"Eagle Bridge..."
"Those who get the shining gold are those who have outstanding concentration and courage, who shoot the sacred eagle and build bridges."
Everyone looked to the opposite side. On the suspension bridge, between the two wings, there was a circular target, seemingly shouting: "Come and shoot me, come and shoot me!"
"If you hit the target, the drawbridge will come down, right?"
Asier nodded: "That's right."
Kuang San, who was hiding his otaku nature, raised his forehead and sighed: "It's just like the clearance process in the game. Uncle, how old are you already?"
Chitong answered for him: "At least over two hundred years old."
Asier explained with sweat on his face: "This trial was designed before being swallowed into the stomach of Lord Lantern."
Chitong continued to hit him: "That's someone who has a daughter too."
"Bang" a straight ball hit Asier's face hard, and he muttered in a voice that no one could hear: "Man, a man will be a boy until he dies."
Chiron took out his bow and arrow, "Leave it to me..."
"Crack, click, click." Chiron's words were interrupted by the sound of ice cubes condensing. The cliffs on both sides were connected by an ice path, and Esdeath created an ice bridge in the blink of an eye.
Chiron: "..."
Asier: "..."
"Don't waste time on this boring level." After Esdeath finished speaking, he was about to step on it.
"B-bored?" Asier squatted on the ground and began to draw circles.
"Telling the game rubbish in front of the game planner? Be careful of your game account being blocked." Eric pulled Esdeath, "Although it is indeed a bit boring, at least it takes care of the uncle's mood, he is almost crying. "
Chitong's sharp complaints continued: "Eric, you are not in the mood to take care of Asier."
"I'm getting used to being hit so often." Asier stood up with a "huh" sound.
At this moment, a triceratops stepped on heavy footsteps and roared towards everyone.
"Huh?" Chitong turned around and calmly pulled out Murasame: "I'm lucky today, I can have extra food tonight."
The Triceratops' thick limbs plowed four traces on the ground, then turned and fled.
Chitong stretched out a hand and tried to recall the food: "My midnight snack..."
Arturia comforted Chitong, who was also a foodie, and pointed at the top: "It's okay, there is a bigger grilled fish waiting for us."
This is the end of the little episode brought about by the Triceratops.
"The distance is not that far. Even I can hit it with my eyes closed, let alone Chiron-sensei, who is always hitting the mark." Kuang San said that this question is too easy for Chiron.
"That's wrong." Chiron narrowed his eyes, his sharp eyes discerning the imperceptible updraft.
"The gastric juice below is ejecting violent upward airflow, and the airflow is very chaotic and uneven in intensity, making it difficult to judge the arrow's flight path."
"Alas, could it be that Mr. Asier had already concluded that Amicail would be swallowed by Lord Lantern, so he designed such a simple yet difficult level?"
"Ah, ah hahaha..." Asier giggled beside him.
"Wendy, I'll leave this airflow to you." Chiron entrusted Wendy with the trouble caused by the airflow.
"Leave it to me!" Wendy mustered up her energy, took a deep breath, and made a circle with her small mouth: "Celestial Dragon's roar!"
Wendy, who absorbed the power of the sky, blew out a tornado from her mouth, isolating the chaotic updrafts and forming a winding passage in the middle of the canyon.
"Now -" Chiron pulled the bowstring and shot out the arrow. The sharp arrow flashed, followed the channel formed by the tornado, drew an arc, and hit the center of the target.
"Nice magic, Wendy." Chiron held out a hand.
"Teacher Chiron is the one, what a wonderful arrow!" Wendy happily gave Chiron a slap in the face.
Looking at the celebrations made by the two people, Esdeath closed her eyes: 'Is that so...'
Olga said: "The relationship between you is really good..."
"Yeah, although some of us can't read the atmosphere, we are a whole." When Eric said this, he did not forget to glance at Kakuzu two or three times.
The suspension bridge on the opposite side lowers and slowly stretches to this side.
Asier said excitedly: "It's almost time, there is still one more test to get pure gold!"
"Uncle, why are you so happy?"
“Isn’t it fun to overcome the difficulties you set for yourself?”
"But, Dad. Judging by the looks on their faces, this isn't really a problem."
"Pfft"
"Uncle, cheer up!"
Everyone came to a stone door. In front of the door was a huge crocodile with a gaping mouth and sharp teeth that made people shudder.
"At the last door, the person who gets the shining gold is a trustworthy person. Unlock the door with your brave partners. The treasure is ahead."
Robin thought, "It's like using that key to open the door in the crocodile's mouth."
"It seems that once it enters the crocodile's mouth, the crocodile's upper and lower jaws will close, crushing the person inside to death."
"Yes, this is the difficulty I set for the selfish pirates..." Asier explained.
"I could freeze this alligator's mouth completely with ice."
"Let's complete the test in an orderly manner." Eric stopped Esdeath, turned to the members and said, "This time it's our men's turn to do physical work."
Deidara, Genos, Kakuzu, Kulikai, Rant and Eric entered the crocodile's mouth.
Sensing the change in weight, the crocodile's raised pupils moved downwards, the vibration of the mechanism was heard, and the crocodile's upper jaw pressed downwards.
"Why should I do physical exercise?" Deidara raised his hands and said dissatisfied: "Looking at my small physique, I am obviously more suitable for opening doors!"
"Really..." Eric looked at the door with eighteen locks. Kakuzu was hesitating with the key:
"If you insert the wrong keyhole, I'm pretty sure there will be a penalty, but it shouldn't be life-threatening."
"Hmph." Kakuzu snorted, whether he was angry or disdainful.
"According to your strength, your life will definitely not be in danger." Asier reminded loudly from a distance, and finally added in a low voice: "Probably..."
"Brother Kakuzu, hurry up." Deidara urged: "I'm not good at this kind of physical exercise."
"I got it." Kakuzu inserted a keyhole at will, and the blue current followed the key and stayed on Kakuzu's body.
"...!"
Deidara asked: "What's wrong?"
"If you insert the wrong keyhole, there will be a powerful electric attack." Kakuzu asked, "Do you want to try it?"
"Eh?" Deidara's ninjutsu was defeated by Lei Tian, and he himself hated Lei very much, so he immediately shrank his neck.
The crocodile's eyes moved in a circle, and more pressure pressed down.
Genos said, "It seems to be getting heavier."
Asier continued to add outside: "Every time a mistake is made, the crocodile's bite force will increase to minimize mistakes."
Deidara asked doubtfully: "Why didn't I feel it?"
Eric rolled his eyes at him: "Because we bear most of the weight, do you want to try it alone?"
"No need." Deidara turned to Kakuzu and shouted: "Brother Kakuzu, it doesn't matter if you get shocked a few more times. Open the door quickly!"
"You bastard." Kakuzu was so angry at Deidara's words.
The key was inserted into the second hole, and Kakuzu once again felt his muscles being stretched, numbness and tingling all over his body.
Asier said with a surprised look on his face: "Every time I make a mistake, the downward weight of the upper jaw will increase, but the crocodile's upper jaw seems to have never moved."
Genos said in an emotionless tone: "This weight doesn't even count as exercise. I can handle it by myself. It's a bit cramped for six people to stand in this place."
"Pfft" Asier was stabbed again.
When Kakuzu was shocked fifteen times, Deidara couldn't help complaining: "Brother Kakuzu, what kind of bad luck did you have today?"
"It's so long-winded." Until the door was opened, Kakuzu was shocked twice more.
"Oh." Asier scratched his head, "I really can't help you."
"My companions are so awesome." Eric patted Asier on the shoulder and comforted him: "With the passage of nearly two hundred years, the outside world has changed a lot. Don't look at things with the same eyes as before."
Walking into the dark underground research room, there are dense formulas written on the blackboard, and various experimental equipment are neatly placed on the experimental table. There is an object that exudes a faint golden light - pure gold, placed in the center of the table. .
Da Vinci stood in front of the blackboard and carefully looked at the incomprehensible words.
Robin opened Asier's research diary, flipped through it, and handed it to Olga, "What is written here is Mr. Asier's love for you."
"Eh...?" Olga took the diary and looked at it, her vision covered with a hazy mist.
"dad……"
"It's all over." Asier looked at Olga kindly.
Eric finally confirmed: "Mr. Asier, do you really want to hand over all the pure gold to me?"
"Yes." Asier was silent for a while, then took out a detonator from his tattered clothes and handed it to Eric: "In order to prevent bad guys from taking away my research results, I have already prepared explosives."
Everyone looked at Asier together.
"You have shown me a group of partners who help each other. If you believe in your companions, you will definitely not use pure gold to do bad things. I can safely hand over the pure gold to you."
"Getting your approval is our greatest compliment." Eric took the detonator.
"Come on, let's get out of this fish's stomach."
Scathach picked up the container containing pure gold. Kakuzu's eyes followed the pure gold, and he almost said "let me take it" written on his face.
When everyone boarded the Intrepid, Asier asked in confusion: "How on earth are we going to get out?"
Eric: "Beat the lantern fish in the stomach and make it spit us out."
"This method is not very good." Miss Kuang San couldn't bear to be treated like vomit.
"Then you want to pull it out?"
"Don't sound so disgusting!"
Esdeath smiled, "Is it finally my turn to take action?"
"up to you."
"Gray Ice Giant Hammer!" A huge icicle rose from the ground and pushed towards Lord Lantern's stomach.
"Bang!" Like the cover of a dome, it sank due to Esdeath's attack and cracked with countless cracks. This extremely huge lantern fish felt the pain and writhed back and forth in the deep sea.
The calm gastric juice began to churn, and a huge amount of gastric juice began to flow back.
"Hold on tight, if you are thrown out, it will stay in the lantern fish's stomach!"
"You see the little tongue, the exit is in front of you!"
Along with the Dauntless, a large amount of yellow gastric juice was vomited out.
The lantern fish floated quietly on the sea surface and looked at the culprit who caused it to vomit. However, it saw the pure gold in Scathach's hand.
"Roar!" Lord Lantern, who had just vomited due to stomach pain, roared, opened his huge mouth, and rushed straight towards the Fearless.
"Yeah!" Asier hugged the screaming Olga.
"Here we come." Esdeath stretched out his hand excitedly: "Death is your destination, embrace the cold - absolute zero!"
The extremely cold air that can stop the movement of atoms has formed a thick layer of ice in the sea around the lantern fish.
It's a pity that Esdeath can't stop the rioting lantern fish with just one move.
The thick ice was shattered and broken by the collision of the lantern fish, and the crystal ice shards reflected soft light in the moonlight.
"Wendy, take off!" Master Lantern moved violently, creating huge waves in the surrounding sea. The turbulent sea made the Dauntless rock up and down.
When the Dauntless came to the sky above the lantern fish, the huge mouth of the abyss above was frightening, and the faint fishy smell spread here with the roar of the lantern fish.
"Roar!" The lantern fish looked up to the sky and roared. The soft golden light from pure gold was right in front of its eyes, but it could not touch the aloof goddess:
"How can I get you?!"
Eric yelled: "Next life!"
Chitong asked curiously: "Eric, what are you shouting?"
"nothing."
"Let's get a bigger one..." Esdeath used the moon step to jump into the sky, and an ice ball gradually condensed behind her.
"S-so big!" Olga's eyes widened, "Esdeath is actually so powerful!"
"Hailfury Leap Strike!"
The giant hailstone, which was about the same size as the lantern fish, hit the lantern fish head-on with the roar of the wind.
The overwhelming attack completely blocked the moonlight, and the lantern fish showed a shocked expression for the first time.
"Boom!" The two collided hard, broken sharp teeth flew out, broken fish scales flew, and fish blood spread all over its body. The lantern fish was dizzy under the attack.
Fragmented ice cubes fell from the body of the lantern fish, splashing water columns. Ice cubes of different sizes were everywhere on the sea.
"Roar~!" The loud roar just now became out of breath.
"Well, Eric-san, you really have to give Master Lantern..." Asier could see that Eric and his gang were fully capable of killing Master Lantern here, and he couldn't bear it.
"Uncle Asier, don't forget, this fish will swallow you up indiscriminately, along with the entire Alchemy." Eric interrupted Asier's words, "I am doing this for my companions. For the sake of safety, no one wants to be swallowed by a giant lantern fish that may attack at any time.”
"Really..." Asier stopped talking.
"Pfft!"
A huge ice gun fell from the sky and easily penetrated the skin of the lantern fish. A large amount of bright red blood spurted out from the huge wound, which seemed to dye the entire sea red.
"Roar——" The lantern fish let out its last unwilling roar and lost its last movement.
Under the control of Wendy, the Dauntless descended near the lantern fish. Kakuzu went to get the pure gold from the lantern, and everyone had a grilled fish party on the ice made by Esdeath. Among them, Asier, who had been reluctant to let go of the lantern just now, enjoyed the meal the most.
"Uncle, why do you eat so enthusiastically?"
"Actually, I have been starving since the moment I was rescued. Now I finally have food, ahhh - it's so delicious!"
Asier sheds tears of happiness over the delicious grilled fish.
