Whispering Poems

Chapter 1099 Riding in the Snow
"It's bad."

Miss Galina, who was standing in front of Shad, looked down at her boots stepping on the muddy water in the snow, and then asked Miss Sylvia:

"What position is it now?"

The seven people gathered together. Shade, carrying a suitcase and carrying a sword on his back, saw that Miss Sylvia let the map of the Pantanal region float in the air, and pointed to the southeastern part of the map with her finger:

"It's shifted three miles from the expected location, but it's still planned. Thaumatology [spatial perception] tells me that we are now on the outskirts of the Gurus ruins."

Miss Aurora tilted her head and took a look:
"6.5 miles (about 10.5km) from the central lake? We need to move faster."

If it is in a plain area, the 6.5-mile road, even if the seven people present can walk on their feet, it will take no more than two hours to complete it.However, the terrain in the Everglades area is extremely complicated, coupled with the dangers everywhere, the Voodoo Society must have arranged blocking means around it, so 6.5 miles is indeed a long distance.

"We can go this route."

Miss Sylvia, who was wrapped in a brown scarf, pointed to the light gray lines on the map. Although the wind in the swamp area was cold, it was not strong, but the snowflakes all over the sky were particularly amazing:
"Langma Ancient Road. The supply passage for Carson Rik's army when they were still stationed on Huxin Island. Although this road is a little bit longer, at least it doesn't need to pass through dangerous areas."

The Pantanal region is one of the few places in the Old Continent where there are still "dangerous areas" identified by the church, and the people living here are not necessarily ordinary animals.According to legend, there are even half-blood dragons living in the depths of the Great Swamp.

"Can you fly there?"

Xia De asked, and Miss Galina shook her head:
"Probably due to the influence of the seal, long-distance space travel is prohibited in the forward area. Although flying is not prohibited, it is very easy to attract dangerous things. We have enough time, so there is no need to take risks."

"Then let's go."

Miss Aurora waved her hand, took out some bone meal and poured it into the snow.As the sorceress casts the spell, the flowing bone meal proliferates and plasticizes until four undead skeleton horses are formed.

Horseshoes trampled on the snow, and the unfrozen mud under the snow made strange noises.The blue fire light was lit in the eye sockets of the skeleton horse head. At the same time, rose vines wrapped around the black skeleton, growing from the eye sockets to the four hooves, and skillfully avoided the position of the saddle, so that these summoned The undead appear even more miraculous.

"Xi Wei, when did you improve your ability to summon undead?"

Miss Galina looked at the rose vines curiously, but the lady with long wavy hair who tied her hair up today frowned slightly:
"I haven't improved this thaumaturgy, this area is affecting my spellcasting."

"There are also anomalies in space, otherwise we wouldn't have deviated by 3 miles."

Miss Sylvia added, and Miss Galina nodded slightly, understanding that this is a characteristic of the depths of the Great Swamp.This land has long been polluted by evil things, so you must be extremely careful when casting spells here.

After confirming that the undead skeleton horses had only changed in appearance, they placed the harness prepared in advance.

Among the seven people, Miss Sylvia, who needed to lead the way at the front, rode alone on a horse, and the other witches rode together. Shade finally sat behind Miss Galina.

This is not because Miss Aurora is "generous", but because she is the highest-level witch in the team and has to face more dangers, so she doesn't want Xia De to follow her.

The time at this time is 1853:24 p.m. on Wednesday, the [-]th of the Moon of Sleep in [-] in the universal calendar.The story of the fourth candidate is coming to an end.

The blizzard in the Great Swamp is much bigger than Huntington, which is located outside the swamp.After Miss Sylvia led a group of people to find the ancient road, even though skeleton horses were more suitable for moving on complex terrain than real horses, the environment in the swamp still greatly hindered the group's progress.

The wind and snow even had to make Miss Avril, one of the three nine-ring sorceresses, cast a spell to call out a temporary shield to block the wind and snow for everyone.And even with the low temperature, Miss Sylvia, who is extremely sensitive to space, still almost lost her way in the swamp of the blizzard.

"This is definitely not right. In the previous reports, there was no mention of the lost path inside the Great Swamp. It seems that we have entered the area of ​​influence of the Voodoo Society."

At the end of the ancient road that was about to disappear into the swamp, it turned out to be a frozen wetland.Miss Sylvia held the rein tightly and stood at the front. After discussing with Miss Aurora, she borrowed Shade's [Night Watchman], smeared her blood on it, and swung forward violently.

The wetlands were split like a canvas by silver swords and blown away by strong winds, revealing the way forward.

"It's not a thaumaturgy, nor a relic, but some kind of more terrifying power."

The witch said softly, and then the four skeleton horses continued to move forward, leaving only a series of hoof prints under the snow that would soon be covered.

At 47:[-] p.m., a group of people who continued along the ancient road felt the ground shaking at the same time.The quake lasted half a minute before it was over, but then there was the sound of an explosion from far away.

Miss Silvia calculated the location, thinking that the church team did not know who had fought with them, and the intensity of the battle was not low.At least one thirteen-ring warlock was at full strength, so the enemy was probably not human at all.

At 35:[-] in the afternoon, the advancing group was attacked by scarlet vines hidden under the snow layer.Those vines are densely packed, and the scene of jumping up together is really scary.

But the fight lasted less than half a minute before the six ladies called for fireballs.The fireball bombards the ground like a steam cannon scrubbing the ground.After the battle, after the inspection by Miss Galina, these vines were "cannibal corpse vines" classified as Class II dangerous plants. They were extremely rare in the Old Continent, and were generally distributed on small overseas islands.Even the Pantanal region should not have such things. Obviously, they did not grow naturally near the ancient road to form settlements, but were specially arranged here like hunters' traps.

"Truth has studied such things."

Miss Aurora added with a solemn expression, there will be more and more similar things in the future.

At [-]:[-] in the afternoon, the group of people who continued to move forward encountered an abandoned village without any signs on the map.After investigating together, Miss Galina and Miss Aurora believe that this village is very likely to be a sage-level relic [Udyr Ghost Village]. After the discussion, everyone can only temporarily shift their direction to waste more time At the expense of completely bypassing the location-type relic that somehow appeared here.

But even if the direction was shifted, the group of people unknowingly entered the abandoned village without noticing.Horrifying evil spirits gradually surrounded the crowd in the blizzard, and the inevitable battle began after Shade called out the first huge snowball to hit the group of undead.

The three big witches and the three high-ringed sorceresses relentlessly attacked any foreign objects that dared to block them, but the ghost village in the snow was not suppressed by humans under the head-on situation.

Fortunately, the purpose of the group is not to defeat this relic, but to escape from here.In the end, Xia De led the way by relying on his characteristic that he would not be actively attacked by the undead, and Miss Aurora, who swept the army of undead and ghouls like a light cannon, ensured everyone's safety in the end.

After confirming that the seven people could not be left behind, this deserted village that seemed to have already given birth to consciousness finally opened the way for them to leave.It's just that when the group of people on horseback left, Xia De looked back at the village again, but clearly saw those evil spirits still standing in the snow and looking at them.

At six o'clock in the evening, there was no sunlight in the Everglades.Shad and the six ladies were surrounded by the crackling bonfire, and the skeleton horses were tied to a tree beside them, waiting to be used later.

The witch's follower, Miss Avril Lavigne, is leading her companions, and the brown-haired Miss Scarlett is setting up a peripheral defense ceremony. They will rest here for half an hour, and then go directly to the destination in one breath.And the last female sorceress, Miss Catherine, is boiling hot soup and adding some potions to expel negative states for everyone. Her work is similar to Mrs. Marquez in the Silver Mountains.

Miss Aurora found enough open space nearby, entered the parliament amidst the sound of singing, and reported the situation to the MPs who were waiting for news, while Miss Sylvia observed the starry sky from a high tree to determine their positions There are no errors.

"Your temperature is really high."

A translucent shield covers the top of the head, covering the wind and snow. The red-haired duchess is wearing a blanket that has been enchanted with constant temperature. She leans on Xia De without any scruples and whispers. The two are sitting on the campfire Waiting to eat, even though the environment is so bad, the big witches are still unwilling to just eat bread.

The long-haired duchess also coiled her head for the convenience of movement today, and Shad could smell the smell of her red hair:
"Probably because of the first fire, and the flames of the sun."

The bonfire in front of him was ignited by Shad. Although this flame was not as good as the bonfires used by the witches he had seen at any point in the Fifth Era, at least it was enough to resist the ordinary cold.

Miss Galina tilted her head and leaned on his shoulder, feeling that although the conditions were a bit difficult, at least she was satisfied with the current situation:

"What will happen next?"

"We've encountered relics, traps, a crazy drake"

That is to say, a dragon-like creature whose blood purity is lower than 5.00%, without intelligence, was thrown away by the group because the meat was poisonous.

(End of this chapter)