Chapter 195 Yagaroths (1/2)

My reason behind asking the King of Avians for someone to pick me up, when I gave a sign, was very simple. 'I want to test my strength, against those creatures first. If I can kill them without the Yellow Dust, then that will be great' I thought. I wouldn't attempt it unprepared, although I would test my strength, ultimately, I was after something else.

I arrived at the pond, and rolled my sleeve up. ”Frosty, come out, I need to do something first” I said. Frosty changed to its corporeal form, and waited in front of me. I took out the Water Stone from my Storage Feather, and placed it in my right hand. ”Let's see what type of effects, will one stone have” I said to myself. My hand started absorbing the stone, without me thinking about it.

I could feel more coldness emanating from my arm, until it basically froze. I was a bit alarmed but didn't feel any pain or discomfort. The Water Stone was absorbed rather quickly, but my arm stayed frozen. 'Do I wait now or something? I can't really do much, with my arm in that state' I thought. I decided to wait it out, maybe the absorption process was not completed yet. I looked at Frosty, but it didn't seemed worried.

'If Frosty isn't worried, then I shouldn't be either. After all, Frosty can somehow enter my arm and become a tattoo, it probably knows more than me at this stage' I thought and waited. The time passed, even though I couldn't see the weather change, in the North. Some time later, the ice on my arm started to melt. 'Finally!' I thought. A short while later, the ice completely disappeared. My arm appeared to be more white-ish, now that the ice was gone.

Frosty seemed happy for some reason, and started motioning. I had no clue what it tried to say, maybe it was happy due to the improvement of my right arm. I stood up and decided to test it. I walked in front of a tree, and focused. The freezing abilities of my right arm awakened. With the improved freezing effect, even I could feel strong coldness coming from it. I threw a punch at a tree, using only about 40% of my strength.

”Boom”

The tree shook, while I punched through it. What happened next, shocked me. The tree started to freeze, it wasn't only the area around my right arm, it was much larger. It took a short while, but eventually, the whole tree froze. ”WOW!” I exclaimed. 'I can probably freeze those Tentacle Creatures to death now! With this, I have another weapon, especially against creatures, that are resistant or immune to physical attacks' I thought.

I called out to Frosty ”It's time to go. You can change back now. I will go alone, it will be less complicated that way”. Frosty nodded and jumped onto my shoulder, then changed back to the tattoo quite eagerly. 'With my right arm improved, I can now dive into the depths of the pond' I thought, and jumped in.

At the mid point, inside the pond. I closed my eyes and started awaking my Darkness Perception. About 20 seconds later, I was ready. I quickly dived towards the bottom, then took the tunnel to the left. This time, I was much faster, it was because I wanted to attract attention. When I reached the underwater cave, the Tentacle Creatures were still there, but in greater number. There were 20 of them now. 'Good, I can kill more of them at once' I thought and swam a bit closer.

When the Tentacle Creatures finally noticed me, they gave chase. There was one Creature, that chased me with an exceptional anger. It was the Elite Creature, that I damaged previously. 'It has a grudge with me, there is no doubt about that' I thought, and swam towards the surface of the pond.

This time, I didn't struggle as much. I was much stronger, but more importantly, I was more experienced now. I knew how to increase my swimming speed, and I could last much longer underwater. The Creatures were chasing me relentlessly, which was the exact thing I wanted.