Accompanying Sagina and the others to Ice Blade City is just a stopover, and our real mission here is to find the old Imperial Commander Odmusius who is gradually recovering. In fact, according to common sense, as an officer, Odemtius should take the initiative to report to his emperor after waking up, instead of us personally answering it, but I am also idle and bored, and I always have to find something to do when the home planet facilities are running automatically, and Odemtius is not fully recovered now, he can't leave the Arctic Sheet for the time being, in order to start the next work as soon as possible, I naturally don't mind coming to run in person - of course, the main reason is ...... I'm idle, what does it hurt.

We've left Ice Blade City and are standing on the inaccessible gravel wilderness a dozen kilometers away from the city, Aurelia and Alaya have been lifted from invisibility, the former "looking" in the direction of the ice field, listening intently. The cold wind from the ice field made her wings and hair flutter slightly. This is located on the border, has not entered the ice field, and there are layers of mountains to block, the power of the cold wind has weakened a lot, it can be said that the far north is the last relatively "warm" place, and then over a strange pressure zone called the "storm wall" is the territory of the storm giants, the great ice field of the north that is difficult for mortals to set foot in, Odemtius's signal is coming from that direction, in Aurelia's words, the signal is very unstable, it seems to be ...... Hit hard.

"I can only determine the approximate location, I'm afraid he hasn't reassembled all his information yet," Aurelia finally stopped "listening", and her tone was three points puzzled, "I don't know what went wrong with the Dao, he seems to have been seriously injured, I watched him sink into a dormant state, and all the commanders were in good condition at that time...... The problem must have been in the tens of thousands of years that followed, during my slumber. ”

"Go find him, no matter how you get hurt, heal it first," I said slowly, looking at a silvery-white line at the end of the sky. Then he turned his head to look at the two half-dragon girls who were following him, "I heard that after crossing the storm wall, the temperature will drop to a level that is incomprehensible to mortals, do you still want to follow?" ”

Sagina hesitated, and her smooth scaly tail swayed involuntarily because of her mood, but she accidentally touched a cold stone on the ground, and suddenly burst into a bullet, and said with a bitter face: "But I don't want to give up halfway." If you go back to the City of Angels like this, you are worried about being blamed by Lord Ryujin. ”

No, that soft dragon god was born to be blamed, and you don't have to worry about it at all—but I still didn't say it, I just glanced at Sona, and the other party made up his mind. After whispering two words of prayer, his body was covered with a pale golden halo: "Let's go, if you can't even stand this low temperature, you don't need to think about the revival of the half-dragon people-Sakina, don't be bitter, don't really become Miss Jiao just because you don't have to worry about food and clothing these days." ”

"Not really!" Sakina's tail straightened suddenly, and then she shielded herself in the same way.

After a short space teleportation, we made our way to the borderline and stopped at a strange spectacle: the Storm Wall, the legendary Storm Giant's ordeal and barrier for mortals.

The Storm Wall is an endless curtain of twisted air. Dividing the ice field and the outside into two worlds, beyond this layer of distorted air, the ice and snow field was close to everyone in front of them, and looked at the barrier in front of him that could not see the thickness, and carefully touched it: "Eh, it looks like a layer of water." ”

"It's a barrier fixed to you with an eternal spell," Aurelia saw the essence of the thing at a glance, "This magic has a singular function, which is to block air flow and heat exchange. If there is no it. I'm afraid that all the humans here will be swallowed by the cold wind, and Odmusius must have subconsciously created this in his sleeping state. The Storm Giant incarnate who imprisoned himself...... By the way, this magic is actually invisible, and this distorted light curtain is just a marking layer covering the outside of the magic array, and its purpose is to allow mortals to see where the cordon of the barrier is, so as to prevent anyone from accidentally breaking in. ”

I nodded as if I understood, and stepped forward.

Feel...... It was as if it had crossed a layer of soft, undulating water, with almost no obstacles, and the distorted air had no protective effect, only to weaken the cold air coming from the ice field. After stepping over this barrier, I felt as if I had suddenly arrived in another world, and I was greeted by a biting cold wind that was not found on the other side of the barrier.

The temperature seems to have dropped by more than ten degrees all of a sudden, the hard frozen soil under my feet, the cold wind in front of me, just a layer of air barrier that seems to not exist, but the two sides are diametrically opposed two worlds, although a few people present will not care about this temperature change, but I still subconsciously rubbed my hands: "Wow, I know what this place is called the forbidden area of life." ”

"It's so cold!!" Despite the protection of the dragon god power, Sagina still jumped on the spot, exclaimed in a low voice, and then looked at her tail distressedly, "I feel that my tail is frozen hard, how good it would be if there were clothes for my tail......"

"I heard that the Goodale royal family is the only mortal race that lives behind this storm wall," Lin Xue said, "They are blessed by the storm giants, they can ignore the cold wind here, the deeper they go to the ice field, the lower the temperature, the more violent the storm, the more powerful the Goldall royal family is, according to their strength and status, the more core members live closer to the storm giant's throne - I am strange, the more I listen, the more I feel that this race is wrong, can withstand the strange low temperature of minus 100 degrees in the depths of the ice field, not to mention for the time being, what do they eat in this place?" ”

"Maybe ......" Shallow suddenly pointed to a whirlwind not far ahead, "They don't have to eat......"

The whirlwind was blowing, faster and faster, no one noticed when the gust appeared, but it didn't seem to be a natural product, our attention was drawn to it, and then we watched it sweep through the ice chips and snow on the nearby ground, gradually forming a vague human form in the core, and after a few seconds, the whirlwind gradually stopped, and a crystal clear humanoid "ice sculpture" made of broken ice and snowflakes appeared in front of us, and we could vaguely distinguish that it was a sturdy male.

"You are the honorable ones mentioned by God."

From within the body of the Ice Sculpture came the sound of crystals sloshing and shaking, and the strange creature took off his hat and saluted us - but he didn't have a hat, so he broke off half of his head and held it on his chest in place of a hat, "Please follow me, the incarnation of the god is waiting not far ahead." ”

Aurelia nodded at me, signaling that she had also received a communication from Odemsius. The strange ice sculpture in front of me was the messenger sent by the latter: this messenger was really quite non-mainstream.

"You're a Gudel?" Lin Xue looked at the other party curiously, and her eyes couldn't help but dangle on the half of the skull on the latter's chest, "What, press your head back first, look at the strange diaphragm." ”

"Yes," the crystal clear Iceman snapped, mending his head, "I'm sorry. The Goodale people have never been accustomed to the manners and behavior of physical beings, and we rely on rigid illusions or puppets when we appear in the outside world, and you are the first strangers to see us for what we really are. ”

"It's an elemental creature...... Well, I seem to understand what is going on in these states of the Northlands, they have been ruled by a group of elemental creatures for a long time, and it seems that Odemtius has a lot to explain to us. Lin Xue patted her head. Following the clattering Iceman, we looked at each other and followed.

The Goodale who led the way for us walked very fast, and as he went, he dropped ice slag down, and he didn't go far before he was left with a big crotch, and then the other party apologized to us, and summoned a small whirlwind again, drawing crystal ice chips from the nearby ice and frozen soil to repair his legs, and explained as he repaired: "The Goodale people are good at the strength of ice, snow and storms. But we weren't very accustomed to movement, and if it weren't for the fact that we had to maintain control over the mortal states outside the barrier, we wouldn't even be half a step out of the barrier...... Okay, let's talk as we go. ”

We followed behind the strange elemental creature and asked as we watched him drop the ice slag, "By the way, what's your name?" ”

"Goodall, we're all called Goodall." Iceman said with a clatter.

"You maintain a loose kingdom outside this barrier...... Is this also what Storm Giant means? Lin Xue asked curiously, then pointed to the body of the Icecrusher and reminded, "What's that." Your right hand has fallen off. ”

"Oh. Oh, it doesn't matter. Does not affect - Storm Giant? That's what the people outside really call our gods, and it's true that he ordered us to establish order outside the barrier, but that's just to maintain one thing, maintaining it requires resources from the outside world, the Gudals themselves are not very good at this, all along, we have used the more intelligent beasts outside the ice fields to do this work, and then mortals came to the ice fields, and the gods taught us knowledge, established order, and collected tributes with the help of mortal hands. ”

I couldn't help but think of the legend I had heard about the Goldell before: this simple and powerful race established a loose country on the borders of the ice fields, and the demands on the city-states were all kinds of strange tributes, and they maintained this situation with the power of the Storm Giants, but no one knew what they wanted these tributes for: after all, the Storm Giants were just elemental beings, and elemental beings did not need material tribute, and the Gudel people in front of them seemed to be revealing the secret.

I don't know if it's my instinct, but I became interested in their peculiar behavior: "What are you maintaining? ”

The Icecrusher paused, was silent for a few seconds, and then said, "A seal can only tell you so much, and only God himself knows the truth. ”

The other party didn't seem to mean to continue to explain, and I didn't bother to ask: anyway, that Odemtheus was almost fully awakened, and the other party would definitely tell us everything.

We advanced in the ice field for about half an hour, and the further we went, the stronger the cold wind became, and the air began to flutter with snowflakes - mixed with ice particles in between, and the temperature had dropped to minus 100 degrees, maybe even lower, this temperature was obviously not the low temperature that the planet could naturally produce, and there was only one explanation, we were approaching the strength range of the storm giant. And just after turning a small cliff, a vault-shaped frozen building suddenly appeared in front of everyone.

If this is the palace of the "royal family" of Goodall, it is too ...... It's a little shabby.

The vaulted building is only a few tens of meters in circumference, and is shaped somewhat like an Eskimo igloo, but larger and a little flatter – the second feature is supposed to be to protect against howling winds. Around this igloo, we don't see any other man-made traces, not even a second Goodall, everything is so rudimentary and abrupt. There was a big gap between what I had expected, but the iceman who led the way pointed to the gate of the igloo in front of him: "God is inside, please come in." ”

Lin Xue stuck out her tongue at me: "How much more can you ask for something made by elemental creatures?" Then we stepped into the igloo, and we followed, followed by Sagina and Sona, who were almost unable to open their eyes.

The igloo was as rudimentary as expected, in fact the building had no structure other than the shell, and the only thing in sight was a set of crystal clear tables and chairs in the center of the room. On the table was a two-foot-square crystal cube projecting a blurry image.

As soon as Shajina entered, she ran to the corner of the house, took out a few pieces of charcoal, and prepared to make a fire: there was finally no cold wind here, and she and Sona were finally able to warm up a little.

"Odumseus? How did you become like this? Aurelia looked in amazement at the crystal cube on the table in the center of the room, and everyone was amazed.

"Huh? Is this really Odemseus? I was utterly amazed, pointing to the crystal on the table. Isn't this a projection device? ”

"Due to some unexpected circumstances, my subordinates can only maintain a very low-intensity activity for the time being," a rich and powerful baritone suddenly came out of the crystal square, "I'm very sorry, my subordinates couldn't go to the City of Angels to report in the first place." His subordinates have learned everything from Aurelia and salute you, Your Majesty the Emperor, as well as Lord Fanna and Lord Regi. It's a pleasure to see you again. ”

"Well, hello," I said embarrassedly, it seemed rude to say that the other party was a projector just now, but since the other party already knew most of the situation, it saved a lot of trouble in communication, at least there was no need to introduce yourself, "I heard Aurelia say that I sensed that something was wrong with you, and now it seems that ...... It's worse than expected. What about your body? ”

"Don't worry. The subordinate's body will soon be repaired, and now it is only to minimize the disturbance of the seal. Subordinates are keeping the system running and can't transfer too much force to the outside of the system. ”

"Seals? System? I suddenly felt as if there were a lot of things that the other party didn't know about, and even Aurelia probably didn't know about it, "What do you mean?" ”

"Seal, the seal of the heart of the world, the heart of the world of the capital universe is kept in the extreme north region," Odmutius's voice immediately sounded, "This is a secret mission, originally only three people knew the Dao, His Majesty the Emperor, Lord Regi, and his subordinates ......"

"Now you are the only one who knows the Tao, me and Sister Chen Qian...... That is, your first emperor has lost the memory of the past," Lin Xue said as she pulled me to the table and sat down, and then jumped up again, "Wow! It's so cool! Is this really made of ice? ”

“…… Goodell is an incomplete creation, and he is an elemental being, and they don't know much about races other than themselves," Oldmesius' voice sounded awkward, "The subordinates have just woken up, and they feel incredible that they have maintained the same state of civilization as they did tens of thousands of years ago. ”

"Tens of thousands of years ago?" I keenly noticed one word, "That is, before you hibernated, these Goodalls were born?" ”

"They were created by their subordinates, and this is also part of the secret mission," Odemseus said slowly, "responsible for hiding the heart of the world, as long as the heart of the world does not leave this world before the situation stabilizes, the mission is complete." ”

The Heart of the World...... The Heart of the World...... These four words echoed in my head, and then suddenly, four more words jumped into my mind like lightning: Fallen Apostle!

So far, the only thing I can think of that is connected to the heart of the world and related to the empire is the fallen apostles, only they will continue to collect the heart of the world world, and only they are planning to use the heart of the world world to accomplish their ulterior "great cause", but I have calculated a lot, and I did not expect to hear such news in this world world, in this world world that is completely isolated from the fallen apostles, this ...... Logically doesn't make sense!

This world is like a snapshot, preserving the situation on the eve of the fall of the empire, for this universe that is still closed, the fallen apostles are completely unknown, Odemtius could not know that his compatriots would become fallen apostles, let alone that he must one day protect the heart of the world from the hands of those fallen apostles, so what is his secret mission......

With a movement in my heart, I looked at Lin Xue.

"This is an extremely secret confessed by Lord Regi before the mother planet sleeps, and the specific reason is not clear to her subordinates, but she has made it clear that she wants to avoid a dark future, and must not let the heart of the world fall into the hands of any possible enemy."

"And the current state of the subordinates is to complete this task."

Odemtheus added.

I quickly calmed myself down and organized what Odemseus had told me, obviously, he knew very little, because the prophet could not tell anyone what he saw, but one thing was certain: on the eve of the separation of the concept of the home planet, the chief prophet of the Fifteen Days Zone, that is, Lin Xue's previous life "Regi", had already seen the birth of the Fallen Apostle—and it was possible that she was not sure about the situation of the Fallen Apostle, But she at least knew that the Heart of the World would be used for a dark and dangerous scheme, so she informed her Emperor and secretly gave Odemtius an extremely secret task to hide the Heart of the World - and there was a remarkable detail: Odemtius's mission was so secret that even the other Apostles of Hiling had to be kept secret, even Aurelia didn't know about it!

In other words, regardless of whether or not the cause of the fallen apostles of the Dao was known, at least at that time, Reki had sensed that her own people would no longer be credible......