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Chapter 416 The Icelandic Battlefield "South": The War of the World Tree (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
Time: 00:10 AM, September 1st.

Iceland, south of the Hofsjökull glacier.

As night fell, a brown convertible emerged from the distant horizon and drove into the boundless glacier.

With a humming engine, the wheels left two white tracks on the ice. In the back seat, howling snow swept across everyone's cheeks, and a flock of crows above them scattered in all directions across the glacier.

The hacker rubbed his hands together, wrapped his scarf tighter, and exhaled a warm breath of white air into his palms.

He looked up at the blue aurora, thinking that this tranquil moment would last a long time, but the deathly silence that enveloped the glacier was broken the next moment.

"Commander, get your men out of the car!"

Suddenly, a boy riding a flying shark descended from the sky. His youthful and hurried voice pierced through the wind and snow, breaking the silence above the glacier and reaching everyone's ears.

The members of the White Raven Brigade looked up at the sound and all turned to see Caesar sitting on the back of Agubaru.

"Ah... what's wrong?" The hacker was taken aback. "His Highness the Third Prince looks very anxious."

“Who knows?” Anence raised an eyebrow.

In the next instant, as a crow on the car turned into black feathers and scattered, Qi Yuanli's figure appeared on the passenger seat of the convertible.

"At twelve o'clock, at the bottom of the glacier," he reminded.

Upon hearing this, everyone in the tour group turned to look. They saw a huge dark shadow moving at the bottom of the glacier, approaching the convertible. The shadow's outline was as large as a whale, but its shape was...

—Like a wolf!

"Roar--!"

At that moment, accompanied by a powerful roar, a giant gray-white wolf broke through the ice. Its eyes were black, like an alien that had been parasitized by a strange creature.

The moment it broke through the ice, the giant wolf raised its claws and tore the convertible to shreds. Fortunately, the group members inside had already evacuated in time.

They were standing fifty meters away, looking up at the uninvited guest.

The giant gray-white wolf that came into view was over thirty meters long, standing like a snow-capped mountain atop the glacier. A girl in a hospital gown sat on the wolf's back.

The girl had straight black hair and a beauty mark at the corner of her eye; her gaze was vacant at that moment.

The Demon "Felio", the World Tree "Shang Xiaochi"...

The figures of the two were reflected in Yagubalu's vertical, deep blue pupils, and it immediately recognized their identities.

"Caesar, get down." Almost instantly after saying that, its body expanded a hundredfold.

"I know! Be careful, Agubaru!" Caesar shouted as he summoned the Strange Tales Book and released his fins to break free from Agubaru's shark back.

A biting wind swept across his face from above the glacier, causing his long white hair to flutter and his white cloak to billow in the wind.

"Crack——!"

Caesar crushed the "Christmas sleigh" as he tumbled and fell from mid-air. A reindeer's cry echoed from the aurora-filled sky, followed by two reindeer dragging a red sleigh through the air.

He landed on top of the oncoming sled. Two reindeer trudged through the snow and wind, dragging the sled upwards.

At the same time, in the blink of an eye, Agubaru had already reached a length of two hundred meters. With the force of an avalanche, it plummeted down like Mount Tai. Its gaping, blood-red maw opened wide, as terrifying as an abyss, closing in on the giant wolf and the girl on its back.

If it can swallow Shang Xiaochi and Philio together, it can go with Caesar to support people on other battlefields while the two members of the Savior Team are trapped in the shark's belly space, thus reducing casualties.

But this idea is clearly too naive.

The next moment, Shang Xiaochi suddenly raised her head, her long black hair flying in the wind, and a blood-red light emanated from her chest.

"Red light, a mythical wonder..." Qi Yuanli stared at the scene with his deep eyes, thinking silently.

In an instant, dark thorns sprouted from the girl's body and spread outwards, like a wildly growing jungle, spreading in all directions.

"Puff—puff—!"

Aguru was pinned in mid-air by countless thorns, like Jesus bound to the cross. Scales could not stop the branches of the World Tree, and thick blood flowed down the giant shark's body.

It was like a black waterfall, cascading down to the earth.

"You think you can stop Shark Shark like that?"

The next second, it raised its angry and ferocious head, and its body expanded further, from 200 meters to 500 meters, entering its complete form, with all the thorns inside its body breaking off.

At the same time, the members of the troupe could not escape their fate. The thorns were so fast, like a rain of arrows rushing towards them.

“Hey, hey, hey…” Robert froze. His pupils reflected a jet-black thorn shooting straight at him—it wasn’t even fast enough to react, it was as if someone had splashed ink on his eyes, and in the blink of an eye his vision was covered by a thick black.

Almost instantly, his mechanical box was pierced by thorns, and blood spurted from the wound.

Robert was strung up from head to toe like meat on a kebab, pierced by that bundle of thorns.

Under the moonlight, a blood-soaked figure came into view. The next moment, the thorn that had pierced his body stirred slightly, and his body immediately turned into a cloud of blood mist, leaving not even a speck of flesh behind.

"No way..." the hacker muttered.

"Whoa..." Anlens was also slightly taken aback. If he were in Robert's position, he would already be dead.

Immediately afterwards, a large swarm of branches and thorns swept towards Qi Yuanli and the others. Qi Yuanli was slightly taken aback at first, then took out a playing card from between his fingers—the "King".

A colorful clown danced on the cards, tossing the stolen Sky Chaser into Qi Yuanli's hands—a seven-colored compass.

It was none other than Zhou Jiuya's "Tonggu Compass".

During the battle at Lake Hunt, Qi Yuanli used the "Ace" mechanism to steal Zhou Jiuya's Sky Chariot.

The moment he grasped the compass, an overwhelming shadow enveloped the glacier.

"Boom——!"

The Nine Dragon Cauldron descended from the sky, unleashing a powerful shockwave that swept across the heavens and earth, blocking the path directly in front of the group members. The cauldron trembled and reverberated, its body being torn open by the thorns of the World Tree, barely managing to hold back the thorny thicket that was spreading from afar.

"Radish head..."

The hacker stood there dumbfounded, then belatedly muttered something.

"That's incredible, this is mythical level." Anlens licked his lips.

Origami Ayase widened her eyes slightly.

"God-level?" the hacker murmured, his face pale. "Damn, we've run into this... Is there no tutorial? Why are we jumping straight to the final boss... Guild leader, what do we do?" He looked up at Qi Yuanli.

Qi Li remained silent, his deep eyes darting around as he realized something was amiss:

Where did that wolf go?

As his thoughts settled here, time seemed to stand still in Qi Yuanli's eyes as he scanned the entire glacier through the perspective of countless crows.

Finally, as if realizing something, thousands of crows simultaneously lowered their eyes and looked down, their pupils reflecting the azure ice surface. Beneath the ice, a long-dormant dark shadow lay hidden.

The dark figure swam at high speed, getting infinitely close to the hacker's feet!
"Hacker, watch out." Qi Yuanli raised an eyebrow and immediately gave a low shout.

However, just as Philio broke through the ice and lunged at the hacker's back,

Suddenly, a fierce and noble figure descended from the sky. She plummeted like a falcon, creating a visible ripple of air.

Then, amidst a deafening whooshing sound, he plunged his two daggers into the giant wolf's shoulder bone.

"roar---!!!"

Amidst a hysterical howl, the dagger plunged deep into the ice, pinning it to the surface. Then, the uninvited guest slowly raised its head from the wolf's back, its flowing hair dancing in the wind.

Although the members of the Phantom Troupe had never witnessed the Queen's final evolved form, they still recognized her from her cold demeanor and the two daggers in her hands.

The Queen's Colossus.

She looked down at Filio's head, her dark pupils illuminated by the aurora borealis in the sky.

In the blink of an eye, the Queen Colossus drew her daggers from the giant wolf's back. Her movements were as swift as the wind and as frenzied as a hawk. The two daggers swept across the pale giant wolf's body in circles, leaving patches of blood.

The giant wolf's blood nearly stained the polar glacier red. But in the next instant, the giant wolf suddenly reversed its defeat. It roared and howled, and an overwhelming white light poured out from its body, blasting the queen dozens of meters away. The queen's statue spun upside down in mid-air before slowly landing, her black battle skirt swaying like a bird's tail feathers, her feet carving a furrow in the ice.

"Roar--!"

Immediately afterwards, a wolf over twenty meters long plummeted from the sky and landed on the glacier. The entire Hofs Glacier trembled for a moment, and the ice broke out, sweeping away a cloud of white mist.

A pair of bone wings unfolded behind the Sky Wolf, and two figures sat on the wings: a girl in a red dress and a young man wearing a gray-white cloak.

Xia Pingzhou dismounted from Bai Tanlang's back. A black and white halo swirled around him, like an orbit or a circular chessboard, with chess pieces revolving around him like satellites.

The white wolf slowly raised its eyes, staring at Philio, meeting his gaze with eyes covered in thick black.

“Son…” it began hoarsely.

Philo remained unmoved, but its breathing grew deeper and more violent, and its brow ridges arched deeply.

Xia Pingzhou and Qi Yuanli exchanged a glance, then their gazes swept across the faces of each member, finally settling on Ayase Origami's face.

She silently watched him, and their gaze seemed to stretch on for an eternity. After a while, the cold Icelandic wind blew in, and the girl in the kimono slowly lowered her head, no longer looking at him, her eyes hidden by her flowing, cool hair.

“I’m not here to fight with you,” Xia Pingzhou said calmly, looking away from her face. “You can talk after you’ve settled accounts with me, otherwise we’ll only end up hurting each other.”

"That's true... I can tell." Qi Yuanli stared at him and said coldly.

"Long time no see, everyone..." Bloodline walked over confidently, smiling as her red dress and golden hair fluttered in the cold wind.

“The traitor should shut up,” the hacker said. “You actually went with him.”

Xia Pingzhou ignored the group members and looked up into the distance.

As the blanket of snow and mist dissipated, a magnificent tree stood atop the glacier. Looking up, its end was nowhere in sight. The World Tree had pierced through the atmosphere, likely reaching a height of ten thousand meters.

The clouds and mist swirled around the World Tree like a halo surrounding a giant god, obscuring part of its trunk.

It is deeply rooted at the bottom of the glacier, and you can see a layer of black flowing beneath the ice, spreading silently, like the veins of the earth. That is the root of the World Tree.

At this very moment, Agubaru and Caesar were hovering above the World Tree, completely baffled as to where they should attack the giant tree to destroy it.

"Shang Xiaochi..."

Xia Pingzhou's expression darkened slightly, and he murmured softly, "Am I still too late?"

"Commander, should we fight?" Anlens approached Qi Yuanli. "I feel really annoyed that Carrot Head was just taken out like that."

"No, there's no need to fight... We can just avoid the Mythical-level; our objective is the Salvation Society's base..."

Before Ke Qi could finish speaking, suddenly, a huge game notification box appeared in everyone's eyes.

The scene was eerie and chilling. The blood-red text in the prompt box flickered like torches, illuminating the eyes of each of them and causing their pupils to contract slightly.

[Game scene "Jurassic World" has been loaded; loading progress: 100%.]

[Hint: Game is loading.]

Upon seeing this, Xia Pingzhou's expression suddenly changed, and his mind raced.

Game scene?

Is Mario here too?

Thinking of this, he suddenly raised his head and looked around, finally fixing his gaze on an iceberg in the distance.

At the top of the iceberg stood a boy in a hospital gown holding a black handheld game console, looking down at everyone with an expressionless face.

“We meet again…” Mario looked up from his handheld console and said in a low voice with an indifferent expression, “NPCs.”

Welcome, our player. Your spawn point has been randomly determined.

As the notification box appeared in front of everyone, all the figures in the southern part of the Hofs Glacier, including Philio and the giant tree that stretched from the sky to the ground, were completely swallowed up by a stream of data.

Then, it vanished.

A moment later, the glacier was completely silent, as if nothing had happened.

only……

An avalanche was imminent; icebergs collapsed one after another, and deafening roars echoed throughout the white expanse of sky and earth.

A bright sun peeked out from the broken sky, shining on the earth as if at dawn.

Under the blazing sun, a desolate desert, seemingly from ancient times, shimmered brilliantly. The enormous trees surrounding the group grew wildly, like demons reaching out their claws towards the sky.

The figures of the hacker and Anrons, bathed in sunlight, stood frozen in place.

"This is……"

They murmured in unison, their hearts filled with immense bewilderment and shock.

“That kid from the Salvation Society,” the hacker suddenly remembered. “The Little Cat Casanova and the Ripper clashed with them before.”

A vibrant, wild green expanse came into view, revealing a primeval forest.

To the east of the jungle lies a vast grassland and a long river. To the west, deep within the jungle, stands a towering cliff.

At this moment, from the high cliff deep in the jungle, a gate made of pixels slowly emerged.

Then a blond, blue-eyed boy in a hospital gown pushed open the door and came out.

Xia Pingzhou silently raised his head and met the gaze of the blond, blue-eyed boy.

“That chess player…” Mario murmured, remembering the man.

After a while, Xia Pingzhou turned his head again and looked into the distance. He saw that the World Tree was now rooted in the center of the boundless wasteland. Its towering branches blocked out the sunlight, making the wilderness dark, as if night had fallen.

Shang Xiaochi is located inside this giant tree.

Finally, he looked towards Filio's side.

At this moment, the wounds inflicted on Philio's back by the Queen Colossus had completely healed... The mentor had clearly used some method against demons to elevate Philio's physical abilities and regenerative power to such an unbelievable level.

Thinking of this, Xia Pingzhou slowly shifted his gaze. "I'll deal with the kid with the game console first and let you guys out of here... You guys help hold off the World Tree and Bai Tanlang's child. If possible, try to minimize the number of deaths."

"A traitor, and he's even giving orders?" The hacker frowned.

"Do as he says," Qi Yuanli said calmly, a few playing cards appearing between his fingers.

He turned to look at the White Wolf, who had roared and charged at Philio. The two enormous wolves were locked in combat. "Anlens, come with me to help the White Wolf."

“Received.” Anlens smiled slightly.

Qi Yuanli's deep eyes looked into the distance. Caesar rode a Christmas sleigh, speeding swiftly under the blazing sun alongside Agubaru, who had transformed into a two-meter-tall figure.

The World Tree stirred up thousands upon thousands of thorns, like a black storm chasing after the man and the shark.

Qi Yuanli was silent for a moment before speaking: "Bloodline, Ayase Origami, you two go and block the World Tree with the Third Prince and his shark. Your lives come first."

"Traitor Number Two, received." The Bloodline said playfully, hands on hips. "By the way, where's Robert?"

Origami Ayase remained silent, a wisp of her cool hair swaying in the wind.

Upon hearing her name, Xia Pingzhou paused slightly. He glanced at the kimono-clad girl in the distance out of the corner of his eye and silently mouthed:
"wait for me."

The girl in the kimono was slightly taken aback.

Xia Pingzhou withdrew his gaze and moved forward.

He walked alone into that primeval jungle.

As far as he could remember, this was the second time he had encountered this jungle. The first time, he was still trying to figure out a way to escape from the jungle with Su Zimai, because he knew that the dinosaurs summoned by Mario were invincible.

This time, Xia Pingzhou chose not to look back and instead went to meet Mario on the cliff.

(End of this chapter)