Chapter 686 – Iron Blade Mountain (2/2)

I wiped some of the sweat off of my forehead and said, “Can’t you think of some more positive thoughts. Besides, I’m not that suicidal….”

Qing Qian lit up a light and looked towards the south of the mountain range through the smoke and said, “South of the volcano’s south, there looks to be a map. But I can’t really see it on the big map. Should we go and check it out?”

I narrowed my eyes as I looked into the distance. A breeze blew some of the smoke in front of me away. For a short moment I was able to see a higher set of mountains that was next to the Magma Falls Mountain Range. The only difference was, Magma Falls was completely covered with streams of lava and it looked as though the entire mountain was on fire. This other mountain however, was completely dark, as though it was made of steel. Furthermore, the mountain seemed to form a sharp peak. Rather than a tall mountain, it looked like a black mountain was covered in blades

I looked at the map and made a decision, “Ok, we’ll leave the 4500 brothers to their grinding. Death God’s Elegy will lead the grinding team. The thousand of us will go around the volcano’s mouth and pass through the Magma Falls Mountain Range. Let’s go and see what those dark mountains are?”

Li Mu nodded with a smile, “Yup, this will be interesting!”

……

With me in the lead, we began to go around the mouth of the volcano. My warhorse walked across the burning stones. My Flying Scythe War Horse was still ok, after all, it had hooves. The other players however, which had meat paws like Tigers, Leopards or Wolves were having more trouble. Even the players were slowly beginning to lose health. As we wandered through the smoke, some of them even began to cough. On top of that, there were quite a few Level 129 Magma Oxen and Flame Tailed Scorpions for us to deal with. There was no way this environment could get any worse.

After wandering around for half an hour, we finally reached the other side. The other mountains were starting to look more clear without the smoke to cover it up. Looking down however made us extremely disappointed. There was an abyss between the Magma Falls Mountain and this black mountain. It was so deep you couldn’t see the bottom. Wang Jian tossed a rock into the abyss but we didn’t hear an echo of it hitting the ground.

“F*ck, we came here for nothing….” Li Mu angrily patted his leg.

Qing Qian bit her lip, “That abyss is too deep. The Wind Elves definitely can’t fly over…. What do we do?”

Wan Er’s clothes fluttered from the breeze as she stood on the border of the abyss. She glanced around at the valley. Suddenly, she smiled and said, “I’ve got it. Everyone look over there, maybe that can be our bridge to the other mountain….”

Everyone looked to where the beautiful vice guildmaster was pointing. Suddenly, we saw enormous trees growing on the black mountain. Each one of them had thick vines. Some of the vines were several hundred meters long. These vines shook in the wind and just happened to swing across the two mountains. The other end of the vine was growing off of a tree on the cliff of the Magma Falls Mountain. This seemed to create some kind of a rope bridge made up of ten vines. It was also the bridge that Wan Er was talking about.

“Eh….”

Wolf frowned, “Isn’t that bridge a little too dangerous? Who knows how much it could hold. What if we crawl halfway and it breaks. If we fall, we’ll die!”

I picked up my sword and said, “Well, we’ll know when we try. Seeing as there’s no other way, we’ll just have to go down this road then.”

“Ok!”

……

I walked over to one side of the vines. I sheathed my swords and grabbed one of the vines. It was pretty thick. It was about as thick as a large noodle bowl’s circumference. I used all my strength to give the vine a tug. All I could see was the vines shaking in the air. But, it remained as solid as it had looked before. Yup. This should be able to take the weight of ten people without a problem.

I put down the vine and said, “Alright it’s sturdy enough. Everyone crawl onto it one by one. Do not walk on it. The wind here is strong enough to blow you away.”

“Yes sir!”

Hugging the vines, I inched my way forward. Our method wasn’t exactly very attractive. We moved like inch worms across the vine. It was incredibly ugly. But, safety was much more important. I could hear the hash winds blow against my ear. It was incredibly powerful, proving my judgement to be correct.

……

After crawling for fifteen minutes, we finally finished crawling the length of the hundred meter long bridge. Once I let go, I jumped off and lightly landed on the black mountain. I then heard a system bell by my ear——

“Ding!”

System Notification: Please Note, you’ve entered an extremely dangerous map—— [Iron Blade Mountain]!