Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 229: For Your Majesty (44)

Dragon Raja 5

He don’t know when the ice storm stopped, and the world was so desolate as if the world had just opened. It was a scene that only existed in fairy tales, but it was so beautiful that it was frightening.

Caesar slapped himself hard, his cheek burning with pain. This was not a dream.

Caesar didn’t even have time to wake up Finger. He grabbed his ice pick and climbed up along the flat ice surface, wanting to get to a higher place so that he could see more clearly.

He didn’t completely trust Snow. What she told him sounded like a ghost story, full of unexpected events. Suddenly, they saw the aurora, and suddenly, the sun was setting in front of the boat. It wasn’t like you were looking for the island, but rather the island was looking for you. But this scene happened right before his eyes. Was the mysterious island here too?

Looking out, there was no island, only endless glaciers, reflecting the green skirt in the sky like a mirror.

The air was filled with the deep, ancient song of a great whale, which was not visible but hidden beneath the glacier. The song was getting closer and closer, as it swam towards Caesar.

Caesar didn’t even turn around and run away immediately because he was completely shocked.

Ice flowers blossomed one after another on the frozen sea, like giant footprints, as if a towering celestial being were walking toward him, lotus blossoming with each step. It was the extreme cold field carried by Leviathan that was altering the lattice structure of the ice.

The “Sickle Weasel” could clearly capture the heartbeat like an ancient bell under the ice. There was not one, but more than a dozen heartbeats. The huge creature seemed to have more than a dozen parallel hearts, beating in sequence at a certain coordinated frequency to transport blood to every corner of its huge body.

The shock waves it created when swimming were almost a kilometer wide. The secret party’s records had never seen such a huge dragon. It was more like the legendary black monarch who died on the top of the mountain and whose black wings could cover the entire mountain.

The sled dogs barked frantically, but the alarm came too late. Looking down from above, the crew members who had camped on the other side of the ice peak ran out of their tents, not even having time to put on their cold-weather boots, and wielded ice axes to climb up along the ice peak.

Behind them, on the gentle ice shelf, white bushes were sprouting, appearing a dreamy pale blue under the aurora. Of course, they weren’t real bushes, but rapidly growing ice crystals.

Just like the scientific expedition team that died, they didn’t run far before they turned into sculptures on the ice peak. The sled dogs ran faster and farther, but the final result was the same. Caesar saw with his own eyes a sled dog leaping into the air and turning into ice chips when it landed.

Caesar turned around and ran wildly. He didn’t know where he was running, but he was running against the direction of the ice crystal forest. The edge of the ice crystal forest was roughly the edge of the extremely cold area.

The ice shelf was enormous, stretching as far as the eye could see, but how far could he run? Could he run faster across the ice than the giant whale could swim?

These questions flashed through his mind, but he didn’t have time to dwell on them. His adrenaline was already at its peak, and he put all his strength into running. He dared not slow down even a step, and certainly not fall, otherwise he would be swallowed up by the icy hell behind him.

The ice shelf shook, emitting a heart-pounding cracking sound, and a huge crack appeared before Caesar. In an instant, it stretched to several hundred meters long and more than ten meters wide, with jagged ice cliffs on both sides and the gently undulating sea below.

The stress accumulated on the ice surface suddenly erupted at this time. Even this stable ice shelf could not withstand the severe cold brought by Leviathan.

Caesar braked suddenly on the slippery surface and almost fell off the ice cliff. There was no road ahead, and behind him was the approaching ice crystal forest, which he could not jump over.

Just then, someone patted him on the shoulder from behind. Turning around, he saw it was Finger. Even the sled dogs were wiped out, but this guy, who slept more soundly than a dog, had actually escaped.

“Take off your clothes! Jump down!” Finger shouted.

Caesar looked down at the ice cliff in surprise. The sea water was blue-black, slowly undulating, and countless pieces of ice were floating on the sea.

In polar environments, it’s said that even warm urine will turn to ice before hitting the ground. While this isn’t necessarily true, a human body exposed to the air for just a few seconds will suffer hypothermia, with all its functions failing one by one, and within minutes, it will freeze into a stiff corpse. And Finger actually suggested he strip naked and jump into the sea.

Finger didn’t just offer advice; he put it into practice. Before Caesar could react, he had stripped down to his underwear. Even for a mixed-blood, direct exposure to ultra-low temperatures was tough. Finger’s entire body turned red like a boiled prawn, and he shivered constantly.

“The temperature is minus thirty degrees! The ice-water mixture is zero degrees!” Finger yelled, “Stop admiring my ***! If you don’t jump, it will be too late!”

Caesar suddenly understood.

The temperature in the Arctic Circle can drop below zero, but the seawater is much warmer, with temperatures near the ice being around zero degrees Celsius and in the deep sea around four degrees Celsius. This is why the Arctic Ocean has its own marine ecosystem.

Water has a high heat capacity, and its volume is practically infinite. Even Leviathan couldn’t freeze the Arctic Ocean all the way to the bottom. So, in principle, as long as they kept diving deeper, they had a chance of escaping Leviathan’s spiritual attacks. Zero to four degrees Celsius would be unbearably cold for ordinary people, but with Caesar’s physique, he should be able to freedive for half an hour. As for Finger, judging by the way he stretched his hips and swung his arms before entering the water, he was undoubtedly a skilled winter swimmer. The only problem was that they didn’t have scuba gear. Hybrids can hold their breath better than ordinary people, but they weren’t murlocs after all, so they had to surface every few minutes to breathe, lest the entire ocean freeze over.

While Caesar was still pondering, Finger had already transformed into a white splash of water. It was indeed too late. The white bushes that covered the mountain were rapidly growing towards the top of the ice peak, and the vast expanse was endless as far as the eye could see.

Caesar unzipped his winter coat and leaped out. Looking back from the air, he saw his unzipped winter coat still standing on the top of the ice peak, frozen solid.

An extremely cold air enveloped Caesar. In the seconds before he fell into the water, his whole body was covered with white ice crystals. After diving into the icy sea, he felt a slight warmth. He dived into the deep sea with all his strength, and white ice crystals grew downwards at a high speed behind him.