Ice Dragon and his baby

Victor raised his feet gracefully, rested his chin, and sat comfortably on the ice carriage, watching the scene passing by in front of him boredly.Michele and Emil in front rode their horses and let the carriage drive towards the stairs in the north at high speed, while Otabek rode his horses to catch up.

"Why do we have to be grooms?" Michele said angrily.

Emile comforted him with a smile, and he pointed forward. There were many cracks of different sizes on the ground over there, and the cracks were crookedly connected by stone pillars standing on the ground. "Here we are, down to the third floor, maybe your friend is there."

"Not my friend," said Michele.

Otabek rushed to the crack in the ground first, got off his horse, squatted on the ground, and the old stone steps were exposed between the cracks.Otabek tried to climb into the crack, just enough for one person to get through.

The ice carriage stopped next to Otabek's horse, and when Victor stepped off the carriage, the ice cart turned into ice chips and drifted away with the wind.Michele and Emile also walked to the edge of the crack, seeing that Victor had rolled up his sleeves and carefully slipped in, Michele pursed his lips and followed.Emir looked to stay on the ground

He snapped his fingers casually to turn the horse back into a stone, glanced at the far east again, turned around and crawled into the crack.

The narrow crack was very dark, Victor supported the stone walls on both sides with both hands, closely followed Otabek in front, and couldn't help but said: "This ruin is really strange, why make the way up and down so troublesome? How did the elves get in and out in the past?"

"These are emergency entrances and exits. It was not intended for people to walk up and down." Emil replied, "I heard that the dragons were locked up at the lowest level before, and they lived with the elf royal family. Others were not allowed to come near them." .”

"Then let's make it wider here." Michele complained. He carefully stepped over the missing stone step, and said, "Emile, how did you get those horses? I didn't watch you do it before." Pass.

Emile hummed a few times, and when he was about to say that he learned it during the trip, his foot slipped and almost hit Michele in front of him.He laughed and got up, saying, "Dangerous, dangerous."

Michele turned his head and gave him an annoyed look before continuing to walk down.

After an unknown period of time, they finally saw that the road ahead had become wider.Otabek walked over quickly and found a brighter place ahead. It seemed that they were in a cave.

Outside the cave is a large sea of ​​trees, and small villages can be vaguely seen scattered in different places in the dense forest.

Victor walked out of the cave and raised his head to look at the dark sky. Behind him, Emil flipped over a small roll of parchment, which was a map of the ruins.Pointing to the east side on the map, he said, "This way, we have to go through the forest."

Michele grabbed the map and asked strangely, "How did you find it?"

Emil shrugged and said, "I picked it up."

"This parchment looks complete." Otabek, who had been silent all this time, said suddenly, "It doesn't look like something from hundreds of years ago."

"It might be something from a half-orc." Emil said indifferently. He took back the map, walked to a path outside the cave, and walked to the forest: "Hurry up, aren't you looking for someone?"

Michele followed, and the remaining Victor and Otabek exchanged glances, and followed into the forest.

Yuuri opened his eyes and saw that Yurio, who was tied up heavily, was sleeping with his head down. He tried to move his hands, and the rough touch came over. It seemed that he, like Yurio, was being crushed. damn.Yuuri touched the space ring usually worn on his thumb, and found that the small sapphire was missing, it seemed to be

Taken by those half-orcs.

He sighed softly and looked around, they were probably taken to a certain tent.

Yuuri turned his wrist, the hemp rope rubbed against his hand, black scales grew out immediately, with small spikes between the scales, they cut the rope in two or three strokes.Yuuri threw off the rope wrapped around his body, and was about to approach Yurio, when he heard the voice of a half-orc outside, he looked nervously at the rope on the ground, and quickly grabbed

Get up and put it back on your body, grab the two ends of the rope with both hands, pretending to be tied.

Two goat orcs walked into the tent, Yuuri bowed his head, half-closed his eyes.The half-orcs sat on the carpet beside them, holding low-quality red wine in their hands, clinking glasses optimistically.

Yuuri eavesdropped on their conversation.

"Look, we caught the intruder, so we can be promoted."

"Dreaming? Didn't the boss say that he would hand them over, they are for eating, for eating."

"Are we going to eat human flesh?" the goat orc smiled silly.

Another sheep spilled the wine on the ground and said, "You idiot, it's for the cannibals. We want to win them over. The next command is ours."

They laughed for a while, then continued, "But isn't there still that strange elf?"

One of the goats snorted and said, "Who cares about that weird thing, saying that it wants to join us and bring us the intruders? Who doesn't know that Pointy Ears hate us the most, and that thing must take the opportunity to catch us all." , no one will believe him."

"The Invasion of the East"

"It must fall on the heads of our goat clan, we will become the kings of the demon world."

Yuuri patiently listened to what the goat and half-orcs said. Just now they seemed to say that there were intruders, did they mean Victor and the others?Are there elves who want to join the demon clan?What's going on?Is Victor in danger?The more Yuuri thought about it, the more disturbed he became, he quietly opened his eyes, and saw the goat orc squatting in front of his face, staring straight at him with a pair of horizontal pupils

he.

Yuuri almost screamed, his brown eyes widening.

"Yeah, aren't you awake?" the goat said lazily, and it kicked Yuuri's body, and the rope Yuuri casually draped around his body also fell apart.

The goat orc twitched Yuuri's short hair with one hand, pulled him up hard, and shouted, "Do you want to escape? Do you want to escape?"

Yuuri clenched his lower lip and remained silent as the goat threw him to the ground and stomped on his back.Yuuri's face was pressed against the dirty ground, and the goat poured the wine over him, stomped harder on Yuuri, and bleated.Yuuri snorted uncomfortably, there seemed to be a clatter in the corner where Yurio was pinned down.

The electric current sounds.

Is Yurio awake?Yuuri thought.

At this time, there was another sharp and piercing sound from a distance, and then the whole ruins shook suddenly.

The goat orc let go of Yuuri's leg, it raised its head in panic, then lay on the ground bleating and ran out of the tent on all fours.Yuuri rubbed his scratched scalp, and he walked towards Yurio, not surprised to see those beautiful green eyes staring at him sharply.

Yurio snorted and turned his face away.Yuuri reached out to untie the rope for him.

"Is that the dragon again?" Yurio asked.

Yuuri hummed, and said, "Yes, maybe they want to push down the ruins? Is the heart here?" He took out the road sign pointing to the dragon's heart, put it in the air, and the road sign circled around the tent, Float out.

The ruins swayed again, and there were several loud noises from outside, as if something had collapsed.

"Let's go." Yuuri pulled Yurio up.

They walked out of the tent and saw that the half-orc colony was in a mess at this time. The goat that ran out just now was hit by a stone from nowhere, and fell to the ground with a bloody head. The road sign emitting white light was shaking to the left ahead. Float right in the air.

Yuuri crouched beside the lifeless orc, pocketed it, and found his sapphire ring.Yuuri put the space ring back on his thumb and stood up.The orc settlement was unusually quiet, and several tents were crushed by the falling boulders.

The road sign stayed in mid-air for a while, then floated away again.Yuuri and Yurio followed it, passing through a row of tents that had been thrown upside down by the shock just now, and came to the moat again.The road sign stopped in front of the moat, the previous boat had disappeared, and the giant seemed to have sunk back to the bottom of the water without a trace.

Yurio looked at the moat and said, "Do you want to go there? Will Ota Victor and the others be inside?"

Yuuri shook his head, he remembered the information he overheard just now, although he didn't know what the strange elf was, but Victor and the others seemed to be still somewhere in the ruins.

"Let's go, there may be clues to leave the ruins or the dragon's heart in the castle, I'll make a mark." Yuuri said, just as he was about to touch the ring on his hand, there was a commotion above his head.

Yurio raised his head, blinked his green eyes, and said angrily, "There's no need for the mark, look at it."