Chapter 75: Distress
When Shakira heard Hale's words, she said, "Then without further ado, second brother, let's start letting the Wind Elf descend." ”
Hall nodded, but his face looked extremely ugly, for he knew that finding a shelter like a cave on a cliff as steep as a pen was harder than climbing to the sky. Now the situation is either suffocated to death, or the ice ball is smashed into the bubble and falls to death.
However, he did not say this to the two of them, but urged Shakira to quickly descend the height of the bubble.
Hall thought to himself that if he could descend to 3,000 feet before he was suffocated, the snow flakes would have reached an acceptable level.
Because it was a matter of life, both Hall and Shakira were full of energy at this time, controlling the Wind Elf to descend.
However, because the wind in the wind duct is so strong, the speed of descent is very slow.
After a quarter of an hour, Shakira, whose magic power was already very low, fell into a state of exhaustion, and could only pause the manipulation and begin to meditate to restore her magic.
Hall was left alone at this point to manipulate the bubble to fall.
Because the bubble became seven layers, the heat inside the Wind Fairy began to slowly fail to dissipate, and soon the heat emitted by the illumination technique had turned the inside of the bubble into steamer-like heat, and the three of them felt the stuffy air at the same time, and began to sweat wildly all over their bodies. Because the water evaporated from the body cannot be discharged, the entire inside of the bubble looks foggy, almost like a steam room.
And the consumption of air by the three of them is also very large, and the little bit of air inside the bubble has almost been consumed by the three of them, so it has become difficult to breathe.
Shakira, who was meditating, was coughed by the dull air, and became restless, unable to calm down and meditate.
Hall's breathing was becoming rapid, his hair was already wet with sweat, and his face was extremely ugly due to the excessive consumption of magical energy and physical strength.
Shakira exhaled a few deep breaths, seemed to catch her breath, a smiling face was suffocated by the hot air, and whispered to Hall: "Second brother, how much has the altitude dropped......
Hall held his breath and replied with difficulty after a few seconds, "No...... The air was almost depleted, and we had only dropped two ...... Less than two hundred feet!"
At this time, a look of despair appeared on the faces of Shakira and Wolf, and after a long time, Wolfe said: "I think if we die like this, it will be too embarrassing, it is better to be crushed to death by the ice ball." ”
Shakira opened her mouth, as if to say something, but swallowed it back.
Hall paused for a long time, and said with difficulty again: "Yes...... I hurt you, if I hadn't created this bubble...... While traveling can get tough, ...... But not to death......"
At this time, Shakira shook her head, and said with a firm look in her eyes: "If it weren't for the second brother, I would have died a long time ago, why ...... Why do you say such things? ”
The hair on Wolf's bear face was all soaked, and the clothes on his body looked like they had just been fished out of the water tank, but his eyes were also very firm and said: "You saved our lives, why do you need to say this?"
Hall smiled wryly again and said, "Although the air in the bubble is very thin, it can last for a few minutes, I believe...... We still have to do something big, how can we ...... How can you die here? Now...... Now I have one last option, but I may die soon, do you dare...... A bet?"
Shakira was so tired that she sat down on the ground and said intermittently, "I...... I know...... Second brother, do you want to ...... Illumination is to be cut off. Let's do it...... Otherwise, it's too late. ”
Hearing this, Hale nodded, and gently turned the crystal ring into the wizard state, and as all the magical power in his body was emptied, the illumination crystal above his head that provided lift to the wind elf also turned into a white light and flew into Hale's body.
As absolute darkness descended, all three of them felt their bodies sink down at the same time, and then they lost control and tumbled violently in the bubbles.
Although the violent tumbling immediately made Hall feel dark and desperately want to vomit, to his relief, he felt that he was descending rapidly.
When Hale felt that the height of the descent was about the same, he lifted the five layers of bubbles that the outer layer was used to protect, and in an instant fresh air poured in like a tide.
Everyone breathes fresh air greedily, like cracked soil after a long drought, greedily absorbing nutrients.
Once the illumination is cut off, the entire balloon falls into free fall, and it is almost impossible to regain momentum.
Now to survive, unless something can stop them and stop them from descending.
At the current height, if you fall directly to the ground, even if you are blocked by the canopy in the forest, there is absolutely no chance of survival.
However, the possibility of being blocked is almost zero.
Although he breathed in the fresh air, Hall was now in despair.
However, it seems that the heavens have no intention of killing Hall, and just when he was anxious, suddenly the wind fairy shook violently, and then stabilized.
Hall then felt the bubble move from a rapid decline to a forward push.
As the bubbles stabilized, all three of them were granted amnesty and struggled to get up from the ground.
If it weren't for the softness of the outer walls of the bubbles, such a tumble would have killed them.
Now the three of them just feel a little dizzy, and the feeling of suffocation before is difficult to get rid of for a while.
After a long pause, Hall wiped the sweat from his face and said, "It seems...... Looks like we've survived. ”
Wolf was busy combing the black hair on his face, and said, "Yes, I didn't expect that there is another air duct below, if it wasn't for this air duct, it is estimated that we would have been crushed." ”
Without waiting for Hall to speak, Shakira also said: "And the wind speed of this wind tunnel seems to be more urgent than the one just now, and the speed of descent is changed in an instant. ”
Hall sensed the air pressure around him with the primary perception technique that only a brown-robed mage could learn, and said, "Now our height is about 2,500 feet, and those ice chips are no longer a threat to us!"
Although there was no light from the illumination, the three of them still tried to look around, and they could see in the darkness that they could see the goose feather snow all over their eyes, flying and spinning with the wind, like a fierce whirlpool in the water.
Hall said with trepidation: "The snow is much heavier than just now, and if we were still on it now, it is estimated that it has been shot down by a denser ice mass." ”
Wolf nodded and said, "Are we heading in the right direction now?"
Hall nodded and said, "It should be right, it's a westerly wind blowing now, and we're heading in the direction of the Transverse Mountains." ”
After saying this, the three of them spread on the ground again, all sighing.
"I thought I was going to die, but it turned out to be a false alarm, and it seems that we still have too little travel experience. In the future, when encountering unknown weather and unknown terrain, it is better to explore clearly first, and such reckless people will lose their lives sooner or later. Hall said with emotion.
Shakira seemed to have regained her vitality and said, "Actually, it's not bad, if it's dull along the way, it's not interesting." The control bubble technique just now consumed a lot of magic and spirit, and although my physical strength was overdrawn, I felt that my magic control had improved a lot. ”
Hall clenched his fists, sensed the magical energy around him, nodded and said, "That's true, I feel like I've improved a lot." ”
Wolf said with a little unconvincing at this time: "Don't think that just the two of you have improved, I have also improved." ”
When Hall heard this, he asked, "Oh, does the fighting spirit also need to be controlled by mental power?"
Wolf shook his head and said, "No, I feel like my consciousness has become higher. Now more than ever, I cherish the air that I want. ”
Upon hearing this, all three of them laughed.
After talking for a while, Hall reminded Shakira: "Let's recover our magic quickly, out of the air tunnel, the bubbles still have to fly by illumination." ”
Shakira nodded, and the two began meditating together.
Due to the excessive consumption, the two of them were basically meditating while being in a semi-sleepy state, until Wolf woke them up in a panic.
When Hall woke up from his daze, and saw Wolf's terrible half-bear face, he suddenly felt much clearer, and hurriedly said, "What's wrong!
Wolf said anxiously: "Second brother, I don't know why, I feel that since just now, the trajectory of the wind fairy has begun to become a little strange, as if it is rotating around something, and the speed is getting faster and faster!"
Hall frowned and hurriedly began to probe the air pressure around him, but what he detected was that the air pressure was actually dropping at an extremely fast speed!
Thousands of information flashed in his mind, and Hall suddenly remembered that there was a description of hurricane magic in alchemy before, which recorded that the closer you get to the inside of hurricane magic, the lower the pressure will be.
Therefore, it can be deduced from this that the Wind Elf should be under the cover of a hurricane right now.
But why do hurricanes occur on mountain peaks? Could it be that the wind ducts form a spiral circuit?
Hall looked at the wind and snow that rolled in a spiral like a barrel outside the bubbles, and the centrifugal force that was becoming more and more obvious from his body, and a cold sweat flowed down.
He suddenly thought of the eye of the storm that could tear everything apart mentioned in Nar's logbook!
Now that I think about it, the reason why Nar failed to meet the eye of the storm is probably because the altitude he sailed was almost all on the airship level, and the wind ducts at those heights may have avoided the eye of the storm, and his current altitude is much lower than the altitude at which Nar sailed.
With a wry smile, Hall didn't know if he should praise himself for his good luck, and he could even encounter the eye of the storm that the great adventurer hadn't been able to see.