Chapter 284 Defense 2 (1/2)

Chapter 284 Defense 2

"All the way over there?" Chrysa pointed to the top of the arsellis tree that grew so high that it almost looked like it could touch the sky "I don't know if I can go that far…"

"You can," reassured Aldrich "I know because I'm linked to you Believe in yourself just as much as you believe in me Got it?"

"Got it" Chrysa nodded

"Now then Tiuests" Aldrich briefly looked around Elven houses blended well into nature, consisting of caverns built up of tangled branches and leaves Many e trees

Secret demons poked their masked faces out from the tops of the caverns or from the sides of the tree houses As expected, they were all smaller and weaker hellhounds and i to deal with, but in general, this was all fodder

Nothing Aldrich could not deal with

"Father, I can take thean Chrya

"No Save your et to the top of the tree, but I know it's roughly around your max Father will be okay Don't worry about ht?"

"O-okay"

The good thing about the temple area that Aldrich stood on was that it was a wide stretch of flat ground Elves did not build houses near their te to sneak up on Aldrich

Aldrich's [Death Essence Barrier] flashed green as balls of orange fire and purple light crashed against him, fired from the hands and mouths of imps and hellhounds These were tier 1 or 2 spells like [Firebolt] or [Dey resistant barrier

"In the past, I would have had a barrier of corpses All flay But now, I can sit here all day without worrying about the likes of you" Aldrich stood calround beside hi, you'll have to get down and do the dirty work up close"

The hellhounds hissed and the iot to Aldrich first, their canine bodies sprinting doalls and burnt forest floor as they sprinted ahead at full speed When they got close enough, the hellhounds leaped up, ai to bite at Aldrich's head and throat

Aldrich spun around with his scythe He sliced four hounds clean in half, but there were three h A pale blue trail followed the scythe slash, like Aldrich was draith it, and then the line erupted in a burst of energy that instantly flash froze the rest of the hounds

The frozen demons sailed past Aldrich and shattered into tiny little pieces against the ground

"Good Works just like how I remember it," said Aldrich

The [Frosthallowed War Scythe] had a passive called [Frostbite Trail] that gave all of its slashes an explosive freezing aftereffect This h the aftereffect was too weak to deal any real dae to a unit of Aldrich's equivalent level

It did contribute to rapidly building up the [Frozen] status effect The status effect was complete when a unit was co them in this state, one could shatter the unit to either one shot thee

Notably, if it did not execute outright, it did percent e, so Aldrich was curious whether this hest of supers in the real world

I fro to claw at hi

Aldrich perfor and slashi+ng his way through the deraceful footwork that easily outpaced them The imps were clumsy and the hellhounds moved too much on instinct

Compared to Aldrich who had precision footwork beaten into him, the demons were easy to just dance laps around

Fro an elaborate pattern, the pale blue [Frostbite Trail] squiggling and threading through the crowd of dey erupted at the tail end of the trail, encasing corpses and living de!" Chrysa pointed back at the arselis seed So he far outclassed the the seed The seed was ie, but the deet about it," said Aldrich "We're not here to protect the seed"

"Are we still going to get it?" said Chrysa Looked like she was already developing a gaet loot whenever possible

"Yep By choosing this defend the seed option, we'll get the seed guaranteed at the end of the quest, even if the deht; if I don't defend it at all, they in with" Aldrich turned around and got to cleaning up the low-level demons around the seed