Chapter Seventy-Four: The Former Ice Grave

The Ranger paddled hard, but his speed didn't increase much. And the crocodile is very fast when it enters the water, and it pounces like an arrow from a string. He didn't know if the swan virgin, who had sworn to remain chaste for the rest of his life, would kill himself in anger, but at least he would bite and drag him into deep water and drown half to death.

Rushing to his side, the swan girl who turned into a crocodile hesitated: "If you hurt him, will Mina's impression of me be a little rude?" Males in estrus are very irritable and impulsive, and humans are especially bad in estrus throughout the year...... However, he must not be allowed to fall into the hands of a man, at most he will be healed afterwards. Besides, it's obviously him who is wrong!"

Thomas watched the crocodile rush closer and was about to bite down. He kicked his legs against the rock wall, and with the force of the recoil, crashed into the small tunnels that were connected. Despite the pain from the small wound on his back that had been grazed by the stone ridge, Thomas grabbed the stone wall with his swimming belt and fled forward.

The crocodile that Swan Girl turns into is not very large, and Thomas thinks it should be similar to the one that is preyed on by Jaguar in videos and GIFs. Although the twists and turns of the underground waterways were not enough to sprint in a straight line, she still approached nimbly and quickly after squeezing into the tunnel.

In order to avoid her pursuit, Thomas panicked and fled the current into a fork in the road.

The undercurrent here is rapid, fierce and changeable, and the light is completely inaccessible. After a day of vigilance and fighting in the wilderness, she should have had no dark vision, echolocation spells, or that spell that had failed, as she washed away her fatigue in the hot springs. Thomas saw that her speed had dropped significantly. But the swan girl relied on the crocodile's thick skin and hard scales, and still pursued at high speed on a rampage.

She followed the scent of his bloodstream closer and closer, and the chemicals in Thomas's diving mask were providing less and less oxygen, and he was probably done.

The Ranger greedily sucked up the last bit of oxygen, shoved the stuffed feather cloak into his pocket and hid behind a protruding rock. The caves here twisted and twisted, the water flowed violently, and the sound of a waterfall in the distance might have slightly disturbed her keen senses.

The crocodile stumbled around the rocks, a little confused as to where he was going, and for a moment his movements slowed a little. But she immediately spotted the target, adjusted her stance, flicked her tail and turned to bite.

Having reviewed the tigers, leopards and humans ambushing and subduing the crocodile, Thomas lunged and jumped onto the crocodile's back. Under the influence of hormones and adrenaline, he used his strength to feed and strangled the crocodile's mouth.

The crocodile slammed the ranger on his back into the rock wall, only to find that he couldn't shake off the transformation despite his strength. Thomas was still barely holding on, and Swan Girl was getting impatient. With a thought, she transformed a spell that still continued on her body into "free movement".

During the scuffle between the two, a wave of water suddenly rippled on the crocodile's body, and it instantly became extremely slippery and impossible to catch. She gently shook Thomas off and opened her crocodile mouth to bite down.

One, two, three laps, Thomas spun to her rhythm so as not to be strangled by the crocodile death spin.

"Murder my husband!" this bite almost bit little Thomas, and scared Big Thomas out of his soul. He secretly made up his mind that in the future, he would make her pay for her blood debt: the white knife went in and the red knife came out, and then he cast the spell of tissue regeneration, and continued the white knife to enter and the red knife to go out...... Kill until her blood is flowing and she is dead and alive, day and night, and then she will give up.

There was a straight road ahead, and Thomas flicked his finger on the flash shirt and pointed into the distance, turning into a flash of lightning and escaping from the crocodile's mouth.

"Oh no, she seems to have momentary freedom of movement. Not only can it completely ignore the opponent's grappling, but it also allows the user to fight flexibly underwater, which is the best of the 4-ring magic arts. Underwater combat was not good for me, but now ......"

The crocodile turned into the Swan Maiden pounced with its teeth and claws, and Thomas, who was short of oxygen, swam a few times and was involuntarily dragged into battle. His resistance only lasted for a dozen seconds, and he felt a blackness in front of him.

Swan Girl carefully grabbed him, realizing that Thomas was about to lose consciousness.

"Oh, I've always had the heart of water in me, and I can breathe underwater like a fish. He's just a ranger, and he doesn't have this kind of spell, so it's hard to survive this time. What to do, there is not enough time to bring him back to it. Listening to the sound of a waterfall in the distance, the Swan Girl remembered that there was a cave below, and that there was a cliff not far away.

Pushing Thomas across the waist, the crocodile carries him out of the cliff. The mind moves again, and the "Heart of Air" transforms into a feather fall that only a mage has. The two leapt into the air descend gently with a steamy waterfall, surrounded by ice picks and crushed ice, strewn with the corpses of savages who wanted to explore the area.

If you don't have a spell or a swan that can swim and fly, you will fall to your death and be wrapped in ice clothes by splashing water droplets.

Putting the man on the ground, her crocodile skin was inconvenient to test her breathing, so she directly launched first aid. Thomas Thomas, who pretended to be dead, was slammed by a crocodile claw after being hit in the chest and abdomen, and he coughed and sat up: "Ahem...... I'm fine. Can't you just follow my idea for something romantic, like artificial respiration?"

Seeing that he was okay, the Swan Girl was relieved, and she stretched out the crocodile's huge mouth, and motioned if she wanted to use it for a bite.

Thomas "waved" and kissed the crocodile on the face, causing her to half-stand up in crocodile form and flee in panic.

Ignoring the wound on his thigh, Thomas touched his feather coat, which was still well hidden inside. Maybe she was in a hurry to save people and lost a great chance to get it back.

"This is a good girl!" Thomas smiled apologetically with a burst of admiration in his heart, "I lost this time, and the feather coat will be returned to you." ”

The faint light of the outdoors shines through some of the weak layers of ice at the top of the cave, reflecting off the icicles and ice walls to create a wonderful light and scene, surrounded by steaming fog and the sound of water.

Thomas closed his eyes and turned his head, handing out the feather coat far away. The frightened swan girl watched carefully for a while, and after making sure that he would not secretly open his eyes, she turned back into a human form and ran away from the feather coat, hiding behind the ice.

The Ranger felt his hand loosen, and Swan Girl's footsteps moved away with a breeze. Peeking in, a woman with brown and black hair was hiding behind a thick piece of ice. Her skin was very white, faintly translucent like ice and snow, and it must have felt like jelly to the touch. From the back of the side, she has a general upper and middle circumference, but the waist changes greatly downward, and she is a pear-shaped body suitable for giving birth to a boy.

Reason collapsed, and under the command of Thomas Jr., the second-thinking organ, he pounced.

The swan girl heard the sound of the wind and footsteps, turned her head to look, and the man reached out to grab it with red eyes. She let out an "oops" and tried to run away. It's a pity that in the humanoid state, her limbs are weak and unresponsive, the feather coat was grabbed and thrown away, and the whole person was hugged by Thomas from behind.

"Hey, hey, hey, you'll give birth to me honestly!" Thomas shook his tiger body, radiating the momentum of the Endless King.

"Ten years of sharpening a sword, the frost blade has not been tried. Who has a grievance with the Emperor today?"

He said with infinite emotion: "My amorous swordsman ruthless sword is going to see blood today!"

With his right hand, he clasped the Swan Girl's hands together and locked them together; The army on the left ran through the hills and plains to the gorge; The main force of the Chinese army Thomas Jr. attacked from the rear and wanted to rush into the enemy fortress, but unexpectedly he was trapped in the majestic snow-capped mountains and it was difficult to move forward.

"That's it, that's it!" saw the Swan Maiden's tears fall to the ground and freeze into ice, her body stiff and trembling, her face full of horror and fear. Thomas sighed and returned to the camp. The loyal Baihua has also broken through the undercurrent of the waterway, jumped onto the icicle and slid down, scratching a few long white marks.

After letting go of her, Swan Girl did not remember to run away to get the clothes and equipment brought by the feather coat and the flowers, but squatted on the ground in frustration.

Thomas put his hands behind his back and looked up at the sky, overwhelmed with loneliness.

Baihua sniffed at him, and suddenly became angry, and the plane slapped his head with a sigh of air.

After a while, he pressed down little Thomas, who was trying to seize power, and he was about to ask a question, when he heard the swan girl twitch and say: "It's over, I have blood on my legs, and I can't be a swan virgin, so I can only give birth to you and cook......"

"That's the blood from my wound!" Thomas roared: "If you want to have a baby, you don't have to change back, otherwise hurry up!"

After a while, it was Thomas Jr. who had the upper hand again, and he wanted to slap himself twice: "What kind of demeanor do you have?

The dejected ranger sat there, and the swan ran over and put his wings on his wound. A warm green glow sparked, and his wound slowly healed.

After the treatment was completed and the swan was confirmed to be useless, Baihua let out a threatening sigh at her.

"So you are here to watch the snow and the moon with her, and talk about the philosophy of life from poetry and songs?" Faced with the ridicule of Baihua, the big fool cat could only bow his head and admit his mistake.

"Ah, this is supposed to be the place where the ice dies? Why don't we go in and have a look?"

"I've seen it, the frozen corpse is gone, and only some of its treasures remain. The Swan Girl replied.

"Then it's even more necessary to search. Thomas said, "But what is that spell you used that lasts so long?"

"Elemental Heart, comprehend the spells of the four different rings that can be mastered by the four elemental words. Each is useful, lasts a long time, and can be converted into other benefits in times of crisis. And if you fully grasp the earth, water, wind and fire, it will resonate with a very powerful effect. She hung down her long neck: "But the Great Druid has taught me for a long time, and I haven't been able to feel ......"

"It sounds like a good thing, I just like this combination of magic, and the Ranger has similar ...... Elemental Heart series, can I learn it?"

"It seems that I haven't heard of a ranger, maybe I don't have a deep sense of nature, right......?

"Earth, water, wind and fire, the four are empty. It seems that this technique is suitable for a monk like me who has a pure heart and few desires, and it is good. ”

Led by the swans, the three of them came to the frozen corpses, but there was not even a bit of treasure left, only scrap metal and items that had lost their magical powers.

The swan looked at the place where the treasure had been, and Thomas's attention shifted to the ice wall.

"Hey, you see the traces of a huge monster crawling here. I'm afraid that the ice died and came back to life, crawling away from here?"

He looked up and saw a thick layer of ice above him, faintly shining along with the snow on it.

"This ice doesn't look like it was formed in a short period of time. The swan said, "I'm not hey, my name is Ariel!"

"The claw marks seem to have been left in recent months, and they lead upwards. You said you had some treasure the last time you came, so you probably have someone else who has been here. He touched his chin and said, "It must be the Ice Witch, who brought the ice dead corpse back to life, and then continued to create simulacrums to boost morale, so that his bear tribe and goblin giants would attack the deer tribe together." ”

In this way, Mina also confirmed that those were Ice Witch's men, but it was not known where the Ice Dead and Ice Witch were. ”

"I think maybe the shaman of the deer tribe will know something. He was always vague about the Ice Witch, and Mina, as a paladin, was not in a position to force answers. So she gave me this task before she left."

Perhaps it was because of the pacification of the Dwarven Valley unrest and Kaisso; Maybe it's because he usually acts too lazy to do anything, which makes Mina feel that he can do anything when he's serious; The paladin gave Thomas the difficult task of pacifying the barbarians.

"We're druids and rangers, so we're not suited to dealing with people, I'm probably better, if I'm willing to reveal my identity or turn into a human form......"

"So, luckily we still have the dwarf grand liar and the cat ninja......"