An invincible journey starting from a different race

"What else do you think!" Stank shouted, "Don't touch him! He just touched those snow women and that's why he's like this. Damn it, this must be a curse, right? If you touch these snow women, your body will be cursed to become an uncontrollable rushing person?"

Aesop nodded and said, "That's what it looks like at the moment."

At this time, two more snow girls rushed towards Aesop. Aesop set up a magic barrier again, causing these snow girls to crash directly into the barrier.

But for some reason, the magic barrier, which should have been indestructible, was actually cracked by the collision of the snow girls.

Aesop unconsciously revealed a surprised expression: "How could this happen?"

Upon hearing this, Klim and Stank's expressions turned even darker. They had rarely, if ever, seen Aesop display such ignorance in this area of magic. It felt like an experienced, highly skilled doctor examining you, then rolling his glasses and saying in surprise, "I've never seen anything like that before."

"No, why is this happening?" Aesop frowned slightly. "It doesn't make sense."

Aesop fell into deep thought.

And when Aesop fell into deep thought, Stank was in trouble.

Unlike Aesop, who still had the power of the curse, the Snow Maidens, while no longer as fearful as before, were still wary. Therefore, unless they were incredibly close, they generally didn't want to attack Aesop. And since Kolim could fly, even if he soared into the sky, no Snow Maiden could catch him. In this case, the only person who would be attacked was Stank, whose hand was trapped.

"Damn it!" Stank's face changed slightly as he watched the snow maidens rushing towards him. He immediately used his remaining free hand to draw the sword from his waist, then pointed at the snow maidens in front of him and threatened, "If you take another step forward, I won't be polite. I will really kill you, I will really do it! If you don't want to die, don't move forward!"

But these Snow Girls showed no fear at all, or rather, they seemed to have completely lost their will and didn't know what fear meant. So when faced with Stank's verbal threats, they acted as if they hadn't heard them and continued to charge towards Stank with their teeth bared and claws bared.

"Damn it, you're really not afraid of death, right?"

Stank originally wanted to swing the sword directly, but even at this time he still couldn't bear it, so he put the sword back into the hilt, and then pulled it out with the hilt, and used the hilt to hit these snow girls.

With Stank's excellent swordsmanship, the snow girls had no way to get close to him easily and were basically knocked down at the first encounter.

On the other side, Aesop was hiding in his magic barrier, thinking hard about something. The snow maidens gnawed at his barrier, creating a lot of cracks, but they were unable to break it for the time being.

Kolim, who was in mid-air, could do nothing but look at the two sides anxiously, praying in his heart that the two could hold on.

But there was no way out. The number of Snow Maidens was simply too great, and Stank, using the hilt of his sword, could only briefly knock them unconscious. Once they regained consciousness, they would rush at Stank again. Aesop, on the other hand, had not strengthened his magic barrier. As the cracks grew, forming a spiderweb-like pattern, gaps naturally appeared. It was only a matter of time before it was breached.

In the end, Stank reached his limit first. Even though he was one of the best swordsmen in the world, he was unable to withstand the attack as he only had one hand and had no way to kill the snow girls.

His sword was knocked away, and he could only watch the snow girls rushing over.

But at this moment, Aesop suddenly realized.

He stood up suddenly and shouted, "I understand."

At this time, Stank had been pounced on by the snow girls. He struggled and yelled at Aesop: "Asshole! What do you understand?"

Aesop turned to look at Stank, but he had no intention of saving him. Instead, he said seriously, "We are not in reality."

"What did you say?"

"I mean, we're not in reality." Aesop looked at the snow maidens climbing out of the gap in his magic barrier and said softly, "We're already in the illusion created by the Snow Lord."

Kolim, who was in mid-air, was also stunned when he heard this: "What are you talking about, Aesop? How can we not be in reality? Isn't this reality?"

"In reality, the Snow Maidens would never be able to break through my magic barrier with brute force alone," Aesop said. "They can only do this within the consciousness of the Snow Lords, within their environment. And they're not Snow Maidens, they're the Snow Lords... all of them."

But Lim was about to slap the word "confused" on his face, with an expression that said, "I still don't understand."

"To prove my guess, I only need a very simple method." Aesop took out the magical conch from his pocket. "If this is really just the environment of the Snow Lord, then I should be able to reproduce Miss Huang's power here."

Before Lim could understand the logic behind this, he saw Aesop slam the magic conch in his hand to the ground.

"Psychic art!"

A magic circle unfolded in the snow, and red flames instantly burned in this pure white world.

Aesop shouted loudly.

"Come out, my Phoenix!"

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The art of spiritualism?

What is this?

But Lim once again fell into a state of confusion, wondering "What is this?" and "What is this again?", but this time the confusion did not last long, because the momentum created by Aesop was too huge. The red flames continuously gushed out from the magic circle, melting the thousand-year-old snow around it into warm water in an instant.

The snow maidens were similarly affected. Seeing the blazing flames, their bodies softened like the surrounding snow. Stank, who was on the verge of collapse from the snow maidens' attack, was also liberated. He quickly pushed the snow maidens away and looked towards Aesop. Although he had prepared himself mentally, he couldn't help but widen his eyes at the change before him.

The flames summoned by Aesop gathered above their heads and eventually formed a phoenix with flames all over its body.

The phoenix roared towards the sky, and the cry made the dying snow girls lying on the ground twitch all over, and their bodies quickly became transparent, as if they would disappear in the next second.

Is that... Phoenix?

It was the first time for Kelim and Stank to see the complete posture of the "Phoenix". Its magnificent posture made them marvel at it, and at the same time, they unconsciously added a layer of admiration for Aesop in their hearts.

Good man, is this the thing you opened deep underground?!

So strong, too strong, I, Stank (Klim), am willing to call you the strongest!

But soon, Stank and Klim realized that their understanding was slightly wrong.

"Is this Miss Huang?" Kelimu stared blankly at the magnificent phoenix, not knowing what expression to show. He could only force out an extremely awkward smile, "Huang, Miss Huang, hello, I'm Kelimu, a friend of Aesop..."

But the "Phoenix" didn't even look at Kelim, as if it had ignored his existence, which made Kelim very discouraged.

Aesop heard what Klim said, glanced at him, and explained: "This is not a phoenix. I can't summon the phoenix's true form here."

"Ah?" Kelim was puzzled. "Why?"

Aesop also raised his head, looking at the flaming phoenix above him, and said, "Because the phoenix is a mythical creature, summoning or communicating with it requires immense power and a very complete magic array. And that's only theoretical; no one has ever attempted it. Furthermore, mythical creatures themselves possess extremely destructive power, which is a disaster to some extent. Otherwise, the phoenix wouldn't have stayed underground all this time. Even if I could really communicate with her, you would be the first to suffer, not this Snowfield Lord."

It turned out to be like this...

Kelim nodded, seemingly understanding. Stank on the other side asked, "Is this what the underground phoenix originally looked like?"

"Of course not." Aesop shook his head and explained seriously, "To be precise, this is what the Snow Lord imagined when he felt the power of the phoenix. Because we are in an illusion created by him, this illusion represents his thoughts. He has never seen a phoenix, so when he sensed such powerful power, he naturally imagined the phoenix as a mythical creature."

Having said this, Aesop paused again, as if he was not satisfied with his explanation, so he added.

"Of course, this could indeed be the Phoenix's mythical form, because I haven't seen what the Phoenix's mythical form looks like yet." Aesop said seriously, "My understanding of the Phoenix only stays at 84, 61, and 90..."

"Alright, alright, you don't need to emphasize this point again." Stank stopped Aesop from veering off into something strange. Then, looking at the corpses of the snowwolves scattered around him, he asked, "What's going on here? What did you mean by saying we were all in the Snow Lord's illusion?"

Before Aesop could answer, all the snow maidens immediately emitted a little light, and then slowly gathered towards one point.

They gathered on the ice surface that trapped Stank's right hand, and finally condensed into a beautiful girl with long light blue hair and closed eyes in the ice.

"This is……"

Stank and Klim both opened their mouths at the same time, shocked by the scene before them.

"This is the Snowfield Lord." Aesop's voice was very soft, as if he was afraid to disturb the other party's sleep. "His name is Ling."

"how do you know?"

"My guess."

"What the hell..."

"But I have a well-founded guess," Aesop said, "This is His sea of consciousness, the depths of His soul."

“What does that have to do with Him being called a spirit?”

"It doesn't matter." Aesop said, "I just want to call it that."

Stank: "..."

"Our bodies should also be trapped." Aesop continued, "It's very likely that we are frozen like those cursed people in the first stage. As for when we were infected, it should be when we first encountered the evil wind."

Stank was very surprised: "When did we encounter the evil wind?"

"That's the problem," Aesop said, looking at Stank. "We've been in the snowfield for so long, but we haven't encountered the evil wind the locals talk about once. Does that make sense?"

After hearing what Aesop said, Kelimu also realized something: "You say that, it seems to be true. I thought we were lucky that we have never encountered such a thing."

"No, we just encountered it." Aesop shook his head and said, "Then I was cursed instantly. I didn't have any chance to resist, and I didn't even realize I was under the spell... This is a mythical creature. Of course, it's also because we didn't take precautions in advance. This is different from when we were in the volcano. Back then, we knew that the fire dragon's blood could resist the curse to a certain extent, and we also used the angel's blessing of Klim."

"Then why did Kolim also get infected?"

Aesop glanced at Kolim and said, "Perhaps because Ling's curse is different from Huang's curse, Ling is more inclined to invade the mind, so Kolim's antibodies are useless? Of course, this is just my guess."

Although it sounded reasonable, Stank was still reluctant to believe it: "Anyway, this is too weird."

Aesop turned to look at Stank, and then said, "There is a more direct evidence."

"what?"

Aesop directly opened the backpack in his hand. Stank and Klim looked at it subconsciously, and then they were shocked to find that the bulging backpack was actually empty.

And inside it, Amanda should have been hibernating.

"What's going on?!" Stank asked. "Where's Amanda?"

"She was sleeping in the backpack the whole time, so she wasn't affected by the demonic wind. Naturally, she wasn't like us and didn't enter this sea of consciousness," Aesop said. "This is the most direct evidence."

At this point, Stank couldn't refute it anymore: "So what should we do now? We're frozen in time, so we can only rely on others to save us, right?"

"That's true in theory, but we've already found the body of her sea of consciousness," Aesop said, pointing at the spirit in the ice. "So all we need to do is attack her and wake her up."

"...to wake someone who's most likely been asleep for a thousand years?" Stank asked. "How do you do that?"

Aesop looked up at Ling, then looked down at his fingers.

Then, he bent his fingers slightly and made a... hooking motion.

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Klim and Stank stared blankly at Aesop's fingers.

"If I understand correctly..." Kelimu swallowed the saliva stuck in his throat and stammered, "You want to use that, right?"

"You understood it correctly." Aesop praised Klim directly. "It seems that we have the same idea."

"Ghost, you're thinking the same thing! What other meaning could that weird hand gesture have?!" Ke Lim was a little upset, maybe he could remove the word "somewhat" and said, "Can you be a little more normal? What kind of weird method are you trying to use to awaken a mythical creature?"

Aesop looked at Klim and said, "Do you know why humans, despite being a short-lived species with racial traits far inferior to those of orcs, have become one of the most powerful races in the world?"

"Why, why?"

Aesop replied, "Because humans are never afraid. Or rather, even if they are afraid, they will not retreat. Since ancient times, humans have believed in one truth."

"What, what's the reason?"

Aesop hooked his finger again and replied, "A mortal body can kill a god."

"...Can you please stop making such obscene gestures when you're preaching?" Kelimu said, "And you're using humanity's glorious history in a place like this. I'm not moved at all, you bastard!"

"Really?" Aesop scratched his head. "I was thinking of writing this sentence in my Aesop's Fables. Since there's been no response, I'll just forget it."

"...Can you please stop thinking about those weird things at this time and figure out how we can be saved? I mean the normal way!"

"This is the normal method." Aesop once again took his stance. "Earlier, White Wolf used four fingers to awaken Miss Molly's sanity. Now all I have to do is repeat what he did before."

After hearing what Aesop said, Kelimu couldn't help but be stunned.

Yes, he almost forgot that someone had done this before and succeeded.

When he thought about it, Lime felt very complicated.

What kind of world am I living in? Goddess, do you hear my prayers? The mortal world is too terrible, please let me return to heaven!

After complaining bitterly in his heart, Kelimu still made way for Aesop: "Then you give it a try."

A world of grass might just need a grassy solution like Aesop's.

But Lim was a little numb.

Aesop nodded, then walked to the ice that froze Ling's body and slowly took up his stance.

That action was exactly the same as the one White Wolf used to defeat Molly some time ago.

Seeing this scene, Klim and Stank subconsciously held their breath.

Coming? Coming?