Whispering Poems

Chapter 3337: Ice Maid (Additional chapters at the beginning of the month, please vote)

Chapter 3337: Ice Maid (Additional chapters at the beginning of the month, please vote)

Entering a semi-enclosed area from a narrow entrance, there is an important building at the end of the area, but there is a very wide and flat open space between the building and the entrance. This scene makes the outsider quite alert, and he feels that it is possible that a dragon will emerge from under the ice in the next moment:

"Emilia, ask Ellie if the castle has any defenses against invasion?"

Shade then said, and when Emilia asked, the unicorn simply shook its head.

"Ellie said she didn't know. She only appeared here after she woke up. This is not where she originally lived. She had no problem going in and out by herself. When the demon ran in, it didn't seem to encounter any major obstacles."

"Speaking of which, do you feel that the wind is getting stronger and the temperature is getting lower?"

Miss Reinhardt on the side suddenly said that the strong wind mixed with snowflakes was indeed getting stronger and stronger, but it seemed that there should be no wind inlet in this area. Shade was about to say something, but when he raised his hand, he unexpectedly found that he had manifested the power of "First Fire Embers" without knowing when:

"what's the situation?"

Then he shivered violently because of the coldness around him. The sudden chill was even unbearable for him. The violent snowstorm drowned everyone in the sharp sound of the wind in the next second. The visibility decreased, causing Xia De to lose sight of everyone.

When he broke through the snow and approached Emilia, who was closest to him, he suddenly found that Emilia had been frozen in ice:

"what?"

Reaching out and feeling around, Unicorn Ellie, Miss Reinhardt, Miss Larson and three other high-ranking girls were all frozen in the ice.

Shade, whose hair and eyebrows were already covered with frost, could not believe that this had happened in just a moment. He called out for fire to thaw them, but when he stretched out his hands, he found that his own hands had been covered with ice without him noticing.

"This is a bit exaggerated - the burning oath!"

He wanted to use the power of the First Fire to thaw himself, but that only delayed the freezing time for a few seconds.

In the end, Shade, who kept raising his hands, was also sealed in the ice, but at least during the few seconds of delaying the freezing, he felt what the power coming from the castle was -

"The power of the old god [Winter Girl], the power of the Witch Emperor who is at least demigod level, and a relic of a high level."

But there is no demonic power.

He was sealed in the ice with this thought in mind, and his consciousness was frozen. In the ice, one could still vaguely see the traces of the "First Fire Embers" on his body, but this time even the power of the First Fire could not break through this layer of ice.

When consciousness is frozen, it seems that time itself has also stopped.

I don’t know how long it took, but I seemed to hear a cat’s meow in a trance, but it seemed to be just “her” soft laughter.

Among the thousands of human-shaped ice sculptures standing in front of the ice castle, one of them suddenly trembled. Then, with a rustling sound, cracks appeared on the surface of the ice sculpture, and finally the ice sculpture exploded on the spot. Xia De, who was gasping for breath, regained his ability to move in the crystal clear ice powder.

He knelt down in the snow, propped up his hands on the snow and breathed deeply. His spirit had been completely frozen for a while, but now the spirit was surging again, causing changes in the elements in his body, and he almost knew what "out of control" meant.

Fortunately, his recovery ability was very strong. It took him half a minute to adjust himself. After he stood up again and looked around, his companions were no longer there.

Before being frozen just now, the team should have been half the distance to the ice castle, but now he has passed through the seemingly flat and empty area in the canyon under the ice sheet and stood among the ice sculptures in front of the castle's magnificent steps.

All the ice sculptures around are the same size and volume. You can only tell whether they are men or women from the clothing they wear, but you can't tell if the inside is made of solid ice or if there is a human inside. The expressions and movements of the different ice sculptures are also slightly different, but all of them are lifelike.

"What happened just now?"

[After you were frozen, I also lost the ability to perceive the outside world. About twenty minutes passed.]

"She" said gently. Xia De didn't care whether it was true or not. He looked far away towards the entrance of the canyon, but he could only see the ice sculptures spreading towards that side. The follow-up team should be only five minutes away from here. Since they were not seen at this moment, I am afraid that the follow-up team either temporarily evacuated the canyon or became an ice sculpture here.

He did not try to leave the canyon, but reached out to touch the ice sculpture closest to him. But at this moment, footsteps came from the top of the stairs in front of the castle. As high heels tapped on the stairs, a female voice stopped Shade:

"Guest, please do not destroy the decorations in the castle courtyard at will." (Kasenrick)

"Who?"

Looking up, a crystal-clear figure was walking down from above. She was wearing crystal-like high heels made of ice, and was walking down the mirror-like ice steps in front of the castle. Every step was accompanied by the sound of tiny ice crystals, because her body was also carved from pure ice.

Unlike the basically identical ice sculptures standing in the snow in front of the castle, the face of the figure walking down the steps is incomparably delicate, and the maid's dress made of a thin layer of ice she's wearing looks like a work of art. The ice even sways slightly as she walks.

Her skin exudes a cool yet soft luster, and her long skirt fits every icy contour on the surface of her body.

Because Xia De was standing below, he even noticed the little lights of falling snowflakes under the hem of the "Ice Maid" as she walked down the stairs.

"Puppet. No, elemental life?"

Just like Tifa and Matilda, this is another very professional head maid.

"Guest, please do not damage the decorations in the courtyard."

She said it again, and as she got closer, Xia De was very sure that there was a look of intelligent life deep in the other's eyes.

The wind and snow in the canyon had long since stopped, and the sunlight that penetrated the ice cap above her head shone on her body. Her inhuman and cold feeling made her charming as no less than any living girl.

Of course, her arrival also made the temperature around her even lower, but at least the temperature at this moment was not high enough to freeze Shade again.

"who are you?"

Seeing that the other party showed no hostility, Shade withdrew his hand and asked. The maid continued to speak in the Carsenric language of the Sixth Era, standing at the bottom of the last step and bowed slightly to Shade:

"Sir, I am the head maid of this castle and the only housekeeper here. Since you are not afraid of the cold winter, I welcome your visit. Please follow me. I apologize for my poor hospitality."

Xia De did not move:

"Miss Maid, can you explain what's going on?"

The ice maid actually smiled. Xia De didn't know how the ice became as movable as the human body:

"Of course you can. The great owner who built this castle has long gone, but she left some precious treasures here before she left. Aren't you here to look for treasure?"

"I"

"Of course, the castle will only give such a test when a powerful enough witch or ring wizard comes here. If you fail the test, you can only stand in the courtyard as a decoration. But the owner is very kind. If ordinary people accidentally break in here, as long as they leave in time, the castle and I will not make things difficult for them."

She seemed to know what Xia De was wondering about.

"But I just saw a lot of ice sculptures of ordinary people."

"Yes, there are always people who are greedy and want to take something away from here, so they have no choice but to stay. The most recent person who left safely was an ordinary person 20 years ago. Although he accidentally took a piece of woven cloth, since it was an accident, I didn't make things difficult for him."

She made another invitation:

"Then please follow me, my guest. A great adventure awaits you ahead."

Xia De still did not move. He frowned and stared at the face of the "Ice Beauty" in front of him:

"Unicorn Ellie never mentioned you."

"Yes, since the experiment awakened, I have always been integrated with this castle. After all, since it awakened, there has not been a guest like you who needs me to come out and greet him in person."

"Experiment?"

The Ice Maid was unwilling to explain:

"Can you come with me now?"

"There are two more things, and I'll go with you after that - you know there's a demon in the castle, right?"

"That is an evil guest who is temporarily staying here. It wants the master's secret treasure, but refuses to accept the test left by the master. It is temporarily staying here, but because it did not destroy the castle and is too powerful, I did not expel it. Now it is still here and has some authority over the castle. If you pass the test, you can naturally see it."

There was no trace of demonic power on the ice maid, and the demon was a "demon of weapons" rather than a "demon of ice and snow", so Shade was not worried that the maid in front of him was a trap set by the devil.

"One last thing, where are my friends?"

"I placed them in the courtyard and the castle respectively. Naughty Ellie rashly brought so many strangers here, so I locked her up in the castle. If you complete the test, you, Ellie, and your friends can leave."

She laughed again:

"This also includes the others who followed behind you. It is an honor for a humble maid like me to receive so many visitors. There is no need to worry about their safety. Even ordinary people can survive within fifty years of being frozen. But if it exceeds fifty years - I'm sorry, even a ring wizard will truly become a part of the ice and snow."

It seems that the church team is in danger, and Shade is not surprised. No one expected that the danger this time was not the devil, but the castle itself. All the countermeasures they took were aimed at the devil. And the power of this castle, in Shade's opinion, might be stronger than that devil.

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