Chapter 100: The Creature of Ice

Darcel and Aniela weren't ones to stay idle. They had quickly begun walking up ahead to meet and see what was barreling towards them.

In a span of a few seconds, they trekked ten meters and finally saw it.

Thirty meters apart from them, Darcel and Aniela could clearly spot the Spirit Monster even through the dense misty fog. Though immediately, the duo was inquisitive at the Spirit Monster appearance.

It wasn't anything like they had seen before.

This Spirit Monster was tremendously tall, towering at least ten feet tall. Easily it was the tallest creature the duo had ever encountered.

Its body was strangely made up of entirely ice as well.

The ice formed itself to appear as the monster had intimidating bulging muscles and a sharp jagged frame. Though the most intimidating feature of the monster was its colossal head.

The head, like its other body parts, was made entirely up of ice. But, Darcel and Aniela could spot two chilling glowing blue eyes that'll pierce through the night.

Its mouth slightly hangs open to show its ferocious, sharp ice teeth that glisten in the deep misty fog.

When their eyes meet each other, both sides momentarily pause.

Darcel and Aniela truly were fascinated that there could exist a creature entirely made up of only ice.

While the Spirit Monster, who is classified as an Ice Golem, was a bit taken aback at how weak its prey was. But once realizing this, the Ice golem chilling glowing blue eyes abruptly spark in a luminous flash!

"Oh?! Here it comes, Darcy!" Aniela felt the will to battle roar in her watching the rushing Ice golem.

Oddly enough, through the entire time they're watching the creature, neither she nor Darcel felt the powerful aura of an Innate Core powerhouse.

Yet, the duo could clearly sense its realm was firmly in the Innate Core realm.

But Darcel and Aniela knew this wasn't the time for questions.

"Since it wants to come, let's meet it in the middle!"

Darcel clenched Aniela's hand, and they both quickly surged the roaring Nascent Qi in their bodies.

And like lightning, the duo shot towards the Ice golem without a hint of fear.

However, as soon as they started to run, Darcel and Aniela quickly got a clearer picture of the Ice golem. Moreover, Darcel also felt his soul pendant violently tremble.

"That flower! It's our treasure!"

Aniela pointed out as she and Darcel spotted a bright glowing blue flower sitting on top of the Ice golem head. A beautiful blue shine was enriching the flower, making it appear like an exotic treasure.

From the rumbling of the soul pendant and his sensation in his soul, Darcel knew this was their treasure.

An even broader smile plaster Darcel and Aniela's face, feeling an even greater sentiment to kill this creature.

But when both sides got within twenty meters apart from each other, the Ice golem swiftly changed its movements.

Darcel and Aniela watched with slight widening eyes as the Ice golem suddenly began to rear its arms back while it charged to them.

From just its strange sudden movements, Darcel and Aniela felt a significant shift in the air. The air around them began to suck towards the Ice golem like it was a vacuum and chaotically swayed the snow on the ground.

Still, despite this odd occurrence of power, Darcel and Aniela didn't feel any Innate Core power surge around them.

The two were beginning to think this creature may not just use any Innate Qi.

Before Darcel or Aniela could think any further, however, the Ice golem made another quick and strange move. Its arms moved with lightning-like speed as it violently clasped its hand together!

'Pa!'

The booming sound of ice crashing together blared in Darcel and Aniela's eardrums.

For a brief second, Darcel and Aniela pause while their faces show mild shock.

There wasn't any tremendous blast of power that caused the air to split or for the ground to quake. Instead, Darcel and Aniela felt a chilling cold attempting to freeze their souls!

In the real world, their eyes could briefly spot a stream of admittedly beautiful blue misty energy sailing straight at them from the Ice golem clasped hands.

The most surprising aspect of this attack was the fact that it was basically instantaneous!

Neither Darcel nor Aniela even had a split second to react to the attack.

However, while this attack was surprising, Darcel and Aniela's face quickly morphed back into a battle-hungry smile.

"Soul attack, huh! This thing probably kills everything with attacks like this….unlucky that it met us today!" Aniela boasted with extreme confidence.

Darcel as well mockingly smirked at the Ice golem as right then he and Aniela began to surge the powerful black flame essence swirling in their souls!

Large wisps of blazing black fire spewed out Darcel and Aniela then. Their mere wisps of fiery black flames was melting the glistening snow underneath.

The Ice golem's freezing misty energy was quickly vaporized by their pure essence black flames inside of their souls.

Immediately then, it was the Ice golem turn to be taken for a mild shock.

Its chilling blue eyes squinted on Darcel and Aniela's flaming bodies in disbelief. Not a single one of its previous victims could do anything under its soul freezing mist.

Much less gathering enough power to burn through its mist!

The most surprising thing was the fact these little ones don't even have the same aura as itself.

Because of the dense misty fog here, neither Darcel, Aniela, nor the Ice golem could sense each other's real prowess.

Darcel and Aniela are in their strongest state, but the Ice golem can only sense their base Nascent Core aura.

Despite Darcel and Aniela somehow fighting off its deadly soul attack, the Ice golem quickly regained back focus. It had momentarily stopped moving out of surprise, but now it was ready to charge them again.

However, when the Ice golem lifted one of its legs just slightly above the ground, a brilliant white radiance tore the dense misty fog!

As well, Aniela's energetic voice blared throughout the snowy land.

"Flash!!"

'Chi!"

A blinding bright white flashbang burst from Aniela's bloodline arm, covering the whole twenty meters apart from her and the Ice golem!

The Ice golem went still like a statue being utterly stunned under Aniela's flashbang.

But it wasn't over yet for the Ice golem. Darcel put all of his focus on the Ice golem and had then clenched his hand.

By putting all of his senses into one target, Darcel has realized he can create a shadow for just about anything.

It worked for Aniela and the yellow creature. Now he wanted to test his luck against an Innate Core being. And to his joy, Darcel watched as a shadow quickly spewed from the Ice glow feet.

The Ice golem's shadow was instantaneous and out from the shadow spewed Darkness tendrils that tightly wrapped the Ice golem body up.

In its state now, the Ice golem was completely immobilized! Although Darcel and Aniela knew it wouldn't be for long.

Pushing on the momentum they created, Darcel and Aniela didn't hold anything back. They blasted towards the Ice golem in a bright streak of Darkness and White Light!

Their speed quickly crossed the considerable distance between them. In just two seconds, Darcel and Aniela already neared the Ice golem, who was already attempting to struggle out of the Darkness tendrils.

Up close with the creature indeed showed just how ferocious and gruesome looking it was.

At first, Darcel had the plan to take out their scimitar to score the first hit on the creature. But within only several feet apart from the Ice golem, Darcel felt the soul pendant quake as if it was trying to escape his grasp.

Spurred on by the pendant, Darcel had an abrupt change of mind. "The flower!" He quickly called out to Aniela, hoping she would get what he wanted to do.

And as he expected, Aniela didn't respond, but she had crouched down to get in a position to jump.

In sync with her, Darcel also crouched down. They poured a vast sum of their powers into their legs, drilling their feet into the ground.

And using only a split second, Darcel and Aniela swiftly jumped high into the air to go above the towering Ice golem.

Once at a higher position in the air than the tall Ice golem, Aniela shot her other hand to the bright blue, glowing flower.

The Ice golem was still violently trembling below them, quickly trying to break through Darcel's Darkness tendrils behinds.

Yet neither Darcel nor Aniela paid attention to it and focused on securing the flower.

Swift like the wind, Aniela snatched the flower from the Ice golem head as she and Darcel landed on its massive head. Darcel and Aniela didn't spare a second and quickly jumped off the Ice golem head with the flower in Aniela's hand.

"Haaah!!"

However, right when doing so, the Ice golem burst out from Darcel's Darkness tendrils! Darcel and Aniela didn't even have a chance to turn around as the Ice golem roar penetrated their ears.

The Ice golem could fully sense Darcel and Aniela's tremendous bloodline power state now, but it didn't care at all.

Quickly while the duo was still in midair, the Ice golem swiftly turned its body around and struck out with its gigantic fist towards their backs!

'Ka-Cha!'

The Ice golem's massive fist had shattered Darcel and Aniela's Darkness-Light soul barrier and directly crashed onto their backs!

The duo's eyes burst open in pain, feeling the Ice golem's fist crack multiple bones in their backs. Chaotic freezing energy was interjected into their bodies, causing even greater anguish for them.

Furthermore, the duo also felt their soul become chaotic receiving sudden penetrating damage providing their bodies to break down further.

Darcel and Aniela got sent flying by the fist like two speeding bullets. However, neither utter even a single yelp of pain.

Instead, their eyes burst with savage killing intent!

While sailing in midair, Darcel and Aniela forced past the tremendous pain and flipped their bodies around. Their eyes met with the Ice golem barrelling straight at them, but neither care; in fact, they welcome its charge.

In an instant, Darcel and Aniela's spatial ring flashed, and they fished out their beautiful green scimitars. The duo spared no expense and crazily poured all of their power into the scimitar.

Sizzling black flames swirled at the tip of their blades, blasting out heat that split into the snowy grounds.

The Ice golem had quickly caught up and made it a mere six feet apart from Darcel and Aniela. Yet the duo already finished charging their attack right when it got close.

"Fiery Slice!!"

Both Darcel and Aniela roar simultaneously as their scimitar blasted out a powerful thin stream of raging black flames!

The Ice golem felt a tremendous suppression weighed down on its body, tightly locking it in place.

Everything was just too abrupt, and all the Ice golem could do was tank Darcel and Aniela's attack head-on.

'Bang!'

Darcel and Aniela's martial skill ferociously struck the Ice golem chest and flung the creature for miles!

While the Ice golem flew, Darcel and Aniela plunged their scimitar into the snowy ground, splitting it in half as their bodies slowed to a crawl.

"Geh! That atta-Ah! Darcy! Quick put your hand over mine!"

Aniela was spitting out bright red blood at first, feeling her body on the verge of collapsing after tanking the Ice golem punch.

But it was then she felt strange, mysterious energy poured into her mind and began quickly changing her Spirit Sense! And where the mysterious energy came from was the bright blue flower in her palm.

Her body was nearly about to freeze over and collapsing onto itself, pushing Aniela to a state of possible near-death.

But through her sheer willpower of forcing past the excruciating pain, it was then the bright blue flower suddenly started to react. Aniela wasn't sure how but the flower's energy was pushing her mental state and Spirit Sense to a state of enlightenment!

Darcel was in the same position as Aniela, nearly feeling his body about to freeze and collapse.

But Darcel's hand still tightly latched on to Aniela's. From their conjoined hand, he had also felt some of that mysterious energy flow into him. Less than Aniela felt, but Darcel did clearly feel his Spirit Sense slowly transforming to a state of enlightenment.

Most obviously, Darcel knew this strange energy had to be from the bright blue flower.

With the soul pendant still in his hand, Darcel clasped his other hand over Aniela's hand that held the unique flower.

Darcel and Aniela's bodies immediately went completely rigid then.

Their lives were on the line, and they could die the very next second. Yet, Darcel and Aniela didn't let panic storm their minds.

As the special flower's mysterious energy flowed in them, Darcel and Aniela smoothly harmonized with it and stayed calm.

Their soul and body were still breaking down as the mysterious energy didn't heal them but had allowed their mental state to smoothly become completely serene.

Darcel and Aniela's Spirit Senses were undergoing several dramatic changes now.

Under falling completely serene, their senses began penetrating into a tremendous mental block that was engraved into their minds.

It was the massive mental block of the seventh level Nascent Core realm!

This mental block is what keeps numerous geniuses from ever progressing to the True Soul Core realm.

If one's comprehension of their own Nascent Core and Nascent Qi wasn't high enough, they would never break past this barrier.

Darcel and Aniela's bodies fell into a relaxed stance. Their bloodstreams, their souls, everything inside their bodies was falling into tranquility. Even their previous critical injuries went still and stopped breaking their bodies.

At this point, Darcel and Aniela's eyes became unfocused, not even noticing the Ice golem madly rushing back at them.

A large hole was carved into its ice chest thanks to Darcel and Aniela's Martial skill, yet it was still alive.

"Haah!!"

The Ice golem fully released its chaotic Innate Core aura towards Darcel and Aniela!

The full power of a fourth rank Innate Core being aura came crashing down on Darcel and Aniela as the Ice golem quickly neared them.

Darcel and Aniela felt the pressure nearly suffocate them, and yet their minds were still in an enlightened state. By the second, they both felt pure Spiritual energy trickled into their Spirit Sense.

And when the Ice golem got within six feet of the duo again, a loud pop went off in Darcel and Aniela's minds!

'Bang!'

A powerful blast of Spirit Qi burst out of Darcel and Aniela, causing the whole space to fall into turbulent chaos! The snow was chaotically swept in a raging wind storm as flashes of Darkness and Light trickled out of Darcel and Aniela.

Once again sent the Ice golem couldn't react to the sudden burst, and it got sent flying even further back than their last attack. The Ice golem was like a blue bur shooting backward for miles.

All the while, Darcel and Aniela stayed utterly still.