"The juice of the three-tailed flower can be used to mix the inscription potion for drawing the ice magic circle. After the petals are ground into powder, they can be used as the casting trigger of the 'Frost Ray' to increase the power of the spell..."
Laverne took out a textbook, compared the knowledge points on it, and buried his head in his small notebook to take notes.
"Well, it's a fairly mild ingredient for potions... and it's also a favorite food for some ice-attributed herbivorous monsters..."
Ash listened to Laverne's words, and for some reason, he suddenly thought of the Snowstorm Rabbit, a small monster that they would use in their elective class today. It had not been delivered yet, which delayed their class.
"Does the Snowstorm Rabbit like to eat Tripterygium wilfordii, too?" he asked.
"Let me see." Laverne flipped the pages, his eyes moving quickly between the lines of printed text.
"I like it." A voice came from behind them, with a smile, "Three-tailed flower is one of the favorite foods of the snow rabbit."
Recognizing the owner of the voice, Ash stood up and turned around: "Teacher Dagmar."
The old man in front of him with gray hair and a friendly smile was the teacher of Ash's elective course.
"I'm sorry, I just passed by you and happened to overhear your conversation." He said, "I've been a teacher for so long that I just answered out of habit."
He walked closer and looked down at the small patch of three-tailed flowers. "In fact, when the snow rabbit is delivered later and we start the class, we will also use the three-tailed flowers. To catch a snow rabbit that appears and disappears mysteriously in the snow, the three-tailed flowers are the best bait."
He narrowed his eyes slightly, and a subtle smile appeared on the corner of his lips: "When the three-tailed flower is combined with the cyan flower juice, it will produce a unique scent that is fatally attractive to the storm rabbit."
It was actually a normal smile, as kind and gentle as usual. But...
Ash frowned. At this moment, he felt a sense of disharmony and strangeness from Teacher Dagmar.
I couldn't tell why, but I suddenly felt something was wrong.
Maybe it was because he was always on the alert for unknown dangers, so he found everything suspicious. This explanation did not stop Ash from quietly carrying Laverne and approaching Quentin.
Dagmar didn't seem to notice Ash's little move. He looked up into the distance and sighed, "According to the time, the Snowstorm Rabbit should have arrived. Fortunately, the time is not much different. Our teaching task today is--"
He tilted his head and smiled at Ash, "-how to capture a magical creature can be accomplished successfully."
Ash's heart tightened. Something was wrong! It was really wrong!
His body moved faster than his consciousness, and he jumped to Quentin's side holding Laverne: "Quentin! Be alert!" he said decisively.
As his voice fell, a scream was heard from afar.
The cry echoed across the undulating snowfield, like a source that spread rapidly in all directions. The noise and clamor rose and fell, forming a line and rapidly advancing in their direction.
Accompanying the noisy voices was a dull and deafening rumble.
The ground seemed to tremble at the sound.
"What is that?!" Laverne lay in Ash's arms, turned her head and looked in the direction of the sound, her eyes widened in disbelief, "Snowstorm?"
——From the sky to the snowfield, everything in sight was white, blurring the horizon and the scenery that was visible before. It was like a huge and thick white curtain, covering the entire space.
And with a momentum of driving straight in, it approached them rapidly.
This was a sudden snowstorm that came without any warning. It was not a disaster, but it was extremely troublesome.
Ash immediately took out the alchemy tool that Nance gave him and successfully activated it, covering himself, Laverne, and Quentin with a defensive shield. He was not sure if there would be other dangers in the blizzard, so he could only take precautions in advance.
At the same time, his eyes fell on Dagmar who was nearby.
It can be concluded that there is really something wrong with this teacher.
This raging storm should have been caused by him and the forces behind him!
Dagmar looked at him with a smile: "Did you notice that? You are such a perceptive child." He spread his hands and said, "There are too many rabbits, and it is really troublesome to transport them. So we have to be late for a while. But as I said just now, the time difference is not much, and we can complete our teaching content successfully. Ash, you have to pay attention and listen carefully."
Rabbit... Blizzard Rabbit... Blizzard...
Amid the approaching rumbling noise, Ash recalled the textbook's introduction to the Snowstorm Rabbit: a dual-element ice and wind monster, weak individually, belonging to the bottom of the food chain in the snowfield. But when they gather in groups and are in special environments, they will cause a qualitative change from quantitative change, setting off a snowstorm disaster. The strength of the disaster depends on the number of them.
Because of this characteristic, there is a tradition of hunting rabbits in the North. Storm rabbits have a strong reproductive capacity and can easily breed a large family of rabbits, posing a potential disaster risk. Therefore, people in the North, including ordinary people, will regularly patrol the activity range of storm rabbits. Once they find that the number of members of a rabbit family exceeds the limit, they will ruthlessly kill the rabbits and reduce them to a safe number.
Ash's thoughts turned in just a moment, and the fragmented clues quickly strung together into a line in his mind.
The Snow Demon's Lair has abundant ice and wind magic elements, which fully meets the requirements of the so-called special environment.
This snowstorm was actually caused by a group of rabbits?
How many rabbits would that be? How could we ensure that they would not run away but gather together to move around?
…
It's the juice of the three-tailed flower and the cyanosis flower!
Somewhere in this area, there must be a large sea of three-tailed flowers that have been tampered with! The scent of the sea of flowers will attract the rabbits and make them all run in that direction! Thus, a storm is set off!
"He is indeed a smart child." Dagmar saw Ash's eyes fall on Sanweihua beside him, and knew that Ash had guessed it, "But children are more likable when they are a little stupid."
After he finished speaking, he stepped back with a smile until he merged with the snowstorm sweeping behind him and could no longer be seen.
Ash and the other two, hiding under a solid shield, were also caught in the overwhelming blizzard, and their vision was filled with a turbid and chaotic white.
"That old guy did it, didn't he?" Quentin asked Ash, his hands folded, "Why didn't you order me to kill him?"
Because this situation could not have been created by Dagmar alone, he must have his companions here.
Since the blizzard was not a danger to the three of them, the real danger must have not yet arrived.
Waiting and seeing what happens is the best option.
However, Ash did not give him this analysis. Instead, he said something very realistic: "You may not be able to beat him."
These words were quite hurtful. Quentin's face darkened and he despised himself a thousand times for taking the initiative to talk to Ash.
"Ash, what should we do now?" Laverne took the initiative to jump out of Ash's arms and nervously pulled Ash's sleeve.
They seemed to be trapped on an isolated island, surrounded by a white haze, and could hear nothing except the sharp whistling of the cold wind. For a moment, they had the illusion that they were the only ones left here.
A feeling of loneliness and fear arises spontaneously.
"There are teachers..." Ash tried to comfort Laverne.
Laverne gritted his teeth and interrupted him: "Are teachers reliable?"
Ash paused, he knew Laverne was thinking of Dagmar just now.
He opened his mouth, but was unable to assure Laverne that the other teachers were reliable - even he himself couldn't help but wonder if there was another teacher involved in this incident.
How did they collect the snow rabbits? How did they transport them to the royal city? How did they hide it from the academy? How many forces were involved?
What is the ultimate purpose of creating such a big snowstorm?
Questions popped up in his mind one after another, but soon he had no time to think about them.
The source of the blizzard - a large group of storm rabbits ran all the way, broke through layers of obstacles, and finally arrived here.
An adult snow rabbit is only the size of a small dog. It is fluffy, soft, and has a cute appearance. It looks like it can be rubbed easily - this refers to the rabbit in its normal form.
The rabbits that appeared in the snowstorm were driven crazy by the juice of the three-tailed flower and the cyanosis flower.
Staring with a pair of bloodshot eyes, they rushed around in the storm.
They soon crashed into the magic shields of Ash and the other two.
"Bang bang bang bang"——
The snow-white balls were like hard stones, or stones enchanted with the ability to break defenses, and they kept hitting the shield.
One or two would be fine, but they were trapped in the vast sea of rabbits and their shields were crumbling.
"We can't go on like this." Ash frowned, "We are blocking their path." He realized that he was afraid that the tampered sea of flowers was somewhere behind them.
Just now I was just watching the situation, but now that I have judged the situation, it is natural for me to take action.
"Let's go to the left." He thought about the terrain nearby and made a decision. We have to avoid the path that the rabbit army must pass through.
But the rabbits were too dense, and with a shield around them, they could hardly move forward.
"Quentin, you come with me to lead the way." Ash said, and then raised his hand to touch Laverne's hair, and earnestly reminded, "Laverne, you follow behind us, follow closely, and don't be distracted, can you do it?"
Laverne's eyes widened, "You're not coming with me?"
"He can't do it alone." Ash pointed at Quentin.
Quentin was angry, but when he saw the mad rabbits outside, which were so densely packed together, he had to swallow his anger... Ash was right, it would be difficult for him to handle it alone without anyone to cover him or cooperate with him.
"But you are a wizard!" Laverne was anxious, "and you are just an apprentice!"
Ash ruffled his hair again, "It's okay. I'll duck in when I get tired, so Laverne, you have to keep up."
After saying this, without waiting for Laverne to hold him back, he and Quentin walked out of the protection range of the shield.
Face off against a group of crazy rabbits.
Don’t be fooled by the fact that these rabbits are originally small and soft. Now that they are gathered together as a group, each of them is endowed with the power of wind and ice. Their fur is so cold that it freezes your hands, just like lumps of ice.
These lumps of ice came at Ash and Quentin from all directions. The two of them had shields behind them, one facing the left and the other facing the right. With their strong bodies and agility, they struggled to open a path.
Laverne followed closely behind them, driving the shield to move, and was stunned by Ash's strength and agility that rivaled that of a vampire.
Is this so amazing?
No wonder everyone in the academy said that Teacher Zexis particularly admired Ash!
Quentin was also very depressed.
He found that Ashby's strength had improved a lot since the first time they met on the tundra.
It's obviously a human! Just a human!
How could he be on par with him at this very moment?!
What was even more hateful was that he now had to cooperate with a human being, had to entrust the safety of one side to a human being! Had to trust a human being!
What a shame!
Don't let him know who caused this accident! Quentin's eyes were sinister, he would never let these people go!
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