Chapter 849
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The hunting that time felt rather ironic . The high-level magic beasts to be hunted were difficult to hunt, but it was nowhere near as difficult as the Ancient was to commandeer . So long as the supply of grade-9 magic nucleus was sufficient, the weapons onboard would prove more than adequate to kill the beasts effortlessly .
They were still at the outskirts of the oceanic ice block . The block itself had the surface of the sea covered in thick sheets of ice, making it impossible for the Ancient to venture inside . The pan's turtle alchemical boat became the only ship that was of use in the upcoming journey . That meant that when the troupe actually found the cemetery, the Ancient would not be any help to them .
Rossen, the water puppet, brought around twenty goons with it, making their way for their prey . Nailisi managed to catch up to them when the group was about five miles away from the beasts .
The water puppet did not bother greeting Nailisi . It simply jumped right into the water to get close to that piece of floating ice the beasts were on . It was fortunate that the wind was blowing in their direction, or the grade-9 magic beasts would have been able to smell the demons and the spirits out .
Nailisi smirked seeing the water puppet being so unfriendly . "I don't give a damn about you so long as you know your place and follow orders . If you dare go against me, I swear I will get a chance to have your consciousness wiped, and have you start all over again . I sure as hell don't think you will be so individualistic every time .
The huge white bears had finished eating their prize, and not even bones were left . The dead sea magic beast's bones would have been useful for making weapons, as their durability was as tough as metals . Such durable bones were rendered powder being chewed by these white bears' fangs .
The demons that the water puppet brought with it all wore elf armor, and the spirits were working on their home turf as they themselves hailed from the water . They made their way stealthily under the floating ice . While the white bears were able to sense them coming, they were nonetheless of grades below grade-7 . The bears hardly saw them as threats and continued playing on the ice instead .
They, however, were not able to detect the water puppet's presence . Once entering the sea, the water puppet's body turned transparent, seemingly having melded with the sea around it . As for Nailisi, she took her spirit form and hid her presence with the three-faced bone demon's ability, making her look like little else than some peculiar pile of bones .
Nailisi stopped anyone who wanted to follow her earlier, including Nicholas . The grade-9 magic beasts were of heights exceeding ten yards . As such, their magic nuclei were of sizes that could have been cut into thirty to forty standard-sized nuclei . If she was lucky, said magic nuclei might have even been capable of yielding more than one-hundred standard-sized ones each .
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The only problem was that the offensive powers of beasts grew proportionately with the size of their magic nuclei . If one such beast's magic nucleus had been able to yield more than one-hundred standard-sized nuclei, it would have meant that it would have been capable of casting grade-9 spells hundreds of times . That would have made them significantly more powerful than sorcerers .
While it was indeed a given that magic beasts lacked the mental capacity to actually do so, they were nonetheless capable of running, not to mention that their mental powers regenerated quickly . If one was not able to take one out with just one strike, killing the beasts would be very difficult .
Saleen forbade more from joining the fray . He instead had the Ancient release its signature mist, allowing them to close on the target slowly . The bears were rather indifferent about the mist approaching, and as such were hardly alerted .
There were simply too many floating ice pieces around . Keeping the speed of the Ancient at twenty miles per hour made it difficult for the ship to keep up the water puppet's pace .
The water puppet wore a full set of Mystic Ice Armor, a mutated form of the Ice Plate Armor . The Ice Plate Armor worked by protecting the entire body as a full suit of personal armor . It came with self-repair properties, making it a powerful defensive spell . The Mystic Ice Armor, however, worked like armor pieces attached directly to the water puppet itself . Each piece of the armor possessed powerful defensive capabilities, but it lacked self-repair properties .
The water puppet was practically immune to physical attacks and had chosen to use the Mystic Ice Armor, as both types shared identical elemental defense capabilities . The invention of the Mystic Ice Armor was intended to be used between mages and assassins working in cohesion . The Mystic Ice Armor possessed no elemental vibrations, and did not exude cold air like the Ice Plate Armor . Those properties enabled it to last longer, making it a perfect buff for assassins lurking in the dark .
Nailisi's three-faced bone demon form was weaker in the water . She did not bother flaunting her bravado . She simply chose to trail behind the water puppet's group, waiting for her chance .
A spirit struck the ice from under with a giant spear in its hand . The act finally alerted the grade-9 beasts, as the floating ice was where they rested . It was common for grade-9 beasts to conserve their energy at the oceanic ice block, just so to prevent themselves from being overwhelmed by low-level magic beasts in massive numbers .
Three bears huddled together and looked under the ice . The thickness of the ice was about eight yards where they were . The spirit was only able to chisel at the ice slowly to make a hole, as it was impossible for it to simply penetrate the ice . The three white bears grew furious at the thought of their turf being invaded and roared in anger . Their huge paws slapped onto the surface of the ice, spraying ice pieces everywhere .
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The ice around the area was penetrated by the grade-9 beasts in a blink of an eye . One of them opened its mouth and sucked hard, causing the seawater around to spin furiously, which sucked a spirit up .
That particular spirit was of the lowest level among the group: only grade-4 . As soon as it got sucked upwards by the vortex, it was shattered into pieces by a slap from a huge paw . The three white bears were hardly satisfied with the revenge and took to stepping on the remains of the spirit for a while and roaring furiously . The sound was heard for more than a dozen yards away .
The Vortex was upgradable high-level magic . The particular one used by the bear earlier was of grade-7, which completely rendered the grade-4 spirit helpless . The Vortex dispersed above the ice, alerting none of the other bears . The evidence of the attack laid with the pieces of mystic ice spreading about the foot of a white bear .
Temperatures of mystic ice were significantly higher than normal ice, only somewhere near the freezing point . There was a transparent crystal ring lying among the pieces of mystic ice, perfect still on the floating ice .
Seeing how the three white bears were able to wipe out the invader, the other white bears began playing about again . They were all young beasts, probably a splinter group split out from a larger group, forming their own somewhere else . The three served as the group's temporary leaders .
The leaders did not order the group to be on high alert, and the other bears did not bother looking clearly at what happened under the ice . A matured group would have had more than one-hundred white bears, and the older ones would have been nearing grade-10 . Such groups would not have made such mistakes .
The three leading white bears walked around the hole they made for a bit before leaving . A shadow emerged from underneath as they were just about to leave and the shadow turned out to be a demon instead of a spirit .
Demons were creatures of flesh and blood, unlike spirits . As such, they were very attractive to magic beasts .
The demon was struck with fear . There were creatures equivalent in terms of power to supreme demons on the ice . Said demon was required to attract the attention of such fearsome creatures beneath the ice .
The three white bears made their way back to the whole and roared, casting Vortex . The Vortex was a skill used by them to catch creatures in the water . The skill hardly ever failed them . The demon in the water struggled to get free but proved powerless against the ensnarement the grade-9 magic cast . Nailisi looked from afar with eyes devoid of compassion . If she had bothered doing something, the demon would not have ended up being captured .
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Tens of ice blades were thrown into the vortex all of a sudden . The white bears were grade-9 magic beasts . They were the apex predators on the floating ice in the outskirts of the oceanic ice block . Their mastery of water magic was almost equivalent to that of human sorcerers . Adding ice blades to the vortex was a common trick used for hunting .
Sharp cutting sounds were heard, and the poor demon ended up being cut into tens of pieces and sucked onto the ice from the hole, splattering all over the place . The demon's armor proved useless against the ice blades' attack .
The defensive properties of elf armor laid in its flexibility, but being cut by tens of ice blades cast by grade-9 magic beasts was equal to being attacked repeatedly by grade-7 magic spells . The demon's armor was as good as cardboard being subjected to such conditions .
About a dozen white bears came near the splattered pieces on the ice . They turned somewhat violent at the smell of the demon's flesh and blood . Some even began fighting for the pieces, ignoring the leaders' roars altogether .
The water puppet began to take form gradually . The pieces of mystic ice on top of the beasts' icy home were all attached to its body . A hand was formed, and it reached for the crystal ring, putting it on and then moved about in complicated ways, drawing magic signs .
It was Grade-8 magic: Endless Night .
Saleen had developed a deeper understanding of the dark magic . While the water puppet still needed to do signs to conjure the spell, the power of the spell conjured was nonetheless, identical to Saleen's .
The water puppet had come to the point where it did not require any auxiliary equipment to cast a grade-8 Endless Night . With Saleen being unable to provide it with support in mental powers, the water puppet had begun to gauge its own abilities to fight with magic .
It did not possess magic chords, but as a body consisted only of water elements, its elemental manipulation abilities eclipsed Saleen's in terms of speed .
Darkness consumed everything above the ice . The Endless Night was also equipped with spiritual attack, rendering targets incapable of determining any information related to battles . When the water puppet finished with the conjuring of the skill, its body had also almost regained its original humanoid form . It then pointed at a white bear nearest to it .
Whoop . . .
A tiny hole was seen on the white bear's chest . Its powerful defense was rendered entirely useless under the workings of the crystal finger . The water puppet had turned the attack's power to its lowest, and its finger turned pale all of a sudden . Most of the resulting magical recoil was absorbed by Raphael's crystal ring . As such, its finger remained intact that time .
"No way . . . I can't fight like I used to then," the water puppet thought silently and then pointed at another white bear . Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click www . webnovel . com for visiting .
The power of the crystal finger was not one that could not have been controlled . It was just that the water puppet was used to casting the skill at full power, collapsing fingers, even entire arms with the castings . It was able to have good control of the power and tempo of the skill that time . The white bears fell one by one with their hearts punctured, being attacked at such close distance with three consecutive strikes .
It was able to see the bears clearly within the Endless Night, but the bears were unable to even see it .
If the bears had wanted to struggle free of the Endless Night's shackle with the difference in levels, the bears would have had to pay a dire price . They were not very smart creatures, and would not have any intentions of fighting to the bitter end unless their hands were forced .
Such was the difference between humans and magic beasts . Grade-9 human sorcerers would have thought of ways to break the spell on the fly, even if they were unfamiliar with darkness magic . Magic beasts were not able to do anything against unfamiliar dark spells . All they were able to do was to keep expanding their magic nuclei to cast powerful elemental vibrations, in attempts to break the spell's hold .
Whoop . . .
A sixth bear slumped on the floor as the water puppet pointed again, and a tiny bloody hole was seen through the bear's body . The hole was hardly larger than a human's index finger . If the water puppet had resorted to its old ways of attacking, the white bear would have ended up being split apart at the waist by its crystal finger .
"It is really a piece of cake taking down magic beasts . " As the water puppet thought, a giant paw swiped at it, throwing it off its feet .