Chapter 568: Frozen Lake (VI)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The dazzling teors crashed onto the Ice Devil’s body heavily. In an instant, ice fragnts splattered and the imnse spiritual powers tore the Ice Devil’s tough shell. The spiritual powers were as though lightning bolts releasing glaring brilliance in the Ice Devil’s body. The teors set off a series of deep explosions and the Ice Devil flinched.
It was no wonder the Ice Devil had such reactions. As a pure elental creature, it wasn’t afraid of physical attacks because it was ford by spiritual powers and its physique served no other purpose than to bear its weight. Due to this reason, it lacked the nerves and flesh that other living creature had and ordinary physical attacks were harmless against it.
However, it was also due to this that the elental creatures were extrely sensitive to the disruption of spiritual powers. The purer and stronger the spiritual power, the more damage it would be dealt with. Although Rhode had rely transcended into the Master Stage, his swordsmanship had reached the Legendary Stage. Surely the Ice Devil couldn’t resist his all-out attack.
Swish! The Rangers released their fully drawn bowstrings and projected scarlet arrows from their bows. Shortly after, the miserable Ice Devil was engulfed in a series of ear-deafening explosions. Although the Rangers weren’t as powerful as Rhode, the conflicting elental attribute was able to obstruct and restrain the Ice Devil up to a certain extent.
“—!” The Ice Devil grew increasingly angry from the continuous attacks.
As an elental creature in the Chaos camp, it detested all kinds of lives. And now, these lowly ants actually caused it to be so miserable. The Ice Devil couldn’t hold its wrath in any longer. It lifted its head, bellowed, and a green elental radiance erged around its body intensely.
At the sa ti, a dazzling light column descended from the sky and struck the Ice Devil like a gigantic hamr. The Ice Devil sensed the infiltration of a sacred aura that disrupted the spiritual powers that it was coalescing. The pitiful Ice Devil winced and almost fell to the ground.
“Now’s the chance!” Marfa yelled.
The rcenaries lifted their weapons and struck the Ice Devil’s hind legs with all their might. At the sa ti, the Clerics standing behind Marfa chanted their spells and extended their hands forward. In the blink of an eye, beams of radiance shrouded the rcenaries and the flas on their bodies burned even fiercer, lighting up their blades in a fiery scarlet. Under Marfa’s lead, the rcenaries pierced their blazing swords into the Ice Devil’s body and white steam spurted out from within. A thick layer of the Ice Devil’s hind leg had as though peeled off and chunks of ice layers fell to the ground. This was the final move to overwhelm it.
The Ice Devil whose elental powers had been disrupted lost its balance and collapsed sideways on the ice surface. Fortunately, the rcenaries rolled away in ti and avoided the tragedy of being crushed by its massive body.
Rhode’s eyes brightened at this scene as though an idea had co into his mind. He kept his daggers and retreated, gesturing with his left hand. Shortly after, the Spirit Bird screeched and dove down with a dozen lightning bolts around its body, striking the Ice Devil’s massive body heavily. Then, the Spirit Bird discharged electric arcs and bound the Ice Devil like a cage. At the sa ti, Rhode clenched his left hand and the Hell Hound roared as it made its entrance. After spotting its enemy, the adorable ‘kamikaze death dog’ pounced forward without any hesitation.
However, the Ice Devil wasn’t that easy to deal with.
Although the Spirit Bird’s Lightning Cage had restrained the Ice Devil’s movents, the Spirit Bird’s level was still too low to effectively restrain the Ice Devil. Moreover, the Wind and Water elent attributes didn’t conflict with each other and as a result, the Lightning Cage vanished after lasting for a few seconds and a large portion of the Ice Devil’s hind leg was distinctively recovering at a quick pace. The Ice Devil flipped over and stood to its feet and the damage that the rcenaries had dealt were voided by a thick layer of ice as though it wasn’t hard at all.
However, the rcenaries didn’t feel dejected. They were well aware that this creature possessed a terrifying recovering ability. There were many tis when they had given up all hopes during the training sessions and they naturally wouldn’t harbor such thoughts now.
Moreover, everything that the Ice Devil had done up until this point was exactly the sa as the simulation which brought a lot of confidence to the rcenaries. Furthermore, Rhode also shared a huge portion of their pressure. After all, Rhode didn’t join in their attacks during the training sessions and the rcenaries didn’t imagine having him as such a powerful main attacker and the Spirit Bird to contain the Ice Devil now. Therefore, the rcenaries felt that this battle was much simpler than during the training. They retreated slightly and circled around the Ice Devil to avoid its frontal attack and flinging tail.
Roar... The Ice Devil spotted the ants roaming around its feet which infuriated it even further. It turned around and snapped its mouth forward at the rcenaries.
At this mont, violent flas burst out from the side and engulfed the Ice Devil’s head. The Hell Hound sprung up and slashed its razor-sharp claws at the Ice Devil’s head, slowing the Ice Devil’s movents to a halt. However, the Ice Devil jerked its neck to fling off the Hell Hound that was tearing its head apart. Then, it lifted its right front claw and swatted at the Hell Hound that had crashed to the ice surface.
“—!” A massive explosion blasted across the horizon.
The powerful impact and fiery blaze blasted into the sky. The Ice Devil had been caught off guard and it was too late for it to avoid the surprise. The burning explosion of the Hell Hound’s self-destruction had spread along the Ice Devil’s front claw and arm and shattered them abruptly. The shockwave tore everything in its path like an enormous at grinder.
This sudden explosion ruptured the forelimbs of the Ice Devil and the blast impact lifted its body upward. In an instant, the Ice Devil revealed an opening that Rhode had been waiting for. Rhode darted forward with his dagger in a dazzling brilliance like a teor that streaked across the horizon, puncturing heavily into the Ice Devil’s chest.
Boom! Rhode gritted his teeth and the twin daggers in his hands erupted in shimring spiritual radiance, penetrating deeply into the Ice Devil’s chest. Berserk spiritual powers discharged from the razor-sharp blades as Rhode slashed continuously.
The Ice Devil knew that it was in a life or death situation. And now, it had made a decision. It lifted its head and snarled at the top of its lungs. Shortly after, the surrounding flat ice surface trembled, crumbled, and projected huge ice chunks to the Ice Devil.
On the other hand, Rhode had also decided. He twitched his brows slightly and raised his arms to drag out his daggers. Rhode criss-crossed his arms and brandished downward. He flew back swiftly in a string of afterimages using the blast recoil to dodge the flying ice chunks. Then, he landed on the ice surface dexterously and looked up at the Ice Devil.
At this mont, the Ice Devil was battered. More than half of its chest had crumbled due to Rhode’s spiritual blast and the ice chunks below its neck had been shattered completely. Countless ice chunks that had lost their spiritual powers fell off from its body and revealed ghastly scars. Perhaps it would’ve been dead if it were another living creature. However, this was nothing more than another injury to the Ice Devil.
However, this didn’t an that this was ineffective against it.
“Eyes on the target!” Randolf ordered.
He drew an entirely scarlet arrow from his quiver and pulled it fully against his bow. The other Rangers standing around Randolf also aid their bows at the Ice Devil. “Release!”
Boom! Boom! Boom! Fla sparks exploded continuously. The explosive arrows had struck the Ice Devil’s body where Rhode had blasted an opening and exploded in an unprecedented formidable force. The Ice Devil failed to repair its body using the ice around it. To the Ice Devil, it had sunk into a dire situation. The rcenaries’ continuous attacks left it panting and this was what Rhode wished to see. Facing an elental creature, especially one like a fish in water, the best thod was to diminish its strength using continuous attacks and shatter its chances of recovering itself. Although the Ice Devil ca from the Water Elental Plane and was considered a pure elental creature, it couldn’t possibly possess pure elental powers since this place wasn’t the Water Elental Plane. Due to this reason, even if it needed to repair itself when it faced ambushes, its recovery speed wouldn’t be as quick and convenient as it was in the Water Elental Plane.
This was the reason why Rhode seized the chance to strike relentlessly. As long as he relied on his strength and the rcenaries’ non-stop attacks, it would be possible to destroy the Ice Devil since it couldn’t repair itself. And now, the Ice Devil’s miserable plight had proven that Rhode’s plan worked!
As for the rcenaries, they didn’t consider the situation like Rhode did. But it was apparent to them that just a little more effort and the creature would be dood!
But the Ice Devil wouldn’t be standing idly and accept its fate. It struggled to lift his body and swept its eyes emanating with spiritual radiance to the side. Then, it let out a long cry and struck its powerful tail skyward!
This attack from the Ice Devil could be said to be extrely fast. The tail struck the Spirit Bird soaring in the sky and the Spirit Bird crashed to the ground before it even reacted. The Spirit Bird shattered into speckles of bright dust and vanished into thin air.
But this ti, the Ice Devil wasn’t simply targeting the Spirit Bird. After striking off the Spirit Bird, it swept its tail toward Lize and the others standing by the periter!
Although Lize and the Clerics didn’t cause direct harm to the Ice Devil in the battle, they had been silently supporting the rcenaries. Even though the rcenaries were able to dodge the Ice Devil’s attack most of the ti, there were also instances where they had to resist due to various reasons. This was where the Clerics’ protection and blessings had shown their values. No matter how close the rcenaries’ strength was to the Master Stage, the rcenaries were still in the Peak Elite Stage. If it weren’t for the Clerics’ blessings and defense assistance, how would they even deal such high damage to the Ice Devil even with the Elental Badge?
On the other hand, the Ice Devil was extrely sensitive to the flow of the spiritual powers as a pure elental creature. After exchanging blows with Rhode, this cunning creature had sensed that Rhode’s spiritual powers weren’t any weaker than it and it wouldn’t yield good results if it continued to et force with force. On the contrary, although the humans by the periter didn’t possess strong spiritual powers, they had annoyed the Ice Devil exceptionally. Therefore, the Ice Devil instantly swung its long tail at them after striking off the Spirit Bird. The razor-sharp ice splinter extended from the tip of its tail and lashed at the Clerics like a gigantic thorn.
“Oh no!” Lize swiftly changed her hand gestures and pushed her hands forward with her palms facing up. In the blink of an eye, countless golden runes erged and revolved to form various circles. Lize pushed her palms forward and ford a sturdy barrier.
At this mont, the Ice Devil’s tail struck heavily on the barrier.
Pow! Pow! Pow! After a few attempts to break the barrier, the Ice Devil used all its might to swing its tail with an irresistible force and finally shattered the barrier that Lize had cast.
“Aaah! Lize flew back from the imnse force and collapsed to the ground. She looked on frightenedly as the razor-sharp ice splinter got increasingly closer. The spotlessly white ice splinter shimred a terrifying radiance under the beaming sun as though it would penetrate the young lady’s body in the blink of an eye. However, at this mont, a figure stood before Lize.
“Dream on!” Anne raised her shield high and a burst of white steam spurted out from a gap in her shield. Anne plunged the triangular shield downward and expanded it hurriedly to protect Lize and herself.
At this mont, the ice splinter had arrived.
Clang! The thick, gigantic ice splinter collided heavily against the steel shield. Anne grounded her feet and clasped to her shield as the powerful impact pushed her back by up to 10 ters. The ice splinter couldn’t tolerate the recoil any further and it ca to an abrupt stop.
“Uncle Marfa, it’s all up to you!” Anne stabled her footing and yelled forward.
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