Mystical Journey

The sun dimmed gradually before it descended below the horizon.

Icy auras gradually filled the air as well.

On the black plains, a long stretch of white “tides” surged out from the furthest point, sweeping across while charging toward the area at which Garen and the enormous beast were located.

Strangely, it spread open and uncoiled automatically in the area where the enormous beast was located. It continued moving forward as if it did not see the beast at all before it approached Garen’s position quickly.

Inside the cave, Garen could faintly detect the sound of certain movements. However, when the defenses that had been set up to stand guard outside did not have any responses, he suppressed the anxiety in his mind and continued absorbing the auras.

Hiss…

Suddenly, the faint sound of an insect that was tearing and biting something echoed into the cave from the outside.

Beep…

The invisible temporary defenses let out a sharp alert immediately.

Garen’s heart trembled before he paused his absorption frantically and kept his Semi-Divine Weapon back into his Space Ring.

He turned around and looked at the entrance of the cave where seemingly countless, tiny, densely-packed white ants had surged inside there at an unknown time.

The ant colony that poured in was accompanied by a terrifyingly-low temperature that was as cold as negative seventy to eighty degrees, rushing inside frantically.

“An Ice Ant Tide?” Garen was obviously aware of this natural disaster. Although every single one of these Ice Ants looked tiny and were only the size of a human palm, they were genuine Level Two creatures. Their bodies were feeble, but their teeth were invincible and even dragon scales for no match for the tough bones that they could gnaw.

When he saw that so many of these Ice Ants were charging towards him, he sighed in relief instead. He would have been slightly worried if they were Fire Ants. However, since they were Ice Ants, and since he was, fortunately, an ice-type Colossal Dragon, it would be easier to handle them in this aspect.

He sprayed out a mouthful of Dragon Breath. Garen’s current Dragon Breath already possessed the power and momentum of an Adult Colossal Dragon. His Frost Aura instantly made the Ice Ants livelier. Aside from their hard teeth, their most threatening ability was actually their naturally intense low temperature. Low temperatures of negative seventy to eighty degrees would accompany them as they moved and advance endlessly. Other than actual ice-type creatures, most other creatures could not handle these effects at all. Moreover, these low temperatures also harbored certain types of ice-type toxins. However, Garen’s Vitality was immune to it. Nonetheless, if another Peak Level Nine Wizard of the same level was here instead of him, the situation would probably be very troublesome, because when their magic spells would inevitably be exhausted; they would truly only be at the creatures’ mercy when the ice-type toxins entered their body. Fortunately, Garen’s physique was stronger and unlike theirs.

The movements of these large colonies of Ice Ants were slowed down when they were blown by Garen’s Dragon Breath. When they increased their icy auras simultaneously, this made Garen feel as if the creatures on the other side were of a slightly similar species to himself.

The main characteristic of this Ice Ant Tide was that they would only gnaw at creatures that did not have low temperatures. Since the blood of White Dragons was at temperatures of zero degrees and below, they were naturally a typical example of low-temperature creatures.

Therefore, the seas of Ice Ants that poured in were pushed out easily.

It was merely a false alarm.

Garen exhaled but the feeling of unremovable chills that kept springing up remained in his mind. He scanned his surroundings, yet he was still unable to find any abnormalities.

He sighed in relief and was about to continue his absorption before a black shadow of a human-shaped smoke passed through directly in front of him suddenly.

Garen was about to hide but was unable to do it in time. However, he noticed immediately that the other party merely passed through his body directly. It seemed as though it was not substantial at all.

He felt his body weakening slightly at the same time.

Shh…

The humanoid creature condensed behind him and floated in the darkness of the cave. It was basically a shroud of black smoke that had formed into a human silhouette. He could not see its face at all, only its blurry limbs.

“Void Shadow?” Garen was slightly shocked before he said, “Isn’t this a creature from the Undead World?”

Creatures like Void Shadows were very troublesome. It was disastrous every time they appeared on the surface of the Main Substance World.

They were immune to the innate laws of things and even had a fifty percent dodging rate towards enchantments and spell attacks. Moreover, they would weaken the powers of the other party every time they touched other creatures.

The debilitation of their abilities was everlasting and extremely despicable. Unless you could kill the Void Shadow that had absorbed your powers, you would eternally lose the part of your strength that they had absorbed.

Garen furrowed his eyebrows faintly while looking at the Void Shadow before him. The most troublesome aspect of Void Shadows was not this, but the fact that most of them usually appeared in groups.

Every time they killed a creature, they would develop it as a part of themselves to form the next Void Shadow. Thus, these Void Shadows would appear in groups under normal circumstances. As a peak powerhouse in the aspect of physical attacks, Garen was the most annoyed at creatures like these that were immune to these types of physical attacks.

His Spellcrafting strength was only at Level Five, and he did not have any Enchanted Equipment either.

Garen had just thought of this before more than ten densely-packed Void Shadows appeared inside the cave. His scalp tingled immediately.

“This is troublesome…”

The previous Void Shadow had taken away half of his strength when it pounced on him once. If so many Void Shadows were to set on him together, wouldn’t his strength which exceeded eighty points vanish completely within a few moments?

He felt as if his Vitality was strong while he was still standing on the Main Substance Plane previously. Aside from being immune to spells, he was also not very concerned with Spellcrafting and Arcane Techniques as he felt that there were no forces besides Level Eight Space-Time Spells that could challenge him. However, after he had experienced using spells in Snow City to strengthen his physical attacks such as Warhammer, and witnessed the supernatural powers that were brought on by the Void Shadows now, did he understand that purely walking on the path of physics was not the true path of this world.

“No wonder peak level Warriors also require the assistance of Enchanted Equipment and Divine Weapons.”

While he was surrounded by a group of Void Shadows, Garen’s mind stirred rapidly as he thought of a way to escape.

These were the effects of being restrained. A Level Eight Great Wizard here would have an easier time handling this than him. Thus, Garen was having a hard time now.

Whoosh!

More than ten Void Shadows pounced on him suddenly. Garen could not dodge them in this narrow space in time. Moreover, despite his great speed, the Void Shadows possessed pretty good speed as well. The distance between them was closed in a moment. These Void Shadows were clearly high-level characters.

The leading Void Shadow appeared first. It released a loud and sharp chirping noise that instructed the others to pounce over.

Garen opened his mouth and spat out a large mouthful of Dragon Breath that struck two Void Shadows precisely. Although his Dragon Breath was not a harmful spell, it was still considered harmful towards supernatural powers; it had certain effects towards Void Shadows.

The effects of the deceleration that was caused by the cold suddenly appeared throughout the bodies of both of the Void Shadows that were sprayed, but none of them were harmed. Since they were Undead Creatures, the cold could only decrease their speeds, not kill them.

Garen moved toward the right side suddenly. While he was surrounded by more than ten Void Shadows, his body shrunk suddenly. His physique decreased into the size of an extremely tiny Dragon Whelp before he barely rushed out of a crack in the encirclement.

It was pointless to strictly view these types of Advanced Undead according to their levels and divisions. They could only be destroyed using focused tactics. Thus, if the tactics were not focused, even first-rate Warriors would only be worn down to death by them while they were still alive.

Garen dodged inside the cave from left to right. Every time, he was only able to evade the Void Shadows’ attacks by a hair’s breadth. This made the leading Void Shadow abnormally irritated.

Chirp chirp chirp chirp!

It began yelling again.

The movements of all the other Void Shadows became more speedy immediately.

Garen timed this opportunity properly and rushed out of the cave at once before reaching the ground.

He remembered that his Semi-Divine Weapon, Despair Head, probably possessed supplementary soul attributes. Perhaps it would be effective towards the Undead.

When he thought of this, he took the Despair Head out of his Space Ring suddenly and grasped it in his claw before he targeted a Void Shadow and approached it.

The Despair Head looked like a normal white human skull that seemed unassuming.

Moreover, when Garen extended his arms and legs after exiting, his 80-point speed was instantly given full control as well. Hence, when he extended his claws, he instantly struck the Void Shadow that pounced towards him at the same time.

Chirp!

A pained cry rang out. This Void Shadow released a miserable howl before it retreated and returned frantically as if it was burned.

“Was that effective?!” Garen’s heart was delighted.

He continued to follow the same pattern. His speed had peaked at 80-points while his body had naturally become agiler once it shrunk. The Void Shadows were thrown and spun around by him. He had only encountered them a few times before five Void Shadows were struck by his Despair Head. By looking at their physiques, it was obvious that they had lost a lot of the black smoke that made up their bodies.

The leading Void Shadow was slightly fearful now. It began to make chirping noises as if it wanted to retreat.

However, Garen made a surprising discovery; he noticed that the potential aura of his Despair Head had actually increased slightly again.

Although they were merely traces of increments, his subtle responses were extremely accurate in this aspect. Moreover, since he was holding it in his own hands all this while, he could feel the differences throughout his Semi-Divine Weapon in the first instance.

“Was I strengthened by absorbing the soul auras of these Undead creatures?” An assumption formed in Garen’s mind.

He tried doing it a few more times while pursuing the Void Shadow that had already started to flee while continuing to press down against it and strike it.

He continued to hit another Void Shadow five times before this fellow finally collapsed with a thud. It actually exploded into pieces immediately, turning into a puff of black smoke that dispersed slowly before it died completely.

Garen could clearly feel that the potential aura of the Despair Head had strengthened once again. His heart was extremely delighted. If this method was feasible, he could simply use the Despair Head to hunt souls and would not have to follow the rules of the Blood Wars that would only grant him souls according to the battles that he had won. Instead, he could freely hunt souls and turn them into potential aura!

Bang!

Another Void Shadow exploded and scattered when it was violently smashed by Garen. After that, Garen instantly felt that his strength which was previously sucked away had not returned. Meanwhile, the potential aura of the Despair Skull had increased slightly. It had probably undergone an increment of five or six points in comparison to the time when he had just brought it out earlier. This was not a minor increment. He had smashed two Void Shadows into pieces while the remaining ones dispersed and fled. The rewards that he had gained this time were already enough to satisfy Garen greatly.

“This is equivalent to more than half a month’s worth of my natural earnings, haha!” Garen turned around and returned to his cave happily. He noticed that the sharp points had become longer and were more pointy. Hence, their growth speed had obviously started to increase. He believed that he could evolve into another state soon and continue increasing his attributes.

“I’ve heard that evolved states can randomly obtain a type of natural ability from the Original Energy Sea. Some obtain elemental abilities while others get supernatural abilities. They weren’t all beneficial, and there were detrimental ones as well. However, great advantages could also be obtained from the bad ones as long as they’re used properly.”

Garen was very hopeful toward the natural abilities that he would gain through his evolved state.

Legitimate White Dragons would naturally gain natural abilities such as spells like Ice Mirror Art, Frost Swallowing, and Spewing (in a large area) during adulthood. However, he was different as he had already accomplished certain stages during his childhood that none of the other White Dragons had achieved since the beginning.