Lord of the Magical Beasts

Chapter 345: Millennium Dark Ice

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

After looking around but not finding the so-called Ice-sealing Evil Demon, Yang Ling and the Corpse Wizard King exchanged a look, before walking cautiously into the open plaza.

Whoosh...

A gust of chilly wind blew past, and the cheeky Thousand-faced Mink shrunk itself into a ball. Even the skinny Corpse Wizard King was so cold that he tucked his head into his shoulders. They did not know why, but they felt cold all over, the moment they stepped into the plaza, and felt the surrounding temperature drop rapidly. The closer they got to the spell formation in the middle of the plaza, the lower the temperature got.

“My Lord, the death and grievance auras all come from this weird spell formation. If I guessed correctly, this spell formation may be linked to a mass grave!” Closely sensing the heavy death aura in the air, the Corpse Wizard King looked grave, and followed closely behind Yang Ling.

As an Undead Wizard King, the more death and grievance aura there was, the better it would be for his practice. But to other people, breathing in too much death aura was extremely bad for the body.

“This little bit of death aura is nothing. Rodriguez, be careful of the Ice-sealing Evil Demon hidden in the dark!” Seeing the Corpse Wizard King expanding his Metal Energy and Magic to cast the Mind Magic Field continuously to block the death aura from him, Yang Ling naturally understood the Corpse Wizard King’s concerns.

But to Yang Ling, who thought nothing of the Corpse Wizard King’s Zombie Poison back then, held even less regard for the mere death aura. His Wizard Core could not only drum out a huge amount of Wizard Power, but also could slowly turn any energy absorbed into his body into Wizard Power. It was just that different types of energy get transformed at different rates, so it was just a matter of speed. As long as he did not absorb a huge amount of death aura at one go, it should not be a problem for him to stay here for a short while.

After going round the weird sculptures, the two of them cautiously approached the Teleportation Spell Formation in the middle. From afar, they did not discover much, but as they got close, they realized that there were a few corpses that had not decayed in a thousand years, scattered near the spell formation. There were warriors over two meters tall, and spellcasters wearing robes.

There were some with teeth marks on their heads deep enough to see bone, and the gray matter of the brain could vaguely be seen. There were some with holes about the size of fists on their chests, and some who were missing an eye... Looking at their wounds, it seemed that they had been attacked by some Magical Beast before they died.

The spell formation was huge, and paved with top quality crystals. On the surface, it was full of carved, complicated drawings. There were some that looked like the boundless sea, some that looked like the lush green forest, and some that looked like a night sky full of stars...

At a glance it looked a bit like a huge Teleportation Spell Formation of the Dark Association or the Church. But on closer inspection, Yang Ling got a trace of persistent familiar feeling, as if he had seen it somewhere.

After confirming that the death aura had no big effect on Yang Ling, the Corpse Wizard King walked to the side and carefully observed a long-haired ice beauty.

She was in her twenties, with a head of shiny black hair cascading down her shoulders. She wore a white long robe and held an olive green magical staff in her hands. She seemed to be a priestess. She was full of smiles, which showed of a pair of sweet dimples, as if saying something to her female companion beside her... The two of them were sending love messages with their eyes, and were very lifelike, as if someone alive was standing in front of them.

“My Lord, if I’m not wrong, these group of people should be suddenly frozen, and did not have time to react at all!” Looking carefully at the ice beauty and the rest of the ice sculptures, the Corpse Wizard King had a grave expression on his face. Someone who could instantly freeze so many people into ice sculptures should at least at have the power of a Domain spellcaster.

“You’re right, this group of people should have been frozen suddenly!” Looking carefully at the expressions on the ice sculptures, Yang Ling agreed with the Corpse Wizard King. After falling silent for a while, he continued, “But, the clothes on the corpses near the spell formation are the same type as these ice sculptures. If I’m not wrong, this group of people met with an enemy attack suddenly. Apart from a few Experts, the rest were all frozen into ice sculptures!”

According to the female captain’s clan records and looking at the situation at the scene, Yang Ling and the Corpse Wizard King deduced what had happened then, bit by bit.

Before the big battle, the Tribesmen of the female captain went into the mine to seek refuge, but unexpectedly encountered a powerful evil demon. Apart from the strongest warriors and priests, the ordinary people were all frozen into unmoving ice sculptures in an instant.

Then, the Experts that avoided being frozen, started a battle with the evil demon. The end result could be that both sides suffered a loss, with a near total decimation of Margaret’s Tribesmen, and the powerful evil demon being sealed away.

“That’s strange, if the evil demon was sealed away, then where exactly is it?” After vaguely guessing at the situation then, the Corpse Wizard King did not understand where the so-called demon was sealed away to. They did not see any trace of any Magical Beast after searching the entire plaza.

Could it be that these Black Sand creature sculptures were the so-called evil demons?

The Corpse Wizard King could not understand, and neither did Yang Ling. Looking at the many odd sculptures in the plaza, Yang Ling had a sudden thought. But after falling silent for a while, he shook his head doubtfully. Using his immense Mental Energy, he found out that the inside of the sculptures were also made of hard Black Sand Ores. It was just that it looked a bit odd on the outside.

“Hehe, my Lord, didn’t you say that you can revived the dead? Now you have plenty of opportunities to try it out!” Looking at the gorgeous, lifelike ice beauty, the Corpse Wizard King suddenly remembered what Yang Ling had said before.

During this period of time, Yang Ling’s progress had even made him, the so-called genius Undead Spellcaster back in the day, admit defeat. Not only did Yang Ling’s close combat capabilities far exceed his expectations, even his Mental Energy had progressed in leaps and bounds. Yang Ling was getting closer to his level. If he could successfully revive these ice sculptures, that meant that they could finally go to the Dimension of Dead Souls to revive his daughter.

“It’s no problem for me to try the Soul Summoning Spell, but this layer of hard ice...” Knocking on the hard and unyielding ice, Yang Ling shook his head helplessly.

After progressing to intermediate level Divine Wizard, his Wizard Power and Mental Energy greatly improved. In theory, he had the ability to cast the high level Soul Summoning Spell. Unfortunately, the strong ice in front of him was too hard. Even the sharp Blood Elf Dagger could not pierce through.

“Kekeke, my Lord, that is not a problem. See what I can do!” The Corpse Wizard King cackled loudly, and released a chain of fireballs. This strong ice might be too hard to cut through, but to him, there were many other ways to solve this problem.

Sizzle...

When the high temperature fireball collided with the thousand year old cold ice, it fizzled out with a ‘sizzle’ sound, as if throwing a coin into the big sea, not even causing a wave. Unexpectedly, the Corpse Wizard King, who thought he had it all planned out, was astonished, and immediately stopped cackling. “This... How can this be?”

Although the his best ability were the Undead Spells, as a Corpse Wizard King at the peak of his Domain, his abilities with the common spells in the various Elements like Fire, Water and Earth, were also far above your common spellcaster. At first, he had thought that a few fireballs would be enough to melt the hard ice, but he did not expect that not even a chip of ice dropped!

Refusing to believe it, the Corpse Wizard King just let loose a huge, roaring fire, enveloping the whole sculpture of the ice beauty. At first he thought that this would finally solve the problem, but unexpectedly, the roaring fire just went out, and the thousand year old ice was still fully intact.

“Aye, this is odd, what kind of ice is this?”

After failing once again, and looking at the Yang Ling at the side who was trying to hold back his smile, the Corpse Wizard King who had boasted, could not help but smile in embarrassment, no matter how thick his skin was. In confusion, he figured that he might as well go all the way, and was ready to move the ice sculpture to a wide open space and try again with more powerful spells.

“If I slip, I might hurt the beauty inside. Forget it, it’s better to change to an old fellow!”

After enduring the bone-chilling cold to hug the ice beauty and looking at the long and lean legs and sweet smile, the Corpse Wizard King changed his mind at the last minute and reached over to hug an old man not far from her, preparing to take this old fellow to do some destructive testing. Unexpectedly, the ice sculpture was heavy beyond his expectations. He barely lifted it after gritting his teeth hard.

Could it be, that this was the legendary Millennium Dark Ice?

After moving the ice sculpture to an open space near the Teleportation Spell Formation, the Corpse Wizard King took a moment to catch his breath. Looking at the weird ice sculpture, he began to think deeply.

According to legend, the Millennium Dark Ice was the hardest, most dense ice in all the Dimensions. Ice would not be able to cut into it, fire would not be able to melt it. Only the Birdmen in the City Amongst the Clouds had the means to refine this ice into various types of weapons, especially used to deal with the fire type enemies in all the Dimensions.

What kind of creature is this evil demon, that could attack with the Millennium Dark Ice and instantly turn a large group of people into ice sculptures?

Could it be that it was a Divine-level Magical Beast?

After he grew surer of the origin of the ice, the expression on the Corpse Wizard King’s face grew more and more grave. Above level nine, the Magical Beasts were the level surpassing ones. Beyond that, were the terrifying Divine-level Magical Beasts.

Level nine Magical Beasts were on par with the Sage Level humans, while the Level Surpassing Magical Beasts were as powerful as the humans who were Domain Experts. Divine-level Magical Beasts, like human Divine-level Experts, were above all, looking over all beings.

Compared to humans, it was much more difficult for Magical Beasts to level up. But if they were to level up, they would be more powerful than their human counterparts. If they were to encounter an Divine-level Expert, Yang Ling and he might be able to escape death if they worked together. But if they were to encounter a Divine-level Magical Beast, they definitely would not survive!

The horror of a Divine-level Magical Beast was far beyond any Domain Expert’s imagination. A group of Sage Level Experts might be able to outnumber and win in an attack against a Domain Expert, but even if many Domain Experts were to band together, they would not be able to defeat a Divine-level Expert, not to mention a legendary Divine-level Magical Beast!

“Wind Ripple Dagger!”

After calming down and reminding Yang Ling to take a few steps back, the Corpse Wizard King tried his best and cast the Wind Element spell, strong in attack power, ready to forcibly destroy the Millennium Dark that had frozen the old fellow.

The Wind Ripple Dagger was the most powerful single attack Wind Element spell. If trained to its peak level, it was said that it could even rip through space, to pave path between Dimensions. The Corpse Wizard King had not reached the peak level of this terrifying Wind Element spell, but by going all out, its attack power was also quite astonishing.

A big and thick curved lade whizzed by, and with a ‘crack’ sound, fine hairline cracks appeared all over the ice sculpture. If the Corpse Wizard King kept this up, he might be able to directly destroy the hard and dense Millennium Dark Ice.

However, just as the Corpse Wizard King stopped to catch his breath, and was getting ready to attack again, suddenly, the Teleportation Formation Spell beneath his feet started to glow sliver, and started to rotate slowly. At the same time, a sharp roar was heard and a heavy, murderous energy filled the space, as if a terrifying Magical Beast was about to wriggle out of the Teleportation Formation.