598 Northern Snow Mountains 2
Facing the majestic snow-capped mountains in front of him, Raymond felt the greatness of nature and the insignificance of the individual.
For a whole week, Raymond explored both sides from the village of the Wild Bull, trying to find the traces left by the mutant fire crows, but in the end he was disappointed.
Except for the bones of Bai Sensen that were left at the foot of the mountain, Raymond did not find any traces left by the mutated fire crows in the snow-capped mountains in front of him.
The towering peak, the only impression that gave Raymond during the inspection, was dead silence.
There are no insects, no carbon-based organisms, only plants that are rooted in the soil, and mosses of all kinds.
Another day of fruitlessness, and Raymond, sitting alone by the campfire, fell into thought.
After leaving the Red Raven Castle, although Raymond did not carefully explore the situation of the villages that were exterminated by the mutated fire ravens during his trip, he now felt a little strange.
Mutant fire crows, which have obvious differences in strength, will become food for their kind after being killed, whether it is feathers or bones in their bodies, they will be eaten completely.
However, after being slaughtered by the mutant fire crows, other creatures will be left with skeletons in their bodies, and they will not all be devoured by these mutant fire crows.
"It's time to study the digestive system of these mutant fire crows when you're in the Red Crow Castle, there must be some kind of mystery in it," Raymond looked at the burning bonfire in front of him in a daze, feeling that this was his mistake. "Why do the creatures they slaughter leave skeletons, and most of them are extremely intact?"
The snow-capped mountains stretching for thousands of miles seemed to be endless, but under Raymond's observation, he still found a certain pattern.
Removing the part obscured by the clouds, Raymond revealed the snow-capped mountain in front of him after analyzing the shape of the snow-capped mountain he had passed by. It was like the front of a man's fists, and the gap between his fingers was the huge canyon he saw.
Raymond, who entered the realm of the Wizard of Dawn, was able to detect traces of creatures within a radius of 2,000 meters after performing the "El's Exploration Technique", which greatly increased his search speed.
However, in the snow-capped mountains thousands of kilometers wide opposite the Manniu village, there is no harvest.
Therefore, after a week, Raymond decided to stop this extensive search, and returned to the north of the village of Namanniu, and began to climb to the snow-capped mountains directly north of it.
Somewhat similar to the mountain range that nurtures the Devouring Frog, Raymond felt the oppression of the environment after passing through the clouds and into the icy mountain range.
It is only possible to fly at an altitude of tens of meters on the surface of the mountain. And Raymond, whose speed was also suppressed, slowed down the speed of probing.
But when he reached an altitude of 20,000 meters, on top of the mountains covered in snow and ice, he finally found some signs of living things.
The moss under the smashed ice was gnawed clean.
Huge potholes that appear on snow-capped mountains. It shows that there were creatures here that once wreaked havoc.
The higher he climbed, the more pressure Raymond came under. But these irregularly shaped potholes. But there are more and more of them, as if powerful creatures have been digging here in order to obtain moss under the ice.
The violent wind and snow on the snowy mountain should soon bury these traces, and Raymond, who felt hope, couldn't help but speed up his ascent.
When Raymond finally stood on the top of the mountain at an altitude of 30,000 meters. The blizzard that has been raging all this time has disappeared here.
But the huge stone houses that stood on a platform at the top of the mountain made him feel strange.
The stone pillars are more than 20 meters high, and the huge strips of stones are tens of meters long, although there is no decoration. But the stone house made of these huge stones stands on the top of this mountain.
The rough boulders that make up the houses look like they were cut out of the snow-capped mountains, and Raymond once saw traces of a quarry on a mountain peak more than 3,000 meters away.
There was no wind or snow, and the extremely high intensity of ultraviolet rays on this huge mountain platform also interfered with Raymond's vision.
But after Raymond carefully examined the stone houses, he eventually found the traces left by his mutated fire crow.
In the corner of the interior of a stone house, Raymond found a large stone slab surrounded by bird scratches and a small amount of crumbling stone chips.
The disguise set up by the first-level wizard was like a joke in front of Raymond.
After using his spiritual power to probe everything below, Raymond lifted the stone slab weighing 10,000 catties, revealing the secret room passage below.
Unaware of the existence of a living creature below, Raymond snapped his fingers, and a bright light source the size of a human head appeared on Raymond's shoulder, illuminating everything around him.
A two-person wide tunnel was dug into the original hard rock, and after going deeper than ten meters into the ground along this simple tunnel, Raymond found that this place was very much like a huge test laboratory.
Rudimentary tables and chairs, various experimental utensils, and many cages for living creatures.
Lighting had made the basement transparent, and Raymond, who had begun to examine it carefully, found many blood-stained claw marks on the walls of the huge testing chamber.
The dried blood stains took on an eerie black color, and had a faint fluorescence.
There was only a very thin layer of floating dust on the ground, and it didn't seem that it had been sealed off for a long time.
With the help of spiritual exploration, Raymond finally found a hidden dark room in the corner of the test laboratory, and after opening the heavy stone door, a room only a few square meters in size appeared in front of him.
A wooden table, a wooden chair, a simple bed, and a fire raven that had turned into a dried corpse.
On the table was a lamp that had been extinguished, and a thick notebook.
The delicate leather paper, as thin as a cicada's wings, but the words written on it in Old Torrean were messy and unfamiliar.
The Fire Raven Clan of the Horn of Despair discovered the existence of the stone house here hundreds of years ago, but it was not until the giant Fire Raven was promoted to the level of a full-fledged wizard that it was able to resist the cold here and bring a part of its people here to build such a secret testing laboratory.
The bloodline fusion method obtained from the witch of Viara made the giant fire raven a treasure, but it did not put all its hopes on itself, but sent a few clansmen who had reached the level of third-level wizards to come here with a large amount of supplies for further testing.
The most powerful giant fire crow only reproduces its descendants in the way taught by the Viara Witch, which not only asks for many human wizard apprentices who cannot be promoted with the Viara Witch, but also goes out to capture many large magical beasts for its breeding test.
But here, in the secret laboratory on the top of this snow-capped mountain, its people have taken a different way, trying to fuse their bloodlines.
The giant fire raven that had fallen, and its mutant descendants, were all exterminated by Reginord.
But more than 300 years after its death, a genius of the Fire Raven Clan finally found the bloodline condensed after cultivating it with an extremely rare biological insect egg, and fused it with the body of the Fire Raven.
However, although these transformed fire crows have inherited the strong talents of many creatures, they still cannot break through the shackles of first-level wizards and be promoted to second-level wizards.
'At the expense of more than 300 people, the eggs obtained from the other side of the distant abyss have become a bridge for the fusion of bloodlines, but they have also cut off the hope of the fire crow clan to continue to survive......
After reading all the notebooks, the last line of extremely messy text made Raymond sigh.
On the last page, in addition to this line of text, there is a drawing-like picture.
Milky white eggs, and tiny insects that hatch from the eggs.
The days when he escaped from the mountains many years ago are something that Raymond can't forget, so this larvae hatched from the eggs are extremely familiar to Raymond!
"Using the Devouring Frog as a bridge for blood fusion is really unsure whether you are a genius or a fool," Raymond sighed in the face of the fire crow that sat on the wooden chair and turned into a dry corpse. "But as a wizard, you're a qualified ......" (to be continued......