Chapter 645 Catching Ice



As Lothur's group began crossing the area observed by the Imperial Prison watchmen, a white dot in the darkness moved at high speed through a nearby forest.

At the same time, half a dozen humans were chasing this being, running, advancing with weapons in their hands, exposing their peak level 15 cultivation.

"Attack with everything!" One of them shouted, eager to capture that beast.

"It is close to advancing and becoming a Transcendent beast! If we obtain it, we can sell it for a high value on the black market!" An elderly-looking man said, thirsty for the coins he would earn from capturing that white fox.

Besides being a powerful specimen, it was a breed that was difficult to find in the empire.

Its value would not be low!

So those men chasing Ice increased their pace, attacking its path, trying not to hurt it but to impede its escape routes.

This chase had already lasted almost 40 minutes, and it was slowly getting slower due to its exhaustion.

Feeling this, Ice couldn't help but curse its luck but also its mistake for having unwittingly indicated its presence to these humans.

It had spent most of the time it was in this place waiting for Lothur, cultivating the resources he had left for it.

But then, two days ago, it had saved the life of a woman who was about to be killed by other beasts in this area...

If it hadn't been for its good heart, the person who had revealed its presence in this forest would never have brought this trouble to it!

Thinking about it, this fox couldn't help but lament, afraid of where it would end.

'Why did I do that? Now all these greedy humans are attacking me!' It thought as it felt the blows of its opponents passing closer and closer to it.

Ice jumped to dodge one of the attacks coming toward it, but as it did so, one of its pursuers finally reached it and landed a kicking blow on its belly.

That didn't hurt Ice, but it propelled it against a large tree trunk, where the other hunters quickly joined in a formation to stop it from moving further.

"Au! Au!"

It barked, making a sad sound that spread for hundreds of meters from where it was standing, trying to move but unable to do so in the face of several opponents of a similar level to it, stopping it.

"Beast, give up! You belong to us now!"

"But rejoice, at least you won't be turned into barbecue. I bet your meat is delicious." A relatively young man said this, licking his lips.

The one who had kicked Ice then joined his companions, increasing the pressure on Ice and causing it to gradually lose consciousness.

Ice began to feel its vision dimming and wailed. 'Damn... I... I won't... Make it...'

But as it saw its surroundings getting darker and darker, seeing less and less of the smiling expressions of its enemies, suddenly things changed.

From one hour to the next, the expressions on those faces changed from satisfaction to sheer terror!

Ice didn't understand this amid its near-faint. Yet, each of those hunters had felt it when tremendous pressure reached them, preventing them from moving every single one of their muscles.

Even their spiritual energy was moving more slowly inside their bodies!

'What is it?' One of them wondered, feeling short of breath as his lungs did not move.

While these people were trying to understand what was happening, Lothur appeared beside a large group, not far from those people and Ice.

"Trying to hunt my friend, huh?" He coldly asked while clenching his fists.

Unfortunately, he couldn't use his bloodline ability on those people, or he would cause trouble for himself. But he was feeling a great urge to do so and cruelly eliminate every one of these fools.

He then increased the gravity pressure on those people even more, making them forget the lack of oxygen in their lungs to showing in their eyes and veins of their faces the pain they felt.

But as the pressure on their bodies rose, they remained motionless, unable to move their muscles to show the pain in their expressions.

They felt their muscles being crushed by the immense pressure Lothur was making them endure while their bones began to crack.

But all this happened little by little.

Lothur wanted them to suffer as much as possible because they thought they could act against Ice.

Sounds of bones breaking spread out in the surroundings after a few moments, as slowly Ice understood the situation, feeling less pressure on itself.

It was almost fainting, but with Lothur's action, it had stopped being oppressed by its opponents.

Its breathing had improved while its soul had escaped the powerful spiritual pressure of moments ago.

Not having much against it, it breathed in gradually, regaining the light in its eyes.

'Lothur!' It felt the powerful cultivation of his soul. 'He has become a Celestial Saint! Incredible! As expected of Lothur!'

A moment later, the bodies of those men were totally crushed, turning into balls of flesh that no one could identify.

Lothur united them into one meatball and finally stopped acting against them, leaving behind that meatball for the beasts of the area to devour once he left.

His slaves silently watched it, imagining that such a beast must be their master's pet.

'How absurd! Mere Spiritual Warriors were acting against our master's pet!'

'Who did they think they were? Do they think they can go against a mountain while they were small stones?'

Some glared hatefully at the meatloaf as Lothur moved closer to Ice.

Rebecca followed him, soon stooping down beside this white-furred beast, seeing how it had suffered alone.

Lothur then placed a pill in Ice's mouth before massaging the top of its head.

"You are about to advance a stage. Well done, Ice. Now you can go wherever you want once we return to Peters City.

But anyway, don't worry about anything else. I'll take you to our home now."

Ice more or less understood what Lothur was saying, even though it was not yet able to speak the language of this human.

But it wouldn't be long before it would gain that ability!

After absorbing the pill that Lothur had recently refined, this magnificent creature overcame the last barrier preventing it from advancing!

In a few moments, it would reach level 16!

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