Chapter Twenty-Five: Over the Mountains
"You're a piece of shit, Tien. She craned her neck, and a bunch of spring water condensed from the air and fell into her mouth, "Greedy and cowardly, afraid of bitterness and cunning, you have really insulted the good character of the dwarf, and it may be more appropriate to say that you are a goblin." ”
"No matter what.... What do you say, Enid. Tyne's whole body trembled at a sixty-degree angle to the rock, "I can't climb... It is.. I can't climb anymore. ”
"Hey, it's the first time I've seen someone leak out of their mouth for fear of leaking air. Lucia laughed happily, "The world is wonderful, and there are so many ways to stutter!"
"I have to point out that he's not a man, he's a goblin, oh no, mistaken, a gnome who just looks like a goblin. After a few turns, Marcas's tone finally settled, the day's mission was the most dangerous for him except for Lucia, but Marcas, who had escaped from the group fight, now seemed to be completely well.
Yulai laughed softly, his elven blood allowed him to walk on even the steepest cliffs, as dexterous as the birds that dwelt between them.
Mia tugged at Olves' sleeve and said, "Just let him rest for a while, Enid, you can't climb the rocks at night on Manaloo's peak." ”
"Why, Mia. "Is it because the dwarf's body is warm at night, making it a perfect meal for young birds?"
"Because of the heartpeckers from before, Enid. Mia struggled to recall the knowledge that his father had taught him about the Manalu Peak, "They live on the cliffs, they drink and sleep during the day, feed at night, and move in groups, which is very difficult to deal with. ”
Olves's face turned slightly white, a mage like her, who is not good at wind magic, has always disliked magical beasts flying in the air, she kicked Tyne hard, "Get out, Tien, let's find a place to rest at night." ”
Still the word "rest" was useful to Tën, and he immediately got to his feet, flying up the rock like a spider with his hands and feet in the midst of everyone's stunned eyes.
Olwes sighed, rejecting Anka's offer of help, and carefully flipped her body leaning against the rock, and the hook she threw accurately hit the crack cut by the wind blade in the mountain wall, and began to climb.
This cliff is a nameless cliff, but there are not a few adventurers who have died here, it reaches a height of 7,000 meters, and the almost flat and smooth walls are prohibitive, but for most of their team, it is a rarity.
Although the magician slowed down the group, they were not unhappy with her decision, instead they were happy to see their companions train themselves to grow.
Finally Olwes gasped and climbed into the cave in the mountain wall, and shook the sweat from her forehead, her silky hair was now a little messy with sweat. After taking the jug handed over by Yulai and drinking a cow drink, her violently undulating chest calmed down somewhat.
It was almost dusk outside, and the sky outside the cave was a picturesque sunset, and the sound of returning birds was slightly loud. But a blue fell from the top of the clouds and cut down into the sky, and the flutter of their wings sounded like a violent wind, and the breath of the people was choked for a moment as the shadow covered the mouth of the cave, and they watched as they soared away to inspect the vast territory.
"Whew...", everyone glanced at Mia with some gratitude, and I have to say that the little girl's reminder saved everyone's lives, even the strongest adventurer may have planted his hands somewhere in his own poor condition.
The bonfire didn't take much effort under Olves's magic, and after a while the team smelled the smell of broth coming from the iron pot, and in order to take care of Anka, there was an iron bucket several times larger boiling next to it, Ankh couldn't help but take it and swallow it, and the half-giant's eating appearance made them also start to be a little hungry, and they couldn't wait to open the dishes and scoop up the broth.
"Hot!", Tien said with a satisfied expression as he gulped down the broth, "My grandfather taught me from a young age to take more and take less, not to learn the extravagant habits of the human aristocracy, so that I could enjoy the good nature of life. ”
Everyone was stunned for a moment, looked up at each other and burst into laughter.
Tyne glanced at everyone suspiciously, "What, is there anything wrong with that?"
Marcus was already out of breath with laughter, patted his leg vigorously and said, "Enid, I think your guess is roughly correct, Tyne may not be a goblin, but he must have been raised by a goblin. Tell me out loud, fellow friends, what is the only good quality of a goblin?"
A burst of laughter came, "Thrifty!"
"It's not funny. Tyne blushed and jumped up, "It's an insult, how can goblins and gnomes be juxtaposed." ”
"Got it, Tien. Lucia patted the dwarf on the shoulder comfortingly and said with a smile, "Everyone is just joking, your grandfather's words are a good lesson." ”
"But seriously, Tyn, where did you spend all the money you made?", Yulai asked a half-elf puzzle as he gracefully chewed his bread.
Everyone fell silent all of a sudden, which was indeed curious.
"Alchemy. ”
"What?"
"Alchemy. Tyne said again, crossing his fingers a little crampedly, "I'm studying alchemy. ”
"There's no way you and I can touch these realms, Tern. The half-giant sighed, "Your race is good at machinery, and mine has a strong physique, but nothing else. ”
"I understand, Ankh. Tine's face was unusually mixed with a complicated expression, "But we are all the last descendants of the remnants of ancient glory days, and we can't reach the height of our ancestors." Even if it's hard to learn, we have to learn something. ”
Olwes surprisingly did not refute Tine's words, but lay down silently in the baked warm cave and closed her eyes to rest, the scene of asking her father for swordsmanship came to her mind, and the unrewarded effort could not but be said to be a kind of torment.
She understood Tyne's feelings, but she didn't know if there was a path ahead.
The next day they finally reached the top of the cliff, carefully avoiding the huge nests of heartpeckers under the cover of Yulai's talent, the snow began to stretch from their field of vision thicker and thicker, and the wind was blurred by the snow.
Olwes pulled out a deermon's magic core, and the rose-red hedron turned into a shimmering slurry along with the same magical material under her chanting, extending into a hemispherical thermal barrier that protected everyone in the middle.
If it weren't for the fact that the blood that everyone was about to coagulate a little in the battles just now, the deviant Orves, Tyne, and Yulai would have fallen in this ice and snow, and even the half-giant Ankka could not fully endure the terrible cold, and this barrier magic made him feel very comfortable.
"The higher we go, the cooler it gets, so we have to speed up and reduce the consumption of the cores. Olves covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief to prevent herself from breathing in the cold wind and snow, "I don't know if there are toothed white wolves in this icy and snowy land, I really want to know where the demonic beasts in the world come from." ”
"It's alright, Enid. "My little ones are out there patrolling and won't let us be surrounded." ”
"Wait a minute, there's a fight!", Yulai pricked up his long ears, "I can't hear clearly because of the wind, but it should be some other adventurer." ”
"Other adventurers?", Lucia laughed, "I think I'm also going to the Foggy Valley of Themis, which is good news, go check it out." ”
Ankka placed Orves on her shoulder, allowing her to concentrate more on maintaining the barrier as the crowd moved, and they quietly headed northeast where the voice was heard.
"Don't move! Olwes stopped Tine's small movements. Although they hide under the snow, the reflection of the weapon is still particularly dazzling.
Unexpectedly, after they traveled two thousand meters, they met no one else, it was the great swordsman of the "Dawn of the Night", she was single-handedly fighting with a group of hunters who were almost integrated into the snowfield, the long-toothed white wolf, I have to say that her sword skills and reflexes were really superb, only in these few moments, three white wolves were pierced through the throat and thrown on the spot.
She finally began to show her decline, the cold of the snow and the accumulated exhaustion seeping into her body, slowing her movements.
A huge cloud of snow swooped down on her from the snow and flapped her sword away, and the cunning white wolf king finally caught the best opportunity on the ground, and the great swordsman hurriedly took a step back, and the long, sharp fangs that should have bitten off her neck only pierced her arm, and the clattering sound seemed to break it in the next moment.
The other white wolves also rushed up, but Marfa did not panic, hugged the wolf king and rolled straight down the snow blanket on the steep slope, the severe pain did not affect her strength, and picked up the long sword with her left hand as she rolled, and a sword light entered through the wolf king's eyebrows like thunder and lightning.
"Chase her and kill her, Lucia, she seems to have noticed us!"
"This great swordsman seems to be called Marfa, get rid of her, and we don't have to worry about the revenge of the "Dawn of the Night"!"
Lucia smiled as she stood up the hill, watching Marfa and the wolves trail away in the snow with bloodstains, "Forget it, Marcas, Tyne, we don't need to make a mortal enmity with the Dawn of the Night, and this brave team won't collapse because of the loss of a leader." ”
"Mercenaries who like to fight and kill in private fights, and adventurers who like competitors and friends. ”