Ark Journey

"...I shouldn't be here."

In the early morning, at the edge of the mobile city, only a few people came to see Xue Zhi off.

The heavy snow continued and the sky was extremely dark, but everyone was in a good mood.

"Safe travels."

"rest assured."

Before leaving, Xue Zhi suddenly turned to Tallulah and said:

"Draco, may your flames burn away all the injustice in the world."

Chapter 1: Killing and Loathing

The bright sunlight of winter shines on the white snow, reflecting an even brighter glow.

In a clearing in the forest that was obviously man-made, broken limbs and damaged organs were piled all over the ground, and a large amount of blood was slowly dyeing the pure white blood red.

There are large areas of fallen trees all around, as if a huge invisible object is standing there.

"I'll spare your lives. Go back and tell your superiors that I'm going to the north to take a look."

Xue Zhi transformed himself back into a white-armored wanderer and sheathed Fu Sang. Behind him was a scene that looked like hell.

The surviving Ursus elite in front of him had a look of horror on their faces. There were no weak men serving in such a place. However, within the first minute of the encounter, only a few of them were left in a platoon.

An elite Ursus soldier clenched his still trembling teeth and uttered a low curse.

"You devil!"

"I am not a Sarkaz, and the Sarkaz would not like other races to call them that."

After putting away the knife, Xue Zhi looked much less ferocious. An invisible hand searched the corpse and soon found a photo of him.

Then he ignored the people in front of him and started watching.

It was a photo taken from the bottom up. The young man standing high in the sky was emitting a soft light all over his body, looking down at the creatures below like a god.

"It looks quite similar, but the angle is not very good, and the recognition is too low. I remember giving you a few photos that can be seen, why don't you use them?"

As he said this, he took out a frontal photo of himself and threw it in front of the Ursus soldiers.

"Take this back, so that you won't fail to recognize me in the future. Also, call more people over, otherwise I can't guarantee what I can do."

Those people clenched their fists. This behavior was a great shame for every soldier.

After throwing the photo down, Xue Zhi continued walking north without looking back, leaving behind a group of dispirited Ursus soldiers lying in the snow.

It is now the seventh day since we left the Integration Movement. We don’t know our exact location, but we are heading north.

It was already early winter, and the extreme cold unique to high-latitude regions had begun to spread. After walking for such a long time, the only large living creatures they encountered were the Ursus army.

In the past few days, he defeated several nearby squadrons, 11 small high-speed warships and 1 ship whose level he didn't know, but it was as big as the one destroyed before.

Judging from the speed and quality of the new batch of people arriving, his plan had basically been achieved.

It’s a pity that no large targets appeared, otherwise the loss of one ship would be enough to divert the Ursus army’s attention to him.

Walking on the thick snow, a clear trace continues to extend backwards.

There is no vegetation here anymore, let alone animals that rely on plants for survival. There is only endless white snow, and the vastness of the field of vision is so frightening.

"This is?"

Just as Xue Zhi was strolling on the snowy plain, a premonition suddenly came to her mind, mixed with some inexplicable disgust.

He stopped, looked around, and finally walked in one direction.

"It should be this side. Why do I feel disgusted? Could it be a demon? That doesn't make sense. Although this side is close to the north, it's not that far away, right? Damn, if a demon really infiltrates, it will be very funny."

He left Alpha to Alina. What he was going to do was too dangerous, and it was not suitable for him to take it with him. Otherwise, if he let it out now, he could see what was happening ahead.

As the feeling in her heart became more and more severe, Xue Zhi gradually quickened her pace, and finally even flew close to the ground.

Just after taking off, a group of people happened to appear in front, and the leader recognized Xue Zhi at a glance.

"attack!"

Without hesitation, the opponent immediately launched an attack.

In an instant, colorful spell effects and crossbow arrows flashing with cold light came towards him.

Xue Zhi, who had no time to play with them, narrowed her eyes.

"roll."

He exhaled and started to shout, and a violent storm mixed with solid ice swept in.

The storm mixed with magical power blew away all incoming attacks.

As soon as the person on the other side closed his eyes, Xue Zhi's figure quickly disappeared into the distance.

"Sokka!"

I don't know who cursed, but when he opened his eyes, everything was silent.

"team leader?"

No one responded. When he turned his head, he saw that everyone except him had been wrapped in a large piece of transparent ice.

Xue Zhi continued to increase his speed while maintaining low altitude flight. He had a clear premonition that there would be something interesting ahead.

Then the flight lasted for a day and a night.

Xue Zhi even encountered several small high-speed warships along the way.

Xue Zhi, who was still flying at high speed, muttered to herself as she looked at the unchanging scenery ahead.

"No, buddy, so far?"

If it weren't for the premonition and the nausea that kept growing stronger, Xue Zhi would even feel like she was flying in the wrong direction.

Suddenly, a low explosion sounded from the ground, accompanied by bursts of foul smell, which immediately perked him up.

After crossing a low hill, an indescribable object caught Xue Zhi's eyes.

"What is this..."

Chapter 2: Demon

What Xue Zhi saw was two inhuman creatures fighting each other.

One was an inner guard he had seen before, and the other was a bit disgusting.

An irregular black mass of flesh, as high as five meters, was stuck to the snow-white ground. Sticky and dirty black liquid splashed everywhere with its every movement. The dazzling sunlight shining on it reflected an uncomfortable greasy texture.

Behind it was a dark trail that stretched northward to the horizon.

Countless normal or severely mutated human limbs, animal claws, thick or thin tentacles, and eyes and mouths of various sizes occupied every space on this mass of flesh.

The dark pupils in their eyes kept shaking, greedily observing everything here, and some of them had locked onto Xue Zhi.

Each of its mouths was constantly opening and closing, and occasionally tentacles would extend from them to try to lick everything around them.

All of this makes the already weird thing seem even more evil.

A large amount of black rays and unknown liquid suddenly sprayed out from a corner. For a moment, this mass of black flesh was like a fountain, preventing the guards from approaching.

Zizi!

The white snow melted the moment it touched those things, black marks spread in the blink of an eye, and then the sound of the earth being corroded was heard here.

Xue Zhi's disgust reached its peak at this moment, and thin black lines began to appear on his exposed hands.

However, he remained calm enough to analyze the current situation and did not notice anything unusual in his body.

"The evil demon, the monster with a thousand hands and a hundred eyes, is really true."

The inner guard who was forced to retreat rushed forward again. He avoided the tentacles that were entangled with him, and then cut off a large piece of meat from the evil demon's body with a knife, and then immediately retreated.

Roar!

A hoarse roar sounded instantly, the loose snow was stirred up and left the ground, and the invisible air was compressed by the roar into visible shock waves.

Black juice dripped, and the demon that had lost a small part of its limbs became more aggressive.

It raised its fleshy mountain-like body and rushed towards the inner guards like a tidal wave.

The earth continued to tremble, and an inexplicable stench began to spread, drifting in all directions with the strong wind.

A hibernating snow mouse was awakened by the vibration, and the moment it crawled out of the snow pile, it began to move away from the mountain of meat.

However, a slender tentacle pierced it like lightning and then brought it to its owner.

It was the piece of meat that fell to the ground. It trembled a few times on the ground and then regained its vitality. A large number of tiny tentacles stretched out to support its body and attacked nearby living things.

The mouse squeaked as it was stuffed into the lump of meat, and then there was no sound. A few seconds later, a tumor that vaguely looked like half a mouse head appeared on the surface of the meat.

Xue Zhi, who had been observing, showed a thoughtful look. He felt that this evil demon was different from what he had imagined. It was a little too close to a living thing, rather than a dead thing that had no thoughts and only knew how to kill.

"Predation? Or simply attacking living things?"

Just as he was thinking, the evil demon crashed into the inner guard. Its huge body split open a big mouth like a mouth, and all the arm-like things on its body stretched forward, trying to swallow the inner guard.

The crack was extremely dark, as if even the sun couldn't shine in. However, one could still vaguely see the dancing tentacles and the irregular but extremely sharp fangs.

A clear sound of broken bones was heard, and a slender black arm, no different from that of an ordinary person, hit the arm of the internal guard holding the knife. The sound came from here.

Then all kinds of attacks hit every corner of the inner guard's body, and each blow of the evil demon had the power to crush a huge rock.

The inner guard took a big step back in pain, then half-knelt on the ground with severe injuries, but he still held the scimitar tightly in his hand without letting it go, even though his arm was twisted into an abnormal angle.

He had failed to defend against all the attacks in the close fight just now, and now his poor physical condition and the inability of his main arm to exert force in the short term made it almost impossible for him to deal with the evil demon.

[The late emperor, please forgive my incompetence...]

Realizing that he is powerless, the inner guards prepare to initiate the last resort and start the country's mutual destruction!

However, Xue Zhi, who was watching from the sidelines, saw that the inner guards were unable to defeat him and took action.

Although he had some grudges with Ursus, it didn't matter when facing the evil demon.

Xue Zhi jumped between the two and swung her knife to cut off the body of the evil demon that suddenly enlarged in front of her.

A strong, foul-smelling gust of wind blew in my face. Sharp teeth, eyes, tentacles, and limbs of living creatures were randomly thrown on the black flesh like a baby's building blocks.

The blade caught fire, and the yellow flame quickly turned black, as if it had hit a ball of tough rubber. The strange feeling from the knife made him frown.

But the evil demon's tough body still couldn't stop Fu Sang, and a smooth cut burning with black flames appeared where Xue Zhi passed.

A large piece of flesh and blood fell with juice spurting out, and under the burning black flames, it flapped back and forth like a fish out of water.

The flames like maggots on the tarsal bones quickly burned the fallen body of the evil demon. In just a few seconds, not even ashes were left of this blasphemous thing.

Thick and solid ice rose from the ground, trapping the evil demon tightly with its jagged edges.

Xue Zhi had already noticed the changes in himself. When he swung the knife just now, he found that his entire hand and the flames on the knife had turned black, and there were golden threads wrapped around them.

But now was not the time to dwell on these things, and his intuition did not warn him that these would do him any harm.

After a moment's thought, he concluded that this was a situation where part of his true form had been revealed.

As for why, it may be that the existence of evil spirits is too chaotic, causing the void life that tends to be orderly to react spontaneously.

The evil demon was struggling, but the ice, which was infused with a large amount of order and water and earth magic, was extremely hard. Apart from squeezing out more filthy liquid and extending its tentacles, it could not move at all.

Various magical effects began to appear around Xue Zhi. After finally encountering the evil demon, he had to test the damage of the spell.

Thus, the cage made of solid ice became an experimental field, with spells such as fire, lightning, and wind blades used one after another. All the spells that Xue Zhi could use were used.

Every time he attacked, he would try to infuse his body's strength into it to cause greater damage.

The sound of explosions echoed throughout the snowfield. The demon's huge body became smaller and smaller under the continuous bombardment of spells, and the various components of its body that were originally full of energy also stopped.

"About 42 seconds. Without a fight, I don't know what level this evil demon is."

Xue Zhi estimated the time and gave her evaluation, then threw a small white ball to annihilate the remaining body of the evil demon.

After a flash of white light, all that was left of the evil demon that was wreaking havoc just now was the sticky black slime on the ground.

Chapter 3: Skyflowers and the North