"Look, things are going pretty smoothly, aren't they?"
The huge icy breath mixed with the collapse of the invisible wall suddenly spread around the entire settlement. The appearance of a blue ring of ice in the air was quickly covered by the rising white mist, which originally covered it. The endless flames and thick smoke throughout the entire Sioux settlement were then submerged in the overwhelming ice-blue thick fog, melting and disappearing like clay sculptures exposed to water. Standing in the northeast of the entire settlement, Duan Qing looked at all this from a distance and then breathed a heavy sigh of relief as if he had just completed a great deed. He covered his severed arm that was still hanging around his neck with all his strength, biting Ya jumped off the back of the horse: "Ouch, oh, my butt."
"I'm really sorry for your poor riding skills." Xue Ling Huan Bing, who also jumped from the front of the horse and put away her dagger and buckler, replied angrily: "The next time I encounter this kind of thing again, , I will find a way to equip you with an eight-carriage sedan chair first."
"No, I'm afraid you will just use the rope to drag me behind." Duan Qing shook his head, and then Duan Qing's fearful expression turned into a look of pride along with Qian Di's gaze: "But There should be no next time. This time, the materials consumed by the super-large ring of ice magic array have reached a level that I cannot bear."
"As long as the effect is achieved." Crossing his arms and walking to the side of the staggering magician, Xueling Huanbing faced the cold air coming from Duan Qing's face and closed his eyes: "The intermittent magic before Have you also made up the circuit?"
"It can still have the desired effect." After a slight sigh of relief, the gray-robed magician named Duan Qing waved his hand in the direction where the two people came from after getting rid of countless enemies: "And As long as I can sense it, the closed-loop magic circuit can be realized without the completion of the entire drawing process. Anyway, as long as the entire burning fire can be buried, some loopholes in the loop will probably not cause any serious problems... Well."
"It seems that the other party was also shocked by our move." He looked at the figures of some members of the Nashi tribe escaping from the steaming mist in front of him, and the words he originally wanted to say stopped in mid-air. : "These people are not people who got out of the fire. Why do they like to get into the fire so much?"
"Perhaps the bad guys in this world are all perverts, and they all like this kind of end-of-the-world scene." Xue Ling Huan Bing twisted her nose helplessly: "It's also possible that they want to completely destroy this tribe without burning it. You won’t stop until you turn into ashes and so on…”
"Fortunately, the fire has not completely spread to all parts of the settlement, otherwise no one would be alive." Duan Qing, who was sorting out the remaining magic materials in his hand, lowered his head and replied in a low voice: "But now There's probably no difference. This Nashi tribe... I don't know what kind of brain-braining mistake they have to do something so extreme."
"Using such ruthless means - everything was probably instigated by the Destiny Alliance." Xue Ling Huanbing's voice also had a serious tone when she answered: "All living people in the settlement have been killed. They've almost finished cleaning up, and they probably won't care about the ice and snow storm now, so..."
"All the remaining focus will probably be around that courtyard."
Following the direction she indicated, Duan Qing also raised his gaze to the direction where the last chaotic sound of fighting came out among the charred remains of the settlement in front of him. Countless Nashi warriors led by Shi Lei also followed this fight. A bloodthirsty roar came out from the scene where the frost and cold air that burned the flames gradually dissipated, and they besieged the brick and stone courtyard that was still shrouded by the tribal guardian defense shield. The clanking sound then hit the surface of the oval shield like the waves of the sea. It seemed that the raindrops were much denser than those shown during the previous siege. The people who were originally blocking the door were responsible for sharing. The injured Sioux warriors had also disappeared at this time, leaving only countless remaining traces of the battle still scattered in the center of the battlefield along with the splattered blood: "Cough cough, cough cough...here. I'm coming out!"
"The cold vision has passed! People! Continue the attack!"
"What you just did...ahem, those ghostly sorceries just now are nothing to us! They can't prevent your destruction!"
"You guys, go find the tribesmen around you and see if there is anything strange. If not... call them all here!"
"It seems that they are really determined to kill them all."
Putting away his sighing expression, Duan Qing, who was standing on the edge of the settlement, stopped looking far away in that direction: "But this is good, at least the conflicts have been concentrated to the point where they can be resolved at once."
"The next thing we need to do is find a suitable way to solve this problem, and this battle should really come to an end." He came to this conclusion, looking at the vague figures climbing up in the ice and mist around the building. Patrolling back and forth: "Although I don't know how much combat power there is left, but as the enemy's strength is still increasing, it is probably unrealistic to expect them to launch a counterattack."
"So we are the only reinforcements now." Tightening the weapon in his hand, Xueling Huanbing also looked in that direction and began to look serious: "The Ring of Frost Magic Array has helped us clear enough obstacles. , then the next action plan will be obvious.”
"Hey, you don't really want to rely on our two 'reinforcements' to go up and fight them, do you?" He screamed and put on an exaggerated expression. The half-joking Duan Qing kept looking around but his eyes stopped. At a certain position beside him: "Speaking of which, I suddenly remembered something."
"We should still have some reinforcements here that have not been dispatched. Where have they gone now?"
The golden light appeared in the left front of the grassland as Duan Qing's words fell, and burst into the sky shrouded in icy mist that had not completely dissipated in the direction Duan Qing and the others were facing at this time. Shooting away, some of the Nashi warriors who had run there because of the previous energy surge and mist were also attacked by this powerful golden energy and fled the layers of stone walls with their heads in their hands. between the surroundings. Seemingly identifying the location represented by the stone walls wrapped with golden energy, Xue Ling Huan Bing also had a look of surprise on her face as she looked at the brilliant light that gradually spread out. The familiar figure of the Dragon Clan lady, the footsteps following Duan Qing also involuntarily moved forward slowly: "Fu La? When did she-"
"When did you come back?"
The sudden sound interrupted her questions along with the transmitted light, and the long golden hair that marked the golden dragon clan was thrown away as Fulla, who noticed the existence of the two, suddenly appeared and the questions that followed. In front of two people: "When I saw the ice magic energy rushing out earlier, I guessed it was your handiwork. I didn't expect you to be here."
"Please, didn't I contact you before?" Duan Qing's expression became helpless: "I thought you would come back as soon as possible after getting our contact."
"I am indeed looking for the clues I want in another ruins." Shaking her head slightly, Fulla answered with a voice as calm as her current expression: "After getting your reminder, I I rushed back to this place and have been resting in the temporary camp you built before."
"Really?" Looking towards the direction of the stone wall where the golden energy fluctuations had previously erupted, Duan Qing turned his head in surprise: "Then you encountered the enemy?"
"If you call those who break into the camp enemies, yes." Nodding her head, Fula turned sideways and pointed in the direction indicated by Duan Qing and the others: "Of course, I just cleared them out. It was just a camp, it didn’t really take their lives.”
"So how long have you been here?" Xue Ling Huan Bing's question rang in her ears: "Did you send it back after receiving our message?"
"That's right." As if she understood what the other party was wondering about at this time, Fulla's voice began to become calmer when she answered: "I have been back here since the moment the camp in front of you started to burn."
"Then why didn't you take action to stop it?" Xue Ling Huan Bing couldn't help but take a step forward and said: "With your ability, it should be easy to deal with those enemies of the Nashi tribe, right? As long as you ——”
"Stop, Ling Bing." He pressed back his increasingly excited words, extended his fingers and pointed back to Duan Qing and responded in a low voice: "This cannot be blamed on Fula, after all, she cannot confirm the status of the war, and in the current situation Under conditions……"
"As a dragon, these so-called 'mortals' are actually nothing in their eyes."
He sighed as Fulla nodded beside him, and Fulla, who seemed to understand what Duan Qing was referring to, then folded her hands and dragged her long golden robe to where Duan Qing and Duan Qing were standing. In front of him: "Yes, in my eyes, the life and death of those mortals have nothing to do with me."
"If you and I were not connected in destiny, I would not have followed you until now." Her voice paused, as if she was reminding the two people in front of her in this way: "Why, there is what is the problem?"
"No, no." Holding the shoulders of Xue Ling Huan Bing, who was trembling a little, Duan Qing scratched his cheek with embarrassment: "But if possible, I hope you can use a more friendly way to communicate with me. Human beings coexist, this is not to plead for these people who have almost nothing to do with us, but-"
"If you are walking in the mortal world, even the appearance of a small mortal should be helpful to you." He blinked his eyes, and the awkward smile on his face slowly disappeared. "For example, the ruins exploration that you are most interested in right now...those tribesmen who know the local history best may be able to become your local guides."
"That makes sense." After looking at Duan Qing steadily for a while, Fula's unchanging expression also changed slightly: "But will they really lead me to find the clues I want to find?"
"The novelty of searching for clues and the satisfaction of completing the goal are one of the unique pleasures of us adventurers." Duan Qing raised his thumb and said to the other party with a mysterious face: "If you haven't experienced If you have such a feeling, we strongly recommend you to experience it. The unknown areas that are in front of you, waiting for us to explore and discover together, may leave you with colorful stories in your long life."
"..." The calm line of sight also fluctuated for a moment, and Fula's posture of standing in front of her with her hands folded slowly slowly crossed Duan Qing's shoulders: "Well, seeing as what you have done earlier, For the sake of hard work, we can barely help a few people - where are they?"
"Over there." Duan Qing winked at Xueling Huanbing for a while, with a proud look on his face, then pointed in the direction of the courtyard and said: "We need to hurry up, because the situation may be slightly worse. A little grim.”
As if to confirm what Duan Qing said at this time, the courtyard located among the ruins of the distant settlement once again erupted with a huge vibration, and the transparent defense surrounded by a group of Nashi people The barrier also shook more violently with the emergence of this explosion, and it seemed much more unstable amidst the shouts and shouts of everyone. Looking up at the crumbling energy fluctuations, Gedman, who was on the other side of the stone wall, sighed helplessly. He looked back at Surtu who was being treated and was surrounded by a group of Sioux people. Seeing the scene together, the shield in his hand was also held a little tighter: "Okay, what should we do in the second step?"
"Hey, you're not the confident you were before." He gritted his teeth and tightened the bandage around his knife handle. Chao Ri Dongsheng heard the sound and sneered: "The fire outside has been put out, isn't it time to start a counterattack? Is it done?"
"I thought that the fire-extinguishing circle they drew could help us deal with most of the enemies, but the final effect didn't seem to be very good." Gedman pouted his lips: "This is better. We have to deal with this group of wolves that have gathered here."
"It doesn't matter. There are ways to deal with wolves." Baibu Wushuang, who was also trying his best to restore his combat effectiveness, suddenly said, "And we also have reinforcements."
"It should be here by now."
As if sensing something, the archer gestured in a certain direction behind him and said.
