Chapter 51: Flames
The transparent film looks light and thin, but the thin layer contains a very powerful force, depending on the degree to which the ice cube is squeezed, even if a legendary-level professional, if he is captured by the film, he will definitely be strangled to death without opening the Dou Qi shield, even if he opens the Dou Qi shield, whether he can use the shield to last for a long time to tear off the film and escape under the condition that the shield is constantly attacked, from the previous effect of Catherine's sword and shield, this strange creature is amazingly tough, and it is very likely that ordinary weapons cannot be destroyedγ
"I'll take a look. Pannis waved his hand to the girls behind him and said, "You wait here first, don't worry, my reaction speed is faster than it, if he wraps up on me, I can avoid it even at close range." β
"Be careful, too. Catherine didn't stop Pannis, for unfamiliar enemies, only after fully understanding them, can they have a way to deal with them again in the future, so since Pannis is sure that he will not be hurt by the film, there is a good reason to come forward and check. However, no matter how sure you are, there will inevitably be accidents, so Catherine still whispered: "If there is a problem, return it, it's really not good, let's find a way to control it and study it later." β
"Yes, I know. Pannis nodded, walked quickly to the side of the film wrapped in the ice cube without looking back, circled the ice cube several times, and tested it with a few tools, and then quickly took off his gloves and touched the film a few times. Even with Pannis's vision, it is difficult to find this film when walking around the ice, but if you touch it with your hands, you can find that it is a very elastic object, but after contact, the temperature feels like you have directly touched the ice, and the temperature is as cold as the environment. Pannis touched it several times, but the membrane seemed to have no feeling, and only cared about wrestling with the ice cube in his arms, ignoring Pannis, he put on his gloves again, and beckoned to Vivien, "Come and see." Let's study it, and the others should not come here yet, and if something happens, you can pick us up outside. β
Vivien happily ran to Pannis. I just wanted to do my research but found a troublesome thing. Most of the mage girl's whole body has no touch, and when she wanted to check something through contact before, she used to touch it directly with the skin of her face, but in the face of this strange existence that she had never seen before, it would be a little reckless to send her head up again. Therefore, she could only sigh in annoyance, took out several sets of tools from her backpack, and began to examine them around the ice cubes and film.
After five minutes, the ice cubes in the film finally could not resist the pressure of the film shrinkage, and were squeezed and crushed, and the broken ice chips were wrapped in the film and formed a ball, swaying back and forth on the smooth ice surface. Pannis's expression moved, and he pulled Vivien away from the puck quickly, and as soon as he left, the film slowly unfolded. Ice chips were scattered all over the ground. Perhaps it was because he realized that what he was wrapped in was not a real creature, or perhaps because he understood that he seemed to be unable to capture the group of humans in front of him, the film dropped a large amount of ice chips, and slowly shrunk up, forming a sphere smaller than a fist, like a real leather ball, rolling away on the ground and finally disappearing into the surrounding mist. The six people stared blankly at the distance of the sphere, and for a while they couldn't even bother to say anything because they were surprised.
"This thing is very malleable. Vivien said, "You saw it too." Its body is a little bit, but after stretching, it can be stretched to a length and width of six or seven meters, and it is impossible to do it if the ductility is not good. And that's not all. I just analyzed its composition, and its composition is very special, and I can't detect what exactly it is, only that it contains a lot of unknown substances. However, there is a discovery about the ingredients, it is indeed mainly composed of ice elementals, but in terms of texture, it is not as pure as elemental creatures. Formally, it is between life and non-life, and it can probably be called half-life. β
"Is there a relatively effective way to deal with it?" Catherine asked, "I don't think physical attacks have much effect. β
"Well, yes, physical attacks don't seem to have any effect on it unless the attack force breaks through a certain boundary. Vivien picked up a piece of ice that was still intact and said, "Just like this ice cube, you kick it, hit it, and cut it, it won't have any effect on it except for changing its shape, but ......"
"With flames?" Catherine immediately understood Vivien's reason for giving this example, and said, "Or is it heating up?"
"That's right, it's the easiest way to do it. Vivien nodded vigorously and said, "Actually, when I tested it just now, I secretly stimulated it with a fire attribute element, so it shrank into a ball and left so quickly." And judging from its composition, it should indeed be afraid of continuous warming. However, it is not so easy to ignite or keep the temperature up here, and I am worried about whether Freya can you get the goblin fireworks to light when needed. β
"I haven't tried this yet. Freya replied, "But if the Crystal Furnace can be lit, the goblin fireworks will be fine, so...... Hmm, was I dazzled just now? I seemed to see a large block of ice suddenly rolling on the ground on its own. It doesn't seem to be a firework, but it doesn't make a small sound when it rolls. β
"Leave him alone. Pannis coughed dryly and shook his head at Freya covertly: "That's the ice crystals, there should be three of us around, spying on us." If you show an intention to walk over, they may turn around and run, so just pretend you don't see it and don't alarm them. β
"Huh, is an ice crystal just a block of ice?" Lina asked curiously, "And it all moves by rolling?"
"Well, elemental creatures have a second form. Pannis patted the top of his head and said helplessly: "The sandmen have a sand form, the fire elemental people we met in the weeping cave have a flame form that they call a bonfire, the water elemental people have a liquid form, and the ice crystals naturally have their own unique ice form." Their ice form is like what Freya saw, a large block of ice, and if they don't move, no one knows that they are conscious ice cubes. β
"But this ice is a little too small for humans. Everyone didn't dare to look at it deliberately after listening to Pannis's words, only Lina couldn't hold back her curiosity, secretly glanced at the appearance of the ice cube, and asked suspiciously: "It's less than half a person tall, are the ice crystals so small?"
"They're not like humans, all of them have a similar body size. Vivien grabbed the priest girl's silver hair and forcibly twisted her head back, muttering and explaining: "I see the records in the Master Guild, the size of the ice crystals varies greatly, and the largest one in the record is an iceberg more than ten meters high, transformed into a human form, and the height is also more than six meters. Oh, yes, stupid, I remember you said that you made up the Frost Giants in the books you read, right, and I suspect that the prototype of that was this huge ice crystal, but those authors didn't see the ice crystals in person, so they just made some of them up. β
"Oh oh, there is indeed a plot of the Frost Giants, but the books all say that although they are cold on the surface, they are still flesh and blood on the inside. Lina shook her head and sighed, kicking Vivien, who was still pulling her hair, away, "But the real situation should be completely different, just like the fire elementals." β
"You wait and then fight. Pannis stopped a bloody case caused by pulling her hair, and motioned to Vivien, "You try it first and see if you can use fire magic to attract their attention." β
"Fire magic, I think, I think, if you want to attract their attention, you have to use something strange. Vivian walked around in a circle, thought seriously for nearly a minute, and suddenly clapped her hands excitedly, and began to rummage through the huge package behind her, and after a period of hecticism, she retracted her upper body from her backpack with a few bottles of potions, and said proudly: "Watch my performance." β
Indeed, it can be called a performance, the mage girl controls the puppet silk thread, so that the five bottles of potion in her hand are suspended in the air, pouring them from five different directions at the same time, and after the potion flows out, she uses a spell to guide the potion to levitate and extend in the air. After the five potions were emptied, Vivien suddenly waved her staff, the tip of which pointed to the front, and quickly spat out more than two dozen syllables of unknown meaning in her mouth. When the last syllable fell, the potion suspended in the air quickly gathered on Vivien's outstretched index finger, which Vivien drew in the air, and the lines of thin flames appeared out of thin air with the movement of the fingers, slowly forming a humanoid silhouette in the air.
"Huh?" Lina suddenly let out an exclamation, glaring at Vivien with an unkind gaze and said, "Why does this person's body shape and hairstyle look so familiar?"
"Ha, that's a delusion. Vivien was not at all worried that Lina would dare to make trouble at such a critical moment, and raised her chin at Lina defiantly, smirking smugly, and snorting as her mouth imitated the burning flames. The voice was like a command, and the human figure outlined by the flame lines also burned with a roar, and the interior was quickly filled with flames, turning into a burning man floating in the air. And this fire man is actually able to move, step by step floating towards Vivien, levitating above her outstretched palms, like a real creature, wriggling his body and dancing the folk dance unique to the Knowledge Capital region.
The humanoid flames carried high temperatures, and even on this icy snowfield, everyone in the adventure group could still feel the scorching heat coming from the flame dancers. (To be continued.) )
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