Chapter 1017: Ice Elves (1/2)

Sam and Nali appeared in the Tundra realm that very night.

The place is not actually the best of the places to do business or any other development. If compared to the modern earth, this realm is the Antarctica of this whole world. Not in terms of location, but in terms of environment and atmosphere.

People even surviving and living here is actually a surprise.

But the main reason is that most people who live here are not humans, in fact, the human population that is present doesn't even belong to this realm and comes from the nearby realms which conduct some business here.

For Sam, this realm is a complete wasteland that has no use for him. Except for the frost essences and some rare herbs that grow in this type of cold and some rare beasts, there was nothing much here. Even if it is present with many rare minerals, it is almost next to impossible to mine them out.

Sam might be able to do it with his machines, but the investment and the long wait didn't feel like it is worth it, so he left this realm alone.

But as soon as he entered, he believed that he can use this place as the training ground for fire elemental mages.

If he creates equipment that can keep them alive from the cold the surrounding resistance to the fire elemental energy will make them struggle and force them to control the energy more efficiently. But it is only for the Astral Plane cultivators, even the consummate level cultivators of other species will die here.

The only species that live here are Ice elves which is the banished elven clan, they are also mutants of the elves just like the sirens from the mermen. They were banished. The other race is the ice elemental beings.

They are purely made of ice and frost essence and they don't have any intelligence. They are more like beasts but more dangerous than them as their senses are keen and they can merge with the environment.

The third race is a type of barbarian race called the Frost Barbarians.

They have thicker skin than most barbarian races and they are the only barbarian race that has an elemental affinity with ice. But they cannot use any mage skills and can only use ice element to fight physically.

Sam doesn't know which race is the strongest. All he has is the location of the nearest place which has some civilization from the wormhole they took from the nearest realm.

That is the headquarters of the ice elves.

He decided to find a way to get in touch with the higher-ups of the ice elves and find his match there.

But before he does that, he needs to find something to eat in the wild.

He brought his chef with him, so it would be a waste to not find anything.

His first target is the river that is near the city.

The river is still flowing at such a cold temperature.

The water is denser than normal as it is mixed with large quantities of low-grade frost essence.

Any fish or other creature that grew in here would be abundant with ice elements and would also taste nice.

Sam looked at the river and asked Nali.

”Would you be able to cook the creatures of this river? They are going to be very cold. Their blood might even freeze your fingers.”

”Don't worry boss. My cultivation technique itself focuses on cooking. And I am an Astral Plane cultivator. I can handle all kinds of ingredients within Astral Plane Initiation level.”

”That is great. Because there are many creatures in this river that I would like to taste and let's start with this.”

Sam lunged forward and jabbed his palm into the river and when he took it out, there is a large ice blue-colored fish in there.

”This is the Frost Carp. It is not Astral Plane and only Consummate level. But this would be a good estimation of what you can do with them. Cook something of your choice with it.”

”Boss, I can cook but are you sure you can digest. You are a fire element user aren't you?”

Sam spread his fingers and all kinds of elemental energies he can use gathered up at the tips.

”Did you see that? I can almost digest any elemental energy. Even if it is poisonous cook it up for me as long as it is delicious.”

Nali started cooking and he used some methane cylinders that could create a constant flame to create a small area without snow and ice so that he could cook peacefully.

While Sam waited for the food to be over, he kept a lookout on the river to find something else that might interest him to eat.

But at this moment, someone arrived at the scene which made him alert.

Sam jumped back and threw a fireball at Nali.

Nali panicked, but the golden flame didn't hit him, instead, it hit the flying ice arrow that was a few feet away from him.

The place where Sam stood also has an ice arrow.

Sam frowned and looked around as golden flames enveloped his hands.