Chapter 9: C09.Ice Domain (1/2)

”Ice Domain.”

A sweet but icy cold voice echoed in it's ears as it felt his knees weakened, about to give out. Looking around in shock and vigilance to find who had interrupted it's kill. He saw a young lady behind him, her skin was as white as snow her eyes were icy blue as she looked at him with zero expressions on her face.

Her whitish-blue long hair was let down to her waist, it flowed like a river as it complimented her pale skin in a way that made her look like a beautiful ice sculpture or maybe the goddess of ice.

Looking at those cold emotionless eyes staring at him, the Rykir felt a chill run down it's spine and penetrates its bones. It didn't take long for it to figure out what was going on. Without any hesitation it immediately turned around and fled at breakneck speed.

It had lived a long life, it's instinct had been developed over hundreds of years through various life and death situation, it could practically smell when death was approaching.

To his dismay the lady behind him reeks of death, and it was all directed at him. It didn't have time to activate or deactivate any skills neither was it able to think in that direction, it had to act fast and escape, any wrong move could mean the end. Unfortunately for the Rykir the lady had plans of her own.

”Ice prism.”

With his skill ”Shadow body flames of hell” and Body of the Reaper it could cross a distance of tens of meters in a few seconds but Ice Domain covered a range of 150 meters, it was too late to escape in just the time it took for ice

prism to form.

Four angular transparent surfaces emerged from the icy grounds as they trapped the Rykir in a semi transparent prism. Without any hesitation it launched an attack with his fiery claws at the transparent wall in front of him.

°Reaping Slash°

Three terrifying Crimson flames in the shape a a claw escaped the Rykir's claws as it flew at the prism with great intensity. This was a subsidiary skill that could only be activated after the main skill was activated. The main skill was usually not an attack skill but a control skill like ice Domain, the main skill was impossible to learn so it was rare to see anyone using it, not to mention the backlash.

Boom!!

The attack was reflected back at him two folds, flustered and confused the Rykir was unable to dodge the more terrifying attack, it slammed him straight to the ground and the Rykir was wounded by it's own attack. It started to panic, filled with foreign emotions like fear and confusion it tried shooting out it's horn, only to receive the same results, it was hopeless, every attempt was doomed to fail, one thought kept reappearing in it's head over and over again, DEATH.

'What is this? Who is this Monster!'

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A distance away in the Darknar forest, in a barren area of the forest, the area was void of life, both plant and animals avoided the space, even though birds would occasionally fly through the air, no monster could be found within a quarter of a mile radius. Even though this was the middle of the forest, unlike the rest of the place the area was void of trees and vines , it was a sandy plains that extend within a 300 meter radius.

Smoke could be seen coming from the middle of this area, as a group of people sat around a camp fire as they roasted one of the most common animal that are found in the Darknar forest, a red hawk.

The area was considered a safe zone as the beast and monsters in the forest actively tries their best to avoid the place, there were a handful of places such as this in the forest, each ranging between 200 and 1000 metre radius.

Darknar forest was expansive, after the Demon King's region fell into ruins the forest had swallowed a large amount of the land around the castle. It was large enough to fit a few large cites.

In the barren land the men sitting around the campfire, merrily chatting and laughed with one another when they suddenly stopped as they simultaneously turned their heads and stared intensely towards the south-east of the forest, the hairs on their backs standing on edge. ”Did you guys feel that?” One of the men asked his companions with a frightened expression, he had dark orange skin an average appearance and two small horns on his forehead.

”I've never felt anything like this before, what kind of monster is that.” another man replied with a similar expression on his face. He had a similar appearance to the one that had spoken previously only he had a single horn on his forehead.

The four men look visibly shaken as they felt a chill deep in their bones, this was the first time they ever experience something like this, it felt like the temperature had dropped a few degrees as well. ”That's not a monster.” A voice came from behind as the four men turned their heads simultaneously. ”Ha boss you're back, what do you mean by that?” Bam the first to had spoken previously ask in surprise at the figure that had appeared behind them without them ever noticing.

”If there was a monster that strong in the forest we would have died a long time a ago. It's coming from the direction. of the castle.” The figure spoke as he stared at the same direction as the others were previously looking at. ”We need to report this to Lord Aur.”

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In the Demon King's castle.

Standing behind the throne Tyler suddenly turned his head to the right staring at the wall. ”What in the world is that?” he was surprised and anxious by what he was sensing, having never felt this before he didn't know what to make of it.

He took a step towards the wall and came out from behind the throne, back at the large hall with the statues, there were no Windows in the fifth floor of the North wing, walking back the way he came, he left the fifth floor. Soon he arrive by a window overlooking the direction he had sense the strange aura from.

He was in the fourth floor, but it didn't bother him as he jumped down from the window without hesitation, as a Warrior Swordsman he could do things like this quite easily although he had trained his butt off to achieve it. What surprised him was his soft landing, almost like he didn't have any weight. He felt the incredible sense of balance he possessed, but now was not a time to investigate this change, there was something he was more interested in.

Looking at the direction the aura was coming from, it seemed like it was in the strange forest. ' I've only seen low level monsters but i don't think a monster should feel like this.' He thought as he headed for the direction the aura was coming from.

There was something strange about what he was sensing, something sad, lonely, something that reminds Tyler of himself.

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