Chapter 257 Unexpected Ambush
The environment was filled with mist, and the wind released a chill everywhere. The ground below was filled with snow. Even with the ice element, Rishi was feeling cold. He moved around without wasting any time; he was enjoying himself here as he was able to improve very quickly.
Four men appeared there, shivering in the cold. One was feeling so cold that he was biting his teeth. One of them wore a jacket and became comfortable, while the other used his fire element to get warm. He laughed at the other three and said, “I knew it would be cold; that’s why I brought clothes for all of you.”
“You are the best, Big Brother; I knew I could depend on you,” said the one who, with the flowing nose, they quickly wore their clothes and started to follow the tracks of their target. They started jogging to generate heat in their bodies and quickly adapted to the environment.
Rishi was unaware that he was being followed. He started exploring the area; He searched around the area to look for any opponents, but he couldn’t find any living beings. He went deeper into the realm and soon found a creature. It was a small, one-meter-long humanoid golem.
Its body was made up of ice, and Rishi noticed that there were other creatures like him. He noticed that they were all advanced-stage beasts and ignored them. He needed to collect the cores of elite-stage ice golems. He moved deeper and felt that the temperature was colder here; He started searching, and soon he detected the presence of a beast.
He approached the direction and soon saw a large, three-meter-long magic beast. It was an elite-stage ice golem. He approached it and attacked it with a sword; The sword, covered in dark fire hit the hand of the ice golem, and with a small explosion, the arm of the golem fell.
The golem cried before looking at Rishi. Its right hand recovered instantly; It was longer than the advanced-stage golems. A big blue crystal inside its chest connected to his body through Blue colored patterns. Rishi looked at it and smiled; He already knew that he needed to take out the core of the ice golem to defeat it, but he wanted to test if it was true.
He exchanged some moves with the ice golem and analyzed its fighting style. It smashed its hands to the ground and launched an elemental attack at him. After fighting for a while, Rishi cut the beast into pieces before taking out the core. The rest of the golem’s body released some pure ice energy before dissolving into the environment.
Rishi used this opportunity to absorb as much ice energy as he could. He noticed that the fourth stage of his icy body had improved by 3%, now 13% from the initial 10%. This was a surprise; Rishi was struggling to increase the cultivation of the fourth stage of his Icy Body Technique.
He started looking for more ice golems in a motivated state. He fought with multiple opponents, absorbed their ice energy, and stored their cores. The deeper he went, the stronger the golems he faced; The one he was fighting could even use the Ice Spear spell. He launched multiple projectiles at Rishi. It caught him off guard initially, but he quickly got used to it.
After three hours, he had defeated thirty opponents, and his icy body had reached 66%. He took a small break to rethink his strategy.
Four people could be seen following his trail. They were not as fast as Rishi, but they were still quick. They tracked him down and followed his footsteps; The deeper they went, the harder it got for them, but they managed somehow and kept chasing their target.
“Come on, after completing this mission; we will not need to work for the whole year. We are very close; We will kill that boy and leave this place. They followed the tracks for six hours without rest before their beast sensed their target was near.
They used the camouflage talismans and disappeared; They quietly approached their target. They saw a boy sitting and meditating; they quietly approached him and started preparing their spells. The mage started chanting his spell, and their captain took out an array formation and started setting it.𝒏𝒪𝑽𝑬𝑙𝑵ℯxt.𝗰𝒪𝕞
The others also got ready to attack. One of them took out his bow, stretched its string, and locked on to his target. He closed his left eye, and his right eye shone in a blue glow. They looked at each other, and their captain set the array and signaled them to attack.
One of them disappeared and started moving towards the target. The others also followed. While these two were approaching, the other two waited patiently; From their moments, it looked like they were professional.
The gray-haired boy was unaware of the threat around him, thinking of his Ice Body Technique.
He had gained 100% completion; he now needed to use this energy to transform his bones to complete the fourth stage of the ice body. He was immersed in meditation, thinking about how to proceed.
It was then that he sensed something through his shadow sense. He thought it was an ice golem, but it was something releasing a very faint presence, unlike Ice Golems. He woke up, and then he sensed a faint killing intent; He felt a chill he had never felt all his life.
He used body enhancement and transformed his head into a layer of thick ice. He used shadow steps to move back as fast as possible while also activating ‘Frozen Armor.’ A projectile with a ‘swish’ sound came and hit his forehead. It was an arrow that peeled through the icy layer, creating cracks and entering 5 millimeters inside, just one millimeter away from the brain.
He had not even cried when a sharp dagger entered his back before his armor could form, trying to reach his heart, but it could not reach it due to his body’s toughness. The armor was half-formed, the assassin decided to retreat. The ‘frozen armor’ had partially formed when a spear covered in a blue glow hit his stomach. It tore through his armor, which was not wholly formed, and entered a few inches inside before the ambusher retreated and pressed the button.
A blue light radiated, and a big barrier appeared around it, which sealed the twenty-meter area into a transparent barrier. Rishi was not even able to figure out what was happening. When he was unable to move, his body lift up into the air and started spinning; he was caught up in a tornado. His eyes shone with a golden glow; He looked around and tried to analyze his situation. He could see multiple blades of the wind element coming at him.
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