Chapter 226: Difficult
Alodia fell from the sky, and right before she reached the ground the energy in her body pulsed and she stepped rapidly in the air. The air beneath her feet discharged and reduced her falling speed allowing her to gently land.
Air Step!
Bai Yi wasn’t the only one who had the technique of running on the air; the rest of them could do it as well. However, only Bai Yi could easily control the air and form solid steps to truly run on the air. As for the rest of them, they could only use their energy to push the air around them to create a small upward force that kept them afloat. The rest of them couldn’t use this ability very well or consistently, but it was still possible to use this technique to reduce their falling speed.
After Alodia landed, she took out a communicator and sent a signal through it. Returning to the Devil Isles once again, Bai Yi’s team wasn’t lacking in equipment. This was a wireless communicator provided by the United Nations. It had very strong resistance against short-range interference, so they could easily contact each other even if the magnetic field was very strong around them. After finding out what had happened, the rest of them hurried towards their location.
When Bai Yi charged in to save Ariza, the rest of this team had actually still been fighting against the monster. After seeing Bai Yi pushing Ariza towards them, two of them had immediately caught Ariza while the rest wanted to work together with Bai Yi to kill the frozen lake monster in one shot. Unexpectedly, Bai Yi immediately retreated after the short clash as if he had only been sparring with an old friend and the frozen lake monster had really seemed to have quietened down after.
It could understand human words?
No, it should have...sensed the aura of its opponent. The leader of this team looked at Bai Yi’s back, to him Bai Yi didn’t seem any different from a normal human, and that was undoubtedly extremely rare among the evolved humans on the Devil Isles.
“Can you tell me how you managed to enrage this guy?”
“Corey, Uehara, you guys bring Ariza aside to treat him, start a fire to melt the ice and be careful of breaking the ice,” a big and tall man instructed loudly and looked at Bai Yi’s back. This man didn’t answer Bai Yi’s question immediately but first arranged for his companion’s treatment first.
“We accidentally picked a plant from the back of the creature and woke it up; that’s why we were getting chased.”
“Plant? Is it very important?” Bai Yi asked and suddenly looked into the distance.
A figure flew towards them across the distance. Icicles hung from this man’s hair and the tips of his brows but they didn’t seem frozen over at all. When he arrived, he stared down arrogantly at everybody below him and observed them for a while. Suddenly, he turned his eyes to the frozen lake monster and his face broke into a delighted smile. Without saying anything, the man immediately grabbed a two-meter-long spear from behind him. The spear began to rapidly freeze over starting from where he gripped it.
The man extended his body in the air, pulled the spear back as far back as he could, and readied to throw it.
Thinking of killing this frozen lake monster?
“Greivis!” The team leader of that team said while furrowing his eyebrows.
“Friend, I think this isn’t too good. Trying to kill this creature the moment you see it? It’s not like it offended you right?” Bai Yi raised his head and spoke. Bai Yi had no idea who this Greivis was, but a guy who looked down on everybody so arrogantly the moment he arrived and then immediately tried to kill the monster so determinedly, who on earth was he?
“I’m taking this monster,” Greivis said in the air, giving Bai Yi a look of disdain.
In an instant, the spear that had already frozen completely shot down from the sky, pointing straight at the monster by the side of the lake. Bai Yi also drew Red Kiss instantaneously. His right hand vibrated as he swung the sword and a crescent-shaped sword qi collided with the spear. The sword qi changed the trajectory of the spear with its impact causing it to deviate from its path and the spear ended up bouncing off the hard shell of the monster with a ‘dang!’.
The frozen lake monster that had already quietened down immediately raised its head and roared at Greivis.
“Bastard, who the hell are you?!” Greivis in the sky ignored the monster and, after a moment of surprise, he tilted his head and glared at Bai Yi with an iciness in his eyes.
“Shouldn’t you introduce yourself first before asking for the names of others?”
“Ha! You want to know my name? Let me see if you are qualified first!” Greivis smiled mockingly and dove down from the sky. Catching the spear which had bounced into the sky, he thrust it toward Bai Yi. In an instant, Bai Yi’s vision seemed to be filled with an entire wall of spearheads, sealing off his entire frontal direction.
However, all Bai Yi did when faced with the complex series of thrusts was raise his right hand.
‘DING!’ The tip of Red Kiss collided against the tip of the spear and an intense shockwave erupted from the collision point. In the next moment, water vapor spurted out from the tip of the spear and with multiple ‘kacha!’s Bai Yi began to freeze over starting from the tip of his sword. In just one second, this cold vapor enveloped Bai Yi’s body and froze him over entirely with transparent icicles hanging from his body.
By then the beetle monster had already climbed onto shore and its claw swiftly descended upon the head of Greivis.
“Tch, so annoying. Since you want to die so badly, I’ll help you get on the way.”
Greivis twisted his spear and thrust it towards the claw coming swiftly towards his head. ‘DANG!’ The field of ice and snow beside the lake shook and Greivis sunk close to half a meter into the ground. However, he didn’t seem to mind at all and gave an excited and cruel smile.
At this moment, Bai Yi sighed in his heart.
The power of water control and extreme cold energy appearing on the same person, any contact would immediately turn him into a big ice cube. However, this guy was really too brash and insolent, immediately trying to kill him just over a small disagreement. Bai Yi shook his body, the layer of ice on him immediately cracked, and finally shattered into pieces with multiple ‘kacha!’s.
Greivis abruptly increased his force, forcing the giant beetle’s claw above his head violently away and looked at Bai Yi. He actually managed to stop the extreme cold energy on the outside and didn’t receive any damage at all. This guy!
At this time, two other groups of people arrived from different directions. Bai Yi’s team and another team of people congregated right beside the lake. The beetle monster, which got pushed away and wanted to continue raging, saw the newcomers and decided to be tame as well, stealthily retreating a distance back and submerging itself inside the ice-cold water of the lake.
“Team leader, don’t fly too fast. We can’t catch up with you!” On the other side, a black bear-like evolved human exclaimed panting for air but suddenly realized that the atmosphere didn’t seem right after raising his head. Bai Yi and Greivis stood in the centermost area while their teams came from different directions and gathered behind them.
“Betsy, go help them to defrost the frozen guy,” Bai Yi pointed at Ariza who was still frozen.
“Sure,” Betsy nodded and headed toward that team.
Betsy walked over as she lit up a ball of fire in her right hand. The people in the Ariza’s team heard Bai Yi’s words as well and didn’t stop Betsy from walking over but instead thanked her sincerely, “Sorry to trouble you.”
“Nah, it’s nothing much,” Betsy shook her head and placed her hand on the ice. The ice rapidly melted, turning into water and flowing to the ground.
“Who are you?” Greivis seemed to finally take Bai Yi seriously.
Bai Yi only smiled faintly, not answering his question. At this time, Greivis recalled what Bai Yi said just now, that before asking for somebody’s name he should give his own name first. Thinking of this, Greivis’ expression cracked into an insolent smile.
“Greivis, this master is called Greivis!”
“Bai Yi!”
“Bai Yi, Bai Yi...Oh, so you are that Bai Yi, huh? I didn’t expect to see you here, so that’s how things are. Is this monster your prey?” Hearing Bai Yi’s name, Greivis and his team members were stunned for a moment. Among the evolved humans now, there wasn’t anybody who didn’t know who Bai Yi was.
“It’s not my prey. We just happened to come across a battle here and came to stop it.”
“Then, this is the prey of you guys?” Greivis looked at the six-person team with arrogance in his eyes.
“No, we were just looking for special ice-attribute plants and accidentally enraged that guy,” the team leader said carefully. Although he was quite unhappy, they were, in the end, helpless before the superior numbers and strength of Greivis’ team.
“Thinking of converting to an ice-attribute special energy, huh?” Greivis scanned the few of them after hearing his words and revealed a mocking smile. “You guys want this monster? If you guys don’t want it then it’s mine. I’ll still follow the ‘first come first serve’ rule, but looking at your level of strength....”
Their expressions immediately changed slightly, but that team leader didn’t have anything to retort.
“No, we aren’t strong enough.”
“Then, I’m taking this monster. If Team Leader Bai Yi doesn’t want it either, I wonder if you would be willing to give it up to me?” Greivis turned around to ask Bai Yi after questioning the other team.
At this time, the frozen lake monster secretly retreated deeper into the water, swimming towards the heart of the lake. Bai Yi stared blankly at the monster for a moment and started laughing. The creature was really quite smart. Everybody watched the slowly disappearing ice beetle as Greivis stared at Bai Yi, waiting for his reply.
“No, do as you please,” Bai Yi shook his head.
The moment Bai Yi finished speaking Greivis immediately flew into the air again and chased after the frozen lake monster. Bai Yi watched Greivis and was sure that he wouldn’t be able to capture this monster unless he dared to take the risk and dove into the lake. Sure enough, the closer the monster swam towards the heart of the lake, the deeper it submerged itself in the water. Greivis tried to stop the monster multiple times but almost suffered big injuries due to it already being in the water.
This is good too! Bai Yi thought in his heart.
Actually, it wasn’t easy to handle evolved lifeforms recently because they were really too intelligent now. It wasn’t because that they were too intelligent and Bai Yi’s team couldn’t win the fight, but that they didn’t know whether to kill these evolved lifeforms or not. If it were those savage and primitive beasts from before, they definitely wouldn’t have felt any guilt or burdened inside if they had killed them. However, many of the evolved lifeforms had a level of intelligence on par with humans now; it was just that they didn’t know human language.
Hence, they were really in a difficult spot as to how to handle these evolved lifeforms.
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