108 Iced illusion (1/2)

Although she was late, her effort made a slight change to the direction of the glider. The edge of the sail slightly hit the cliff, so instead of a bloody crash, they fell into the raging river instead.

Splash.

The river separated both of them. Hu Zi who was a great swimmer, immediately worried about the weak cursed prince. She surfaced and held on to a big rock. ”Lan!” she called again and again. Looking right and left. ”Lan, where are you?”

Worried that the small prince was washed away, she gritted her teeth. Her anxiety was apparent in her eyes as let go of the rock, risking her life as she dived back in.

In this hectic situation, little did she realized what was ahead of the river. She surfaced after she ran out of air.

The cursed prince, who managed to bring their rucksacks to the shore, saw her surfaced. ”Zi!” he shouted. Then, terror took him as he saw where the river led to. ”Zi, watch out!”

Because he had been sucking her energy for months, he knew her capacity very well. Because she had been flying since morning, by this time, he predicted, she must've ran out of energy. Incapable of using much of it to save herself from the waterfall.

His prediction was slightly wrong though. Even though it was too late for her to swim to the shore, she still could use the wind to jump and landed to the forest below, but going up again would be a hassle.

She knew that she should be strong enough to survive, so she wasn't worried. But the cursed prince already jumped into the river. Who knew that he was an even better swimmer than Hu Zi?

Even in his weakened state, he still managed to grab her and brought her to the shore.

This shocked Hu Zi heavily. She was as worried that he would get washed away and face the waterfall as he was.

When they finally arrived at a safer place. Rather than being grateful, she was mad at him. ”Why? Why did you jump back to the river?” she questioned. Gritting her teeth as she thought that he might be looking down on her power.

He said nothing, that rescuing managed to drain all of his strength. He was breathing hard as she further questioned him.