Chapter 62: The Golden Riverbank
Although there was no need to waste time if they chose to flee, out of the dragon's pride and persistence, the group did not choose the wisest decision.
Time passed imperceptibly, the short night in the permafrost area passed quickly, and a new morning appeared in front of everyone.
Krisanna lay quietly on Blue's back in human form, motionless, except for the occasional rise and fall of her chest and a slight moan from her mouth to indicate that she was still alive.
After a while, Krisanna's eyelids moved slightly, and then slowly her eyes opened.
The world was as white as ever, still composed mostly of ice and snow, and a shadow blocking the sunlight that was shining on her.
It's just that the world seemed to be receding in Krishanna's eyes, and she was stunned for a moment before she realized that she was lying on Blue's back, and the figure watching her and helping her block the sun was Macaria.
Frowning, Krisanna wanted to hold her feet high and see what was going on around her.
As soon as she moved, she felt a sharp pain in her chest and left foot.
She couldn't help but let out a cry of pain, and when Macaria saw it, she hurriedly said, "Krishanna, are you awake?" Don't move, you're not lightly injured right now, hurry up and lie down and get some rest. ”
Krishanna had just woken up, her mind was still a little fuzzy, and after hearing Macaria's words of concern, she froze for a moment, nodded subconsciously and then lay down obediently.
Well?
Wrong!
It was only after Krisanna lay down again that she realized that something was wrong, why she was so obedient.
It's just that it doesn't seem right to get up at this time, like a child has a temper, and in desperation, she has to focus on reminiscing about what happened last night.
Last night, after a hard battle, several people also killed all the incoming frost giants.
Except for the two Tifflins and Blue, they were all wounded.
Krisanna was knocked out of mid-air by a blow from the Frost Giant, breaking her ribs and one of her foot bones, making it difficult to walk and fly.
In desperation, I had to temporarily act as luggage.
Thinking that her current state was the result of those damn frost giants, Christana squeezed her hand as if she wanted to fight the frost giants.
However, when the battle was over, the Frost Giant's blood had spilled all over the ice, and the anger in Krisanna's heart had diminished considerably.
Lying quietly on Blue's warm back, Krisanna felt how quickly her injuries healed.
After some observation, this injury will be healed in about three days, and she is secretly relieved after discovering this.
She secretly wanted to get up again.
However, she was just about to implement her idea when Blue noticed it, and he said angrily: "Krisanna, if you don't want to continue to be in this state, just stay honest." ”
"I can fly on my own!"
"In a dream?"
“…… Ahem! ”
Spurred on by Blue's words, Krisanna tried to retort loudly, but it touched the wound on her chest, causing her to cough dryly.
After stopping the dry cough, Krisanna also knew that her state was indeed not suitable for recklessness, so she had to twist her head to the other side.
But she soon discovered something more interesting, there was another injury next to her.
"Agnes. Arnold Silvermoon, you look much more pleasing to the eye now. ”
Agnes' face changed, and she was lying like Krishanna.
In fact, her injuries were a little less severe than those of Krisanna, except for the injuries to her wings and face.
But the misery was misery, because of the smashing of the ice cube with her face, the right side of Agnes' face was now swollen and looked quite pitiful.
"Krishanna, shut up!" Agnes growled in exasperation, her eyes glowing dangerously, and she was about to fight if Krishanna dared to taunt again.
Hearing Krishanna's sore words, Blue almost couldn't help but laugh.
However, in order to prevent these two women from really "tearing his hair and tearing his face" on his dragon's back, he still had to speak out again to shut up the two.
At this time, Blue was heading in the direction of the Winter Plains.
The Winter Plains is the southwesternmost region of the Central Continent, and the most terrifying part of the permafrost.
In such a terrible place, there are no more snow leopards, snow sheep and other animals, and there are no so-called roads and plants, and the hundred-legged monsters and snow monsters that wander by from time to time have become the few living creatures seen.
These monsters look similar to ordinary ice animals, such as elk and snow leopards.
But if you look closely, you can see that they either have black unknown objects on their horns, or long bony spines or decks protruding from their joints, all of which indicate that they are not good.
These monsters are far more powerful than ordinary animals, and even more difficult to deal with than ogres.
And occasionally Blue and the others can also see the scene of them hunting each other, which really looks like a thunderbolt.
This is a real thunderbolt, and the collision between these monsters often causes all kinds of flames and sparks to fly.
Of course, if it's just these weird things, there's nothing to be afraid of, what is really scary is that these places are already the places where the white dragon or silver dragon above the old age chooses to nest.
Blue changed his flight path several times during the flight, which was also because he was aware of the territory mark made by the white dragon, so in order not to cause unnecessary battles, it was better to choose to walk around.
It would be nice if it could stay so peaceful, even if it took a little longer to return to my hometown.
Anyway, whether New Shalls City has itself or not is actually a symbolic meaning, and he is not a military administrative genius, so it would be good to leave these to Anna.
Blue exhaled, then used an electric current to instantly stimulate his muscles, and he swooped down with an acceleration.
Before a mutant elk could react, it bit it, and then bit hard, and the hard shell of the mutant elk, which was more than three meters long, immediately cracked under the sharp teeth of the dragon, and let out a mournful cry and died.
After chewing it twice, and finding that the meat was very hard and not tasty at all, Blue grunted and swallowed a small portion of the mutant elk, and then threw the rest behind his back.
Krishanna didn't dislike it, and tore off the two fat hind legs of the mutant elk with both hands, and then gnawed on them.
Yuri and Bieber, the two little white dragons, also rushed forward with a hum, and then took one of the front hooves of the mutant elk and sprayed their own weak frozen dragon breath.
The white dragon likes to eat frozen things, and although the mutant elk that has lost its life quickly stiffens on this winter plain, the two little white dragons still feel that it is too slow, so they are trying to "condition" it to make it more delicious.
And Macaria and Oriana silently took out the dry food from the dimensional bag and nibbled it raw...... They don't have the teeth to gnaw on meat that is harder than a piece of iron.
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Even in winter, the golden banks are as warm as summer, which is also a reason for its tropical nature.
The riverbank, named after the golden leaves on the Windtravel Tree, has seen an explosive increase in foot traffic during this time.
Originally, because the river bank was very close to the port of Gibro and close to the sparsely populated permafrost, not many ships passed through here, and most of them were ships carrying the precious timber of the wind brigade tree, the only specialty of the river, and small passenger boats to and from nearby towns.
But suddenly, a month ago, there were more people in all shapes and forms.
Some of these people look like noble knights, others are thieves, and even revered priests, priests, and mysterious magicians.
The large increase in these outsiders made this small town of only more than 10,000 people lively all at once, and in addition to entertaining the merchants, it also caused some dissatisfaction among the locals.
This is because the crop harvest in the area on the banks of the Golden River is not very high, that is, it is just enough, and the sudden influx of outsiders has suddenly raised the local prices to an unbearable level.
Fortunately, the folk customs here are still quite simple, and these outsiders are very bold, so there is no dispute.
Of course, everyone is more concerned about whether the golden river bank will cause any unnecessary trouble because of these outsiders.
After many inquiries, the locals also vaguely knew that these people came from different countries or regions, and they only came here as an outpost to enter the permafrost zone, and the purpose was to enter the permafrost zone to hunt down the dragons.
When this news was known, everyone became nervous, and people on the golden banks were panicked.
Dragon!
That's the legendary most powerful creature in the world!
Are all these people crazy?
How dare you provoke the dragons?
But they can't help it, they can't ban these outsiders from entering.
Gradually, they have become accustomed to the prosperous scene brought by these people, and they are also accustomed to them rubbing shoulders, swarming everywhere to sweep up supplies, and even some mountain herbs.
And under the Wind Brigade Tree on the Crossroads in the central square of the Golden River Town, the people of the Ni set out gathered in the Golden River Bank to participate in or see the legendary artifact theft.
On another level, Bahamut's attempt to unite people's hearts can be said to have been achieved, but whether this "human heart" is what he wants is another matter.
At noon, the originally clear sky was suddenly covered by dark clouds, and soon raindrops as big as beans began to fall.
Most of the locals walking the streets hurried back to their homes to take shelter from the rain, and at this time, the paladins and paladins who were still training ignored the increasing rain and continued to drag their heavy armor and wield their swords or war hammers.
As soon as it rained, it didn't stop for seven days.
The townspeople were worried about this unusual rain, believing that the artifact had been stolen by the blue dragon, causing the gods to become angry and rain down, and there were even rumors that it was the end of the world and that the rain would never stop.
However, despite the heavy rain, at the same time and place every day, the paladins and paladins still insisted on training and meditating every day, and truly achieved rain or shine.
The spirit of these noble people also infected the residents of the town, and their worries were greatly relieved.
Caesar, who had just arrived on the banks of the Golden River, got off the boat and walked to the central street, watching the paladins and paladins who were training in the heavy rain.
Because he was wearing a heavy leather cloak, no one recognized the famous paladin.
After watching the paladins and paladins in front of him train for a while, Caesar's brow began to wrinkle.
Although they covered it up, Caesar still saw that these reserve teams were gearing up in their hearts and wanted to show their enthusiasm.
He sighed - he had just arrived with bad news......
The Knights Templar on the mainland sent three regiments into the Permafrost Zone to pursue the Blue Dragon this time, each regiment had 8 brigades, each with 40 people, all of them were teams composed of paladins and paladins.
Because the holy warriors and paladins are strong in martial arts and erudite, they can be competent in multiple positions, and they are really able to pick up a shield is a tank, holding a sword in both hands is a violent output, and carrying the holy book is a daddy and a mother.
Dispatching nearly a thousand paladins and paladins at once can be regarded as the second largest operation in the past century after crusading against the remnants of the Mind Flayer Empire and resisting the invasion of demons.
But they didn't expect that not long after they set off, they were full of confidence and were unexpectedly hit hard.
The 3rd, 5th, and 7th Brigades of one regiment were attacked by a prime-aged red dragon and were wiped out.
The 2nd and 4th Brigades of the 2nd Regiment were well-equipped and greedy after being discovered by the Frost Giants.
The other party gathered several tribes to snatch together, but suffered heavy losses in the hard battle and had to withdraw from the queue.
Before the blue dragon was found, there were two hundred people who withdrew from the battle sequence, which was a headache.
What's even more troublesome is that the intelligence shows that the blue dragon actually went deep into the winter plain with the artifact, which made everyone dumbfounded, and they didn't know whether to continue the deep pursuit......
Caesar sighed, and his skull began to ache.