Chapter 216: Furenee: Mr. Ryan, Please Take a Good Look at Me

Witch Island, on the coast, [Black Rose].

On the bow deck, Ryan stood by the bulwark, waiting quietly under the quiet moonlight.

The time at this moment has reached 0:30.

Suddenly, Ryan's eyes moved and he turned his head to look to his side.

I saw dark blue light particles flying and converging, forming the graceful figure of the girl. The swollen and soft pointed witch hat reflected a faint halo in the moonlight.

A faint smile appeared on the corner of Ryan's mouth: "Captain, you are back."

"Um."

The sound of breathing softly from the nose came to Ryan's ears, and the girl formed by the gathering of dark blue light particles was wearing a blue and white gradient dress.

Freni looked at the young man in front of her, a cunning look flashed in her eyes, and she raised her hands and put them on her shoulders:

"Mr. Lane..."

"Please take a good look at me."

The words of Miss Witch made Ryan a little confused, but he still stared at the girl in front of him seriously.

What happened next made his pupils gradually shrink.

Under the frosty moonlight, the girl's long skirt began to peel off little by little, revealing her jade-white shoulders, exquisite collarbones, and then a sudden bulge...

The silver-white substance spread on the girl's skin, forming a silver tights that perfectly outlines the body curves. The regular lines on the tights are flowing with a faint fluorescence.

Freni raised her head slightly and looked directly at Ryan, with a joking look on her face: "Why, a little disappointed?"

"Ahem." The voice woke Ryan up from his daze. He lowered his head slightly and coughed lightly: "It's nothing."

"Hehe." The girl chuckled and did not continue to joke about this matter: "No more joking, Mr. Lane, please watch."

A special wave began to spread. Ryan was startled and quickly looked up.

I saw substantial vortex ripples in the air behind Freni, and then, a five-meter-tall, sci-fi mecha came out of the vortex.

"Master Crimson gave you her mecha?!"

Ryan's heart skipped a beat.

"Of course not." Freni didn't sell it, her eyes were shining brightly: "This is the 'Rune Mecha' summoned by the 'Rune Armor', and it was also formed after the 'Rune Armor' merged with my magic source. My own mecha."

"The 'Rune Suit' is a creation from the Era of the Gods. The specific origin is unknown. You need to master the 'Rune System' before you can control it perfectly."

"Although I haven't started learning runes yet, even with rough driving, I can still exert combat power that surpasses ordinary legends!"

Phryne was delighted.

It can be said that after having the "Rune Suit", she finally no longer has to worry about protecting Mr. Lane. She has the ability to protect herself, and can even support Mr. Lane in battle.

"It's really... amazing."

Ryan's eyes were filled with admiration.

He had seen the rune mecha in the previous battle between the Crimson Witch and the demigod.

The Crimson Witch, with her fourth-level extreme body, controls the rune mecha, and can temporarily resist the demigods.

If she can be promoted to a legend, even if she is a newbie, she will definitely be able to crush demigods after putting on the rune mecha.

"Hmm~" Freni was very happy when she heard Ryan's praise, but then her mood became slightly depressed: "Mr. Ryan, in the next few days, I need to follow little... Lord Scarlet to conduct rune training. study."

Freni couldn't say the word "aunt" for a while, so she adopted the same name as "Lord Crimson" like Ryan.

"So, we have to rest on Witch Island for a while."

"There are many books on Witch Island, which are conducive to my career advancement. Moreover, if I can master the runes proficiently, I can control the rune mecha to exert greater combat effectiveness..."

Freni's voice dropped to a low tone. Suddenly, she took a deep breath and took a step forward.

The distance between the two was already close, but the girl suddenly took a step forward, reducing the distance between the two to almost nothing.

At this distance, Ryan could even see the tiny fuzz on Miss Witch's skin that could be broken by blows.

"Mr. Lane..."

The girl's body floated slightly, attached to Ryan's ear, and said in a very small voice: "After I finish learning the runes, I have a gift for you."

After saying that, before Ryan could respond, the person in front of him turned into dark blue light spots and disappeared.

Ryan was stunned for several seconds before coming back to his senses.

A smile appeared on his face.

After waking up this time, he felt that there were some changes in Freyne's personality, or in other words, her behavior.

Becoming more bold?

Maybe the near-death experience made her think differently?

Shaking his head and laughing, Ryan turned around and walked to his room with anticipation for the "gift".

After returning to the cabin, Ryan spent a few minutes adjusting his mentality, and then lay on the bed.

The time has come and it’s time to start tonight’s tour.

During this trip, Ryan is not planning to travel to a new place, but intends to continue exploring the "Monster Hunting World".

Close your eyes.

Travel, start!

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[Your partner - Big Silver (Red Obsidian Silverback Shark) calls to you and shares its current coordinates: the edge of the permafrost continent. 】

[You have obtained the "Coordinates - Edge of the Permanently Frozen Continent". When entering the monster hunting world, you can use these coordinates for a one-time teleportation. 】

[Locking coordinates, transmission begins...]

The prompt on the panel flashed before his eyes, and then Ryan felt that the back of his head was hit hard by a huge hammer, and his eyes fell into darkness.

It was completely different from the comfort of the past travel, just like a smooth road suddenly turned into a straight up and down roller coaster.

Bumping, spinning, rolling...

I don’t know how long it took, Ryan’s consciousness slowly woke up.

He slowly opened his eyes, and at the same time rubbed his eyebrows uncomfortably.

This travel transmission was powerful enough!

After his consciousness was cleared up, Ryan looked around.

The scene he saw gave him only one word, white.

Everything he saw was covered with white snow, and in the distance, there were tall and majestic icebergs.

Large snowflakes were floating in the air, falling on the skin, bringing a biting chill.

With Ryan’s current physique and resistance to ice attributes, he felt cold. It can be imagined how exaggeratedly low the temperature here is.

Ordinary people who come here will probably turn into ice sculptures immediately.

"What a bad environment."

Ryan sighed and then stood up.

He was on the deck of a large warship docked on the edge of the coast of the Everfrozen Continent.

After checking and making sure that nothing was missed, Ryan jumped off the ship and officially set foot on this vast glacier continent.

Because of the heavy snow, the visibility was not high. A hundred meters away, only a vague shadow could be seen.

What frightened Ryan even more was that the extremely cold temperature was constantly eroding his vitality - that is, causing his overall vitality to decline.

Only by running the blood and qi in the body can the erosion of this extreme cold be alleviated.

But doing this for a long time will inevitably lead to a drop in blood and physical strength. If you encounter a powerful monster, the end is simply too beautiful.

When he first arrived at the Everfrozen Continent, Ryan was extremely cautious.

From the deputy leader Loic, he learned that this place was likely to be the continent where the "Red Yao Body" lived.

And here, there was a high probability that many "taboo" monsters above the [Crown] level lived.

According to the comparison between the crown and the legend, the taboo was likely to correspond to the level of demigod and above.

The promotion to [King of Sloth], the growth of spirituality and physique, plus the newly acquired professional skills, made Ryan's traveling clone combat power have made great progress.

But the gap in strength between each small level of demigods is too large, even more exaggerated than that between legends.

Therefore, Ryan could not be sure whether the current traveling clone could defeat the "senior demigod".

In this case, it is safer to find a shelter where you can rest and keep your combat power at a high level at all times.

Wearing armor and carrying a big sword, Ryan walked deeply on the snow.

The direction he was heading was a relatively small glacier, and there was a large forest behind the glacier.

Although the appearance of something like "forest" in such an extremely cold place seems a bit out of place.

But Ryan can understand it.

After all, this is not an ordinary world. Since there are monsters, it is unlikely that there are only ordinary plants.

It is not surprising to evolve a tree species that can thrive in an extremely cold climate, right?

And no matter what, going to the woods can also reduce the snow and slow down the decline of one's own vitality.

Walking alone in the heavy snow, there is a sense of loneliness.

Ryan thought with a sense of joy in suffering.

Looking at the mountain, running to the dead horse.

Although it looks not far, Ryan has walked for more than ten minutes from the shore to the small glacier.

The main reason is that it is much more difficult to move on the snow.

Because of the obstruction of the white snow, no one knows whether there are any tree stumps, big rocks or other things under the snow. If you are not careful, you can easily trip, which forces Ryan to open your perception at all times.

Looking at a small hole under the glacier not far away, Ryan's mouth showed a smile.

If there is a cave, it should be enough to make a fire inside to keep away the cold.

What surprised him even more was that there were two metal objects similar to lamps on both sides of the edge of this small cave.

The extinguished metal lamps were undoubtedly man-made objects, indicating that humans had visited and even lived here for a period of time.

This discovery made Ryan feel happy.

Those who can live in such a harsh place must not be ordinary people. If something can be left behind to give him a cognitive reference for the permafrost continent, it will greatly reduce the difficulty of his exploration.

Just as Ryan was about to step towards the cave, his body paused slightly, his eyes condensed, and he looked suddenly to the side not far away.

I saw a faint white mark, moving silently on the snow. Under the cover of the sound of wind and snow, it could not be found by vision and hearing alone.

The reason why Ryan was able to discover this abnormality was due to his open spiritual perception.

Although the accuracy of spiritual perception is not high, the range is large enough. With his current [spirituality], it is enough to cover a radius of 200 meters.

"A monster from the Everfrozen Continent..."

Seeing the incoming white line, Ryan paused and continued to move forward, pretending that he had not noticed the opponent, but his right hand had already grasped the hilt of the greatsword behind him and began to charge in advance.

His eyes were full of expectation.

Since he went to the new world, the "monsters" have been drifting away from him, and the growth of [Blue Power] has stagnated because it failed to defeat new monsters.

So.

Now he is full of fighting spirit!

The white line swimming on the snow did not realize that the prey he had locked on had discovered its traces in advance, and still approached Ryan at the original speed. When the distance between the two sides was only fifty meters.

"Boom!"

With a loud noise, accompanied by the splashing of snow and gravel and soil, a huge shuttle-shaped black shadow rushed out from the snow, opened its bloody mouth, and bit Ryan.

It came out of the snow, but arrived in front of Ryan, the speed was even faster than the sound of wind and snow.

It's just that it's fast, and Ryan's speed is faster than it.

The greatsword that completed the "true power" slashed heavily, with a blazing aura, accompanied by the jumping blue fire, and chopped heavily on the front jaw of Ryan's black shadow.

"Bang——"

With a low muffled sound, Ryan's body did not move, but his feet slightly lowered. Instead, the monster, which was more than ten times longer than him, flew out and hit the snow heavily. For a moment, the snow and soil flew.

Although the superiority and inferiority were immediately judged, Ryan frowned instead.

With the quality of [Tyrannical Great Sword·Wolf Blood Oath], although it is not good at being sharp as a great sword, it is also very easy to break the defense of the demigod with the blessing of [Craftsmanship].

But just now when he collided with the monster, although he had an overwhelming advantage in strength, the blade of the great sword did not have the feeling of cutting through the case and cutting into flesh and blood.

Such a strange situation attracted Ryan's attention, and he immediately looked at the introduction of this monster on the panel.

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[Cold Ichthyosaur: [Crown] Ichthyosaur species, living in the extremely cold permafrost continent for a long time. In order to resist the severe cold, it has evolved a hard shell that is far superior to monsters of the same level. It is necessary to break this "hard skin" before it can cause normal damage to it.

Cold Ichthyosaur is a kind of ichthyosaur with body characteristics very similar to Melt Ichthyosaur and Water Ichthyosaur. It looks like a large coelacanth with two legs. Its back is covered with dark blue scales and shells, and its abdomen is yellow.

Cold Ichthyosaur has a pair of highly degenerate green eyes, and its mouth has sharp teeth unique to carnivorous monsters. There is a big horn like a giant sword on its head, which can open up a way forward in the deep snow like an icebreaker.

It has a pair of upturned gill fins, a pair of smaller pectoral fins and a pair of pelvic fins that have evolved into legs. In addition to a pair of smaller dorsal fins on its back, there is also an upright fin like a shark's dorsal fin, plus a very developed tail fin, which can help Cold Ichthyosaur swim freely in the snow.

When swimming in the snow, the horns of the ichthyosaur will be exposed on the snow, just like a shark showing its dorsal fin on the sea. The vision and smell of the ichthyosaur are not well developed, but it has a very developed hearing, which can be used to lurk in the deep snow and lock the position of prey. In addition, the vocal organs of the ichthyosaur are more developed than all the ichthyosaurs known so far, and it can make a dragon roar.

Just as the lava dragon wraps its body with lava and the mud ichthyosaur wraps its body with mud, the ichthyosaur can also cover its body with snow to form a layer of snow armor. The principle may be similar to the snow armor of the behemoth and the deformed ice shark, which fixes the snow on the body and hardens it through a body fluid secreted by the body. 】

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The large number of prompts on the panel made Ryan's eyes clear.

"Hard skin... Is this a unique organ that the monsters on the Everfrozen Continent have evolved to resist the severe cold..."

"And, the Cold Fish Dragon itself has the 'external armor' ability similar to that of the Melting Fish Dragon..."

"The combination of the two also means that although the Cold Fish Dragon only has three [Crown] stars, its shell defense ability is more exaggerated than that of a demigod."

"In addition, the Cold Fish Dragons that live on the edge of the Everfrozen Continent, which is considered the bottom of the ecological system on this continent, have three [Crown] stars. You can imagine how dangerous this place is. Master Hunter is just the entry threshold..."

A series of thoughts flashed through his mind. After knowing the situation of the Cold Fish Dragon, Ryan was no longer panicked.

The existence of "hard skin" and "snow armor" made it difficult for his greatsword to break the shell of the Cold Fish Dragon, but who said that if the shell cannot be broken, there is no way to defeat it?

Ryan exerted force with both feet. In an instant, the snow trembled slightly, forming a downward depression, and Ryan's body had appeared in front of the still confused Hanyulong. The big sword in his hand, which was glowing with purple-black electric light, slammed on the head of the Hanyulong.

"Dong——"

The sound of a metal hammer hitting a hard object echoed.

Ryan's sword smashed a large area of ​​tortoise cracks on the shell of the Hanyulong's head. Because the gap in strength between the two sides was too great, Ryan could cause huge damage to the Hanyulong without breaking the "hard skin" by using pure brute force.

The Hanyulong, who was still in a daze, was even more confused.

The huge gap in strength made it difficult for it to even resist. Although it could hold on for a few more times with its "hard skin" and "snow armor", it was just that.

As the "splitting god" chopped down, the Hanyulong's fish body with collapsed brain rolled and struggled on the snow for a few times, and then it completely lost its vitality.

A golden scale fell off the body of the cold fish dragon and fell into Ryan's hands.

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[Trophy: Heavy Scales of the Cold Fish Dragon]: Gold-level trophy, the crown material of the Cold Fish Dragon. The material is sharp and is often used in protective gear. It is a protective gear forged from the materials of monsters that live on the road of eternal frost. More powerful protective performance. .

Comes with a special skill [Adapt to Deep Snow lv.3]: It can adapt to deep snow and other areas where movement speed is slow due to terrain.

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As a gold-level trophy, the skills attached to [Cold Fish Dragon's Heavy Scale] are very ordinary, at least, compared with the trophies dropped by the crowned ancient dragon, they are quite ordinary.

But this does not mean that the special skill [Adapting to Deep Snow] is useless.

Through the battle just now, Ryan also discovered that in the snow-covered environment, his movement speed was inevitably affected.

The skill [Adapt to Deep Snow] allows him to ignore the impact of the ice and snow environment on his speed.

Reducing the debuff caused by the environment to oneself is also a positive improvement to a certain extent.

"not bad."

Ryan put away the newly acquired golden loot. Although [Adapting to Deep Snow] did not allow him to ignore the impact of ice and snow on his vitality, it was good to be able to ignore the slowdown.

Then, Ryan looked at his panel.

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[Level]: 20 (2%) → 20 (5%)

[Spiritual value]: 10722635→15722635

【Spiritual】：120.30→261.70

[Physique]: 666.58→696.58

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The improvement of [Spirituality] and [Physique] is based on the previous promotion to [Lord of Sloth]. Ryan's focus is on the improvement of the experience bar.

Increased from level 20 (2%) to level 20 (5%).

Well... a full 3% improvement means that if Ryan wants to rely on defeating three-star monsters to complete the level improvement, he still needs to defeat at least 32 three-star monsters...

Thinking of this number, Ryan suddenly felt his head hurt.

Although crowns seem worthless on the Permafrost Continent, the size and strength of crown monsters mean that if they want to maintain their lives, they need to hunt a large number of other monsters. Therefore, there is a high probability that there will be only one crown in an area. A monster.

It is not difficult for Ryan to defeat monsters. What is difficult is how to find them.

Shaking his head, Ryan stopped thinking about it.

If you want to level up quickly, it is unrealistic to rely on crown-level monsters. You still have to conquer the taboo-level monsters above the crown.

And these taboo-level monsters should live deeper in the permanently frozen continent.

Arriving at the small cave entrance under the glacier, Ryan took a closer look at the metal lamps on both sides of the cave entrance. His sword energy swept over it, wiping away the ice and snow on the surface.

The simple and rough texture on it shows the style of the workshop that made this thing, which focuses on durability rather than appearance.

The ice cave was much deeper than Ryan expected. After walking about ten meters, the narrow passage suddenly became wider, and a larger ice cave appeared in front of Ryan's eyes.

Tables and round benches carved from solid ice, as well as ice beds, ice shelves and other things...

The familiar technique reminded Ryan of the hunting group organization in the world of monster hunting.

Loick is the deputy commander of the 7th Scouting and Hunting Regiment.

And if there is the Seventh Scouting Hunting Group, there must be other hunting groups.

"It seems that during the hundreds of years that Loic was stuck on the mysterious island, the hunting group was also progressing in its own way, and even the Permafrost Continent was able to set foot..."

Ryan sighed with emotion.

He was looking forward to contacting the hunters of this world.

Strictly speaking, in the world of monster hunting, he only communicated with the ancient dragon people for a period of time. As for the deputy leader Ilok, that little exchange was too brief.

After sighing, Ryan looked at the extinguished translucent bonfire in the center of the ice cave.

He stepped forward and placed his palm on it. As the sparks fell, warm waves radiated out, and the extinguished bonfire also rekindled its flames.

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[You have discovered a place where spirituality gathers - the eternally frozen ice cave. 】

[You can set up a "bonfire" here to achieve rapid teleportation to the "starting point" and other "bonfire points" (cross-world teleportation is not possible). 】

[While inside the "bonfire", you can use other functions except "Return". 】

[——Whether you are a navigator, a hunter, or an angel, adequate rest is a very important thing. 】

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Looking at the sentence "Cannot be teleported across worlds" in the prompt, Ryan was thoughtful.

Indeed, it would be unrealistic to realize the teleportation between the Monster Hunting World and the New Traveling World by relying on campfires alone.

After lighting the bonfire, Ryan looked at the bookshelf, where there was a thick volume of animal skin.

Leaving hints for future generations seems to be an old custom of the hunting group. In other words, this is the hunter of the hunting group. In this world where it is difficult to transmit information to each other, and in the confrontation with the harsh environment and terrifying monsters, it is slowly developed. habit?

Try to avoid information gaps as much as possible?

With this in mind, Ryan unfolded the animal skin scroll and looked at the content recorded on it.

The incomprehensible words were translated by the panel into meanings that Ryan could understand.

[Summer May 1st:... Disaster is coming. Guided by the prophecy, we finally arrived at this permanently frozen continent covered in ice and snow after paying a heavy price during the hottest season of the year... ...That is, we have reached the final place. 】

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