After going into the sea, I met the witch lady

Chapter 216 Freni: Mr. Lane, please look at me carefully

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."

"Ah."

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..."

"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."

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

Travel, start!
……

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".

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

"Please take a good look at me."

"Mr. Lane..."

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

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

Ryan's eyes were filled with admiration.

"It's... amazing."

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

What happened next made his pupils gradually shrink.

"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."

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

Phryne was delighted.

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

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

Ryan's heart skipped a beat.

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

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.

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.

Close your eyes.

A smile appeared on his face.

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.

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

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

"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 is also formed after the 'Rune Armor' merges with the source of my magic power. My own mecha."

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

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

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

"Master Crimson gave you her mecha?!"

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

[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 prompts on the panel flashed in front of his eyes, and then, Ryan felt that the back of his head was hit hard by a huge hammer, and his eyes fell directly into darkness.

It is completely different from the comfort of traveling in the past, as if the smooth road suddenly turned into a roller coaster that goes straight up and down.

Bumping, spinning, rolling...

After an unknown amount of time, Ryan's consciousness slowly awoke.

He slowly opened his eyes and rubbed his eyebrows in discomfort.

The travel teleportation this time is quite exciting!

After he regained consciousness, Ryan raised his eyes and looked around.

The sight he saw brought only one word to his senses: white.

Everything as far as the eye can see is covered with white snow, and in the distance are 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. One can imagine how extremely low the temperature here is.

When ordinary people come here, they will probably turn into ice sculptures immediately.

"What a harsh environment."

Ryan sighed and stood up.

He was on the deck of a large battleship docked at the edge of the permanently frozen continent.

After checking to make sure nothing was missing, Ryan jumped off the boat and officially set foot on this vast glacial continent.

Due to the heavy snow, the visibility was not high, and only a blurry shadow could be seen a hundred meters away.

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

Only by circulating the blood energy in the body can the erosion of this extreme cold be alleviated.

But doing this for a long time will inevitably lead to a loss of health and physical strength. If you encounter a powerful monster, the end will not be too good.

When he first arrived in the Permafrost Continent, Ryan was extremely cautious.

From the words of Deputy Captain Loick, he learned that this place was probably the continent where the "Hong Yao Body" inhabited.

And here, there is a high probability that there are many "forbidden" level monsters above the [Grand Rank].

According to the comparison between the title and the legend, the taboo is most likely to correspond to the level of demigod and above.

Promotion to [Lord of Sloth], spiritual and physical growth, and newly acquired professional skills have made great progress in the combat effectiveness of Ryan's traveling clone.

But the difference in strength between demigods at each lower level is really huge, even more exaggerated than that between legends.

Therefore, Ryan is not sure whether the current traveling clone can defeat the "senior demigod".

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

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

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

Although in such an extremely cold place, the appearance of such a thing as a "forest" seems a bit out of place.

But Ryan can understand that, too.

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

Isn’t it surprising that a tree species has evolved to thrive in extremely cold climates?

No matter what, if you go to the woods, you can get less snow and slow down the decline of your own vitality.

Walking alone in the heavy snow, it feels quite lonely.

Ryan thought happily.

Wangshan is a dead horse.

Although it didn't look far away, it took Ryan more than ten minutes to walk from the shore to the small glacier.

The main reason is that traveling on snow is much more difficult.

Because of the obstruction of the white snow, no one knows whether there are any tree stumps, big rocks or the like under the snow. If you are not careful, you can easily get tripped, which forces Ryan to keep his senses open at all times.

Looking at a small cave under the glacier not far away, a smile appeared on Ryan's lips.

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

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

The extinguished metal lamps were undoubtedly man-made, indicating that humans had visited or 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 he can leave something behind to give him a reference for the permafrost continent, it will greatly reduce the difficulty of his exploration.

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

Only a faint white mark was seen, advancing silently on the snow. Covered by the sound of wind and snow, it was impossible to detect it by sight and hearing alone.

The reason why Ryan was able to discover this anomaly was due to his activated 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 two hundred meters.

"A monster on the permanently frozen 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 sword behind him and started to accumulate strength in advance.

His eyes were full of anticipation.

Since going to the new world of travel, the "monsters" have gradually drifted away from him, and the growth of [Blue Power] has stagnated because of its failure to defeat new monsters.

and so.

Now he has a high fighting spirit!
The white line swimming on the snow did not realize that the prey it was targeting had discovered its traces in advance, and still approached Ryan at the original speed, when the distance between the two sides was still fifty meters.

"Boom!"

There was a loud noise, accompanied by the splash of snow and gravel and soil, and a huge spindle-shaped black shadow sprang out from the snow, opened its bloody mouth, and bit into Ryan.

He came out of the snow and arrived in front of Ryan at a speed that was even faster than the sound of wind and snow.

However, it is fast, and Ryan is faster than it.

The big sword that had completed its "true charge" was slashed out heavily, blazing with aura, accompanied by the beating blue fire, and slashed heavily on the front jaw of Ryan's shadow.

"Boom-"

With a deep muffled sound, Ryan's body did not move, but his feet were slightly lowered. Instead, a monster ten times larger than him flew out and hit the snow heavily. For a moment, snow and soil flew up. .

Although the superiority and inferiority were decided, Ryan frowned instead.

With the quality of [Volume Great Sword·Wolf Blood Oath], although it is not very sharp as a great sword, with the blessing of [Ingenuity], it is very easy to break through the defense of demigods.

But the moment he collided with the monster, even though he had an overwhelming advantage in strength, the blade of the big sword did not feel like it could cut through the case or cut into flesh.

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

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[Cold Ichthyosaurus: [Crown] Ichthyosaur species, it has lived in the extremely cold and permanently frozen continent for a long time. In order to withstand the severe cold, it has evolved a hard shell armor that is far superior to monsters of the same level. It is necessary to break through this layer of "hard skin". , before causing normal damage to it.

Cold Ichthyosaurus is an ichthyosaur whose physical characteristics are very similar to Molten Ichthyosaurus and Hydroichthyosaurus. It looks like a large coelacanth with legs. Its back is covered with dark blue scales and carapace, and its abdomen has a yellow.

Hanyulong has a pair of highly degraded green pupils, its mouth has sharp teeth unique to carnivorous monsters, and there is a large horn like a giant sword on its head, which can open up a path in 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, there is an additional upright fin on its back like a shark's dorsal fin. Coupled with the extremely developed tail fin, it can help Hanyulong swim freely in the snow.

When swimming in the snow, the horns of Hanyusaurus will be exposed on the snow, just like a shark showing its dorsal fin on the sea surface. The vision and sense of smell of Hanyusaurus are not well developed. Instead, they have extremely developed hearing, which can be used to lurk in deep snow and locate prey. In addition, the vocal organs of Hanyusaurus are more developed than those of all currently known ichthyosaur species, and it is able to emit dragon roars.

Just like the Lava Dragon wraps its body with lava and the Mud Fish Dragon wraps its body with silt, the Cold Fish Dragon can also cover its body with snow to form a layer of snow armor. The principle may be similar to the snow armor of giant beasts and deformed ice sharks. Similar to armor, snow is fixed and hardened on the body through a bodily fluid secreted from the body. 】

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

"Hard-skinned... are the monsters on the permanently frozen continent a unique organ that has evolved to withstand the severe cold..."

"And the Cold Fish Dragon itself has an 'external armor' ability similar to the Molten Fish Dragon..."

"The combination of the two means that although Hanyulong only has three stars, its shell's defensive ability is even more exaggerated than that of a demigod."

"In addition, the cold fish dragons that live on the edge of the permafrost continent and are regarded as the bottom of the continent's ecology all have three stars. It can be imagined how dangerous this place is. Master hunters are only allowed to enter. The threshold is..."

A series of thoughts flashed through his mind. After learning about Hanyulong's situation, Ryan immediately stopped panicking.

The existence of "hard skin" and "snow armor" made it difficult for his sword to break through the cold fish dragon's case, but who said that if he couldn't break the case, he wouldn't be able to conquer it?

Ryan's feet exerted force, and in an instant, the snow trembled slightly, forming a downward depression, and Ryan's body appeared in front of Han Yulong, who was still in a dazed state, with the black light glowing in his hands. The big sword with purple-black electric light suddenly hit Hanyulong's head.

"Boom-"

The sound echoed like a giant metal hammer striking a hard object.

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

Han Yulong, who was still in a dazed state, became even more dazed now.

The huge gap in strength makes it difficult for it to even resist. Although it can hold on for a few more times thanks to its "hard skin" and "snow armor", that's all.

As the "Splitting God" was chopped off, the body of the cold fish dragon with its brain collapsed rolled on the snow for a few times and then completely lost its life.

A scale that exuded golden light fell off the Hanyulong's body and fell into Ryan's hand.

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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 Scales] are very ordinary, at least, compared to 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
[Spirituality]: 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 to be worthless in 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 passed by, 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 be able to teleport 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 into meanings that Ryan could understand through the translation of the panel.

[Summer May 5st:... 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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