Chapter 129: Falling
The sound of the road cracking caused all the people in the battle to stop moving, and Fettis raised an eyebrow slightly, she didn't expect Garen's anger to produce such a result. But as an experienced witch, she's not so helpless in this situation. "Follow me, keep your balance!" said the witch, kicking off her shoes with a very skillful movement, touching the pavement with the soles of her feet. She began to run forward, and after a few steps her feet kept gliding in a forward and backward position. Lothar had heard that the Frost Guardians would strappen wooden planks to their feet to glide around the snowy mountains in order to move quickly around the snowy mountains. What Fettis does now has a lot in common with the way it is called skiing.
The silent gatekeeper didn't hesitate for long, his feet on the witch's trajectory, his massive body sliding downward like a black snowball. Seeing this, the others had no other way to do it, even if they had any doubts, and formed a long queue one after another. The witch's decision proved to be decisive, for shortly after they began to slide, the cracked path collapsed with a groan, and the backbone that had stood for an unknown number of years finally came to its own destruction.
One point of damage quickly turned into a continuous catastrophic development, and the upward and downward roads from both ends of the break point collapsed, and it was impossible to return along the long road at this time. However, this was not a question for the team to think about right now, and they were more focused on how to save their lives from the collapsed road behind them and the toad monsters that were still rushing up in front of them. Fortunately, the speed of the team's movement seemed to have surpassed the speed of the toad monster's appearance, and after they broke out of the encirclement in front of them, they found that the pressure from the enemy was much less. Even, people with better dynamic eyesight have vaguely seen the truth about the appearance of monsters.
"These things are oozing out of the bones!" Lothar said, pointing to a mass of grayish-brown viscous liquid that was forming. Not only this group, but as the squad advanced, more and more of this kind appeared around them. Even, the farther ahead, the more primitive the toad monster became, and later it could only see the liquid flowing from the tiny holes in the road, and it was impossible to associate it with those ugly enemies. "These toads are bone marrow. Fioni's expression was serious, and so was his tone.
The legend of the Thunder Giant, which is very different for humans and Kraken. While the Giant, caught in the Storm and the Mist, has the same unquenchable fury and savage habits in both races, it is not impossible for humans to survive the Giant's side as long as they can escape the storms and lightning. But not the Kraken, for the old ballads of shark teeth and scorching waves tell of the tribe's former habitat trampled to ruins by giants who happened to pass by, and the warriors who fought valiantly to protect their homeland were small and powerless in the face of the earthly thunder. Legend has it that a Siren priest who had won the favor of the Tide Lady once swept up a tsunami of wind and waves to try to drive away the approaching giant, but the latter only snorted, and the proud power of the sea was turned into a harmless current. And the fate of offending the giant was a pillar of lightning that struck directly into the seabed.
As can be seen from the legend above, unlike the navigators among the human race, who revere and even worship the Thunder Giant, the Kraken's attitude towards this being is pure and deep hatred. Thus, in the latter's legend, the Thunder Giant is a symbol of destruction and evil, without the vigilance and self-discipline of the hunters, nor the humility and obedience of the priests of the currents. In the Siren's story, the Thunder Giant's breath is a poisonous smoke, his eyes are glowing with evil desires, his blood is poisonous and kills, and his bone marrow is transformed into an ugly and equally evil monster that causes severe suffering to the Sirens. In the past, Fioni would only regard this statement as a slander against his people who were too powerful opponents, but the situation in front of him told him that if the owner of this skeleton was really the legendary Thunder Giant, then the story of the Sirens may not be entirely wrong.
However, the truth is still not the primary issue of the squad. The sound of shattering behind them was getting closer and closer, and even though they were sliding far faster than they were running, the road was collapsing even more violently than they were. Just when several people thought that they were going to die here, a turning point appeared, because this backbone was over. "See land! ready to jump!" Fettis shouted, and after two or three breaths, he let out a loud shout, "Jump!" and landed in the air, the hard rock crashing against every part of the body, and everyone with a pained expression on it. But this is already the best solution, landing in a tumbling way, they will get bruises at most, and if they try to force their bodies to stop without knowing whether they are alive or dead, the consequences may be much more serious.
"Boom!" The sound like a sky crash makes people's hearing useless for a short time. But strangely, despite the momentum, there was no flying debris and smoke that caused more damage to a few people. "Are they all alive?" said Fettis was the first to get up, her high-quality armor reducing her damage considerably, plus the veteran witch was pretty good at protecting herself. So the impact of this exciting escape on her was only the tearing of her clothes and a few scrapes.
In comparison, Peg and Gallen's injuries are more severe. Both witches had broken bones of varying degrees, with Garron's right hand deformed as it was on the ground, and Peg's left kneecap presumably shattered. Lothar and Fioni were better off as battle-hardened warriors, but even so, fist-sized flesh was hung from the kraken's calf by sharp rocks, and even the bones could be seen in the wound. As for the mountain monster, his armor was badly deformed, but no one knew what the state of the people inside was.
"Applying this to the wound will stop the bleeding quickly. If you hurt your bones, don't let them get into your blood vessels or organs. Fettis pulled the ointment out of his pocket and threw it to Lothar, who was less injured, while admonishing the others. But if you want to examine a wound, you have to have light, and it is too difficult to distinguish only the outline of the vision in the dark. The warden sighed lightly, if she could, she would have liked to avoid this situation as much as possible, after all, Karen had made it clear that there should be no fire when he untied the slate.
"I can only hope that this thing is not considered a fire. As she spoke, the witch took out a few stones from her pocket, and made a small circle of gravel from the ground, and after putting the stones in them, she recited a few syllables, and the pale blue light gradually became brighter. This stone is quite similar to the phosphorite used by Cheese in the Longji Mountain Cave, but it is different in nature and composition.
As the lighting problem was solved, it was discovered that the main reason why they were not buried by smoke and stone seemed to be because of a circle of white marks painted on the ground. Fettis approached the marks carefully, and saw that they were actually a large amount of fine powder sprinkled between the rocks, and these fine powders resembled ground sea salt.