Chapter Seventy-Five: Escaping Death (I)
Belch... Let's pause for a moment.
The following is the "Niederhogg Expedition Journal" written by Isaac Grantham at this moment to Isaac Grantham a few years later.
Of course, no one knows if it will be written in the end, because it was all immediately in my mind at this moment—and more importantly, at the moment when my Loren junior shouted "do it......
I don't even know what he wants me to do.
Isn't it strange? Not at all, and we can't guess whether this white-bearded man named Faoda or some other Rausch has suddenly appeared, and there is no chance of communication under such circumstances...... So there is no "negotiated plan" at all, it is all inspiration from the brain.
But then again, maybe I know what Senior Loren wants me to do, and if you think about it, there is no other possibility than destroying the tombstone.
Destroy the tombstone, use the entrance to Nidhogg to blackmail the white-bearded man, and finally take the opportunity to run away - if I guessed correctly, this is probably the whole plan of Loren's apprentice, and I only guessed this place anyway.
However, there is a very clear loophole in this plan of his!
That is, he didn't have an accurate escape route.
Well... Having said that, he can't actually blame Junior Loren, he can still think of this step after trying his best to turn the situation around, as a spellcaster, he has done his best, no way, this is a congenital defect of intelligence.
It's like a genius who always tolerates another stupid alchemist whose intelligence doesn't grow with age, but has a tendency to decline.
But as a wizard of the occult, of course I had to do better than he did - a thirty-second time limit, solving the puzzle first, finding the way, and finally... Run smoothly.
In the case of determining that the old arms and legs of the white-bearded man could not walk like flying, walking on the cliff like walking on the ground, or turning into a birdman in mid-air, since the road ahead has been sealed, "going down" is the only option.
Luckily, in the few minutes that Uncle Whitebeard and the two of them were talking about it, I had found two safe routes to the top of the snow-capped mountain.
According to my observations, this snow-capped mountain is mostly made up of snow and ice cubes, just like the last place that scared people to death, which means that it is easier to destroy it than you think.
Not to mention that Junior Loren has already used the "Turin Fire" once to severely damage its structure, and another attempt will definitely finish the calf, right?
All that's left is to figure out how to create a small avalanche that will destroy the tombstones and completely destroy the terrain so that the three of us can fall to a mountain platform directly below, and then throw these dead and alive popsicles into the cliffs.
Perfect tactics.
Well, in honor of my ingenuity, Isaac Floor-Lifting Tactics will be called "Isaac's Floor-Lifting Tactics" - this kind of Jedi counterattack must be written in my "Niedhoven Expedition Journal", if I really have the leisure to write this book in the future.
In the end, it only took a quarter of a second to figure out how much of this stuff actually took me, and I was a genius......
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"Boom ————!!!!"
When the earth-shattering sound rolled up the snowflakes, Loren's mind even went blank for a moment, and Isaac detonated the ignition agent behind him.
What the hell is he doing, I just want him to blow up the tombstone!
But it was too late, and the entire rock and ice at the top of the mountain began to crumble and collapse with that loud bang, and it was like paper paste that was broken and crumbled!
Dioda didn't seem to expect this to be the case, and quickly dodged backwards, while the monsters around the sides fell one after another in a tremor, but they still desperately pounced on the three people on the top of the mountain.
There was a tremor, and there was an endless sound, and the black-haired wizard who couldn't even stand on the top of the cracked mountain didn't have time to withdraw the bright silver in his hand, so he fell from the top of the mountain with two other guys and dozens of rotting corpses!
Avalanche ——!
By the time Loren finally reacted, it was too late, and the three of them had already fallen into the bottomless abyss of the glacial fissures along with the cracked snow and ice.
The screams of Lusen and Isaac could still be heard, and the black-haired wizard gritted his teeth - damn it, did he have to open the "valve" at the end?
"Bang ——!"
There was a muffled thud, the shaking stopped, and the icy touch told the black-haired wizard that he was lying on the ground.
Well, how... So fast?
When he opened his eyes and got up, Loren realized that he was not at the lowest end of the glacier crevasse, but on a raised platform in the mountains, and the position of the cliff could be seen upwards, roughly no more than five meters high......
"It's... What's going on?"
Lusen, who had also come to his senses, looked at the cliff above him in amazement, and the avalanche that was still going on beside him, and he couldn't react to the fact that it was happening so quickly.
"It's called intellect that determines fate. Triumphant, Isaac got up with his hands behind his back: "If you're going to listen, I can explain the principle in a few minutes, but ......"
Just as he spoke, the platform under the feet of the three of them suddenly shook!
A continuous tremor came from the other end of the mountain wall, and at the end of the black-haired wizard's sight, countless rotting corpses had climbed to the platform along the path of the snow-capped mountain, sweeping towards them like a torrent!
That's not dozens of hundreds, but real thousands!
The gray-eyed young man on the side also turned blue, and Isaac, who was still proud just now, was directly frightened.
Loren, who had a calm gaze, forced his composure, took a slight breath, and then roared out with all the strength of his body:
"Run——!!!!
Lusen, who reacted immediately, directly picked up Isaac, who was still stunned, and followed Loren to turn around and run wildly——!
Behind him was the rumbling sound of the army of monsters sweeping by, and the crumbling ice and snow were still falling overhead, and the ice walls trembled violently as if the entire snow-capped mountain was about to collapse.
But the three of them couldn't take care of these things for a long time, and they tried their best to run down the mountain trail without looking back!
Faoda at the top of the mountain scrambled to the edge of the cliff with the wooden staff in his hand, his dim eyes looked at the three people who were being chased by countless rotting corpse demons, and the corners of his mouth showed a trace of coldness:
"That's right, run away... Flee and steal your life in the face of death with all your might, and only in the face of the threat of death will you fragile and lowly creatures tell the true location of the entrance to Old Decay Hogg!"
"The Dragon King will return to the world, and when the 'valve' opens, your fear, despair, anger, sorrow, and pain...... It will be an appetizing pastime for Lord Lemantes the 'Dead' to come to the world!"
"Boom ——!"
With a violent roar, the entire snow-capped mountain began to tremble endlessly as if it had been hit hard, and the ice on both sides exploded!
Snow falls, ice breaks, and earth and rocks splash——!
Lusen and Loren, who were carrying Isaac on their backs, still ran as hard as they could without looking back, and the rotting demons chasing after them continued to fall from the mountains, and then more monsters continued to catch up from behind.
Just before the cliff, there are still many pale and withered figures, climbing up along the gradually crumbling ice, like ants attached to the wall, swarming!
There is no time to think, no time to judge, and no time to even think clearly about what he is doing, the beating heart and dilated lungs constantly supply the body with energy, so that the black-haired wizard does not look back and flies between the snow-capped mountains that are gradually disintegrating.
Falling blocks of ice and earth fell from the sky, smashing directly into the middle of the road they were running on, and suddenly exploded.
The road is cut off!
The stunned black-haired wizard stood on the edge of the fractured cliff, while Lusen turned his head in a violent pant and looked behind them with terrified eyes.
Hundreds of carrion demons were rapidly approaching, and the pale and withered figure had come into view.
"Jump, jump——! Isaac shouted as hard as he could because of his size.
But at this moment, no one had the heart to laugh: "The second route is directly below this position, and we have at least a six-tenths chance of falling into the exact position if we jump down now, and the snow a full two meters deep can act as a buffer!"
"How about a gamble——?!"