Miss Witch, it's time to clean up the entries

Chapter 297 [Ice Worm Hunter]

The huge expedition team entered the big crack. When the last person stepped into the shadow, the crack closed like the jaws of a giant beast, crushing the last ray of sunlight between its fangs.

Li En heard the crisp sound of crystal condensation behind him. When he looked back, he saw thousands of ice spikes growing wildly, weaving the entrance into an inverted thorn cage.

As the crack gate closed, the sunlight seemed to be isolated from the outside world, and only darkness and chaos remained inside the crack.

The searchlight beam in the adventurer's hand was waving in vain like the arm of a drowning man, barely illuminating an area of ​​one meter around him.

Inna's metal lampshade suddenly made a sharp scraping sound. Everyone looked up and saw that the dome rock was covered with slippery protrusions.

Those spherical lenses shaped like eyeballs suddenly contracted their pupils the moment the light passed through them, and tens of thousands of dark golden irises trembled like a flock of startled bats.

When the sound of Nancy's arrow breaking through the air was heard, all the "eyes" exploded into mucus at the same time, dragging long and smelly trails on the rock wall.

"Don't alarm those things."

Li En reminded.

Nancy nodded slightly and gave up the idea of ​​continuing to test with arrows.

"thermometer"

Hewen Field's voice muffled in his fur collar as he huddled in the corner of the carriage like a frozen ferret.

The maid Lolita was stirring the hot cocoa with a silver spoon. Suddenly, amid the clinking sound of porcelain cups and silverware, there was a crisp sound of glass breaking.

The mercury column of the gold-inlaid thermometer broke through the scale limit under the gaze of everyone, and the red liquid spread like a spider web along the teak floor.

"It's over -40 degrees Celsius."

Lolita said.

"This damn weather."

Hewen Field complained and handed the crystal compass to Li En, saying in a trembling voice,
"Cousin, you will be the leader."

Li En took the crystal compass and looked at the trembling Hewen Field.

"Your physical condition is too poor, you shouldn't have followed in."

"If I don't come in, I will lose my eligibility to run for election. I can still hold on."

Hewen Field wrapped his coat tightly, and the maid Lolita lit the charcoal stove in the carriage. The slowly rising temperature gave Hewen Field courage again.

He exhaled, opened the curtains, and said to the members of the expedition team,

"Ladies, you can rest in the carriage. It's warmer here."

Noah pulled up the brim of his hat.
"Lord Hewen Field, you should stay in the car. We still have to participate in the hunt."

Nancy and Inna had no intention of getting on the bus either, as they were not afraid of the cold.

Finding that none of the women in the team had any intention of getting on the bus, Hewen Field curled his lips and said to Lolita,
"I really don't look down on them. I'm just inviting them in a friendly way."

"Any difference in treatment is an insult to women."

Lolita handed the hot cocoa to Hewen Field as she spoke. He gulped it down and became extremely excited.

"Well, my Lolita, then the car is ours and we can do something we love."

"Sir, are you sure you want to do this in the car?"

"Of course, this operation is a life-or-death situation. If we don't seize the time now, we might not have another chance in the future."

"Okay, my lord."

Soon laughter was heard from the carriage. Through the gap in the curtains, Li En could see Hewen Field playing a very childish game of Gobang with his maid, which was spread from the royal capital to the North.

Gobang was originally used by myself to amuse Diane, and it was spread from Diane that it is now called Princess Go.

Li En, riding on the bear's back, shook his head and looked down at the crystal compass in his hand.

Some dots with green light appeared on the compass, and these dots were moving.

"It seems that this gift crystal is carried by the monster."

Li En made this judgment.

"Leader, if we want to collect the crystals quickly, it's best to split up. How about we split into three teams?"

Noah lowered the brim of her wolfskin hat, revealing the unique roughness of a northerner, and the shadow of the brim covered her narrow eyes.

She suddenly fell silent and used her scabbard to pick up a piece of frozen black substance at her feet - the thing showed clear teeth marks under the light.

"No, this is our first time entering the rift. No one knows the situation here. We must try to avoid being dispersed or left alone. We must be vigilant at all times. The gift crystal is not the most important thing. Survival is the most important thing."

Li En looked at the adventurers in the team, his words filled with unquestionable majesty.

At this moment, the adventurers all felt the pressure from Li En's personality and believed that he was a natural leader.

And what he said was more heartwarming than what other leaders said.

Compared to Li En, most team leaders urge their team members to quickly find the Gift Crystal and get it at all costs.

A thick fog suddenly rose from the crack, dividing the adventure team into isolated groups and making the already unclear vision even more blurred.

The thick fog arrived without warning. One moment, the family crests on the armor of the team ahead could be seen, and the next, their figures dissolved into the milky white chaos.

Sophie's silver hair was floating upwards against gravity, with tiny ice crystals condensing at the ends of her hair.

The crisp sound of chess pieces falling on the board came from the direction of the carriage.

"You lose again, Lolita."

Hewen's joyful shouts pierced through the mist. He was pressing the obsidian chess pieces into the gilded chessboard with his red, frozen fingers. The heater under Lolita's skirt covered the car windows with mist.

Suddenly, the whole carriage made a teeth-grinding creaking sound. Li En saw that the iron-studded wheels were rusting at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the icicles hanging from the shafts were slowly growing into the shape of fingers.

Noah suddenly thrust the scimitar into the ground, and the blade vibrated and made a buzzing sound.

From deep within the ice beneath their feet came the sound of fingernails scratching, as if countless corpses were turning over in an ice tomb.

The compass that Li En was holding tightly suddenly burst out with a dazzling green light. The moving light spots all turned blood red at this moment, and the nearest light spot was flashing wildly right below them.

"Aren't you going to give me crystals? There are quite a few down there. Get ready for battle!"

Li En shouted and pulled the reins of the brown bear, making the brown bear stand up. The ice under his feet broke instantly, and a wriggling translucent giant worm rushed out of the ice, opened its ring-shaped mouthparts with a diameter of three meters, and bit the brown bear's thigh.

The ring-shaped mouthparts were filled with rotating ice cones, which directly frostbite the brown bear's thighs. The brown bear screamed and its thighs were bitten off.

Li En swung his fist and punched the worm monster. The monster's body instantly vaporized and merged with the surrounding thick fog.

Li En frowned slightly. This thing could actually turn into gas, which was a tricky thing.

The next moment, the worm monster condensed into shape again and launched a sneak attack from behind Li En.

The moment the monster approached Li En, Li En could not hear any sound around him, as if the world was muted.

But with Li En's powerful sixth sense, he still judged the direction of the monster's attack and caught the monster with his backhand.

The monster was about to vaporize again, but was enveloped by a burst of frosty force and frozen into an ice sculpture.

Li En swung a punch and smashed the ice sculpture monster into powder. A shining green crystal fell into Li En's palm from the powder. It was a gift crystal.

[New entry: Ice Worm Hunter]]

[You easily killed the Ice Devouring Worm in seconds. For each Ice Devouring Worm killed, you will receive 1000 points.]

[Ice Devouring Worm: Its body is actually flowing liquid nitrogen, which can instantly vaporize and pass through any defensive barrier]

[When attacking, it releases a 'Silent Field', freezing the transmission of sound waves to create an absolutely silent death trap.] [After being shattered, the debris will adhere to the weapon, causing low-temperature embrittlement of the metal.]

Before the adventurers could congratulate Li En on obtaining his first gift crystal, spider-web-like cracks suddenly appeared on the ice.

Then the entire ice field collapsed like a shattered glass dome, and hundreds of diamond-like ice-eating worms rose from the icy mist.

"Raise your shield!" Noah's roar stopped abruptly the moment it touched the first worm's ring-shaped mouthparts.

The field of silence has enveloped the entire place like an invisible barrier.

The moment the black iron shield of the leader of the poisonous insect adventure team collided with the ice cone of the worm's mouthpart, countless frost flowers bloomed on the shield surface. The unique humming sound of metal was swallowed up by absolute silence, and everyone seemed to have fallen into a vacuum hell.

When the leader of the Fierce Dragon Adventure Group cut off a worm with his sword, the sword suddenly burst into metal fragments.

The splattered liquid nitrogen debris vaporized in mid-air, transforming into a dark blue icy mist that seeped into the gaps in the guard knight's armor. The knight's brown hair instantly froze with ice, and his dilated pupils reflected a horrifying sight: more worms oozed from the seams of Noah's armor, and the adventurers' frozen blood crystallized into red icicles in their veins.

"Lord Heven!"

Lolita's screams were heard from inside the carriage.

A worm with a diameter of five meters penetrated the floor of the carriage. The obsidian chess piece in Hewen's hand fell to the ground with a clang, and shattered into powder the moment it touched the ice.

The ice cone spinning inside the worm's mouthparts was only half an inch away from his throat, but was caught in the gears by the porcelain cup of hot cocoa thrown by the maid. The boiling liquid exploded into flowers of ice and fire in the absolute low temperature.

Li En acted in time, rescued his cousin from the carriage, and threw him onto the back of a strong brown bear.

All this happened so suddenly that even the selected elite explorers had no time to react. Even though they raised their shields and made preliminary preparations, because they did not understand the characteristics of the crack monsters, five or six adventurers died from the ice-eating worms in a blink of an eye.

At the critical moment, the waves behind Nancy rolled and built a sea water barrier to protect the remaining people.

A snowflake of ice crystals floated by, and the ice on the ground froze again. The monsters that were still wriggling and attacking were instantly frozen into ice sculptures, losing all ability to move.

The adventurers reacted and began to fight back frantically.

As the ice sculptures shattered, the gift crystals overflowing from their bodies continued to fall.

Li En killed the most ice-eating worms, reaching 245, and earned 245000 points.

But not every Iceworm will drop a Blessing Crystal, so the team obtained a total of 23 Blessing Crystals.

The adventure team also lost 5 members, shrinking from 30 to 25.

Even so, their team is the one with the least casualties.

People's screams echoed in the thick fog. It is easy to imagine what would happen to those teams without the assistance of witches when they encountered such terrible insects. It is very likely that the whole army would be wiped out.

"Is this the crack monster?"

Even though Li En has the physique of a Seven-Star Knight, he still feels fear.

No wonder the expedition team requires at least a 4-star knight to enter. Guys like Hewen Field are just asking to be killed.

We have just entered the crack, and we don’t know how many unknown and terrifying monsters are inside.

Many people were considering withdrawing from the operation, but unfortunately they had already missed the time to regret, and the crack would not open until a month later.

Moreover, after witnessing the strength of Sophie, Li En, Nancy and others, the team's confidence increased a little.

"Ms. Nancy, Miss Sophie, are you witches?"

The rescued Hewen Field asked hesitantly.

Sophie didn't answer, but who else could be the one to use such a powerful frost power but a witch?
Nancy shook her head. "I'm not a witch. This is my special ability."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Nancy's answer.

Their fear of witches is deeper than that of monsters, especially now that the entire empire is hunting for rebellious witches, and anyone who has anything to do with witches will not have a good ending.

Witches used to be the guardian of the empire, but now they are a destructive force feared by everyone.

"Reorganize the troops, repair the carriages first, and burn the bodies of the dead soldiers on the spot."

Li En gave the order.

The adventurers immediately did so.

After seeing Li En's strength, they were extremely convinced.

Especially since Li En saved Hewen Field, their financial sponsor.

If Heven Field died, there would be no point in them entering the rift.

"Lolita, my Lolita."

Hewen Field suddenly realized that his maid was still in the carriage.

"Sir, I'm fine."

Lolita walked out of the carriage. She was only slightly injured.

This muscular Barbie doll can take on much more of a beating than her owner.

Noah frowned as he and his men collected the bodies. Two of the dead adventurers were from the Black Rose Adventure Group, and the other three were from the One Bug Adventure Group.

They laid the bodies together, lit torches, and burned their former companions.

"May the God of Tiger bless you and lead you to a better world."

Noah bowed his head and prayed.

The members of the adventure team also bowed their heads and prayed.

"You're a witch, right?"

Nancy asked in a low voice, standing next to Sophie.

Sophie didn't deny it.

"Although I don't know why you followed that man, please leave him before you lose control."

Nancy said with a cold expression.

"Nancy, could you please stop interfering? It was this witch lady who saved us just now."

In the dark environment, Inna has automatically changed her personality and turned into a scheming little loli.

"And you, can you please stop being so arrogant? We're talking to you. Aren't you afraid that we'll expose your witch identity? Oh, damn, you're not Sophie, the Ice Witch who's ranked in the top three, are you?"

"Her name is Sophie."

Li En picked up Inna, who was about to turn around and tell the truth, and hit her head with a few bumps. He said to Inna and Nancy in a threatening tone,

"If you dare to tell on me, I promise to make you my slaves, and your life will be worse than death."

"Is it the kind that's imprisoned in a basement and tortured day and night?"

"more or less."

"See, Nancy, I've already told you this: this is a complete pervert who doesn't even spare Loli."

"If you spread rumors again, I will deduct three years' salary from you."

For some reason, when Inna heard that Li En was going to deduct three years' salary from her, she became inexplicably panicked.

I always feel like I owe a huge debt.

(End of this chapter)