The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 29
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 5 | Day 11
A few hours pass as I run the hell away from the spiders. But nothing I do works to make them stop chasing me.
I try to make the tunnel cave in, but my attacks don’t do shit to the tunnel itself. No doubt due to the immense amount of corrupt mana filling every bit of ice making up the ice cave system.
I try to fire off blasts of flames and miasma at the spiders themselves, but my attacks don’t even melt a single drop of the ice spiders’ bodies, or leave a dent.
And when I manage to pull one spider away from the others, the thing literally shrugs off my blade. Even with the blade being coated in fire.
So the spiders are just fucking overpowered.
Which makes me strongly regret deciding to enter the volcano.
The reason I thought it was fine was because I was under the assumption that the ruler of the Toxic Frosts was the only beast in the central region. Simply because I didn’t see any other beasts in all of the area around the volcano.
It never crossed my mind that there might be other beasts inside of the volcano itself.
I grit my teeth at my own arrogance. Which has probably grown a bit too much over time.
But the spiders don’t care about my own self-reflection. They just continue the chase while firing off string and poison at me.
Oh, and they completely destroy the drone following me. One of the spiders even wraps it in a cocoon and drags it off back to their nest.
So I guess the viewers are helping me in their own way.
They decreased the number of spiders by one after all.
Something strange happens right as the spiders are finally catching up to me though. With their paralysis managing to hit my legs from multiple of the spiders at the same time and stop me from running for a bit.
The moment a tunnel changes right next to us, opening a new path that spews out a massive amount of cold mist, the spiders freeze in place and start pacing back and forth. So I take advantage of their pause to run right into the tunnel the moment the paralysis is reverted.
And, as if waiting for me, the tunnel seals itself back up right behind me. With the spiders not getting anywhere near the tunnel.
All the way until the tunnel seals itself.
I grit my teeth as I feel mentally exhausted by that chase. Then I slowly turn to look deeper into the tunnel.
Something tells me that I know what’s down this path. But at the same time, I don’t have much choice in going down this way.
The spiders are still behind the wall. I can sense them there through my mana senses and life senses.
So they’re just waiting for me. They aren’t going anywhere.
I take a deep breath before beginning to make my way down the tunnel. Through the thick icy mists.
All the way until I turn a corner and see a bright pale blue light shining through the mist. But despite that, I can’t see very clearly through the mists. Even with my supernatural vision.
Until I get within a few meters of the light, that is.
After getting that close, I finally begin to see what’s beyond the tunnel.
And what I see sends a chill down my spine.
The tunnel opens into the volcano’s crater, as I expected. But what I wasn’t expecting was what is inside of the crater.
There’s a massive pool of some sort of liquid-like ice that’s just flowing around like water. With mist expelling from it that’s colder than anything I’ve ever seen in my life.
The mist is so cold it’s trying to freeze me whenever I stay in place for more than a second. Making it so I have to continue moving to not freeze.
And I’m not even in the crater yet.
But what’s more terrifying than the liquid ice, which is occasionally shooting out chunks of ice and bits of water out of the volcano, is the sight of the ruler at the center of it all. Just bathing in the liquid ice as if it were normal.
It may just be the most powerful creature I have ever seen in my life. Possibly even stronger than Crimson.
Actually, it probably is stronger than Crimson. Just less intelligent, so he may still be able to hunt it.
But putting that aside, the creature is massive. Spanning about fifty meters in height, with a wingspan over twice its height. And it has actual veins of pale blue mana running through its body. With pale blue wings and pitch black almost purple claws and solidified eyes.
What’s most surprising though is that the creature isn’t made of ice.
It’s made of flesh and blood. Albeit with what looks like liquid ice running through its veins and even dripping from its beak.
I feel myself clenching and unclenching my fist at my side at the sight of the massive hawk that’s just bathing in the liquid ice crater of the volcano.
A creature so terrifying that the spiders won’t even come near it.
Despite my entering its tunnel, they were so afraid that they just abandoned their prey and stayed at the edge of the mist.
The hawk has so much mana that it’s like a damn sun.
Just looking at it hurts my mana senses.
And something tells me that if I touch that liquid ice, I’ll be frozen in here for quite a while. Just because I’d be freezing and likely falling into the liquid ice. Where I’ll end up stuck in a block of ice even with me reverting repeatedly.
Hmm.
I would try to dig my way through the tunnel out of the volcano, but that won’t work. Not when I can’t even scratch the ice of the tunnels.
So I only have one option.
I look from the liquid ice to the hawk that seems to be ignoring me – that or not even noticing me – and then towards the sides of the crater.
Time to climb out of here.
