Chapter 450 Ice Witch and Flame Witch

Hao Ren knew that their forceful breakthrough of the Blood Servant defense line would definitely draw the people from the royal city out—after all, the royal city was right next to the first entrance of the Ancestral Forge. However, he didn't expect the first one to run out to be Willie.

In fact, Willie didn't run over after hearing the Blood Servants sound the alarm. He got rid of the blood magic influence Vivian left behind not long after he separated from Hao Ren and his group. Although this young man was cowardly and indecisive, he wasn't stupid at all. After going back and thinking about it, he realized that his new friends were going to do something major. So he immediately ran to the castle to notify Scholar Olo, and then ran out alone. On the way, the Blood Servants sounded the alarm and alarmed the soldiers on the royal city side, and Willie accidentally merged with these soldiers.

This young noble bastard ran breathlessly, but when he saw the disheveled Blood Servants, he was so shocked that he almost forgot how to breathe: "This...what are you doing?!"

Hao Ren was already preparing to walk through the door, but when he saw Willie running over, he stopped and decided to leave a few words for this young man. He rubbed his forehead with a bit of a headache: "Do you know what we're here to do?"

"You want to destroy the forbidden area?!" Willie couldn't accept this fact. Although he felt that his newly acquainted friends were a bit strange, he instinctively didn't regard these people as bad people—in the eyes of the natives of this world, forcefully entering the Ancestral Forge was a great act of rebellion. "Why are you doing this?"

"We're not destroying," Hao Ren looked into Willie's eyes while casually knocking out the last Blood Servant warrior beside him who was trying to get up. "We want to save it—the process in between is complicated and can't be explained in a few words. You just need to know that this Ancestral Forge is facing a critical moment of life and death. It has a serious malfunction, and we might have a way to fix this facility."

"You'll ruin everything!" A middle-aged man beside Willie who looked like a noble shouted loudly, "The Ancestral Forge is a gift from the gods. It is eternal and indestructible, and it doesn't need any repairs! Leave that place immediately and accept divine judgment. If the ancestors are willing to forgive you, you can save your lives!"

Hao Ren shrugged indifferently, his gaze still on Willie. The young man's eyes were caught in a struggle. The education he received from childhood to adulthood made him think that the actions of these people in front of him were heretical, but the words "malfunction" and "repair" that Hao Ren mentioned stirred up ripples in his heart. In those ancient books, in those bizarre stories that Scholar Olo mentioned, Willie vaguely remembered that similar words had appeared, even though the mainstream voice of this world always regarded those stories as heresy. Yet Willie was very fascinated by them: this young man had a curiosity and receptivity that most people in this world didn't possess, and that was precisely one of the reasons why he was disliked.

Hao Ren smiled: "Willie, do you still remember those ancient stories that Scholar Olo mentioned?"

Willie subconsciously nodded, then his face darkened: "I'm a person who brings shame to the family, only fascinated by those stories."

"The real world is more glorious than the oldest parts of the story," Hao Ren looked up at the Ancestral Forge in the darkness, the huge metal blades on those heat dissipation grids occasionally reflecting a little glimmer under the distant lights. "This world is definitely not just this narrow and cramped ancient dome, and the end of the world is not this heavy layer of metal. First, we will make this city run again, and then I will show you what the real world looks like. By then you will know that your ambition and thirst for knowledge are by no means shortcomings. They are the most precious qualities of your race."

Willie listened, half-understanding, while the noble official from the royal city beside him was very impatient with Hao Ren's words. This noble lord only saw a group of barbarians trying to destroy the most sacred place in this world, so he waved his hand, and the soldiers behind him stepped forward in unison.

"Archers, get ready—"

"You know, according to my experience, it's more effective to use another set of models when negotiating with primitive tribes and city-states." Vivian raised her eyebrows and leaned slightly to Hao Ren's ear, then she lightly snapped her fingers, and a cold wind howled around her.

Blood-red light permeated from Vivian's eyes, and a cold mist with a bloody aura surrounded her. The gale roared, frost descended, and the rapidly decreasing temperature instantly created the illusion of falling into an ice cave. A layer of frost visibly condensed on the weapons and armor of the royal city soldiers, and frost was the thing that ordinary people in this world feared the most. When all the soldiers were frightened by this extreme cold, Vivian's voice pierced through the cold wind: "Then let's speak in terms you can understand—the Ice Witch will make the final judgment on this world! We will count the firewood in the Ancestral Forge. Will this world fall into eternal winter, or will it get rid of the cold cycle from now on? Everything will be decided today!"

Hao Ren's words might be effective for Willie, but Vivian's deterrence could shock everyone present. Exclamations of fear immediately came from all directions, and even the kingdom's best warriors trembled in the cold and dropped their weapons on the ground: "The Ice Witch! The Ice Witch has descended!" "It's the legendary End Winter, the End Winter has arrived!" "Ancestors, we're doomed!"

Hao Ren felt a vibration in his chest pocket, and the data terminal's voice sounded in his mind: "You should have been the most genuine swindler in this universe, but at a critical moment you're not as good as the bat spirit at home."

"Don't make trouble, I'm just acting as a swindler, but Vivian was really worshiped as a god by the people of Earth, the work experience isn't even on the same level," Hao Ren curled his lips. Although his reaction was a beat slower than Vivian's this time, he had already reacted at this time, so he grabbed Lily and pushed her forward, whispering, "Fire of Joy!"

Lily was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously summoned her flame claws. Hao Ren took the opportunity to grab Lily's hand and raise it into the air, and Vivian also cooperated by slightly reducing the cold air.

The crowd suddenly burst into an uproar: "The Flame Witch!? There's even a Flame Witch!"

"Their will determines the fate of this world." Hao Ren said solemnly, leaving the superstitious and ignorant soldiers and nobles with endless space for reverie, then turned and walked away, striding into the entrance of the central control station.

After Vivian and Lily turned around, the soldiers and nobles who were immersed in fear, confusion, and excitement were strangely quiet for a moment. Then, without knowing who started it first, some people began to kneel down piously one after another.

A bald man in a colorful patchwork robe raised his hands and shouted loudly, as if he had suddenly received some kind of enlightenment: "The judges of ice and flame! These people act on behalf of the gods, and the ultimate fate of this world is about to be revealed!"

Layers of soldiers knelt down: "The judges of ice and flame! The judges of ice and flame!"

Nangong Wuyue walked in the back because of her large size. She heard the waves of sound coming from behind her, and the siren girl was stunned when she heard it. She looked back and suddenly conjured some small ice balls floating in the air, then shyly shook her tail: "Actually, I'm pretty good too, you see I can also make ice..."

The crowd was in an uproar again, and then knelt down with even more awe. The nobles and scholars shouted loudly: "The long ice witch! The long ice witch!"

This world has no snakes—so everyone unanimously believed that Nangong Wuyue was a long ice witch.

Nangong Wuyue: "..."

The siren girl, with a green face, drilled into the central control station and slammed the heavy metal door shut with her tail. The sound waves outside were blocked behind the thick metal. Hao Ren looked at Wuyue's face and decided not to mention the words "long" and "strip" for at least a week.

"Should we have done this from the beginning?" Lily was still a little excited. She waved her Fire of Very Happy, and the feeling of being the center of attention just now made this girl excited.

"I didn't think of it at the beginning. If the situation didn't require it, how could I have a flash of inspiration," Vivian curled her lips, then became a little uneasy. "Hao Ren, do you think we can really suppress those people completely like this?"

"The smart people in the royal city might react," Hao Ren shook his head indifferently, "But it doesn't matter. Look at those people outside. Are they temporarily confused now?"

Lily and Vivian nodded together.

"So that's it. At least there won't be any trouble for the time being, and we've already crossed the radiation critical zone, so no one will come in to harass us again," Hao Ren said as he walked forward. "Let me think...if I'm not mistaken, the control room should be in this direction. Let's go and see the situation first."