Chapter 107 (The Land of Icewind)
Not right. Since the official made such a map, it shouldn’t be for players to just sightseeing. No matter what, there should be some NPCs, otherwise the players here would be at a loss.
I looked around again but still only uninhabited mist. There was only a pine tree all covered with snow, standing alone in the middle of the path. There wasn’t anything ahead either. I could only walk around the mountain to see if there’s any other way to go.
After another nearly ten minutes of walk, there was still nothing. I tilted my head to look up. Huh, how come there was something on the mountain peaks? Its size was about a square meter. What could it be?
I tried to climb up, but there was too much ice, and I kept slipping down…
After thinking for a long time, I finally came up with an idea. I pulled out the Sword of Darkness and directly stabbed it into the ice to climb up. Halfway to that strange thing, there were finally solid rocks. I almost fell down from the top when I lost my balance as I climbed up. From inside the mountain, there was actually some cold wind blowing out…
I looked up to see and immediately became stupefied.
Inside the mountain was an amazing scenery. Ice crystals formed a path down into the mountain with nothing at all at both sides of the path. I threw an ice cube down and still couldn’t hear any echo after a few minutes.
“Should I go down?”
I was sweating with cold sweats as I was thinking about it. If I were to fall down, there wouldn’t be a single hair left of me remaining. Fortunately, I wasn’t afraid of height, otherwise I would have already fallen into the dark abyss.
Since I had already come all the way here, I would just go on down then…
I just stepped forward and the name in the map had changed to “Land of IceWind.” Quite a nice name actually. I cautiously walked down along the path. The farther I went down, the broader the ice path became. It was until I could see another creature besides myself that I finally let out a sigh of relieve. This area was really like inside another universe.
It was a level 42 monster called “Shivering Ice Devil.” Its body was formed entirely of ice crystals and looked translucent. It has two crab-like pincer forepaws supporting it on the ground. No need to think about it, those two sharp claws must be its attack weapons.
Unleash the sword, attack!
The Shivering Ice Devil had also noticed me and trotted over. Its claws, which was covered in frost, were already raised up as well.
System Notification: You received the Shivering Ice Devil’s frost attack. Attack speed and movement speed reduced by 20%.
This was a type of monster with attack effects.
Fortunately, its Attack wasn’t high. Although its attack frequency was a bit higher, but it didn’t cause me much harm. Besides, its Health and Defense weren’t high either. I only need to hit it four times to kill it. It should be about 4,000 HP, around the same with the undeads in the Silverpine Forest.
Killing all the way down, further down the path, there was another kind of monster, Blue Devils. Its Attack and Defense were about the same with the Shivering Ice Devil. The only difference was that instead of attack effects, it had a long-range attack. Its whole body was blue. With a gold shield on the left hand, its right hand was wielding a copper flying-ax. After carefully watching for a moment, I discover that it attacked by throwing out its ax. However, the weird thing was that right after it threw the ax, another one would appear immediately. I was completely clueless as from where it pulled them out.
I used the Phosphor Powder to go into the stealth mode and immediately unleashed [Frozen Blade] as I got next to the Blue Devil, followed then by [Heavy Strike] + [Combo] to kill it. It dropped a level 33 white armor and 60 silver coins. Well, this monster was still a bit wealthier, it gave quite a lot of Experience and money, and it was easy to kill. Its Defense was terribly low. If Lu Xue Han were to use her fire-type Blazing Rainstorm skill to attack these monsters, it should be much more effective. Unfortunately, the number of monsters were too little. I needed to walk dozens of steps before I encountered another monster. The ice path kept extended downward in a helix form. It was pitch black, I didn’t know what would come next.
Killing the monsters on the way, in a blink of an eye, two hours had pa.s.sed. Altogether, I had killed nearly 300 monsters. There wasn’t a single green equipment, only eight pieces of about level 33 white equipment. I wasn’t sure if anyone would buy it. I also got more than 100 gold coins and my Experience was at 12% of level 39. Overall, it was quite convenient to level up here, only the distance to go back and forth was a little bit too far.
I looked up, the entrance on the mountaintop was already so far away and almost out of sight. The whole cave was full of various ice crystals with strange light refraction. On the cave walls, a cl.u.s.ter of huge icicle hung on the top. I was worried the whole time whether those icicles would fall down and turned me into a hedgehog.
Actually, I was worrying too much. Although those hanging icicles were shaking a bit in the wind, but there was no sign that they would fall down.
“Swish~.”
When I was thinking about it, suddenly an iceball of the size of a head hit my body and I immediately lost more than 100 points of health.
System Notification: You have been attacked by a Yeti. You lose 102 points of Health.
I looked up to see and suddenly felt some urge to laugh. This was called a Yeti?
Long horns, white fur, goat’s face, cow’s hoof-like feet. What a joke. It didn’t resemble a Yeti at all. It was whether I had some problems with my sight or the programmer had some mental lapse…
Its Attack was much higher than the Shivering Ice Devils and the Blue Devils. However, its Defense was even lower. My Attack of 715 points could cause more than 1,200 points of damage with every hit. This could be said as the monster with the lowest Defense since I played this game.
It took five hits to kill the Yeti and dropped 50 silver coins and a Yeti skin. I picked it up for a look. It turned out to be a manufacturing materials. Yeti skin: a kind of material to produce high-level leather armor.
Whether it would be useful or not, I put it in the inventory first. Things like fur could be stacked anyway, it might come useful in the future.
The ice path was gradually getting closer to the ice wall and eventually it merged together. This was also good because at least there was a wall on one side, which gave me some sense of security. The monsters were also gradually getting more cluttered. With the Shivering Ice Devil, Blue Devil, and Yeti gathering together, the difficulty to kill monsters was also increasing. Especially during a situation when a group of long-range attack monsters surrounded me, it’s very troubling. Several times, my Health was almost empty and I had to depend on my stealth skill to escape death.
One hour later, it was time to eat. However, there were still many monsters here. My Experience was already at 72% of level 39. It looked like that today I would be able to break the level 40, a major breakthrough.