Chapter 569 - Frozen Sorrow
The razor-sharp ice splinter collided with the steel shield. The Ice Devil was surprised that a human could resist its all-out strike and the strong recoil slowed its movement. Then, Marfa heard Anne’s yell and charged forward with his mercenaries. They raised their weapons and slashed with all their might.
Dazzling blade rays flickered in the air. The scarlet flames on their blades struck the Ice Devil’s body and spread wildly to its erected tail. It howled in grief as its tail broke off abruptly. After losing its tail and balance, the gravely injured Ice Devil crashed into the ground. However, it hadn’t given up just yet. It let out a blood-curdling screech like a cornered animal and crawled to its feet. It lifted its head high and the elemental radiance in its eyes was never this brilliant. It felt as though the sun had paled in its presence.
But that was only for an instant.
Rhode dove down with his daggers laid in a crisscross stance like a dazzling meteor streaking across the sky.
Perhaps the mercenaries would never forget this scene.
The Ice Devil let out a heart-trembling below with its widened jaw. At the same time, a shining light column shone from above and punctured the Ice Devil’s skull. The immense impact swept along a powerful whirlwind that dispersed in all directions. It was so quick that the Ice Devil had no chance to react at all. The ice surface sank under the pressure and formed a ten-meters wide depression. At this moment, the Ice Devil still maintained its upright posture as though time had frozen. Then, its massive body collapsed as though an invisible large hand had pushed it to its side.
“Oh, Lord…” The mercenaries muttered and held their breaths. Although they knew that Rhode possessed powerful strength, they were dumbfounded to personally witness his raw force. After this thunderous strike, weakness and fear brewed in the mercenaries’ minds. Perhaps there were no other choices for them apart from shutting their eyes and waiting for death if they were to suffer the fate of this attack.
However, the awestruck mercenaries didn’t stay dazed for long. Rhode emerged rather miserably before them and swiftly gestured to them. “Run!”
The deep sound of rolling thunder boomed from underneath the ice surface and an enormous crack emerged…
There were two mission rewards for the [Frozen Lake] mission. One of the rewards would open the passage to the Water Plane of Existence and he could summon low-level Water Elemental Spirits. Previously, Rhode had thought about accepting this reward, but he stopped yearning for it after he received the Fantasy Key from completing the Castel Plateau Ruins. The Ocean Elves that were summoned using the Fantasy Key were much more reliable than the low-leveled Water Elemental Spirits and Rhode wouldn’t be that foolish to waste this opportunity. Therefore, he focused his attention on the other choice.
[Please select mission reward — Water Elemental Attribute Spirit Summon Card]
Rhode hesitated for a moment and tapped lightly on the pattern of the card.
The system prompt burst out in golden rays and fused with the card brilliantly. A spinning card emerged out of thin air and landed on Rhode’s palm. Unlike all the cards in Rhode’s possession, this card was entirely blue with white complex patterns around its edge and it let off a biting cold chilliness. On the top corner of the card front, a pure white mark of ‘lll’ caught his attention. Then, a string of system descriptions appeared before him.
[Received Frozen Sorrow 1/10, Snow]
[Snow (Water Elemental Spirit. High Position): Master Level Lord Spirit. Infusible. Controls element. Ice Seal. Freezing property. Skills held — Breath of Water (The gentle water flow can heal all pain and nurture without end)
Water Elemental Master Attribute (Water Spirit’s Temptation)
Lord Manipulation (Can summon lower-ranked spirits apart from Lords. Maximum of three)
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Growth Rate: 0%]
Rhode twitched his brows as soon as he read the final line. He scanned the front of the card and saw a clear crystal ball with indistinct human shapes within it. There were also two huge numbers of 5 and 7 at the bottom of the card.
Offense 5 Defense 7. This card was apparently used for defense and healing which was a satisfactory result for Rhode. He possessed mainly attacking cards and lacked such supporting and defensive cards. The reason why the Spirit Swordsman could become one of the three best solo classes was due to its ability to summon card spirits to make up and replace the strength of a team. And a perfect team needed an attacker, supporter, healer, and meat shield, no less. Currently, only the Centaur Knight and Nether Tentacles were considered defensive cards and he didn’t have any support and healer cards at all.
Even though this card seemed similar to Gillian, they were entirely different. Gillian’s card attributes were incredibly overbearing while this Frozen Sorrow card attribute was correspondingly weaker where even the original attributes of the Nether Tentacles was stronger. On the other hand, its offensive points were only slightly above the Spirit Bird. If this was the best that this card could go, it wouldn’t be considered a precious variety among all the summoning cards.
However, the growth rate of this card proved its uniqueness — It was a card that would grow and could be considered more of a card that was created by a Spirit Swordsman than a card awakened by the Soul Core.
Awakened and Created. Both were totally different.
Take Gillian, Starmark, and Succubus, for example. Their attributes could be upgraded from leveling up. Instead of saying that they could be leveled up, it was more appropriate to say that removing their seals would allow them to regain their original strength and state. Their peak attributes would be achieved when they regained their true form. Just like the Spirit Bird—Rhode had advanced its stage once and its attack attribute increased only a little, so he knew that its future was bleak. Even if he successfully upgraded the Spirit Bird three times, its attack would increase by 3 points at most.
However, created cards were totally different. It was like a child that was just born and it didn’t know anything apart from its talent skill. The path of its growth laid firmly on the hands of the summoner. Due to this reason, there were no fixed numerical values for the cards that were created. During its first advancement, it might possibly increase its defense due to the player’s defensive preference. However, if the player had decided to focus on its attack instead, its attacking value might even surpass its defense during the second advancement.
This was the difference between created cards and summoned cards.
What an excellent luck.
Rhode shrugged. He placed the card to the side and continued reading.
At this moment, the system prompt caught his attention.
[Mission Completed Reward. Received 1 Sword Creation Point]
What’s this?
Rhode’s curiosity piqued.