Chapter 657: [Eerika's Full Powered Attack]
BOOOOM!
Just when Troy took a step forward and was about to attack Crocell again, a deep sound rang out and a figure brushed past him, flying backward. It flew back and destroyed countless trees before landing on the ground, rolling a few times. Puchi. Fresh blood sprayed out from the figure when he stops. A horrified expression emerged on his face.
“Toriii!!” Troy cried out in anxiety.
“Dodge, moron!!”
A voice rang out from behind him and grabbed his shoulders, jumping into the air.
Stab! stab! stab! Countless icicles struck the place where he was standing just a while ago.
“Stop worrying about others first and focus on the battle for now if you don’t want to die!” Alva yelled at Troy.
They retreated from the shower of icicles all while staring at Crocell, whose aura had become much stronger than before. Alva and the other clearly understood that the current Crocell had already focused all her anger towards them and starting to take this fight seriously. Despite, there being no ripples in Crocell’s beautiful azure-colored pupils, which were like a pair of blue sapphires, Mair, Eerika and the several others who were quite close to her position, however, could clearly sense the brutal emotion that faintly seeped out from within her body. Clearly, she was totally and completely enraged.
Currently… the area of the forest they were in had become a world of snow, an endless winter land.
Most of the people, including Alva, Eerika, Mair, and Troy, couldn’t help but shiver. It was too cold. This sort of cold, they had never felt before.
This was a world of ice.
A true frozen hell...!
The frozen ground was blanketed with white snow, and it was also dotted with many large, proudly standing trees. The snow-covered these trees with a layer of silver decoration. Ice dotted the landscape and a large amount of white energy was flowing everywhere. When that white energy drew near them, even someone like Eerika couldn’t help but shiver yet again.
Eerika and the others stood in the middle of the blizzard, panting. Even now, their heart was still gripped by fear. Just then…Mair had seen the cold, remorseless eyes of the Duchess of Hell as it had shot out those rays of cold light. The little bit of power they had gained from all these years of training, in front of such an attack, seemed to have become nothing but a joke!
Even with Eerika’s [Deity Manifestation] ability, they are still unable to gain a bit of upper hand on this fight. In fact, most of them were already exhausted and fatigue from healing themselves in injuries and wounds they got, trying to survive. And a lot of them had already fallen.
"Don't cower...!!
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! Several human forms charged towards Crocell in every direction. One of them was Eerika who was still using her [Defied Manifestation] boosting her overall abilities by double, making her strength comparable to that of a peak stage Lesser Deity. However, if one looks closely the golden halo covering her body was slowly becoming dimmer at every passing minute, she would not be able to continue this skill for much longer.
Crocell snorted and her body flickered. Dozen white chilling lights shot out from within her. These white lights suddenly shot out at the people rushing at her, Eerika included.
“Ah!!!” A piercing, agonized howl pierced through the calm battlefield. The pain the person felt after being hit by this chilling white light was so great that it was worse than being cut by ten million knives. One human figure after another died in mid-air. Their bodies suddenly turned into ice, and then, like cracked ice, suddenly shattered into dozens of pieces. A horrifying instant death...!
The other experts had halted and started dodging like small spiders running away, they now felt true despair.
One of the rays of white light was striking towards Eerika’s head. Immediately, Eerika felt a sort of dread in his heart. Without question…once she was struck by the light, she would definitely die. In the last instant, Eerika’s body exploded with a golden burst and a small orb of golden light shot out from her hand, clashing against the white light.
Boooom! It exploded.
The piece of ice shattered apart, knocking Eerika backward. She then spat out a large mouthful of blood as he crashed on the ground, after rolling a few times and hitting a boulder of Ice.
Crocell glanced at them with a contemptuous look, then laughed wildly. “The likes of thee would dream about defeating this one? Absurd dreams. Laughable reality. Today, all of thee will die here!" However, Eerika's eyes glaring at her was still burning in a defiant blaze. This irks Crocell and greatly annoyed her; "Hmph! This one’s patience has been eroded completely! Children, come kill these accursed God descendants along with me!” Crocell’s voice was extraordinarily loud, and her words echoed like the thunder in every part of the forest.
Then, from within the frozen ground around her, suddenly one Ice Demon after another appeared. The bodies of the Ice Demons were pure bluish-white color and made up of pure ice. They were roughly 2.5 meters tall and wielded ice axes, warhammers, and other heavy weapons.
Ice Demons are formed from Ice and are roughly comparable to a human in size and shape. They are extremely strong and possess great defense, but they are a bit slow. However, since they are a close relative to golems, their worrisome aspect is their strength, durability, regeneration and endless stamina. In the blink of an eye, under the people’s horrified expression, they saw dozens of Ice Demons appear within the area of their group.
“Everyone, be careful.”
The faces of the people in the surroundings were solemn. Crocell is already a difficult adversary and now coupled with these monsters—all the people started to feel true despair.
“Kill them mine beloved children!!!”
Having received the order, the large amount of Ice Demons simultaneously let out howls of rage as they charged towards the warriors of Asgard. Even Troy and the other twenty-plus younger generation elites of Asgard came under attack from the Ice Demons as well. In the blink of an eye, they were instantly besieged in all directions.
“Charge through them!!” Mair cried out.
The over ten major experts didn’t hesitate at all, charging straight towards Crocell. They couldn’t let their fear and anxiety get over them. They steeled their hearts and mind and fight with all they had. Halfway there, over a hundred Ice Demons surrounded them.
Earlier on, it was the Asgardians killing several Demons and Monster. But now, it was over a hundred Ice Demons attacking them.
“Kill them all!!!”
All of the warriors present knew this very well. If not, even with just these monsters alone, defending the Asgard’s Barrier would become even harder from the other attacks of the enemies!
“F*ck off.” Troy directly punched towards one of them.
“Uuuurgggg…” The Ice Demon let out a loud growl as it sent a fist smashing towards Troy. Troy used his physical strength, coated with magic power to accept this punch, taking the heavy blow of the Ice Demon’s stony cold fist head-on. Troy’s body trembled slightly, but the Ice Demon’s body trembled, then exploded into shards of Ice.
“What terrifying strength!” Troy was inwardly shocked.
If he were to take those blows at full strength, he wouldn’t have been able to repel it so lightly. Just then, he had already used almost 70-80% of his magic power to strengthen his physical defense and yet he still was almost hurt and was even pushed back by its attack.
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“This Ice Demon is not something to be underestimated! Everyone! Be careful!!”
“Boom!” Every single Ice Demon which attempted to attack Eerika was smashed flying away by the latter's lightning-fast spear attack. Eerika’s speed was simply too fast. Those Ice Demons couldn’t touch her at all. But Ice Demons were extremely durable, and Eerika’s attacks were only able to heavily injure them. It wasn’t that Eerika wasn’t powerful nor was she inferior compared to Troy; it was that Eerika didn’t dare to use her full force. She had to conserve her energy to defeat Crocell. Her [Deity Manifestation] is too much of a burden on her body, as well as the consumption on her magic power and stamina, was terrifying!
As for the others; each of the Ice Demons which attacked Mair, upon drawing near her, suddenly stilled down and then slowly fall down for seemingly no reason at all. Mair might be quite inferior on physical attack compared to others but in terms of magic, especially soul attack; she was by far among the strongest in the younger generation that even Eerika can’t be compared to. She was currently a Lesser Deity, and her spiritual attacks were at a terrifying level. Although these Ice Demons possessed tremendous physical attack and defense, Mair’s spiritual attack just so happened to strike at their weakness.
Baang! Slash! Baang! Boooom! Alva and the other warriors very forthrightly smashed the Ice Demons with their dancing weapons and swords, sending ice blocks everywhere and heavily injuring those Ice Demons, with many dying instantly. “Gather together! Destroy them all!!! Leave no one alive!!”Alva screamed out as she slashed an Ice Demon in half.
“Easier said than done!” Asger, a descendant of Thor's Bloodline and the fastest and quickest among the Asgardian younger generation, responded as he sent out lightning strikes and thunderous blast. His was quite terrifying, as expected of the Descendant of Thor. His speed was comparable to Eerika’s who was using Deity Manifestation, and those Ice Demons weren’t able to touch him at all. But even the most casual punch from him would heavily injure the Ice Demons, as it contains the power and might of thunder!
“These Ice Demons are really tough to deal with. Their bodies are too hard.”
Asger's voice rang out in a complaint.
“Of course they are hard.”
Troy understood. He had once tried to be like Asger, and to use his speed to dodge the enemy’s attack, and then use pure force to strike against the bodies of the Ice Demons. But the defense of the Ice Demons was simply too great; Troy’s pure strength-based attacks were only able to injure the Ice Demons.
Bang! Yet another full power fist coated by mana from Troy shook yet another Ice Demon in front of him into powder. “Though, they are extremely weak in fire and heat-based attacks,” Troy muttered as he looks at the part which was blazing in flames, incinerating and melting Ice Demons. However, several Ice Demons were fighting it with frost breath, freezing the flames, making them even more troublesome.
“…Without the Elders help, defeating Crocell… is almost impossible!”
Troy couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.
“We don’t need to worry about that! We only need to block her and stall for time until ‘he’ appeared!” Mair suddenly arrived before them.
“’Him’? Do you mean that guy? Just where did he go? I thought he was protecting Eerika all this time? How did he disappear all of a sudden?” Troy asked frowningly.
“I don’t know…” Mair shook her head. I’m also doubtful, much less Eerika. “…However, that guy wouldn’t suddenly disappear, leaving Eerika in a dangerous situation like this. Something must have happened!”
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!! Every single one of the Ice Demons attacking them was reduced to powder. This sight caused many of the other warriors of Godclan to feel astonished. Based just on pure physical attacks, at most they might be able to break the Ice Demons into small pieces of rocks, but they couldn’t possibly reduce them into powder.
These young heroes are really powerful…!
“But will he really appear?”
Mair smiled faintly. Her expression didn’t the least bit showed a doubt, “He will!” she responded with complete belief, “As long as Eerika is here and in danger, he will come…like a Hero!”
“… …” Troy’s expression darkens.
He shook his head and returned his attention to killing the Ice Demons. Comparing himself against that guy will only make him feel insignificant. Much less, the real person was not here…and only a clone was here with them. And yet, they still can’t even compare to it… it really makes one feel extremely inferior!
“The Demon Duchess is here,” Mair called out softly.
“Thou have annoyed this one truly! Thou will be the first to die.” Crocell appeared in the air as she stared angrily at Eerika.
A large sword made up of ice condensed on her hands, slashing down at Eerika. Clearly, Eerika’s power had been seen by Crocell and treated as much more annoying compared to the others. Suddenly, countless amounts of ice and frost descended in an area of many kilometers, and even the wall of flames was chilled to become rocks.
“Alva! Asger! Troy!” Mair growled.
Alva, Asger, and Troy, who had been prepared this entire time, finally unleashed their attack.
ROOOAAAR!! Dense magical energy exploded out from Troy’s body. The magical energy formed a golden tiger behind him, as a powerful pressure emitted out. The golden tiger unleashed a roar. Ferocity flashed through Troy’s eyes, as he charged forward. The magical energy surged out and formed a golden claw. Then, it smashed viciously towards Crocell at lightning speed.
Asger’s body was coated by thick lightning chains and his eyes and hair turned golden, shining brightly like a light bulb amidst a dark room. A large dragon made from lightning appeared behind him. Alva, on the other hand, materializes a large griffin-like creature with a hawk’s head, much like Troy’s. A hurricane coiled around her. The three of them immediately rushed towards Crocell.
They knew how powerful Crocell was. Therefore, they had to put all of their strength into their attacks. When facing one of the famed Pillars of Hell, they must have the mindset of going all out from the very beginning or die. But against the three people’s violent offenses, Crocell remained unperturbed. A touch of ridicule flashed through her glassy eyes. She extended her frail-looking hand out and smacked casually.
Buzz! The instant Crocell smacked downwards with her palm, the space seemed to be affected by it. Space was distorted and magical energy gathered at her palm at an extraordinary speed and instantly turned into a giant clump of Ice Claw. Afterward, it smacked down and collided against Troy and the others fierce offensive.
Boom! Shockwaves of violent energy spread throughout the area. Cracks suddenly spread through the ground, and even a few boulders and trees were smashed to pieces. Puchi. Flying through the sky, Troy, who was in the front, suffered most of the attack and suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. The golden tiger behind his back dimmed as he flew backward.
However, with Troy acting like a defense wall, the other two were able to dodge most of Crocell’s attacks and they are able to send their own as well, reaching the Demon Duchess body. Asger’s lightning dragon swirled passed and struck Crocell’s body. Along with Alva’s hurricane full of wrecking wind blades, the ice covering the body of the demon duchess was partially destroyed in an instant, causing Crocell to let out a cry of pain.
The bluish-pale white color halo on her body turned a much dimmer white as well, as countless amounts of burns and cuts covered her body.
The Demon Duchess attacking motion suddenly came to a halt, as though she had been frozen. A ferocious look appeared on her eyes as hatred and humiliation surfaced on her clear glassy eyes, like ripples on the surface of a clear lake.
Swisssh!! Immediately afterward, Eerika transformed into a ray of light, charging straight towards the stunned Demon Duchess. She was holding her spear and, with her magical power exploding from within her, she channeled all her power on the spear. Then, without aiming or looking, she threw it out.
The long spear formed a long trajectory, in the naked eye; they might see the spear flying in the air with a very fast speed that sailed towards the Demon Duchess Crocell, like a lightning bolt. Crocell frowned and in her glassy eyes, cold light exploded. She coldly snorted and grabbed towards the incoming spear. To be hurt by these weaklings, her heart was burning in hatred. Icy cold air burst out like a downburst and the hurricane and the coiling lightning dragon were immediately broken down and scattered like building blocks. Then, she extended her hand.
As her hand stretched out, she had already managed to grab the icy cold spear. However, at this moment, the golden coated azure spear suddenly rapidly rotated, as if inside it was a strong force that was currently exploding. It instantly shook off her hand.
Crocell’s eyes widened in shock and her hand started bleeding from the force.
BOOOOM!! A loud sound suddenly resounded out.
A storm-like magical energy impact spread out and shattered the numerous block of ice on the ground. The large trees and boulders also vibrated intensely and dust and fog appeared in the sky. As the smoke of the explosion spread through the area, the two figures that collided with each other trembled fiercely. Then, their bodies staggered backward.
Eerika’s feet grazed the ground and she staggered backward a dozen steps. She took a fierce stomp and stabilized her stature—guha?! Blood sprouted on her mouth, dyeing the ground red. At this moment, her palms were still trembling slightly. The overly powerful impact caused her palms to ache.
Although her hands hurt, she still forcibly received Crocell’s fierce offensive. The spear was slowly falling from the sky, rotating in midair. Dang! the azure spear with its blade slightly broken at the tip stabbed on the ground half a meter before Eerika. On its shaft, there was already a spider-web-like crack.
Although because of its tier as legendary tier weapon, it can still be used as a weapon without a problem but if used just like a while ago, the spear would surely break apart. Though, one can also see just how strong that attack was by looking at the spear that should have been a Legendary Tier Weapon and even four to five Nuclear Bombs exploding wouldn't create even a tiny crack on it and yet, now it was on the verge of breaking apart...!
Eerika panted... grinning with an insane expression.