Chapter 9: The Third Polar Night
Time is particularly blurry on the Death Ice Field, where the snow is white all year round. As far as the eye can see, it is a snowy scenery at any time. If it weren't for the fact that the polar day and the polar night would not even be able to tell the passage of time on the dead ice sheet every year.
The so-called polar day and polar night are the strange scenes of continuous day and night on the Death Ice Sheet at certain times of the year. Polar day is when the sun hangs in the sky and does not set, repeating the change from dawn to dusk, while polar night is the opposite, when the polar night occurs, the sun disappears from the sky.
There is nothing to say about the polar day, and the death ice field during the polar day has the highest safety factor. However, the Death Ice Field in the Polar Night is the most terrifying! The Polar Night has another name on the Death Ice Field - the Ice God's Hunt. At this time, the death ice field is extremely dangerous, and the terrifying blizzard will destroy all life on the ice field, just like the gods patrolling the ice field. Every time the polar night falls, it is accompanied by a strong snowstorm that does not stop until the polar night has passed.
Death Ice Fields in the Polar Night, no life will be active on the Ice Field. Even the ninth-order demonic beasts that could run rampant on the Death Ice Field seemed so insignificant in front of the power of nature. Generally speaking, mages who go to the Death Ice Fields to cultivate will exit the Death Ice Plains before the polar night arrives. Even the monsters that live on the Ice Field of Death will find a safe place and wait for the polar night to pass.
The Polar Ice Bear is not a very strong character in the Death Ice Field, but it also has few natural enemies. No monster would leave the icefield penguins, which are easier to hunt, and instead spend their energy hunting polar ice bears. After all, there are enough penguins in the Icefield to feed all the monsters on the Death Icefield.
No matter how you say it, the Polar Ice Bear is also a sixth-order demonic beast, and it is not the same level as the third-order Ice Plains penguins. As a result, apart from the occasional mage who wants to hunt with materials from Ice Bears, there are few other things that will attack them. All these factors are combined, and the polar ice bear can be regarded as a small overlord on the ice field no matter how dead it is.
However, at this moment, on the snow of the Death Ice Field, a scarred polar ice bear was running wildly on the snow in a panic. Its snow-white fur was covered with specks of blood. Because of the extremely low temperature, there was not much blood coming out of the wound before it froze. Therefore, the deep, narrow wounds on the body of the running polar ice bear are far more serious than they seem.
However, this polar ice bear did not dare to stop and rest for a while, and ran wildly all the way. That mortal danger followed it closely, threatening to kill it at any moment.
Bear-like monsters, once they start to go berserk, they are truly fierce and not afraid of death. However, the polar ice bear is not much better than a timid ice penguin. Obviously, now it has been frightened and completely incapable of raising the courage to fight. What kind of opponent would make the polar ice bear scare like this?
Not far behind the polar ice bear, a group of figures were in hot pursuit. Under his feet was an ice-like sleigh-like thing. On the cold ice sled, four crystal clear ice chains stretched out and were tied to the four ice beasts. That's right, it's not a living monster that's pulling the sleigh, it's a puppet made with ice magic. This ice beast is not a living being, nor does it have an autonomous consciousness, so it can only act on the mind of a magician. Even they themselves depend on the magic of the magicians to sustain them.
The appearance of the four ice beasts is that of the Ice Tiger, an ice monster unique to the Death Ice Field. Of course, these ice beasts only have the appearance of a cold and ice tiger, and they are not really as strong as the ice tiger. In fact, the strength of the ice beasts has nothing to do with their appearance, the more magic power the mage injected into them when they were created earlier, the stronger the strength will become.
The four ice golems dragged the ice sled and sped fast on the snow, but the people standing on the sled did not even shake it, and their feet seemed to be fixed to the sled. Instead of focusing on his prey, he looked up at the sky. In this way, the polar ice bear ran wildly ahead, and the magician stood on the sleigh to chase after it.
"The daylight hours are getting shorter and shorter, and it seems that the polar night is approaching again!" the man standing on the sleigh sighed slightly. "This is the third polar night I've experienced. Time flies so fast, three years have passed in the blink of an eye. ”
"When I first came here, I was just a small mid-level magician, and I couldn't beat any magical beast except the Ice Plains penguins. Now, though, ······" The figure looked up at the polar ice bear fleeing from the wilderness, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly. However, this beautiful arc only lasted for a short moment before it turned into a cold smile. "I've already risen to the seventh rank, and I'm a junior mage like the strongest old patriarch of the He family, so it's almost time to take revenge. I've been waiting for this day for too long. ”
In the short time he spoke, the sky, which had been a little bright, had become pitch black. "Oh, it's getting dark! If you drag it any longer, you won't be able to find your way back. Brother Xiong, I'm sorry!" he said, increasing the output of his magic power. With the support of the magic power, the speed of the ice golem suddenly increased by a large amount, and the distance between it and the polar ice bear was shortened in an instant.
It turned out that this person was Han Feng! Three years ago, in order to escape the pursuit and revenge, he came to the Death Ice Field. In the past three years, he has suffered countless hardships unimaginable to ordinary people in order to improve his strength, and has wandered between life and death countless times. Hunted by demonic beasts, attacked by blizzards, deadly low temperatures during the polar night, and avalanches like natural disasters······
Even in the face of these terrifying dangers, Han Feng never thought of backing down. Stubborn, he has only one obsession in his heart: to improve his strength, and then avenge his parents!
Whenever he couldn't support it, he would take out the mirror crystal that recorded the family to watch. It was the only thing he brought out of his home and the only trace his parents left in the world. Speaking of this mirror crystal, it was still a prize he won in a competition when he was in the Junior Academy of Magic. I remember that when he used this mirror crystal to shoot his family, his parents laughed at him for gossiping. But now, he can only relive his parents' voices and smiles from this mirror crystal.
This mirror crystal is not only his most precious treasure, but also the most powerful support that has supported him along the way. The polar night when he first arrived in the Death Ice Field was arguably the hardest time he had been here. Because he didn't know the horror and specific time of the polar night, he could almost say that he was unprepared, and the polar night just came. If he hadn't always had the habit of hoarding a lot of food in the cave, he would have starved to death in the cave.
He spent that polar night almost by eating raw meat! Among the things he brought with him was a stove that relied on magic to heat up. However, Han Feng, who lacked strength and preparation, did not dare to use it. His little magic power was enough to resist the terrifying low temperature here, and there was no extra magic to drive the stove to cook.
In desperation, he could only peel off the fur of all his prey, pile it on top of his clothes, and then curl up in it to keep warm. There is only one kind of food for him, and that is pieces of meat that have been frozen into popsicles. The pieces of meat that were frozen hard can only be called gnawing. Of course, even in this environment, he did not give up on improving his strength. During the months of the polar night, he spent all his time in cultivation except for eating and sleeping.
It was under this extreme obsession that Han Feng was promoted from an intermediate magician to a junior magician in three years. This speed is not much better than any genius in history. However, Han Feng's own talent is not very strong, at most it can only be regarded as middle and upper. One of the reasons why he was able to become a Magus in such a short period of time was because the Ice Fields of Death were far more active than other places, but the most important thing was the effort he put in.
In order to improve his strength, he put in much more effort than others. I have endured more hardships and experienced more dangers than others. This is the way this is the world, there may be high and low talents, but no matter how talented you are, the more you give, the more you will gain.
In the past three years, he has not slackened for a day, and every day he thinks about how to improve his strength. Every day, except for sleeping and eating, he is basically in a state of cultivation. Long-term perseverance is the most important reason for his strength to improve.
"Let's dance!" Han Feng had a cruel smile on his face. A crystal clear chain of ice appeared out of thin air, tethered to the thick claws of the polar ice bear. Strange to say, the ice chain that looked fragile did not break under the pull of the polar ice bear, but dragged the polar ice bear to the ground.
With the power of the ice bear's pull, Han Feng jumped up from the sled. In mid-air, with nowhere to draw on his strength, he constantly adjusted his position in the air by pulling the ice chain. Finally, he found his ideal position, shook his hand and threw the ice chain, piercing the ground with an ice spear.
With both hands clenched, the terrifying power of ice swirled and condensed together, forming a spear that exuded a cold aura. In the terrifying low temperature of the Death Ice Field, you can actually see the cold air drifting away, which shows how low the temperature of the Ice Spear is.
"Pierce, freeze!" Han Feng whispered, throwing the Ice Spear in his hand towards the Polar Ice Bear.
"Roar..." Perhaps sensing the imminent breath of death, the polar ice bear, which was still struggling desperately, stopped. With a roar at Han Feng, the bear's paws were closed, and a thick defensive shield appeared on his body, and then his palms slapped heavily on the ground, and the earth shook suddenly, and a sharp and thick ice spire rushed towards the Ice Spear.
These two spells are the Polar Ice Bear's strongest defensive magic Ice Protector and the strongest attack magic Ice Spike. The beast's keen perception of danger allows the polar ice bear, which feels the threat of death, to use all its strength in the first place.
After the Ice Spear left Han Feng's hands, it spun and pierced towards the Polar Ice Bear. As it swirls, the Ice Spear absorbs the surrounding ice elementals and grows stronger. After absorbing a large amount of ice power, the Ice Spear was like a small ice drill, slashing towards the polar ice bear.
The Ice Spike was the first to face the Ice Spear, which had always been known for its sharpness and firmness, but it was easily pierced by the Ice Spear, which looked like a fine work of art, and a translucent hole was opened directly from beginning to end. The pierced ice spire crumbled and disintegrated in an instant, merging into the growing drill bit.
The Polar Ice Bear wails in despair, pouring all of its mana into the Ice Protector. However, all this is doomed to be in vain. Even if the Polar Ice Bear tried his best, it was only a short delay in the Ice Spear. In the midst of the electric light and petrification, Han Feng's Ice Spear directly penetrated the Polar Ice Bear and Bear Belt.
The Ice Spear pierced directly through the Polar Ice Bear's skull, piercing the back of the head, killing him with a single blow. Although the momentum caused by the Ice Spear was very large, it did not cause much damage to the Polar Ice Bear's body, only a small hole in its head.
The polar ice bear that was killed by the Ice Spear remained as it had been pierced, not falling down with a bang, not even shaking. It turned out that a huge polar ice bear was directly frozen into a big ice lump.
"The Spiral Ice Spike is worthy of being a magic that only a magus can use, and it is really powerful! In just a moment, it not only killed the Polar Ice Bear at the peak of the sixth order, but even froze it entirely. Even Han Feng's entire initiator was taken aback by the power of his magic.
In the short time that he had killed the polar ice bear, the original pitch black area had undergone a wonderful change! There was no light in the pitch black, and bands of light of different colors appeared out of thin air at some point, as if the curtain was hanging from above the nine heavens, still winding and fluttering. As a result, the lifeless night sky is no longer dull, but looks magical and dreamy.
However, after Han Feng saw this magical and beautiful scene, his face changed drastically. "Aurora! I didn't expect it to be a step slower after all. He sighed and looked up into the center of the Death Icefield. "The aurora has appeared, and the blizzard is not far away! But it's good that I can take advantage of this time to practice the power of the Magister more. ”
It turned out that this magical aurora was a sign of the appearance of a blizzard. As soon as the aurora appears, it means that the blizzard is not far away. This is the result of Han Feng's own personal experience. When he saw the aurora for the first time, he was also fascinated by this dreamlike scene, and was almost killed by the sweeping blizzard. Thankfully, the blizzard wasn't too big, and he was only one step away from his cave, barely escaping for his life. After this time, he thoroughly understood how terrifying the "Ice God Patrol" that everyone talked about, and he stayed away from the beautiful aurora. Although the aurora is beautiful, it is a dangerous camouflage, just like the beautiful colorful patterns on the body of a poisonous snake, beautiful and deadly!