I took a second to prepare myself for the creature I was about to face. My barrier spell was still active, as was Cellestra’s. In addition to that, I cast the imbue elents spell on myself. I took a quick look at my list of abilities and noted that my previous plan was as effective as it would get. Physical attacks were just the most useful against this creature.
I entered the room with Cellestra still on my back. The room, like last ti, was lit by the torches on the walls, and soon after entering it, the sand in the middle started shifting.
“I’m just going to keep hitting it with my legs,” I said. “Just make sure to hold on. This shouldn’t be too difficult.”
Cellestra nodded as the sand rose up.
I didn’t even give the creature the ti to erge from it. I started attacking imdiately, scraping off bits and pieces of the hardened sand from the sli while it didn’t seem to be able to retaliate.
I had the bright idea to summon threads to try to bind the sand-covered creature with, but they had no effects as the amorphous nature of my enemy ant that it could always slip out of them.
The creature finally shot a bolt of sand at , hitting my new elven torso, but the attack was completely negated by my barrier. I never felt a thing. It attacked
with the sa attack twice more, but didn’t do
any harm. My barrier didn’t seem to have issues absorbing the damage either, so I just kept up my flurry of attacks.
Thanks to my imbue elents spell, my attacks summoned smaller versions of ice lance in the air around
which flew out to strike my opponent. Unfortunately, they were even weaker than before and hardly seed to do anything. The wind blessing effect, however, did not seem affected by my drop in power. Sure, my attacks with my legs were weaker, but they still struck twice every now and then.
I kept up my relentless assault until a small hole in the sli’s surface appeared. I kept attacking with my legs while I cast elental blast. Even though the hole wasn’t that big, my attack easily found its way into the sli’s vulnerable main body. It then exploded.
You have killed a Burrower Sand Sli: No experience was awarded.
The creature then lted into a weird puddle of sand mixed with sli.
Nice. I’d shattered the core with that spell. I was happy that worked. It made a significant dent in the ti I’d have to spend fighting it.
Then, a thought entered my mind. I scratched my head as I looked at the puddle with all my frontal eyes.
“Uhhhh,” Cellestra let out.
“Good question. I have no idea.”
I stared for several more seconds before I concluded this was impossible.
“I don’t think I’m going to be able to eat this. There’s a lot of sand mixed with the sli, and I don’t think it’s part of the creature, so I doubt my devour skill can trigger from eating that. Not to speak of the taste… Can my stomach even deal with sand?”
“Don’t bother,” Cellestra said. “What kind of ability would this creature offer you anyway? If it’s anything like the toad, I doubt it’s going to be any useful.”
I nodded. “Good point.”
Not being able to eat the creature I’d killed made my mind wander off to the massive tree that guarded this dungeon’s entrance. I wouldn’t be able to eat that thing either. Wood, or rather charcoal, wasn’t exactly sothing I planned on eating. To be fair, the thought of eating it hadn’t entered my mind until just now.
The sound of stones grinding reverberated throughout the room. I decided to ignore the sand sli creature and shift my attention to the wall before . Interestingly enough, it wasn’t the wall before
that lowered into the ground, but the one to the right.
I remained where I was, unsure what to do.
“What’s wrong?” Cellestra asked.
“That’s not the wall that opened last ti I was here.”
“Isn’t that a good thing?”
“Uhm, I think so?” I said. “I’m not sure what’s behind this door, but it can’t be worse than skeletons right?”
“You want to check it out?”
I nodded. “I’m curious what’s down there now.”
I skittered over to the new entrance that had opened. The darkness behind was quickly dispelled as I summoned a fla spell to float in front of . Despite the fire being close to , I felt the surrounding temperature drop almost imdiately after entering the dark hall that lay beyond. A tunnel with stone walls to the side, similar to the one found when one entered the dungeon stretched out before us.
As I walked down, the temperature continued to drop. Fortunately, I seed to be fairly resistant against the cold, thanks to the hair that covered most of my body. How my elven part, which had only my breasts covered by silk, wasn’t freezing, was a mystery to .
“Cold,” Cellestra said.
“Too cold for you?” I asked. “Should I head back?”
The elf shook her head. “I’m fine. If it gets much colder I’ll use my own fla spell to help out.”
“Alright. Just let
know if it becos too much. I don’t seem to be affected as much.”
“Yeah. You do have a nice fur coat. The sa can’t be said about , unfortunately.”
I walked for a few more seconds before Cellestra noted the sa thing I’d already concluded.
“How are you not freezing, though. You know…?”
I chuckled. “I’m literally clueless. I know that my abilities apply to all parts of my body, but I don’t have anything that should work against the cold. Maybe it’s my blood? I don’t know.”
“Lucky you.”
A smile kept growing on my face as I continued to walk down the corridor. The elf on my back seed to be glued to my ‘fur coat’ as she had put it. She was remodeling the hairs on my body to have them cover her as much as possible. I couldn’t help but think that she was acting tough.
She soon summoned her own fla spell, adding more warmth to both our bodies. I also added more mana to my own to help her out a bit more. Fortunately, the elf never started shivering, so I reckoned she was mostly okay.
Eventually, the corridor ended in another archway that led to a new room.
Or so I thought.
What lay beyond the archway wasn’t a room. Rather, we stepped into a snowy plain.
An open field stretched out before us. It was like a desert, but there was nothing but snow and ice. I didn’t know where to look or what to make of this place. I didn’t even know how all this was possible. There didn’t seem to be a ceiling like in the swamp area. Instead, there was a blue sky and there was no darkness to be found anywhere. There was no sun, which made
wonder where the light was coming from.
A snowy hill a few hundred ters out from our position blocked our view.
“What an odd place,” Cellestra said as I turned around to see a huge wall of ice that stretched all the way to the sky. In this wall was the archway that led back the way we ca.
“What is this place? Is this still inside a dungeon?” I asked, unsure where to look.
A cold breeze flew across my face, taking my hair with it. It made
look at the elf on my back who seed unfazed still by the cold.
“I think we’re still inside the dungeon. I didn’t know it could look anything like this, though.”
“Heh,” I chuckled. “There’s not much to look at here. It’s nothing but white.”
“There has to be sothing…” Cellestra said.
“Let’s find out about that,” I resolved as I walked towards the hill. This was the first ti in my new life walking on snowy terrain. There seed to be a thick layer of snow, but my legs didn’t sink deep in it. My weight seed to be distributed well enough to prevent that.
And I carried a lot of weight with …
It made
wonder just how thick this layer of snow was.
My thermal vision didn’t pick up anything. If anything, it was worse than my normal sight; the only colors that it showed were black and grey.
“Hey, Cellestra?”
“Hm?”
“If the cold gets too much, do warn , okay?”
“I will.”
I skittered up the hill when I noticed sothing large beneath the snow burrowing itself a way to
from my front. Cellestra and I both tracked its movents. When I was about to put up an earthen wall in the snow as the trail got too close for my liking, a creature presented itself by jumping out.
I was staring at an ape-like creature of a size that I couldn’t imagine. It was about the sa size as my spider abdon and weighed probably just as much. It had a completely white fur that seed to offer ample protection against the cold.
It roared, forcing
to look at two large fang-like canine teeth, each of them the size of my hand. It then pounded its chest in a show of dominance while I prepared to strike with my spells.
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