Bloodshot completely covered the dwarf's eyeballs, making his pupils look like red-hot iron.
The vision it projected was chaotic and crazy, having lost the last bit of sanity as an intelligent creature.
Mark's heart sank.
"Stellar erosion? Mutation?" This thought was like a poisonous snake on the ice field, wrapping around the heart.
He suppressed the urge to rush out, and his soul perception instantly magnified to the extreme, enveloping the dwarf.
There is no response on a soul level.
There was only a violent and chaotic soul storm, mixed with cold star energy that was rich enough to freeze everything, surging in his body like out-of-control magma.
Any logically clear information was completely torn apart and obliterated by this chaos.
"Crazy...mostly crazy."
Mark withdrew his perception, his back pressed against the icy ice wall, the chill penetrating his bones.
If the dwarves of the Deepforge branch became like this because of something like that...
He bypassed the "Berserker" over there and continued to go deeper inside.
The passage was winding, and the thick fog was mixed with the even more sticky starlight.
After walking only a dozen meters, the tied figure appeared again beside the ice wall in front.
The second dwarf.
It's worse.
He stopped roaring, but just lowered his head and fell into a coma or some deeper state of consciousness.
More than half of his exposed skin was covered with star-blue ice crystals, like a strange and cruel layer of rough frost armor, wrapping around his arms and chest.
Ice crystals were still growing crazily from within, and the flow of stardust inside seemed even more stagnant, as if it was completely transforming part of his flesh and blood into icy stardust minerals.
The third one, the fourth one...
Every ten or so meters, Mark could see one or two dwarves, all of whom were tied to stakes or rocks, and all of them were unconscious or sleeping.
The star-blue ice crystals on their bodies spread like a plague, covering an increasingly larger area and becoming thicker and thicker.
The arms were completely wrapped, forming thick ice crystal arm armor.
Half of the body condensed into irregular star-shaped ice armor that reflected faint light.
The ice crystals seeping out from the inside out have semi-fused their bodies with the surrounding cold ice and rocks, as if they are becoming part of the ice cave landscape.
Mark walked in this corridor formed by the suffering of Enzo's compatriots, and every step he took felt like stepping on the thorns of an icy hell.
He observed silently, his soul sensing every eroded life.
But without exception, the soul fluctuations that were fed back were either a completely dead and silent ice cave, or faint ripples that were fragmented and lost all logical fragments.
These guards, these poor people of the Deep Furnace, have silently stepped into a desperate situation where they are neither alive nor dead.
"Enzo..." Mark's voice was filled with worry. "Your people... I'm afraid..."
He didn't say anything else, but his heart was cold.
The so-called control of the "Heart of the Star Skeleton" by the Deep Furnace branch of the Graybeard Clan as rumored by the churches outside may have been out of control long ago.
This "Heart of Star Skeleton" is most likely to completely transform them into monsters of star skeleton ice crystals!
At the end of the passage, the cave suddenly opens up.
A wall... no, a side...
Mark stopped and looked up, a special scene reflected in his pupils.
A giant blue ice wall that seemed to have risen and spread to the top of the Frostwhisper chasm appeared out of nowhere, completely blocking the way ahead!
It does not seem to be naturally formed. After all, there is no natural ice wall that can be as straight as a real city wall.
The texture of blue ice is deep and distant, like a frozen galaxy.
Its surface is not as smooth as a mirror, but is covered with countless huge rough ice ridges that arch upward like the ribs of ancient monsters, or like countless star ice spears piercing into the abyss!
A huge flow of energy rushed inside it, emitting suffocating pressure and releasing light at the same time!
That magnificent starlight light can make the entire rift valley intoxicated and crazy!
It is from here, from the other side of this insurmountable ice wall that isolates everything, penetrating the thick ice layer like solid matter, diffusing, seeping, and shining out!
It illuminated Mark's shocked face, and also illuminated the cruel cave in front of him that was filled with dwarves corroded by star crystals!
Mark almost subconsciously took a few steps closer to the giant wall, and the strong starlight magic hit him in the face, cold and heavy, with an unquestionable sense of order.
He stretched out his hand, and through the air, his soul sense pierced the giant wall without reservation.
Buzz——!
It was as if he had hit an invisible barrier built purely of ultimate order!
Perception was violently annihilated!
To be more precise, it was absorbed and dissolved in the mighty force that was as vast as the sea of stars, yet as cold as ten-thousand-year-old black ice.
Not to mention detecting the situation on the other side, he couldn't even "taste" the shallow starlight structure on the surface of the ice wall.
"The heart of the star is inside?" Mark stared at the ice wall that was insurmountable but indicated the location of the core. All the clues finally converged here!
"Has the 'Heart of the Star Remains' lost control? Has the Deep Furnace branch truly been completely destroyed? The Black Anvil, the darkness, the Star-Moon Church's plot... The key to everything seems to lie behind this wall!"
It seems like I’m the only one here now!
Suppressed excitement mixed with a biting chill rolled in his heart.
Must...go over there!
Xiao Mu seemed to feel his resolute will, and let out a worried and trembling cry in his arms.
Hmm!
Ice wall! Is there no way out?
Mark's eyes were fixed on the giant blue wall that was frozen like ten thousand years of black ice.
The majestic star energy squeezed every inch of the space like an invisible tide, and also squeezed his anxious heart.
A feeling told him that behind this wall was the core of the Star Heart, the source of all conspiracies and disasters. As a priest, he must go in!
Yet, deeper inside, the last bit of clarity in his mind was screaming.
Turn around! Go find Monica!
Only her identification skills can analyze this damn thing!
But his hands were already moving uncontrollably.
The "colorful black light" originating from a mysterious existence gathered in his palm, and special magic power instantly flowed through the ancient cross necklace that had been with him for a long time.
The metal twisted, stretched, and shaped in the light, and with a heart-pounding sharp scream, it turned into a cross ice pick with a strange shape and colorful dark light flowing all over it!
The tip of the pickaxe flashed a black that was deeper and more dangerous than the surrounding starlight, as if it could cut through all illusions and obstacles.
Mark took a deep breath, his muscles tensed, and magic power and arm strength instantly poured into his arms.
"Open it for me!!!"
A low roar exploded in the silent ice cave, and the cross ice pick slammed into the deep blue ice with a sharp scream that tore through the air!
clang--!!!
Amid the deafening sound of metal clashing, dazzling ice chips and colorful sparks flew out!
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