The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 46 - The Temple Entrance
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Wolf
I stand at the edge of a massive clearing next to Sapphire as I look at the massive temple in front of me. A temple that has to be the Cursed Temple of the Insect God, judging by how neither Sapphire nor I have found any other structures in this massive place. Just a bunch of bugs that are gradually rising in level.
On that note, I go ahead and check my own level. At which point I find it to be at 7201.
Then I look at the two rather large insects guarding the entrance to the massive temple. Insects that look like armed and bipedal beetle soldiers.
A rather bizarre look, if I’m being honest. With a bit of intimidation mixed in.
The temple itself though looks incredibly grand in every aspect. Whether that’s size, splendor, or, well, size. Again.
Because it is massive. Massive enough to mention size twice.
Also massive enough that when I got within sight of it, the thing was actually rather hard to miss. I probably would’ve had to purposefully try missing it to miss it.
The thing stands with a height of at least several kilometers after all.
Other than its size, it is also shaped like a pyramid. Albeit with no way to climb up the sides. Just one large entrance on one side of the temple.
What worries me the most are the guards outside of it that are over a hundred levels above me. Because if that’s how strong the two random outer guards are now, how strong will the monsters inside of it be after a lot of time has passed?
Considering how the monsters outside of the temple are rising in level by the minute.
“Why do you think they aren’t attacking us?” Sapphire asks while the girl frowns at the three-meter-tall beetles that are just ignoring us despite our being rather easily in sight.
“Either they only attack things when the temple doors open, or…” I trail off as I grab a random insect nearby and toss it at them. Only for said insect to be chopped in half the instant it makes it halfway to the guards. “Right. The latter. They only attack when you get within a certain distance of them.”
Sapphire just numbly nods her head as she watches the two halves of the now-dead insect fall to the ground.
On another note, that attack of theirs…
I frown.
It was too fast for me to see.
Which doesn’t bode well.
But there’s still the likelihood that they’re just incredibly fast but weak. So I go ahead and wave my hand, sending a storm of ice and snow straight at them. Freezing the grass within the clearing along with the trees around me and Sapphire before the ice and snow reaches the bugs from all directions in order to stop them from escaping.
And what happens actually does surprise me.
The bugs do end up frozen, but when I try to crush them with the ice, nothing happens. They just stare at me through the ice.
“Looks like they’re fast and very durable, but not very physically strong,” I state my now-confirmed hypothesis about the guards.
It is nice to see higher level monsters that can’t break my ice again though. Because ever since the change to my ice making it so that instead of being unbreakable to anything 105% of my level or below it only states that things that are overwhelmingly stronger than me can break it. Although nothing can melt it.
And I’ve been fighting a lot of things that are ‘overwhelmingly stronger than me,’ making things rather annoying.
That aside…
I go ahead and send dozens of spears made of lunar ice of eternity straight at them, trying to pierce through their carapace. But not a single one makes even a dent.
…how do I kill these things, exactly?
After trying the spears, I try numerous other methods to kill the bipedal beetles. And none of them work.
Crushing them with ice doesn’t work. Piercing them with spears and other blades from all over doesn’t work. And using one powerful piercing attack doesn’t work.
Even trying to attack various places across their body to find a weak point doesn’t work.
So at the end of the day, I’m just left with only one last option.
Sending lunar ice of eternity into their body and killing them from the inside.
Which finally proves to work.
“Damned monsters…” I mutter out loud with more than a little of my irritation showing, making Sapphire chuckle in amusement. “This place may take some time to deal with if all the monsters are like them.”
And that’s not even considering how the monsters seem to be gaining levels over time.
Just how long will it take before they’re strong enough to break my ice? Never? Or just a day?
I don’t know.
And on top of that, I don’t know what’s in that temple.
What I do know though is that those beetles were speed focused. Which does put me at a bit of an advantage at least. Since I can slow them down and capture them.
I carefully look around the entrance of the temple for a bit longer before making my way over to the front door. A door in the form of a massive circle on the wall with various different symbols drawn on them.
Symbols that start glowing when I get within ten meters of the door, following which other insects start spewing out. With at least half of them being just like the two I already killed.
Shit. This won’t be easy.
Then Sapphire suddenly turns into her natural spider form and size, dwarfing everything here except the temple in an instant before she starts to eat the insects like a snack.
I blink for a second as I watch her actions, following which I go ahead and begin freezing everything around us.
Because it’s the best way to catch a bunch of pests.
