Chapter 762 (2/2)

Their immediate response was to turn in thing. Understandable, but foolish.

Smoldering roots ripped upward through their bodies and smashed them into broken twigs. Randidly bent his knees again and leapt once more. He wasn’t going to let it end with this. With his Aether Detection, he could sense them loitering at the bottom of the lake.

A huge geyser of water shot upward in the wake of Randidly. With burning emerald eyes, Randidly unleashed Frigid Ash, Extinguishing storm. The water around Randidly slowly froze, but he dived too quickly to get caught up in it.

There was a shrill screech that reverberated through the deep waters of the lake that was accompanied by a soft rumbling. Randidly touched to the lake bottom and spread his hands. The vicious cold of ash exploded outward. The forms of the hundreds of Wights sprung into motion like an anthill kicked over, but then froze just as quickly.

Take it all. Drag it down in into the cold, Randidly thought grimly.

There were a few seconds when the water resisted the sudden change in temperature, but soon it was cracking and solidifying into ice. Many of the nearby Wights were crushed as the ice expanded to fill a larger space.

A shriek cut through the ice and there was an abrupt crack. A large form shot toward Randidly. Calmly, Randidly summoned a root to his hand in the shape of a spear. He recognized the approaching form; it was a Witch King.

A giant spectral claw ripped the slowly rising ice to pieces, destroying most of the remaining Wight bodies in the process. It raised its claw once more to strike again, but Randidly used Spear Advances, Ash Trails and smashed directly into the Witch Kings chest.

The physical force was so overwhelming that the area around them was cleared of water briefly by the pressure. In addition, the image of explosive force was empowered enough that Randidly felt the Witch King’s frame shudder and crack.

The sudden force appeared to catch the thing by surprise, and it stumbled backward. It opened its mouth to cry once more but Randidly struck before it could manage another sound.

All is Ash.

Everything flattened and faded to grey. Randidly felt it now, more clearly than ever. His time in the darkness had shown him how much the senses shaped the world. When he shut off all senses but his deep connection to ash, he felt every fragile bit of the world around him.

With a sharp gesture, Randidly cut. The Witch King’s ash form cracked and disintegrated, leaving nothing be debris in the turbulent water.

Sighing, Randidly let All is Ash fall away. In terms of his physical strength, he hadn’t improved to such an overwhelming degree since last he fought a Witch King. Although Randidly would have had some confidence against them. But now, Randidly could sense they were no longer quite strong enough to pose a serious threat to him alone.

The impact of images kept the Witch King on its back foot the entire time. That extra edge added up, especially in a fight.

In addition, the Witch King also left Randidly one more gift.

Congratulations! You have reached Level 36! +8 Stats distributed between Vitality, Perception, Resist, Intelligence, and Control, +20 Free Stats! +1 Stat to a Mental Stat. +1 to a Physical Defense Stat. +1 to a Mental Support Stat. +2 Control. +36 Health, +40 Mana, +40 Stamina, +3.5 to all Regenerations! +1 to Health and Stamina Regeneration! +70 Progenitor’s Influence.

Congratulations! You have learned the Skill “Cycle of the Gloomy Wood ® Lvl 1!”