Chapter 135 - Untrustworthy (1/2)

The group continued the march through the storm and had eventually left the forest. They were finally at the base of the Mountain.

”I'll lead the way from here,” Jasmine said.

Jasmine was the only one who had been to the cave before, in fact, she was the one who had told Gary about the cave in the first place. Ray still had his suspicions about Jasmine, how was she even able to obtain information about the cave.

The only reason why Ray decided not to confront her about it, was because he was now too interested in the Divine Being, especially after he had that second dream, he knew he needed to find out what it was.

As the group marched on through the mountain eventually the storm started to settle down a little as they got further up. It was a strange sight as it looked like the whole city was affected by the storm but for some reason, the mountain had remained untouched.

The further up they went, the less rain and wind there was. Eventually, they had reached the snowy area of the mountain. They had kept up a good pace. If a normal human being with no use of Ki was to climb up these mountains it would have taken them days to get up this far.

As they were walking up the mountain, they could see several mounds of snow around them. As if the snow had covered several large boulders. Kyle wasn't getting a good feeling when he looking at the mounds of snow. He felt like something was off.

Then suddenly he felt like he spotted something.

”Hey did anyone see that?”

”See what?” Dan replied.

”That pile of snow, I could have sworn I saw it move just now.”

”Can you not be childish and play jokes on us like that.” Martha said frowning, ”You know it's rumoured this place has strong magical beasts.”

Just as Martha had finished speaking, several mounds of snow around them started to move. Kyle gulped as he saw the giant Ice golem come out from underneath the snow. The golem had no head but a single eyepiece in the centre of its chest. It was mostly human-shaped apart from its square chest.

Ray had spotted these a while ago of course but he had already faced this type of magical beast before. The system no longer allowed him to gain crystals nor to absorb its mana and ice attribute. It seemed like the system had put a limit on his mana steal and mana eater skill when it came to magical beasts.

The group quickly whipped into action, while Ray did as little as possible. Ray thought it was best for the group to get stronger, he wouldn't always be there to protect them after all.

Slyvia took command, using everyone abilities to their max. She even accounted for Kyle's new chain weapon and Jasmine being with us, giving them clear instruction on how and when to attack. The main weakness of the Ice golems was the fact that they were slow.

Slyvia, Martha and Dan were in charge of aggroing the creatures. They would attack the creatures and gets it's attention, while Ray, Jasmine, Monk, Gary and Kyle would then stealthy take out the creatures from behind.

Everyone had grown much stronger and even though they were intermediate beasts, they were quickly dealt with. After everyone had finished carving out the crystals the group continued to move forward with Jasmine in front.