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Chapter 303: Blue Winter
Chapter 303: Blue Winter
Chapter 303: Blue Winter
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Within the ice pod, Adam's frozen, sleepy body started to have a transformation.
His body became stronger, denser, and it also looked like he was getting taller, strangely enough.
No one on the battlefield noticed anything different except one person-Rawkshawn.
Rawkshawn stared down. Whenever his gaze landed on one of the members of the party, they felt increased anxiety and discomfort.
This time, his gaze landed on the ice pod, and when it did, the ice slightly cracked from his gaze alone.
However, it didn't take long for him to look away. It wasn't interesting enough for him to keep his stare on Adam for longer than one second.
In the midst of the battlefield, the fire and ice raged on. The whole climate of the island had already changed.
From the sunny island of dreams to a hellish landscape of destruction and chaos.
"ICE PERMAFROST!"
The ice wall smashed into the bodies of the Crazed Angels, but with the increased durability in their bodies, they weren't really hurt.
With the fire, they melted the ice.
They then aimed their fists at Sepheron, who was some distance away, and launched hundreds of fire fists at him all at once.
"ICE PERMAFROST!"
He swung his right arm up and created a thick ice wall right in front of the fire fists. He managed to block about fifty of them, but the rest went straight through the melted ice.
Sepheron jumped over the rest of the fire fists, and while in the air, he turned upside down with his arms crossed across his chests.
He then twisted two of his fingers on both hands and the flames of the ice fire. They shot forward, and when they landed on the ground, the ground froze.
Some of those flames landed on the bodies of the Crazed Angels and started burning, but then, within the bodies of the Crazed Angels, a layer of ice emerged that protected them from the flames.
They had perfectly evolved to completely counter Sepheron!
There was nothing he could do to them anymore!
When the ice fire burned, they would respond with their ice defense. When the ice fire started freezing, they would respond with their fire defense.
Sepheron nimbly landed back on the ground and realized that his Magick was useless.
"What's next, ice man?" The Crazed Angels laughed as they surrounded him. "You've run out of tricks."
"How hot is your fire?" Sepheron asked, his lips lifting into a smile.
"Hmm?" The Crazed Angels frowned.
Sepheron jumped into the air, and as half of his body turned to ice, he turned to face the Crazed Angels, and on his right hand, a ball of ice appeared.
It looked like a frozen snowball.
"Blue Winter!"
With his throwing arm, he sent the frozen snowball towards the ground. It landed right in the middle of the Crazed Angels, and when the frozen snowball cracked, a wave of freezing cold air spread out in all directions.
At the same time, Sepheron created another frozen snowball, and this time, he threw it straight to the sky.
When it reached high enough altitude, the frozen snowball cracked, and a thick blanket of freezing-cold clouds appeared.
Within those clouds, snow started falling in thick flakes, covering everything in a layer of white.
The Crazed Angels immediately tried to protect themselves from the freezing cold with their flames, but a shocking sight happened before them.
Their flames started to freeze!
It was too cold even for their flames!
Slowly, all the Crazed Angels started to freeze over. They didn't have any chance to try to even evolve through this harsh winter storm because they were completely frozen solid in a matter of seconds.
While fighting the rest of the Crazed Angels, Oldman and the rest started to also tremble in cold.
Sepheron was expert at only targeting his enemies with his ice skills, but Blue Winter was something that he simply couldn't control.
"We need to avoid Sepheron!" Lionel shouted while battling the Crazed Angels.
"We're going to leave him alone?" Oldman asked.
"He seems to be doing well for himself!" Lionel shouted, and with his wings, started flying away. "We will be in danger if we stay near him!"
Oldman and Nerezza quickly followed after Lionel; the rest of the Crazed Angels followed after.
In the midst of the battlefield, Sepheron stood alone with the frozen Crazed Angels all around
him.
"Is that all?" Sepheron breathed out cold air and smiled.
At that moment, the ground under him shook him as if the earth itself were rebelling against his wintery powers.
However, then a large, cold shadow fell over him, and Sepheron's body turned colder than the freezing air around him.
With shaking eyes, he turned around and saw Rawkshawn standing over him, a gigantic grin on his face.
"You were left without a playing partner?" Rawkshawn smirked. "I'll be more than happy to play with you."
Lionel and the rest looked shocked as they saw Rawkshawn finally move away from the entrance of the island!
"The stairs!" Nerezza pointed to the set of stairs where they originally came from. "It's
unguarded!"
"Focus on the fight ahead!" Lionel shouted. "This is another of Rawkshawn's tricks. He is confident enough to battle Sepheron and guard the entrance at the same time."
"What about Sepheron? He can't defeat that monster alone." Oldman said.
"I don't know." Lionel said. "However, Sepheron is strong! Perhaps he can do some damage!"
In the midst of the winter hellscape, Rawkshawn was standing barefooted. The freezing snow and ice biting at his skin, but it didn't look like it bothered him at all.
Anyone else would've already been frozen solid.
"You're the strongest foe I've ever come across." Sepheron created another frozen snowball.
"Yet, I do not fear you."
"You should." Rawkshawn grinned so much that his eyes squinted. "You have no idea what
I'm capable of."
"Maybe you will show me!" Sepheron threw the frozen snowball at Rawkshawn and shouted.
"Blue Winter!"
Rawkshawn put his hand up to block the attack. The frozen snowball hit his enormous palm. The full power of the freezing winter exploded, covering Rawkshawn in a thick layer of ice.
It worked!
Rawkshawn was frozen!
"Sepheron did it!" Nerezza shouted.
"Good!" Lionel clenched his fists. "There is no way Rawkshawn will come unscathed from
that!"
Crack...
The ice started cracking.
CRACK!
The ice exploded, revealing Rawkshawn, breathing out cold air.
Everyone knew that it wouldn't be enough to stop Rawkshawn, but they wondered what kind
of damage he suffered from Sepheron's all-out attack.
"Ouch..." Sepheron touched his head as the pounding headache returned.
After using Blue Winter three times, his mana ocean depleted rapidly. He would be lucky to be
able to create just one more spell before passing out of mana exhaustion.
'This is bad.' Sepheron wiped the sweat off his brows. 'I hope the attack at least hurt him.'
'Come on!' Oldman looked over and stared at the air above Rawkshawn's head. 'Show your health bar. There is no way you don't consider this a fight anymore!'
Yet, nothing seemed to change.
Rawkshawn, with a smile on his lips, lifted his hand. His palm was so big that it seemed like it
could easily cover the surrounding area.
"Ordinary Slap." He said with a chuckle and then brought his palm hand down.
It came crashing down on Sepheron.
Sepheron quickly jumped away to the safety and watched as that simple, seemingly powerless
slap just decimated the ground beneath it.
That ordinary slap seemed like an absolute force of destruction at this point! 'What insane power!' Sepheron thought. 'However, why isn't his health bar showing? If he
lost health, it should show it automatically. Could it be that my attack didn't do anything?!'
A depressing reality sank in to every member of the party.
"This is nothing, y'know." Rawkshawn laughed. "Look at your faces. Despair, and
hopelessness."
Sepheron, Oldman, Lionel, and Nerezza showed the same look. An utter hopelessness and
defeat.
"Yet, I've not shown everything that I can do. Are humans this weak-willed?" Rawkshawn
laughed and then spread his arms around.
A wave of deathly energy spread throughout the land and went through the four members of
the party.
"Cough!" Sepheron coughed out blood and collapsed on his knees.
Lionel's nose and eyes started bleeding.
"Argh!" Oldman touched his chest and collapsed on his knees.
Nerezza touched her nose that was bleeding.
"W-what is this?" Lionel asked and coughed out blood.
"It is the sickness." Nerezza said with a painful tone. "We forgot about that, didn't we?"
"Cursed..." Lionel gritted his teeth. "How can anyone beat him? If the fight lasts long enough, the sickness will eventually kill us!"
Crack... a faint sound of crack sounded from the direction of the ice pod.
Within the ice pod, Adam's eyes slowly fluttered open. Those eyes looked different than only
an hour ago. It was as if the color had changed from navy blue to darker blue.
"Hmm?" Rawkshawn looked over as he sensed something odd.
CRACK!
The ice pod shattered, and Adam collapsed on his knees, panting heavily, but slowly, he
forced himself to stand, and as soon as he did, his newly-acquired aura swept across the
island.
"T-this..." Lionel's eyes widened. "That aura... how?"
"Wasn't he Prime Mercenary?" Oldman asked. "This aura is way beyond that. This is the aura
of Grand Lord!"
"There is no way he is Grand Lord." Nerezza wiped the blood off her nose. "That is
impossible."
"Grand Lord?" Sepheron frowned. "How can he be that strong?"
"Oh~" Rawkshawn smirked. "He has shed off his mortal shell. That brings me some
memories of when the old man used to train us. As demi-god, it was already painful enough
to wish death."
"I never expected a human to survive that."