Glug glug, glug glug!
The Ice Cap crater was still trembling. Magma fissures continued to crack apart, spewing great gushes of warm spring water from their depths.
The spring water rose over Russell's feet and did not stop, continuing to surge outward.
The sound of glugging bubbles was endless.
Soon, it submerged Russell's legs as well. The entire crater was flooded with warm spring water, and no magma fissures could be seen anymore. Only the constantly trembling, shaking ground and the glugging bubbles proved that Black Oil Dragon Rosai was struggling to be born.
Splash!
The Ice Cap around the crater shattered. Eric and Grove had no choice but to run outward, but their speed was clearly no match for the speed at which the ice cap was breaking apart.
In an instant.
All the ice within a radius of one kilometer had cracked open, emitting piercing sounds of melting and fracturing.
Splash, splash.
The two fell into the meltwater below. Fortunately, it was not deep and posed no threat to the two Phantom Beast Knights.
"Roar!" Bill, the Wind Blade Brown Bear, panicked. He was afraid of water.
Grove hurriedly pounced over and kept soothing Bill, preventing him from going berserk.
Several warhorses also thrashed about in the water. Although the water was not deep enough to submerge them, the sudden upheaval had frightened them.
As for Eric, he stood silently in the water with Kevin, the Gold-Silver Wolfdog, watching Russell in the distance, with only half his body above the water.
Unicorn Polly and Harpy Dragon Harpe circled around Russell. Both could fly, so the changes in the ice cap and ground had no effect on them.
Glug glug!
The hot spring continued to gush.
The water rose past his waist, but Russell did not move. He was