"It failed..."
Isa, the captain of the Ice Flower team, had her silver hair covered in dust, her forehead cut by a piece of gravel, and blood was flowing from the wound. A look of regret appeared on her face.
She shouldn't have pushed herself to the twelfth floor just because Leah had passed the ninth floor, trying to widen the gap further.
Now, the heavily armored warrior is seriously injured, the healer's magic is exhausted, and the mage has fallen into a coma.
We had no choice but to give up.
The Ice Flower Adventure Team will never allow any more members to die.
After much deliberation, Isa finally made up her mind and, with a determined look, gave the order to her team: "Everyone retreat! Use [Return Scroll]!"
Return scrolls can force adventurers to return from a secret realm, but these scrolls are extremely expensive, comparable to a complete set of magical equipment.
The biggest drawback of the Ice Flower Adventure Team is the poor quality of their equipment. The reason for this is that, at Isa's request, each member must have a [Return Scroll].
Since Isa couldn't get a healer like Linda who could help the team stay unharmed, she took a different approach and ensured that everyone had a return scroll.
Just as she was about to inject her battle qi into the scroll and leave the twelfth floor, suddenly, the sensor ladybug No. 3, which was tied to the bag on her thigh, started buzzing and flapping its wings, scratching her skin painfully.
The ladybug with the sensor emitted a golden light.
"Golden advice? Is Leah mocking me?"
Isa’s face darkened, and she unconsciously tightened her grip on the ladybug, almost squeezing it until it burst.
The suggestions are divided into ordinary suggestions and golden suggestions. Ordinary suggestions will not cause the ladybugs to react, and if the team members do not watch them in time, ordinary suggestions will just pass by like flowing water.
Unlike golden advice, which requires the sacrifice of a high-level magic core, this advice will cause the ladybug to vibrate and release golden light, thus alerting the adventurer that someone has given golden advice.
Isa turned the sensor ladybug over and looked at its belly:
[An ordinary adventurer: In the center of the armored tortoise-snake's shell, there is a dark-colored plate. Attack that area with your 'ultimate attack'.]
Who is this unremarkable adventurer?
Did they attack the armored tortoise's shell, deliberately setting her up to die?
Isabella's eyebrows furrowed, and she looked somewhat angry.
The carapace was the monster's strongest defensive part; it was difficult to even penetrate its head, let alone its carapace.
This person even specifically asked her to use a 'killer move' that consumes a lot of magic power to attack, making it hard not to suspect that the other party had malicious intentions.
Sparrow District, at the entrance of the Adventurers' Guild.
"Mr. Linda, are you serious? You'd use a level 20 magic core just for that one sentence?"
Jeban, the blond, short man who was part of the Ice Flower Adventure Team's support staff, said with incomprehension.
Linda nodded, "Give me another level 20 magic core."
Jeban hesitated for a moment, but after thinking about Isa's evaluation of Linda, he gritted his teeth and took one out of his bag.
If this former Snow Goose Adventurer's healer can help Ice Flower conquer the twelfth floor, let alone one level 20 magic core, even twenty would be worth it for Jeban.
The quail egg-sized, fiery red, gem-like magic core was placed by Linda in the groove of the stone platform.
Then, a flash of light appeared, and the sacrifice was successfully made to the World Tree Goddess.
Linda's 'golden advice' can be summed up in just one sentence.
"Captain Isa, it's me, Linda."
If Isha's appreciation for him when they met in the Secret Realm Plaza wasn't just superficial, she should have trusted him.
As for why he lent a helping hand, Linda didn't have a specific reason. He was happy to do so if it was a small favor that could save a young girl's life.
On the crystal screen, the ladybug in Isa's hand emitted golden light once again. Isa glanced at the words on the ladybug's belly, rested her chin on her hand, and looked thoughtful.
A moment later, Isa made her decision.
She bit off the cork of a bottle of purple medicine with her teeth, swallowed it in large gulps, and instantly, her depleted fighting spirit surged.
"A binge-eating potion? Are you really that desperate?"
Linda raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised. Gluttony Potion is a potion that can instantly restore a user's fighting spirit and magic power. It is expensive and has significant side effects, causing the user excruciating pain after a period of time. It is usually used as a last resort.
Linda hadn't expected that a girl she'd only met a few times, someone she wasn't even a casual friend of, would listen to her advice so readily.
On the crystal screen, Isa was seen bending over like a swift snow leopard, her long silver hair and the ice crystal longsword in her hand drawing a graceful arc.
Like a blade dancer, the girl dodged the rock fragments thrown by the armored tortoise-snake, and with a powerful leap, she jumped straight onto the tortoise-snake's back.
The series of movements were fluid and seamless, leaving the many onlookers dumbfounded.
Linda silently thought that she was no less than Lia, that genius swordsman. Isa was indeed extraordinary to lead the Ice Flower to the twelfth floor.
After Isa leaped onto the shell of the armored tortoise-snake, she soared into the air again, performing a magnificent 360-degree somersault, like an ice wheel suspended high in the sky.
The silver-haired female swordsman took a deep breath, and her icy fighting spirit surged into her one-handed sword. White frost spread throughout the cave, as if a thick fog had risen.
"Ice Blade Waltz!"
With a sharp shout, Isa unleashed the Ice Swordsman's level 20 ultimate skill!
Da da da!
A barrage of diamond-shaped ice spikes rained down, fiercely piercing the center of the armored tortoise-snake shell, where a dark-colored scale, the size of a bucket, was located.
The members of Ice Flower, as well as the people outside the Adventurers' Guild, couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
If this attack fails, Isa will likely be struck by the armored tortoise-snake's massive tail.
The impact was enough to seriously injure Isa, or even kill her!
Compared to the crowd whose hearts were in their throats, Linda remained completely calm.
The weakness of the armored tortoise-snake was no secret among players in the previous life.
In this real-world secret continent, few adventure teams attempt to forcefully attack the shell. Even if someone knows about this weakness, they keep it a secret or sell it at a high price.
At least among the adventure teams in White Dove City, no one knows the secret of the Armored Tortoise-Snake.
The ice spikes slammed into the armor plate one after another, and the armored tortoise-snake on the crystal screen suddenly let out a miserable scream, painfully thrashing its heavy limbs.
Smoke and dust billowed inside the cave, and the ground shook.
The central plate of this monster turtle's shell was surprisingly fragile. Once the first plate was destroyed, the entire shell collapsed one after another, like a sandcastle.
Isa herself was shocked by how well it worked, her mouth agape in astonishment.
The Ice Flower team members finally came to their senses, and one by one, they went from being disheartened to being full of fighting spirit, as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
"Slay this monster!"
"Captain Isa, we're here to help you!"
"Healer, quickly cast a healing spell on the captain!"
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