NOVEL NEXT Chapter 397
Damn it! This kid’s talent is pretty decent, but he’s way too damn disobedient!
I warned him over and over again not to leave the dog’s side under any circumstances, or else he might run into a Snow Maiden who could trick him into a blizzard and freeze him to death. But while I was digging underground in the desert looking for a worm, the brat vanished without a trace!
If I hadn’t been cautious enough to memorize his scent beforehand and followed it all the way here, by the time he froze to death in the snowy mountain, we probably wouldn’t have found him at all! “Woof!”
Controlling the big dog’s body, the Scorpion Bureau Director let out an angry roar before leaping directly toward the Snow Maiden curled up in the sleeping bag. However, a gigantic mountaineering backpack suddenly appeared right in front of him.
“Puff!”
Holy crap, there’s a dog!
After throwing the mountaineering pack, which slammed the attacking savage dog to the ground, Leon, relying on his thick clothing, pounced forward and pinned the large dog down with his weight. With both hands, he tightly gripped the dog’s mouth to prevent it from biting anyone.
Holy crap, you actually hit me?!!!!!
After being floored by the pack, the Scorpion Bureau Director, dazed and confused, tried to yell but had his mouth grabbed again, leaving most of his tongue hanging outside, only able to hum pitifully from his throat.
During the struggle with the mountaineer Leon, the crown of thorns on the dog’s head got knocked off when Leon grabbed its mouth. The furious look in the dog’s eyes instantly cleared up.
“Woof… woof…”
It seemed… like it had been beaten into submission? Leon hesitated slightly as he looked at the large dog beneath him, now no longer struggling fiercely but whimpering with its tail tucked between its legs. He loosened his grip a little.
But instead of retaliating, the calmer dog didn’t attack again. Instead, it rolled onto its back in a submissive manner, showing its belly, and its expression even looked somewhat fawning.
“Hurry! Strangle it!”
Seeing Leon release the dangerous-looking dog, the Snow Maiden, who had just caught her breath, immediately tensed up again. Sitting up, she struggled to say:
“It’s dangerous! You can’t be deceived by it! I…”
“I’ve got a plan!”
Interrupting the Snow Maiden, Leon struck his hand against his palm with excitement and said:
“You don’t have a mountaineering suit, so you can’t hike down with me, but I still have a sleeping bag!
We can cut some tree branches, tie them together with climbing ropes to make a makeshift sled. You lie in the sleeping bag, and I’ll drag you down with this dog!”
Drag me down? Upon hearing Leon’s words, the Snow Maiden couldn’t help but shiver.
The dream realm she had conjured wasn’t infinite like the true Dream Realm; its range only covered this snowy mountain. If he really dragged her down, she’d reach the edge of the nightmare.
Normally, being dragged to the edge of a nightmare would simply mean waking up, but since the Soulfall Black Abyss overlapped with reality, if she were dragged out from the nightmare’s edge, that would mean entering the real world!
Unlike nightmare creatures like sand worms or sea monsters, apart from being immune to freezing temperatures, her physical abilities were similar to those of an ordinary human woman, and all her strength was confined within this snowy mountain.
If she were forcibly pulled out of the dream, she would truly become vulnerable, possibly even melting away completely without the protection of the dream!
…
“No, no, no!”
Realizing what Leon intended to do, the Snow Maiden quickly shook her head and refused:
“I… I remember now, I actually have a leader! … You leave me here, give me a blanket, and wait for him to rescue me!”
“Hmm? So your brain finally woke up, huh!”
Seeing that this foolish woman finally stopped talking nonsense, Leon couldn’t help but nod approvingly. Then he took out his satellite phone, adjusted the service provider, and asked:
“I searched for a signal for a long time earlier but heard nothing… What’s your leader’s communication number? Let’s see if I can establish a connection!”
Communication number? What kind of thing is that? Not understanding what Leon was holding, but considering this was a dream, as long as it wasn’t too unreasonable, he could fill in the details himself. After a brief silence, the Snow Maiden decided to take a gamble and cautiously suggested:
“6?”
“…”
Disappointed, Leon put away his satellite phone, grabbed a climbing rope, tied the obedient dog securely to a nearby tree, tested it a few times to ensure it couldn’t escape, then picked up his axe and went to chop down trees.
Seeing Leon finally leave, the vicious dog bared its teeth at her again. Afraid to stay any longer, the Snow Maiden took a deep breath, ready to escape using the wind and snow. However…
“WOOF!”
Accompanied by a soul-shaking bark, the Snow Maiden, whose body had already partially merged with the wind and snow, trembled violently and was directly ejected from the wind and snow by the sound of the bark.
With this loud bark, the severe blizzard within a 500-meter radius centered around the two people and the dog was dispersed by half, instantly turning into a moderate snowfall.
This is bad…
Looking at the viciously snarling dog tethered to the tree, the Snow Maiden, paralyzed in her sleeping bag after being shaken by the bark, almost cried.
It’s one of those suppressing anomalous items… If I had known I’d encounter something like this, I should have swapped tasks with that sea monster and gone to hold off the Level 3 Cleaner from the Scorpio Division of the Clearing Bureau.
Even though I don’t have much combat ability, they didn’t need to fight anyway; they just needed speed. As someone who can transform into wind and snow, surviving would have been ridiculously easy.
But after taking on the task of dealing with this Level 3 Cleaner, I accidentally got caught by this man-dog duo. If things continue like this…
Without a single mistake, one after another, the content inside 69 Book Bar is worth checking out!
“Ugly as it may be, it should work!”
After cutting branches with his axe and binding them with spare climbing ropes into a crooked sled, Leon nodded satisfactorily. He then chopped off a piece of climbing rope, wrapped it a couple of times around the chest and back of the wagging-tail dog, tied several knots, and thus completed a makeshift dog-sled.
Carrying the powerless Snow Maiden and tying her to the sled, Leon looked up at the smaller snowfall and couldn’t help but smile happily.
“Not bad, the snow has suddenly lessened, so this time you’re saved.”
Saved my ass! If you drag me out, I’m dead for sure!! Looking up at Leon wearing huge goggles, who still smiled warmly as if he had done a great deed, the extremely unlucky Snow Maiden couldn’t help but take a deep breath and coldly shouted:
“Let me go, human!”
“???”
“I am the spirit of winter, the Snow Maiden reigning over this snowy mountain! I can summon blizzards at will! Just let me go, and I can… What’s that look on your face?”
“Nothing…”
Glancing pityingly at this foolish woman, Leon shook his head slightly and didn’t bother to argue with her, frozen out of her senses. Instead, he and the wagging-tailed dog each pulled half of the sled.
“I’m not lying! I really am the Snow Maiden!”
“Yeah, yeah, I believe you.”
“If you believe me, stop dragging me!”
“Stop? We’ll stop once we get down the mountain.”
“Damn it, you still don’t believe me!”
“Believe, how could I not believe?”
Looking toward the vague outline of the mountaineering camp below, Leon sighed, resignedly slung the sled rope over his shoulder, and began walking down the mountain step by step.
“Don’t talk about Snow Maidens, even if you say you’re the Snow King, I’d believe you… Oh, do you know that song?”
“Wh…what song?”
“Do you love me~ Do you love me~ Moshin Ice City sweet and lovely~”
“…”
Damn, dragging a crazy woman down the mountain, and singing to her along the way, I must be such a good person! “Help! I won’t go down the mountain! Help! It will kill me! Help!!!”
(The chapter ends here)