The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 28
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 5 | Day 11
Huh.
This is interesting. And painful.
The central region isn’t exactly like what I was expecting.
Actually, it’s almost nothing like what I was expecting.
Because I was absolutely not expecting an ice volcano. Much less that loud cawing sound that makes me think the ruler of this infested region is some sort of bird.
I was kind of expecting a larger ice dragon or something. Not a bird.
Then there’s the fact that I don’t see even a single other beast in this region. Not even one.
It’s just completely empty other than the ice, snow, and very obvious danger.
Well then.
I purse my lips while ignoring the pain flooding every inch of my body from the corrupt mana flooding me. And a small part of me actually feels like turning around and leaving the Toxic Frosts. Since I know there’s no way I’ll be able to fight this thing.
The only reason I could kill the dragon was because it was significantly weakened, disabled, and injured. Letting me attack it with ease.
But this thing won’t be weakened, disabled, or injured. And it’ll be far stronger than the dragon was.
I stand at the edge of the central region for several seconds before eventually deciding to head inside and at least get a look at the thing. Since it might help my research if I see something this powerful.
Mostly I’m just curious though.
So I begin heading through the rather dangerous region as ice and frozen water fall from the sky. Only to find myself being frozen solid when the icy water ends up hitting me. Despite me using fire mana to block it.
Turning me into an ice statue.
Um…
Hmm.
I try to break out of the ice with my physical strength, but I find myself unable to do so. After that I try melting it with fire.
But that doesn’t work either.
Leaving me stuck here in the ice.
And to make matters worse, more of the water splashes down on my already frozen self. Expanding the ice around me.
I refuse to be turned into a decoration for this region.
With that thought in mind, I begin using both fire to melt the ice and my physical strength. And when I do both, I finally find the ice cracking ever so slightly.
So I keep pushing and melting the ice. But right when I’m about to break out of the ice, a large chunk of ice from the volcano flies straight at me. Crushing the ice statue and me along with it. Making me black out in the process.
What’s probably a few seconds later, I find myself regaining consciousness while lying flat on my back on the ground.
Well that was annoying.
I climb to my feet before continuing my way through the flat region around the volcano. Except that I try as hard as I can to avoid the icy water splashing everywhere from the volcano whenever it erupts.
To no avail though. Since there’s just too much of it.
Even with my physical abilities, I still can’t avoid the icy water. Which is ridiculous.
And thanks to that, I find myself repeatedly being frozen before breaking free and continuing on. Just to be frozen again.
But I still manage to very slowly make my way to the volcano. Where I finally enter the caves under it through a small cave entrance on the side of the volcano.
I let out a sigh of relief now that I’m past the annoying part. Then I continue moving through the caves.
Until I find something rather unexpected.
A large ice cave filled with spider webs made out of string-like ice, along with hundreds of spiders made of ice. With all of the creatures having far more mana than anything in the inner region had. Except the dragon.
Although they still have around seventy percent of the mana that the dragon has.
I purse my lips at the sight of the spiders. Meanwhile the spiders turn to look in my direction as well.
At least for the ones near the entrance. Which are the weaker ones.
A few seconds pass in silence before I immediately run the hell away. Because getting captured here sounds like hell.
I’m not blind enough to miss those other beasts captured in the spiders’ webs that are currently being eaten alive. Nor am I arrogant enough to not realize that I’m gonna end up just like those things if I try to fight them.
But it’ll be even worse for me since I can’t die. So I’ll just be eaten alive forever.
Until I can break away, that is.
Six of the spiders immediately begin chasing after me at incredible speeds. Only for them to drastically slow down after they leave their webs.
Fortunately for me, the largest spider that I’m guessing is probably the mother or queen of the nest doesn’t go after me. In fact, she just straight up ignores me even after glancing at me.
Is it arrogant or something? Feeling absolutely confident that the other spiders will drag me back?
Or maybe it just doesn’t care about me.
Regardless, I run as fast as I can. Occasionally dodging the icy strings fired at me by the spiders. Although I ignore the poison they spew at me since it doesn’t actually do anything beyond paralyzing parts of me that instantly regain movement before I even finish my step.
The chase continues all throughout the tunnels. But no matter how long I run, I can’t seem to find the entrance for some reason.
So I just continue to run away from the spiders, who refuse to give up on chasing me, for hours.
But I eventually figure out why I can’t find the entrance when I see the tunnel shifting to open up a new direction and close a previous one.
I grit my teeth at the sight as I continue running through the new path.
This cave system is bullshit.
