PFC Chapter 516 Riveria Doesn't Want to Disappoint Roy
Chapter 516 Riveria Doesn't Want to Disappoint Roy
Chapter 516 Riveria Doesn't Want to Disappoint Roy
"A key is required!"
Roy explained that this floor was special, isolated by some powerful force, with no entrance to the next floor, and no magic energy deep within, making it impossible to cast spells, thus making it impossible to forcefully break through.
It's impossible to excavate by manpower alone, and the underground city can be repaired much faster. Roy stared at the soon-to-be-healed Rift, fearing there might still be unknown dangers.
As for the information about the "key," they had already obtained it long ago.
The Demon Saint's Staff within the Thousand Cang Ice Garden!
Roy looked at Ais and Riveria in the group. He brought the two along for this purpose. The former was brought out of the Thousand Ice Garden by Zeus’s Familia, and the latter was of the same elven royal family as the saintess Celtia who built the Thousand Ice Garden, and they had a special connection.
Rivera's gentle gaze met Roy's.
On their journey to vanquish the corrupted fairy, she and Roy accidentally entered the Thousand Cang Ice Garden on the sixtieth floor of the Ice River Realm. That place was related to Ais's background and was also the key to unlocking the deep seal.
"Let's return for now!"
Roy led the girls of the Astrea Familia, Alphia, Ais, and Riveria away from the 71st floor, moved upwards, and returned to the 66th floor.
Take a break on this safe floor.
Roy took out supplies from his spatial ring.
The group set up tents, lit fires, cooked meals, and had a clear division of labor, quickly filling the air with the atmosphere of daily life.
Ais and Riveria also enjoyed the unique adventure style of the Astrea Familia, with abundant supplies, as if they were on vacation.
The original spatial ring fell inside the black dragon's body. When it was retrieved, its durability was almost gone. Roy used a legendary selection chest to obtain a new ring.
There are four Legendary Selection Chests remaining.
This reward has a very high margin for error, and Roy will not use it all; he will save it for unforeseen circumstances.
While the girls were busy, Roy had a rare moment of free time to organize his valuable materials and props.
Besides the legendary selectable treasure chest, there are many other items, such as the Frost King's Coffin, the World Shield, the Black Dragon Jewel, the Dragon King's Halberd, the God's Core, the Eight-Star Serpent Jewel, the Monster Fusion Device, and the Water Dragon Serpent Scales—Roy used some of these materials to maintain everyone's equipment.
After eating and drinking their fill, everyone took turns keeping watch at night.
Roy and Alphia, both at LV.9, needed the shortest rest. After waking up, the two strolled along the edge of the floor, which was only the size of the Tower of Babel Plaza, so any unexpected situation would be immediately apparent.
Roy reached out and naturally wrapped his arm around Alphia's slender waist. Through the thin fabric of her clothes, he could clearly feel her tight waistline and her cool body temperature, like that of jade.
Alphia's delicate body stiffened for a moment, then relaxed. Her cool and beautiful face remained expressionless, her thin lips pressed tightly together. "Behave yourself, don't touch me!"
"hey-hey!"
Roy smiled. Alphia, who was extremely aggressive like an empress when intimate, was usually extremely fond of quiet and was known as the "Silent" witch.
The extreme contrast deeply attracted him.
However, the fact that the other party did not make a direct move indicates that his actions were still within acceptable limits, and Roy did not dare to push his luck, even though the other party was indeed going to make a move.
The two strolled like an old married couple, and Roy said, "After the seal is broken, we'll be busy."
According to their speculation, the danger level increases dramatically below the 71st floor, with some kind of monster or mechanism potentially breaking through to the surface, meaning the ground is no longer absolutely safe.
They had to face monsters charging at them at any time.
Alphia said, "It's not too late to back down now!"
"Don't joke around!"
Roy shook his head and smiled. Having come this far, how could he possibly back down? He would uncover the truth about the underground city and the secrets of the gods.
"Perhaps it's not that urgent. Neither I nor the violent woman could conquer the Thousand Cang Ice Garden, and you're so confident?" Alphia glanced at Roy.
Roy said confidently, "Who can stop us?"
Alphia's expression became subtle.
Just kidding.
Roy changed the subject, and although the combat power he had at hand had surpassed that of Zeus and Hera's Familia at their peak, he did not feel arrogant.
Seeing this, Alphia felt relieved. Roy remained calm, "It seems you already know about the enemy."
"I think I met him once."
Roy recalled how he and Riveria had mistakenly entered the Thousand Ice Garden, and at the last moment witnessed the temple and the mysterious ice coffin within it.
With his "intuition" skill, his intuition is very accurate, and that is the core of the Thousand Cang Ice Garden!
As Roy and Alphia chatted, time slipped by unnoticed. The girls, having finished their rest, got up, washed up, ate, and were full of energy.
The team set off again.
The group returned to the sixtieth floor without any major incident.
Roy took out the elven holy sword and handed it to Riveria. The location of the Thousand Ice Garden was not fixed and could even move. Only this legitimate elven royal could sense each other with her special magic.
"Um!"
Rivera gripped the sword hilt tightly with both small hands, closed her eyes, and used her magic combined with the elven holy sword to sense the location of the Thousand Ice Garden.
While Riveria sensed the Thousand Cang Ice Garden, the group cleared away the monsters around them and used the Fairy Essence Protective Cloth to insulate themselves from the bone-chilling cold of the floor.
"Where?"
Rivera murmured, her powerful senses spreading throughout the desolate and frigid floor as she searched for clues about the "Thousand Azure Ice Garden".
However, that eternally frozen realm was hidden so deeply that it was impossible to find a single trace of it.
As time went on, Rivera grew increasingly anxious. Roy rarely asked her for help, and she couldn't let him down. She had to find the "Thousand Ice Garden," a place that was also related to the mystery of Ais's origins.
These two people hold a very important place in her heart.
"Where are you, Holy Maiden of the First Ancestor?" Riveria's cool voice carried a rare hint of urgency, and her slender body trembled slightly from excessive focus.
But the more anxious she became, the more her attention wandered, and that faint connection almost disappeared.
"Rivia!"
Just as that sense of impatience was about to overwhelm Riveria, a warm and strong hand landed on her icy little hand.
"Calm down, don't rush." Roy's voice was deep and gentle, like warm sunshine shining on the other person.
The warmth of Roy's body emanating from the back of her hand calmed Riveria's anxious heart slightly.
A warm current flowed into their hearts through their touching palms. Riveria's long elven ear tips trembled, her tightly furrowed brows quietly relaxed, and two delicate and charming blushes suddenly appeared on her cool and pretty face.
Her chaotic thoughts quickly calmed down.
The senses that had been re-condensed were no longer wandering aimlessly like a headless fly, but had become sharper than ever before, piercing through the void and clearing away the layers of fog.
Lock onto that vague, unseen location!
boom!
At the same time, the elven holy sword that Riveria held tightly in her hand seemed to sense something, emitting a clear hum, and pure and holy flames rose up from the blade, burning fiercely and enveloping Riveria's graceful figure.
Strangely, the extremely high temperature of the flames did not burn Riveria's snow-white skin and hair. Instead, she seemed to be bathed in the warmest spring sunshine, and her pretty face flushed.
"Over here!"
Rivera suddenly opened her eyes, her emerald eyes sparkling with a brilliant light, determined yet light, and strode forward in the direction she sensed.
Everyone perked up and followed closely behind.
The group walked through most of the floor and arrived at the west corner of the sixtieth floor. Riveria's steps did not stop, and she was about to bump into the wall.
Woohoo!
It was as if billions of giant wolves on the ice plains were roaring at the same time!
The biting cold wind transformed into countless incredibly sharp ice blades, swirling in from all directions.
As far as the eye could see, it was instantly swallowed up by the raging blizzard. Vision was completely stripped away, leaving only a chaotic, pale white. The extreme cold penetrated even the thickest clothing, like countless icy poisonous needles piercing into the bone marrow.
"Commander?!"
Tiony's intuition, honed through countless brushes with death, made her call out anxiously. Logically, at LV.8, she should be safe on this floor, but the blizzard gave her a bad feeling.
"No need to hide!" Roy shook his head. Just like before, he also sensed the special magic.
They are entering the Thousand Cang Ice Garden!
Roy acted as a pillar of strength, stabilizing people's hearts.
next moment!
The blizzard swallowed them up, leaving only the piercing cold and the suffocating feeling of weightlessness, as if they had fallen into an eternal icy vortex.
I don't know how much time has passed.
It might be a moment, or it might take several days.
The roar that seemed to destroy everything came to an abrupt end, and as the last wildly dancing snowflake fell helplessly, Roy and the others' vision cleared again.
Their previous ice fields have vanished without a trace.
A complete transformation!
Before my eyes lay a desolate, chilling ice kingdom, with a frozen, leaden gray sky and the earth covered by a layer of dark blue ice several meters thick.
What's truly chilling are the countless monstrous ice sculptures that fill the field of vision and stretch all the way to the edge of the ice field. They come in all shapes and sizes, and are terrifying in their own way: there are frost dragons with wings outstretched as if about to take flight, giant scorpions with their massive claws, and lions and tigers roaring to the sky—each ice sculpture is lifelike and detailed.
They didn't seem like inanimate objects!
A powerful and terrifying pressure emanated continuously from inside these ice sculptures!
"Is this the Thousand Cang Ice Garden?"
The questioning voices carried an undisguised shock. The scene before them far exceeded their imagination; it was a crystal hell ruled by absolute zero.
Alphia was the calmest, having entered before; once is unfamiliar, twice is familiar.
"Hiss—It's so cold!" Chun Ji's petite body trembled, and her fluffy fox tail instinctively curled up tightly, trying to wrap herself up. Tiny ice crystals even condensed on the tips of her white fur.
The others were equally pale, their slender bodies shivering in the unimaginable cold, their teeth chattering uncontrollably, their fingers frozen stiff and purple, their breath turning into white mist the instant it left their lips, then freezing into tiny ice crystals that fell to the ground.
The temperature here is even lower than outside!
Even the fire magic cloth was struggling to withstand the flames; the flame-colored light flickered, and the magic power was rapidly being depleted.
Roy retrieved his elven holy sword and activated its special effect, "Burning Heaven," drawing in the surrounding magic energy and transforming it into flames that encircled the area, raising the temperature.
The girls' expressions returned to normal just as everyone's minds relaxed slightly.
A sudden change has occurred!
Click! Click! Click!
Without warning, countless cracks appeared on the surface of the huge ice spikes all around, spreading wildly.
Immediately afterwards, one after another, icy beasts with fierce eyes broke through the ice, each with a different shape. Some were twisted and grotesque icy humanoids with stiff movements; others were beast-like creatures with bared teeth and claws, spewing cold breath.
Their bodies are covered with hard ice armor.
As soon as these ice crystal beasts appeared, their hollow eye sockets locked onto Roy and the others, and they pounced with a ferocious killing intent devoid of any emotion.
Over the course of thousands of years, quite a few people have strayed into the Thousand Cang Ice Garden, and they have all been assimilated by this realm, becoming its most loyal and brutal guardians.
After being strengthened by the Thousand Cang Ice Garden, the minimum ability value of the alien beasts is LV.6, while there are quite a few LV.7 and LV.8, and even LV.9 monsters are hidden.
This is the 60th floor, but the difficulty of conquering it is even higher than the 71st floor. The extremely harsh environment, the risk of assimilation, and the powerful monsters—all of these ultimately became a barrier that blocked Zeus and Hera's Familia.
But things are different now!
"Drink!"
A thunderous shout tore through the howling wind as Tione's long, powerful right leg ripped through the air, striking an ice wolf squarely in the abdomen.
With a burst of violent power, the ice crystal wolf's body, harder than refined steel, was kicked apart in mid-air by Tione's terrifyingly powerful kick, sending countless glittering ice crystal fragments flying in all directions.
Almost simultaneously!
"That's it? The captain doesn't even need to lift a finger!" Tiona's signature twin blades, Urga, slammed down with tremendous force, splitting several ice crystal beasts in two with overwhelming power.
Another golden figure, moving with ghostly speed, suddenly appeared.
Ais's movements were swift and precise, transforming her into a highly sophisticated killing machine. Her slender sword of despair pierced out like an elusive silver lightning bolt.
Bang!Bang!Bang!
The ice crystal beast struck by her sword tip froze instantly, its massive body cracking into piles of ice shards.
Fast! Too fast!
Tione's berserk attacks, Tiona's greatsword swings, and Ais's precise kills!
The three women moved with fluid grace and perfect coordination, sweeping away the onrushing horde of ice crystal beasts. In the blink of an eye, dozens of ice crystal beasts, radiating terrifying coldness and charging menacingly, were wiped out by the three women with overwhelming force!
All that remained were fragments of ice crystals shimmering with an eerie light, and this ice crystal hell returned to deathly silence, as if the guards had never existed.
"Commander, did you see my performance?"
"I killed the most monsters!"
"I didn't lose."
The girls flocked back to Roy, eager to claim credit and reward, a scene of delightful chatter that was truly enchanting.
Since monsters of level 9 or higher don't appear, Roy and Alphia don't even need to lift a finger; the Astrea Familia girls can handle it all. Together, they can easily defeat a level 9 monster.