Chapter 46 Impending Crisis (1)

Rita was still sitting cross-legged and was almost recovered without any care in the world.

"PROTECT ME!"

Cyrus's painful voice suddenly sounded in the vicinity, and her eyes snapped open with a hint of befuddlement, replaced by disbelief and panic.

"Cyrus?!" She yelled back as she quickly stood up and ran toward the voice direction without thinking twice.

However, no reply came, which made Rita's heart lurch, and she started to panic more when she couldn't have a clear vision in the murky winds.

"Cyrus? Where are you?!" She called again anxiously but no reply.

"MGGGLRRR…"

A painful groan suddenly rang, which sent a shiver down Rita's spine because she knew this voice belonged to Cyrus!

"NOOOO… nothing can happen to you… nothing can happen to you…" She went instantly hysteric as she ran in that direction while keep mumbling the same thing with bloodshot eyes filled with tears.

Although she didn't know what could've happened to Cyrus, she didn't have the energy to waste thinking about it. She knew this place wasn't the place to think lightly of but had blind confidence in Cyrus. That was why she was recovering without any worry.

However, things really take a huge twist and fast.

As she ran in that direction, the painful groans started becoming clearer and clearer, and she finally reached the source. However, what she saw was completely different than she had imagined.

Because there wasn't any Undead siege or even a trace of the Undead, instead, Cyrus was on his knees while clinching his head and squeezing it hard as if he was holding it from tearing apart.

​ "What happened?!"

Rita instantly approached him with an apprehensive expression and tearful eyes. She felt massive relief when she saw Cyrus was fine and nothing excessive had happened to him. However, his current state and how he reached it was still as much of a mystery to her.

Cyrus suddenly stopped groaning and instantly looked up. His expression was hideous; with bloodshot eyes, he was clenching his teeth so hard, blood was trickling from his lips.

He uttered only four words, "1 HOUR, PROTECT ME!"

Cyrus then didn't care if Rita understood his meaning or not and completely focused on enduring that head-splitting pain. He could clearly tell that this pain was not completely from his brain but from his Primary Dantian.

It was being torn apart, piece by piece, and this could cause him this blood-curdling pain. But he knew he could endure it, and he might've not even made a sound if not for the current situation and endured it silently.

He was not afraid of Pain. He was afraid of getting killed!

If he was alone and not in this dangerous situation, Rita won't even find out about it, but the thing was, this place was far from dangerous, and he couldn't split his attention, or he might really perish.

Rita was completely gobsmacked by his subtle words and didn't get his meaning instantly. But when she noticed that Cyrus had stopped groaning and was now only panting, she started to calm down.

Although she was ignorant, she wasn't a fool not to guess what was happening here.

"Is this related to your cultivation, and do you need 1 hour to return to normal? That's what you mean by protecting you?" She asked hurriedly since this was the only possibility she could think of.

When it came to cultivation, her understanding was still quite shallow. But still, she had always heard Cyrus saying that the cultivation path was filled with trials of difficulties and endless suffering. Only by overcoming these trials will someone can walk this path of defiance.

When she didn't get the answer, she didn't panic anymore as resolution replaced the panic in her heart. She gently said, "Don't worry, even if I have to lay my life for you, I'll buy you as much as you need. I'm glad you think I can protect you."

She wiped the tears from her face and waved her hand, "Ice shield(X4)!"

She encased Cyrus in four blocks of thick ice just like she did with herself. However, she wasn't done as she performed the ice shield again and created another layer before she cast it again until there were five thick layers of ice shields around Cyrus.

She then suddenly jumped and launched herself over top of the ice shield wall. Standing on top of the ice shield wall, she looked heroic. She didn't waste much time, and she cast Ice Spikes around the area.

In no time, she created a spiky pink ice field while the ice wall was right at the center of this ten-meter ice spike field.

Although shed used over twenty percent of Qi creaking this small defensive circle, it was still worth it since those clumsy skeletons would have a very difficult time approaching the wall, and she could easily snipe them with ice bullets while they were busy passing the ice spike filed.

Cyrus only told her to buy time, which meant she just needed to waste time before Cyrus was done with whatever he was doing. She didn't need to fight head-on, or she would be expended too quickly since she wasn't a melee fighter.

Moreover, she can't recover her Qi or stamina like Cyrus, so fighting in close quarters were even more unlikely.

With her current strategy, she will be able to last longer.

But, alas, if it was just that easy…

Five minutes after Rita created the Ice field, she heard massive movement, and soon, she was horrified when over seventy skeletons appeared out of nowhere and charged toward the Ice wall.

Calming herself, she observed first, and when she saw those skeletons were really obstructed by the ice spike field, she knew her plan was feasible.

So, without delay, she started to shoot ice bullets at those skeletons. She was already an expert at this now because of her experience with Cyrus.

Furthermore, her pink ice was quite sturdy since it was made with Yin Qi, so it was quite hard for those skeletons to break past it without attacking it continuously.

This works in Rita's favor.

However, her speed of getting rid of those skeletons was not as swift as Cyrus, who could've killed this ground in a matter of seconds.

Even after ten minutes, she only managed to kill twenty-two skeletons, but her expression changed when another group of skeletons showed up, which was also over 70 strong!

Her heart palpitated when she saw all those ghastly undead attacks on her ice spike field, and they quickly approached the ice wall.

"Ice spikes (X5)!" She performed Ice Spikes spell five times more to keep those skeletons in check while continuing to shoot down their numbers with ice bullets.

However, she was still too slow, and after fifteen minutes, over a hundred skeletons showed up, joining the fray, and they were all only three meters away from reaching the ice shield.

Rita's expression was rigged at this moment, and she couldn't shoot those hateful guys from all directions. So, she changed her strategy again. She no longer used Ice Bullets to shave away the number and only used Ice spikes to keep them in check.

This was the only way she could think of since she knew using Ice bullets was only wasting her precious Qi, and this would only make things worse. So, she could only hope that Cyrus would be able to handle it when he was done.

She just needed to buy him time, at least an hour!

This time, the skeletons' advance slowed down when she only put her efforts to defend, and those skeletons were caught in the cycle of destroying ice spikes one after another.

But Rita's Qi was now running out as she only left with a little over fifteen percent, and the number was overwhelming as it was, and if more joined, she won't last an hour.

Just as she was praying that no more skeletons showed up, her god was still busy enduring unimaginable pain, so how could her prayer get answered?

After forty minutes had passed since Rita started to defend Cyrus, the ground suddenly shook a bit.

Rita, whose complexion was already pale, was startled by this sudden rumbling, and when she looked in the direction of this rumbling, her heart sank.

Because over two-meter-tall yellowish skeleton appeared, and this skeleton was nothing like those small fries, and she had never seen such a skeleton before as well.

Furthermore, that skeleton was holding a long bone spear in its hand, which was quite unique on its own, and it directly looked right into Rita's appalled eyes. It was a stage two skeleton!

The skeleton suddenly waved his bone spear horizontally, and including those small skeletons, all the ice spikes were blasted apart by that wave like they were made of fragile mirrors.

Furthermore, those broken skeletons suddenly started to turn into a fine powder and started to get absorbed into the bone spear!