Chapter 731

Chapter 731

Honk -!

With a sound, Leeha closed his eyes tightly after removing the cork stopper.

‘If my intuition is correct, no, since it’s the Middles Earth, they must have aimed for that. The White Reaper, and the Black Plague-like pun, the White Plague!’

Then, he put the mouth of the flask to his lips and took a mouthful of the white potion.

At that moment, a system notification window popped up in front of Leeha. Bap-bam!

“Huh?!”

An achievement notification sound?

[Abnormal Condition: Inflicted with White Plague.]

[Ice Resistance increased by 80%.]

[1% of total HP will decrease every 1 minute for 100 minutes.]

[All Ice-related buffs will be removed.]

[Recovery skills and potion effects will not apply.]

[Cooldown time after curing White Plague is 1 hour.]

Of course, what Leeha saw first was not an achievement, but a notification of an abnormal condition.

“What is this?!”

Raising my Ice resistance significantly is good. But losing 1% of my HP every minute for 100 minutes?

It meant death in 100 minutes!

“O-Only 100 minutes...? Even if you sprint with all your might, it’s impossible to reach in 100 minutes, right?”

And what are these cruel additional options that even prevent healing?

After taking a sip and regaining 837 HP, the meticulousness of setting the cooldown time to avoid drinking again!

“This crazy Middle Earth, seriously!”

Leeha muttered, looking flustered, and Blaugrunn asked if he was okay.

-No! How can I be okay! Damn it, it’s already started, so let’s chase after them first. The time limit is 100 minutes!

“Yes? 100 minutes?”

“Mm! Mm!”

Swish!

Leeha clenched Black Bass and quickly started climbing.

Leeha: Come with me.

Ram Hwajung also followed his steps with short strides. The two were already climbing up the part where the mountain path turned into ice-covered rocks and pebbles.

Blaugrunn, with a sigh, glanced at Arzenmacht.

“Are you okay, Arzenmacht-nim? There might be a battle, and this place is closely related to the Demon King. If you get involved for no reason, it’s best to retreat.”

“It’s interesting.”

“Yes? A battle?”

“No, that human.”

“That human? Oh, Leeha! Are you speaking about Ha Leeha?”

While Blaugrunn looked pleased, blushing as if he had received a compliment, Arzenmacht remained silent.

Step by step, the Silver Dragon began to ascend, with the Bronze Dragon quickly following behind.

“Let’s go together, Arzenmacht-nim!”

“Roar!”

Faster, everyone!

With an exhilarating(?) shout, Leeha boosted morale and put strength into his thighs.

Fortunately in misfortune, Leeha was pursuing Chiyou. It was a significant advantage not to have to worry about attacks from behind.

“Alright, let’s first confirm things beforehand-”

Leeha had plenty of leisure to briefly check the achievements board.

[Achievement: Inheritor of the Whiter Reaper’s Small Estate (A+)]

Congratulations! You have acquired and used the possessions of the human hunter known as the Whiter Reaper, “Shimo.”

You believe in the words he left and actually used them! Have you ever considered that it might be poison?

I already know that!

Blaugrunn seemed to enjoy not being able to hear Leeha’s excuses, smiling. Leeha’s heart fluttered as he saw the turquoise mana coursing through his body. Ice? And electricity? ... Yeah. It’s not seawater. If it’s not seawater, electricity flows. Unless the part with the high-density mana bead is covered with a different material.

“The limits of human alchemy. Moreover, in such high altitudes, a golem with such a tall stature clustered closely together like that? It’s the worst in a situation where clouds are gathering due to a blizzard.”

“Huh? What does that mean?”

Even just by looking at Leeha’s expression, did Blaugrunn already know what question Leeha was going to ask? He smiled and raised his right index finger towards the sky.

“Hah, that’s what I mean. [Nimbus: Call Lightning]!”

Snap!

Sparks flew from Blaugrunn’s fingertip. Without a chance to blink, the electricity flowed into the storm clouds piled up in the sky.

Rumble rumble rumble...! Crackle crackle...

Leeha: No way...

Blaugrunn: A great dragon must always know how to make use of the environment they are given.

Leeha looked up at the sky. The clouds continuously spewing out blizzards without faltering must be artificial. Presumably, something imbued with magical energy created it in the sky! Will Leeha stimulate that place and transform his weapon into it!?

“Much more impressive than I thought—”

Zap! Zap!

Leeha suddenly sat down, startled by the sudden barrage of lightning bolts. Lightning struck randomly, hitting various places including mountaintops. If it’s like this here, what would happen if there were objects higher up, even higher than that...?

“Conductive Effect!”

Flash! Flash! Flash! -! -! -!

Whenever the sound of thunder reached Leeha’s ears, the ice golems crumbled one by one as if following a beat.

“You’ve grown.”

“Thank you, Arzenmacht-nim.”

Arzenmacht complimented the smiling Blaugrunn.

It seemed like even Ram Hwajung wanted to say something and muttered, “Impressive. Little dragon.”

Without giving Leeha a chance to be surprised, veins bulged on Blaugrunn’s forehead.

“... I won’t tolerate being called that by you, human, not twice.”

“Careful.”

In that moment, a small crevasse appeared between them, causing them to fall downwards. Ignoring the anger, Blaugrunn and Leeha got flustered.

“Oops! Omeoom!”

Leeha: I told you to watch out for the crevasse.

But the two soon floated up again.

“Levitation can be used at any time.”

Arzenmacht cast a spell, and not even Ram Hwajung showed any change in expression.

Feeling disappointed, Leeha continued climbing.

“Wow, what sudden lightning!?”

“Everyone, crouch down! It’s dangerous if you keep your head up!”

“[Aerial Shield]!”

The lightning didn’t just eliminate the ice golems.

It also had a dual effect of tying Chiyou’s group’s feet as they climbed higher.

“Tsk, Prea! How’s the situation below?”

Following Chiyou’s command, Prea used an ice elemental to scout below.

“Uh, um- Just a moment- W-well, the lightning melted all the golems! Can you believe it? Instead of shooting lightning bolts, they guided the lightning from the sky-“

“Save the admiration for later!”

“Oops, sorry!”

After silencing Prea, Chiyou glared at Crowley with a somewhat angry expression.

“What’s going on, Crowley? If you said that with 12 ice golems, we could tie them up for at least 30 minutes!”

“Like that’s e-e-ekk!! I wouldn’t be struck by lightning! It’s n-not in my sight!”

“Tsk, we’ll talk about your contract later. First-“

“Uh, snowballs ahead, snowballs! Three of them coming this time!”