Chapter 35: Isolation from the Ice (Part I)

Three hours later, Arthur and his party were taken to the Queen's palace.

The Mermaid's Palace is a magnificent crystal tower made of beautiful pale blue crystal, hard and resilient, that has stood for thousands of years in the bitter cold winds of the North.

The edges and corners that wrap each giant crystal are gold-colored openwork pillars, which are magically set directly on the surface of the crystal, and they are delicately integrated with the crystal, scattered, and extend with the crystal into the sky, emitting a glimmer of magic.

If the traveler stops to take a closer look, he can see the various patterns of the gold. The gold is not just a decoration, its wonderful pattern is a kind of magic spell that protects against enemy fire and wind, so that the crystal tower will never be stained with snow.

The elegance and delicacy of the mermaid, the ability to combine art and usability so seamlessly, such a ghostly architecture, is really amazing.

The only thing that displeased Arthur was the coldness: merfolk love low temperatures, and the crystal-cold texture is a testament to their preference. But for humans like Arthur, the building is barely able to withstand the cold, and although it can keep out the blizzard, it absorbs the cold wind of its own, making everyone who enters the building terrifying.

"Arthur—" The orc boy shuddered, looking at his master uneasily.

"Don't worry, I'll find a way to get you out safely. Arthur said in a low voice.

"If you want to see Queen Bixia, you must first bathe and change your clothes and put on formal ceremonial clothes. "You are tired today, so rest for the night, and wait until tomorrow everything is ready." "I'm tired. Arthur replied absent-mindedly.

"Well, please. Originally, this was a room prepared for the Viking elders to meet with each other, so let's make an exception for your group to live in today. The three of them followed the guards to a large room, which was indeed worthy of the name of the palace. The original crystal walls seem to have been specially hung with animal skins for thermal insulation in order to allow humans to adapt, which is very similar to the style of Viking architecture, but for the sake of elegance, the mermaids all use the white fur of the snow deer, and the room looks as if it is wrapped in snow, but it is much warmer than the crystal palace outside.

"Wow, what a soft bed!" Kai rolled around on the plush bed as soon as he came up. The bed made of snow deer's fur is also as pure white as snow.

"Are you a child?" said Arthur, looking out through the crack in the door.

"It's a tight guard, and it looks like they don't want us to escape. "What? Do you think you'll be able to escape? We're lucky that we're not being taken prisoner to the torture cell. Kay said optimistically.

"Definitely. Arthur pondered, "Everything the merfolk do is really unexpected. Is this gentle approach deliberate, or-" "Arthur, I wonder if they have a toilet here?" Bediwell said embarrassedly, "It's all mermaids, should there be only a women's bathroom?!" "Stupid, they all said that this is a room for Vikings who are preparing to meet, and there should always be a men's toilet, right?" Speaking of this, Kai's face suddenly turned pale: "Wait a minute, shouldn't all the elders who Vikings come to see be women?!" "No, it won't?!" Hearing this, Bediwell panicked even more, "That guard, toilet, toilet-!" "Are you two idiots?" Arthur looked at Kai coldly.

"Hurry up and fix it. The guard said, and stood guard outside the door.

"Whew. When the orc boy saw that there was really a men's toilet, he was relieved and walked in to relieve himself.

"Hmm," - saved, feeling so relieved.

"Huh?" seems to feel, whose gaze is there?

The werewolf boy turned his head sharply and saw a child.

"Wow!" Startled, Bediwell almost peed his pants, "You, what are you looking at?!" "I'm sorry, ha," the strange teenager said with a laugh, "it's just a little strange because it's the first time I've seen someone other than me use this place." "What?" Bediwell was confused.

"I've lived in the palace for so long, this toilet has almost never been used by anyone else. The strange boy said, "So, well, welcome to my bathroom?" "You're such a strange fellow. Bedivel wondered.

"You're a weird guy too. Are you really human?weishenme with a tail behind your ass?" the strange teenager asked.

"This" Bediwell understood, after the shipwreck and this chain of events, the collar's mimicry function began to break. The wolf's tail was revealed.

"Well, it can't be helped. He turned off the mimic, "That's right, I'm an orc." "Oh, that's amazing. First time I've seen an orc!" The strange boy's eyes shone as if he were looking at something new and interesting, "Are you in this kind of place?" I see, are you a new servant?" The werewolf boy frowned in exasperation, "Who's the servant?" "Isn't it?" The strange boy was suddenly very disappointed, "So, come and play?" "Play?" "Here," said the strange boy, turning on a hidden switch on the wall, revealing a secret passage, "This is the secret passage I found before, from here you can sneak outside the palace." Do you want to go out?" "No, it's so late, and—" Bediwell was about to refuse, but it occurred to him that this secret passage might be a chance for them to escape!"—well, just for a moment. He nodded.

The passage was dark and narrow, with a musty smell. The walls gradually changed from crystal walls to basalt walls. The strange boy walked ahead, and Bediwell could only touch the wall and barely keep up.

"By the way, I'm Tristan, what's your name?" the strange teenager asked.

"Bediville. The werewolf boy replied.

"So, Bedi, you are in the palace?" asked Tristan.

"That's a long story. Bedivel said that he began to tell his story, from his first encounter with Arthur to his current time in the Icelandic palace, and briefly told it all.

"Wow, what a stake!" Young Tristan listened with relish, "The shijie out there is so wonderful!Your master Arthur is so good!And what, Sir Kay?weishenme, can he turn into a giant?He really hammered a Kraken to death with his bare hands!?It's so powerful!" Bediwell came back to his senses, and he realized that he had told so much information about this stranger whom he had never met. What's going on!?

"Ah, here we are!" said Tristan, "it's very narrow here, be careful when you come out." Bediville didn't hear it, he was wondering if Weishenme had said so many things that shouldn't have been said, and suddenly he stepped on the air. Coming out of the secret passage turned out to be a cliff, and the werewolf boy who stepped on the empty space immediately lost his balance and fell down the cliff.

"Oh, I've got you!" was the last moment, when the young Tristan grabbed Bedwell with one hand and pulled him back to the edge of the cliff.

"Yes, saved!" Bediwell broke out in a cold sweat.

"Be careful, you idiot. Young Tristan scolded.

"I'm sorry. The orc boy Daoqian said.

"A few more steps, it's almost there. Tristan said.

The teenagers walked on the edge of the cliff against the cliff. After walking a short distance, the cliff path suddenly opened up. What Bediwell saw was a cliff facing the sea, and this cliff was covered with a large field of edelweiss, white in the moonlight!

By moonlight, Bediwell had time to observe the mysterious boy named Tristan.

He looks like a human. Blonde hair, blue eyes, high nose, plus that melon seed face with an almost golden ratio. Standard beautiful boy. However, upon closer inspection, Bediwell saw Tristan's skin covered with tiny scales. These almost completely transparent scales only faintly reflect the moonlight, emitting a golden scale.

Human?merfolk?

The mysterious teenager's white snort exhaled in the cold night tells Beddyville that he is not a ghost at least.

"Hahahahaha!" Tristan said innocently, jumping into the edelweiss and rolling around, "Come too, this furry field of flowers is very comfortable, more comfortable than the highest mattresses!" Bediwell hesitated, but as if some kind of magic was tempting him, he involuntarily pounced on the edelweiss and lay down in the soft flower field.

"You're such a strange fellow. Bedwell, lying beside Tristan, said, "Running to this place in the middle of the night to lie down." Who the hell are you?" "Tristan is Tristan," the boy said, "and though the people always call me a fishman, it has nothing to do with me. "Fish-man?" Bediwell looked at the boy's legs, and he didn't see the boy's tail, but he saw that the boy's legs had slightly large scales and webbed toes.

"Are you a merfolk? but your feet," Bediwell asked curiously.

"Isn't that weird, isn't it? Mom and the others all have tails, but I'm the only one with these legs like a human, and there's a strange one—" Tristan smiled mischievously, "and in short, sometimes even I wonder if I'm a merfolk. Maybe I'm actually human, but the merfolk kindly took me in and magically turned me into what I am now?" Bediville had lived in France for a long time, and he thought he knew a lot about humans, but he couldn't immediately deny it: "I haven't seen a human with fish scales, I don't know." "Don't you know?" Tristan looked visibly disappointed, "Forget it, let's play? Do you want to play wrestling? Or do you want to play like you knights, and try your swordsmanship?" "Swordsmanship? there's nothing here—" Before Bediwell could finish speaking, Tristan pulled out two swords that looked like ice cubes.

"It's done by ice magic. Don't worry, it's deliberately blunt and it breaks when it breaks, and you won't get hurt with this competition. Junior Tristan said.

"If you insist. Bediwell took the ice sword, and the coldness of the thing spread over the werewolf boy's claws, but it didn't have the coldness of the real ice, "First of all, I'm very strong. Do you want me to give you three attacks?" "Hehe, no need xiexie. The other seemed to be very confident, "Don't look at me like this, I have learned swordsmanship from the guards." "Very well, you said. Don't blame me for being beaten and crying. "Bediwell wanted to teach the boy in front of him a lesson.

At the same time, the Ambassador Lounge.

"How did Beddivi go for so long?" Arthur said with some concern, "it can't be that something happened in the toilet?" "How could it be?" Are the merfolk in the palace really so horny, even children?" Kay suddenly jumped up from the bed, "Sister mermaid, I want to go to the toilet too!" "Hopeless pervert." Arthur said disdainfully.