Chapter 259: Cloud Beast
As Midi calmly points out his purpose, and the Celestials excitedly express their denials and whims, time passes bit by bit.
Finally, the floating islands on the edge of the black cloud circle and the ice cloud circle are also close at hand.
The sky suddenly lit up.
It was as if the curtain of darkness had been torn open, and the pale golden sunlight, like a waterfall flowing down, poured down from this crack, forming a brilliant and dense ribbon of light, and countless light particles like fireflies floated and flew in the air, illuminating the darkness, like a fairyland.
Soon, as the narwhal continued to move forward, the light became more and more intense, and the darkness became thinner and thinner, like thick ink melted away by clear water, and the darkness was removed little by little, and finally dissolved into the light.
With a loud sound of the air being punctured, the 65-meter-long narwhal shook, jumped high, and then fell down like a small sampan held on the waves.
In the next moment, everyone's field of vision instantly became bright and spacious, and the long-lost sense of emptiness and exaltation of the sea of clouds in the sky finally came back at this moment.
At the same time, unconsciously, a bone-chilling wind blew, causing everyone to shrink their necks involuntarily.
Then, a vast world of ice and snow slowly rolled up in front of him, like an endless picture.
Behind him were layers of black clouds rolling like thunder, and in front of him were the ice and snow that swept the ladder like a storm, and at this moment, the narwhal, like a tiny speck of dust, was slowly moving forward in the gap between these two worlds.
It's a wonderful sight that is indescribable.
Even Midi, who had seen the junction of black and white circles in his previous life, couldn't help but hold his breath at this time, quietly looking up at the wonders of the natural power between heaven and earth.
However, after a short period of tens of seconds of distraction, the members of the narwhal quickly returned to normal, and then piloted the airship towards the intended destination.
Between these two worlds, there is also a floating island rock.
And the largest piece of this island rock is the resting place of the narwhal this time.
Of course, theoretically speaking, the narwhal has broken away from the black cloud circle, and even if the infinitely powerful black ocean current appears, it will not blow into the gap between the two circles, so the narwhal only needs to choose to hover in the gap and wait for the black ocean current to stop before rushing into the black cloud circle.
However, the rules of the spice route for many years made Victoria directly order the narwhal to stop on the floating island rock without thinking or making any changes, and also fixed the hull with a large number of steel cables.
Not only that, but because the cold wind blowing from the inner circle of ice clouds was too cold, Victoria also paid special attention to the maintenance of the airship this time. She had the crew coat the hull with a heavy layer of antifreeze to prevent malfunction due to the low temperature, and also arranged for a Recon Pioneer boat on the small island rock in front to prevent accidents.
These measures are obviously also the steps laid down by the ancestors of the Rothschild Chamber of Commerce, and they must be carefully implemented every time they pass this inflection point, so the crew of the narwhal is also extremely easy to do.
However, Midi could feel that behind such a cautious and cautious approach, there was a deep fear and fear.
"Are you worried about the Cloud Beast?" Midi asked faintly, glancing at Victoria.
Victoria nodded slightly, frowning involuntarily, before replying, "Mr. Blade, you are worthy of someone who wants to pass through the Great Storm Zone, but I didn't expect to know even these extremely rare information. I'm really worried about the Cloud Beast. In fact, the location of this inflection point is very close to the hunting ground of the cloud beast in the ice cloud circle, if you are unlucky, you happen to encounter the cloud beast coming out to hunt, it will be more troublesome. ”
I'd like to see a few more Cloud Beasts.
Midi thought to herself.
Cloud beast, which is one of the products endemic to the ice cloud circle.
It is not a magical beast, but a magical lifeform similar to the Lord of Light. However, this magical lifeform is not artificially designed and manufactured, but formed spontaneously.
In the ice cloud circle, those white ice clouds full of dignified magic will gradually attract and condense each other after hundreds of years, and after a few hundred years, if you are lucky enough to drift to the inner circle and absorb the stars floating in the starry ocean, you will take the stars as the core and begin to gradually form a magical network in the body.
This magic network is like the blood vessels and nervous system in the human body, which assume the function of transmitting magic and transmitting commands.
At this moment, the cloud beast was born.
It is a natural master of the ice cloud circle, it can call out ice and snow and hail at will, and its own volume is extremely large, and no matter how it attacks, the scattered clouds will regather and are extremely difficult to destroy, so for an airship of the Narwhal's level, it can indeed be regarded as a natural enemy and nemesis.
In the previous life, only after the successful development of heavy armored cruisers, cruiser-class airships had the ability to resist ice, snow and hail, and would not disintegrate in the extremely cold environment, so that adventurers had the capital to fight against cloud beasts. Even so, the method of destroying the Cloud Beast was obtained after repeated temptations and a lot of sacrifices.
Today, the narwhal is not naturally skilled enough to sail into the ice clouds.
And the so-called spice route is not the kind that Midi speculated at the beginning, the route that can bypass the extreme cold of the ice cloud circle and directly enter the interior, but it is just a shortcut in the black cloud circle.
But at least, the Rothschild Chamber of Commerce can already be said to be the closest force to the core of the Great Storm Zone in the sky and clouds, second only to the Blue Truth Sect.
So, at the very least, Midi hoped to kill one or two cloud beasts to shatter the entrenched notions of the inhabitants of the sea of clouds, and convince them that the Great Storm Zone was not as terrible as they imagined.
I don't know if it was Midi's inner prayer that worked, or Victoria's luck on this trip, when the narwhal waited on the floating island rock for more than three hours, the ice cloud circle, suddenly blew a fierce wind like a knife.
Then, the surface of the ice storm collapsed like an avalanche, and from the breach, a pair of huge white claws stretched out.
Then, there is the huge head like a hill.
It was a real cloud beast.
The cloud beast was in the form of a gigantic lizard, at least a kilometer long—quite small for a cloud—and its head alone was the size of several narwhals. If this cloud beast opened its mouth, it would surely be able to swallow the narwhal whole in one bite.
And around its huge mountain-like body, there were clouds and mist, wind and snow howling, and patches of ice clouds followed, like guards following their masters.
The cloud beast carried the clouds and mist, and the entire volume was naturally larger, and from a distance, I am afraid that it would look like it was at least a few kilometers in radius.
And when the eyes of this cloud beast that were also condensed with ice crystals saw the narwhal, it suddenly let out a deafening roar, and the clouds around it were all dispersed, and in an instant, the nearly kilometer range became empty, and the ice cloud circle actually revealed a void.
The earth-shattering roar sparkled almost everyone.
Victoria barely managed to keep her composure, but her face was as pale as a dead man. Maintaining the last of her senses, she ordered her men to untie all the tightropes at once in a trembling voice, allowing the narwhal to take off and escape immediately.
Although the Black Sea Current is still raging now, it is obvious that it can't care about so much, rather than being devoured by the cloud beast, it is better to return to the black cloud circle, maybe there is a chance to get a glimmer of life and return to the spice route.
This is definitely the most reasonable order.
It's just that how can those crew members carry out their orders at this moment?
After all, they are only employees of the Chamber of Commerce, not iron-blooded soldiers, seeing this cloud beast with a huge head like a hill, and then hearing that deafening roar, I am afraid that even the courage will be broken, and most people can only watch all this in a daze, or hide in the cabin to survive, how can they hear what Victoria is saying?
This is not due to infidelity, but due to instinctive fear.
Only the old butler, Lund, still looking relatively calm, took a step forward and stood in front of Victoria. However, this is also the limit of Lund, in addition to the deep-rooted concept of protecting the young lady, the old butler is also helpless.
If there was anyone on the narwhal who remained truly calm, it was Midi alone.
"Wait here, don't act rashly, I'll go and dispose of that cloud beast. Midi dropped the words.
The next moment, as soon as his words fell, a golden-red light had already rolled up around his body, soaring into the air like a shocking sword rainbow, heading straight for the huge cloud beast in the distance!
Just rushed over?
It took a while for Victoria to understand what Midi was doing.
Looking at the golden red light that tore through the clouds and went away, without any scruples, she rushed straight to the behemoth that was absolutely impossible to defeat in her mind, and the heart of this genius woman in the business world was full of flavors for a while.
She felt that Midi was too arrogant, obviously a nether human, but she thought she was too arrogant, and wanted to challenge the obstacles that no one in the sea of clouds had been able to break for thousands of years.
At the same time, she was also worried about Midi and herself, because if Midi was killed like this, the narwhal would surely end up in the same fate, and everyone would be buried in the gap between the unparalleled ice cloud circle and the black cloud circle, and no one would know the way, no one would look for it, no one would worry about it, and not even a little bit of the bones would be saved.
And in the deepest part of her subconscious, Victoria couldn't help but have a sense of anticipation.
Hopefully, Midi will be able to defeat this invincible enemy.
It is not because of their own safety, nor because of the entanglement of interests, but just the hope that there is such a person who can break the long-entrenched shackles and then open up a new path in front of him.
A real miracle, who wouldn't want to witness it for themselves?