In the alliance, the more they attack me, the stronger I become!

"Can……"

"Don't worry, we'll still need you later." Cheng Xiao smiled and took out a piece of dried meat and a small bag of dry food from his bag. "Save your energy, it will be up to you when those people catch up."

"……Um!"

After hesitating for a moment, Ashe accepted the plan.

But while being carried up the mountain by Cheng Xiao, she kept looking back to observe the whereabouts of the pursuers.

It's really getting closer...

If they had continued at their previous speed, the pursuers wouldn't have been able to catch up with them, but if it was like this...

"Cheng Xiao, you can't walk fast enough with me on your back. We will be caught up sooner or later..." The girl frowned, feeling extremely ashamed - if she wasn't so weak, how could she have become like this?

"It's okay." Cheng Xiao's attitude was as calm as usual, as if nothing could make him feel panic or uneasy. "I have my own way."

"any solution?"

"Secret."

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Another day and night passed.

The pursuers who were originally half a mountain away were now right in front of us, and their arrows could even hit our feet.

Ashe's uneasiness grew, but her strength had almost recovered.

"I can go on my own."

The girl jumped off Cheng Xiao's back and touched the other's completely frozen chest with heartache.

"Yeah." Cheng Xiao didn't force it. After putting the girl down, the two of them walked noticeably faster.

But the distance between them and the pursuers was getting shorter and shorter.

The only good thing was that they were almost at the top of the mountain.

The last wooden bridge in front of them is the last short section of their journey to the top of the mountain.

"We're almost there!" The joy washed away the physical fatigue, and Ashe looked full of energy.

But the arrows of the pursuers were already getting very close to them.

call out--!

A flaming arrow shot over and almost hit the two of them.

The next moment, there were dozens of them.

On the edge of this cliff, they have no escape.

Cheng Xiao acted decisively and pounced on Ashe, blocking several fatal arrows with her back.

"Cheng Xiao!" Ashe screamed.

But Cheng Xiao simply pulled out the arrow from her back calmly, and the wound healed quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

To him, this minor injury was no different from a couple of insect bites.

"I'm fine, but the road ahead..."

"What?" Ashe didn't understand what the other party meant by suddenly saying this, but she had a vague bad premonition in her heart.

Cheng Xiao shook her head without saying anything, and silently took off the shoulder bag from her waist.

Then handed it to the girl.

"After you cross this bridge, you still have to cross it and climb a little higher. It will take about half a day... You haven't had a good rest these past few days, so you've used up a lot of energy. You can eat all this food at once later. It should give you some energy."

"Probably enough to support you to reach the Avarosa inheritance."

"From now on, be careful."

As soon as he finished speaking, Cheng Xiao took off the battle axe on his back, as if ready to fight to the death.

Ashe finally reacted, and she quickly grabbed the other person's clothes and pulled him onto the bridge.

But she was not strong enough to pull Cheng Xiao away.

"Don't be like this... let's go together... there's still time!"

Facing the panicked look of the girl, Cheng Xiao was ready to explain - in such a narrow and high-defense terrain, with his immortality and self-destruction ability, he didn't have to worry about being "taken away" by the Drakon like before.

Besides, he never intended to fight those people to the death, he just wanted to delay time.

Once Ashe gets the legendary Ice Crystal Longbow, Drakrond will no longer be a threat.

Ashe will end everything with a [Magic Crystal Arrow] just like in the original timeline.

Not to say that everything is within expectations, but at least with the ability to "predict the future" there is no need to worry about anything going wrong.

Everything is still under control.

"It's okay, I just want to—"

【Ding dong! 】

A voice suddenly sounded in Cheng Xiao's mind, interrupting his explanation to Ashe.

[Mission: Girl Crying at Sunset]

[Condition: Make [Ice Archer Ashe] shed a sad tear for you!]

[Reward: When the skill [Blood Debt Repays Blood] is triggered by [Ice Archer Ashe] (i.e. when killed by Ashe), you can gain an additional 50% of the opponent's total strength! ]

[Note: This includes magic power, physical fitness, perception, and the ability to control the ice.]

Oh?

Any unexpected gains?

Frost Archer Ashe and the current Ashe cannot be considered the "same person". She is just an ordinary Iceborn warrior now, and after she gets the inheritance of Avarosa...

It can be said that in the entire Freljord, only the Frost Witch Lissandra and those demigods can rival him.

Originally, being able to use [Blood Debt Repaid with Blood] to obtain 5% of her power was already something worth looking forward to, but now...

Extra 50%!

Adding the original five points, that means you get more than half of the power of "Complete Ashe"!

Moreover, you can also gain the ability to control the Zhenbing, which means that maybe in the future you will be able to rub the Zhenbing that is said to never melt with your own hands!

In addition, if such a considerable amount of magic power were placed on myself... not to mention that I wouldn't have to worry about running out of magic power when I was halfway through healing, the power of the corpse explosion alone would probably double!

This is really Yuumi meeting Big Daddy, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

The explanation that Cheng Xiao was about to offer was instantly swallowed by him.

He wasn't good at saying anything cheesy, so he simply silently pushed away the little hand that was grabbing the corner of his clothes.

Then he looked at the aurora in the sky and sighed.

The next moment, he used all his strength to push Ashe to the other side of the bridge.

The battle axe in his hand was already placed on the rope supporting the wooden bridge.

"Cheng Xiao...don't..." Ai Xi shook her head in fear, begging the other party not to do anything stupid.

But Cheng Xiao just looked at her and gave her a gentle smile.

"It's too late, Miss Ashley... If you can, don't forget me."

Phew...!

The battle axe cut the rope on one side, and the wooden bridge became shaky.

The pursuers were almost crossing the last narrow road and reaching the bridge.

Ashe...had no choice.

The wind and snow made the figure more and more blurred.

It also made her heart hurt more and more.

"Cheng Xiao..."

Chapter 18 Cry! Cry for me!

This last road is not easy.

The broken bridge was left far behind, but Ashe could still hear the sounds of fighting in the howling cold wind.

She knew whose voice it was...and who had cut the ropes of the wooden bridge.

But she couldn't look back, the gradually blurring road ahead was her only choice.

Including the time before, she didn't have a moment's rest or sleep for more than five days.

Dreams and memories of the past filled her surroundings. She saw her mother's eyes twinkling as she spoke of Avarosa's golden halls, mountains of pure ice, and the endless magic flowing from the throne.

Once magnificent and glorious, it is now forgotten in loneliness...

All the memories are like bubbles, left behind.

"Hold on a little longer..."

Ashe climbed up the cliff with her worn hands, and seemed to catch a glimpse of a familiar figure in the gorgeous aurora.

Cheng Xiao...

The young man who cut off his own path so that she could reach the end...

They had not known each other for long, but she had unknowingly developed a strange feeling for him... She couldn't explain what the feeling was, she just knew that she wanted to see him.

But she may never see it again...

Her memory was frozen on the man cutting the rope with his back to her. She remembered their first meeting, after a terrible avalanche.

"Cheng Xiao..."

For the first time, Ashley realized that besides her mother, there was someone who was willing to give everything for her and protect her with her own life.

Even though the wind was biting cold, she could still feel the warmth in her eyes and on the tip of her nose.

She felt a little...like crying.

Tears that were almost frozen rolled around in her red eyes, blurring the road beneath her feet.

But she knew she couldn't cry.

She is the daughter of Glenna, the heir of the Avarosa tribe, the blood of ice, and the child of Freljord.

She was a warrior, and warriors were not allowed to shed tears.

She should repay Cheng Xiao for all his efforts for her with success, not with worthless tears.

"Cheng Xiao, I will definitely not let you down!"

Ash dabbed at her eyes, wiping away the tears before they fell.

Then climb up harder.

Finally, she saw the peak her mother had mentioned, and also saw what Cheng Xiao called "the top of the cliff under the aurora."

Her heart was full of anticipation, yet also a little uneasy - when she actually faced the Avarosa legacy, she began to worry about whether it really existed.

The hope that the mother clung to...she was afraid that it was just a meaningless bubble.

pat.