Chapter 126: Changing the Homeground

Ray hovered in the air as the cold wind brushed against his face, his short black hair fluttering. The hair on his head, brows, and other parts of his body were slowly regrowing, though at a normal pace, despite Ray's many healing abilities.

He stood tall and proud, still holding Sibley with one hand.

Sibley's expression was filled with despair.

"If you surrendered, would Aurora come back?" Ray chuckled, an amused smile on his face as he surveyed the devastation before him.

The entire hive had been erased, reality itself seeming to break apart but slowly mending.

This was Ray's full strength in action.

"She... she won't come back," Sibley stammered, her despair deepening. "But can't you summon her from the dead?"

Ray gave her a deep look and said, "She will still be dead nonetheless, although I have also bound her soul to my summon. If, in the future, I could make her alive again, but..."

His eyes flashed with a malevolent gaze, making Sibley shudder even more.

At this time, a cracking sound came from the ruined wasteland.

"Hmm?" Ray looked in front of him with a curious gaze, and immediately his eyes flashed with excitement.

"Can it even survive my punch?" he muttered while tightening his fist.

"What 'it' can survive your punch?" Sibley couldn't help but ask instinctively.

"The level three undead," Ray said after giving her a glance.

"The... the level three undead bee," her body trembled, "we are going to die. You do not know the horror of a level three undead."

"Really?" Ray asked with a smile. "How do you know about its horror then?"

"It's because the Seer told me of its horror. It can summon an army of bees and has the power to destroy a country. Even the 'big mommy' released couldn't completely destroy it, almost causing the entire humanity to be annihilated!" she shouted at the top of her lungs.

"Interesting," Ray spoke lightly and stopped paying attention to her as he casually released her to the ground.

"Let's have a long battle."

The corner of his lips curled into a smile, and in his vision, a shadow was rapidly enlarging.

Boom!

All Ray heard was the buzzing sound of a bee, and his vision filled with darkness as Ray was sent hurtling through the place, sending him far away.

Sibley looked on in despair as a bee stood on two legs like a human, with a black carcass and two long, segmented antennas twitched atop its head.

The creature's most unsettling feature was the grotesque sting protruding from its back, rising even higher than its head, standing rigid and sharp like a spear.

This was the true power of his A-class skill: Overlord of the Sky.

The only disadvantage was that it consumed too much mutation energy, but for Ray, who already had over one thousand mutation energy from his slaughter, this was absolutely nothing to worry about.

By the time the undead bee was about to arrive, the place had become extremely cold to the point that water would instantly freeze in place, and all heat seemed to be snapped out of existence.

This was even more terrifying than the skill used by Seraphine in the fight with Ray. Ray patiently waited like a predator until the level three undead bee came within close range to him.

With his hand extending forward, a giant ball of ice instantly formed and clogged the entire hole.

"Hmm, this Ice Magic is quite weak," Ray frowned. With the amount of mutation energy in his body and his terrifying mental strength, the ice ball was not big enough, considering that Ice Magic had already reached Awakening III.

But this was a C-class skill, so he wouldn't expect more from it.

"Oh, well," Ray casually turned towards Sibley, who was invisible right now. "If you dare to escape, you will die."

He muttered in a cold tone. With his current state, Ray is able to use his Analyzer skill all the time, so it was almost impossible for Sibley to escape.

"No, I am not running away. If I don't become invisible, then I will be affected by the cold."

"Oh, I forgot you were a weakling," Ray touched his chin and nodded his head, "but you aren't affected by the cold while you are invisible."

"Yes, basic elements of nature cannot affect me; I can only be hurt physically."

"I see, interesting," Ray looked at the ice ball again.

"Is- is that undead already dead?" Sibley tentatively asked.

"No."

Boom!

The ice shattered into pieces as the furious undead bee appeared again; however, compared to its initial speed and strength, it has rapidly weakened.

"This environment really helps," Ray's eyes lit up as he shot forward, punching the undead.

The level three undead bee couldn't dodge in time, so it was hit directly by his fist. Instantly, it was plastered on the ground as the snowy ground broke like webs.

Ray raised his fist and punched again, every fibre of his being working in tandem with his fist filled with power.

His hand moved so fast that it seemed to be close to breaking the barrier of sound effortlessly, and even space itself seemed to be torn.

Bang! Bang!

Ray didn't relent, punching with all his strength combined while slightly in the air to get the benefit from the Overlord of the Sky.

When Ray finally stopped, he looked at the splattered remains of the level three undead bee with a disappointed expression.