Chapter 296: Ice World

Chapter 296: Ice World



Running out of the forest, the First Sister came to a slow stop and saw the new set of stairs that seemed to lead up somewhere.

They were shrouded in a mist, so she couldn't accurately tell where they were going.

'Please be the exit.' She hoped and stepped onto the stairs before disappearing into the mist.

...

A few Crazed Angels crashed down from the ground, right in front of Adam, and wielded their swords with a crazed glint in their eyes.

Adam looked over his shoulder at the meditating Nerezza and tightened his grip on the sword.

With the Crazed Angels lunging forward, Adam met them head-on and clashed swords with them with all his might.

As his strength was still at the Prime Mercenary, he was no match for Royal Princes, according to the system.

The system calculated his strength to be Prime Mercenary, and usually that calculated strength was correct, but there had been instances when Prime Mercenaries had defeated Royal Princes.

How?

Royal Princes should be stronger.

The system calculated the strength, skill, and abilities of the user, so the calculation was usually very correct.

However, the system didn't count one thing-a very important thing that could make the user stronger.

The willpower and the desire to win.

Prime Mercenaries who defeated Royal Princes had, in most cases, a greater desire to win. That closed the gap between their ranks.

Shriek!

The Crazed Angels released a deafening shriek.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"Haaa!" Adam screamed and smashed his sword forward, trying to push the Crazed Angels away.

However, the Crazed Angels had greater physical strength, and since there were three of them facing him, they started pushing him back.

His feet started to slide on the dirt-covered ground, and he was soon pushed all the way to where Nerezza was standing!

'Let's try this!'

From Adam's right shoulder, a strange muscle mass emerged that slowly shaped to be an arm. A disgusting, disfigured arm.

Thousand-Arm Monster of Armageddon!

The disfigured arm launched forward and punched one of the Crazed Angels across the face. Within Adam's body, dozens of disfigured arms protruded like grotesque tentacles, flailing wildly and striking anything in their path.

The arms smacked the Crazed Angels away with brutal force.

Since his level of mastery in Magick was above Calamity's, his Transformation Magick was also stronger!

The arms were stronger, and his abilities with the Transformation Magick had evolved. The Crazed Angels shrieked in annoying fashion and jumped after him. While quite a few attacked Adam, a few went straight for Nerezza!

With his eight-petaled wings, he defended Nerezza while simultaneously attacking the Crazed Angels.

It felt like he had to fight two battles at the same time!

It was like his wings acted on their own, perfectly countering the Crazed Angels.

With his greatsword in hand, he clashed swords with the Crazed Angels. It was a heated battle with the sparks flying and the ground shaking under them.

At that moment, out of nowhere, another group of Crazed Angels descended upon them. There were around ten of them!

'That's just too much!' Adam thought in a panic, but saw that no one was able to help him either.

Lionel and the rest had to fight about a thousand Crazed Angels, so they had much greater worries than helping him.

"Thousand-Arm Monster of Armageddon, extend!"

Within his back muscles, hundreds of arms shot out-all of them were disfigured and ugly- they headed towards the dozen Crazed Angels and stopped them from reaching Nerezza.

He was now fighting three battles!

lips slowly moved.

"ICE WORLD!"

Within the depths of his body, the full power of his ice Magick shot out and turned the whole

island into a dead world of ice.

Within the frozen ground under them, a spiraling tower of ice emerged, reaching higher and

higher until it pierced the dark clouds above.

When the tower touched those Crazed Angels, they died right away, and some of them immediately froze due to the extreme cold.

Those with the fire abilities were also unable to stop the freezing cold. Their evolving

abilities hadn't reached Sepheron's yet!

"Whoo!" Sepheron breathed out cold air, and returned back to his human form, but still

feeling the chill on his bones.

The rest of the party members looked fine. The freezing cold wasn't effecting them strangely enough. They were now safe inside the pillar of ice.

"What about Adam?" Oldman asked. "He is still outside."

"This wasn't the end of my attack!" Sepheron crossed his arms in front of his body, and then

the pillar of the ice started cracking.

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

"Ice World's Collapse!"

The pillar of ice shattered, but a wave of freezing cold swept throughout the island and killed

about hundred Crazed Angels.

The rest that survived flew high enough in the sky to avoid the freezing cold, but they still

kept grinning and smiling.

Slowly but surely, they started to evolve.

It wasn't just a few of them anymore.

All of them were evolving! Within their bodies, their dead hearts started beating with fire, and their pale skins turned

scarlet-red, like glowing embers.

Their evolution had reached a whole new level!

"Whoo..." Sepheron breathed out cold air.

"They seem to have somehow evolved." Lionel said. "Sepheron, your abilities won't have as

great of an effect as before."

"Yeah, I am aware of that. Luckily, ice isn't all that I have."

Sepheron clenched his right hand into a fist, and a fire slowly began to form around his fingers, contrasting with the cold air that surrounded them. "Those who only have one trick in their book are weak."

The fire wasn't red like the others, but blue, as if it were ice fire.

'They're also struggling, it seems.' Adam thought to himself while struggling to defend

against the Crazed Angels.

The Ice World didn't effect him but worked against the Crazed Angels, and they were slightly injured over it, but not enough for him to kill them instantly.

'I don't know what to do. I am Tank, and my sole duty is to protect her, but I don't know if I

manage to do that!'

He gritted his teeth.