The mage arrives

"You look so ugly, you are a monster!"

"that is!"

"that is!"

Brian yelled angrily, and his whole "brain" bounced around on Tan Sen's floating disc.

"To be honest, your appearance is really not very good. I wonder if your creator has a problem with aesthetics and made you look like this." Gordon also interjected.

"I am the beauty of the soul!" Brian was still unconvinced.

"And you!" The goblins pointed at Gordon again, one by one with their hips akimbo, and said bluntly: "You must be a very evil mage to be with such an ugly monster."

"Yes, it's the kind with sharp nails that will grab the goblins and eat them in one bite..."

"Evil Mage!"

"Evil Mage!"

"Haha!" Brian pointed at Gordon with his tentacles, "Master, it seems that the two of us don't look very good in the eyes of these little brawlers."

Gordon shrugged indifferently, then licked his lips, and said to the chirping goblins: "Last time I ate a few goblins, they were soft and tender... who told you that it was a 'cracking' bite?" Of? It’s obviously a ‘baji’.”

Listening to Gordon's vivid description, and even put on an expression with a long aftertaste, these little fine creatures were suddenly terrified, backed away in a hurry, and then condensed snowballs with frost energy in their hands, towards Gordon launched the "attack".

"do not come!"

"You bad mage, don't eat us. We're cold and tasteless. It's not tasty..."

When they were controlled by the erosion energy before, these goblins still had some fighting power, but now, the snowballs rubbed out by their little hands hit Gordon's face like raindrops.It even made the mage feel cool and very comfortable.

A mess of goblins were flying around in the ice cave, and some of the most timid ones had even used their special abilities to hide in the ice layer and never showed up again.

In this chaotic situation.A gentle and mature voice suddenly remembered: "Okay, everyone, stop arguing."

It's amazing that these noisy goblins stopped immediately after hearing this voice, neither making noise nor making noise, and they didn't fly around like flies.They gathered around a ball of light the size of a watermelon and shouted in unison: "My Lady Queen."

"Queen?" Brian touched his brain, or his body, with his tentacles.Looking at this new ice goblin that appeared in front of her eyes, "It does have the aura of a queen, but a majestic queen has only a hundred subjects, don't you feel shabby?"

Its words offended the goblins all at once.These little guys were about to launch a "snowball attack" on Brian, but they were stopped: "Stop. This mage is the one who helped us get rid of the control of that powerful evil spirit. Don't be rude."

Gordon looked at the beautiful fey creature in front of him.The other goblins looked like cute little girls aged 25 or [-], but this "Her Majesty the Queen" was a woman aged [-] or [-] years old.Naturally, there is nothing to say about her appearance, she is a one-in-a-million beauty.These fey creatures are free to shape their appearance when they initiate their psionic avatars.So of course I will choose to make myself as beautiful as possible.

Her Majesty the Queen is about twice the size of an ordinary goblin, reaching twenty centimeters.certainly.For Gordon, this is still very pocket size.

Wearing a long white dress that shone like ice crystals, and her temperament was like ice crystals, giving a sense of transparency, Her Majesty the Queen bowed to Gordon: "Hello, Mr. Mage, please allow me to introduce myself, I am Ania. I am from the Water Elemental Realm, and once ruled over the pure ice mountain peak. But now, I am just a poor person wandering in the Main Material Realm with a group of children."

The petite Her Majesty's tone was a bit sad, so that the other goblins also became sad.

"Hello, Your Majesty, my name is Gordon Freeman, a mage from the Platinum Empire Freyton, and also the lord of the land where you are." Gordon lifted the mage's robe and saluted.

It seemed that Gordon had maintained due courtesy to their queen, so the goblins looked at Gordon with a much better expression at this time.

"Mr. Master, you must have many questions about us and the existence of this frozen area. You are our savior, so feel free to ask questions.

Gordon looked at the surrounding scenery, and said to Ania: "Your Majesty, I think this huge underground frozen area should not have been formed in a natural environment. Can you tell me the ins and outs of this place first?"

Ania nodded slightly: "Of course. But Mr. Mage, please call me Ania from now on. I am their queen, but for you humans, this title is meaningless. Otherwise, we would not Weak enough to be controlled by that evil spirit."

After Her Majesty finished speaking, she organized her language again before telling Gordon all the secrets of Strindberg's underground.

A long time ago, calculated by the chronology of the main material world, it should be more than 100 years ago, in the middle and early stages of the third era, when the Netherdulan magic empire began to rise.At that time, the Great Arcanists of the Empire declared war on the Sun Elf Empire, and a terrible war swept across the entire continent.

But not only the main material world, but also other places in this multiverse are not peaceful.

In the water elemental world where Ania lived, a war also broke out.Ice Elemental Prince Morate Ace launched a rebellion war against Water Elemental Emperor Longkirudo Water.

Although elemental creatures do not have the various desires of human beings, they still have disputes.The ice element considers itself the superior form of the water element, and should rule as the noble of the entire water element world.But the water element thinks that he is the origin of the ice element and the foundation of everything, and the other party's thinking is putting the cart before the horse, which is absolutely absurd.

Just as demons and devils want to decide who is the leader of the evil world through a bloody battle, the contradiction between ice element and water element is also rising rapidly.It has reached an irreconcilable level, and in the end it can only be resolved by war.

Listen to Ania say this.Gordon couldn't help complaining secretly: "Compared to humans launching wars for resources, rights, and selfish desires, the reasons for the wars of these outer world creatures are really weird."

Compared with water elements, ice elements are less in number, but due to their solid shape, their combat effectiveness is much stronger.Moreover, the characters of ice elementals are more determined and ruthless than water elementals.Better suited to be a warrior.

The war has been at a stalemate.Until one day, the water elemental emperor Langkirudo Walter found foreign aid: a group of great Nesser arcanists.

In the glorious era of the magic empire, Nesser Arcanist was able to travel and explore in various outer worlds, even wage wars, open up colonies for the empire, and bring back endless resources and labor.As the four basic elemental worlds - the war of the water elemental world, of course it will attract the attention of the magic empire.

Of course.These outsiders from the main material world did not come here to help free of charge in the spirit of internationalism.The idea of ​​most of them is to use the war between the close relatives of the water element and the ice element to gain benefits.

Among them was a great arcanist named Antik Ionidas who seized an opportunity.

At that time, the two sides of the water element and the ice element were engaged in a protracted tug-of-war on the pure ice mountain peak.Due to fierce fighting and heavy casualties.Let the battle situation become more and more chaotic, even slipping to the edge of losing control.

Antik Ionidas seized the opportunity and used a legendary spell that was close to the eleventh ring to convert a part of the pure ice mountain, which is the queen's palace in the mountain.Cut it all into a subplane, and then transported it to the main material world.This is where Gordon is now.Deep underground in the peninsula.

And the ice goblin queen Ania and her more than 100 subjects were all "kidnapped" to the main material world.

The reason why Antik Ionidas did this was only one purpose.

"Mr. Gordon, please follow me." Ania gestured to Gordon.

Gordon's master and servant followed a group of dancing ice fairies, and continued to advance into the depths of the ice cave.

The goblins danced around Brian from time to time, giggling, as if laughing at this clumsy pink lump of flesh.

As for Brian, who was sitting on Tan Sen's floating disc, he couldn't do anything except waving his tentacles wildly in anger.

Leaving aside this small episode, after walking for about 10 minutes, it is clear that the naturally formed ice cave has finally come to an end.Gordon, led by Ania, walked into a huge rotunda.

He looked up and found that the top of the hall was actually more than 50 meters high, and it was very likely that it even reached the ground.Of course, this is not the most surprising part of this hall.What really makes people curious is that soaking in the pool in the center of the hall, a sphere of blue light blooms.

"Could it be that the description about gemstones that I read in the hexagonal hall above is about this?"

Looking at this large smooth ball with a radius of more than one meter, Gordon gasped, because he could feel that this thing was continuously releasing huge source energy.

And the pool where this big ball is soaked is not ordinary.The turquoise liquid inside is a special medium that can absorb, store, and convert source energy.

The Ice Fairy Queen explained: "According to what Antik Ionidas said, this ball is called an ice energy gem. It cannot be preserved under normal temperature conditions, and it will soon be brittle and shattered. But in the cold Under the environment, it can continuously extract energy from the natural environment, and then release it.”

"Is it because of this gem that Antik moved your palace to the main material world?"

"No." Ania shook her head, "This gem belongs to Antik. The reason why he moved my palace away from the water element world is because the cold environment of the pure ice mountain can ensure that this gem is It will not be damaged, and it can continuously absorb the source energy. In addition, it is also for the extremely ice holy water."

It turned out that the miraculous blue liquid was called Extreme Ice Holy Water.

Antik spent so much effort to build a magic laboratory based on the ice cave environment of Ania.With the endless source energy provided by ice energy gems, and then using the extreme ice holy water for storage and transformation, this laboratory can be said to have extremely powerful functions.

Seeing Gordon's excited expression, Ania knew that it was his mage nature.She sighed and said: "When I lived in Pure Ice Mountain Peak, I was blessed by the surrounding environment and possessed legendary strength. But now I have left the Water Elemental Realm. It is an area where I and the little ones can inhabit and gain strength. It has been greatly reduced. Therefore, facing Antik, we have no ability to resist and can only serve as his servants."

When Ania said this, the other goblins also showed unbearable expressions.

"That mage is very annoying, and makes us work all day long!"

"He never praised us!"

"He didn't even treat us to something good!"

……

Many goblins began to accuse Antik of his "violence".

Ania raised her hand in a gesture of silence, and the other goblins shut up one after another.This demeanor of gestures is indeed quite like Her Majesty the Queen.

She said to Gordon again: "Antik is actually pretty good. Although he often made us work, he didn't hurt us. After he left more than 1000 years ago, he never came back. We lived in peace for a long time. I have never been disturbed by outsiders, even though I can't return to the water elemental world, I feel very comfortable."

"However." Ania suddenly changed the topic, "Just over ten years ago, our peaceful life was broken. A crazy undead broke into the underground laboratory. At the beginning, I was able to fight it , but later it did not know what was going on, and discovered the secret of this ice energy gem. Then it began to absorb the source energy released by the gem from time to time. The power of the undead became stronger and stronger. In the end, we were all darkened by it. Polluted by eclipsed energy, lost sanity, and became its servant."

The undead that Ania spoke of.It should be the Earl of Sterling who died unjustly.The castle was built above Antik's magic laboratory, and the other party found it here by chance.It is not impossible.

Now that Strindberg's secret had been fully solved, the next thing Gordon had to think about was how to use these new discoveries.

Seeing that Gordon was constantly looking at the eye-catching huge gemstone, the Ice Fairy Queen said: "Mr. Mage, you have killed that terrible evil spirit, so naturally you have the right to use this underground laboratory. I I just hope you don't drive us away..."

"Of course," Gordon said.Anyway, apart from being a little noisy, these ice fairies are not harmful.

"Great...cough cough..." Ania got Gordon's agreement, just showing a joyful expression, and suddenly coughed a few times, showing a painful expression.

Gordon noticed that the blue halo emanating from her body also dimmed.

"Her Majesty the Queen!"

The other ice fairies immediately turned around anxiously, surrounding Aenia.

"what happened?"

"It's nothing, Mr. Mage..." Ania shook her head.

However, another courageous ice goblin beside her said to Gordon: "Mr. Mage, Her Majesty is dying, please save her!"

"Don't worry, speak slowly."

After listening to the explanations of these little guys, Gordon finally understood.

In the spirit creatures like fairies, the superiors have absolute control over the subordinates, so when the undead of Earl Sterling fought these ice fairies, they chose Ania as the breakthrough point.Controlling this Her Majesty the Queen will control all the other ice elves.

Aenea was the most affected by the eclipse energy.And because she had resisted many times in the past, she wanted to expel the dark energy in her body and get rid of the control of the evil spirit, which aggravated the damage to her body.

The cold attribute energy in Ania's body was greatly consumed in this confrontation, and the evil spirits, which were constantly replenished by the ice energy gems, invaded her body with more eclipsed energy.

Although the dark eclipse energy controls Ania, from another perspective, these huge energies also maintain the existence of Ania itself.

Because goblins are semi-energy creatures, after their energy is exhausted, they don't just need to eat to replenish it like ordinary creatures, but disappear directly.

After the evil spirit was wiped out by Gordon, all the eclipsed energy in Ania's body was drawn away, but her own cold attribute energy was already negligible.If she is still in the pure ice mountain peak of the water elemental world, even if she is in this dying state, she can still use the ice energy in the natural environment to recover.

But now, the small world of ice and snow brought to the main material world after being cut may be enough for the little ones around Ania, but it is far from enough for Ania to recover.

"What about using ice energy gems?"

Ania shook her head weakly and said: "No. Although this gemstone is related to ice, what it releases is the most basic source energy. And I need arcane energy of the cold attribute to be able to recover. "

It seems that these goblins who have been trapped underground have no idea of ​​what to do. They can only watch their Queen become weaker and weaker, and even die in the end.

Gordon glanced at his new servant: "Brian, I hope you have the knowledge you need now stored in your body."

Brian, who had been ridiculed by the goblins all the time because of his appearance, seemed to see the hope of being proud.He waved his tentacles energetically and said, "Leave it to me, Master!"

It was stunned for a while, as if searching for information in its mind, and then said again: "Master, under our current conditions, there is only one way to save this fine creature. That is to sign a soul contract with her to share life. Spirit Humanoid creatures are semi-energy creatures, in other words, another element to maintain their existence is life energy. We can't find enough energy of the cold attribute right now, but we can provide enough life energy."

As soon as they heard that Her Majesty the Queen wanted to share life with the mage in front of them, the goblins started to make noise and chatter non-stop.

And Gordon himself didn't want to use this method.