Is this really just an RPG? !

Surprisingly, most of the time, Qiuqiu, who was an elf-type self-disciplined background decoration, suddenly exerted his unique ability to help us determine the route of the ice field bear. As long as we keep walking along this route, we can find The place where the ice bears live, and there may be icicles that freeze a certain kind of plant.

Hide it!

Who remembers that the original goal at the beginning was to find the ice dragon?

It seems that I almost forgot myself!

Originally, it was "helping Emily find those materials along the way to find the dragon", but in a blink of an eye it became "mainly to help Emily find the materials and finally find the dragon". Speaking of the materials Emily needs, except for the ones she had collected before coming to Iceland, they are all inexplicable things, like the pure white fluff of bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang, or the icicles in the place where the iceland bears live A perfect four-leaf clover... To be honest, I still don't understand why four-leaf clover grows in this kind of place.

It would even be frozen in an icicle.

Even more incredible is the existence of well-preserved four-leaf clover.

From the moment I heard it, I thought Emily was just joking and trying to tease me. It wasn't until I actually saw her pull the icicle out of the cave where the dire bears lived that I realized that I was very serious about it. It can be said that the technology of alchemy understands very little.

Even if I have experience in making magic props, it can't change this fact.

"What's the use of this thing!"

"Ordinary four-leaf clover is just to increase the probability of potion success, master, you should know that four-leaf clover symbolizes luck!"

"Emmm... I know, it also represents happiness and wealth."

"In fact, the four-leaf clover has no magical power, and it is not a magical plant itself. It was simply spread by rumors, but even the rumors are believed by many people. This belief has condensed into belief, causing all the four-leaf clover to die. It became a very special exotic magical plant that 'as long as you are 100% sure there will be an effect'."

"...the four-leaf clover cult?"

"Judging from the information in the endless library, there is indeed this sect, and it has a quite long history."

"..."

So what were the ancients thinking at that time?

Especially when the man who first discovered the four-leaf clover lived.

In any case, it is a good thing that Emily has more than half of the materials needed. Apart from the need to find dragons to obtain dragon blood, it also saves the clothes of the snow girl that is said to exist on the ice field but almost no one has found. Corner... um, clothes corner, I thought I heard it wrong at first, no matter how I put it, it should be liquid like tears, blood, etc. I never thought that clothes corners still exist, so people don't know what to use. Emoji to face the material.

"Yuki-onna's clothes are special items that are 'non-magic items that can exist forever' condensed with magic power, so it's not surprising that there are material requirements for Yuki-onna's clothes."

"oh……"

I uttered a single syllable with a deadpan expression to express the meaning of "I understand" to Qiuqiu.

By the way, I engraved the decision of "never learn alchemy for the rest of my life" in my mind.

Ever since the incident at George College, Emily has maintained her childhood appearance. I can't even remember what the original appearance of the very mature girl was like, so I can only rely on her current appearance. Speculate on the appearance, and barely get a rough outline. Up to now, Emily has almost a few months of experience in the life of a young child, and she has not shown any uncomfortable reactions, and even I mistakenly thought that she should be like this.

It was only when she mentioned those materials that I recalled that the senior I knew was not supposed to have the appearance of a girl in her early teens.

"Lilith, don't you want to raise a bear?"

"Ah... Although the cubs are very cute, I can't bear to think of taking them away forcibly. Besides, it's not convenient for us to take those cute guys with us on our next trip."

"That's right. After all, the brave is there, and the process will never be too peaceful."

The girls floating in front are talking about the icefield bear cubs. Emily intends to bring Sen into the conversation, but what makes her regret is that the nun lady is not very talkative... or She doesn't like to say such words that have no chance of hurting others.

"Qiuqiu, how is the map exploration going?"

"It's a little troublesome..."

The elf partner sitting on my shoulder drooped his head.

The vast ice field and the active mana in the sky made Qiuqiu unable to expand her senses, and could only barely obtain the situation of an area around her location. That is to say, the current Qiuqiu can only be responsible for Be a vigilante sentry to help make sure there are no dangerous guys nearby.

"Sen, is this route really okay?"

"No problem, anyway, there is Mr. Brave, and if you go wrong, you can arrive in a strange way."

"You're right!"

Emily expresses her appreciation to Sen.

Look, it's not that the nun doesn't like to talk, she's not good at talking, she just hopes that every word she says can be used to tease others, so as to get more fun... I really don't know what kind of education can be born Such a nun who always has a strong taste of evil, or is it because of her natural personality?

Rather than a little angel who sings praises of virtue, she is more like a little devil who likes to play pranks in harmless places.

but.

Isn't this snow a bit too big?

"Sen, isn't the snow falling a bit too much now?"

"Probably, it looks like a blizzard is coming soon, though that's not uncommon on the Ice Fields."

"...I don't understand why you can say it so easily. If it is really a blizzard, we can be said to be in a relatively dangerous state now."

I pointed to my feet and signaled my position once—in the air far away from the ground. At first, I made the decision to prevent falling into the snow and affecting the forward speed, but I didn’t expect such a strong snowstorm, let alone think about it. What to do if the thing encounters a blizzard.

Emily and Lilith stopped too. The topics of the two girls ranged from ice bear cubs to pets, from pets to the breeding environment, from the breeding environment to monsters, from monsters to making the judgment that "where there are brave men, there is always fun". The blizzard brought an end to this colorful conversation, but as the person being discussed, I didn't want to listen to it at all.

——Lilith complained in a low voice, it would be nice if there was afternoon tea.

— Emily agrees on this.

I think the two of them were just joking and didn't make any complaints about these two sentences.

In addition to making it difficult for travelers to move forward and obstructing sight, the blizzard also brought another more troublesome thing: the temperature dropped sharply to the point that even the magic of heat preservation could not resist. Originally, this place was rich in mana. Under the action of the blizzard, these mana became extremely active, which caused the temperature to drop suddenly, and it became extremely difficult to control the magic power.

Normally, it is to find a way to find a cave to avoid the blizzard, and then move on after it is over, but the Permafrost Plain has a special feature compared with other severe cold areas: most of the places are flat terrain, a few Caves and other places are chosen by monsters to live in.

Just like the group of ice bears I met before.

It's a pity that the current location is quite a distance from the ice field bear's cave, and there is no way to return in such weather. In other words, if you really want to find a place to escape the snowstorm, the best way is to find a way to dig it out yourself, or just dig a tunnel down if it doesn't work.

I also just think about it.

Lilith did exactly that.

After the magic weapon seal was lifted, a wide-bladed giant sword appeared in her hand... Well, it was the thing Lilith named "Chain Saw". I don't quite understand why she brought out a weapon with a slashing attribute, but soon I was given a severe blow to my nerves because of the structural changes in that weapon.

After Lilith pressed a few buttons on the handle, the chainsaw began to deform. Before I could react, it changed from an object shaped like a giant sword to an object shaped like a drill bit.

Lilith said it was called an "electric drill."

I think she may have gone farther than the world in terms of alchemy and magic props, so far that common sense cannot understand. Maybe this is the difference between geniuses and ordinary people, at least everyone present—including those who did not. Qiuqiu, who found information about this prop in the Endless Bookstore—was given a wave of three views by the magic weapon in Lilith's hands.

"That's enough, let's go down!"

The electric drill makes a loud noise after being activated, because of the high-speed rotation, I can't see the stripes on it. Now the electric drill looks more like a long gun without a handle... It's the shock of the gun head that causes it Me, Emily, Sen, Qiuqiu are not willing to get close to Lilith.

The digging operation was very successful. The snow accumulation can be easily eliminated only by a certain temperature, while the soil and rocks are like flimsy paper in front of the magic weapon called an electric drill. The electric drill was crushed, and the slow speed of the cave creation was actually caused by Lilith's own forward speed.

The holder restricts the use of magic weapons.

It's a rare situation, especially if the holder is still the maker of magic weapons.

"Use the magical power of the wind attribute to drive the internal parts to rotate, and then drive the rotation of the drill bit, thereby generating huge destructive power...Those patterns are probably made to increase the destructive power."

Qiuqiu explained the working principle of the magic weapon in Lilith's hands.

Although the explanations are a bit simple, I can probably understand what kind of prop it is.

"This! I suddenly had an idea when I was making an egg beater."

"So it's an egg beater?!"

"It turned out to be an egg beater?!"

Because Lilith's answer was too peculiar, Emily and I expressed our surprise by roaring at the same time.

"Once again I accidentally sped up the whisk and the whole bowl shattered, so I wondered if it could be used for weapons, but speaking of which... I would have thought that the whisk was just for laziness in the first place Now, you know, beating eggs by hand is very troublesome."

"..."

"..."

How did that sentence say.

The first boost of technology is always demand.

"Let me ask, where is the source of the chainsaw?"

Sen, who had been silent all this time, spoke up.

Her voice sounded even, as if she had embraced these works ahead of their time.

"Don't carpenters know how to saw wood? I just want to be too lazy to saw manually and let the saw move by itself."

"..."

All right, make sense.

The back of the tunnel was sealed by Emily to prevent the blizzard from blowing in, and Sen released a small fist-sized ball of light to provide illumination. In addition to digging the tunnel, Lilith also deliberately trimmed the soil on both sides to make the tunnel look It's not that simple, I just stared at Qiuqiu and asked her to investigate the current location.

Until Lilith stopped the electric drill.

"Your Highness?"

"It's empty, it seems to have come somewhere."

Saying so, Lilith restarted the electric drill and dug up the layer of soil in front of me. Then we saw a wide space covered with ice all around. It looked like a building made of ice as a material. Unfortunately, Qiuqiu didn't sense the existence of any life forms in this place.

"Magic can be used normally."

"no problem."

Emily made an OK gesture to Lilith, and immediately activated [Levitation]. After the spell was released, she jumped out first, and brought the glowing ball created by Sen to a position closer to the ground. After about two or three minutes, Lilith pulled me down with Sen after receiving Emily's gesture.

As I guessed, this is a palace.

A palace made of ice.

There is no life, and it looks like some kind of relic. The ice bricks used as building materials have some kind of magic, which is probably used to maintain the existence of the ice bricks and strengthen the hardness of the ice bricks. However, [Detect Magic] can scan the magic traces and engraved runes on it, but it is not the kind I am familiar with.

Even Lilith and Emily didn't know what rune it was.

"Older ones?"

"Pushing back 2000 years from now, I have understood all the runes during this period, and there are very few words that can make me feel strange, unless it is a work of an older period...or it is not It's the work of man."

"Not the work of humans?"

I repeated Emily's last words.

This kind of speculation is possible. After all, monsters often have their own wisdom, and some monster groups even have their own unique civilizations. In this case, it would be nothing if they developed some special magic words that humans do not understand. Strange things, it can only be said that the current human beings are too shallow for the exploration of mystery.

So, what kind of monster left behind the text?

The runes on the ice bricks are very special.

The runes used by humans are actually 26 letters in detail. These letters can form different words, and then the words can be combined into sentences that can command magic to execute. Therefore, the runes of humans will give the viewer a kind of "word It’s small but has a lot of words and is cumbersome.”

The magic script of ice bricks is another style: it looks like hieroglyphs, and there are only seven or eight characters on one ice brick; each word is spaced at the same distance; the magic script on each ice brick The texts are different, either the text itself is different, or the order of arrangement is different, but the magical effect they have is the same.

"fantastic."

Emily gave such an evaluation.

If it wasn't for the fact that the ice bricks were too strong to be removed, she would probably have started the demolition work.

So what the hell is this place? There are such relics under the permafrost plain. Considering the environment and the materials used to make this palace, the people who lived here should be a group of people who could resist the severe cold... or love the severe cold. They created here Civilization, and then for some reason the palace was buried under mud and snow.

"Qiuqiu, are you sure there are no signs of life?"

"Um……"

"This living body includes?"

"Life with thinking... Hey, master, do you want to say that there may be life without thinking here?"

No, I didn't think that much about it.

I'm just asking just to be sure.

Since there is no thinking, there is no possibility of negotiation, so not looking for and contacting will not have any impact.

Well, who remembers that we were out looking for dragons?

"I think, let's put it here for a while."

"Um."

Emily agreed to Sen's proposal.

Even though she still held the icicle and did not let go, she had to agree to this proposal.

This ice palace is too big, and we won’t be able to finish exploring it in a while. The most important thing is to find the blue dragon and get back from it the crown that Julie asked us to find. The ruins are indeed quite attractive to researchers, but neither Emily nor Lilith are pure researchers. Although it is a bit reluctant to endure one's curiosity, it is not impossible.

After staying here for so long, the blizzard on the ground should almost stop!

Thinking this way, I was going to return to the tunnel while the effect of [Levitation] was not over, but I had to stop due to external force.

"Neil?"

Lilith, who found that I hadn't climbed up, turned around and looked at me with a puzzled look.

I could only respond with a helpless smile.

After all, someone grabbed my right foot.

The man's hands were so cold that my entire right foot was frozen.

This man is very good at controlling the ice, so even if my right foot is frozen, I still have the feeling, and even no damage.

【"do not go……"】

【"Please stay..."】

【"Help……"】

"Neil?"

"Oh, he was probably caught by Xuenv. If that's the case, let's leave Mr. Yong, let's go first."

"..."

I probably know what Sen meant when he said, "It's enough to throw Neal when dealing with Yukino".

--Hey!

——Turn back! ——You have the ability to sell your teammates, don't look back at your teammates' sad eyes if you don't have the ability!