"Wow, what a beautiful Crystal Palace!" Luo Fan exclaimed.
Inside a spacious cave, icicles stand tall, creating a spectacular sight.
Along the way, thanks to Luo Fan's overwhelming aura, he didn't encounter any small Karamis who dared to cause trouble. However, Luo Fan had already sensed that a big guy was hiding here, probably because he hadn't confirmed his strength and hadn't launched an attack yet.
"Brother Fan, there are some powerful auras around us. Should we go back?" Xiaoxue looked around and said with some worry.
"It's alright, we'll take down that big guy and then retreat!" Instantly, Luo Fan unleashed his full aura, and several large crabs scurried out, disappearing along the ice pillar to who knows where.
And that big guy also rushed out and launched an attack.
"What a huge crab! It would be incredibly delicious if grilled!" Looking at the crab, which was the size of a bison, Luo Fan rushed forward.
“A level 45 elite, it’s a good time to test your current strength. Xue’er, don’t make a move.”
"Okay, Brother Fan."
The slime battled the crystal crab, with only Yuki acting as a temporary spectator.
Transformed into a mud figure and wielding a sharp blade, Luo Fan directly shattered the opponent's bubble, sending countless ice shards flying like rain. Many ice pillars were affected and destroyed.
Taking advantage of the momentum, Luo Fan leaped forward, avoiding its large pincers, and jumped onto its back, stabbing it fiercely.
With a bang, the outer shell blocked the damage.
"Damn, that's tough!" He slashed at the crab's eyes, but several icicles suddenly appeared around him and pierced through. Luo Fan experienced the power of the icicles, but he couldn't penetrate its skin.
He followed the changing shape of the icicles and slashed his dagger fiercely at the crab's eyes, but a large amount of ice suddenly appeared in front of the crab, blocking the attack.
"This is getting interesting." Suddenly splitting into two, Luo Fan chose to attack its lower body while continuing to attract the giant crab's attention from above.
As soon as the weapon pierced its rear, the giant crab, along with itself and the surrounding space, froze instantly. Then, an ice explosion followed, with ice crystals shooting out in all directions.
Luo Fan's clone was thrown onto the ice above and bounced back. The giant crab waved its large pincers and clamped down on him.
"Brother Fan, be careful," Xiaoxue warned, having added a ring of ice shields around them.
"I'm fine, you think you can pinch me like this?" The clones below continued to attack the crab's soft spots, and Luo Fan even saw icy blue blood flowing out.
The clone in mid-air split in two the instant the pincers closed, and rushed towards the joint along the pincers.
The immense tearing sensation caused the giant crab to slam into the ground, trying to drive Luo Fan away, but the pain only intensified. It turned out that Luo Fan, disregarding martial ethics, had pulled out his half-meter-long blade, which, with each impact, became deeply embedded in the crab's body.
Unable to bear the pain, the giant crab thrashed its eight legs, frantically crashing into the ice block beside it, spewing out large amounts of icy breath.
After crashing into a huge ice wall, the giant crab chose to freeze itself completely.
"Brother Fan, are you alright?" Xiaoxue called out as she looked at the huge block of ice in front of her.
"It's alright. This guy is quite clever; if it weren't for my high ice resistance, I would have been tricked by it."
After some effort, Luo Fan took out the crab's crystal core and handed it to Xiao Xue. The pale blue crystal core, about the size of a quail egg, looked much prettier than ordinary low-level magic cores, and its ice element was also more solid.
"This environment is indeed not suitable for me to perform well." After removing the crab's two large claws and putting them into his ring, Luo Fan began to search the surrounding environment and found several frozen ice crystals.
"This ice wall feels rather abrupt." Looking at the ice wall that already had several cracks, Luo Fan and Xiao Xue worked together and smashed it to pieces.
It turned out to be a cave. Where does it lead?
After walking only a few steps, the cave was frozen solid by ice, and completely blocked.
"Xiaoxue, go and see if there are any treasures inside." With such thick ice, Luo Fan could only probe to a limited depth.
"It's full of ice," Xiaoxue said as she explored, before stopping her inner monologue a moment later.
"Found something good?"
"Hmm, very strong ice element, deep inside." Xiaoxue gestured, looking very eager.
"Then dig it out! Watch me transform into an ice drill and make a hole. Xue'er, take out the ice shards I broke."
"Um."
Thus, an ice hole the size of a fist slowly formed, and Luo Fan, like an earthworm, extended into the hole.
Outside the ice cave.
Daisy has finally completed her advancement and is taking advantage of the little time she has left to comprehend magic, for which she has even taken out a few magic crystals.
The others stood guard to the side, protecting Tifa while also killing some of the attacking monsters. Tifa was even injured. Fortunately, Ries helped heal her, preventing any major damage.
A few minutes later, Daisy opened her eyes. "Huh, where's Xue?"
"She went inside with Luo Fan and hasn't come back yet. The tide has come in again, so we need to wait a while before we can go out," Ellie explained the situation.
"How long have they been inside?" Daisy had a bad feeling.
"It's been a while now. Don't worry, things have been calm for so long, there shouldn't be any major problems."
"Oh~" Daisy was still a little worried, and then Ellie received an alert from Lovan.
"Get out of here! A cold wave is hitting! Don't worry about us, run as far away as possible!"
Ellie paused for a moment, then noticed rustling sounds coming from inside the cave; several magical beasts were attacking.
Just as they were about to ask for the reason, Luo Fan's consciousness had already left the clone on this side.
"The monsters are rampaging, we have to get out!" Ellie gathered everyone together and solemnly reminded them.
"Huh?" Several martial artists glanced at the cave entrance, their voices growing louder as a number of magical beasts charged toward them.
"But the outside is all seawater. If we open it, seawater will rush in!" the guild member warned.
"Why don't we just kill those monsters? I don't recall there being many monsters here," the man next to him added, taking out a weapon.
"No, we have to get out of here immediately. Cecilia, prepare to break the ice, it's very dangerous inside!" Since Luo Fan warned like that, something serious must have happened.
"OK!"
As soon as they opened the cave and seawater rushed in, the monsters charged straight into the sea, completely ignoring the people around them.
“Let’s go out too, something must have happened inside!” Ellie continued to reiterate, and Daisy also ordered two guards to assist. Despite the pressure of the seawater rushing in, the group swam up the ladder towards the sea.
The staff who remained above also noticed the crowd below and quickly offered assistance.
Soon, everyone climbed up. But not long after, the sharp-eyed Tifa noticed that the spot where they had come from was beginning to freeze over, and the ice was rapidly spreading upwards towards the water.
While everyone was drying themselves, half of the seawater below began to freeze, and the process was quite rapid.
"Ellie, what exactly happened inside?" Daisy asked curiously. She must have received a notification, otherwise she wouldn't have acted so decisively.
The others were also shaken; if they had actually killed the monsters inside, they'd probably be frozen solid by now. The two from the guild, in particular, finally realized that Anna's warning was indeed true.
Following Ellie and her group, something really bad can happen!
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