In the far north, it was freezing cold, and everything had withered. But even the ice sheet within the Arctic Circle was once the battleground of the "gods" in the Mythological Era. Until today, the mysterious forces left behind by the gods were still echoing in the depths of this ice sheet, as if stubborn ghosts entrenched on this planet, crying hollowly in the winter for the glory of the Mythological Era. This was the perfect place to be the final fortress of the demon hunters.
It was not the first time that Hao Ren and his team had stepped into the Arctic Circle, but they had never gone so far north as they did today. Their goal was the Arctic Circle, one of the two coldest extremes in the world. As they stood on this endless ice sheet, listening to the cold wind whistling past their ears, Vivian seemed to recall the most distant fragments of her memory. It was the years after the end of the last ice age on Earth. The cold had not completely left the world, and large tracts of land and sea were still covered with ice. Vivian woke up on such an ice sheet.
"Is it possible that the place where you first woke up was the Arctic?" Hao Ren heard Vivian's lament and asked curiously, "If we dig down in this place, will we find your relics?"
"It's just an ice sheet. Who knows if it's the Arctic?" Vivian shook her head. "And what relics? I'm still alive."
On the vast and boundless Arctic ice sheet, a rustic North Star car was parked behind a steep ice rock. Hao Ren and his team got out of the car and observed their surroundings from the outside. But there was nothing worth observing in this place. As far as the eye could see, there was only dry and monotonous ice and snow. The ice sheet that had not been disturbed for thousands of years was quiet. Although humans had set foot on the North and South Poles, it was still a bitter and cold place where survival was difficult. On the Arctic ice sheet, there were still many places that no one had set foot on. And this was the route that Hao Ren and his team took.
In this deserted place, there wasn't even a strand of hair.
White Flame was still wearing her slightly tattered demon hunter uniform, but she had added an extra sweater underneath. This kind of thin outfit did not look like something one would wear in the Arctic Circle. But since everyone there was a superhuman who was not afraid of cold and heat, no one was bothered by the incongruity of the outfit. The demon hunter maiden did not pay attention to the discussion between Hao Ren and Vivian. She stood not far away and looked up at the starry sky, calculating something from the position of the stars and the state of the starlight.
At this time, the North Pole was shrouded in the polar night, and it was the darkest moment. The starlight in the sky was clear, and the exceptionally clear atmospheric environment made it very easy to observe the stars. White Flame looked up at the stars and heaved a sigh of relief. "The stars are not messed up yet. The ancient weapons of Coldpath should not have been activated yet. It seems like the Council of Elders hasn't been able to take down all the energy nodes. "
"You can tell by looking at the stars?" Hao Ren also went to look at the sky with White Flame, but the stars in his eyes were just stars, and he did not quite understand the principle of astrological magic. "I've been in space for a long time. Those are just luminous stars, thousands of light-years away from Earth. What power can they provide to your magic?" he asked.
"The power of astrological magic doesn't lie in the stars themselves, but in the stars as a chessboard. Even if the stars are not there, astrological magic can still work," White Flame explained casually. "In fact, we just use the stars as a coordinate system to construct tactics."
"After the industrial revolution, it became very difficult to use astrological magic in some areas," Vivian muttered. "The coordinate system has become blurred, and hand-drawn astrolabes are not accurate. Recording all the stars by memory is too brain-burning. Many wizards living in Europe have given up on this project."
"Why?" Hao Ren did not understand.
"Air pollution. In modern times, there's also light pollution. They're all deadly things. Astrology requires half a liter of eye drops. Many astrologers have become cataracts from staring at the sky, "Vivian said, pouting." I admire human beings, but this is the only thing I admire. They don't give astrologers a chance to live. "
Hao Ren was speechless. He coughed twice and changed the topic. He began to ask White Flame about their next move. "We're already here. How far are we from the fortress you mentioned?"
White Flame looked at the icefield under the dark night. Ordinary people would probably get lost standing here, but she had lived on this icefield since she was a child. She could accurately locate everything on the icefield with her intuition alone. She pointed in a certain direction. "Go that way. About ten kilometers, you'll reach the Boundary Layer of Coldfrost Citadel. According to the astrological judgment, Coldfrost Citadel should still be in our hands. "
"What's the relationship between Coldfrost Citadel and Coldfrost Citadel?" Hao Ren was very interested in the base camp of the demon hunters. Until now, he still could not understand the logic behind the hidden dimension and the ancient arcane realm. "Is it the gate?"
"You can say that," White Flame said, nodding slightly. "Coldpath is a different dimension that has existed since ancient times, just like Tartarus, Asgard, and Olympia. But it's more stable, broader, and more mysterious. You can say that this incredible dimension is also one of the important things that the demon hunters relied on to gain the upper hand in the Final Battle of the Myth. The entrance and exit of Coldpath is located at the North Pole and is completely fixed in that position. So to protect their fortress, the first generation of demon hunters built a tower with powerful magic power at the entrance and exit of the dimension, called the Tower of Stars. Part of the tower is in the real world, but part of it extends to Coldpath. It acts as a passage. Later, as the power of the demon hunters continued to grow, the predecessors began to expand the Tower of Stars in the real world. Slowly, the tower was expanded into a huge fortress — that is, Coldfrost Citadel. "
Lily's ears flickered. "So now the Council of Elders is being suppressed in the Coldpath dimension by you guys? Although they have the upper hand in combat, as long as Coldfrost Citadel and the Tower of Stars are still in the hands of the 'normal' demon hunters, the Council of Elders can't escape? "
"Yes, this is our only advantage," White Flame said with a bitter smile. "We gathered our brothers and sisters from all over the world to fight the Council of Elders back from the entrance of Coldpath. We paid the price of nearly 10,000 people to defend the Tower of Stars."
Hao Ren did not say anything. He just squatted down and scratched the ice with his finger. After a while, he looked up and said, "It's not safe to open the gate in Coldfrost Citadel. It's the entrance to Coldpath, and the dimensional structure may be unstable. When opening the gate, the Council of Elders may take advantage of it. If you don't mind, I think this is a more suitable place to open the gate. "
White Flame had been holding back a question along the way. She could not help but ask, "So you want to use the portal to send your 'army' over? Do you really have an army? "
"Nonsense. We're already here. Do you still think we're going to fight the Council of Elders with just a few people?" Hao Ren rolled his eyes and then looked at his companions. Aside from the cat taking care of the fish at home, he had brought all the thugs from Hao Ren's Sanctuary, including the Nangong parents. But they were still not the main force of the operation. The main force of the operation was still 800 light-years away on the new Aerym planet, organized by Lanina, waiting for the moment when the portal would open. "My people are far away from here. To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that once the Council of Elders activates the ancient weapon, I wouldn't have made such a big move. You owe me a big favor," Hao Ren said.
White Flame listened to Hao Ren and then nodded seriously. "I'll keep it in mind. As long as you can help the demon hunters through this crisis, I'm willing to swear allegiance to you."
Hao Ren wondered what era it was that people still swore allegiance to each other. According to the normal script, he should have asked White Flame to marry him. But he felt that he would be beaten to death on the spot if he said that out loud. So he swallowed his unrealistic thoughts and began to take out all kinds of things from his Dimensional Pocket.
This would be the biggest operation he had ever done on Earth.
Build a demonic portal and summon an army of 100,000 from another planet!
Oh no, according to the work report, he was going to summon 100,000 peacekeepers. That made it sound better.
(I'm late for the draft again. I'm going to make a big news while I'm at it.)
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