Volume 5: The Great Plains Chapter 131: Battle (Part 1)

  The "shh" sound outside the camp suddenly stopped, and there was a dead silence everywhere, as if the sound we heard just now was just our illusion.

  "How come there's no sound anymore? Could it be... that those ice snakes just left like that?" Xiluo said in puzzlement.

  I gave myself a Wind Soar skill, floating from the camp to mid-air, with wind elements swirling around me, gently lifting me up. I rose to five meters high and looked out, almost falling down from mid-air.

  Outside the camp, there were countless ice snakes, and the number was feared to be in the tens of thousands. Those ice snakes saw me rise into the air and immediately raised their heads, spitting venom at me. About 50 meters away, a huge ice snake was swimming towards this side, with many other ice snakes following behind it. That ice snake must have been the Ice Snake King that Awen and Dakrul mentioned. The body of that ice snake was as thick as the largest python in the forest, with a huge red fleshy tumor on its forehead, emitting a faint magical aura. Its massive mouth was open, and waves of cold air emerged from it, looking quite intimidating. I, who had barely managed to kill my way here, was also startled by this sight. I broke out in cold sweat, thinking that this thing was not just as thick as a bucket, but also quite frightening. I wondered how it could have grown to be like this.

  That enormous ice snake seemed to have also spotted me in the air, its mouth opened wide and an icicle shot towards me with a "whoosh" sound. This single icicle was like a command, and the ice snakes surrounding the camp immediately attacked me, filling the sky with low-level ice magic that struck my magical shield, causing it to flash repeatedly and nearly shatter.

  I hastily descended into the camp, and my Wind Soaring Technique almost couldn't support my falling body. The people on the ground, including Aileen, saw what was happening in the sky and immediately understood the situation. Aileen and Xilu quickly shot fire arrows at several places outside the camp, and in an instant, the area around the camp turned into a sea of flames. From what I saw, at least two-thirds of the ice snakes were probably engulfed in the fierce flames. There were too many ice snakes, and their density was too high. The flame trap and Aileen's fire oil worked together to trigger an explosion, and the flames immediately engulfed all living things within a radius of twenty meters.

  "There are ice snakes all over the ground outside, and now they're probably all struggling in the sea of fire. Unfortunately, the largest ice snake wasn't burned, I saw it 50 meters away, just blocked by the firewall." I said with some regret.

  "Ai Wen stared at me with wide eyes and said: 'What? Why didn't you say so earlier? I could have endured it a bit longer and burned it to ashes!'"

  The flames outside continued to burn, with thick black smoke billowing in the sky and a strange smell of charred meat floating in the air, making people feel nauseous when they smelled it.

  Xi Lu couldn't hold it in and ran to the corner of the wall to start throwing up. As she vomited, she said to Evan: "Brother, don't mention barbecue to me for a month... Ugh..."

  Looking at Xilu's pale face, Evan frowned and said to me: "Alick, I'm also feeling nauseous, think of a way."

  I was just about to open my mouth to speak when suddenly a torrential rain poured down from the sky, and we looked at each other in surprise. Dakuru suddenly said on one side: "This must be the masterpiece of that Ice Snake King, this spell is quite similar to the Rain Magic of the Magician, right?"

  I nodded and said, "It's indeed the torrential rain technique. I didn't expect this ice snake to know this spell too. This is terrible, the flames will be extinguished, and the remaining ice snakes will probably attack us immediately."

  Aidan shook his head and said, "Not necessarily, this torrential rain technique may be able to extinguish your flame magic trap, but it is absolutely impossible to extinguish the flames ignited by my fire oil. My fire oil-ignited flames are not afraid of water at all, and if there is water, these flames will spread everywhere with the water, burning bigger and bigger, and even the water will become a fuel for the flames."

  I exclaimed in surprise: "Is it so magical? How can such a flame be extinguished?"

  Ivan whispered mysteriously into my ear with a smile, "You're my friend, so it's okay to tell you. These big fires fueled by kerosene aren't afraid of water, but they are afraid of earth. Just cover them with dirt and everything will be gone."

  I thought carefully and suddenly realized that everything has its own restraint, no matter what, there is always something corresponding to it, suppressing it. My heart suddenly moved, as if I had understood a certain principle, but for the time being, I couldn't think deeply about it, so I had to hold back my desire to study it carefully and deal with the current crisis first.

  Evan said to Frey at this time: "Frey, open a gap in your thorny wall and let's take a look at the situation outside."

  Frey nodded and waved her magic wand lightly, and the thorny wall immediately revealed an entrance that allowed two people to enter and exit side by side.

  Despite being mentally prepared, the scene outside still shocked everyone: within a 30-meter radius of the camp, everything was scorched earth. The magical traps I set up were more powerful than I had estimated, and the flames engulfed the entire area. The ice snakes that had been densely packed outside the camp were all reduced to twisted, charred segments. Evan hadn't exaggerated - the fire was still burning everywhere outside the camp, and the Ice Snake King's torrential rain spell hadn't extinguished the flames. We could even see oil fires burning on the surface of the water, with the Ice Snake King and some surviving ice snakes pacing back and forth outside the flames, looking furious as they occasionally shot out a few water- and ice-based spells at the fire in vain.

  The Ice Snake King apparently saw our silhouettes, it stopped, proudly raised its head towards us, although still separated by the flames, but we could still see the red light flashing in its eyes.

  "What's wrong with it? It's just that the beastman shaman stole its food for survival, and it came here just to take back its own things. But we... but we brutally killed so many of its companions, this is really too cruel..." Fure said with red eyes.

  "But we're not wrong either, if we didn't resist, I'm afraid we would have been swallowed up by these dense ice snakes by now. In this situation, where do we still have the mood to discuss right and wrong? It's really overflowing with sympathy." Xilu said discontentedly.

  "I just wanted to get a trial item, I didn't think it would cause so much trouble... We beastmen only value bravery, whoever is strong can survive, we don't know what's right or wrong, we only know that we must keep fighting and striving to be qualified to survive in this world." Dakuru said with some regret but then his expression became firm again.

  Ivan nodded and said, "Morality and justice are only in the hands of the strong. This world is like that. Sympathizing with the weak requires having enough strength oneself. In the end, this world still needs to be spoken with power. Dakuru was not wrong, Ice Snake was not wrong either. They were all fighting for what they thought was right."

  "Frey, when I was young, I knew that my father and those uncles of mine were protecting our village, so we could study and play in peace. But every child in our village knew that one day, our fathers would grow old, and we would grow up, and it was our responsibility to take over the protection of the village. However, we also knew that to take over their responsibilities, we had to become strong, and only with power could we protect those we wanted to guard. I wasn't suited for swordsmanship, so when I found out about magic, I studied even harder, because I knew that only if I had great strength could I protect my loved ones.

  I looked at Frey and continued: 'For this goal, I've been walking on this path, becoming a great magician, protecting those I love, and it gradually became one of the motivations for me to become stronger. If you also have something you want to protect, then become strong too! I think you wanting to become a saint must also have a reason behind it, right? So now, our main goal isn't to sympathize with each other, but to fight hard and live well until we reach our goals."

  Upon hearing my words, Freya lowered her head in contemplation. After a while, she seemed to have figured something out and smiled at me, nodding her head, saying: "I understand now, thank you, Yalick."

  The flames gradually went out, and the ice snake probe cautiously swam into this scorched earth. Once it detected that the temperature had dropped, it immediately brought the remaining ice snakes to charge towards us.

  Dakuru waved his hand, and the four totems' silhouettes rose up. In an instant, the four magical elements filled this small space. Dakuru said: "My totems can provide you with agility, defense, and magic enhancement. Be careful not to leave the range of the totems. I'll deal with these little snakes. You guys first hold off the Ice Snake King for a while, and after I'm done with these little snakes, I'll come and join forces with you to kill it."

  Aivan and Xiluo exchanged a glance, and the two of them instantly vanished into thin air, leaving me and Fure facing the gigantic Ice Snake King. At this moment, the Ice Snake King was spitting out bright red snake letters as it charged towards us, and it had actually given up on its magical attacks, instead using its massive snake head to smash down on us.

  I raised the "Staff of the Gods" towards the sky, and a huge fireball shot out from my hand. With a loud "Boom", the fireball slammed into the snake's lower jaw, the massive force sending its head flying backwards, and the ice snake's lower jaw was also scorched by the flames.

  The ice snake, seeing that its previous move was ineffective, immediately opened its mouth and shot three ice cones at me and Freya in succession. The deep blue ice cones flew towards us with a mournful whistling sound, hitting my magic shield squarely, although they didn't penetrate the shield, they still sent me stumbling backward several steps, crashing into Freya's body. Freya naturally wrapped her arms tightly around me, and only then did we manage to avoid falling over.

  The familiar scent on Freya's body made me dazed for a moment, but I quickly straightened up and left her arms.

  At this moment, a dazzling white light flashed in Dakuru's hand, and a lightning-fast chain shot out from his hand. All the attacks began, and it was a life-and-death battle.

  This chapter is actually for tomorrow (August 8th), today's has already been updated, but I have to take the driver's license theory test tomorrow, so I'll release it in advance, and won't post anything tomorrow, wish me good luck, amen!