Chapter 255: Dragon Mountain (1/3)
In the wind and snow of the ice abyss, the young man who was quietly staring at his fingertips held his breath and looked at the little goblin.
The slender index finger was slightly bent, and Ian brought the chilling 'butterfly' close to him, trying to get closer to take a closer look, but the 'butterfly' jumped up from his fingertips, flew around his hair, and then crawled down the soft sideburns on the sides of the boy's head to the top of his head, and then lay comfortably on his stomach.
The essentia aftermath of the fairy wings still lingered on Ian's body, and the familiar fluctuations that haunted the boy were the reason why the fairy butterfly approached him.
It's like a breeze that gets close to another wind, it's just that.
Ian frowned slightly, and he was a little overwhelmed.
The young man looked at Isengard on the other side, but found that his peer was simply stupid, the other party stared at the top of his head tightly, and then his surprised gaze slowly drooped and looked at him.
Ian nodded slowly, signaling that he could speak, and then Ethan's voice of amazement was heard.
"Leprechaun?!"
At this moment, Isengard was really taken aback - there was actually a goblin inhabiting the South China Sea Ruins?
No one has ever thought of this kind of thing, you know, in the entire Terra Continent, only there is a complete goblin community on the side of the Starfall Inland Sea, and all the goblins in other places wander out from the side of Starfall Star City.
But then, he looked at it and said with some doubts: "No, it's not like ...... The real goblins are not so unstable......"
The white 'goblin' lying on top of Ian's head was about seven or eight centimeters long, neither big nor small, and at first glance it looked a bit like some kind of white frost butterfly, which was very much in line with people's general impression of goblins.
But if you look closely, you can see that these tiny psionic creatures are all made up of ever-rotating essentia fragments, and they don't have a complete shape at all, and even the seemingly humanoid body is a rather vague 'pixel miniature'.
A true elf, at the time of birth, will be helped by a companion to construct a complete body that can cover the core, and its workmanship is no less exquisite than that of the highest armor.
The little guy flying around Ian, the main body is still a 'psionic core' in the center of the villain, a brilliant ice blue gem, it is **exposed, looking beautiful and fragile.
After a period of flying, the pixel version of the unstable 'elf' chose to leap at Ian's fingertips, like a butterfly fluttering its wings, and Ian stared at each other, as if trying to understand something complex and indescribable.
"I see......"
Stretching out his hand, pinching the butterfly's wings and putting them in front of his eyes, the young man and the rather peaceful 'goblin' looked at each other for a moment, and then slowly lowered his eyes: "It's a call to each other......"
Ian turned his head and said to Isengard, "Because I just used the power of Fairy Wings, this little guy came looking for me." ”
"They're calling to me, and I want to see it."
"Fairy Wings? Ian, are you a fairy bloodline? No wonder the power to manipulate the flow of water is so strong......"
For the first time, Isengard's focus was elsewhere, and he could be considered to have found a reason why Ian was so strong as the 'Wave Singer'.
After this, he reacted and showed a surprised expression: "What...... I won't stop you, but could it be a trap? ”
Ethan knew that there must be a reason for what Ian wanted to do, and he definitely thought more than he did, but he still subconsciously wanted to remind: "Nothing is quite right with all the creatures in this ruin, are you sure these weird goblins ...... No problem? ”
"It's fine. To go there, good for all of us. ”
A silver-cyan halo flashed in his eyes, and Ian made a decision, his expression soothing: "At the very least, these 'goblins' are not parasitic creatures. ”
【Primordial Frost Fairy (South China Sea Ruins Ice Abyss Species)】
[Incompetent, Primordial, Normal, Subintelligent Psionic Creature, High Energy Token, Psionic Token]
【Body Material...... Psionic Frost ...... Disembodied psionic creatures]
【Strength Grade: Vulnerable】
[Essentia: 20.4562]
[The primitive near-goblin creatures that appeared in the ice abyss of the South China Sea Ruins did not achieve a complete psionic energy cycle, nor did they have the core subject to record memories and individual soul elements, so they could not be regarded as true goblins, but could only be regarded as the original form of the goblin race in ancient times, and were derivatives produced by the changes in the super psionic energy field]
[Not so much a living thing, but a natural phenomenon, a complete psionic field embodied as a semi-physical fragment]
[The individual has a certain sense of self]
【……】
Ian withdrew his gaze from these subtitles, and he already understood a little that the so-called goblin was some kind of 'heaven and earth elf'.
According to the classification of the Terra continent, the essence of goblins is that they are clones of an entity's psionic field that appears in the real world - so goblins have been inseparable from special 'regions' such as goblin towns since ancient times, and they cannot be seen by ordinary people, because they are essentially a natural phenomenon.
It's just that, as a natural phenomenon, the 'True Fairy' in turn controls the field of its own source, allowing itself to have stable wisdom and inheritance, and becoming a psionic creature whose adult body is the second energy level, and can even achieve a steady stream of reincarnation through sustenance memories and souls......
But because of this, the number of true goblins is extremely rare.
And this so-called primordial goblin......
Ian looked up, he looked at the top of the ice abyss, and the wind and snow were even more raging at the moment, but the reason was not the frost moths, but the small flickering dots in the wind and snow.
- Hundreds of primordial elves converged into a clump, like fireflies flickering between the clouds, releasing an ice-blue light visible to the naked eye.
They are all waiting for themselves...... Looking at yourself from afar.
"I have to go and see what is in this ice abyss that can distort the psionic field to such an extent that it can even derive primordial goblins."
He made up his mind.
The people in the camp were still preparing for battle, and Ian didn't let them stop, because he was about to follow the goblin in the palm of his hand to the depths of the ice abyss to see what was going on.
Master Gosai is resting, Isengard is preparing for rearmament, and Ascendants such as Blue Sail and Iron Hand are on guard against a possible monster attack in the distance.
In this operation, Ian was alone.
However, before leaving, he was approached by Isengard and had a private chat about some issues.
"I have a way to fight my uncle's aether armament."
The blonde boy handed Ian a bottle of black liquid, and at a glance, it was his blood, and Ethan said calmly: "As a biological aether arm, Gloomy Hua only obeys the blood of the members of the Eren family, and among them, the main body will only obey the current family master, which is less applicable." ”
"To make up for it, the sub-strain was born, and anyone with the blood of our Eren family can control it...... Uncle can, and I'm no exception. ”
Ethan's blood can be used to interfere with Patrick's use of the Aether Armament Strain, which is a very precious item, because for the Eclipse Dragon Bloodline, blood is their native area, the source of their power.
At this time, the young man's face was pale, and he could even compare to Ian, a white people, which was enough to prove how exhausting it was for him to refine such a vial of essence blood that could be used to fight his uncle for control of the pillar.
"I won't live up to this kindness."
Ian knew that this was the solution that Isengard came up with after he was afraid that he would meet Patrick alone and be chased by the other party wearing aether weapons, and he would not even be able to escape.
He confessed it.
With this vial of blood, many things are much easier to do.
Once everything was ready, Ian set off.
Looking back at the mist on everyone's bodies, and after making sure that everyone was okay for a short time, he stepped forward.
Whoosh, the fairy wings urged, and the frost, snow and dust agitated, and the figure of the young man disappeared.
Exploration teams and pirate positions grew smaller and smaller behind him.
And the primordial frost fairy crawled on top of the boy's head, emitting a slight 'buzzing' sound.
The ice abyss is not big, but it is not as vast as the sea. But it was small, but it was far from it, and Ian looked up, and with his eyesight, he could only see the edges on either side.
In some areas of the ice abyss, there were huge stone pillars standing, which were the supporting parts, and he scanned them with a silver chip, and could detect the alloy iron pillars inside the rock, on which a solid layer of frost was attached, and which had supported this huge 'cooling zone' for thousands of years.
Ian travels through the wind and snow, stepping on the ice prism, he is not particularly looking for speed, so he can use his agility to the extreme, and with a little extra strength, he can easily pass through the seemingly narrow cracks and ice holes in the ice wall.
The topography of the ice abyss is obviously that there is still a large amount of stagnant water in the cooling zone that has not been emptied, but an accident has occurred, causing the stagnant water to freeze.
There must have been a few times over the millennia when the ruins melted the ice by dissipating heat abnormally, but then froze again before it completely dissolved, so that the current terrain was formed - the seemingly solid and wide ice field has long been washed into a sieve by the water caused by several dissolutions, and the ground is full of ice leaks and ice caves, and in some places there is only a thin layer of ice shell.
If it weren't for Ian urging the fairy wings, but walking on it properly, I'm afraid that halfway through, he would have fallen to the bottom of the ice abyss thousands of meters deep because the ice shell was shattered.
However, this peculiar terrain became more and more rare as Ian advanced...... It can even be said that the ice he saw was so thick that it was like a continent, and there was no sign of dissolution such as cracks and cavities.
"The chill is getting stronger, and I may be heading towards the permafrost of the ice abyss."
The butterflies of the primordial elf above his head were still guiding Ian, letting him know that he was very close to his goal.
But, suddenly.
Ian felt a slight shock to the heart core in the center of his chest.
This made him stunned for a moment.
- It's not a shock caused by something that can repair itself.
Rather, it encounters a noteworthy opponent and produces a 'warning'!
Ian slowed down.
Not because he was afraid, but because he was close to his goal.
Moreover...... I also saw the 'body' that made the core of the ancient dragon's heart vibrate.
"Oh my God......"
He slowly raised his head and looked at the towering iceberg hundreds of meters high in front of him.
Then he exclaimed from the heart: "Incredible! ”
It was a dragon, and a worm.
A crystalline dragon wrapped around the iceberg, entangled with a giant moth-like insect, formed the main body of the iceberg in front of him, and the translucent ice loomed in the wind and snow, but it could not hide the shape and shadow of the two behemoths.
Their dragon claws and tail spikes pierced each other's bodies, inlaying each other in this permafrost iceberg!