Volume 2 Xuancai Mountains 138: True and False Rivals
"Are you going to ice hell?"
Gai was shocked to learn of the outcome of the adventurers' final discussion.
"Give it up." He immediately dissuaded, "You are seeking death. ”
Even if he was born a beast, he had a conscience, and he couldn't see people who had communicated with him die in vain.
"It's okay if you go to that prison in the Adriel Kingdom, the spiritual power inside is barely stable after so many years of precipitation." The monster, who was more knowledgeable than the adventurers, muttered, "But this cube? If you take this heart, the people who are caught in it will not feel your sincerity, they will probably have lost consciousness and become ice sculptures. ”
"Damn!" The bearded man at the head smashed his fist into the wall next to him that had not been completely destroyed, knocking off a lot of dust and stones, "Isn't anyone who has experience dealing with that thing?" ”
"Heavens...... "O heaven," he began to pray for the gaze of another time and space, "and you can't give us another miracle?" Just like it did before when its shell shattered......"
Someone in the team raised their hands and shouted, asking why they didn't work together to destroy the cube. Perhaps in this way, the life trapped in it can be liberated and returned to reality.
But there is also the possibility that those trapped will run into the arms of death because of their actions.
At the same time, it also has a premise - with the power of all the capable people present, can it really destroy this "relic" of the beastmaster?
"If it was really the Beastmaster's deity who destroyed the cube's shell just now...... "In times of crisis, people always find it difficult to restrain their own unrealistic delusions.
"Damn! Damn it! The bearded man was distraught by the current situation, and involuntarily sprinkled his inner resentment on the ruins beside him, "Come and help us, no matter what way it is...... As described in the legend just now, come and help us like a god! ”
"Captain......" The adventurers stared at the bearded leader as if they were stunned, and their hearts were also very uncomfortable.
Their trip was an eye-opener, as they lost their way in the Dark Forest and lost a few companions, were caught up in the mystery of the disappearance of the Shelter personnel, and saw the miraculous creations left behind by the legendary Beastmaster.
As for the helper they met by chance in these things...... At such a moment that had nothing to do with it, none of them could have imagined that they had met such a mysterious being.
In the end, the humans did not come up with a reliable way to open the cube and save the same kind that were suspected of being imprisoned in it.
They recognize the limitations of their abilities and are forced to be prepared to turn to the outside world for help:
"Silver, you're in charge of informing Mr. Shirabashi, and the rest of the people, get ready to return!"
"Oh? Oh, and just decided to go? Gai wandered outside the busy group of adventurers and watched their behavior, "It seems that admitting one's weakness is a very easy thing for humans. ”
He felt that he had learned some useless "knowledge".
Cautiously looking around to make sure that no one around him noticed his whispers, Gai breathed a sigh of relief, found a rock near the cliff on the side of the canyon, sat on it, and began to sort out the harvest of his trip.
There are very few.
After all, the group of helpers he had hoped to use, except for the companion of the Holy Cross, the rest of the people did not have as much information as himself, and they all lacked the eyes to find the details.
It's not reliable at all, the pigeon demon beast belly slandered, of course, he should also be included in this sentence.
Gai looked up, staring at the faint shadows that could be seen on the cliffs overhead.
Only a monster like him can have such excellent eyesight, and if humans want to detect something strange above, they must use their spiritual power to perform miracles on their eyes that enhance their vision and widen their horizons.
"Mr. Shirahashi, I'm ......" Feeling like a "waste", he began to report to the imaginary bishop of the church, "I didn't finish my mission, because, before that, the thing that should be cleared had been swallowed up by that strange cube." ”
"Haha." He laughed dryly, his tone sounding bitter, "It helped me do what I needed to do, maybe the Holy Cross could make an exception to take it in?" ”
"Ice Hell......" he thought, "the last time I heard the term was when the Dark Forest changed hands and the 'Son of Heaven and Earth' changed his personality and became more high-profile. ”
"He has lived so long, he has played all the roles, what makes him willing to care about a group of humans living in the wasteland?" He remembered a story told earlier by a certain adventurer, "Hideous...... Is it because the other Beastmaster who is opposed to you is biased towards humans that you became interested in them? ”
"I'll tell you more about that incident just now." The cold, unwavering voice suddenly sounded in his ears, startling the dove demon beast and almost sliding off the stone.
"You!" As soon as the voice came out of his throat, he blocked it in his mouth with his hand, "Why did you come down?" ”
It was the figure that should have hovered on the top of the cliff, a snow-white, mysterious, and impersonal humanoid monster, who had slipped into the canyon at some point, avoiding the eyes of all humans, and reached Gai's side.
"Does it matter?" The pigeon demon beast listened to the other party's rhetorical question in an emotionless voice, only to feel that the skin of his whole body had become pimples, and his heart was also frightened.
This is...... The coercion exerted by the high-ranking orcs on the low-ranking orcs.
If the other party can do this kind of thing, it means that it must be ...... Immortal beasts?
Is it really a fairy beast?
Gai's eyes widened, not long ago, when facing his question, the other party denied that it was a "divine beast", so there were only two possibilities: "fairy beast" or "evil beast".
As an existence of a "demon beast" whose personality is higher than him......
"I said—" The snow-white figure had somehow reached his side, and the white hair, like the ice that had fallen from the treetops in winter, also fell down on his shoulders, in the socket of his neck, and on his face.
The extreme cold is biting.
This guy's whole body looks like it's made of ice and snow!
An ice cube human ...... Is there really an orc in this world that can turn into such a thing?
Although when demon beasts practice transformation techniques, if they are not careful, the spiritual power they use will be mixed with the elements they are good at manipulating...... It's not that much mixed up at once, is it? It's like adapting an elemental miracle to a transformation miracle.
How did he know that the demon beast in front of him was just not in contact with many miracles, and he could only see one and draw a gourd in the same way, and perform it on the basis of what he had learned, but unexpectedly, there were many miracles that were actually beyond the outline, so he would achieve the final strange effect.
In addition, Fang Nuo's mastery of the miracle of transformation was initially forcibly comprehended by "begging for seals" and "forest greenstone automatically plundering the enemy's life when stimulated", and it took him a lot of energy to figure out how to change back to his original form.
This is called self-teaching on the basis of the basic knowledge originally mastered, and becoming a "talent".
"Let's talk to myself that I didn't say it all just now, and say it again."
Like strands of hair made of ice and snow brushing the side of Gest's face, and like snowflakes falling on a warm object, the cold touch quickly disappeared.
"Tong-Tong, tell me." It was supposed to be coquettish, begging words, but with the chill in his words and the lack of emotion, it sounded like death was asking him to make a deal.
"I've had enough." He listened to the white-haired boy who had been watching them from the top of the cliff for a long time, "Everyone doesn't want to finish their sentence, as if they will lose their life. ”
"You're not human, you're just a rebellious monster." He saw that the other party straightened up, crossed his hands on his hips, and said with no emotion in his tone, "Why do you want to learn from them?" ”
It sounded like the elders of the clan were blaming him for "not learning the good ones, and learning the things that can't be put on the table".
Gai chuckled, then immediately covered his mouth, and turned his head from side to side frantically as if he was worried about being noticed by the other humans.
The adventurers are all preparing for their return journey, each with their own worries, and they have no time to take care of a stranger who has inexplicably joined the party not long ago.
Even the most sensitive "gentle" lady is now in trouble with the matter of "carrying" or "keeping" the cube in the air.
With the former, they didn't know how to get it down, how to get it out of the Dark Forest without harm, and how to keep it out of the group.
Choose the latter...... No one can be sure if the cube will stay where it is and wait for them once they go back and then move the rescuers back.
They did not dare to send people to stay in this valley of summoning peace, which was as silent as death, because of the lack of supplies and the possibility of other dangers lurking around.
"Whew."
Gai, who was not taken seriously by others, breathed a sigh of relief, and at this time, he noticed the light veil draped over the white-haired boy's body:
"Moonshine yarn?"
Gested Gez is a monster with a vision.
"Just to be on the safe side." Fang Nuo tugged at the moonlight cloak on his body, and along the way, he appreciated his craftsmanship more and more.
"Say it quickly." The snow-white little beast seemed to have forgotten that it was now a human image, and reached out to push down the demon beast next to him that was originally a pigeon, and with what he thought was the most ordinary force, he pushed people directly from the stone under his buttocks.
Fang Nuo touched his hair innocently, curled a strand of his fingers and began to wrap around them as if he had done nothing.
Human hair seems to be quite convenient for doing such boring things, he thought.
"Okay, I said." Gai raised his hand in surrender, and at the same time, he re-weighed the other party's possible age in his heart, mainly his mental age, "It's strange, haven't you ever heard of it?" I thought this would be the common knowledge of every resident of the Xuancai Mountains. ”
"Could it be ......," he remembered that Fang Nuo had helped the adventure party, "you are from outside the mountains?" ”
Cold fingertips touched his cheek, and then the force was slammed and began to pinch his face.
"It's also a bad habit of humans to divert from the subject." Since Fang Nuo was forcibly taken away from Huangxian Ridge by the witch, he had already experienced several similar incidents, and he had long seen that this situation was not pleasant.
Although, many times, the elders of the Yellow Immortal family would do the same, Fang Nuo had always had different standards for different things and different creatures in his heart, and his prejudices were only against the race he had recently become interested in.
"Stop, stop." The pigeon monster struggled, "I just don't digress." ”
"Actually," if you don't talk about the Holy Cross, the "cult" in Fang Nuo's heart, then the pigeon demon beast is still a serious, more reliable, and more knowledgeable demon beast in his heart than the mourning birds, "There is an old enemy, he is the emperor of ten thousand flowers, and he is admired by the plant demon beasts. ”
"At the same time, he is also the embodiment of the concept of 'real' in the world, which is just the opposite of the symbol of 'falsehood'."
"His name is ......" Gai lowered his voice, as if to set the mood.
"The Flower Emperor." Fang Nuo gave the answer in his place, because it was something he could guess, even something he had known for a long time.
"That's right......" The opportunity to answer was robbed, and Gai's face was slightly ugly, "The Flower Emperor, the beast king of plants, the invisible king of the dark forest." ”
"One day in the past, he sided with the humans, as if he had found something that he would rather protect with the life of an orc." Speaking of this, the pigeon demon beast let out a "hehe", "This matter seems to be related to our Holy Cross, but there is no detailed record." ”
"Vicious became interested in the choices made by his fateful rivals, and he began to investigate humanity as well." Gai spread his hands, indicating that the topic was over, "That's the way it is. ”
Immediately after, before the white figure in front of him could speak, he hurriedly added an offer, or rather, an invitation:
"I say, do you want to leave this mountain range with us?"
The adventure party plans to embark on the journey home, and they will also go back to their lives, and by the way, report on the mysterious cube left by the Beastmaster.
But what about the other side? They had only known each other for a short time, where did he come from? Where are you going?
If he hasn't decided yet, his invitation can be regarded as providing him with a reference answer.