Chapter 262 An Unseen Cold (1/2)

Chapter 262 An Unseen Cold

Force and cold rocked across Aldrich in an oppressive tidal wave, as if all the fury of a Hile bea in front of Aldrich, her black greatshi+eld holding against the wave of energy like a fortress wall However, the attack was energy based in nature, flowing out like a raging tide Aside from a small area behind Valera that protected Aldrich and Chrysa, the blast swept past and engulfed everything else

That o out froht shone all around Aldrich, as if he had been dunked into the depths of a blue sun, but instead of unfathohton But he knew that stepping into it would i!?" cried Chrysa, her wared her face into Aldrich's chest

"Get intoit very clear he would not take no for an answer "Where it's safe"

Chrysa nodded obediently through panicked tears Her little body glowed bright white before fading into a shower of particles that flowed into Aldrich's chest, right where his phylactery was

With Chrysa accounted for, Aldrich focused back on Randall Yet, he knew all too well that anywas in vain Aldrich's [Death Sense] no longer picked up on Randall's signature

The light died down, confir what Aldrich already knew

There was nohad all been blown apart like a tornado had raged right through it

What little was left, ears, and tech, was colistened under the -like, wrinkled body encased in ice atop his bed, frozen in a snapshot of how he had been just seconds ago

Aldrich's emotions were muted with his undeath, s Randall, family to Elaine, one of his only friends, thawed that ice

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Whoever had done this needed to die

"Randall!" Alan shouted as he ca out of his ainst the ice prison that held Randall "Help him! He won't last in there!"

Alan was in disbelief Orthat Randal was still alive, that he could be alive if he just got out quick enough, he was trying to convince hiht have felt e focus of the danger at hand He looked around, trying to scan his surroundings for the enemy

The direction the blast came from was easy to tell based on where Valera faced her shi+eld, and yet, there was nothing there, just more trailers and shacks

Like cockroaches under a light, the poverty worn denizens of these ho the explosion None of them screamed or made a ruckus like ordinary city folk

They just ran Over years of living in the edge district, they had learned not to question when things blew up or screa

Aldrich ignored the runners There was plenty of cover around with trailers, car clusters, and shacks, but not so much that both Aldrich and Valera combined with their perception could not easily pick out an ene theh tech or Alter power If they were a speedster, there would have been traces of their ot a stealthed enee forht blue wall of frost

"Can you get hi you can do to help hiht to do - if you need , I'll do it!"

"…" Aldrich could not believe it He was ready to crack open the ice and revive Randall as an undead before the soul expired, but -

There was no soul

Randall's soul was gone It was not as if he was alive in the ice, Aldrich's [Death Sense] showed that Randall ell and truly dead

Then how?

The only explanation Aldrich knew related to Elden World game mechanics

Whenever a unit died, their soul floated above their corpse for around aon certain passives, spells, or equip the souls stayed until they reat Soul Stream

However, there was a way to kill units in such a way that their souls were sent directly to the Soul Strea cursed attacks Both, if used to kill a ht to the Soul Streaood at countering necroe souls to stop necro theh opponents