Chapter 568 - Frozen Lake (VI)
The dazzling meteors crashed onto the Ice Devil’s body heavily. In an instant, ice fragments splattered and the immense 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 meteors 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 elemental creature, it wasn’t afraid of physical attacks because it was formed 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 elemental creatures were extremely 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 merely 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 elemental 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 elemental 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 elemental radiance emerged around its body intensely.
At the same time, a dazzling light column descended from the sky and struck the Ice Devil like a gigantic hammer. 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 mercenaries lifted their weapons and struck the Ice Devil’s hind legs with all their might. At the same time, the Clerics standing behind Marfa chanted their spells and extended their hands forward. In the blink of an eye, beams of radiance shrouded the mercenaries and the flames on their bodies burned even fiercer, lighting up their blades in a fiery scarlet. Under Marfa’s lead, the mercenaries 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.
As for the mercenaries, 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 doomed!
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 extremely 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 time, 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 perimeter!
Although Lize and the Clerics didn’t cause direct harm to the Ice Devil in the battle, they had been silently supporting the mercenaries. Even though the mercenaries were able to dodge the Ice Devil’s attack most of the time, 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 mercenaries’ strength was to the Master Stage, the mercenaries 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 Elemental Badge?
On the other hand, the Ice Devil was extremely sensitive to the flow of the spiritual powers as a pure elemental 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 meet force with force. On the contrary, although the humans by the perimeter 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 emerged and revolved to form various circles. Lize pushed her palms forward and formed a sturdy barrier.
At this moment, 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 immense force and collapsed to the ground. She looked on frightenedly as the razor-sharp ice splinter got increasingly closer. The spotlessly white ice splinter shimmered 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 moment, 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 moment, 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 meters. The ice splinter couldn’t tolerate the recoil any further and it came to an abrupt stop.
“Uncle Marfa, it’s all up to you!” Anne stabled her footing and yelled forward.