"Having the team focus on me didn't give us a lot of mistakes. Later, if he finds prey, the way of attacking will also change, and if he gathers too closely, it will give him a good opportunity to launch an unknown weapon. Next, let the airship also join in the encirclement. Although there is a deviation in accuracy, a wide range of strafing and bombing can also give the enemy a fatal blow. ”

"I'll step up with other plans, and be careful yourself. I don't know the extent of the changes that have taken place since the prey arrived, but it's enough to make us vigilant. Ilr said, and the communication was handed over to Stien.

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Lying in a patch of ice and snow with only his eyes and nose exposed, the cold made Kasia feel very comfortable, and the burning blood was somewhat relieved, but the air exhaled was still extremely dry, and the ice and snow around his nose had melted into water and seeped under his body.

With a faint smoke of steam coming out of his body, Kasia quietly looked at the blinding glow of the sky above the thunderclouds, it was only afternoon, and the roundup had not been around for hours. It felt like time was passing slowly, and he didn't want to move since he was hiding in this ice and snow. His body felt tired, and the pain stimulated his spirit, and he kept his energy vigorous.

Staying here in the volcanic no-man's land for a while, gaining resistance to "germs" only reduces some of the energy damage released by the circular device. This is also the result of the body being stimulated into a scaly state. When she woke up from her dream, Kasia found that her blood had become much more violent, as if she had returned to the time when she had just undergone surgery, and there were many things that she was not comfortable with.

But it wasn't without gains, at least that thick, liquid metal-like blood contained several times more energy than it had in previous periods. Nearly an hour had passed since the scales, but there were still some black scales on their bodies that had not completely disappeared, and they were almost stubbornly glued to their skin, unwilling to return to Kasia's body.

Kasia watched several airships in the sky slowly descend under the thunderclouds, and knew in his heart what the enemy was planning to do. This gave him a long blank time, not only to recover from the damage of the hazy white light, but also to get to the crater next to the summit in a safer and more secure way.

His breathing gradually flattened, and when his heart rate returned to his normal rate, Kasia sat up from the snow and moved her body.

Around the top of the mountain, there are still six airships hovering, receiving information that is constantly being transmitted to them from the inside or surface of the mountain, monitoring the visible area. These airships are equipped with telescope-like devices, and the distance between the two now, if you are careful, there is still a possibility of spotting Kasia in motion.

To do this, Kasia took off a set of enemy clothes and put them on. The ability to auto-mimic allows him to better integrate into his surroundings. From time to time, strong winds would raise a misty snow fog, and it didn't take long for Kasia to advance and he was able to roughly determine the conditions and geographical location of these snow fog formations.

Hiding in the snow and fog near the crater a few kilometers away made him much faster. There were no enemy obstacles along the way, and they were all focused on the sudden breach at this stage, and it must be a while, maybe an hour or two, or maybe a few hours, before the enemy realized that they had made a mistake in their judgment.

His steps grew slower and gentler, and when the light from the far distance changed its angle, Kasia, holding the circular device, was finally able to see the crater in the distance. is an irregular circle, approximately oval in shape. A ring of rocks protrudes from it, covered in deep blue ice, like a calm lake that is sinking into the ground.

The crater was so large that Kasia realized that the peak she had just come over was just a raised outer edge of the crater. The feeling of irritability felt at the foot of the mountain rose to his heart, and he exhaled a hot breath, and Kasia looked at the time, and it was not long before evening came.

Approaching the crater carefully, Kasia slid down one of the outer edges onto the hard ice. A slight tremor in the morning indicates that the volcano is in the stage of awakening. There were some white cracks in the ice, and the broken ice there had melted, revealing small pools of water.

It's not as cold as the mountain peaks, and the wind is mostly blocked by the outer edges, and the snow and fog that kicks up even becomes a blurry cover that blocks the sky above. The temperature around him was a few degrees higher, and the dark color of a field of lava that had been condensed for hundreds of years could be seen under the ice. It's not a wisp of light smoke coming out of the cracks in the ice dust, with a string of sulfur-smelling bubbles.

Kasia walked through mostly hard ice, trying to find a weak spot in the condensed lava. The massive volcano seemed to be on the verge of erupting, but Kasia knew that this was only the first omen, and that it would take weeks or months for him to erupt naturally. And in the current situation, the volcano has remained in this state for several years, which is also very likely to happen. There are not many triggers, and even if enough strength is accumulated, the energy required to break through the blockade and oppression of the volcano itself is extremely huge.

Kasia was looking forward to the volcano under his feet as he wanted it to be, and with a little strong stimulation, he could completely spew out the energy in a very short time.

Finding a weak spot, Kasia picked up the circular device and smashed it down, leaving no chance of the ice being hard or scratching it. After a "thud" sound, a pit two or three meters deep appeared under Kasia's feet, and the snowflake-like white cracks spread out, and soon stopped growing, maintaining a certain size range.

At this time, the "bang" sound of the circular device smashing down also turned into the sound of "ding-" of metals colliding with each other. The ice is very thick, and at a depth of a few meters, its hardness is not much worse than that of ordinary steel. The circular device will only splash fist-sized blocks of ice when it falls, and the depth drop becomes very slow.

Replaced with a musket, and after firing all the bullets, the depth dropped another meter or two. When the scattered ice blocks were removed, the color of the condensed lava beneath the ice became much more transparent, and it was possible to see the curvilinear lines left by time on it. Leaving himself with a small bullet, Kasia used his revolver to break through the increasingly hard ice. The effect was not obvious, the power of the blue silver bullet directly caused the ice to explode, and the scattered cracks made the crystal ice block blurred. Although the bullet got trapped, it was necessary to expand the surrounding area in order to remove the broken ice.

This is very similar to digging a hole, without specialized tools, it can only be deepened layer by layer in a circular trapezoidal fashion. The initial area is actually destined for the final depth. And now at a depth of a few meters, the sky above has also been clipped out of shape. The temperature dropped a lot at once, and there seemed to be cracks in the ice, but in fact, those cracks froze and bonded together in more than ten seconds. Only the color remains,

"Hopefully, it won't be noticed by the enemy. Kasia thought so, fearing that the massive vapor mist he would produce would reveal his current position, but finally drew his pneumatic sword.