A man among dragons, building a mysterious ancient church.

Chapter 423 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Missiles

Lu Mingfei sat on the sled, feeling the wind rushing against his face, which felt like being cut by a knife. He subconsciously covered his cheeks. No, Senior Brother Fingel and this freezing thing that the vice principal made are running way too fast!

Those eight frozen clay figures, with their icy legs, ran with long strides, pulling the sled with great force, truly opening Lu Mingfei's eyes.

However, it would be good to be faster, and it would be best to shake off the dragons. Thinking this, Lu Mingfei looked back and found that the nuclear-powered icebreaker that his academy had urgently requisitioned had been obscured by the shadow of that greenish-blue second-generation species!

The Green Second Generation is only forty meters tall, but its equally green dragon wings, when unfolded, are almost eighty meters wide, far exceeding the width of the Lava Second Generation and Ice Armor Second Generation.

It is awe-inspiring, and one look at the sky reveals that it is the domain of the green secondary species.

The mere unfolding of those turquoise dragon wings generated endless air currents that surged beneath them, allowing it to easily ride the wind, abandon the ship, and pursue the Kassel sled team.

Just then, a huge fireball, as big as a blackboard, came from the side and exploded on the face of the Green Second Generation!

"Roar!" The green-green second-generation creature took the pure green fireball that Chu Zihang had charged up, and half of its face was burned. It was so angry that it almost forgot to spread its wings. The strong wind quickly blew away the smoke from the explosion, and its angry dragon eyes locked onto Chu Zihang, who was also flying.

Although the Green Second Generation was furious, it did not lose its mind. It unleashed countless air currents at Chu Zihang with its wings, while frequently roaring. The sixteen pure-blooded dragons that followed behind it began to hunt down the sled group.

Some pure-blooded dragons maintain their altitude and unleash their spiritual power, while others are more inclined to hunt, personally swooping down with their wings vibrating at a high frequency and accompanied by a piercing shriek as they dive, intent on devouring their prey.

Susie wouldn't let the dragons invade unchecked, so she secretly intervened. After all, the Mage of Misfortune's abilities were elusive and intangible.

Of course, if a range-type doom field is activated, it will directly affect everyone within the range, including teammates. In that case, the Kassel Sled Team might overturn on the ice field and be unable to escape the pursuit.

Therefore, Susie had no choice but to be more diligent and select individual dragons one by one to cast a curse of doom upon them.

Those pure-blooded dragons that stay high in the sky and refuse to come down will experience Susie's mental storm.

A series of air cannonballs surging with air currents, and clusters of flames falling from the sky, originally aimed at the sled, coincidentally struck the back of the pureblooded dragon that was diving!

The pure-blooded dragons, who were diving to hunt, never expected to be betrayed by their own kind. They were all beaten and burned, their skin torn and bleeding, making it difficult for them to maintain their dive trajectory. Like a shot-hit airplane, they fell onto the ice at an even faster speed.

Sharp ice crystals flew everywhere on the ice around the sled team, whistling like shrapnel, scratching the cheeks of many mixed-race people and damaging their down jackets.

The pure-blooded dragons at the higher altitude were completely dumbfounded. Before they could figure out why they had hit their own teammate, an invisible storm violently swept through their minds.

Compared to the Sequence 6 Calamity Priest's Mental Storm, the advanced Storm not only damages the mental body and causes dizziness, but also triggers mental confusion and a little bit of madness.

Pureblood dragons have very high mental strength and must concentrate fully to withstand this storm. None of them could maintain flight and, like their teammates who crashed, they fell like dumplings being dropped into a pot.

"Watch out!" Angers shouted from the lead sled. The vice-principal and Fingel maneuvered the ice puppets, changing direction from time to time to avoid being hit directly by the crashing dragons, and also to avoid the flying sharp ice crystals.

The selected students, except for Lu Mingfei, all desperately used their incantations to shatter the splashing ice crystals or to speed up the sled to avoid the falling dragon.

While the people of Kassel were still feeling relieved, the horde of dragons from the Lava Second Generation also caught up. It was simply impossible for Chu Zihang to attract two waves of dragons on his own.

Just dealing with the three second-generation species was already putting Chu Zihang in a difficult position, not to mention there were so many pure-blooded dragons that he simply couldn't manage them all.

Fortunately, the Ivanov family's support arrived just in time.

In the Arctic winter, the sky is not clear and blue, but rather a hazy gray as if coated with a leaden filter. However, at this moment, the sky suddenly brightens.

When the dragons and the people of Kassel subconsciously looked at the light source, they noticed that there were seven long tubes with blazing white tails that arrived in an instant from a distance and rushed into the dragons' airspace at an almost vertical angle.

"Missiles! The principal said they were missiles supplied by the Ivanov family!"

Lu Mingfei's mouth dropped open in exaggerated surprise: "An icebreaker can launch missiles?"

Fingel knew a bit about the Ivanov family. They had even paid Fingel a high salary to give lectures: "To put it simply, the Ivanov family inherited a lot of assets from the Soviet era, such as nuclear submarines."

"!" Lu Mingfei was so shocked he almost jumped up. No wonder the Ivanov family was able to support them. The icebreaker certainly didn't have missile launchers, but the submarines following below did, and there were many of them.

There was no time for idle chatter; the missile arrived in an instant, and before the deafening explosion, light came first.

The intense explosion caused everyone's vision, including the dragon's, to be instantly overexposed, turning the world into a pure, scorching white.

Immediately following was a "boom" and an explosive shockwave. It wasn't wind or airflow, but a solid and invisible wall that crashed down on them.

The shockwave, carrying instantly vaporized ice crystals and seawater, spread outwards at supersonic speeds, hitting the nearest fire and water dragons in the epicenter of the explosion. The close-range explosion combined with the shockwave almost ignored their tough scales, completely tearing their bodies apart.

The dragons further away had time to react. The wind dragons used the Word of Power: Dustless Land, the fire dragons desperately tried to absorb and weaken the heat coming from the center of the explosion, and the water dragons manipulated glacial seawater to try their best to intercept it.

The explosion and shockwave were weakened by the dustless land of the dragons and the glacial seawater that was manipulated into the air. The remaining part could be easily resisted by the dragons with their scales.

Although there are seven missiles, they are only air-to-air missiles and not nuclear warheads, so they cannot deal with the united defense of the dragons.

Every event has its pros and cons. While the seven missiles temporarily halted the dragons' pursuit, they also tore apart the ice field beneath Kassel's group. Terrifying cracks, centered on the explosion points, spread like wildly spreading lightning, twisting and turning as they approached the sled team.

The students in Kassel were in a panic. They had been the furthest from the missile, but the rapidly transmitted heat and shockwave posed a great threat. The students used all their strength to cast protective spells, exhausting many of them, and with the help of the vice principal's defensive alchemy, they barely managed to offset the shockwave.

Now the glacier is cracking as well, which is like adding insult to injury. If the glacier breaks apart and they fall into the sea, they will certainly not be able to survive in the water at this temperature, surrounded by dragons.

Eight ice mud puppets are pulling the sled with all their might; they are now racing against the glacial cracks!

The glacier behind them had begun to collapse, with countless large ice blocks crashing into the icy sea, creating waves several meters high. The rushing waves could even drench the back of the necks of a few students, chilling them to the bone.

No matter how fast the ice mud puppet was, its speed was still limited. It couldn't keep up with the wildly twisting and spreading glacial fissures, which unknowingly overtook it and rushed from underneath to in front of the sled.

The glacier is composed of many large ice blocks, which have begun to rise and fall in a well-organized manner.

Fingel maintained the spell, barely managing to keep the sled gliding at high speed on such treacherous terrain.

As mentioned earlier, the variant of 'ice courtesy' causes the bottom of the sled to become 'ice courtesy', generating a slight repulsive force, thus maintaining a slight distance from the glacier, which can be considered an alternative magnetic levitation. Therefore, ordinary cracks cannot actually affect the movement of the sled.

Taking advantage of the chaotic terrain, Fingel quietly curled his fingertips, and an ice mud puppet changed direction, pulling a sled and joining the vice principal's group. Then, the two were separated by a large, high-raised block of ice.

There are only three sleds left, all belonging to members of Chu Zihang's team, followed by Lu Mingfei, Fingel, and Susie.

Fingel pointed back. If he wasn't mistaken... sure enough, the dragons, after a short rest, continued their relentless pursuit of the smaller group, without even splitting up their forces, completely ignoring the other group from Kassel.

Just as Fingel was pondering why Lu Mingze was targeting Lu Mingfei, and whether Lu Mingfei had some kind of conflict with this mysterious being, Lu Mingfei was already yelling incoherently, "Senior brother! Senior brother, don't get distracted!"

"Watch where you're going! Please watch where you're going!"

Ahead, the glacier cracked open, and the edges of large ice blocks rose, forming a jagged, jagged ice wall that instantly blocked the way.

"Don't worry," Fingel replied casually. The three ice puppets were already pulling the sled, rushing up the ice surface that was almost vertical at a ninety-degree angle. With each run, the ice puppets would freeze briefly with the ice surface and would not fall off.

But those on the sled have to suffer a bit. They have to hold on tightly to both sides of the sled and endure the pain of their companions' shoes stepping on their faces in order to keep from falling off.

As they climbed over the ice, the ice puppet leaped off the top of a large ice block, causing Lu Mingfei to scream incessantly. This was far more thrilling than a roller coaster!

Fortunately, just before landing, one of Chu Zihang's team members used a wind-based spell to reduce the impact of the landing, preventing any casualties.

Lu Mingfei was practically lying on the sled, panting for a while before sitting up: "That was...that was terrifying...huff, I want to go home..."

When no one offered Lu Mingfei a ride home, Susie keenly noticed another problem ahead: "Senior Brother Finger, a blizzard!"

The icy world ahead was completely shrouded in gray snow and wind, like an even larger wall of wind stretching between heaven and earth.

The blizzard was moving extremely fast, giving them no time to react. The sled had already rushed into the blizzard's range, visibility plummeted, and countless large ice pellets began to slam into everyone's faces.

Lu Mingfei felt even more depressed. Perhaps this trip to the Arctic would really end here. The sudden blizzard made it impossible for them to see the road. If only they had a map.

Map? Lu Mingfei suddenly recalled the map cheat code that Lu Mingze had given him earlier, and subconsciously murmured, "black sheep wall."

A guiding light, an unseen guidance, arose spontaneously: "Senior Brother Fingel, this way!"

Lu Mingfei thought that if it were the place where his parents and the post-apocalyptic faction lived, there shouldn't be any blizzards. He quickly gave Fingal directions, never considering that blizzards are constantly moving.

After all, this was the first time in Lu Mingfei's life that he had ever seen a blizzard.

(End of this chapter)