The Journey of the Demon Hunter

"The world is destroyed?"

Hilly was lying on a sloping lawn with her hands resting behind her head. Hearing Avalak's words, she sat up all of a sudden, spitting out the bristlegrass bite in her mouth. "You must be joking. Don't think I'll go back, Eredin can't catch me, neither are you, I'll never go back to the **** place again, don't try to lie to me."

"This is not a joke, Javier." Avalak's voice was low, and he was wearing a white mask with small runes imprinted on the cheek-like lines, but the runes were too small. As for the lines that appear to be curved lines, they just cover the contours of the cheeks. "The end is approaching, and there is not much time left for you."

"You may not understand, Avalak. First of all, this is not your world. Don't want to trap me in a time trap and let me submit. Yes, I can't beat you, but I can definitely escape. Iri Ting has been chasing me for a long time, you can ask your good colleague how he tried his best to catch me, and then how he failed again and again." Xili stretched out a scallion white. Finger. "Secondly, I have heard enough rumors about the end of the world. I have been to many worlds over the years. In every world, someone will claim that the end of the world is coming. I have discovered that when people are afraid, they can easily fall into panic. , If someone came out at this time and said, I have a way to save you, these panic-stricken people are almost drowning, no matter how unreasonable the people who preach the doomsday, they will not seriously consider it. After deceiving all the valuable things on her body, she realized that she was deceived—this is a person who can wake up."

Avalak was silent.

The sky was clear, and a giant beast in the distance was eating the corpse of another giant beast, and the smell of blood filled the air.

"I guess, you will tell me right away, only you can save the world." Xili pinched his waist and snorted. "And this task of saving the world must fall on me."

Arawak thought for a few seconds.

"Maybe you have heard another story."

Hilly looked at him without speaking.

"Once there was a village where they met a liar who hid the money they scammed on the mountain, and then told the villagers that there were bandits on the mountain, so don’t get close. Later, the villagers discovered that he was a liar, so they drove him away. And went to the mountain to find the treasure. The second time, a robber came and hid the looted money on the mountain, and told the villagers, there are monsters on the mountain, don’t get close. The villagers were very suspicious. They went to the mountain soon. They found the robber’s treasure, so they divided the treasure and drove away the robber. For the third time, a hunter rode to warn the villagers that a group of wild wolves appeared on the mountain. So the villagers did not hesitate to drive away the hunter, and took the **** and shovel to the mountain to prepare Dug up new treasures. As a result, they were all eaten by wolves."

"Then you are the hunter?"

"The choice is yours, Javier. I can show you the post-apocalyptic scene, the place swallowed by hoarfrost."

"Isn't Hoarfrost a ghost made by you?"

"Not so, this trip may be dangerous, but if it is to convince you, the adventure is worth it."

Avalak stretched out his finger and drew a circle in mid-air. A light blue portal appeared in front of him, and the grass beside the portal withered at a speed visible to the naked eye, covered with a thin layer of frost.

"Where are you going?" Xili narrowed his eyes slightly. The emerald green eyes stared at the tunnel beside the elf sage warily.

"The end of the world, right behind this door."

After that, Avalak turned around, crossed the portal, and disappeared behind the swirling vortex.

Hiri snorted, took off the brown leather coat that hadn't been completely dried on the side and put it on her body. Holding the sword, strode across the portal and chased up.

The beasts on the hillside raised their heads and howled deafeningly, shaking up a swarm of birds in the forest.

The front foot crossed the lawn, and the next moment Xili's boots were buried by knee-thick snow. The gust of wind blowing on her face made Xili raise her hand subconsciously, and the whistling ice **** hit her cheeks, stinging like needles. Xili subconsciously wanted to take a step back, but grabbed her arm with one hand, and the resistance in front of her disappeared.

Hilly lowered his hand and opened his eyes. After Avalak pulled her into a rock, it was a cliff, and the exit was covered by heavy ice on both sides, which instead formed a shelter. The squally wind was outside the shelter, carrying the wind and snow. Looking around, there is nothing but whiteness left in the world.

"What is this?"

Hilly squinted. At this time, she discovered that there seemed to be some traces of rocks and planks in the ice blocking the cold wind.

"I used to study the astrology here." Avalak squatted down and pointed his hands at the traces of a bonfire. The flames rose from the charcoal that was half-burnt again. "The environment is good, no one bothers."

"The environment is good?" Hiri looked at Avalak up and down in disbelief. "Do you like this kind of place?"

Avalak didn't care about Ciri's insinuations. "The mountains and clear waters are beautiful. I really like to listen to the sound of the waterfall, as if it is time to escape between my fingers. Here, when every day begins, you can directly observe the sun emerging from the sea level. There is a lake in the east. At the foot of the mountain, I kept some aquatic creatures brought from other worlds in it, but unfortunately, the creatures in the deep sea could not bear the life without water pressure, and they all died. But compared with them, we still Fortunately. Because we can leave the water and move to a safe place, but no matter how they move, they cannot leave the ocean."

Xili stretched out his hand and shook it in front of the sage. "Hey, wake up, this is a snowy field."

Avalak raised his eyes.

"This is the truth, Ciri. It used to be like this, until these blizzards hit."

"Ah, a winter? I saw such a heavy snow once in Island, and it collapsed a thatched hut in the temple. Each of us stayed by the fireplace, feeling that we would freeze to death when we walked out."

"A winter? No, Xili, a winter will pass, because soon spring will come and the snow will melt. But this is an unending winter." Avalak sat by the campfire. "Look around, Xili, this snow has been floating for five years, and it will continue, ten, twenty, one hundred five years. This winter will not pass, even if the entire planet is swallowed."

Hilly frowned. "What are you trying to say?"

"Hoarfrost, it's already approaching."

The first thousand and 961 chapters of the truth about hoarfrost

"Hoarfrost." Xili looked at the wind and snow outside. "This is Hoarfrost?"

"A certain manifestation of Hoarfrost." Avalak said. "I think in your world, Thorne scholars have proved that no matter which world, it is not the center of the universe, but one of a thousand planets rotating in the endless darkness. This endless darkness is called a vacuum, or Void, but this is not nothing, hoarfrost is transmitted in this void."

"A blizzard outside the world?" Hilly asked tentatively. "Oh, that's really a strange statement."

"You can describe it like this. Just like some stupid people think that hoarfrost is a tiny dust that can block the sun. No, it's not dust." Avalak shook his head. "This is an infinitely small particle with anomalous properties that absorbs warmth like a sponge absorbs water. When they appear in a galaxy, the entire planet will become lifeless ice in a few decades. We have observed I have been to many stars that have turned into ice blocks. They are not far from us, not far from anyone. This is one of them, and this planet is in the galaxy where Ain El’s world is located. Normally , When night falls, you can see the star that belongs to us in the night sky."

"Hmm..." Xili scratched his face, subconsciously rubbing the scar on his cheek. "I still don't quite understand."

"Just go back to what you just described." Avalak's voice was low. "According to the efforts of astronomers, we have observed that these tiny particles are like a storm, or waves, rushing towards our galaxy. They swallowed all the planets along the way, and we were forced to flee our homeland. We thought it was. It's just an unpredictable disaster, an unpredictable cosmic phenomenon. But now, research shows that this is indeed a cosmic phenomenon that we can't answer. The heat disappears and the sun goes out. For thousands of years, this wave has not stopped, but is still moving forward. ."

"Wait." Xili patted his hand. "Then are we..."

"This is just the high tide before the big wave." Avalak's eyes hidden in his hood stared at the wind and snow outside. "But it’s not much time left. Maybe in two years, Ain El’s planet will become an ice sculpture just like this planet. This is the end of the world, Javier, close at hand The end of the world. This is not an earthquake, a tsunami, a volcanic eruption, a natural disaster, nor a magical disaster. This wave will sweep the universe where we live, when Ain Woodd found that the unusual winter was too late, but Now, we still have a chance."

"You mean, your elves escaped from a destroyed world and are chased by a wave of hoarfrost that can absorb all the heat. Then, why don't you go around?" Xili asked suddenly. "Go around, a huge wave comes over. If I'm at the beach, I'll avoid it."

Avalak turned his gaze to Ciri.

"Can you go around the horizon when you are on a planet?"

Hilly thought about it in his mind, and it took a while to figure it out. For a young man who had only studied in a church school for a year after the demise of the Hinterlands, it was indeed hard to imagine Avalak's description very quickly.

"So..." Xili frowned. With his hands interlaced on his chest, he leaned against a frozen rock. "This is the end of the world. But shouldn't you go to astronomers and archmages? I can't use magic. Uncle Vesemir said I can't even use a sign. Tell me, I can't use a sword to deal with it. Those little invisible particles."

"You can..." Avalak stretched out his finger. "Use your innate talent. I don't understand why you lost the ability to magic. You should have become a natural sage. But your bloodline talent has not disappeared. The blood of the elder shows a very powerful force in you. I call it the phenomenon of reversion. We have studied many cases and conducted experiments in the laboratory, but none of them have achieved results like yours. What’s more surprising is that you have not been guided, and you have stimulated your potential. ."

"That's because I almost died of thirst in the desert." Xili was reluctant to talk about it. "Then what do you want to say?"

"Only you can fight Hoarfrost, Ciri."

"Why can't other people? For example, you, you are much better than me."

Avalak stood up and took a few steps forward. Xili stepped back subconsciously and pressed one hand on the hilt. "What are you going to do?"

"You don't understand, Hiri. Ain Woododd tried to reverse Hoarfrost, using the power of space to change the direction of Hoarfrost, and let it return to its original path. This way, the inhabited world will not be destroyed. But they failed. We suffered heavy losses. Many sages lost their lives, and the remaining people could only flee in white and black ships." Avalak took a deep breath and put his hands behind him. "Now Hoarfrost is here again. We don't know where it came from. Maybe it arrived from the void outside the galaxy. It will leave after sweeping the galaxy, let alone where it is going. Iridin wants to catch it. You, because he believes that the best way is to open the door of the world again, let Ain El leave the world that is about to be swallowed by hoarfrost, and save everyone who survived the race. Only you have the door to open the world Power."

"Ah... wait, he wants to use my power to open the portal between the world?"

"It is to create a point in the void to pull in the distance between the worlds, so that you can shuttle between different worlds only by relying on the portal. The strong chaotic magic can even open the unstable portal on its own. This is the celestial confluence. ."

"The celestial spheres converge!" Xiliga accented the accent. "In other words, in fact, the celestial sphere that affects so many intersections, is it the negative effect that you brought when you opened the door of the world?"

"Chopping trees will leave stakes, and opening the gates of the worlds will result in what you call the celestial spheres. Thousands of years ago, Eredin and our dead Majesty worked together to open the gates of the worlds and let Bai Ships and black ships can escape Hoarfrost, but the result is that we lose most of our strength."

"That doesn't seem to matter. Why doesn't Eredin tell me directly that I need to use my power to save his people?" Xili raised his eyebrows. "I won't refuse, and I won't watch so many elves die when I can. Why should he catch me? He also held Ye Naifah and Geralt."