Chapter 70: Avalanche
"Knock", "knock", "knock", there was a muffled sound intermittently in the ice mist, and then the plain returned to calm.
As the sun sets, the ice fog clears and the ice breaks apart.
Harold rubbed the black blood stains and human tissue from the ball-headed baton on the snow, and then took the weapon back into the package.
"Come out, Edith! It's all solved. Harold shouted softly.
There was no response, Harold was stunned, and he hurried towards where Edith was lurking, when suddenly a snowball floated over and hit Harold on the cheek.
"Hahaha! We got a point. Edith chuckled and crawled out of the snowdrift, shaking the snowflakes off her head.
"Hey!" Harold pouted, too lazy to bother with her.
"We've helped you this time, haven't we?" Edith said.
"It's okay, it's okay. Without your magic, I wouldn't have had it so easy for me to deal with them. Harold said lightly, his arm raised, his thumb pointed behind him, and the snow not far away was littered with human remains.
Edith's face immediately turned pale, if it was a corpse covered in scales or like the 'black-scaled living dead' that blew itself up next to the dense forest, Edith wouldn't be so afraid, but the black scale armor on these human remains disappeared like ashes, revealing the dry skin of the human body, and the black blood and the remains of the human body were not too obvious in the white snow under the moonlight.
Seeing that Edith's face became uncomfortable, Harold didn't say anything, he just said, "I have just recovered and examined these corpses, it is already night, we move a little further down the mountainside, and we should be able to find a cave where we can live." I'll tell you more about my findings there. ”
"Uh-huh!" Edith nodded, deliberately not looking at the wreckage.
Harold thoughtfully led Edith around the corpses, and the two of them continued to move up the hillside.
Tonight's moon glows purple-blue, a sight that happens every year at the end of the year, and the waning moon hangs like a scimitar in the night sky, as if it is peeking at the two travelers climbing to the top of the mountain.
Two hundred meters up, the temperature became colder and colder, and the terrain suddenly became steeper, Harold and Edith walked to the mountainside about two thousand meters above sea level, the cold wind was as cold as a knife, and the white air exhaled by the traveler seemed to be able to quickly freeze into ice droplets.
The purple light of the waning moon with a strange atmosphere sprinkled on the snowside of the snowside of the St. Maurice Snow Mountain, pulling the shadows of the two travelers long.
Edith had just seen the ruins of the battle that made her look uncomfortable, and now she looked at the long shadow on the snow, and her head began to think cranky.
Growing up, Edith lived on flat grasslands, and she can say that she had never been to a place with such a high altitude as the mountain plateau.
The previous toss had prevented her from resting well, and now it began to double down on her.
"Are you alright?" Harold slowed down, and he looked back at Edith.
"It's okay, we're okay." Edith looked up, and under the purple moonlight, Harold's bewitching and cold face was extremely strange at the moment.
Ithine seemed to see the blood on his face, and Edith knew it was a hallucination, but the hallucination still made her hair stand on end, and her body was a little weak.
"What's wrong with you?" Harold took a few quick steps and grabbed Edith's wrist.
"I didn't ...... It's nothing! Edith twisted her wrist to break free of Harold's grasp.
Completely ignoring her commotion, Harold gently touched her forehead, and then said, "It seems to have a fever." Sorry, blame me for ambushing you in the snow. ”
Edith's heart calmed down instantly, she pursed her lips, lowered her head, and kept blaming herself in her heart: "Why are we, why were we afraid of him just now?!" I know that he is destroying monsters, but also to protect us. ”
"I'm sorry." Edith whispered.
Harold was surprised: "Excuse me? What are you sorry for me? ”
"We scared you a little bit, it shouldn't be. Although your way of fighting has always been so savage. ”
"Haha!" Harold chuckled, and he shook his head. "Can I praise me for the word 'savage'?"
"Yes! If you don't care. ”
"Then I'll accept this evaluation." Harold said, taking out a long cotton rope from his backpack and saying, "If you go further up, it will get steeper and steeper, and if we connect the two of us with this rope, we won't fall apart." ”
Harold tied the cotton rope around his waist and handed the other end to Edith.
Edith took the rope, and she tied it around her waist as Harold had said.
After doing this work, the two were preparing to continue their search for a cave to live in near the mountainside.
At this pass, from the summit of the snow-capped mountain of St. Maurice came the loud roar of some animal in the distance, and the roar was accompanied by a cold wind, and the chill penetrated the hearts of the two travelers.
"!!" Harold cursed under his breath. "It's Ice Roar!"
"What's the matter, isn't it still far away? It's a long way from us. ”
Harold's ears twitched, and he said eagerly, "I can already hear the sound inside the snow, and the avalanche is coming." Hurry up, get on my back and put your arms around my neck! ”
The snow in the St. Maurice Snow Mountains is already very thick in winter, and the roar of the "ice roar" at the summit directly shakes the internal structure of the snow, and the thick snow layer will roll straight down under the action of gravity.
The roar was the straw that broke the camel's back, and the snow began to move like dominoes.
And the two travelers halfway up the mountain will bear the brunt!
"Edith, remember! Hold me tight no matter what. When I jump, you're going to keep using ice magic on the surface of the snow. Harold shouted.
It was too late to run down the hill, and Harold and Edith had to bite the bullet and ride the avalanche.
"Understood!" Edith cast a spell, and she half-crouched to the ground to cast the spell, and a triangular wall of ice rose from the ground, blocking them in front of them to buy some time.
"Boom, boom," Edith had just erected the ice wall when the loud sound of the avalanche reached the ears of the two of them.
The moonlight wasn't bright enough tonight to see too far, but Edith knew that the avalanche hidden in the darkness was far bigger than she had imagined, and Edith put her arms around Harold's neck and gently held his collar by the collar.
She knew that all she had to do now was trust this man completely, and assist him in all the way she could.