Chapter 200: Hildur's Boundary Breakthrough (Two in One)

A silver fork was inserted into a crab spider that was fried to a golden and crispy texture, with steaming juice oozing out.

Gray raised her fork tremblingly and looked at the fried crab spider in her hand, with cold sweat on her forehead.

"It's your turn to test the poison, Gray!" Ye Zhi even used his gifted 'leadership temperament' to encourage her, "Come on, one at a time!"

Gray laughed dryly.

The creepy image of a crab spider crawling out of a lake filled with poisonous algae flashed through my mind.

Suddenly, Gray felt her scalp tingling, her hands were a little out of control, and her whole body resisted this exotic delicacy.

"Ah, I suddenly remembered that I have something else to do... Um, um!"

Ye Zhi didn't give Grey a chance to react. He snatched the fork from her hand and fed it into her mouth himself.

Gray's eyes widened, a look of horror on her fair face. She covered her mouth with her slender hands and was unable to speak.

One bite and your mouth is full of juice.

Gray shuddered all over, closed her eyes and chewed resignedly, then opened her eyes in a daze.

"Hmm?"

Gray tilted her head and chewed the fried food in her mouth with a look of surprise on her face.

It's actually quite delicious?! Ye Zhi observed Gray's interesting expression and asked, "How does it taste?"

Gray's throat rolled as she swallowed the fried food. Her expression was still a little complicated as she whispered:

“The taste is similar to fried chicken nuggets…”

"Gu~"

A snowy owl flapped its wings and flew over, landing on the stone stove. It folded its wings, leaned over and picked up a fried crab spider, then squinted its eyes in satisfaction.

"This is just the appetizer. The main course is this crab spider meat fries with ketchup."

On the table, the French fries were beautifully presented and smelled tempting.

Ye Zhi introduced: "It tastes similar to crab meat and has the effect of enhancing poison spells. It can strengthen your poison dragon breath spell."

Compared with the appetizer, this dish seemed much more normal, at least its appearance was within Grey's acceptable range.

Following Yeats's suggestion, Grey picked up a crab spider meat fry with her hands, dipped it in ketchup, took a bite, and was stunned.

The taste is sweet and delicious, and the strands of crab spider leg meat are almost similar to the crab leg meat of the king crab. It also has a strange herbal fragrance, which may be related to the fact that it has been immersed in the algae lake for many years.

If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, Gray wouldn't have believed that the meat was taken from the terrifying giant spider that fought fiercely with the snow leopard last night!

And as Yeats said.

Gray could sense that her control over Dragon's Breath: Poison had become more handy.

Behind this improvement, there is no doubt that Ye Zhi, the food chef, made great contributions!

In troubled times, every bit of strength is extremely precious. After traveling with Yeats for so long, Grey gradually realized that it would be somewhat ignorant to refuse the food cooked by Yeats with his gourmet skills just because of personal likes and dislikes.

Just treat the food made by Yeats as a magic potion... Gray thought... Just grit your teeth and take it in the future! What's more,

Magic potions, how can they be as delicious as the food made by Yeats? Looking at Yeats with a teasing look in his eyes, Gray's cheeks gradually turned red, and she cleared her throat and said:

"Okay, I'm sure this dish is edible, as for the taste."

Gray stammered, "It's surprisingly delicious..."

Yeats smiled as he had expected.

This is the nature of human beings!

Clan walked into the hall and looked at Ye Zhi who was sitting next to the long dining table. He smiled and said, "Mr. Ye Zhi, Mr. Anthony from the Adventurer's Guild just came to visit. I have good news to share with you!"

Yeats invited Cran to have breakfast with him and talk slowly, and he gladly agreed.

After sitting down, Cran looked at the plate and was stunned: "This dish is..."

"Fried crab spiders." Yeats smiled. "Mr. Crane, would you like to try some?"

Crane was confused.

Crab spider? That kind of thing can actually be eaten? Immediately, Cran remembered the scene of Yeats cooking sea clams, and said suddenly: "I almost forgot that you are also an excellent gourmet chef!"

It is really because Baron Yeats' other halos are too dazzling, overshadowing his talent in food.

Of course, compared with the achievements in art and animal training.

Cran felt that eating was probably Yeats's most insignificant ability.

Ye Zhi smiled and nodded, saying, "Would you like to try it?"

Clan tasted it generously and was immediately amazed.

"They can actually cook crab spiders into such a delicious dish... Let me guess, the oil they use is not olive oil, but more like high-quality marine oil?"

The vast ocean is home to countless ferocious sea beasts, but it also contains precious wealth.

The Fisherman's Illustrated Book by the Fisherman Saint records many strange and bizarre sea beasts, as well as their characteristics and values.

The fat of the giant whale king is not only an extraordinary material for high-ring potions, but also a precious cooking oil. Just a little bit can make food taste even better.

Cran speculated that Yeats used precious marine oil to make the fried crab spiders taste so delicious.

"almost."

Ye Zhi passed it over and immediately asked, "What exactly is the good news you just mentioned?"

Clan briefly summarized Anthony's remarks, saying that this senior member from the Adventurer's Guild would personally pay a reward of 3,000 gold coins on the condition that Ye Zhi's deeds of hunting down the witch would be publicized as a positive case.

When Yeats heard this number, he was shocked by Anthony's wealth.

Three thousand gold coins? Teacher Candela couldn't come up with that much liquid funds in one go.

This old thing is quite good at getting gold coins!

"In fact, this reward comes entirely from Anthony's personal will," Crane said. "He believes that promoting your example will help establish the justice he upholds... Although, I don't understand what he means by justice."

Yeats couldn't help but think of the story of Zigong redeeming someone.

After Zigong redeemed slaves from other countries, he refused compensation from the state, which led to his criticism by Confucius. Confucius believed that accepting compensation would not damage one's character, but if one did not accept compensation, no one would redeem their fellow countrymen who had died.

According to Yeats' understanding, if we encourage people to do good without asking for anything in return, then fewer and fewer people will do good.

The three thousand gold coins given by Anthony were certainly a huge sum of money, but if it could encourage more adventurers to hunt down demons, it would undoubtedly be in line with what he called "justice."

Although he had never met Anthony, Ye Zhi felt a sense of identification with this old man from the Adventurer's Guild.

In this operation of hunting down the witch, Clan made a lot of efforts. After all, he was a real four-ring transcendent, but he said that the profits could be split 30% and 70%.

In summary, Ye Zhi obtained a total of more than 2,000 gold coins, which, including the reward for hunting the wyvern, was enough to buy another space bag for Gray to take with him.

Ye Zhi planned to fill Gray's space bag with recovery potions and poisons that he prepared himself, as well as the magic scrolls drawn by Snow Owl... highlighting teamwork.

After all, Gray is the strongest "main C card" under his current command.

Ye Zhi secretly thought that if she went to Gray's hometown someday, she might be able to "break through the boundaries" in the storyline of [Dragon Country]! According to the plot of the game, Xilude should be experiencing her personal main storyline now, and Ye Zhi did not intend to interfere.

"The next time we meet, it will be Jie Xilude."

Ye Zhi thought to himself, "Maybe I can bring back a legendary weapon, the Sword in the Tree, to the territory!"

…

Beijun Kingdom, ruins of the ancient royal city.

The wind howled, and the snow-covered cliffs were full of broken walls and pillars. The cold wind blew like the horn of a hero, and through the ruins in the snow, one could still get a glimpse of the majestic beauty of the North Sea Empire's royal city.

In the ruins of a collapsed palace, beneath a sheltered stone wall, a faint campfire flickered in the strong wind.

The Yalong man stretched out his hands, warmed himself by the fire, exhaled a puff of white mist, followed a huge root exposed on the ground nearby, and looked at the huge ancient tree on the high slope outside the city.

Ancient tree of Asgard.

A towering tree that has gone through thousands of years of wind and frost. Legend has it that its history is even older than the first human king.

Compared to the name given to it by the Red-Haired King, which was the legendary kingdom of God "Asgard", people prefer to call it the "Little World Tree".

The former royal city was built on ancient trees. People admired the greatness of the ancient trees and praised the eternal immortality of the empire.

When the royal city fell, a raging fire ignited in the ice and snow, and all the glory disappeared with the dust. Only the ancient trees witnessed the rise and fall of history.

Even though the rebel army set the royal city on fire, they did not attack the ancient tree. After the royal capital was moved to Oslo by the sea, only desolation and heaviness remained here.

Please...collect 6...9...books...!

The Argonian Sora frowned and his eyes flickered.

Since arriving in the North, the two have had difficulty moving forward.

As a claimant to the throne of the North, Hilde has too many enemies: the current King Harrag, the ambitious Duke of Snakebone in the southern islands of Northshire, and a large number of orcs in the northern tribes who hate the Red-haired King and his descendants.

During this trip to the ruins of the royal city, Hildreth killed a four-ring orc assassin who was accompanying him, and followed the clues to wipe out an underground organization of Dark Night believers, alarming the elders of the Assassin's League who took action.

Hildre had anticipated this and acted separately from Sora, agreeing to meet at the ruins of the royal capital.

Sora found out later.

This elder was a foxman from the Isu tribe, known for his swift movements. As a five-ring warrior, he was skilled in using dual swords. He once put Hildreth to death. Hildreth managed to escape with the blessing of the Black Knight.

Although he has temporarily avoided the elder, it is still unknown when he will find this place.

The solution to this impasse lies within these ruins.

Sora gazed at the towering ancient trees and recalled the legend about the Red-haired King and the sword in the tree.

Lord Hild is favored by fate...

Although most of the time, this bloodline brings more curses! "It's been almost three days, and there is still no news from Lord Xilude, and the short message spell has not received any response at all."

Sora suppressed his anxiety and murmured:

"Well, I have to believe that she will not die here before marrying Baron Yeats..."

*Ancient tree of Asgard.

The trunks of the trees soar into the clouds, their canopies block out the sun, and their leaves shine with divine light, forming a barrier that flows with rune light.

Within the barrier.

The nameless divine realm unfolds.

This is a huge square with a rune stone standing in the center.

Surrounding the square is a desolate ancient battlefield by the sea, with waves washing away the broken swords lying in rows.

Clang! Clang! Clang! The fierce sound of swords clashing continued to echo, and the sword skills collided violently like a rainstorm, and the air was torn into turbulence by the sharp blades.

The Valkyrie wore an eagle helmet, her red hair fluttering in the wind, her blood-red cape rustling, and suddenly thrust out a sword amidst the flashes of swords and sabers! A ragged one-eyed old man wearing an eye patch and a hat stood in front of Hildurde, staring calmly at the stabbing sword with his one eye.

The pupils under Hildreth's helmet suddenly shrank, and the familiar murderous intent locked onto him once again.

The sword skills that seemed to transcend cause and effect cut off all possibilities of dodge!

However, over the past ten days, Hildreth was either fighting with swords or sitting on the cold sword hill recalling his sword skills.

In this divine realm, even if one dies, one will immediately recover as before.

Therefore, Hildreth kept trying various strategies to defeat the one-eyed old man.

Every move of the one-eyed old man can be traced.

Hild even memorized the strategies for dealing with each sword, whether it was dodging, parrying, or rolling.

Even the fatal sword of the one-eyed old man, Hild had memorized the method to break it!

She leaped into the air and performed a sword dance as beautiful as flowing water. Her sword skills intertwined into an impenetrable sword net, weakening the old man's deadly sword power.

Clang! The sword in Hildreth's hand broke in the middle, and the flying sword made a sharp sound, while the old man's sword went straight for Hildreth's throat!

The fear of death once again enveloped Hildreth.

Suddenly, before her eyes, there flashed a picture of a silver-haired boy roaring and throwing a spear under a sky full of lightning and thunder.

She suddenly tightened her hand holding the broken sword, and with her sword skills that defied common sense and were beyond belief, she blocked and broke the sword's momentum, and was the first to cut the old man! Wow! The violent cyclone gradually subsided.

The figure of the one-eyed old man has turned into mist and dissipated.

Hildreda was soaked in sweat.

She took off her helmet, revealing her scarred face. She closed half of her eyes, wiped the sweat that had trickled down to her chin, and murmured uncertainly, "Did I pass...?"

Hildreth found this trial site following the guidance of the Black Knight.

However, even the Black Knight was not clear about which god the divinity of this trial ground belonged to.

After entering the trial ground, Hildreth touched the rune stone standing in the center of the huge square. Then, the nameless one-eyed old man appeared in an avatar and challenged her to a duel.

Caught off guard, Hildreth was killed instantly, then resurrected outside the square, and the old man's figure also disappeared.

Only then did Hildreth realize that death was not the biggest difficulty in this trial.

How to find the only way to defeat the nameless old man in the constant death... This is the key to passing the level! In the constant quantitative change, Xilude completed the qualitative change and successfully killed the old man, but he did not get any feedback.

At this time.

A majestic and powerful declaration echoed in the square.

"I am the king of kings."

"A great achievement that would impress even God!"

The sky was filled with thick fog.

The figure of the nameless old man appeared again.

Beneath his mount, the black mist gathered into an eight-legged horse.

The one-eyed old man rode on the divine horse, holding a giant sword with flaming flames in both hands!

Compared to the skinny old man just now, the old man on the divine horse now showed a tremendous deterrence that despised the gods! Hildreth looked solemn.

There is actually a second trial? This gatekeeper made of nameless divinity, like a god, is full of oppression and stops in the center of the square.

However, Xilude had never heard of such a one-eyed old man among the current gods!

Hildre recalled a figure, and was filled with doubts.

"Why does this figure look a bit like... the King of the Wild Hunt?"

(End of this chapter)