Chapter 473: Long-Distance Battle (1/2)
GDK 473: Long-Distance Battle
One day later: The forest trolls’ village.
Han Shuo brought Elizabeth over. With his demonic blood essence implanted in Elizabeth’s body, if Elizabeth were to make any action of betrayal, he could take Elizabeth’s life with just a thought. Besides, the Church of Light had forced her to an impasse. With such a solid and dependable master to cling onto, so long as she had the slightest common sense, she should have understood that there was nothing to gain in betraying Han Shuo.
After arriving at the forest trolls’ village, Han Shuo saw dark dragon Gilbert keeping watch over the dark dragons imprisoned in the Jadefrost Cage. Right beside Gilbert, the old forest troll priest was directing some forest troll warriors to pass on huge chunks of cured meat to Gilges inside the cage.
The dark dragons, having been tormented by Ice Celestial Corey of the Shrine of Ice, ravenously devoured the chunks of meat in their hands. They must have been starving.
When Han Shuo arrived, a group of forest trolls, with the old priest taking the lead, bored down at Han Shuo, yelling the name ‘Datara’.
With regards to the race of forest trolls, although Han Shuo’s original intention was purely to exploit them, over time, he had grown somewhat sentimental toward them. Except for their innate tendency to plunder and loot, generally speaking, they mostly suited Han Shuo’s taste. No matter how cruel they treated others, because of the little skeleton, these forest trolls would treat them with incomparable dedication and good faith.
“Get up.” Han Shuo gestured with his hand. After the old priest and his party stood up, Han Shuo said smilingly, “In the future, make sure to be in frequent contact with Trunks. He shall provide you all with wise instruction.”
“Rest assured, liaison. Under Lord Trunks’ guidance, we have reaped great harvests these several years.” A gratified smile blossomed on the ugly face of the old priest.
Han Shuo nodded. Then, he shot a glance at Elizabeth, encouraging her. “Give it a try, see if you can absorb the divine energy of the Ice Goddess from the Jadefrost Cage.”
“Understood, master!” Elizabeth replied respectfully, wearing an excited look on her face.
Elizabeth, who had been on the run for countless years, deeply realized the importance of her own strength. She understood that if she wanted to better protect herself and ensure her own survival, she had to possess great power. This command of Han Shuo’s directed at her was undoubtedly beneficial to her. With her bewildering body structure, if she could absorb the divine energy in the Jadefrost Cage, her strength would definitely advance one step further.
“Be careful. Inside are all my clan members,” Gilbert, unclear of Elizabeth’s strength, warned when he saw her approaching the cage with excitement.
Elizabeth nodded. When she got beside the Jadefrost Cage, without saying a word, she stretched her hands and grasped at the fences. She closed her eyes to start sensing the energy within the Jadefrost Cage with her Body of Divine Favor.
Han Shuo squinted slightly. What seemed to be lightning flashed through his eye slits as he locked his gaze on Elizabeth.
All of a sudden, Han Shuo saw that Elizabeth turned to a look of exultation. Streams of green smoke began to drift out from her seven orifices. The green smoke,resembling seven earthworms, wrung about at her nostrils, eyes, ears, and mouth. Her already ugly old face looked even more sinister as the green smoke pulsated at her seven orifices.
“Mas…Master, can she do it?” Gilbert took a shock at those bizarre things on Elizabeth’s face. As those imprisoned in the Jadefrost Cage were his grandfather and clansmen, he was terrified that Elizabeth might accidentally injure them.
Han Shuo made a hush gesture at Gilbert, and slowly approached Elizabeth. His immaterial and formless consciousness began probing for any sign of activity in Elizabeth and the Jadefrost Cage.
Han Shuo could sense that Elizabeth’s unique Body of Divine Favor had discovered the reservoir of the Ice Goddess’ divine energy in the Jadefrost Cage. That was also why Elizabeth was suddenly so excited. As the green smoke from her seven orifices curled up, the wrinkled skin on her two hands seemed to have turned severely shrunken and dried up, like two cyan iron hooks.
Her two wizened hands, much like the hands of a thousand year old mummy, glowed with faint green nefarious light. Strands of frigid energy like fine thread flowed gracefully along her two bony hands and into her body. The unique structure of her Body of Divine Favor allowed her to digest the divine energy.
The sinister looking Elizabeth displayed an excited and cheerful emotion in her eyes throughout the process. Strands of divine energy slowly flowed into her body through the conveying of her two hands. She could sense the benefits that the energy could offer her body.
Han Shuo let out a sigh of relief, assured that it was definitely the right decision to take Elizabeth as his slave. Being able to absorb this kind of divine energy, Elizabeth would definitely be of great use to him. While sensing the flowing streams of divine energy, Han Shuo mulled over if he should take away some of the energy she digested for himself after she was done absorbing it.
The frigid aura that constantly lingered around the Jadefrost Cage was disappearing bit by bit along with Elizabeth’s actions. Gilbert who had been observing from the side obviously also felt the changes to the Jadefrost Cage and was pleasantly surprised. His mood turned much better. Now when he once more look at Elizabeth, that sinister face seemed much more pleasing to the eyes.
Just as Han Shuo and Gilbert both sighed in relief, Elizabeth’s face suddenly turned frightened and her body shivered. Intense frosty aura permeated the air. Elizabeth tried to take out her two hands grabbing at Jadefrost Cage with all her strength, but, as though her hands were attached to the cage with superglue, she couldn’t part with the cage no matter how hard she tried.
At the same time, the columns of the Jadefrost Cage suddenly overflowed with bone-chilling white smoke. The temperature in the surroundings began to plummet all the way down. The originally warm village of the forest trolls had seemingly fallen into a world of ice and snow.
Starting at an unknown time, under the caress of chilly cold wind, the entire village of the forest trolls was shrouded in snowflakes. The forest trolls immediately trembled in the cold. One after another, they started to shriek and shout in fear, with absolutely no idea of what was happening.
Han Shuo was terrified. He could clearly sense that there seemed to be a few potent strands of energy being poured into the Jadefrost Cage. The energy came abruptly. Not only did they cause the entire region to all of a sudden become bone-chillingly cold, it even firmly held onto Elizabeth’s hands, not letting them budge at the slightest.
It was the dark dragons trapped in the Jadefrost Cage that suffered the most in the arctic atmosphere. Gilges’ teeth chattered, the warm air exhaled from his mouth froze instantly. As for the younger dark dragons, the looks on their faces gradually stiffened, as if in just a moment, they would be completely frozen.