Starfall 833, November 1st, winter, heavy snowfall.
Moldavia, Nissii Snow Mountain, Winterfort Academy.
The night is getting dark.
A team wearing uniforms of college students walked in the night. They were silent. They didn't even light torches or even use lighting magic. Instead, they just walked in the darkness without making any sound.
This is the Binglan Forest, which is twelve kilometers away from the Nissie Snow Mountain. In the depth of winter, the abnormal magic here will condense the falling snow into ice. The wind howls and the sharp ice crystals are dancing in it. Only monsters that can control the magic of frost can survive here.
But it has not yet entered deep winter, and there is no snowfall around the Nissii Snow Mountains. Apart from the faint cold wind, there is nothing else that hinders this student team.
Winterfort Academy has been established for about a year, and most of the students there have the ability to be elementary spellcasters. The outstanding ones have completed the Black Iron Revelation and become one of the professionals.
After all, these are the children with the best elemental affinity in the entire North. Their talents are already excellent, and with systematic cultivation and generous training, this kind of progress is reasonable. .
But this four-person team is collectively of the Black Iron level. They are undoubtedly among the best in the academy. Now they are exploring the forest in the middle of the night, seemingly looking for something.
The cold wind swept across, bringing up a piece of icy sand. Among the team, a male voice suddenly complained: "Is that ice ghost here? We have searched most of the forest, and there is still no response from the detection magic."
"Nick, keep your voice down!"
A suppressed female voice yelled with a hint of annoyance: "This is the Binglan Forest. In addition to the Ice Ghost, there are many other magical beasts! Don't make trouble!"
After being scolded, the man's voice became quieter, but he still asked unconvinced in a low voice: "Karin, you said that the detection magic scroll you bought can directly find the target, but so far it has only taken us in the forest. Running around with penguins doesn’t help anything!”
"It's clearly shown that it's near here, its lair must be..."
Just as the two people were walking and arguing with each other in low voices, behind them, a pair of brothers and sisters with platinum-blond hair looked at each other helplessly, and then shrugged in unison.
Ivan and Amira, two brothers and sisters who aspire to become dragon slayers, are currently in the Binglan Forest, completing tasks issued by the academy.
Winterburg Academy is different from most aristocratic mage academies. It emphasizes actual combat, practical operation and practical application. Theoretical courses will not be covered until the advanced tutorials in the fourth year. The early education is biased towards the knowledge of magic. Perception and control, after the foundation is laid, the next step of higher education will be carried out.
Because of this, after most of the college students have basic combat capabilities, the college begins to assign tasks for these young people to complete.
Or a wild bear, or a four-horned armored deer, or a large frost butterfly...or the ice ghost that Ivan and the others are currently tracking.
After these black iron-level monsters were identified by the instructors of the academy, they were marked as tasks for the students. The students will form a team of four to hunt these monsters to fully exercise their search, tracking, and physical strength. , coordination and magic use and other practical combat abilities.
Since Ivan and Amira's abilities are considered to be among the best among all students, their subjects are naturally among the most difficult ones. After careful selection, they selected from a large number of elite black iron monsters. , chose Ice Ghost as the target, and then, the two of them took their friends and headed to Binglan Forest.
"The target has appeared!" Suddenly, Ivan and Amira whispered in unison.
Although it looked like they were still arguing, the four of them were actually very alert. When the detection magic reacted, the four of them instantly set up an array and headed in the direction of the target.
Two men, Ivan and Nick, stood in the front row. One of them was holding a cross sword and the other was holding a folding shield. Behind them, Amira and Karin were on guard with a longbow and a crossbow respectively.
Nick is a strong young man with dwarf mixed blood. Although he is only 1.45 meters tall, his muscles are more developed than that of an adult. If it weren't for the faint flash of strengthened magic light in his hand, no one would have noticed him. He is a mage apprentice.
The red-haired girl Karin was taking out bottles of simple holy water from her arms. She quickly smeared it on the arrows and gave a few bottles to Amira.
In the battle of low-level mages, it is originally impossible to hold a staff and release magic comfortably. Before the spell-casting ability has taken shape, most mages hold longbows and crossbows to support from the rear. Some mages with melee capabilities also need to Fight on the front lines.
However, this does not mean that they do not use magic. Amira and Karin were both chanting something in a low voice. The surrounding elements were attracted and blessed the two people in front and the crossbows in their hands. The unique resonance skills of human mages allow two people to cast spells on multiple targets at the same time.
And the next moment, in the darkness of the forest in the distance, a burst of ice-blue light suddenly lit up, and a human-shaped luminous body floating in the air, surrounded by layers of ice armor, appeared in front of everyone.
Malicious eyes swept across the four living people in front of him. The soul of the adventurer who died in the severe cold let out a silent soul scream. Light blue frost magic surged, and ice spikes began to emerge in the air.
"Nick, hold your shield and step forward to cover."
"Amira and Karin, you use holy water arrows to support from the rear, and be careful of other monsters that are attracted after hearing the noise!"
As the leader of this team, Ivan issued a series of orders crisply. Then, he quickly stepped forward, followed closely by Nick, and began to charge forward against the ice spikes.
The night was dark and the howling of the wind was getting louder and louder.
After an hour of hard fighting, the team finally got a rare break after purifying the ice ghost and killing eight armored deer that came after hearing the news.
Although the armored deer is a deer, it has sharp fangs and a carapace comparable to medium-sized armor. They are omnivores. They eat grass when alone and meat when they are in groups. It is winter now, so there are not so many. Give them grass to eat, and they will naturally eat meat.
The four young magicians were naturally good food for them, but these monsters underestimated each other's fighting power and were killed one by one instead.
Breathing heavily, Ivan was about to step forward to touch up an armored deer whose hind legs were injured and temporarily incapacitated.
After killing four armored deer, this Northland boy with such a good physique that he didn't look like a mage now has almost no strength. After repeatedly using low-level magic such as spider webs and flaming hands, Ivan's magic power It was all in vain. If the long sword in his hand was not sharp enough, he might not be able to give this monster a last hit.
When the armored deer saw the sword approaching its neck, it immediately let out a shrill cry. Nick, who was resting against the big tree, suddenly flashed his eyes. The mixed-race dwarf said in a deep voice: "Wait, Ivan , it seems to be saying something!”
Hearing this, the young man had no choice but to take back his sword. He was not in a hurry. He just reminded: "The smell of blood will attract other beasts. We need to get the voucher and leave quickly."
"Do you actually understand animal language?" On the side, Amira, who was recovering arrows with Karin and searching the ice ghost's lair for the credentials left by her mentor, turned back curiously and asked, "I didn't know you had this ability. .”
Seeing Amira, a rare beauty in the academy, asking himself questions, Nick suddenly became energetic. He patted his chest proudly, and then said loudly: "Of course! I can talk to savages when I was a child, leave it to me! "
"It's just that you are simple-minded, like a beast." Karin mocked in a low voice, and then she raised her voice and scolded: "Don't be so loud, it will attract monsters!"
Nick didn't care about this. He walked forward and started talking in a low voice with the injured deer.
Half a minute later, he stood up suddenly and let out a shout that made the leaves tremble: "What, are you telling the truth?!"
The red-haired girl, who was unprepared and frightened, became angry on the spot. This stone-like semi-dwarf was good at everything, except that his voice was always so loud and would not change no matter what he said. And just when she was about to have a quarrel with Nick. During the fight, brother and sister Ivan and Camilla hurriedly stepped forward to comfort them.
"It's okay, Karin. His voice is so loud that even the monsters will be frightened."
"Yes, sister Karin, if it doesn't work out, we can just leave Nick behind. It will be fine."
Nick didn't care about what his companions said about him at this time. He just gasped: "Gold? So much gold in the whole room?!"
"Gold?!" X3
The three people in the back row let out a chorus of surprise.
Without any nonsense, Karin immediately ran up to the wounded armored deer, whose eyes were lively and pure, and completely different from ordinary armored deer. She pointed the crossbow at the opponent's head decisively, and then said to Nick fiercely: " Hurry, let it tell you everything, or I'll shoot an arrow through its head!"
Although Ivan and Amira were not so excited, after they looked at each other, they both stepped forward slowly with ferocious eyes, and began to condense magic power in their hands.
The four people surrounded the armored deer, immediately frightening it to the point of weakness, and Nick continued to question without hesitation. After a while, the armored deer stopped talking, and Nick also stood up and excitedly asked the others. The three companions shouted: "Hahahahaha! This armored deer knows where the gold is!"
"Calm down, Nick." As the captain, Ivan has always been calm. He narrowed his eyes, looked at the trembling armored deer and said, "Don't take anything an animal says too seriously... Where is the gold?"
"Yes, it's just an armored deer. Can it tell the difference between gold and other minerals?" Amira nodded in agreement with her brother. A ball of silver-white cold light floated in her right hand, with cold magic power. Overflowing, the armored deer was so frightened that he almost suffocated: "Maybe it was a lie to save his life... Where is the gold?"
Karin was much more direct than the two siblings. She asked directly: "Where is the gold?"
It’s no wonder they are so fanatical about gold, it’s mainly because they can’t stand being poor for so long.
Although Winterfort College has low tuition fees and waives the cost of basic textbooks and basic experiments, additional advanced textbooks, extracurricular tutoring, and additional magic experiments all require money. Although Nick and Karin's families are not poor, they cannot provide them. Too much money, and the family situation of brother and sister Ivan and Amira is slightly better, but old man Edward cannot give too many extra gold coins.
As the top students in the college, these four people are no longer satisfied with the simple knowledge of basic textbooks. They are in urgent need of purchasing advanced textbooks and extracurricular tutoring from tutors. They also need money to update equipment to better complete their studies. As for the task, they actually chose to kill the ice ghosts because the ice ghosts could condense into elementary frost crystals, which could be sold for hundreds of gold coins, which was much easier to sell than the skins of any wild beasts.
"In the dragon's lair."
Nick was concise and to the point.
The smiles gradually disappeared from the faces of the other three.
"In the dragon's lair?"
Ivan muttered in a low voice with strange eyes.
"Dragon's Nest?"
Amira whispered to herself softly, her eyes cold.
"Are you an idiot Nick!"
It was Karin again, who cursed directly, and she spat out neatly: "Why don't you say it's in your heart! Shit! That's the dragon's nest. Who doesn't know there is gold in the dragon's nest? How dare you go there? !”
"In the dragon's lair that the Lord annihilated!"
Nick did not change his expression at all because of the suspicion, contempt and insults of his companions. His expression was firm and his words were clear and powerful: "That's the ice dragon's lair! After the Lord killed those ice dragons, he hasn't sent anyone to recover the materials yet. Ice There's a whole floor high of gold underneath! We just have to go over there and dig them out!"
The other three people instantly felt that they were reliable.
Ivan murmured: "A perfect plan."
At the same time, in the far north ice field, near the dragon's nest.
A group of men in black walked in the wind and snow of the ice field.
Surrounded by a barrier against the wind and snow, they quickly arrived at the site of the dragon's nest. A man in black at the head said in a hoarse voice: "Here, the nest of the white dragons in the north, Joshua... After Van Radcliffe wiped them out, he didn't send anyone to recover the resources, so the poisonous plague mist might still be inside."
"Recycle these first." A woman with a sharp voice sounded in the team. She ordered unceremoniously: "Hurry up and dig. We don't have that long. The high priest is coming soon. We have to stir up chaos as soon as possible." The situation in Moldova makes it convenient for the priest to explore the ruins.”
"yes!"
Many men in black spoke in unison, and the next moment, they rushed to the Dragon Nest ruins and began to dig and explore.
Looking at this scene, the female man in black thought about her next actions and couldn't help but chuckled: "It's a perfect plan."
The next day, Joshua was at the Lord's Mansion, sitting at the dining table having breakfast.
Today's breakfast was a traditional Northland style, grilled wild boar steak, two eggs and a bowl of mashed potatoes. For the soldier, this was something that could be solved in three seconds. After eating, he felt very uncomfortable. It was not Not because he was hungry, but because someone was lying behind him.
The black dragon girl lay behind Joshua and said in a deliberately lowered voice: "Master, um... I haven't been out for a long time..."
"Okay, okay, I understand."
The soldier nodded helplessly: "You want to go for a walk, right? Yes, I will take you out later... Where are you going?"
"The Arctic Icefield!"
"Okay, you go and get ready first, I will come later."
"Master is the best!" Hei suddenly cheered happily, and then ran out to make preparations.
Joshua sat in his seat and thought for a while.
Although Jiyi level warriors no longer need to eat and only need to absorb the free energy in the air to survive, eating is still very pleasant. If it is food like Warcraft meat, it can bring energy to the body. Come to the benefits.
"While taking Hei for a walk, let's catch some monsters along the way."
Joshua said to himself: "I can still move my hands and feet, which is just in time to see how the monsters roam in the ice field after losing the white dragon."
He nodded satisfied with his idea.
"Walking the dragon, hunting, and finding out where the monsters are, a seamless plan."
(End of chapter)