Chapter 511 The Call of Power

In a corner leeward, Li Lin used four drones to prop up an energy barrier to create a windless zone of four to five square meters.

The wind was howling and snow was falling outside, but the two people inside were close to the campfire, tasting barbecue and light beer with a sweet aftertaste.

"With your morning light and Hex flying door, it really saved me a lot of trouble."

Ruiz took a bite of the oily and fragrant hind leg meat of Snow Rabbit, sprinkled with spices, and took a sip of light beer. He couldn't help but feel filled with emotion.

If you are willing to accept the nano armor I give you, it will actually save more time.

Li Lin complained in his mind without saying it openly.

"Well, this stuff is very fragrant, especially sprinkled with Ionia's special chili powder and cumin powder!"

"I'm an Ionian, so of course I know the things about my hometown." Li Lin shook his head and smiled, clinking glasses with him and drinking heavily, then asked: "How long have you been in Freljord?"

"It's been more than a month." Ruiz muttered, continuing to eat meat and drink wine.

Since noon yesterday, he has eaten nothing except a bite of dry food that he carried with him but had long since frozen into ice.

Sometimes in order to rush on the road, Ryze would not rest at night, especially in more dangerous areas.

It is very troublesome to rest on a snowstorm night. Even if there are small mechanical houses that can be automatically built in the morning light that accompany him along the way and can cope with extreme weather, they cannot be placed in the troll's territory.

The Freljord was cold, but Ryze's body would be hot from the energy surging within him, so traveling at night in the wind and snow was no problem.

What's more, the weight he carries on his back is enough to make the cruel winter in this wild and extremely cold place seem insignificant.

Li Lin glanced at the scroll on Ryze's back and asked, "New rune fragments?"

"To be precise, it should be a cornerstone rune, if the scroll is correct." Ruiz muttered, drinking the last sip of light beer in the bottle, his face returned to gloomy.

"What's wrong with you? I see you're in a bad mood."

Looking up at the concerned Li Lin, Ruiz hesitated for a moment, shook his head and sighed: "He is an old friend of mine."

"He has the world rune fragment?"

Upon hearing this, Riz was full of surprise, "How do you know?"

Li Lin chuckled, "Your thoughts are written all over your face."

Ruiz's face was filled with bitterness, "Is it so obvious?"

Li Lin gave him a moment to think.

"His name is Yagu, and I have let him go for too long."

Li Lin knew the name Yagu fairly well. His tribe was the only human tribe in the troll territory that could set up camp and compete with the trolls, relying on the world rune fragments.

If Li Lin remembered correctly, the world rune should be of the precision system.

"I was too soft-hearted in the past and was deceived by Yagu's lies." Ruiz sighed.

"He said he would wait until the next spring to move his tribe to the south, but now, five years have passed...

“Five years is enough time to change too many things, not to mention that he still holds the world rune fragment.

"Although that piece of rune is very gentle and does not show much power to corrode people's hearts, as long as it is a world rune, even if it is just a fragment, the impact on people will be extreme.

"I suspect that he did not lead the tribe out of the troll territory because he was bewitched by the runes."

Li Lin silently listened to Ruiz's worries, "Are you planning to go find him now?"

He asked, "Give me the approximate location and I can take you directly there."

"No, let's wait first. We have more important things to be busy with now."

Ryze took out a parchment scroll from the leather satchel under his cloak. An unknown geographer had drawn a rough outline of the Freljord on it.

Ryze pointed at the northeastern part of the mountains, and then pointed at the northeasternmost point of Freljord, between the mountains.

"I visited Trundle, the Troll King, last night. He told me that I could avoid the river bend by walking along the valley and reach the destination I wanted to visit.

"But he also warned me not to let me get close to this place, the Frostguard Fortress, where the Frostguard and the Frost Witch live."

"That's right." Li Lin nodded, "The Frost Witch is not only a historical legend. In the past few years, the Winter's Claw has been attached to the Frost Guard."

Ryze was obviously not interested in Winter's Claw. He raised his face and stared at Li Lin with a serious look.

"I can feel that the dark power is approaching. It is the power of the void. We must find the cornerstone runes before them."

Or perhaps, a certain Eye of the Void has already been waiting for it...

Li Lin thought in his mind and called Zhi Nao to send him a set of universal nano-armor. He said to Ryze: "Put it on, let's set off now."

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After quickly packing up their things, the two of them crossed the journey that originally took two months to reach and arrived at the southwest valley where the Yeti civilization once was active.

The canyon was crisscrossed with ravines, and the howling wind and snow were stronger than the troll territory they were in just now. Even Ryze, who used magic to open the way, found it difficult to move forward.

For the sake of convenience, Li Lin persuaded him to put on the nano armor again.

Eager to search for the world's rune cornerstone, Ryze reluctantly agreed.

This world rune is buried deep in the underground ruins and blocks energy perception. Zhi Nao has no way to start. He can only rely on Ryze's set of scrolls from Hylia, the former capital of Blessed Island, to determine its approximate location.

After flying several times in the steep valley, we cleared out some raging snowmen with no IQ, and soon found an ancient ruins left by the ancient intelligent snowman tribe.

"The dark atmosphere is getting thicker... It's empty down there, it should be here." Ruiz was very sure.

But just as he was about to cast the arcane teleportation magic "Warp Jump", the vision in front of him suddenly changed, and they had gone deep underground.

"No need to bother, my armor has its own teleportation function."

Ryze shook his head helplessly. He wanted to say something, but his attention was quickly attracted by a red light not far away. It looked like a torch, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.

The cornerstone of world rune·dominance system—Dark Harvest.

It is suspended on a semi-arc magic stone platform, in front of a bottomless cliff. The magical aura of the runes is restrained, as if it is sealed by some mysterious force, which just isolates the dark and corrupt atmosphere that diffuses around it.

The power of the void is gathering here, and the power of the world's runes is also calling.

"This is the ruins of the Yeti tribe. It was the Yeti's magic that sealed this cornerstone rune." Ruiz's voice was hoarse. "The wise Yeti tribe became extinct thousands of years ago, but their magic power can still continue to this day."

"But it has been greatly weakened, otherwise your scroll would not be able to find it."

Li Lin's eyes were fixed on the seemingly empty space in front of him.

With the thought, "digital thinking" was turned on, and the information about a void monster was completely displayed in his mind.

Immediately afterwards, he raised his hand and fired two plasma cannonballs, but when he flew back over the dark harvest runes, they hit an ice-blue energy barrier.

The next moment, densely packed slender tentacles of monsters that connected almost the entire cave appeared from the illusion, and behind the world runes, a strange one-eye that was as long and wide as the height of two adults emerged in the air.

Li Lin narrowed his eyes, "The monitor's minions, the Eye of the Void."