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"Your Excellency Lin Ruo, are you not going to make a move against that Dragon next?"
"I will provide you with some assistance," Lin Ruo said, his expression unchanged, in response to Leonard's question. He had no intention of being the main combatant in this matter; otherwise, why would he bring Klein along? Wasn't it precisely to let him hone his skills through this experience?
If he were the main combatant and directly chopped down Ulyssan, then there would be no training whatsoever.
"Assistance? That's good enough then." Leonard scratched his head and didn't have any objections. He simply tightened his clothes and followed the others into the warm cave.
As soon as he reached the campfire, Leonard warmed his nearly frozen hands over the fire. He then saw someone approaching and glanced over to find it was Mobet, the descendant of the old man. He immediately greeted him, "Hello!"
"Hello, is the old man doing well?" Mobet asked.
"He should be, right?" Leonard said, uncertain. He suddenly paused, seemingly listening to something. A few seconds later, he lowered his voice and said, "The old man wants me to ask you, what is your relationship with that Elf lady?"
When asking this question, Leonard's expression was an undisguised mix of curiosity and gossip.
Mobet's expression immediately stiffened.
What was his relationship with Siatas? Of course, she was his wife... Ahem, well, although he had that intention, and he felt that Siatas probably wasn't without such intentions either, they truly hadn't...
"No, no relationship..." After a long pause, Mobet slightly averted his gaze, cautiously glancing at Elf Singer Siatas, who was resting with her eyes closed nearby, while quietly adding, "For now."
"Oh..." Leonard immediately nodded in understanding.
"Wait, you also call him 'the old man'?" Mobet seemed to notice something and abruptly changed the topic.
"Yeah, why?" Leonard asked, a bit confused.
"Generally speaking, only we, the descendants of the Zoroast family, call the old man 'the old man'..." Mobet looked at Leonard, a thoughtful expression on his face. "Do you also have the Bloodline of the Zoroast family?"
"Huh?" Leonard was stunned for a moment, then shook his head hesitantly. "Probably not, right?"
Leonard wasn't really clear about this, as he was an orphan who grew up in the Church of the Evernight Goddess's monastery.
"You can't say for sure. How did you become the old man's host anyway?" Mobet, having successfully changed the subject, immediately followed up with another question.
"Uh, I found a Gold Pound before, and the old man was on that Gold Pound..." Leonard answered without thinking.
And so, the two began to huddle by the fire, chatting in hushed tones.
Besides them, Giant Groselle remained at the cave entrance, responsible for vigilance. Elf Singer Siatas rested with her eyes closed nearby. Cultivator Snowman sat devoutly beside Lin Ruo, praying to the Creator. Klein, meanwhile, chatted with the soldier from Loen.
As for Lin Ruo? He was staring blankly at this harmonious scene.
After a while, the entire cave suddenly shook, followed by the rapid descent of a wild and tyrannical aura.
Undoubtedly, the big Boss of the book world, the key to the door, the King of the North, Ulyssan, had arrived.
"I am not a War Bishop, this is a Fallacy."
Lin Ruo muttered to himself silently. He unhurriedly stood up and looked towards the cave entrance, just in time to see a massive figure descending from the sky.
It was undoubtedly a Dragon. It landed on a huge rock near the cave, its enormous wings giving a sense of blotting out the sky.
Tsk, this feels faster than in the original story!
Lin Ruo sighed inwardly. He then saw the King of the North, Ulyssan, open its massive maw, large enough to swallow a person whole. Immediately after, ice-blue flames spewed from its mouth. Although they were flames, they clearly possessed the characteristics of ice, freezing everything in their path.
Giant Groselle, guarding the entrance, was about to make a move when Lin Ruo raised his hand. The ice-blue flames, which had been surging forward, abruptly stopped, as if frozen.
Even with their icy nature, these were still flames, and anything that was a flame was within the control of the Red Priest Sequence.
If Ulyssan were a Sequence 3, Lin Ruo might not have been able to easily counter-control its flames, but then again, it was only half a Sequence 4.
"It's not good to disturb such a warm moment."
Lin Ruo smiled and spoke. He then clenched his raised right hand, and the next second, the ice-blue flames surged back towards Ulyssan. If one observed closely, they would notice that these flames were even more intense than before, clearly strengthened by Lin Ruo.
"Roar—"
Ulyssan let out a furious roar, but under the scorching of the ice-blue flames, it directly transformed into an ice sculpture.
"...So powerful." Leonard looked at the ice sculpture Dragon, which resembled a work of art, and couldn't help but exclaim.
"These flames won't freeze it for long. The rest is up to you all." Lin Ruo lowered his hand and said with a smile, "Go for it. This is also a very good opportunity for you to train."
He then looked at Klein and instructed, "Be careful. It's a pity it's just a Dragon conjured from imagination, otherwise, such an Ice Dragon would make a good Bizarro Sorcerer's puppet."
"I'll be careful..." Klein, who had already activated little hunger, glanced at the large ice sculpture outside and also felt a bit of pity. "It is indeed a bit of a shame." He then ran out.
Not just him, but everyone else did the same. Elf Singer Siatas had already drawn her bow and nocked an arrow, taking the lead, while Mobet followed closely behind her without delay.
Leonard was also running out.
"Leonard." However, before he had run two steps, Lin Ruo called out to him.
Lin Ruo said, "Ulyssan is considered half a Sequence 4. The operation to hunt it is quite dangerous, so you should stay here."
Although he had the old man by his side, the old man was for emergencies after all. In a situation like this, Lin Ruo felt that Leonard, being a Sequence 7, should not participate in the battle.
In a battle involving a Demigod, a Sequence 7 really couldn't be of much use and could easily be killed by an indiscriminate AoE.
In fact, if Klein didn't have little hunger, a divine artifact that compensated for his combat power, he, as a Sequence 6 Diviner, might not even be useful in this battle.
Of course, Lin Ruo also admitted that he had a deliberate component to this—without an Ince as a stimulus, the poet teammate was simply too lazy. Lin Ruo felt it was necessary to provide appropriate stimulation.
"Ah..." Leonard was visibly stunned for a moment. He seemed somewhat enlightened, yet also a bit disappointed, but he still nodded reluctantly and said,
"I understand... I'll stay here."
After saying that, he returned to his original position, looking quite dejected.
Lin Ruo glanced at him, offered no words of comfort, and with a flash, his figure transformed into flames and vanished. The next second, outside the cave, flames condensed, and Lin Ruo appeared there.
On the mountain rock, the battle had already begun.
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