Just when they were just uncovering and making theories about the werewolves while walking to where the beast was said to be, it suddenly found them on its own as a huge fog draped their views and then a loud shriek was heard.
Then from far away, they could hear loud thumping footsteps heading for them and everybody took a stance imdiately baiting their breaths waiting for whatever was coming out of the fog.
"Were we close to where the beast was?" Jake asked as he held his sword tightly waiting for whatever was to co.
"According to my calculations, we are at least 30 tres away from it." Bane said.
"Which ans it found us on its own." Rex replied.
"Everybody! Take positions! Archers, you know where you are to stay. Damage dealers, over here!" Rivock ordered and everybody got to work with General Paul, Alex, Gray, Greig, Jack, Jay and Raze walking over with their different swords in hand.
The thumping sound was becoming louder and louder as whatever was coming was approaching them faster.
"Is it a mountain that's moving?" Alex asked as he held his giant sword tighter.
That was when, a deathly silence spread through the air, thick and suffocating, as the temperature plumted. Frost spiderwebbed across the ground, creeping up boots and armor, biting into flesh like unseen fangs. Then, from within the swirling fog, a shadow erged—a hulking, nightmarish figure, its very presence distorting the world around it.
The beast stepped forward, its colossal form parting the mist, revealing a monstrous body forged from ice, bone, and sothing darker—sothing unnatural. Its towering fra was draped in jagged icicle spines that jutted out from its back like frozen lances, glistening with a pale, otherworldly light. Each step it took sent tremors through the frozen earth, the very air twisting and warping in its presence, as if reality itself struggled to contain its existence.
Its face was a mask of terror—an elongated, lupine skull encased in translucent ice, through which eerie, ghostly blue flas burned like trapped souls. Rows of serrated fangs lined its maw, each exhale releasing a dense mist that sapped warmth from the surroundings, turning breath into brittle ice upon exhalation.
Six eyes, glowing like frozen stars, stared unblinkingly at the humans, radiating a primal hunger that sent a shiver through even the most battle-hardened warriors. The re act of looking at the beast made their bodies feel heavier, their movents sluggish, as if the weight of an endless winter was pressing down on them.
The air itself groaned under its presence, as if nature recoiled in horror. Ice ford unnaturally fast, creeping up weapons and fingers, making even the simplest movents feel like wading through a storm of endless frost. The wind howled—not from the weather, but from the beast itself, carrying whispers that clawed at the edges of sanity, urging the weak-willed to kneel before it and succumb to the cold.
Then, it took another step, and the ground shattered beneath its weight.
The beast was no simple foe. It was a calamity—a walking death sentence draped in ice and despair. And it had set its sights on them.
"Okay! It really is a mountain." Alex gulped as visual Qi erupted around his sword.
"Hu…humans!" The beast spoke with its terrifying booming voice that it felt like the ground was shaking along with the hearts of all the people there.
"Right, it's a humanoid beast so it will have a level of intelligence." Jake said.
"What do you want here?" The beast asked.
"We don't feel comfortable talking with beasts and most especially, the ones that will soon fall by our hands." Rex said as he walked forward.
"Oh?! So you ca here to kill. ?!" The beast said.
"I guess you are not dumb." Rex said as he raised his hands and grabbed his shirt and with one swift movent, he tugged at it pulling it off and throwing it to the ground to reveal a set of toned abs and bruised body that hadn't healed yet.
His body looked to be made of stone and carved by a talented stone sculptor.
"Now I know where Alex got his signature move from." Jake chuckled.
"Why do you want to kill ? Beasts… we didn't harm any humans, yet here you are. Why?!" The beast asked.
"Let's just say we need your core because we are in a war. And it will really help us." Bane shrugged as his white lab coat fluttered in the wind.
"War?! Because you are in a pickle, you decide to hunt us to make weapons? We are also lifeforms and have lives to live! Yet, you decided to take lifeforms?
Just because my brethrens can't communicate with you, doesn't an we aren't sad and annoyed!" The beast roared while Jake took the ti to use his inspect skill.
{Inspect}
{Na: Nyxir, the Frostborn Tyrant}
{Tier: Demi-god}
{Abilities: complete control over ice}
{Description: The Nyxir is a towering monster that has complete control over ice and fog and also has utterly terrifying strength, speed and endurance. Anybody caught in its ice, will find it hard to escape.}
{Ding! Quest alert!}
{Defeat the demi-god beast for rewards}
{Rewards: level up, 10 to all stats, 20,000 XP, one new guild skill, an upgrade to a three skills including a guild skill}
'Oh? So it was the beast making the weather cold huh. And it also triggered a quest too. Usually, a beast as strong as this will trigger a warning from the system but it's telling to defeat it.
Is it because the big three are we with ? Or is it because the system already deems strong enough.' Jake thought.
"Feelings? Your brethren always attacks us whenever they see us. They have this annoying killing intent. We are just trying to survive." Rivock said.
"Is that your justification for killing us? Killing intent? You are at war? And you are trying to survive? Fine! You are trying to survive, so am I." The beast said and then all around it, two hundred ice spears appeared with their tips pointed towards the humans.
"Uhm… no one told us this beast had elental powers!" Jack gulped loudly as the amount of ice spears pointed towards them was a lot.
"I guess it's ti we showed you this arrogant beast why we are at the top of the human world." Bane said as he also grabbed his long coat and pulled it away, tossing it to the ground and then right on cue, his hands began changing.
As gears twisted and locked into place as his flesh morphed, the tal plating wrapped around his arms like a chanical exoskeleton. Steam hissed from the shifting joints as his hands reshaped into twin cannons, the barrels humming with stored energy.
In short, Bane's hands looked like a cannon while all around Rex, a thousand Qi swords appeared with their tips pointed at the beast.
'So that is Bane's power, he turned himself into a part machine. A cyborg of so kind.' Jake thought.
"Just so you know, I'm going all out!" Rex shouted as the thousand Qi swords that covered the whole area spanning for about five tres all flew towards the beast while the two hundred ice spears all shot out towards the humans.
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