The weather that was cold turned colder, as the ice beast decided that it didn't want to play with its prey. Tracking my companions with my ability I noticed that they were still not out of the danger zone and the Pheonix still wants their lives along with mine.
Looking at my options I find myself lacking, the overdrive spell has a long cooldown, a month and even with it, it is probably impossible for me to kill this thing, as the side effects of it are going to turn me into a useless doll long before I had landed the finishing blow.
The coldness of this place is numbing my senses.
"Glory Of The Dark Inferno!" I summoned my territorial skill in hope to trap the beast within a real hell. However,
The territorial skill Absolute Zero was used.
Due to the nature of skill Glory of the dark inferno and Absolute Zero.
A new zone had been created
Land of ice and fire.
Both debuffs of the territorial skills have been nullified.
All the buffs are kept.
Most of the view had split in two as two enormous pyres of flame rose and two geysers of ice stood to match them, the land broke in two, a half for me to thrive in the glory of hell, and the other half for the beast to roar in the coldness of ice.
"Herald! How Dare you trespass on my land, your fate is to be a shard of ice in this land of death."
"You stand in my way! Let me pass!"
"You shall not pass!" (I had to do it sorry xo )
Igniting the chains on my hand, and looking at the almost impossible odds of my victory I could only laugh, as a challenge this difficult was long since I had taken.
"Let's see about that! Ice or fire; one shall remain the other shall perish." I spoke through the roaring storm outside the territorial skill as I jumped forward.
The eagle opened its maw and shot a ray of ice that instantly froze the air itself, and I used a shadow step to dodge the ray that dissipated the moment it entered my territorial zone.
Once inside the Phoenix's side of the zone, I felt my body slowly freezing. It seems that if I get dragged to the other side I might lose this fight.
I swung both my chains after wrapping them together and igniting them to look like an infernal whip of destruction, straight through the Phoenix's head
Ice Phoenix
Critical – 22 000 Hp
-2200 Burn Damage
-1100 blunt damage.
Burn damage applied -500 Hp/second
49974900 Hp
Though a critical hit and it managed to destroy a part of the giant thing's beak. It grew it back almost instantly. If I use the power of ice to regenerate his body, but it seems that his Hp remains unchanged.
Going at it the regular way might take ages for me to take it down, I should probably use something more drastic…
"Summon minions! I call upon the army of hell, the sixtieth legion I command you head my call and come forth, rise from that wretched hole and swear allegiance to me, for I am your lord and my will is to be followed. RISE ARMY OF HELL!"
I summoned the army to me
Summoning minions
How many would you like to summon Lord of the sixtieth legion?
"All of them!"
Summoning
60 000 Minion
The beast then roared at me as it began to force the winds to grow stronger the minions that I summoned almost instantly turned to ice and before they could even move they froze and with a strong gust of wind they shattered like glass
Mother fucker…
However, his tricks didn't end at that as he began forging creatures of the ice itself that he gave life to and began charging at my 'more resilient' minions.
They were golems of ice
Ice Golem
Level 150
25 000Hp
God damn it.
He has the upper hand here as he can make as many as he can from this almost infinite resource of ice.
The minions that were close to my territorial skill remained unharmed by the assault of the wind but even that will not be enough.
The skill began to clearly show signs of weakness as it is surrounded by ice and the pyres of flame began to show signs of wavering.
This is not the way to beat this thing, not in his domain.
"Soul eruption" I summoned and struck the beast with one of my strongest spells the spell combined with soul projection appeared in the beast's face, however, what shocked me most was that it actually dealt no damage to the thing.
"What the hell is wrong with this??"
Thinking about it, the moment I struck with my chains before I only saw burn damage applied, no soul damage was there at all… is it possible that this thing is immune to soul damage?
"Shit"
I swore as I saw the beast opening its wings and a huge torrent of hail and ice was shot toward me that was generated through two magic circles that appeared on its wings, and every one of my minions, though they were still being in the process of being summoned, most of what was here died and were unsummoned.
This is getting more and more absurd, and Nemu was much higher level than this and I didn't have this much trouble with him, could it be true that a Pheonix is stronger than a dragon?
No, Nemu was clearly out of it that time I need to think of a way to defeat this thing.
I always used brute strength to vanquish my enemies. This will no longer be the case as this thing is absolutely stronger than me.
The Phoenix then flew a bit and roaring to the sky as he swung both his wings forwards. Thousands of feathers were shot forwards, sharper than steel and faster than bullets, they cut through anything that was still rising or anything in their path.
Most of the blades of ice bounced off me or were shattered, but some managed to penetrate the armor I was wearing and causing me to suffer some internal injuries.
"Dimensional cut!" I heard
As a giant wave of energy swam through the torrent of feathers and destroyed it, continuing on it made contact with the Pheonix and took half its face off.
"Why are you still here?!" I spoke
"We won't let you fight this thing alone, we came together we will go together, if you fall and get trapped here you might not die, but we will probably never be able to save you…" said Haruka who looked pale-faced as the cost of that skill was a pierce through the abdomen with a blade.
"Don't worry about us, we will try not to get in your way." Said Misaka.
Another screech from the beast that was repairing its broken face and I knew he was pissed.
Looking at its Hp I noticed that Haruka's spell though strong and powerful did not damage it that much. This thing suffers more at the hands of blunt damage than it does on slashes and pierces.
"Where is Haru?" I asked
"There," said Haruka and I saw the idiots wielding a Warhammer and a shield and striking at the ice golems that were fighting my army.
"This place is too cold for them…" said Haruka
true it is but a waste of lives it will buy time but not enough for us to escape or make a plan…
hang on…too cold…
"I think I have a way out of this mess, but it might be a bit too risky to use…"
"What do you have in mind?" asked Miska who was healing Haruka.
"To fight ice we need fire, however my fire in this vast desert of ice is nothing but a candle in the dark… We need the sun to beat this darkness…"
"the sun?" asked Haruka
"No, it's just a figure of speech, I mean we need something hot, really hot… hotter than the sun." I said as I smirked
"You are not thinking of doing that again right?" said Haruka
Misaka then replied
"Doing what?"
"It's the only way," I said
"Well of souls…" I summoned "Expand." I added
Hell's gates had opened
Beware of what comes from hell
Hell's gates need to be closed down within
5Minutes or more monsters will leave its premise
And the vortex of souls grew, larger and larger as the golems that were above it began to fall down and melt. Haru managed to understand the mess he is in and ran away from the danger zone.
"The fuck was that dude?!"
"just calling for friendly reinforcements."
"Dare you, damned Herald, to open hell and transgress upon the world's taboos…you dare summon this in my presence! All shall feel my wrath!" cried the eagle as it opened its mouth shooting waves of mist and ice.
Forcing hell to literally freeze over.
The giant well was closed down with the power of ice and the heat that rose instantly faded.
However
"Dumbass," I said as I called my army back from the frozen hole
A moment later an explosion soon occurred forcing the frozen pit to blow up sending most of the golems and a portion of the Pheonix's chest out of place.
Never mix extream heat and coldness…
Hell roared even more as beasts began to emerge.
"Get out, get out and bring that thing to its knees," I said as I cried out.
Fire demons and soul eaters came out and began lashing out fighting the ice beast.
My pyres of flame from my territorial skill ignited stronger as the fire from hell fed it more and more.
A third pyre then rose further increasing the territory of my black hellfire.
Some of the demons began to ignore the Pheonix and headed outside the fighting zone.
"Seal of hell" I activated the jewel and is shone in a bright red light forcing the wandering demons to fight the Pheonix against their will.
My minions began to climb the Pheonix but most couldn't get past the few meters as they froze from the coldness of it.
The demons however who were fed by the heat of the inferno managed to easily climb.
The weather soon changed from freezing cold to that of infernally hot.
"Guys, things are about to get really hot here. You showed courage when you came back, but if things keep on like this you will die from heat, go back inside my territorial zone and try to survive the following moments." I said to the two girls that nodded and pulled back.
"Haru, go back man, this is not a place for you right now, you still need more strength."
"I can still help."
"I know you want to help, but things are about to get really serious."
"How would you know?" said Haru
Ice Phoenix
Entered enraged mode.
"I know…" I said as I saw the enraged phoenix goes into its 'real' battle mode.
The beast tried to fly away as it began to gain more and more altitude, the storm began to rage more and more.
I took initiative and threw my chains towards it, using the metamorphosing blade's ability I made them much longer as they spun around it. anchoring my legs to the ground and igniting the things so they reached infernal heat they latched in and melted the ice getting deeper and deeper into its body.
"Climb Hell beasts, CLIMB!"
The monsters and soul eaters began to climb it, faster than ever and with great ferocity, they ravaged through it.
The demons first suffered under the cold, but the refreshing heat from the infernal pit and the still existing demons made the Pheonix's attempt to escape pointless.
With more minions to help me and more damage, I dealt to it; the odds turned slowly to our favor.
The storm began to grow more dangerous as hail began to fall, ice with the size of rocks fell down yet it melted once it reached the pits of hell.
More monsters began to leave the premise of hell as the flying worms of hell started to rise.
Minghocao
Level 450
The giant worm of hell. Lives in the putrid and poisonous atmosphere.
Extremely covetous with a never-ending hunger for food.
Would eat its own kind.
The air began to turn more and more toxic as the poisonous atmosphere of hell began to pollute the air. Forcing the frost to weaken and the ice to become harder and harder for the Legendary beast to control.