Count Tara Khan was a very cautious man, and although he was a little panicked when he fled for his life, after entering the water, he was stimulated by the icy water, and he quickly regained his composure.

"Don't move, get some weeds or other debris and put it on top of our heads as cover, and we'll drift slowly along the current. He said to the demon through the psychic link of the contract.

The demon was stunned for a moment, then realized and nodded vigorously.

Swimming in the water is too noisy, and the enemy will definitely be able to detect it as long as there are people near the river. In contrast, drifting down the current, although slow, is better than having no abnormalities. As long as there is something to cover the overhead, even if the enemy arranges for someone to keep an eye on the river, it may not be able to see it.

This method is indeed very safe and very suitable!

But this method also has a big drawback, that is, cold.

It's late winter and early spring, and the climate in the north of the kingdom hasn't really warmed up, and it's just snow melting. The water of this small river in the valley is so cold that even the slightest touch of your hand will make your hair stand on end.

To lie motionless in such water, drifting with the current?

I'm afraid that if I float for a while, the living will become dead!

Although demons have the ability to resist the cold, and the count also has magic items to protect against the cold, the ability to resist cold is limited, and the power of the magic items is also limited. It's just a while, and being in this low-temperature environment for a long time, let alone people, demons can't bear it.

However, they had no choice, the cold might not kill them, but in their current state of injury and exhaustion, being blocked by the experts who cleaned up the demons would be dead.

As a result, in the slowly flowing river, there were more clumps of withered aquatic plants. Underneath the water weeds, there are two more fugitives who are trying their best to keep out the cold.

(This must be no problem!)

The Earl looked at the aquatic plants above his head, and saw the blue sky through the aquatic plants, and his mood gradually relaxed.

(How long has it been since I've seen a sky like this?)

His mind gradually soothed and softened, and he remembered something he hadn't remembered for a long time.

(Actually, the sky is there every day, but I haven't been interested in looking up at the sky for a long time.) ）

(When I get back this time and get rid of the adventurers, I'll retire.) While you still have some energy, take a good rest in the last year or two, and then pass on the contract...... ）

Suddenly, he was slightly stunned, and felt that something was wrong.

Why isn't the river as cold as it was just now?

At first, he thought it was an illusion, maybe he had been frozen for too long and was used to it, or simply his body had begun to be paralyzed - many people who were saved from freezing had the illusion of feeling warmth instead of freezing to death.

But soon, he ruled it out, as he felt the river getting warmer.

Yes, warm, even ...... It's starting to get hot.

"See what's going on?" he asked the demon through a psychic link.

In order to avoid revealing their whereabouts, none of them tried to observe the scene on the surface of the river - the truth of not being immortal is understood by both humans and demons.

But not now, the river is getting hotter and hotter, and it is getting hotter and hotter to the point of bath water, and if it continues like this, the demon with strong heat-resistant ability may be fine, and the Count is afraid that he will be cooked alive.

The magic props he used to resist the heat had been exhausted when he was resisting fireballs in the magic array before.

The demon nodded slightly, and his head poked out slightly, hidden among the aquatic plants, but it was not conspicuous.

In the next moment, its body stiffened.

Not far ahead, by the river, a man in a crimson robe, surrounded by three flaming fireballs, was using his wand to fire a raging flame to boil a large area of river water in front of him.

Legend has it that if a magician of the legendary rank concentrates on the study of fire magic, he will eventually have the power to burn mountains and boil the sea. Although the man in front of him was not of the legendary rank, it didn't seem difficult for him to boil a river.

What's worse is that there are several other people beside this man.

One looked a bit like an elf, but his body was surrounded by a white mist, and his hair was directly a wisp of ice crystals.

A man with a strange longbow, with a pulley on each of the two sections of the bow, and an unknown thing in the center.

One looked a bit like a lizardman, but was more than twice as tall as a normal lizardman, with short horns and scales that glistened in the sunlight and the razor-sharp blade of the tomahawk on his shoulder.

There was also a young woman dressed in a modest robe, holding a wooden stick with green leaves growing on the top.

"Fire mage, ice mage, archer, warrior, druid. The demon hurriedly retracted his head and told the Count of the situation, "There are five men guarding the river, and the fire mage doesn't know if he is bored, and he boiled a large section of the river in front of him. ”

The earl's face turned pale, he never thought that there would be such a boring powerhouse in the world.

Is it a disease to waste magic to boil a section of river water?

However, this seemingly brain-sick method actually cut off the possibility of anyone escaping along the river.

Swimming through boiling water?

Demons may be able to try, but humans are absolutely not!

The Count thought for a moment with a pale face, but at last there was nothing he could do. Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to those interceptors, and the river was getting hotter and hotter, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and made up his mind.

"Retreat!

"Don't you try to break through? Break through this line of defense, maybe it's safe. ”

"If you can't rush out, a strong man who can boil the river water is already difficult to deal with. If four of his companions are of the same level as him, can you be sure to rush over?"

“...... Not at all. ”

Zhen Remnant Nian was muttering "Sleepless scum, I actually want Lao Tzu to guard the river here, what is there to watch for the river", while urging the spell, boiling a large section of the river water in front of him, as a pastime, suddenly heard the exclamation of the scavenger next to him.

"The goal is here!"

"What?" he was stunned, turned his head to look, and saw a dark shadow rushing out of the water.

"Good time!" Yunejo laughed, picked up her tomahawk, and jumped up to make a jump. Others reacted and prepared to attack.

But...... The black shadow did not rush over, but in the opposite direction, quickly fleeing in the direction away from them, and in a blink of an eye it was out of sight.

Among the traversers in charge of interception, only the scavenger shot a sword in time, and the rest of the people were not able to catch the attack.

There was a sound of water, and Yunero slashed his axe into the air and fell into the warm water.

Somewhat embarrassed, he got to his feet, took two steps, and walked to the almost boiling section of the river.

"Hey, your water is boiling hot, you can take a bath. He smiled and said to the true remnant, "Anyway, the goal is gone, why don't we come to the hot springs." ”

True Remnant Nian looked in the direction of the enemy's flight and sighed deeply.

"I knew it earlier...... I won't cook the river with my hands! The meat that was delivered to the door will run away with wings!"