Mount Antia does not refer to the steep mountain on which the temple stands, but to the mountains within a radius of a hundred miles around the temple, and there are many dangerous peaks and valleys in this mountain.Ruka the Minotaur and I were located at the pass of an ancient road in the westernmost valley of the Antian Mountains, and from here we looked west over a wide hilly area.The valley where the trail is located is flanked by peaks that reach into the sky like blades, and although they are not tall and majestic, they are very steep and difficult to climb.This winding and narrow ancient road is not long, at best it looks like it is only a few kilometers away.However, it is one of the few exits from the mountainous region of western Antia.The night was unusually cold, the exhaled air made the hair on his face hang a layer of hoarfrost, and even the minotaur Ruka was covered with a thick cotton coat over his body, and Ruka walked in front, trying his best to shield me from the cold wind.Braving the bitter cold, Ruka and I returned to the valley mouth, where I had to set some traps before Cynthia and the others came out of the valley.With a painful face, I took out a scroll of Frost Nova Scrolls from my magic belt bag, and the high-grade materials and ink consumed by these magic scrolls cost more than fifty magic crystals before and after, which is almost all the income of this two-month magic grocery store.Originally, Ma and I wanted to put these Frost Nova scrolls in the store and sell them, this kind of first-class high-grade magic scrolls are sold at a high price in the market, and when I heard that I became an eagle and was going to go outside the city to kill barbarians, Ma was worried about my safety and asked me to carry as many scrolls as possible.Now that the magic herbs and ores produced by the Xinliu Valley are constantly being transported out by the orcs, as well as some precious wood, the magic grocery store is now doing a thriving business, and the cooperation with the laboratory of the Magic Academy is also on the right track, exchanging some low-level magic herbs for magic scrolls, there is still some surplus.The blacksmith shop has also made nearly a hundred magic rune boards one after another, and the surplus of the magic grocery store is enough for my normal expenses to study Mingxue.Ruka climbed the high cliff at the mouth of the valley, observed the situation in the valley by the moonlight, and stood guard on the cold boulder in the bitter cold wind.I started to mix these Frost Nova Scrolls and Frost Scrolls in this valley mouth of a few hundred meters, the barbarians are different from those magical beasts, they know the beast trap and the magic scroll, so when setting traps, you can't just put frost traps on the ground as usual.Gently peel off the snow, place the scroll in the snow pit, place the beast trap on it, break the reed of the beast trap, and then condense a half-inch thick ice cover on it to completely protect the trap, and then smooth the snow around the ice cover to arrange a trap.These ice shields are completely simplified versions of ice shields, which are usually simply condensed with water gathering, but in winter, they can be dispensed with, and the magic pattern drawing and spells are much simpler.The strength of these ice shields is just enough to carry the weight of ordinary people, and ordinary people can safely pass on the ice cover, but those barbarians and minotaur Ruka who are more than three meters tall will easily crush the ice shield and trigger the trap trap inside the ice cover.In this extremely cold weather, the condensed ice shield will always exist, and more than 20 Frost Nova Scrolls and more than 50 Enhanced Frost Scrolls have been buried in the snow one after another, and the Minotaur Ruka has already signaled to me on the high cliff at this time, but he didn't expect that my trap has not been completely arranged, and he found that there is an abnormal situation on the other side of the valley.The tall body of the minotaur slid down the steep rock wall, pointed to the mountain pass across the valley, and shouted to me with some nervousness: "Jia, someone is coming over there!"
”Deciding to set the trap, he got up from the snow and quickly ran to the valley mouth.I couldn't see the situation on the other side of the ancient road from where I was, but I didn't sit idle, but began to take out my wand and quickly draw a blue magic pattern circle, the spell was drowned by the whistling wind, and ice walls appeared in front of me continuously, such ice and snow weather had a certain increase in my ice magic.The air is rich in ice, which allows me to make ice walls almost a third faster than before, and the resulting ice walls appear bigger and harder.When these ice walls were ten meters long, three meters high, and two meters wide, I pointed to the gap between the ice wall and the stone wall, and said to the Minotaur Ruka, "Hey, man, help me block those openings with stones." ”I know it's a bit difficult for Ruka the Minotaur, but I don't have time to make a perfect wall of ice, and he has to help me with some of the details.The Minotaur Ruka is the kind of honest old cow who never knows how to refuse, and he said in a slightly rough manner: "Got it!
”He walked directly to the pile of rocks in the mountain pass, picked up a stone the size of a millstone, walked to the pass, and stuffed the stone into the gap between the stone wall and the ice wall.Ruka did this, apparently, a drop in the bucket, and I saw that there was a huge gap between the ice wall and the stone wall, and even a dozen large rocks could not fit into that gap.Watching Ruka move the boulders, and seeing the crowd that was slowly approaching us in the distance, I was also worried for a while, and suddenly saw a few big trees next to the valley, and a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and I had a new idea in my heart, and I hurriedly pointed to those apple trees, and said to Ruka: "Use the branches, use those branches to fill the gaps, and then fill in the snow!"
The magic of the ice wall is very expensive to me, after all, I am only a seventh-level magic apprentice.My magic pool was nearly full, and I could only make three ice walls at once, but fortunately, my magic recovery speed was very fast, and the blue crystal stone drum floated beside me, and the magic elements in the air I felt were like a little bit of dust, constantly converging into the stone drum totem.And the mana in the various nodes in my body also runs at full speed along the meridians of my body, forming a vortex in my body, as long as the ice element from the outside world is within three feet of my body, it is absorbed by the power of the vortex to my body, this wonderful feeling makes me feel a little cool, those are the ice elements in the surrounding space.Perhaps it was because of this strange phenomenon, coupled with the effect of heating and mana recovery, that I made five ice walls in one go, and then I felt that my magic was close to exhaustion, and I immediately sat on the snow and forced myself to enter a meditative state, quickly recovering my mana.Ruka did as I commanded, smashed off several trees, and then dragged them directly up to the pass and filled the gaps in the ice wall.A quarter of an hour later, my mana regained and I saw Ruka, the Minotaur, steaming hot and frantically shoveling snow into the cracks of the ice wall.In the distance, there were shouts, wails, shouts, fights, and even fires, which I guess were magicians' fireball magic.The men who had escaped from the valley burst out of their last potential, and ran desperately towards the valley mouth, perhaps thinking that once they broke out of the valley, everyone would be scattered into the hills, and maybe there would be a glimmer of life, but for the faint hope of this, these people who had been caught by the barbarians and regained their freedom began to run wildly.Hundreds of people crowded into the narrow ancient road, as if they had sprinkled a handful of black sesame seeds in this ancient road, and they stumbled towards this side, just looking at the staggering posture of those people as they ran, their physical strength was almost exhausted.There are still some vigorous figures behind the barbarians who are entangled, and there are constantly barbarians catching up, which will rush into the camp of the fleeing Terran slaves, and they will be killed by the eagles at any cost, those barbarians with angry expressions, unwilling to fall on this ancient road, in the chaos, no one cares who killed the barbarians.It seemed that the battle had been going on for a long time, and the warriors who had mixed in with the crowd were exhausted, and if they had not approached the barbarians, they would have walked in a more awkward posture than the fleeing civilians.I didn't bother to look at the battle closely, but I quickly condensed the ice and sealed the gaps in the stone walls that Ruka had managed to fill in with the branches and the ice and snow, and there were huge gaps on the left and right sides of the valley mouth, and sweat was still oozing from my forehead despite the fact that the water was dripping into ice.The pass was sixty or seventy meters wide, and we only left a ten-meter-wide passage in the center, and the rest was blocked with a huge ice wall.I had to make a total of seven ice walls connected to block the entire pass, and I had to leave a passage in the center, so the ice walls here were a bit like flares.The more you run inside, the smaller the exit.After condensing and completing the sixth ice wall, I found that the water elemental spirit incarnated by Sister Guoguo next to me was quietly squatting beside me, she looked at me curiously casting the ice wall, when I cast the ice wall for the seventh time, Sister Guoguo's water elemental spirit actually learned my movements beside me, and drew half of the magic pattern circle in front of my body, although the magic pattern circle finally collapsed, but it also surprised me so much that I almost swallowed my tongue, she was able to control these ice magic elements in the air.I said in my heart: I don't know if this is Sister Guoguo's powerful water magic talent, or if the water elemental spirit can naturally comprehend the magic of water or ice.The three-meter-high ice wall can only block the footsteps of ordinary people, and it has no effect on human warriors, not to mention those strong barbarians who are more than three meters high, so it is necessary to increase the ice wall to a higher level, I think it is possible to increase it to more than nine meters, so that I need to stack three layers of ice wall upwards, and there is also a possibility that the foundation is unstable, and the ice wall will fall apart with a slight impact.Ruka and I climbed on top of the three-meter-high ice wall, continued to cast magic, piled up the huge ice wall as fast as we could, and watched a huge ice wall appear in our field of vision, and the people who fled from the valley were completely panicked, and some even collapsed on the spot and sat down on the snow.The ordinary civilians running at the front were only a few hundred meters away from the pass, and I could clearly see the situation behind the entire team, and there were already new barbarian life forces catching up behind, and the Terran warriors immediately fell into a bitter battle, and there were constantly warriors rushing out of the crowd to join the war group, correspondingly, the barbarians who caught up from behind also gathered more and more, and there were already four barbarians rushing up together, and then three barbarians joined the war group one after another.Dozens of eagles of different professions were torn to wrestle with seven enraged barbarians, who were holding six or seven meters long stone sticks in both hands, and they would make ice and snow debris fly everywhere they smashed.Seven barbarians, regardless of life and death, stirred the rear of the team like boiling water, and kept tumbling.More than thirty warriors hurriedly dealt with the barbarians who joined forces, and when they approached the valley mouth, the warriors had no longer the will to fight, and only thought about rushing out quickly to create a sea and a wide sky.Their murderous intent had been dissipated, and they all dodged the barbarians' blow-up stones, and scattered around, dragging their feet, as if waiting for the civilians to escape from the pass, and then everyone would leave together.In the face of crazy savages, be careful with every step.In the distance, there are still barbarians rushing over on the ancient road, and if those new new forces also rush over, the battle line on the Terran side will collapse in an instant.There were strong crossbows shooting powerful arrows in the crowd, and I thought Wayne must be hiding in them, trying to find Cynthia in the crowd, but unfortunately she couldn't be seen in the chaos.Standing at the opening of the ice wall, Ruka waved his red cloak vigorously to make himself look more eye-catching, he faced the whistling north wind, and shouted loudly on the six-meter-high ice wall: "Hurry up and run to the middle, only the middle of the ice wall has an exit, the rest of the place has been sealed with ice, run to me!"
”A ranger with a bow on his back quickly rushed up the ice wall and said to the archers who ran up after him: "Hurry up the ice wall and get ready to meet the rest of your companions, we will stop these barbarians in Antioch at all costs!"
”Hearing the ranger's loud shout, several figures jumped out of the fleeing crowd, climbing up the six-meter-high ice wall with their hands and feet, and these archers quickly stood in a row on the wall, scattered on the wall, and carried their feathered arrows on the longbow, aiming at the seven barbarians who were chasing from behind.A female archer with a concave figure ran in front of me in surprise, she was carrying a heavy waist crossbow behind her, the quiver was already empty at the moment, but she was carrying an alloy bow in her hand, and when she saw me build the fifteenth ice wall, her voice trembled slightly: "Jia, why didn't you leave?"
”It was Wayne, who had only been seen for a few hours, and she was already embarrassed like a refugee, her leather armor was covered with mud and water, and seeing her sweat running down her face, I knew she must have been through a hard fight!
At this time, hundreds of Terran civilians, along the edge of the ice wall, converged to the center of the ancient road pass, and fled the valley in panic.Seeing that someone had successfully escaped, hundreds of refugees once again burst out with new potential, and suddenly rushed to the pass that was temporarily built with an ice wall, and the ten-meter-wide intersection of the road suddenly became extremely crowded.I took out the silver spear from my magic belt, held it in my hand, looked at Wayne with some smugness, and said, "I'm here to answer you, Cynthia?"
”Wayne's hot eyes were fixed on me, and he didn't answer my question, he came up and punched me hard in the shoulder, then stretched out his hands and hugged me tightly in his arms, and said with some emotion: "Jia, what a fool you are!
”To be continued.