Chapter 373: Chapter 371: A Delighted Rose
Not only the guards at the city gate are mechanized monsters.
When they entered the Ice Sculpture Castle, they encountered a large number of wandering guards. These ice sculpture guards would choose to block them and ask questions upon discovering them.
Every guard starts by asking about the "Queen’s Emblem," and if there is no emblem, they change the way they ask questions.
Initially, they thought everyone had to pass a ’test’ to defeat the guards, but they found that this was not the case; only by giving the right answers to their questions could they break the dream protection on their bodies.
Fighting all the way to the castle’s front door, Hilia felt more exhausted than navigating Jonathan’s castle maze.
"I would rather face a bunch of traps in the castle maze than solve puzzles here with these stupid guards!"
The girl let out a frustrated cry.
She couldn’t help but glance at Rose beside her.
Rose’s expression was even more delighted.
Upon entering, uninterrupted, his Spiritual Power had already scanned the ruins and the lower layers of the site several times.
After numerous scans, he had already seen through all the mechanisms.
But he wouldn’t speak.
Just like in Jonathan’s castle ruins, he only acted when Hilia couldn’t handle it.
This ruin created by the Polar Blood Alliance, by utilizing Dream Magic Power, directly maximized the strongest effect of the dream—arbitrarily adjusting the attack and defense attributes of dream creations.
As long as the dream owner thinks it’s reasonable, even an ant could have invincible Defense.
Unfortunately, regarding attack power, how much damage can be inflicted in the dream depends on how much Dream Magic Power affects the opponent.
Perhaps because this issue was discovered, the creator of the ruins set all guards and demons to have the highest Defense, then implemented a mechanism where only by breaking it could their Defense reach a normal level.
Rose commented—
Even more nauseating than Jonathan.
Jonathan’s ruins were at most full of malice.
This one purely disgusts.
However, watching others being disgusted is quite interesting.
Just like now, seeing Hilia frustrated, Rose was amused.
He chuckled and said, "I think this level is okay. At least you have Anthony in your team, who’s interesting. He solved many of the enemies’ mechanisms. If you were alone..."
Hilia bluntly said, "I would choose to listen to the oracle."
Rose was intrigued, "Oh? Why would one person listen to the ’oracle’ but not many?"
Hilia replied matter-of-factly, "With more people, I want to be a slacker."
"So unambitious?" Rose said with amusement.
"When exploring Jonathan’s castle ruins with Elina earlier, she was slacking off so happily, I was really envious!"
Rose couldn’t help but shake his head, "But listening to the ’oracle’ is slacking off as well. Why not slack off while showing off occasionally?"
Slacking off while showing off occasionally means lazily following Rose, acting as his spokesperson, and showing off in front of others.
Hilia blinked, "I just want to relax when it’s just me and Master Rose."
Rose: "..."
In reality, the team finally entered the interior of the Ice Sculpture Castle.
The inside of this castle was much smaller than Jonathan’s castle maze, and it only had three floors.
Based on the various inquiries and problem-solving from the guards outside, everyone in the team knew the key to passing through the ruins.
Find the Queen’s Land of Sleep.
By this time, they had already entered the castle.
The inside of the Ice Sculpture Castle was decorated similarly to other castles. Inside the hall past the main door, there was a vast array of ice sculpture furniture, including sofas, chairs, long tables, fireplaces, chandeliers, and so on.
"Typically, the queen sleeps on the topmost floor, able to overlook the entire castle," Hilia said. "We should find the staircase to go upstairs."
Everyone nodded, agreeing with Hilia’s words.
However, just as they were preparing to move forward, the castle door suddenly closed, and then everything in the hall transformed dramatically.
All the ice sculpture furniture suddenly began to move without wind, a deep blue vortex appeared in the middle of the long table, and all the ice sculpture furniture flew into the vortex and vanished.
Then, polar bears, seals, ice wolves, and other demons emerged from the vortex.
These demons exuded a powerful aura.
If they were outside, Hilia wouldn’t fear them at all.
But here.
Manica’s face turned pale, "Do we need to answer questions correctly to harm these demons?"
Goriff shouted loudly, charging forward, "We’ll know if we try."
Bang!
With a sweep of his sword, a seal was knocked flying, and cracks appeared on its icy shell.
Pamisha’s eyes lit up, "These demons seem to have normal Defense, just slightly stronger than ordinary ones. We can fight them!"
With that, she charged ahead.
Seeing this, Hilia also commanded the magic puppet to go and fight the ice-sculpted demons.
The entire castle hall descended into chaos.
However, the situation wasn’t favorable for Hilia and the others.
"These ice-sculpted demons don’t have super Defense, no need for additional mechanism cracking, but... their Defense is still too strong."
The same Ice Rain Skill could blast out fist-sized ice craters on the guards outside, but on these demons, it could only result in thumb-sized craters.
Possible to fight, but only a little.
It would be better to order the magic puppet to wield the Ten Thousand Lights Sword for a melee attack; at least it could slash out big cracks and, if lucky, directly cut off an ice wolf’s leg.
"It would be great if we had Doris’s Fire of the Singularity," Hilia muttered.
Fire of the Singularity provides a high bonus to Ice Rain Skill. Combined, they’re like a reactor, causing a violent explosion.
Pure Ice Rain mixed with Ice Burst can only blast thumb-sized pits; adding Fire of the Singularity would at least result in fist-sized ones.
"I’ll learn Fire of the Singularity after we return!" Hilia thought.
From the deep blue vortex, the emergence of demons was endless, increasing in number, and Hilia’s team’s slayings couldn’t keep up with their appearance speed.
Sweat began to appear on their faces.
With high mental concentration, Pamisha was the first to become dazed, showing a weak point.
An ice sculpture ice wolf seized this opportunity and lunged.
"Watch out!"
Anthony shouted in panic, instinctively rushing in front of Pamisha, putting his back against the demon, and holding Pamisha away.
Hilia raised her hand, hurriedly condensing a simple ice shield in front of them.
Bang!
The ice shield shattered, and the ice wolf slammed into Anthony’s back.
The two were knocked flying, hitting a pillar and falling down.
"Anthony!"
Pamisha was panic-stricken, holding Anthony and shaking him repeatedly.
"Idiot! Who told you to rush up?! Don’t die, idiot, I won’t bully you anymore, alright..."
Hilia glanced back, unable to resist saying, "Miss Pamisha, don’t shake him, keep shaking and he really will die."
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