38 Udcek The Harbinger of Anaya (1/2)

Linri kept following the owl inside the cave. It kept going deeper and deeper. He didn't know how much he ran for. Eventually he made it into an opening.

The roof was covered in stalactites and drops of water dripping from them. The droplets of water had formed a natural underground lake under them. The water was sparkling even though there was not a single light source inside.

'Truly a beautiful place to die' Linri thought.

He found it funny how easily he accepted his 'death' here, yet again.

Once he stopped looking at the lake he saw the shadow of a silhouette across the lake. It was Udcek. Linri slowly made his way to him. He created an imagine of a sword in his mind and commanded it to appear. He felt a little dizzy but the ice cold thing in his hand brought him into his senses.

Since he could not see his stats yet he did not how much prana he spent creating but he assumed it was one tenth of his maximum reserves.

At night he had four abilities. First is 'Manipulation of ice'. This did not cost any prana since he did not create anything.

His second ability was 'Icicle strike'. It was a ice elemental attack with 1.5x above average speed and 1x normal damage. It cost 5 prana to cast. This was his main way of attacking as it was cost effective and had variety of uses.

His third ability was 'Ice Arsenal'. With this he could create any weapon or armor he imagined. It costed 10 prana to cast. When he first created Linri this was supposed to be his main way of fighting but admins pointed out an issue with it. Ice was cold so Linri was affected by it. In one fight where he created a complete set of armor he was almost frozen to death. That was why he had purchased a second ability with his points. It was the manipulation of body heat and heat vision. The ability he extorted from the gods.

Hist fourth and last ability was 'Ice Wall'. With this he could create a wall of ice with 2x extreme endurance to protect himself with. This was at first only intended to be his defence but he later on found out that he did not have to just create a giant block of ice. He could make it take many forms for example being covered in spikes. The only problems was it costed 20 prana. Fifth of his maximum amount so he did not use it much.

Linri looked at the Ice Sword he created. It was exactly the same with the one he imagined. If he could get used to sudden lose of prana and not get dizzy he could probably make a great mage, Linri humoured himself. Feeling the iciness of sword Linri imagined his body temperature dropping till the sword did not feel cold.

For now everything was good. The hazy shadow was still there without moving. Despite being at arms length it was still a shadow silhouette. Without saying anything he just swung his sword to the place he thought was the head with 1.5x above average agility. The shadow was cleaved in two and disappeared.

Linri's eyes revealed a look of astonishment. His feelings were complicated. This was not how it was supposed to happen.

Linri bent over to see if there was anything where the hazy shadow was. He extended his hand to touch the soil.

Suddenly a hand covered in blood burst out from the ground and grabbed Linri's hand from the wrist.