The next morning, the northern chief Balon woke up first. As soon as he sat up, his men around him woke up one after another. They all slept in a snow house, and it was surprisingly warm inside. Such snow would not naturally occur.
, this is a shelter made by Rena's magic. They couldn't light a fire at night, so she made this house. And the white-haired human is not here, which is natural. She is a human and a female. She sleeps in another room.
A place outside.
Baron bent down and walked out of the crowded snow house. The sky outside was still dark, and he found Reina standing outside, looking up at the sky.
"You woke up very early, I hope you had a good sleep."
"Don't worry, I've rested long enough. What I'm more worried about is how to climb up. Maybe I can go up first and then use magic to bring you up."
After hearing what Reina said, Baron snorted and curved his mouth slightly. This may be his first smile. He picked up the backpack half buried in the snow, took out a bundle of ropes, and a thin
Square package tied with rope.
"You are a kind human being. It's a pity that war does not require kindness. I am more afraid that you will show mercy to the enemy than the ferocity of the enemy. Besides, the birds in the sky are very sensitive to magic. You can use magic in this gutter, but in the
If it doesn’t work from above, they will be discovered.”
He untied the rope and handed a piece to Rena, who took it. Baron threw the rest to the soldiers behind him, who then gave it to the others.
"Actually, you don't have to pity us. We are warriors. We fight for our beliefs. It is our honor to die in battle. But pity is a shame for us. Okay, tie it to your waist and climb up in groups of three
Go up." Balon tied the middle section of the rope to his belly, and the orc soldier at the other end did the same.
Reina followed suit. Their climbing tools were very simple, only this rope and a few long nails that could be embedded in the crack wall.
"Will we not be discovered when we climb up like this?"
"Yes, so we need some disguise. If we put this on, they won't be able to tell whether we are dead or alive."
Just after he finished speaking, Baron threw her another piece of brown leather that was a bit sticky. The texture felt a bit scary. Reina asked about the unpleasant smell. She didn't want to recall where she had smelled this smell.
But she already knew what it was.
"What kind of skin is this?"
Reina said with some horror.
"Evil spirit skin, don't worry, what you have is horse skin."
Balon said this, so what others have in their hands may be...
Reina didn't want to know the answer. She just felt a little nauseous, but in the end she criticized it on her body. This feeling was terrible, as if there was something bad stuck behind her back.
After everyone was ready, had their luggage tied to their bodies, and had eaten and drank enough, they began to challenge the cliff.
Before setting off, Balon warned everyone not to make any noise, as sound would reveal their location and attract the attention of the dead bird.
The twenty-one people were divided into seven groups. Linnai, Baron and a soldier named Duer were in one group. In order to avoid accidents, each group was separated by four or five meters and climbed up at the same time.
For Reina, this little cliff is nothing. She has been climbing various peaks since before she started her journey. Some of them even have no place to stand, and she relies on controlling her magic power to stick to them.
And this Dragon Scale Mountain is full of gaps, so there is no way to trouble her.
Among the seven groups, her group was clearly in the lead. She admired the orc chief who was over fifty years old. He still had such energy and could easily follow Rena.
Gradually, they were one or two hundred meters above the ground, and the top of the mountain was still out of reach. At this time, the cold wind blew, and sand drifted from nowhere, and entered Reina's eyes. However, at this moment, she heard the sound of stones.
There was a sliding sound, and the most worrying thing happened. Someone made a mistake.
Fortunately, the remaining two had enough strength to hang it in the air. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and climbed up again.
However, the higher you go up, the more difficult it becomes. The mountain is not vertical, but has slopes, and some places are protruding, making it impossible to use the strength of your legs. About halfway up, a sudden wind blew from the bottom up in the ravine.
The strange wind roared loudly, and Reina felt like she was almost being blown up.
What a terrible wind pressure.
However, Sarah made a sound, and another person lost his grip and fell. Reina turned around and saw only one person falling. The other two did not have enough strength to hold him down, and they were taken down one after another. Even the nails nailed to the cliff were gone.
was pulled out.
They fell in front of everyone's eyes. Reina saw the expression on one of them, which was a face of despair. There was a bang, and a dull sound came from the bottom of the valley.
This long sound made people's hearts tremble. They died, but there was no sound in the whole process.
Reina closed her eyes, she might be able to save them, with magic...
However, when she opened her eyes and looked down, she found Chief Baron and his subordinate Duer looking at him. Those two pairs of bright eyes seemed to be able to speak. Linna understood what they meant.
Keep climbing!
She gritted her teeth and continued crawling upward.
But those three people were not the final victims. In the group farthest from Reina and the others, someone among them accidentally let the camouflaged leather jacket blow away in the wind. In an instant, several fast black shadows fell from the sky, and there was a crackling sound.
Continuously, blood flew everywhere, and in the blink of an eye, the man was pecked into broken bones by the black bird. The orc above him was unfortunately implicated, and his lower body was nailed to the cliff.
The suicide attack of the dead birds made people tremble. They were still on the orc's legs, flapping their broken wings. It endured the pain and cut the rope on its body. When the last member climbed up, he found that he
Already breathless.
The surviving orc didn't climb far. For some unknown reason, he let go and fell.
In just a few hours, they lost six people. The chief's face was extremely ugly, and Rena's face was also pale.
I hope no more people will die.
I don’t know if God answered her inner prayer, but the rest of the people were lucky enough to climb to their destination. It was not the top, but the outside of the mountain. It looked like a plank road, half buried in the mountain wall.
There are no traces of digging here, it is a natural path eroded by differences.
Just when Reina thought she could breathe a sigh of relief, she suddenly heard the sound of slapping the air.
Others heard it too. They held their breath and looked around. They saw pairs of small blue eyes suddenly appearing in the dark cracks in the rocks.
Rena's perception instantly expanded, and she saw everything, as if she put her hand into a blind box and touched countless squirming insects.
There is a huge space in the rock crevices, and countless bats live in it!
"Run!"
Chief Balon shouted in a low voice, and everyone ran away before they even had time to untie the rope.
In an instant, a black wave surged out from the cracks in the rocks, with a screeching sound. Everyone ran as fast as they could. Reina, who wanted to use magic, was grabbed by the chief, and then she remembered that she could not use magic.
The last few team members were grabbed by the bat and lifted up with their feet off the ground. No matter how hard they struggled, they could not break free.
They ran along the steep mountain road, but the planned road was still long, and they would never be able to finish it.
At this moment, Balon saw the cave on the opposite mountain wall. The walls of the cave were white and smooth, and there were probably passages at once.
He had a plan in mind and shouted: "Jump into the cave in front! Quick!"
As soon as the words fell, everyone jumped up and Reina was taken directly off the ground and flew towards the entrance of the cave.
With a whoosh, Reina felt like the world was spinning. She tried hard to keep her balance, but to no avail. Just like that, she kept sliding, sometimes hitting the wall, sometimes hitting the stone, but her head was so hard that she even made sparks.
As they turned left and right, they kept falling, and finally slid down a slope into a stream with flowing water and fine sand.
Poof a few times, they survived.
"What is this place?"
When they came back to their senses, they found that the surroundings were dim, with some fluorescent color, and the cool running water was not as cold as the cold outside.
Everyone kept looking around. Suddenly, Duer made a surprised voice: "Is this gold?"
Reina looked back and saw that Duer had picked up a handful of sand from the stream. There was a faint light at the entrance of the cave where they fell. Through the light, they saw the golden sand gold.
At this time, everyone's eyes gradually adapted to the darkness, and they discovered that the glowing things on the surrounding rock walls were actually priceless gems!
How could there be such a strange place?
Just as they were immersed in the scenery of the cave, suddenly a huge snoring sound shocked everyone and held their breath.
They took a closer look, and if it hadn't been for this sound, they would never have discovered that thing. Not far in front of them, in the direction of the source of the running water, there was a huge thing crawling on a natural stone plate.
Baron's mouth widened, his eyes widened, and he murmured in a horrified tone: "This is! A rock dragon?"