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"Uh... huh?"

After a moment's thought, the man realized that Ella was asking the literal meaning of the question, and tentatively replied, "...The Northern Territory, the middle layer of the Narrow Abyss."

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Descendants of the Blue Dragon

...They actually came all the way to the Narrow Abyss in the North. That's quite a leap.

Ella couldn't explain that she had stumbled upon this place by accident due to a failed experiment, so she simply nodded to indicate that she understood and then asked what the monster she had just seen was.

"I've never seen a monster like that before, it's terrifying... but it's listed in my system quests, and I think it's called something like... Behemoth?"

Ella initially indicated that she understood, then her eyes suddenly widened. "Wait a minute, Behemoths?...Aren't those products of hell?"

How can demons from hell appear in the mortal world?

Ella said that she felt like she vaguely remembered it, but seeing it again felt strangely out of place.

Because this thing should have appeared after she caused the fusion of hell and the mortal world in the later part of her previous life, and it shouldn't exist in the mortal world now, she didn't think of it as a hellish monster for the time being.

"It's a long story..."

Seeing the surprise in Ella's eyes, the man took a deep breath and then began to explain.

"My name is Yun Chen, and his name is Lin Haiqing. As you can see, we are travelers from another world. We were originally members of an adventurer's guild in a small town on the northern border, responsible for protecting a research team from a mage association, who came here to investigate the phenomenon of elemental disorder."

"This phenomenon is said to have started about half a year ago, causing monsters in the surrounding area to frequently riot, and it shows signs of getting worse. When monsters go berserk, they attack humans like madmen, no longer afraid of pain and death, and become extremely difficult to deal with."

"This phenomenon is too strange, so the city hall prepared exploration funds and cooperated with the Mage Association to send people to study what exactly is going on."

"The mages and scholars in the team searched for the source of the elemental disorder. They spent a week crossing the Snow-Clear Peak from the northern border and exploring all the way to the Narrow Abyss. Finally, they found the source at the bottom of the Narrow Abyss."

He leaned against the dark, tentacle-like wall, his face pale. "Looking back now, this was the most regrettable journey we've ever taken in our lives."

"Beneath the abyss, we witnessed firsthand a rift connecting to hell... Unheard-of monsters poured out from within, and the Mage Guild, along with everyone else from our guild, were all left there."

"Then how did you escape?"

Ella raised an eyebrow.

Yun Chen and his companion exchanged a glance.

The latter immediately curled his lip, "Others have already saved our lives, so let them say what they want. We couldn't have accomplished this on our own anyway."

"I'm just afraid you'll overthink it."

Yun Chen immediately turned around and said, "We were running for our lives when we encountered a blue dragon at the bottom of the glacier."

"...Blue Dragon?"

Ella tilted her head.

There does seem to be a legend that there is an ancient blue dragon sleeping at the bottom of the Northern Abyss, which corresponds to the legend of the red dragon in Molten City in the south of the continent.

"Yes, but it's on its last legs, covered in alchemical tubes..."

The man tried hard to describe what he had seen.

“I’m not quite sure what those things are, but I think that was originally the blue dragon’s lair. It communicated with us and helped us repel the monsters pouring out of the Hell Rift, in exchange for which it hoped we could bring its children out of the Narrow Abyss.”

As he spoke, the man patted the large package he had been protecting to his chest, “...This is it.”

"Then, as you see, sir, we finally managed to escape to the middle level, but unfortunately we encountered that group of monsters that just came out of the rift and were wandering around. If it weren't for your divine intervention, we probably would have died here."

Ella nodded slightly. "May I see that package?"

Before Yun Chen could speak, his companion tugged at his shoulder and said, "Let's show it to her. To be fair, just hand it over to her, and our mission should be considered complete."

"It's not like I'm not going to give it to you, why are you in such a hurry..."

Yun Chen took the backpack off his shoulder and handed it to Ella.

While Ella was opening her backpack, he leaned close to his companion's ear and whispered, "Am I just imagining things? Why do I get the feeling that you trust her so much?"

"Nonsense, do you even know who this is?"

His companion whispered back, "Although we don't know why she's here alone, she's the famous Holy Maiden of Light."

"Holy..."

The man choked on his own saliva, his eyes widening. "Really?!"

"Keep your voice down, don't let others hear, it's impolite... Look closely at his appearance, how could it be fake? Don't you usually browse forums?"

"The most expensive item sold on the forum is her image pack, but I don't have that many universal points to buy it..."

Although the two were whispering in very low voices, Ella could hear them clearly.

However, she didn't point it out, but just looked at the contents of the package the other party had given her.

It was a deep blue egg, almost as big as Ella herself.

She gently stroked the surface of the egg with her palm, a hint of doubt suddenly appearing on her face. She took off her gloves and touched it carefully again.

"What's the matter, my lord?"

Upon seeing this, Yun Chen subconsciously asked a question, and then he saw that the eggshell suddenly cracked open with a "snap".

"Holy crap, is it about to hatch???"

Yun Chen's companion exclaimed in surprise.

But Ella frowned slightly, observed for a moment, and then suddenly shouted, "You all step back!..."

"boom"

A deafening roar suddenly erupted, and an extremely cold storm burst forth from the egg.

The two players were thrown to the ground, staring at the eye of the raging storm amidst the vast expanse of ice and snow, and cried out urgently, "Holy Maiden!??"

"Roar!!!"

With a fierce roar, a blue dragon, not particularly large, gradually emerged from the snowstorm.

Its scales have a soft outline, and two strange black lights flow in its golden eyes.

"What's going on here???"

Looking at the raging newborn dragon, Yun Chen asked in surprise.

"They must have stayed near the rift for too long and had their minds corrupted by the magic of hell."

Just then, a beautiful voice came from outside, and a slender girl emerged from the blizzard.

“Ouch——!!!”

The irritable blue dragon caught a glimpse of the girl beside it out of the corner of its eye and immediately opened its mouth to pounce.

"careful!"

Two players, who were lying on the ground unable to move due to the blizzard, saw this sudden change and screamed in terror.

Ella seemed to be caught off guard, standing still as the young dragon was about to bite her head.

Finished!

Yun Chen felt a sense of despair.

After barely escaping death and meeting the Holy Maiden, who would have thought that the egg would still cause problems?!

They had witnessed the power of that blue dragon before; even when it was on its last breath, it could still single-handedly hold off the monsters that filled the bottom of the entire abyss.

Although this fledgling dragon has just been born, the blizzard it summoned was so powerful that one can imagine that its true strength is definitely not weak.

But the next moment, they saw Ella casually slap the howling little dragon's head into the ground.

"Snapped"

The ground trembled as the crisp applause rang out.

The blizzard suddenly paused, and the little blue dragon pulled its head out of the snowdrift, letting out another fierce roar at Ella.

Ella wasn't going to let him get away with it, and slapped his head back into the ground.

And so it went, back and forth, the little dragon pulling its head out with a howl, getting slapped; pulling its head out with a howl, getting slapped again...

After four or five rounds, the two players lay prone in the raging blizzard, watching helplessly as the enraged blue dragon finally trembled and bowed its head to the frail girl.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: An Encounter with a Human Girl

"I remember they said that after being corrupted and driven mad, one loses all reason..."

Looking at the obedient and well-behaved little dragon, Yun Chen was at a loss for words.

"Perhaps he was moved by the Holy Maiden's influence...?"

The companion replied.

"...Are you serious?"

As the blizzard gradually subsided, Ella, carrying the little blue dragon by the neck, dragged it along the snow towards the two of them. "I didn't expect it to actually come out. Do you think you can still take it with you like this..."

"No, no, no, we won't bring them."

Yun Chen hurriedly waved his hand. The Holy Maiden could knock the dragon down with one slap, but the two of them couldn't withstand the dragon's breath that could summon blizzards.

“Our agreement with that blue dragon was to bring it to a safe place, and I think it’s quite safe with you by its side.”

"Is that so? Okay then."

Ella didn't refuse, mainly because those two ordinary players were indeed difficult to manage regarding that little dragon.

"Oh, so the mission is complete?"

A notification suddenly popped up in front of Yun Chen's eyes, which surprised him.

Unexpectedly, the moment Ella agreed to take care of the blue dragon, the system's task reward was immediately settled.

"Then it seems to be the Holy Maiden, the system has even verified it."

His companions finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After that, Ella casually created a portal and teleported the two of them to the Royal City of Loren.

She doesn't have an anchor point near the North yet; the nearest safe settlement she can reach is Loren.

However, these two players didn't really care about the location. They were already grateful to have survived, and if they could, they wouldn't want to stay in this icy wasteland for even a second longer.

Next, Ella activated her Wind Control spell and led the little blue dragon straight to the bottom of the abyss.

Since we're already here, we should definitely check out the situation of this hellish rift.

The appearance of the Hell Rift in the previous life was a means for the World-Destroying Witch to break through the limitations of the Holy Light Laws in the present world in order to ascend to mythology.

But now that Ella isn't causing any trouble, why are there new hell rifts appearing?

The Northern Abyss is a huge, deep valley in this glacial plateau. The middle layer looks like a ring of plains, but its actual elevation is hundreds of meters lower than the outer plateau.

The deeper layers are even more so. As Ella floats high in the sky, she can see a deep blue valley running through the entire ice field in the distance. Its narrow center is bottomless, as if it could reach the earth's core.

The frigid wind blew through it, producing a deep, eerie sound.

Ella, like a tiny snowflake, fell upon what would be considered a magnificent and precipitous mountain landscape by ordinary people.

The starlight could no longer penetrate the night sky. Although the space at the bottom of the abyss was still spacious, as the body fell, the thick ice on both sides gradually rose, and the sky gradually shrank into a narrow slit. An indescribable feeling of suffocation and confinement surged into the heart, giving one the illusion of being far away from the human world and sinking into hell.

However, Ella was naturally fearless. An ordinary adventurer might be smashed to pieces if he slipped on this cliff, but Ella walked on it as if it were flat ground.

She descended two or three thousand meters, reaching an altitude that was perhaps even lower than the hills outside the Northern Plateau, before finally seeing the fissure that stretched across the ground below.

The crack was pitch black at the outer edge, but the middle was a chaotic deep red, like a narrow eye that suddenly appeared in mid-air.

Strange and bizarre monsters kept pouring out of it, and the laws here had been somewhat distorted. Flames from hell burned on the ice surface, and stones with strange patterns slowly spread outwards like scabs.

Most of these hellish creatures can only move around near the rifts now, but as time goes on, the hellish laws gushing out from the rifts will expand like cancer cells, and the range in which these monsters can operate will become wider and wider.

This situation is somewhat similar to the end of the previous life, except that the Doomsday Witch created numerous rifts throughout the world simultaneously, while here there is only this one...

Wait, there might not be only one.

Ella suddenly remembered that when Ye Xiao entered Aslan, he helped Princess Serendra of Aslan investigate the elemental disorder in the Molten Mountains on the border.

Strange elemental fluctuations, rampaging monsters, and dragons... If you think about it carefully, the situation there seems particularly similar to this place.

Ella's heart tightened, and she curled her lips into a smirk.