The next morning, Lightning told Maisie of his intentions, and after a brief discussion, the two decided not to search the Stone Forest layer by layer, but to speed up their pace and fly straight towards the Rift Plateau.

Regardless of whether there are new discoveries or not, after drawing a topographical map of the area, return to the Snowy Ridge of Eternal Winter and join the Tachira Witches.

The sun was just emerging from the skyline, the mountains were covered with mist, and white frost could be seen in the criss-crossed waterways, the traces of last night's flooding. As the terrain slowly climbs, the white in the field of vision becomes more and more white, until the mountains are all over the wilderness—and the Great Rift Valley in the distance is completely covered with snow, and it looks like an upside-down white porcelain bowl from a distance.

It is estimated to be about 300 kilometers away from the Kingdom of Eternal Winter, an area that is enough to reach an extreme south. The Rag was also described in the Federation's Dawn Atlas, which was believed to have been formed by a volcanic eruption, but has now completely subsided.

Lightning had seen the craters of the Scorching Isles that were spewing smoke and sulfur all day long, but they were far from the size of the mountain range.

Two hours later, the expedition approached the Great Rift Valley region.

The whole picture of this spectacular and peculiar terrain is finally revealed in the eyes of the two.

"Good...... It's so big," Maisie exclaimed, flapping her wings, "It feels like there's an entire kingdom in this pit." ”

Lightning couldn't help but nodded, the rift valley she thought was not actually an earth fault, and the shape of the mesa was by no means a mountain peak rising here, but the ground seemed to have been broken away from the inside out, and the upturned rock formations formed an irregular "mountain wall", and the living image from a high altitude was a scar on the earth.

If this was really a "breach" caused by the eruption, how amazing would it have been at the time?

The two of them pressed down and landed two or three kilometers away from the Great Rift Valley—to be on the safe side, it was usually Maisie who took the lead, after all, she could blend in perfectly with the local environment, and even if she was bumped into by the enemy, she might not be able to recognize her.

"Listen," Lightning admonished, "don't go deep into the cave, circle along the rift and come back." If you notice anything out of the ordinary, don't go alone—"

"Be sure to report to the head of the regiment first, and then work together to determine the next step. Maisie interrupted, "I know I know, you've said it many times...... Just like His Majesty Roland!"

"Uh, really?" Lightning touched the back of her head a little embarrassedly, remembering that when Roland told her like this before, she had also complained to the group members in private, a genius explorer naturally knew how to make the most reasonable judgment, and what needs to be instructed. Looking back now, she was really childish at that time. "Ahem, anyway, it doesn't hurt to say important things a few more times! I'll stay here and search the nearby area by the way, no more than a kilometer at most. Remember the location, and return in thirty minutes, understand?"

"No problem!"

"Very well, go ahead. Lightning patted her on the shoulder.

"Maisie, let's go!" the latter flapped his wings and flew towards the center of the Great Rift.

It wasn't until her figure completely disappeared from view that Lightning withdrew her gaze and carefully surveyed her surroundings.

The snow owl is a common bird in the area, a type of owl, which can be active during the day and night, and has excellent eyesight, so as long as you don't act rashly, the possibility of accidents is extremely low. She herself was much more exposed—there were glaciers everywhere, there were few signs of animals, and if a devil popped up, she would be the most visible target.

So rather than looking for signs of enemy activity, lightning looks first at places to hide or dodge. She can't leave all her troubles to others to clean up like she used to.

However, less than five minutes later, the sound of rapid flight was heard overhead.

Lightning couldn't help but be stunned, and as soon as he followed the prestige, he saw Maisie swoop down in a panic and crash into her arms.

"There's a devil, a devil!" cried the little girl.

Her heart jumped, could it be that there really was a divine stone vein here, "What did you find?"

"A huge vigilant demon is lying on the stone wall below the entrance of the cave!" Maisie said, gesturing with her hands, "I just flew through the entrance of the cave and I met it!"

That meant the Eye Demon saw her, too.

Lightning couldn't help but feel a sense of happiness, fortunately he didn't always rush to the first as usual, seeing a witch and seeing a bird are completely different things, and a snowy owl should not arouse the other party's vigilance.

"And then, you didn't scream on the spot, did you?" she asked, just in case.

"Of course, I'm an experienced bird—no, Explorer Goo!" said Maisie, puffing up her chest, "Don't scream, I didn't even blink my eyes, and I pretended to look around, and quietly looked away! I bet it had forgotten about me now!"

Flashing the computer, another picture flashed in the sea.

A snowy owl widened its eyes and stared at the vigilant demon on the rock wall, then turned its head away and deliberately twisted away......

"Oh no, no! " She grabbed Maisie and rushed towards a hidden spot she had found earlier!

"Goh?" and the latter hadn't reacted yet.

It was an ice cave hundreds of meters away, probably because of the rocks around it, and the snow didn't fill the fissure below, just enough for one person to hide. The lightning bolt scurried into the cave and lowered himself, revealing only half of his head to the top of the rift.

A moment later, a "door" with a strange sheen appeared out of thin air.

Then a devil came out of the door, and hovered straight above the Great Rift. Lightning felt like she was breathing a little slower - she felt no less pressure on the other than she felt in front of Ersruk.

The devil looked left and right for a while, and suddenly rushed down the mountain! For a moment, Lightning felt that the blood in her whole body was going to freeze, and her body almost subconsciously wanted to turn around and flee, if it weren't for the fact that the other party's orientation and hiding place did not match, she was afraid that she would have followed her instinctive reaction.

The devil plunged headlong into the snow and ice, and a large white mist splashed up, and by the time it stood up again, it had an extra snowy owl in its hand.

Lightning swallowed and involuntarily touched his chest—

Luckily, Maisie is still there.

The devil brought the frightened snowy owl to him and stared at it for a long time, and finally shook his head in disappointment, and let go of it. The latter immediately screamed and flew into the sky, quickly turning into a white dot.

The devil didn't stay long, it clenched its hands again, tore open the door of light in front of the empty body, and then stepped into it, disappearing before the eyes of the two of them.

Lightning finally let out a sigh of relief.

In this way, the whereabouts of the expedition group were not revealed.

"Goo...... What are we going to do next?" Maisie finally realized her "wrong reaction" and asked with her head drooping.

If it had passed, Lightning would probably have chosen to try to infiltrate somewhere else - the Great Rift Valley is so wide that even the Vigilant Eye Demon can't spy on every corner. For explorers, the first discoverer and the second discoverer, although only one person apart, have completely different meanings. If she could, she would always like to be the first.

However, at this moment, she is not a simple explorer, but the leader of the Neverwinter Expedition and a sentinel who expands the horizons of the First Army.

No matter what lies beneath the Rift, the appearance of the Vigilant Eye Demon and the High Devil is already an extremely dangerous sign!

She must get the news back to Neverwinter as soon as possible and inform His Majesty Roland Wimbledon.

"Let's go to the Snowy Ridge and join the Witch of Tachira," Lightning said with a light lip, "and the mountains are no longer a safe place for no one to set foot in. ”