BXBX NOVEL Chapter 531 530: Battlefield (2)
Even in a new world, that fear persists...
Jahi set her feet again as she hoisted her shield, golden light shimmering to life around her arms and legs as she braced herself for the attacks to come, while Anput fell back and stabbed her sword into the earth, freeing her hands for a moment as she began to weave together runes into a spell.
Leone and I nodded as we focused instead on slowing down the approaching onslaught of elites as well as the remaining chaff that continued to swarm their way over towards us.
Just like in the forest yesterday, I began to trace out the runes I needed for a Domain type spell, trusting in Leone to hold them back for just a moment as I prepared to turn this portion of the tropical island into a winter wonderland, ethereal blue mana shining coldly in front of me.
The Vampire continued unleashing torrents of napalm off into the hordes, burning down the lower level monsters and undead while forcing the elites to block or dodge each glob of liquid flame.
It didn\'t take long for me to cast the familiar Domain spell that I had in my disposal, especially not when I understood it better then the last time I had truly cast a full Domain.
The large Ritual Circle shone with a bright, harsh pale blue light, and I pushed it further into the air, a small smile tugging at my lips as it began to snow.
What started as flurries picked up into a full on blizzard seconds later, and the winds pushed off into the monsters and undead, buffeting them with the sharp nip of frost and numbing their limbs.
The snow melted quickly on the ground, leaving behind puddles of water that froze over instantly, spreading my ice further and further as the clearing was shifted from tropical to arctic with just one spell.
Anput and Jahi felt nothing thanks to the dual Water and Fire Cloaks encasing their bodies, so they shot into action without hesitation, completely unimpeded with the current blizzard whirring to life around them.
The Jackalkin summoned giant gates of metal that slammed down on the spider\'s limbs, locking them in place and creating an opening for Jahi to capitalize on, the Demoness shooting forwards and cleaving her great sword straight through the spider\'s skull, a golden trail following behind her as she moved far faster than I had seen her move before.
Anput took the gates that she summoned and shot them towards the next large construct - the lion - before darting after them with a longsword in her hands, deciding that she wanted to take on the lion herself.
Jahi stabbed the spider once more to make sure it was dead before casting her golden discs towards the avians dive bombing towards her, while her great sword parried the heavy axe of a Spartoi.
Leone and I glanced at one another before nodding again, the Vampire remaining where she was while I shot forwards as well, my dagger and rapier back in my hands as I made my way towards the hulking Oxkin or Bullkin skeleton, wanting to test out my abilities against something larger and stronger then me.
Hoisting its giant axe, the skeleton clacked its jaws together as it stared me down, the metal blade gleaming in the snow as it used Earth Mana to try and keep its limbs free from frost.
With the blizzard still in full effect around us, I decided to \'ditch\' magic for the moment and focus entirely on my physical strength, using my dagger and rapier the best of my ability as I slipped beneath the axe and scored a thin gash across the skeletons ribcage.
It towered over me by a few feet, so I needed to wear it down before going for the head, which had been identified as the only way to kill these skeletons due to their lack of a Core.
The heavy axe crashed against the earth and embedded itself beneath the rocks, only to be wrenched away by the skeleton and showering the area in stones and dirt, giving me a small opening to slip behind it and slash Shatter across the back of the skeleton\'s knee, buckling it.
Crashing down to the ground, the skeleton swept the axe around itself and tried to cleave me in two, but I just jumped back before lunging forwards again, stabbing my rapier through the back of its thick skull and cracking off a small chunk of parietal section, revealing the hollow cavern inside.
I pulled back on the rapier and stabbed forwards again, widening the hole and killing the skeleton, only to jump back as four more basic skeletons stumbled towards me, their stone swords stiffly slamming into the ground that I had previously occupied.
Dashing between them, I cut them down before making my way towards the next elite, which was a Spartoi a few inches taller then the Beastkin Skeleton, and much stronger.
Four arms - each wielding a weapon - and coated in a thin armor of Earth Mana, the Spartoi\'s were dangerous undead on their own, but with this ability to grow, I wasn\'t looking forwards to dealing with them again if I didn\'t have to.
For an opponent like this, I wrapped my rapier in a gale of swirling green Wind Mana before lengthening Shatter with a full blade of Ice, preparing to take on this heavy skeleton and reap my giant bundle of experience for a reward.
As it stood, I couldn\'t wait to turn on my System notifications again and see the raw amount of experience that I had gained from just \'assisting\' everyone with this blizzard, while I was also curious about the value of these elite enemies that I would be taking down on my own...