Out of nowhere, an earthquake began to happen, triggering an avalanche.
"Take cover." Xander screamed desperately.
"Where???" Kiel asked.
Everyone started to despair in an attempt to go down the mountain, but because they were immersed in snow, it was relatively hard to run.
I use shadow evasion up to get out of the snow and summon the Mandrake Shield.
I throw the shield in the snow and jump on it.
"Climb on, quick!" I screamed while trying to pull them out of the snow.
Everyone saw it in disbelief at what Gremory was suggesting.
"You can't be serious. Do you want to use it as a speedboat?" Yuno asked frozen by the idea of going down the mountain in this way.
"Do you have a better idea? If no, just climb on quick."
Upon hearing this, Xander used fire magic in the proximity, melting the snow, but obviously, the open space would be quickly filled.
'Impressive, he managed to burn only the snow avoiding the allies around.'
Everyone managed to climb on the shield in the meantime, except for Luther due to his overweight.
"Everyone pulls him at the same time, Xander you need to melt the snow the moment we pull him up" I yelled for everyone.
Everyone nodded and held Luther's arms.
"1"
"2"
"3"
"NOW!"
Xander melted the snow around Luther once more, and we pulled him over the shield.
The massive shield was more than enough for six children, but there was nowhere for everyone to hold.
'It seems that once again my life is in the hands of the shadows.'
Gremory molded the shadows into several ropes that were tied around everyone, attaching them to the shield.
Everyone was bothered by the tightening of the ropes, but no one cared, because the snow was about to reach them.
"LET'S GO GREMORY!" Mary screamed.
"SHADOW IMPULSE, SHADOW IMPULSE, SHADOW IMPULSE" I spoke while activating the ability to give us some speed.
'Oh shit, I used too much.'
OHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
Everyone started to scream, the risk of dying by impact now was far worse than death to the cold.
The shield absorbed all the impact, but neither did it change our path, turning it into an uncontrolled raft that swayed a lot.
We quickly left the avalanche behind, but now the speed kept increasing due to the inclination of the mountain.
"What's your plan to stop now Gremory?" Xander asked in the middle of everyone's screams.
'Shit shit shit shit.'
"I don't have one."
"Cool, we are dead now, it was a pleasure." He replied with a smile failing at the false confidence he was giving off.
"Haha, it was really a pleasure."
"At least we are going to die in a cool way, see you in the next life brother" Luther spoke.
We started approaching a rock in our way.
"EVERYONE HOLD" I spoke while using shadow evasion up three times, avoiding the rock but putting us very high in the air.
OOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
The shield didn't lose any speed at all in the air, so we started to fall at an immense speed.
Everyone panicked.
"Don't worry, as long as the impact is under the shield, we'll be fine." I said trying to calm them down.
'At least I hope it works this way...'
The moment we fell, the shield absorbed all the impact of the fall but gained a lot more speed because we are still on the inclined ground.
But luckily we were finally approaching the flat ground, more specifically the glaciers in front of the mountain.
'Finally is over.'
We reached the end of the mountain and entered the glaciers, but the friction with the ground was absorbed by the shield, thus maintaining its constant speed without stopping.
We stayed like that for 2 minutes straight until the glaciers reached the end, and we entered a frozen sea.
The shield was not entirely flat due to its adornments so where it passed the ice behind it started to scratch.
'This is not going to end, if I use shadow evasion in the opposite direction while jumping from the shield we may have a chance to survive. But at this speed, someone may get badly hurt and we have no way of treating injuries here.'
"GREMORY, YOU NEED TO STOP THIS ALREADY" Mary that was still in shock, screamed.
'Yeah, this may work too.'
"I have an idea, EVERYONE HOLD!" I answered.
I release all the energy accumulated by the shield focusing the ice under us.
The explosion was not so big, but it was enough to break the ground beneath us. Leading us towards the water, greatly reducing our impact.
"I DID IT." I spoke, while I felt a pang of cold reaching me. The cold of the frozen sea was very big, so I had to reinforce my shell a lot, spending a lot of black energy.
Just looking at everyone's face, it was clear that it was not yet time to relax.
'We celebrate later, now we need to get out of the water.'
'I could try to use my shield as a raft and throw everyone out of the water... No, not again!'
The hole was not big, so everyone got to the edge relatively quickly.
"Cold cold cold cold cold cold." Yuno spoke with her lips trembling.
The moment we got up on the ice, the cracks made by the shield on the way here together with the hole and our weight started to open cracks in the ice where we tried to support our height.
A huge crack formed until the beginning of the sea of ice where we came from, the surrounding ice also broke very easily when someone tried to climb.
"Guys, I think we need to swim back to there..." I spoke knowing that it meant that we might not make it to the end.
'I will go to the end even if one of them doesn't succeed on the way, after all, I may be wasting a lot of energy just by staying in this sea.'