Chapter 1262 - Shadow Demon Appears
Chapter 1262 Shadow Demon Appears
The battle started abruptly and ended even faster.
All the party members had experience dealing with powerful, brawny enemies with some degree of magical power and no high-grade magical equipment.
Scarlet Firestorm.
Ripple of Death.
Petrification Beam.
Earth Tremor.
Once the frost was all gone, Sand King appeared untouched, as if he had not been injured at all.
However, everyone in the party could clearly sense that Sand King’s violent, earth-yellow origin powers were now stained with a white trace.
He had been affected, after all!
However, everyone’s gaze lingered on Sand King for only a brief moment. Their attention then shifted to the metal golem.
A Fourth Grade golem.
Everyone’s gaze turned cold.
Greem chuckled and explained, “I am a spellcaster. Melee combat is not my proficiency. It’s very logical to bring a metal golem at my side!”
Having said that, Greem accepted a red crystal and a drop of blood that Shadow Demon passed to him. He weighed it in his hand and smiled as he said, “Sand King, since I helped you out so much, you won’t mind if I take some of the materials, do you?”
“I don’t mind at all; in fact, I have to thank you for helping me there. Otherwise, I would have been badly injured!” Sand King shook his massive body and glanced at Greem with his green eyes.
The metal golem shook its body and cast off the thick shell of ice on its back. It then turned into shadow once again and slowly merged with Greem’s shadow.
Its assimilation with Greem’s shadow had been flawless, so much so that the other party members did not even detect its presence. However, that undispellable surge of ice power had stained Shadow Demon’s shadow powers, making it possible to sense its existence now.
The other party members put on a forced smile, but in truth, they were more cautious around Greem now.
In particular, the other spellcasters were shocked. Even their movements became unnatural.
What were spellcasters most afraid of? Of course, it was those stealthy assassins!
It was only natural that they would put up their guards now that they knew Greem had brought with him such a stealthy and powerful golem.
It was fortunate that Shadow Demon had been contaminated with a trace of ice powers, allowing them to track its movements. However, none of them would dare to let a Fourth Grade shadow golem move freely around them.
After taking out all the ice giants, the party stopped to harvest their corpses for materials. High-grade bloodline materials like these were hard to come by. To let them slip by would be a disgrace to the name of the ancient ice giants.
Everyone worked on harvesting the corpses.
Soon, the ice giant corpses were all split up between the party.
Giants might be powerful, intelligent beings in the eyes of mortals, but they were only moving materials and resources in the eyes of these evil beings.
The party made it across the ice giants’ territory, crossing several kilometers of ice, before arriving at that giant ice cliff that reached into the clouds.
Everyone exchanged looks when they saw this sheer, icy cliff. They then took to the sky and slowly flew upwards against the wall of ice.
The closer they got to the peak, the more they could sense the desolation and chill surrounding that space. The group could not sense any signs of life here. The only thing they could feel was that subtle fear from the depths of their soul.
The Ancient Reliquary of Deep Winter; there was no doubt it was here!
However, its aura had been concealed by a more powerful soul flux.
Everyone cautiously passed through the cloud layer at the middle of the ice cliff. They then flew for another half an hour before reaching the peak.
This place was a broad platform, several square kilometers in size. A majestic palace of ice stood at the very center.
The entire palace was not built with a single piece of wood, but crystalline blocks of ice. A hundred ice pillars filled with intricate carvings and mysterious patterns supported the palace.
A strange dragon crouched on a tall platform at the back of the palace. When it sensed the arrival of unfamiliar auras, it lifted its head lazily and evaluated its uninvited guests.
Ice dragon.
So this was the so-called ice dragon!