth tugged under the mask, "My name is Jax." Reginard is dead, and I am his chosen successor long ago, but in fact I have inherited only this eyeball that can foresee the future. ”

Anivia looked at Jax for a moment, then she chuckled and said, "You are indeed not him." ”

She turned her illusory figure towards the edge of ice and snow, turned at a greater distance, and said, "Why are you here, Jax?" ”

A terrible cold light shot out suddenly, and the sharp tip of the knife grew larger and larger in Anivia's pupils.