The ascetic Snowman, who was facing the stone wall, turned his head and looked at Odis with some surprise: "You know the great 'Sage'?"
The "Iceberg General" instantly recalled the information about the "Sage" that he and Odis had heard in the "Ruins of the War of Gods".
Klein frowned; this was the first time he had ever heard of a "sage."
Odis smiled and said, "Is it strange that I know this?"
Snowman turned around, facing the fire, and pointed at the man in asymmetrical clothes, saying, "He said he had heard of 'sages' in some stories."
Then he looked at the sleeping young man: "He has never heard of the name 'Sage'."
Edwina, standing to the side, continued, "This is Mobert Zoroaster of the Solomon Empire, a gentleman who can take away other people's ideals and dreams."
"No need for such subtlety," Mobert said with a smile. "Hello, I am a 'Dream Thief'."
He seemed easy to talk to: "Let me introduce the remaining companion, Longzel. He said he came from Backlund, but the Backlund he spoke of is completely different from the Backlund I remember."
"Long Ze'er, wake up! You have a new companion."
Long Ze'er slowly woke up from his sleep, opened his eyes and glanced at Odis and the others, finally fixing his gaze on Klein: "A Rune?"
Odis's attire is basically a mix of Intis and Rune styles, while only Klein's clothing has a distinct Rune style.
Klein readily agreed.
Longzel appeared visibly dazed, but quickly composed himself: "Do you know the Edward family from Backlund?"
Klein replied, "Backlund has many Edwards."
Long Zell pressed on urgently: "The Edwards who live at 18 De La Heyle Street in the Northwest District."
Klein shook his head and said, "The Northwest District no longer exists."
"The Northwest District is gone…" Long Ze'er's voice trailed off, then he sighed, "I don't know how many years have passed outside, but it must have been many years…"
At this point, Odis said to Snowman, "I learned of the existence of the 'Sage' from some ruins and from the words of the ancients, but I have never heard of this being anywhere else."
"It is certain that in your time, many people knew about the 'Sage,' but it is unclear why, in our time, no one knows of his existence anymore."
Snowman spoke in a hoarse voice: "When the radiance of the 'All-Knowing and All-Powerful Lord' shines on every piece of the earth, the 'Sage' is the only deity who can be mentioned in the same breath as the Lord."
"It was through the cooperation of these two deities that an era dominated by humankind was ushered in."
"Every ascetic, while believing in the 'omniscient and omnipotent Lord,' also receives the teachings and inspiration of the 'wise.'"
"'Wall-facing meditation' is a form of spiritual practice advocated by 'sages', which we use to combat the madness and distortion within the extraordinary."
Klein was somewhat surprised when he heard half of it: a god who was on par with the "Ancient Sun God"? So He was also a being at a level "above the gods"?
Then he realized another thing was wrong: most ordinary people didn't know about the "Ancient Sun God," and even among extraordinary people, few knew the difference between the "Ancient Sun God" and the "Eternal Sun."
But eventually, some people did know about this powerful god from the Third Age, but why didn't even the extraordinary ones know about the "Sage"? There wasn't even a vague description of him.
He glanced at Odis: No wonder "Mr. Gar" was so concerned; he must have also noticed that something was wrong.
Just then, the entire cave suddenly shook, and that familiar, crazy, and violent aura descended rapidly!
Shatas, who was on guard outside, shouted, "'King of the North' Julian is coming!"
Odis and the others were slightly stunned for a moment, then rushed out and saw a huge figure descend from the sky and land on a massive rock covered with a thick layer of ice nearby.
The wings covering the membrane did not fold up, but continued to unfold, almost blocking out the surrounding light.
Then everyone could clearly see the dreamlike armor plates formed by condensed ice crystals, and the extremely insanely blue dragon eye.
As everyone rushed out, "King of the North" Yurisian opened his mouth and spat out a twisted, icy blue flame toward the cave. Everything it passed through froze, surging toward Odis and the others like a tidal wave.
Odis, who had already donned the magical artifact, immediately used the "Harvest Gauntlets" to summon several enormous fireballs, which blasted towards the ice-like attack.
With several explosions, part of the icy blue wave vaporized, buying Klein and the others time to take cover.
Odis dared not confront Julian's sharp edge directly, and after releasing the fireball, he quickly jumped aside to avoid it.
Without the fireballs blocking the way, the blue waves almost completely sealed off the cave. If everyone had come out a little later, some of them might have been trapped inside.
After a chaotic dodge, everyone began their counterattack.
First, Shatas drew her bow and nocked an arrow in one fluid motion, and a lightning-fast arrow flew toward the "King of the North" with a whooshing sound.
However, the dragon's scales were too thick, so the arrow was not very effective.
Grosser raised his enormous greatsword and, protected by the morning light, charged toward the dragon.
Seeing that the "King of the North" was about to spread its wings and fly away again, Long Ze'er quickly extended his palm and said, "Flying is prohibited here!"
The "King of the North" flapped its wings, but its flight seemed to encounter tremendous resistance, and its wings could not lift its massive body back into the air.
The dragon Yurisian let out an angry roar, and the huge sound waves instantly entered Longzel's ears, causing him to involuntarily sway.
Yurisian flapped its sky-covering wings once more, stirring up the surrounding snow and frost, and finally managed to take flight with great difficulty.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Odis used the "Flying Spell" to fly to Julian's flank, and he took out a scroll: "Misfortune!"
The scroll explodes, and in the next three seconds, Eurysian will be extremely unlucky, while Odis will be extremely lucky.
This scroll was designed by Odis through his study of spiritual materials at the demigod level provided by the "School of Life".
Only then did Odis dare to rush forward and use his "Harvest" ability, but the dragon Yurisian stretched out his huge wings to block him.
Unfortunately for it, its attention was drawn to Odis, and it completely ignored the fact that Grosser had rushed up to it.
Grosser's exaggerated greatsword, gleaming with the light of dawn, slashed down, wounding Julian's wings and rendering him unable to lift them, thus failing to stop Odis from rushing forward.
The metal gauntlets with the "Reaper" ability struck the dragon, and the "Reaper" strike, ignoring defense, dented Yulisian's back.
As the dragon roared, it turned to bite Odis, but Odis immediately "teleported" away after delivering that punch, just in time to avoid the dragon's attack.
In the travelogue, you can't use the ability to "travel," but you can use the ability to "teleport."
Yulisian's "bad luck" wasn't over yet, because he had just taken flight, which gave Longzel the opportunity to "punish" him: "Disobedience shall be punished!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the figure of the "Punishment Knight" suddenly grew taller, seemingly even taller than the "Frost Dragon" Yulisian.
His black straight sword pierced through, leaving a wound on the dragon's icy neck, spurting out a considerable amount of dragon blood.
The continuous damage caused Yurisian to roar. It landed back on the ground, stomped its thick hind legs heavily, and a violent storm emanated from it, spreading outwards.
Grosser, who was over four meters tall, was blown backward and almost fell over. Odis and Longzel, who had completed their "punishment," were even blown away.
Even the arrows that Shatas shot were blown off their intended trajectory.
The ascetic Snowman spread his arms wide in the howling wind and said in ancient Hermes, "God says, no!"
As soon as the "Priest of Light" finished speaking, the violent blizzard subsided.
But at that moment, Yulisian's tail lashed out like a python's. Grosser, having regained his footing, slammed his greatsword into the snow. A dawn-like light descended and quickly solidified into a barrier, protecting himself and Longzel from being struck by the dragon's tail.
Yulisian turned his head and unleashed a blue dragon breath, freezing Grosser and Longzel in the ice.
Just as the "King of the North" was about to continue his attack, he suddenly froze, seemingly forgetting what he was supposed to do.
It turns out that it was the "Dream Thief" Mobert who took the opportunity to steal the dragon's next thoughts.
Taking advantage of the opportunity while still in mid-air, Odis threw out another scroll: "Arbitration!"
The scroll, glowing with black light, shattered. In the next three seconds, the "Arbitration Moment" began. Odis's figure grew enormous, and he swung his fist, clad in a black glove: "Death!"
Yurisian raised his head and roared, the violent roar causing a fluctuation in the surrounding spirituality. At the same time, it was like a "lawsuit by force" that greatly reduced the effect of the "arbitration scroll".
The "King of the North" looked at Odis, who was approaching it again, with its blue eyes. The attack of "death" was unavoidable, but it intended to freeze the approaching human and then bite him to death.
Odis struck the dragon Yurisian with a punch, but this attack was not as effective as the previous one, only turning a small patch of the dragon's ice-crystal-like scales black.
The moment the attack ended, Odis was frozen into a block of ice.
But Yurisian hesitated to bite, because it found its movements sluggish and its thoughts seemed to slow down.
Klein finally found a suitable opportunity and temporarily took control of Yurian's "spiritual threads".
However, the other party's struggles made it very difficult for Klein to control them.
The "Staff of Gus" in Odis's hand flashed with dazzling starlight, and the ice around him shattered instantly. Taking advantage of this opening, he threw a scroll into the mouth of the "King of the North".
His original plan was to throw the scroll into the dragon's mouth when it lunged at him.
With Klein's help, he acted with greater ease.
Just as Julian's "spiritual threads" were about to break free, Odis tried to imagine that in the next instant, the dragon's head turned into a piece of wood.
The piece of wood looked like it had just been cut down; it seemed to still have some moisture, and the outstretched branches and leaves were still green.
But strangely, it grew on the neck of a giant dragon.
This is the "fantasy scroll" designed by Odis using the fruit obtained from the giant tree in the "Ruins of the War of the Gods".
In the next three seconds, the "King of the North" will, according to Odis's "fantasy," have his head turn to wood and lose all ability to react.
Odis can also "imagine" the death or injury of the "King of the North," but if it is "imagine" the death of the opponent, then attacking it will have little effect. As time goes by, the effect of "imagine" will disappear, and Yurisian will eventually come back to life.
In fact, the dragon in front of everyone is also a figment of imagination in "The Travels of Grosseus". Compared with "The Travels", Odis's scroll is still too low-level. If it were high enough, it could change the imagination of "The Travels" and make the dragon disappear directly.
When the others saw this, they were all stunned, mainly because they rarely saw such a bizarre ability.
Odis, however, raced against time, raising his staff high, its tip gleaming with starlight, and a massive beam of light fell upon the scales that had been stained black by the "death" power.
Odis used all his strength, tearing and churning the dragon's scales apart, finally breaking through the dragon's defenses and creating a large hole in its body, revealing its icy skin and internal organs.
The other members also reacted. Grosser used the light of dawn to shatter the ice that had frozen him, and rushed back to the "King of the North." He used his exaggerated greatsword, which was stained with the light of dawn, to scatter the ice crystal-like scales everywhere.
The attacks from Long Ze'er and the others arrived one after another, with each of them landing at least two attacks on the dragon.
Three seconds later, the wood on Yurisian's neck turned into a head again. It seemed somewhat bewildered, not understanding why it was covered in wounds in the blink of an eye.
Odis threw an "explosive scroll" into the huge wound created by the "pillar of light" earlier.
Pfft~
With a muffled thud, as if an explosion had been covered by layers of cotton blankets, a large jet of ice crystals immediately spurted from the wound of the "King of the North"—the shattered flesh and internal organs.
The dragon's roar sounded much weaker, clearly indicating that the attack had seriously injured it.
Odis was about to fly away to avoid Julian's counterattack.
He suddenly realized that Klein was not retreating, and looking at the dragon in front of him, he saw that it was reacting slowly.
Odis roughly understood that Klein had taken advantage of the "spiritual threads" that he had just regained control of a portion of the dragon.
So Odis turned back and threw several fireballs and a flock of fire crows into the hole he had just smashed, and finally summoned layers of fire walls inside the dragon's belly.
Suddenly, bursts of firelight flashed across Yurisian's ice-crystal-like scales.
The severe damage caused the dragon to break free from Klein's control over the "spirit threads," and it staggered as it tried to escape.
How could the crowd let him go? They immediately gave chase.
The "King of the North" suddenly roared to the sky, and the surrounding frost was swept up by the cold wind, creating a storm with extremely low visibility.
When the storm ended and the frost and snow fell, Odis and the others were frozen in ice crystals. These ice crystals were different from the previous ice blocks, and Odis and the others could not break them for a while.
Also frozen in ice crystals was the "King of the North," except that inside the ice crystals, its wounds began to heal rapidly.
Odis thought to himself: This ability is the dragon's last struggle.
As the Frost Dragon Yulisian's injuries healed rapidly, its size also decreased, clearly indicating that this ability placed a considerable burden on it.
The "Gus Staff" in Odis's hand once again emitted a dazzling starlight, and on the crystal ball at the top of the staff, "Garr runes" with a certain regularity appeared.
A blinding beam of light fell from the sky and shone on the ice crystals that had trapped them. Due to the reflection of the light by the ice crystals, Odis could not open his eyes at all. He could only try his best to maintain the pure white light so that the ice crystals could melt and create an opening as soon as possible.
Four or five seconds later, the pure white light finally pierced through the ice crystal in front of Odis, creating a small hole about the thickness of a finger.
Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!
The Frost Dragon, now half its original size, witnessed all of this. Without waiting for a full recovery, it broke free from the ice crystals and struggled to fly into the sky.
Odis took a deep breath, and his body transformed into a wisp of "stardust," emerging from a tiny hole the size of a finger and re-condensing above the ice crystal.
The others were still struggling to break free from the ice crystals' restraints and had not yet managed to escape.
Despite being extremely weak, Yurisian did not linger in the fight. Instead, he flapped his wings with all his might and finally took flight.
Odis didn't have time to wait for the others. He took out a black scroll and threw it at Julian: "Gravity!"
This was a "gravity scroll" that he had just designed two days ago using the black crystal he obtained from Whale Island. In an instant, Yurisian's weight increased more than tenfold. He had just taken off when he crashed back to the ground.
It struggled and roared desperately, but not only could it not fly, it could not even stand up. Its two thick hind legs went limp and it collapsed to the ground with a thud.
Odis first used a "Scale Armor Scroll" on himself, took off his glasses to look at the "Frost Dragon", and then charged toward Yulisian while infusing his spiritual energy into the "Harvest Gauntlets", summoning layers of fire walls around the dragon.
The intense flames rapidly increased the surrounding temperature, melting the surrounding frost.
Although these flames could not cause the "King of the North" much damage, they made it very uncomfortable, as if the flames that had just appeared inside its body had reignited, making it extremely agitated. No matter how hard it tried, it could not get up.
The others still inside the ice crystals were somewhat surprised. They hadn't expected Odis to charge towards the "King of the North" on his own and suppress the giant dragon all by himself.
Odis's actions were not reckless, because he had just used the "Eye of Insight" to see that the "King of the North" was no longer as strong as he had been at the beginning, and was now roughly equivalent to a powerful Sequence 5.
Odis, who was already proficient in using the "Staff of Gus," was confident that he could take down such a weakened dragon.
By this time, the effect of the "Gravity Scroll" had almost worn off, and Yulisian was able to raise his head and unleash his dragon breath at Odis.
Odis rushed forward instead of using "teleport" to lure out the dragon's breath. He had just noticed that when the dragon launched its breath attack, it would stop its other extraordinary attacks.
After unleashing a much weaker burst of dragon breath, Odis immediately used his "teleport" ability to appear on the dragon's head and strike the dragon with his gauntlet-wearing hand.
"Harvest!"
Yurisian's head was slammed into the ground, and his dragon breath was interrupted.
Just like the last attack, "Harvest" successfully caused a section of the dragon's head to collapse.
"Gar runes" reappeared on the "Guth Staff" in Odis's hand, and the light of dawn suddenly appeared around Odis, eventually condensing into a sharp straight sword on the "Guth Staff" in his hand.
As the dragon's head fell to the ground, Odis plunged his straight sword into the collapsed spot on the dragon's head.
The intense pain caused the "King of the North" to let out an angry roar. The will to survive made it break free of the "gravity shackles" and stand up abruptly.
He then tossed his head, sending Odysseus flying off his head.
Odis, who was flying in mid-air, thought to himself: This guy is too tough. He was poked in the head and he can still stand up!
At that moment, the Frost Dragon's tail lashed out at Odis, who dodged it with his Blink ability, then threw out a scroll: "Chaos!"
The "Scroll of Chaos" caused chaos in Yurisan's already injured brain. It wanted to escape, but its body was out of control, and it staggered along, unable to fly.
This time, Odis did not take the opportunity to get closer. Instead, he raised the "Staff of Gus" high, and "Gar Runes" appeared one by one in the starlight. The next second, a bolt of lightning struck down and hit the wound on the head of the "King of the North" that he had just stabbed.
Julian's head drooped immediately, followed by a puff of black smoke.
But it slowly raised its head again. At this moment, the effect of the "Scroll of Chaos" was nearing its end. It flapped its wings, and a series of ice crystal spears pierced towards Odis.
While Odis dodged the ice crystal spear, the "King of the North" finally took flight. Although it was severely injured, hiding in this land where the ice and snow had never melted would allow the frost to nourish it and help it recover.
Just as it flew higher and higher, farther and farther away, the nightmarish human caught up again. He threw out another scroll, the incantation of which was: "Art!"
Thump!
The last thing the "Frost Dragon" Yurisian saw was a sea of blood.
Odis just used the "Blood Burst Scroll," which was developed by studying the spiritual materials from the black spider seized in the church of the "Ancient Sun God."
Its explosive power is far less than that of the "explosive scroll," but it can still cause flesh to burst open, inflicting massive trauma on the target.
If the "King of the North" is at his peak, this scroll will not cause him much harm, or rather, he can use his ability to quickly turn his flesh and blood into ice crystals, preventing his flesh and blood from exploding on a large scale.
But now, the "Frost Dragon" has suffered a series of severe blows and is unable to react quickly.
Then the brain of the "King of the North" exploded, spraying out a lot of blood and ice crystals from the wound, and its blue eyes turned blood red.
The "Frost Dragon" didn't even have time to let out a mournful cry before it plummeted straight to the ground.
Odis, floating in mid-air, breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, summarizing his own strength in his mind: He was invincible below the level of demigod.
Furthermore, Odis examined his special scrolls and concluded that if he were to encounter a demigod, these scrolls could buy him time to escape.
At this moment, Klein and the others also broke free of the ice crystals and caught up one after another. They witnessed the dragon's fall and saw the "Frost Dragon's" body crash to the ground, with streaks of pale blue light bursting out from its body.
These lights moved about, and soon transformed the enormous dragon corpse into a thick, snow-covered double door.
Without needing to be reminded, all the extraordinary individuals present knew that this was the gateway to the outside world.
Grosser opened his mouth wide and laughed loudly: "We succeeded."
With tears in her eyes, Shatas smiled with relief.
Mobert from the Solomon Empire whistled, as if he had finally put something to rest.
Snowman made the sign of the cross and whispered a prayer: "Father of all things, Great Source..."
The young Long Ze'er was already eager to leave through that door.
The female elf, Shatas, quickly composed herself: "We must get out of here as soon as possible; no one knows how long that door will remain open."
As everyone snapped out of their reverie and was about to move forward, Odis said, "Wait a minute!"
Some people were puzzled and looked at this powerful extraordinary being.
Odis smiled and said, "I just wanted to ask, what are your plans after you leave?"
Shatas looked at the door and said, "We can discuss this issue after we get out."
Mobert, the "Dream Thief," realized that Odis wouldn't ask such a trivial question at this time.
He was the first to answer: "I will first accompany Shatas to find the elven tribe, and then see if I can find my people."
Snowman's second reply was: "Although you say that the 'omniscient and omnipotent Lord' has fallen, I will still build a church for the Lord and continue my ascetic practice."
Odis smiled and nodded: "A very good plan."
Ronzel said, "I'm going back to Backlund to find my family."
Then he said with a wry smile, "Or rather, I'm looking for the descendants of my family."
Grosser exclaimed, "I wish I could return to the 'Court of Giants' again."
As they discussed their plans, Odis walked past them to the double doors: "Gentlemen, here's the thing: Longzel, who spent the least amount of time in the book, has been missing from the outside world for over a hundred years."
"The others have been here for thousands of years."
"Once you go out, the real world will correct your 'fantasy,' so you will age rapidly and eventually die outside in an instant."
Everyone paused for a moment, then fell into deep thought.
The scroll Odis used just now, and the strength he demonstrated, will make everyone take his words seriously.
After a few seconds of silence, Edwina finally asked, "What should we do then?"
Although she only stayed with the team for a little over a day, she really liked the team's atmosphere, so she was also quite worried about Grosser and the others' situation.
"Please wait while I go out and think of a way." Odis shrugged and said, "Since people from different eras can appear in a book at the same time, there must be a way to bring you back to the real world."
"But I need to do some research on this."
"What if this door never appears again?" said Shatas, somewhat worried.
"I've already thought about this question," Odis said. "This book is about the authority of 'fantasy,' and I happen to have some spiritual material about higher levels of this path."
"I am confident that by holding a certain ceremony or making certain arrangements, I can reawaken this door."
Everyone fell silent again. They had been waiting for a very long time, just waiting for this moment when they could leave, but suddenly being told that they couldn't leave was hard for them to accept.
"Haha, I believe you, my friend," the giant Grosser said first. "I'm willing to wait here for you to come and get us."
Odis was taken aback by the other party's use of "my friend." He hadn't originally intended to remind these people, as he could have shared their extraordinary characteristics after they left.
But after hearing their conversation in the cave and realizing that they were real people, Odis felt compassion for them. When he heard their plans, he felt as if they were wanderers embarking on their journey home.
It was only then that Odis decided to try to rescue them.
But then the giant's words, "My friend," made Odis suddenly smile. He had forgotten when the last time he had been trusted so unconditionally was.
Even his subordinates didn't trust him from the start; it was only after repeated tests that they built a relationship of trust.
The same goes for Klein. He's very wary, and it took them going through a lot together to build a relationship of mutual trust.
Odis promised, "Leave this to me, you won't have to wait long."
Mobert raised his hand slightly and said, "I'll stay too."
Then he said to Shatas, "We've waited this long, a few more days won't make a difference."
Shatass took a deep breath: "Alright then."
Then Snowman also expressed his willingness to stay, and although Longzel hesitated for a while, he finally decided to stay.
So Odis and Klein pushed open the door, and the four "modern people" returned from the travelogue to Edwina's study, where it was already evening.
When they turned around, the people inside the door were looking on anxiously, but Odis smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'll give you news in the next few days."