Age of Adepts

The Chillfrost World.

This place was an unusual world utterly different from any other plane.

The planar laws here appeared to be severely distorted, turning this small plane into a harsh world covered eternally in ice and frost.

The chilling winds howled, and blades of snow and ice slashed through the air.

Looking from afar, the entire world appeared as varying shades of gray and white. Even the skies were covered by a thick and dense layer of dark clouds. No stars or moons could be seen from here.

The ground was covered in sheets of ice dozens of meters thick. Mighty peaks of ice and snow towered above the earth.

This place was exceedingly cold and hostile to most creatures. However, at a single glance, you could still sense the presence of numerous lifeforms in the vast icy plains and the hazardous mountains and rivers.

These creatures were unusual ice creatures, or simply ice elementals of different forms. Any creature that could exist and survive in such a harsh environment would need to have tremendous resistance to the cold!

The three members of the party were shocked. When they looked at Greem again, their impression of him had changed entirely.

There were no weaklings among those who could control an ultra-grade item!

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Traveling through a plane that was actively hostile against you was tough business.

However, Greem was protected by the Orb of the Fire God. It wasn’t that hard for him now that most of the planar backlash had been neutralized.

He continued forward with some difficulty. The Chip had projected a countdown to the corner of his eye. The number was ticking and changing constantly.

[37 hours, 26 minutes, and 41 seconds until planar suppression is dispelled.]

The Chip had been working at full power to decipher the planar laws here the moment they set foot in Chillfrost. As the analysis progressed, Greem’s power slowly rose again.

What stood before him was a vast, boundless plain of snow and ice.

There was only white wherever he looked. White ice pillars of strange shapes, piles of white snow, and white snowflakes dancing in the air.

Bone-chilling winds soared past him, but they were roasted warm by the layer of fire around Greem the moment they approached. When the wind reached Grem, it was merely a warm breeze, pleasant and comforting.

However, when the warm breeze passed by Greem and met with the crushing cold once more, the air crackled. The moisture in the air froze into snow powder and ice shards, and all of it fell to the ground.

While Greem was walking forward, a small bump appeared on the snowy ground. The snow burst apart as a swarm of strange worms charged forward.

These snow worms had a thick layer of fur, two legs, and long ears on their heads. They opened their vicious mouths, as wide as half their body, and lunged forward with bloodshot eyes.

These snow worms chittered and rushed at Greem the moment they sensed his unusual aura.

These worms weren’t powerful at all. They were at the level of intermediate apprentices at the very best.

However, their advantage came in their numbers and the chilling temperatures of this world. It allowed their attacks to pose a sliver of threat against Greem.

Greem casually hurled two Explosive Fireballs forward, blasting two craters in the snow and turning seven snow worms to ashes.

As impressive as this result was, Greem couldn’t help but frown. He once again felt his helplessness at fighting in a foreign plane.

Back in the World of Adepts, those two Explosive Fireballs would have created a sea of fire over a hundred meters in radius, exterminating most of these little critters. But now…two Explosive Fireballs had only been able to make two five-meter-wide craters and kill only a tenth of the snow worms he had expected.

Greem was slightly flustered at this!

His powers were too badly suppressed here.

While Greem was frowning, a crackling sound suddenly rang out in the empty snow plains. A dozen nearly translucent crystal monsters rushed at him, their bodies letting out a cracking sound with every step.

These monsters appeared more powerful than the snow worms. Each of them seemed to be the equal of a First Grade adept. Moreover, their entire bodies were composed of translucent crystal. It allowed them to blend in perfectly in this snowy world of ice. An ordinary person would have trouble seeing them.

Guided and incited by the planar consciousness’ hostility, these native creatures stormed forward recklessly with no regard for the power difference between them and the invader.

A short moment later, a massive halo of fire flashed across the land as all the snow within a thousand meters started to melt. The land was charred black. Countless snow creatures were burned to a crisp in the wave of fire, scattered to the wind as black dust.