Chapter 2119: Winter castle

The snow monsters yawned and got up one after another from the snow. Before they could figure out the situation, the angry curses of "Brother Crow" came from their ears, mixed with whip screaming through the air.
"A bunch of slackers! Don't get up and work soon!"
"Draughting, I missed the happy event of Master Vignier, see if I don't your ass!"
The leather whip fell like raindrops, slamming the snow monsters sturdily, causing these low-intellect monsters to scream, frightened by the lustful power of "Brother Crow", and had no time to ponder why they suddenly lost consciousness just now and hurriedly dragged the sled. Hard to fly on the snow.
Joan carried the whip and followed behind the sled, supervising the snow monsters to rush as soon as possible, climbing all the way up the sloping hillside, and when it was almost noon, he finally came to the top of the snow-capped mountain, with the gate of Winter Fort right in front of him.
Ascending to the top of the mountain and observing this magnificent ice fortress up close, Qiao An was deeply shocked, and his vision became stronger.
After some thoughts, Qiao An finally remembered that about two years ago, he used "exploration" to search for Clark Heiner's whereabouts. At that time, the picture presented in "Detection Crystal" was a scene located in a snow-capped mountain. The ice castle on the top, but before I could see it clearly, the picture in the crystal ball disappeared.
Since then, Qiao Ann has tried to detect Clark’s whereabouts many times, but all have failed to cast the spell, and even the scene of the Snow Mountain Castle that flashed by has not been seen again, so that he suspected that it was only disturbed during the cast. , An occasional hallucination.
Until today, Qiao An witnessed the Winter Fortress dominating the top of Tusk Mountain, and suddenly realized that what he had seen in the crystal ball was the castle in front of him!
The pictures in memory overlap with the buildings in reality, prompting Qiao'an to further associate. Will Clark, who had not heard from him for three years, been captured by Trim, Lord of Winterhold, or at least once imprisoned in this castle?
The more Qiao Ann thinks about it, the more he thinks this possibility is very great!
If your guess is true, it is not difficult to draw two conclusions.
For three years, the frost giants of Winterhold have troubled him from the future. It can be seen that even though Clark was imprisoned and tortured, he did not confess that the "spirit collar" had been given to him for safekeeping.
In addition, Trim has not recovered the "Essence Necklace" so far. No matter how much he hates Clark, he dare not kill him, otherwise he will cut the only clue to pursue the "Essence Necklace".
Since Clark is still alive and is likely to be imprisoned somewhere in Winterhold, Qiao An has the responsibility to try to rescue him out of trouble!
This thought was so strong that Qiao An couldn't help his blood boil, and quickly took a deep breath, curbed his impulse, calmed down and thought about countermeasures.
Of course he will not forget that his original intention of coming to Winterhold was to persuade Slude to cancel the marriage contract. It is important to rescue Clark, but he cannot ignore Slude's plight.
Looking up at the sky, the time was approaching noon. Hakon said that the engagement ceremony would be held tonight. Qiao Ann calculated that he still had one afternoon to use, which should be enough to find Clark.
Thinking of this, he quickly followed the team and passed through the castle gate guarded by four frost giant guards. Inside the city wall, a barracks and towering towers appeared in front of him.
These outbuildings, like the main body of the castle, are made of indestructible ice. The barracks are the residences of the frost giants, and the tall towers are the lairs of the white dragons.
The snow monsters are inferior to the frost giants and the white dragons in the winter castle, they are just humble servants and are not qualified to enter Trim's castle.
Qiao An escorted the goods to the gate of the castle, and the Frost Giant Guards took over and waved them away unhappily, making no secret of their discrimination against the snow monsters.
Qiao An followed the memory of "Brother Crow", did not confront the arrogant frost giant, and took his four little brothers straight to the north of the castle, close to a snowy hill near the city wall.
Below the hill, the ice cave with a black hole is vaguely visible, where the snow monster servants live.
Joe stretched out pretentiously, yawned, and said to the little brothers: "Through hard all morning, taking advantage of the hard time now, take a nap and take you to the kitchen to eat meat in the evening."
"Brother Crow, can we have a wedding wine at night?" A snow monster came over and asked with a shy face.
Qiao An slapped his face, and he slapped him around twice, his cheeks swollen.
"Bah!" Qiao An spit on his face, "Why are you worthy of attending the wedding banquet of His Royal Highness Vigner? You idiot, don't have dreams!"
The snow monster was beaten and scolded by him, not only did not dare to fight, but took it for granted, and tremblingly accused the "Brother Crow" for mercy.
Qiao Ann flicked him two more whips, showing his surly and violent and consistent manner, and then he stopped and warned the four little brothers: "Go back to the cave for me. Don't come out before dark. Who dares to disturb Lao Tzu's sleep? I won't skin him!"
The snow monsters have long been accustomed to "Brother Crow" betting up and bullying, showing off their lewdness, and going into the snow cave in fear and fear, not daring to speak out.
Qiao An also got into his cave and found that it was quite spacious and the smooth ice wall exuded a bit of chill. Fortunately, he was covered with fluffy and warm long hair, and he didn't feel cold.
Qiao An walked to the end of the cave, sat on the ground, first set the "magic alarm", then opened the casting material package, took out a small group of wool in his hand, and began to cast the 6-ring illusion "eternal phantom".
"Olos!"
Chanting an activation spell symbolizing "phantom", Qiao An creates an illusion in the cave. It looks like a mutant snow monster exactly like "Brother Crow", sitting curled up against the ice wall, holding his head in his hands, and emitting it. The heavy snoring sound was obviously taking a nap.
Qiao An used the illusion created by the illusion technique to act as his stand-in, and then blessed the "mythological invisibility technique" by himself, took out the "remote mirror", and tried to search for the whereabouts of Clark Henier in the winter castle.
Unfortunately, this spellcast still ended in failure and failed to get any valuable information.
Qiao An was not surprised by this result, put away the magic mirror, and switched to "biological positioning technique."
The 4-ring
biological positioning technique
cannot directly lock the target like
detection technique
or
remote vision technique
, but it can radiate invisible magical fluctuations and continuously scan the surrounding environment. If the tracking target appears within the scanning radius, The caster will be aware of it.
This tracking method is usually not as efficient as "detection" and "remote vision", but in the current special environment, "biological positioning" is more reliable than the latter.