Chapter 474 The Third-Level Frozen Blade
The appearance of the ice cone is not the clear look of ice spells cast by ordinary mages, but a faint blue cold light.
This is the unique property of ice spells blessed by the Iceborn bloodline. It is much more powerful than the ice spells cast by ordinary mages.
The ice cone made a sharp whistling sound when it cut through the air, as if countless small swords were stabbing into the air.
At first, the ice pick seemed to have penetrated into nothingness, without causing any waves.
Lan Wen frowned, not understanding why this was the case. Even so, he didn't think Gaode's reaction was wrong.
While I was still thinking about it, the next moment there were several bangs and bangs in front of me, and a pile of fine ice crystal mist suddenly exploded.
A tiny silver-white light flashed for a moment, like broken glass, but disappeared into nothingness the next moment.
But this moment is enough, both Gothe and Lan Wen have noticed it.
Lan Wen reacted quickly and cast the spell again, and more blue ice picks stabbed out.
Intensive popping sounds sounded.
More silvery-white light spots exploded in the air, and countless small translucent shadows could be vaguely seen struggling.
Although these shadows are small, their number is astonishing.
At the edge of the vision, clouds of blurry silver mist have risen from the ice rock wall, like a sleeping giant awakening, like surging stardust, rushing towards Gothe and Lan Wen at extremely fast speeds.
"There are too many!" Gothe could feel the oxygen content in the air, because the awakening activities of these creatures dropped off a cliff at this time, and he immediately made an accurate judgment: "Go first!"
Boeing possessed him again, and his absolute control over the gas surged through his limbs like a tide, and two airflow wings visible to the naked eye spread out on his shoulders.
Gothe's body soared into the air like an arrow, and flew away quickly toward the sea outside the island.
Lan Wen did not show off, nor did he hesitate to cast the spell again.
Spell light glowing with blue light spread out from the palm of the hand, and three ice walls instantly appeared out of thin air.
The surface of the ice wall is covered with barb-shaped ice spikes, and the middle section of the wall is sunken inward into an arc, lying across in front of him.
The moment the ice wall came into contact with the silver mist, it made a "sizzling" sound one after another.
The invisible insects in the silver mist hit the ice spikes and accumulated a thin layer of white frost on the wall.
But more swarms of insects are pouring out from the depths of the fog, causing fine dents to appear on the surface of the ice wall at a speed visible to the naked eye.
After seeing the ice wall slightly blocking the footsteps of the invisible insect swarm, Lan Wen quickly took half a step back, and a stream of light blue air immediately surrounded his body.
The next moment, he also used the [Flying Technique], turned around, followed Gothe's back, and fled towards the sea.
The two people reacted very decisively and quickly. By the time the three ice walls turned into ice chips and shattered, Gothe and Lan Wen were already far away from the ice cave.
After the swarm of insects cleared the ice wall, they found that their target had already gone far away. After stagnating in mid-air for a moment, they did not pursue it but began to slowly retreat.
Tens of thousands of transparent insect shadows drew fine arcs in the air, flying towards the ice rock wall where they originally lived, like dandelions that had been blown away by the wind and regrouped.
While passing over the ice on the rock walls, these transparent bugs transformed into countless tiny ice crystals, filling the gaps between the rock walls and the ice one after another.
The first swarm of insects to return to the rift turned into a wisp of silver mist and got in.
Followed by the second and third strands.
The place where the fog and the rock wall came into contact showed a faint watery light, and disappeared in an instant.
When the last cloud of silver mist sank deep into the ice, everything fell into deathly silence.
Gothe, who was far away from the ice cave and confirmed that there were no insects chasing him, stopped and opened the Mandora Magic Eye. When he looked back, he saw only a piece of ice and stone walls as smooth as a mirror.
Every pattern on the ice on the stone wall has returned to its original appearance, and the sunlight refracts on the ice, creating dazzling light spots.
Even at this moment, there happened to be a stream of air sweeping over the cliff, but it only stirred up a burst of fine ice dust and made a fine rustling sound. Other than that, there was no other sound.
There is no buzz of vibrating wings, and no translucent shadows flickering in the air.
Lan Wen was hovering beside him, and like Gothe, he was also looking at the flawless and abnormal ice and rock walls around the ice cave.
His brows were furrowed.
If he hadn't just cast a spell to briefly confront the insect swarms, even he would have doubted whether everything just happened was an hallucination caused by the extremely cold environment.
"What is this?" Lan Wen asked, half talking to himself and half asking.
In terms of knowledge of earth-line creatures, Gaode is much better than Lan Wen.
Because as an ice descendant, Lanwen's understanding of earth-line creatures is actually limited to the northern realm.
But what exactly this kind of insect is is also a blind spot in Gaode's knowledge base.
But this is not unsolvable.
Gaode's heart moved, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he began to clearly recall the appearance of those insects in his mind.
The transparent body, the tiny silhouette of the rapidly flapping wings, and the flashing silver spots when hitting the ice wall. Every detail is quickly engraved in the mind.
At the same time, Gothe quietly triggered a certain spell model in the spell sea.
[Rare]+] (Prophecy, Level 1):
You recall a creature you encountered within a day. After the spell is completed, you will be able to gain some knowledge of the creature.
Additional: You will gain more knowledge about the creature, even including information about the creature's tribe.
The mana light flashed on the spell model like a constellation model.
Following this, some scattered information emerged in Gaode's mind like an enlightenment, clear and direct.
"Ice worm...a first-order leyline creature whose body is composed of countless microscopic ice crystals. The ice crystals can reflect light, giving it the ability to become invisible. They usually inhabit crevices in the ice near extremely cold leylines...:
This is not the end.
The additional effect of [Know Yourself, Know Your Enemy [Rare]+] is triggered, and more information is coming.
This This additional information not only covers the characteristics of individual ice pinworms, but also involves their group habits and survival rules, allowing Gothe to have a more comprehensive understanding of this strange creature.
Because the ice threadworm itself is only a first-order creature, the information obtained by [Know Yourself and Know Your Enemy+] is extremely comprehensive.
Ice threadworm is the name of these bugs.
This is a strange earth-line creature that mutated under the fusion of evil spirits and extreme cold in the ice cave. Due to the mutation, its body changed from flesh to wonderful micro ice crystals.
These crystals can refract light from the surrounding environment, allowing the ice worm to achieve near-perfect invisibility.
They are not of a high level, but they possess astonishing numbers and group mobility. They gather in units of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands and hide in the cracks near the ice caves.
When it senses the body temperature of an organism, the ice worms will quietly rush out, get close to the organism, penetrate into the organism's body as the organism breathes, and then release the acidic ice liquid secreted from its body surface, slowly dissolving the organism's internal organs, and then feed on it.
In the end, it was like boiling a frog in warm water, corroding and devouring all the flesh and blood from the creature's body.
At the beginning, it is difficult for organisms to detect the existence of ice worms, and even if they notice something is wrong later, it will be too late.
In addition, these ice pinworms are hidden inside the body, so it is difficult to deal with them.
Relying on these characteristics and abilities, although the ice pinworm is only at the first level, it can often defeat the weak and turn high-level creatures into its own food.
Based on the rough judgment of what we just saw, the number of this group of ice pinworms already exceeds one hundred thousand.
After obtaining the information about the ice worm swarm, and then thinking about the huge sea beast skeleton, Gothe speculated that this former fifth-level sea beast, the overlord of the sea, might have died at the hands of these ice worm swarms that were only the first level.
Although it sounds incredible, it is possible in this world.
In the final analysis, it is not the embodiment of "too many ants can kill an elephant".
Gothe told Lan Wen all the information he had obtained through the [Know Yourself, Know Your Enemy] spell, "My king, then I will lure away these ice worms, and you will take away the ice demon?" After listening to what Gothe said, Lan Wen quickly came up with an idea.
The most frightening thing about these ice pinworms is that they are invisible and there are so many of them. When they are discovered, they are often already "sick and blind" and cannot be cured.
But the ice worms themselves are not outstanding in terms of combat capability, and can even be said to be somewhat weak. As a fourth-ring mage, just luring these ice worms away would be a stress-free thing for Lan Wen.
"Don't be so troublesome." Gothe calmly rejected Lan Wen's plan.
Ice worms are essentially only first-level earth-line creatures, and no matter how many there are, they cannot change this fact.
Under the pressure brought by the level, he has a better way to deal with these ice worms.
He said no more, raised his right hand, put his index finger and middle finger together, and drew an extremely concise rune on his chest.
As the fingertips passed through the air, an extremely thin, almost transparent layer of light golden shimmer centered on him like water waves, spreading softly to all sides, covering his entire body, and then disappeared.
Gaode waved his hand again, and the same faint light also covered Lan Wen.
This glimmer of light does not illuminate, but has a strange "shielding" characteristic. It does not bring any visual distortion or blur, but it covers the space around the subject with a cognitive barrier.
"Let's go." After doing all this, Gothe motioned to Lan Wen to continue setting off.
After learning about the "danger" on the island, the two of them were mentally prepared. Instead of walking step by step like before, they flew over quickly.
Showing we reached the ice cave again.
But this time, both of them approached the ice cave very calmly and comfortably.
In Gaode's perception, the oxygen content in the air has not changed again,
This shows that the ice pinworm hiding nearby has not awakened, but remains in a dormant state.
The reason for this is naturally due to the spell that Gothe cast just now.
One-ring protection spell, [Animal Ignore Spell].
With the blessing of [Animal Ignorance], as long as the subject does not touch any animal or attack any creature, the animal will not be aware of the protected creature and will act as if the subject does not exist at all.
Even if it possesses extraordinary sensory modalities, such as blindsense, blindsight, keen sense of smell, tremor perception, or even the ice pinworm's heat perception, it cannot detect or locate the subject.
Although [Animal Ignore Spell] is only a first-level spell, the ice worm is only a first-level creature, and it is cast at the level of a second-level mage.
It is completely sufficient if you want to hide in front of this group of ice pinworms.
This is the advantage of having a deep enough spell library. Many times, a small spell can do many things that seem to require a lot of effort.
In the current perception of the ice worm, Gothe and Lan Wen do not exist, and naturally they will not wake up and approach them.
Without the threat of ice worms, the two of them once again walked towards the ice cave.
As soon as he stepped into the ice cave entrance, a biting chill hit his face, which was several times stronger than outside the ice cave. It was as if he had instantly fallen into a thousand-year ice cellar.
However, Lan Wen has long been blessed with protective spells, and Gaode has the intermediate body protection of Ice Blessing, which is not affected by the cold at all.
The inner wall of the ice cave is made of dark blue ice. The ice is covered with strange-shaped ice edges, like countless sharp knives hanging upside down.
The ground is uneven and covered with a thick layer of white frost.
And in this ice cellar-like space, there are hundreds of ice demons stored in it.
They are densely distributed on the roof of the cave, on the rock walls and in the depressions on the ground.
Each ice demon is a stream of blue air that surges up from time to time and then condenses, as if it is bound in place by an invisible force.
These ice demons shine with a faint blue light in the dim cave, illuminating the entire space with a blue color. If you feel carefully, you can detect the astonishing chill in the ice demons.
There is also a sharp feeling in the airflow, as if countless tiny ice needles are shuttled and collided in it, making a subtle "hissing" sound from time to time.
Occasionally, if two ice demon air currents touch each other, they will spark a burst of blue sparks, and then quickly separate, continuing to maintain their respective shapes.
Lan Wen held his breath, a trace of wonder and vigilance flashed in his eyes. He whispered to Gothe: "My king, such a large number of third-level ice demons are really rare."
Gothe nodded. The Mandora Eye in his left eye had been opened, flickering with light. After scanning around, he got the accurate number.
There are a total of 1,056 third-level ice demons here.
The entire cave contains strong negative energy.
This is a necessary condition for the generation of ice demon.
Gaode took out an ice crystal bottle from his arms, which was brought from the ship.
Subsequently, he fixed his gaze on a relatively sparse corner of the cave wall.
There, there are five or six ice demons circling around an ice edge.
Gothe stepped forward slowly, holding the ice crystal bottle in his right hand, pointing the mouth of the bottle at one of the ice demons, and then used [Mage's Hand] to pull the ice crystal bottle towards the bottle.
The whole process is not complicated, nor is it too difficult. The only thing worth noting is that when pulling the ice demon, you must resist the evil spirit and chill released by the ice demon.
This is obviously not a problem for Gaode.
Hence, Gothe successfully took away the four ice demons and put them into ice crystal bottles.
Once everything was done, he sealed the bottle mouth and glanced at Lan Wen: "Let's go."
Yes, Gaode only takes four third-level ice demons.
But it's not that he is so "noble" that he wants to leave the treasure to those who come after him.
It's because this ice cave is actually in the process of advancing. In a few years, decades, or hundreds of years, it will become a fourth-level ice cave.
At that time, the ice evil it produces will be the fourth level ice evil.
If all the ice demons in the ice cave are taken away, it will directly interrupt the advancement of the ice cave. For the future long-term utilization and sustainable development, Gaode has chosen not to interfere with its advancement progress as much as possible.
The reason why he chose four third-level ice demons is because his frozen blade only needs to be integrated with three ice demons to be upgraded to the third level. Taking one more is for insurance.
For the more than a thousand third-level ice demons in the entire ice cave, taking away four of them will not have any impact on it.
In addition, there are those ice worms "protecting" the ice cave, and Gothe is not worried about the ice cave being climbed first by latecomers.
Putting the ice bottles containing four third-level ice demons into their arms, Gothe and Lan Wen quickly exited the ice cave along the way they came without stopping.
One used Boeing, the other used [Flying Technique], and soon they both landed on the deck of the Columbus and returned safely.