Hey, King!

2021-06-17

Chapter 16 Chapter 16 Squeeze a little strength

"Wake up, wake up, the leader wakes everyone up I'm done."

Dagon opened his eyes, and a recognizable ugly face dangled in front of him. It's Doma! How vivid and lovely his features were compared to the endless steps and the void!

"Get up! We've already started packing up camp, and we'll be leaving in a minute." Doma patted Dagon twice on the chest, then reached out and pulled him off the blanket. "You slept so hard that Stonebeard's fart didn't wake you up."

"Do you think I should be woken up by the fart?" Dagon stared at him. Ma, sighed, said seriously: "Okay, you succeeded, I was woken up by a loud fart."

"I only broke my face, but not my brain." He was used to two people joking like this, he shook his head, not taking seriously at all. "Hurry up, you may have to go a long way today, so be careful to save your energy."

Dagon thought back to his dream last night as he packed up. Everything in the dream is clear, and he can remember every detail, which is very different from ordinary dreams. The things in the dream should be vague, and everything he experienced last night seemed to be experienced in person.

Climbed so many steps and struggled to the very last moment, wanting to work a little harder, maybe one or two more. Fortunately, he woke up in time, and the disappearing steps finally failed to catch up with him, but the distance was only seven or eight meters away. There was no end to the road ahead, but did he succeed and survive, or did he fail and escape?
Following the group down the road, Dagon is still thinking about the dream. Thinking of what the monster said, he called the "dream world" the "Soul Spirit world". Why is it called this name, is it revealing key information or deceiving? Dagon looked around, he definitely didn't dare to tell his friends, it was useless, and Balder, who was still gushing about his surroundings and hunting skills, didn't look like an expert in soul and dreams.

"Think in a good place, the dream doesn't affect the state of the body after waking up." Dagon spent almost the entire dream time climbing the steps, where he was exhausted to the point of death. After waking up, there is no fatigue, and because of the full meal and sleep, the state of the body is better than before departure.

"I was cut in half by that monster with a knife before, but in fact I just woke up from a dream. This time I almost died in a dream, and finally woke up." Dagon pondered in his heart, Is there no danger in the dream?

If it was the kind of hazy, fuzzy dream, he would have dared to make this assertion, but the continuous dream he experienced was too vivid and too clear. "In case... just in case that monster said, if you fall into the void, you will die, then... you must work hard to survive, then you can't take it lightly."

Dagon set a dream for the dream. Tone: Take it for real until you figure out what's going on. Dagon is a self-controlled and hard-working person in reality, and now he demands that he also works hard in his dreams as it should be by rights. Since the dream is so real and the plot is continuous, then make your own efforts!

"Dagon, come to the front." The leader of the Balder walking in front waved to him and said, "I heard Shi Xu say just now that everyone chose you as team vice. This is an honor. , is also a higher requirement for you. I was also selected as a team vice when I was an adult ceremony, and I have some experience in this area." In front of the bear lizard. Taking a closer look, Dagon felt that the bear lizard was even weaker, not only was the fur tarnished, but he could still vaguely see the flickering ribs under the skin. It's so skinny...

"Dagon, are you listening to me?" Bard urged, "Listen carefully, I'll tell you the skills of scouting. You He has fast legs and feet, so he can practice relevant skills now, and then lead the way in front of the team."

"Mr. Balder, but I don't know which way to go!"

"I will tell you in advance how to go ahead. All you have to do is to walk a dozen meters in advance. Don't be afraid, blow the whistle when you encounter a situation, and we will be there immediately."

Accepted The whistle was then hung around his neck, and Dagon understood that since the work had been arranged, there was no room for him to refuse. He pricked up his ears and listened carefully to Leader Balder's description of the matters that need to be paid attention to in advance reconnaissance, wrote down them carefully, and practiced them in practice. Although it is a bit more tiring than following the move forward, there is still a lot of gain in the end of the day.

There is no shack left by the hunters to use after camping again. Everyone found a dry and warm stone wall and rested on it. Everyone didn't make a fire, just simply ate some cold food, arranged the rounds of the vigil, and then hurry up to sleep.

Dagon was worried before he closed his eyes. But when he went into a dream and woke up on the vanishing steps, he put his worries behind him. Since this is the case again, don't complain, let's solve the problem first.

Climbing up from the obsidian steps, Dagon was pleasantly surprised to find that he had regained his strength. Then there is nothing to say at this time, hurry up and climb up! This time Dagon pays more attention to the reasonable distribution of physical strength and avoids reaching the limit prematurely. He patiently maintained his breathing, controlled the rhythm of his movements, and worked hard to reduce unnecessary movements, and he persisted longer than last time.

But no matter how much he saves, there is a limit to his physical strength, and he will eventually collapse, and he will be more tired and strenuous than last time. Dagon was lying on his back on the steps, he didn't want to climb any more, he just thought about how to move his chest, and took a lot of breath. Although his mouth was open and his throat was squirming, Dagon didn't feel any air being sucked into his lungs at all.

"Are you going to die?" Dagon didn't even have the strength to tilt his head to see where the steps had disappeared. "Now you can know if you will really die if you fall. Uh...I already feel that the soles of my feet are hanging in the air..."

Dagon gritted his teeth, although his muscles were completely immobile, he still had no idea in his heart. content with this ending. When this thought appeared, a ray of light appeared in the void. In the dark world, that ray of light is like an unmatched thunder.

It's right at the end of the steps, ending the infinite continuation and giving the long climb a result. Go up, up to a hundred steps, and you can enter the rays of light and leave this ghost place. At that moment, Dagon subconsciously forgot his exhaustion, the air that could not pass his throat, and his mind was full of only a single thought: Where can I still have strength?
There.

A voice echoed in his head, and it was himself who pointed out the answer. In addition to flesh, Dagon has mana. He can't use or dare to use mana in the world outside, but what is terrifying here? Why not?

But what about mana? Should this be explicit or introverted? How to call it out? Dagon has never been trained in this area, and it's too late to figure it out on his own. At this moment, he felt that his legs were completely in the air, and his buttocks were not strong, and his whole body began to slide down. This slip makes it more difficult to maintain balance.

"Don't fall!" Dagon's inner madness could not be directly turned into a result. The steps disappeared near his waist, and he went from sliding to falling, and the situation was almost irreversible. But even at this time, Dagon has not given up!

There is a difference between powerlessness and giving up - Tormund's words are still in my ears: I lost almost half of my body, and you have bloodline-influenced scales on your chest, it's a powerless thing ; But I didn't eat and wait to die, and you shouldn't fall by the urge of the monster, because that's giving up - as long as you know that there is still a little strength, and there is still a moment to work hard, then don't keep the effort! There is nothing more right in this world than hard work.

“There is nothing more right in this world than hard work!” Dagon tried to remember the feeling of his body about to fall out of control when he rushed up the cliff, connecting that moment to the present. At the same time, he also thought of a brandy nose blacksmith using mana to activate the headhunting axe, the elemental power of earth and gold advancing along his arms and manifesting in his hands.

A fiery feeling formed in his right arm. He didn't have time to experience it carefully, so he quickly seized this crucial moment and threw his arm towards the high steps. At this time, his body had already begun to fall, but a headhunting axe made of flame appeared out of thin air, and the hammer head hooked on the steps, hanging him in midair. This scene is very familiar. It is the scene where he flew over the underground river valley and rushed to the cave to fish for crabs!
The strap on the headhunter's handle caught his arm, so Dagon didn't fall into the void. However, his arms still lacked the strength to pull him up like he did in the underground cave. Thus, Dagon is trapped in midair, and sooner or later he will fail as the steps fade away.

The headhunting axe made of flames constantly emits red rays of light, and sends warm pulses to his palm, like a heartbeat. Dagon hasn't given up yet, and his energy is all concentrated on his arms, as if using his own will as a winch, blood vessels as ropes, pulling muscles one by one, trying to make them move. However, all he got was a violent tremor, a twitch when the muscles were no longer working.

Dagon woke up suddenly as the steps disappeared to the edge of the headhunter. In front of him was his companion of the vigil, slapping his face lightly.

"You slept so deeply, I thought you were in a coma for a while." When Shishu spoke, white steam kept coming out of his mouth. "It's just starting to cool down, you keep warm. I called the leader of Balder, and he was preparing for the fire. After you get up, go help him, I'm too sleepy."

"Stonebeard" , you're such a good man." Dagon's face had a smirk look on his face, which made Stonebeard think he was a fool and muttered on the way to sleep. He didn't know, Dagon's weird dreams were continuous, this time he woke up, and the next time he went in, he could regain his full strength. As long as you don't go wrong, Dagon will have a chance to climb back up the steps and head towards the exit of light!
This is of course thanks to Stonebeard for waking him up in a timely and firm manner. Dagon rolled over and casually flipped the blanket under him over Doma. It was indeed getting colder, which was a bit unusual, so it would be better to help the leader of Balder light a fire so that everyone could warm up a little.

(end of this chapter)