No matter what trickery lies underneath, even if the information “heading to Ice Valley” is a trap, Sanders must make a trip there.
However, before going to Ice Valley, they need to send news of the calamity to Sky Island.
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Angel was now standing outside a mountain range.
Fafnir, having suppressed her aura, had taken human form and was leaning against the trunk of a tree, appearing to doze off. In reality, she was squinting towards the depths of the mountain range, where the outline of snowy mountains could faintly be seen.
“Lady Fafnir, it seems we’re still some distance away from the Ice Valley…” Angel hesitated for a moment before turning back and saying.
“Within a thousand miles around the Ice Valley, there will be no powerful Magical Creatures.
Although Fafnir explained this, Angel glanced at Toby, who was sleeping like a log, and realized that taking Toby—who was tainted by the calamity—into the valley would be difficult, no matter how safe it was claimed to be.
Seeing Angel still hesitant, Fafnir huffed coldly, and a tornado suddenly sprouted from beneath Angel’s feet.
With a cry of distress, Angel was swept up into the air and thrown in a parabola, landing a kilometer away.
Climbing out from a rotting pile of leaves, Angel knew he had no choice left.
He was still close to the outer edge of the mountains, and all of his movements were under Fafnir’s surveillance. If he made any sudden moves, Fafnir would likely continue to torment him.
Anyway, this was the outermost layer, and any Magical Creatures likely wouldn’t be very strong.
With that thought in mind, Angel set out alone on the road to Ice Valley.
As he delved deeper, Angel also pondered something. Fafnir could have easily flown him right to the outskirts of Ice Valley, but she hadn’t done so. Instead, she dropped him off a thousand miles away and made him go to the valley by himself. Did this mean she was afraid to face Odeclass?
But when Fafnir was leaning against the tree trunk earlier, her gaze had constantly been fixed in the direction of Ice Valley, showing complex and nostalgia-filled eyes. It was clear she also longed for Ice Valley.
Not unwilling, but afraid to go?
Was there a story behind this?
While lost in thought, Angel took out a transparent block of ice from his pocket.
The ice block was restrained by a powerful force and could almost be called a Crystal Stone, impervious to physical melting. Inside the ice block, a glowing white dragon scale was encased, its light sparkling through the angles of the ice, casting brilliant, translucent reflections.
This encased dragon scale was given to him by Fafnir.
Angel originally thought that by delivering a message for Fafnir, she would tell him what to say. However, she did not. Instead, Fafnir just left him this dragon scale with the words, “He will understand what I wish to say when he sees this scale.”
Previously, next to Fafnir, Angel hesitated to examine it. Now upon closer inspection, there was something odd about this dragon scale.
Fafnir was an Abyssal Wind Dragon, whose true scales were of a dark green hue, not this pure, white jade.
Moreover, on his way, Angel had inquired about Odeclass some information. It is said that Odeclass was an Abyssal Flame Dragon.
It was unlikely that the scale of a Flame Dragon could be so easily encased in ice.
Besides, Angel didn’t feel any trace of flame within this white scale, so the encased dragon scale couldn’t possibly belong to Odeclass.
Then whose could it be?
Just as Angel was sinking into his own thoughts, the ground suddenly caved in. Looking down, he realized that the depression was actually a gaping maw lined with sharp teeth!
Startled, Angel swiftly activated Night Flight, soaring into the air.
As Angel ascended, the giant mouth emerged from the depression.
A carnivorous plant? Angel observed. It stretched like a vine, the vast maw following spiral upward, aiming directly at him, much like Jack’s Magic Bean.
Rooted to the underbelly of the earth, the plant couldn’t possibly fly. Angel wasn’t too frightened by this. However, just as this thought emerged, a raspy roar sounded in his ears.
Turning around, he saw dark clouds swelling in the distance.
Upon closer inspection, the clouds were not truly clouds but a mass of densely packed Bone Crows…