Chapter 281: Fed Up Ice King
"Well, it's time to kill them all."
When James and Ariel said these words simultaneously, the look on their faces was enough to freeze everyone. They were so sinister and malevolent that it was impossible not to shiver strangely.
Obviously, everyone watching had forgotten just how much these two looked alike.
James suddenly kicked open the massive doors to the next room and both doors flew backwards.
Ariel rushed forward, aiming to attack the enemies.
The huge room was filled with perhaps thousands of goblins.
It didn't take long to realize that these goblins, made of ice, were not alive, which meant that James would not even get a spin on any monster he killed here.
Sad as that would be, at least there would be a huge reward at the end of it all.
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So, without waiting, James fired up 8 Sacred Fire and unleashed the black snake that had appeared, specifically choosing the jet-black flames.
The goblins made of ice were comically running away from the flames, which seemed to be quite amusing. By the time James and Ariel looked at each other to see if they had turned into psychopathic killers, more than two hundred goblins had already died.
As soon as the goblins died, they turned to dust and disappeared.
The being called the Ice King must have been a really good wizard. The reason why James thought this was because when he spread his mana throughout his body, he could see the traces of mana threads in the goblins made of ice, especially with his eyes.
It was just like the mana trails that Ruby, the Kutlu, had seen when she was trying to get to her dungeon.
It was at that moment that James must have remembered that he shouldn't leave all the work to Ariel, for he immediately leapt forward, gripping the Godly Sword Lumen tightly, and began to make several thrusts.
He was trying to use as minimal a magic cascade as possible, and so he was connecting his magic...or rather the magic axis of the 8 Sacred Fire to his aura, and he was able to cover a huge area with his magic as if he was only using his aura.
Even though doing this made 8 Sacred Fire's power much, much less powerful, he was still able to spread the ability over a huge area with almost no mana.
In a situation like this, in an area where there were monsters made of ice, an ability like this would be very useful.
They quickly met the oncoming attacks and Ariel kept stabbing the two blades she held in her hands one after the other into the goblins made of ice.
Ariel was going to get help from Bai Fang to train with the sword, and so she was going to stop climbing for a while after the 40th floor. James, of course, would agree to this, even if he didn't know it, because after the 40th floor, it was going to be incredibly dangerous.
Both Ariel's difficulty and James' difficulty would continue to compound.
The combination of Hell difficulty and Hard difficulty could not be underestimated.
After a short time, every single ice goblin in the room had been destroyed and a chest appeared in the room as usual.
As soon as James took the key from the chest, the duo moved on to the next room and quickly cleared it as well, clearing the next room in almost five minutes.
After the Ice Harpies and Ice Ghosts, James and Ariel made it to the room just before the boss monster's room.
It didn't take them long to realize that there was nothing in the room, and the absence of a chest gave them a strange feeling. Something or things had to be hiding in this room and they had to find them as soon as possible.
James instantly emitted a large amount of mana around him and tried to figure out if there was anything around him. When he closed his eyes and tried to strengthen his senses, he was indeed able to sense something.
He was very glad that he had learned to control things with his mana.
Nevertheless, it was easy to realize that these things that were hiding were very careful. That's why James had used the Void Pen to speak into Ariel's mind without waiting:
"It's about fifteen meters behind you, waiting at the top of the pillar, it's a small creature, you need to throw a knife and kill it."
Following James' words, Ariel surreptitiously watched the pillar behind her and after a short time, she was able to see this spider-like creature. Whatever it was, it must have known how to hide because it seemed to have taken on the colour of the pillar.
The colour of the pillar was a much darker shade of blue than monsters made of ice, which meant that either this monster was created in a different hue, or it had incredible hiding and camouflage skills.
After twenty seconds of silence, Ariel immediately threw the knife in her right hand at the pillar with incredible speed.
The blade sliced through the pillar without stopping and managed to slice through the ice monster in the process.
The ice monster crumbled to dust as it fell to the ground and that's when the usual chest appeared.
When James opened the chest, he managed to find the fifth key there.
With that, the two stopped in front of the last door and then Ariel said "Easy job." and pushed the door.
As they passed through the door, the pair became aware of the INCREDIBLE cold that had come over their bodies. Even though James had absorbed the Sun Vampire's extract and had developed a tolerance to heat and cold, the fact that he could feel the cold meant that Ariel was in a terrible state.
Instantly, James enveloped Ariel's body in black flames, not wanting to harm this woman for even a second.
"Are you okay, mom?" James asked suddenly and Ariel nodded her head and replied, "I'm better."
With that, the vapour that had formed from the icy air began to show someone. A man? A man standing maybe two or two and a half meters tall, just a skeleton, wearing a suit of armour covered in blue and white patterns.
Both James and Ariel couldn't help but admire this man strangely, the energy around this man was so pure that it was awe-inspiring that one of the monsters born of dark magic like a skeleton could be like this.
It was truly an incredible sight for anyone to behold.
At that very moment a voice came out of this "man"...sentences poured out:
"The death of my queen...the fall of my kingdom into darkness, oh where is the old perfection, life...I am all alone now. My flesh has left this world, rotted and disappeared while I wait here for my fate. Now I have only a skeleton that lets the ice out and one last piece of my mind."
Even though he was a skeleton when he said those words, both Ariel and James felt as if they could see the bitterness on his face.
At that moment the man reached for the throne behind him and telekinetically took his huge sword from it, and then he spoke again:
"My name is Ezra, I am just one of many fallen kingdoms throughout the history of the tower, I have lost my beloved wife and queen, I have brought an end to my people, and now it is my turn to fight and perhaps die. Come warriors, I will end you or you will end me."
James and Ariel suddenly lunged forward and attacked the man who identified himself as Ezra. There were several exchanges of attacks. Even though the two of them were not using abilities that could be considered overpowered, they managed to push Ezra back.
It was sad.
"I shouldn't have stood up to him...I shouldn't have betrayed him, we humans are such idiots, we keep betraying our kind." Ezra said suddenly, trying to attack as best he could, but nothing he did was working on the pair.
"Holy shit!" a voice suddenly echoed in James' mind and upon hearing it James realized it was Vladimir's voice.
"What's going on?" James asked and Ezra, who was standing there as if he was tired of fighting, spoke again:
"Ah....I hope that when I die I go to wherever your soul is, sir...Forgive me...I shouldn't have betrayed you..."
And the moment James heard those words, he screamed:
"WHO COULD YOU HAVE BETRAYED?!?!?!?!?!"
As he shouted these words, only one name came out of Ezra, who was standing right in front of him. That name will freeze everyone in shock...The name that will shock the gods inside Olympus, those who follow him from Asgard, the knights of the Round Table, and then the Chaos-Borns and Titans who try to hide it all.
"Desmond, Desmond Black."