Chapter 60: Kira's Adventure in the Snowy Mountains
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A white figure flashed by on the snow. It was Kira who was addicted to skiing.
It was another oblique slide, and the sled left obvious scratches on the snow. Kira's movements were not smooth or silky, but they were safe.
Kira had never seen snow in his previous life, so he had always longed for heavy snow, snowflakes all over the sky, and the whole world covered in white. It has been 20 years since he traveled through time, and he has seen it a few times, but he never gets tired of it.
Activities such as snowball fights and snowman building have always been the must-hold competition events of the Fairy Tail Guild every winter. Originally, there was also ice sculpture, but because Gray was always cheating, no one wanted to compete with him, so it was later cancelled and replaced by skiing and skating competitions.
Due to the rules that magic is not allowed in the competition, Erza, the athlete, takes first place almost every year, with the others competing for the rest of the places.
Although Kira's magic is strong, his physical fitness and flexibility are not very strong, just average, so his performance in this aspect has always been unsatisfactory.
But people can fail temporarily, but cannot fail forever. In order to defeat those guys in the guild, Kira often practiced secretly alone . After a long time of internal conflicts, he was waiting for revenge at the end of this year.
Taking advantage of this trip to the snow mountain, I can find an opportunity to review.
"Those bastards definitely didn't expect that I would secretly practice here. Hehe, I'll teach them a lesson in this year's competition!"
The wind and snow had stopped, and the cool breeze of Zonia was particularly soothing. The sweat left over from exercise was soon blown dry. This refreshing game made Kira feel completely refreshed, and he completely forgot what he was supposed to do.
"What a great place! It would be great if I could build a villa here. Hmm... or a castle, it's more majestic." Taking advantage of the opportunity to sit down and rest, Kira completely let himself go and began to fantasize. "Anyway, this place is so big and no one cares. No one will notice if there are more castles. But we have to choose a good place. Where should we build it?"
Kira thought as he flew higher and higher into the sky, finally stopping at an altitude of nearly one thousand meters. All he saw was snow, and without any reference points, he had no idea where he was in Zonia.
Suddenly, a swaying shadow appeared in his sight. Kira turned his head and was surprised to find that it was a group of snow wolves.
"Strange, there are packs of snow wolves in a place like this? What do they eat?"
This is not because Kira is delicious. He is sure that everyone will ask such questions when seeing signs of life in a place like this.
With this question in mind, Kira flew over and followed the snow wolf pack closely in the sky: "Could this be the monster in the mission that Natsu accepted? They don't look very strong. Is it worth issuing an S-level mission for a wolf pack of this level? And it's in an uninhabited place like Zonia, which is too strange!"
Thinking about it this way, Kira felt that there was something seriously wrong with this mission. Driven by curiosity, he couldn't help but want to find out what was going on.
As for why Kira likes to meddle in other people's business? You know, he was born in an adventurer team, so isn't it normal for him to have a strong desire for knowledge?
There were about thirty snow wolves in this group, with snow-white fur and only a little gray on their claws. After careful observation, Kira discovered that this group of wolves were all strong adult snow wolves, and each one was as big as Elfman lying on the ground. It was incredible.
You know, any group must have men, women, young and old. Even if there are relatively few vulnerable groups, it is impossible that there is not a single one. Moreover, wolves are not animals that will abandon their companions.
This group of snow wolves were very large in size, and they walked neither fast nor slow, with uniform steps. What was even more strange was that this group of snow wolves did not have a wolf king leading them. Instead, several of them walked side by side, as if they were all soldiers following orders.
"It looks like someone is controlling this pack of wolves. Who could it be?"
While thinking, Kira made a new discovery. It seemed that this group of wolves had just experienced a battle, and some of them had small wounds on their bodies. If Kira had not taken out his telescope, he would have almost failed to detect them at such a long distance.
Who did they fight? This is obviously another question.
Soon, the wolves walked into a cave in groups of three. The cave was about two meters wide and three meters high, and nearly 70% of the entrance was blocked by piled snow.
The cave was located under the snow-capped mountain, with the top hidden by the mountain. It was extremely hidden in the vast expanse of white snow. If it weren't for the wolves leading the way, no one would have found it.
One minute after all the wolves entered the cave, Kira came down from the sky and stood at the entrance of the cave.
"This doesn't look like it was formed naturally," Kira gently stroked the rock supporting the snow, "This texture seems to be the trace of magic carving."
The scene inside the cave further confirmed Kira's guess. A very deep passage was dug out artificially, and there were lampstands specially used to place torches on the rock walls around the passage.
Perhaps because the rock walls blocked the wind and snow outside, the temperature inside the cave was obviously higher than outside. Therefore, although there were no torches on the lampstand, there was no snow either, only a thick layer of dust, which obviously had not been used for a long time.
An idea suddenly popped up in Kira's mind: a group of people lived in seclusion in this snowy land and built this place to protect or worship something. Later, for some reason, they died or moved away, so these wolves and their masters took over their place.
Well, that's a reasonable guess.
After walking along the passage for about ten minutes, the view in front of me gradually became wider.
At the end of the passage is a large open space, about the size of a Fairy Tail Guild. There are no traces of lamps on the walls of this open space because there is no need for firelight here. Instead, there are glowing magic crystals.
On the top of the cave, light from the outside world was refracted in an unknown way through thousands of tiny holes, and then reflected by the ice crystals and shone on the magic crystal.
After several years of business, Kira naturally had an extraordinary vision and recognized the function of these magic crystals here at a glance: during the day, the light in the cave relied on ice crystals to refract the sunlight from the outside world, and at the same time stored part of the energy in the magic crystals; at night, or when there was insufficient light, the magic crystals embedded in the stone walls would automatically glow.
Even if there is occasional energy shortage, countless mirror-like crystals can make up for this shortcoming.
Although such creativity is nothing surprising, it is a huge project to actually implement. It requires not only precise and accurate calculations, but also the hands-on ability to realize the project. In addition, a considerable amount of funds is required to complete this project. The magic crystals on the wall alone can cost the Kingdom of Fiore one or two years' financial income.
Kira was dazzled by the cool scene: "How much is this worth? This place must have been built by an unknown rich man!"
“This place is destined for me!”
“It’s sent!”
Kira ran around excitedly, circling the clearing, seemingly completely forgetting that he had followed the wolves in.
"So, where did the wolves go?" Kira's eyes fell on the several passages across the clearing.
In addition to the passage he came in through, there are three other roads here. The wolves should have entered one of them, but Kira couldn't sense which one they entered.
"It would be better if Natsu was here, he has a better nose."
After thinking for a while, Kira decided to try his luck and walked towards the middle road.
