Evetrona's old stories

"What are you thinking about?" Gowawa is quite open-minded, "We finally came here, we can't just do nothing, life is so long, why do you care so much, are you tired?"

"A lot of people may die." Noli Fen said.

"Yes, it's people who die, humans. Not elves, dwarves, and vampires, and not any little birds."

Nuolifen glanced at Balbohan and said to Gowawa: "How many years have passed, can you stop mentioning these things, we 'coexist in harmony'..."

"Yes, we live in harmony, so we have to finish this matter quickly, and then go to Lord." Gowawa interrupted her nagging, "There is no need to worry about other people's fate, hurry up."

Noli Fen still refused to move, but Balbohan followed.

"It's enough to have me and Gowawa, you don't need to use it." He said to Nuolifen.

Ji Xian pointed out the location of the core for them, and the two began to dig down.The big dwarf was very efficient. He carried a polearm of impressive size. He used the point to break up the rocks and ice that had accumulated under his feet. Balbohan then cleared the debris aside.At this moment, Balbohan's fleshy wings turned into two giant white claws, as efficient as a forklift.

With a "clang", Gowawa's hammer struck a metal object.The two took a closer look and found that there was a huge copper handle buried under their feet.

"We're going to take this thing out, right?" Gowawa dropped the hammer and took a step forward, grasping the handle with both hands, and lifted his waist vigorously, but the things under his feet did not move at all.In a rare form, Balbo stretched out two giant claws, holding both ends of the handle, and followed Gowawa to exert force.

"One, two, three—" the two shouted together.

Finally, the handle loosened a bit, and a copper-colored metal pillar was slowly lifted up from the ground by the two.

"What a big carrot!" Gowawa hugged the metal pillar with both hands, and laughed twice.The two continued to exert force until the entire column was off the ground.This pillar was more than two meters long. Balbohan held both ends of the pillar with his giant claws and threw it to the open space beside him.

Gowawa was sweating, but he wasn't going to rest.The two decided to go all out and pull out another "radish".

Although Nuolifen didn't make a move, she stood by their side and hugged her shoulders to watch the fun.

The pair quickly pulled out the second metal post.The three of them stood in place, as if they were waiting for some vision of heaven and earth to appear around them, but it was always calm.

"Then what? Is this the end?" Gowawa asked Ji Xian with open palms.

"It's over, it's over, we should go to Lord now." Ji Xian said.

All three of them seemed a little bit downhearted.Balbohan looked up at the rock wall above his head, thinking about how to bring the two of them up.

"It's simple, you fly up with Nuo Lifen first, and then use the rope to pull me up." Gowawa said, "Don't tell me that you two didn't bring a rope when you came out this time."

"Yes, I think this idea is feasible." Balbohan nodded.

Behind them, in the center of the cave, the white iceberg suddenly cracked a corner, exposing the clean blue ice inside.

Gowawa was taken aback for a moment, then laughed, "Look, I think we forgot something, go and see what happened to that piece of ice, I don't think it was a coincidence just now."

Gowawa turned around and walked towards the iceberg. Balbohan and Nuolifen followed behind him, and the three of them approached the ice crystal.

Ji Xian flapped her wings and flew back to Gowawa's shoulder.

"What do you think it is?" Gowawa asked it.

"It doesn't look like a good thing." Ji Xian replied, "Maybe the formation seal is prepared for this thing."

"Then aren't we in danger now?" Gowawa said so, but his steps didn't stop.

"If there is danger, I will definitely let you escape first. Now I am also curious about what is hidden in it. I always feel that if I don't take a look, I will definitely regret it."

"It's not a question of not regretting later... It's like a gambler encounters a poker game, he will definitely win no matter whether he wins or loses."

Gowawa raised his hand, and the long-handled warhammer appeared in his hand out of thin air.He swung his hammer and swept away all the shattered ice in front of him. The shattered ice continued to slide down from the top and hit the ground with crackling noises.As the shell of the ice crystal peeled off, what was hidden inside finally came to light again. It was a dark oval crystal standing on the ground, about seven or eight meters high, with a smooth and transparent surface like ice or glass.

"Don't touch this thing yet," Balbohan reminded him.

"Use the lighting technique to see what's inside." Gowawa said to Nuolifen.

A white light ball rose from the lake elf's hand, and the dazzling light reflected on the curved crystal surface, causing all three of them to squint their eyes.

"Go to the back, back, you stupid elf." Gowa Wa waved his hands and shouted.

Noli Fen glared at him angrily, but finally complied.The light group slowly circled from the top of their heads towards the back of the dark crystal, and the white light refracted into the inside of the crystal, revealing a faint blue light.

As the light group gradually moved to the back of the crystal, the light changed, and the three people and one bird stared round at the same time.

"Is there a figure in there?" Gowawa pointed to the silhouette of a human figure hanging in the center of the crystal and said eagerly, "Nuolifen, bring more light!"

Nuolifen and Balbohan chanted the spell together, and sent six flares into the air one by one. The white light covered the entire back and top of the crystal, making the crystal crystal clear.

There is a figure of a woman in the crystal, in this huge crystal, that thin body is like a small bug sealed in amber.

"Do you ever think—the people in here look familiar?" Balbohan said.

"Who?" Gowawa moved closer, "Like Egraine?"

"It's indeed very similar, but it shouldn't be." Nolivin said, "Egran must still be lying in the ice coffin on Ilinozan Mountain."

"Then who could this person be? Egran's relative?" Gowawa asked.

"If the formation mark that Ji Xian said is really related to this piece of glass, then this piece of glass has existed for at least as long as this era." Balbohan said.

"So this should be the ancestor of Egran?" Gowawa said.

"Don't discuss this yet, how should we rescue her?" Nuo Lifen said.

"Rescue? You mean, get this corpse out?" Gowawa sarcastically said, "I don't think it's necessary. Isn't this coffin very beautiful? Look at how lifelike she is now..."

They were still arguing about the identity of this person, while Ji Xian kept staring at the figure in the crystal without expressing any opinion.

Gowawa swung a hammer and hit the surface of the crystal a few times, but it didn't produce any effect. This thing was surprisingly hard.

"What the hell is this thing?" He was a little unbelieving, seeing that the attack was not effective, he stretched out his hand to touch the black smooth surface.

The originally calm crystal suddenly changed.

A sharp pain stretched from his fingertips to his arm, and he cried out in pain.His hand lost consciousness for a moment, a transparent crystal covered his arm, as if he wanted to swallow his whole body into the crystal.

The situation only happened in a split second. As soon as Balbohan and Nuolifen were about to step forward to help, they were stopped by Ji Xian.

As Ji Xian spread his wings, Gowawa's voice stopped abruptly, and he didn't move anymore as if he had been cast with a body-holding spell.

Only then did the two realize that it was Ji Xian who stopped time.

"Now you can scold him." The bird jumped onto Noli Fen's shoulder.

"This idiot." Noli Fen walked to Gowawa's side to see his condition.

"What should we do now?" Balbohan's face was a little serious, "I reminded him not to touch this thing just now, it's all right now."

"My suggestion is to cut off his arm before this thing has time to kill him." Ji Xian said gloatingly, "When he suddenly finds out that he has no arm, he will be very surprised."

"Is there no other way?" Nuolifen asked.The clear crystal on Gowawa's arm is still shifting, as if some part of it isn't affected by the freeze in time.Seeing this made her break into a cold sweat.

Every time she sees such mysterious and unknown things in the ruins, she has this feeling.

"Yes, there is—it is an exchange. Find a way to lead these things from his arms to you, and he will be saved."

"Then I can only do it." Balbohan hardly hesitated.

"I appreciate your spirit, but I still want to remind you first: Even if your body structure is different from ordinary people, there is no guarantee that you will not be harmed."

"Always try." Balbohan didn't take Ji Xian's warning to heart, he looked at Ji Xian firmly, waiting for it to give instructions.

"There is a type of spell that can animate these crystals and make them climb on the caster."

"You know this spell?" Balbohan asked.

"Only the first half, but it's enough."

"So you know what's on him?"

"I don't know, I can't remember many things clearly, and now I can only act based on experience." Ji Xian didn't want to linger on this issue, "If you are ready, put your hands on Gowawa's on the arm."

Balbohan still had many doubts, but he knew that this was not the time to ask questions, so he could only do so.

"I don't want to get angry, so I will replace some fixed syllables when I recite. You'd better cheer up and don't make mistakes." Ji Xian said.

Balbohan nodded, indicating that it was time to start.

Every time Ji Xian read a sentence, he repeated it.Balbohan tried to understand the meaning of the incantation while reading it, but found that he couldn't decipher the intention of this incantation at all-these words are not unfamiliar, but when they are combined, they are very obscure.The characters seem to be pieced together at random, like the ravings of a hysterical patient, revealing weirdness and anxiety everywhere.Balbohan chanted the mantra, his teeth were chattering, and the transparent crystals were crawling and wriggling towards his outstretched arms, making a clucking sound like ice cubes being squeezed.He felt the tingling pain from his hands and the fear brought by the unknown. He had an urge to give up immediately, recover his real body, and run away, but he finally endured it.

It wasn't until Ji Xian jumped onto his shoulder that Balbohan realized that the spell was over, and now he only felt the pain from his arms, as if it had penetrated into his brain.

"These growths seem to be unaffected by time, but the body is still imprisoned in the frozen time. Hmm... I seem to have seen this thing before. Nolifin, you can now separate Gowawa from the crystal gone."

Nolifin nodded, she pressed the big dwarf's shoulders, and pulled his body back from the dark crystal.

"Cut off Balbohan's arm again." Ji Xian continued to order.

The two looked at each other, and Balbohan nodded to Nolifin with difficulty, his face distorted due to the pain.

The slender scimitar was unsheathed from her waist, and Nuolifen was also in a daze at this moment.

She remembered a conversation with Egran before.

The conversation goes roughly like this:

——Who do you think is the core of the team in your "harmonious coexistence"?

——There is no core, I think everyone is important, including you.

——You said it nicely.Then let me ask from another angle: Who do you think can reassure you the most, and whose instructions are you more willing to follow when you are in danger?

——Sir Oplovan is very reliable, but he is not his own now; Lord is very strong and calm in battle, but his experience is still a bit shallow; Ozwan and Yashaya are very reliable, they are ideal Comrades, but they are not good at and unwilling to give orders...

—Where is Balbohan?

--he?I kind of like him, and basically no one on the team doesn't like him.

——Do you think he can be called the core of your team?

——Not really... Haha, why do you think it's him?

—I have often seen him order you to do things, and you are willing to obey, including the bad-tempered dwarf.

——Listen to you...it seems to be so, but this is only in normal times, if in battle...

——In battle, he will not order you to do things, but he will often sacrifice his life to protect you.

—…It seems to be the case.

——So can he be called the core of your team?

— who knows.As I said just now, there is no such thing as core or non-core here, and everyone is equally important.

——Have you ever thought that the members of "Harmonious Coexistence" are able to love each other as they are now, thanks to Balbohan?

— Indeed, he... has always been positive.

——According to my observation, his contribution in this team is almost never reserved, isn't that true?

--Yes.

—Do you know why?

— Hmm...maybe it's because he feels he owes us?After all he has some... unique biological needs... that's my guess, I've never thought about it before.

——How much do you think he owes you?

——I don't think he owes us anything. Teammates should help each other, which is normal.

——But he himself doesn't think so. I think you should pay attention to this issue.Balbohan loathed his identity and considered himself humble.You get along very well, but are fragile and easily broken.He is the hub of maintaining your relationship in your "harmonious coexistence", but also your weakness. If he leaves, I am afraid that "harmonious coexistence" will eventually fall apart.

——You are right... Without him, the differences between Lord and Lamy would probably continue until the team was split; and Gowawa and I...may have fallen out sooner or later; and Avenia, she is always fighting with Ke Malan... You really have a hand, and you can see such a serious problem after only staying with us for a few months.

——It's nothing, the bystanders know.

——Then... do you have any suggestions?

——There is no good suggestion, and after a long time, these problems may disappear, as long as Balbohan himself can face himself and realize that relying on his family is not a disgraceful thing.After all, he was defeated by his own self-esteem.

——Don't talk about this with me, you must have a way, right?

— There is a way, but it is easy to be self-defeating.

--Tell me.

——It's like desensitization therapy, you have to let him see his own fragility and the ugliness he was born with.

——We have discussed this issue behind his back before, so we have always been very taboo to mention it.

——You can mention it to him in the future, lest someone bring it up during a quarrel one day.These words will appear to be very lethal. As long as anyone scolds him "Parasite, get out of here", he may be so ashamed that he commits suicide on the spot.

——This... Well, maybe he can really do it.How do you think we should implement this?

——This requires you to decide for yourself, after all, you know him better than I do.I need to explain first: you decide whether to do it or not, and I am not responsible for any accidents.An example can be given, such as "calling up a nickname". Aswan's most commonly used nickname is "vampire", but you can't use this nickname, you have to be someone like Gowawa or Kemaran.

——Indeed, it is not surprising that these two "dung mouths" said anything hurtful.

——If you decide to do this, then give everyone a nickname. This kind of thing will be treated equally so that it will not appear malicious. You must all participate in it and proceed step by step, so as not to make him suspicious.