Bujir finishes delivering the final blow to the last commander stage Artificial Spirit. Its magma spreads on the floor, Bujir with already wet hands cleans his brow once again. Fighting in this enclosed room against Spirits that emanate heat is a sure way to become dehydrated and get heat stroke. Thankfully Seche with her mythical arts is able to cool the room somewhat, reducing the side effects of immense heat.
"We are finally done" Said Bujir as he sighs in relief.
The magma lake that is in the middle of the room is still alive and active. But not for long, as Seche, now that all the enemies have died, moves towards the magma lake. She breathes in the warm air of this cave room. Moving her Qi around her body, she slowly controls the water that lingers in the air. She condenses the water into its solid form.
She gathers the now solid water towards the magma lake, and the ice mixed together to slowly form snowflakes. But as they get closer to the magma lake, the snowflakes mix together and form a solid block of ice. Unlike regular ice formed by the natural passing of nature, this ice block is enchanted by a commander stage cultivator with a strong proficiency in her skills.
The ice block is then dropped on the magma lake, coated in the Qi of Seche, the ice block resists the extreme temperature of the magma lake. The block of ice sinks deeper into the magma lake, till it no longer can. The ice block reaches the bottom of the magma lake, Seche, who is concentrating her hardest on this block of ice started to sweat even more.
The ice blocks a constant drain in her Qi reserves, she is not like Mors or Zhihui, who got their three dantians open. She was only able to open to her second dantian. Using her Qi, she moves the ice block towards the source of this magma. There must be an opening that allows magma to escape from the subterranean. She moves the ice block more, the consumption of Qi increasing with every second.
That is till she found the source of the magma, the ice block getting stuck in this hole that allows for magma to flow. Once she finds this hole, she opens her eyes as she channels all of her Qi into the ice block. She felt an immense drain in her Qi, to the point where the effects of Qi depletion started to appear. The ice block started to expand and emit lower temperatures.
Soon a large explosion of ice and snow happen beneath the magma lake. This is what makes mortals so scared of cultivators, for the cultivators make the impossible possible. In the very sense of the word, they are superhumans. As the magma cools and forms into solid stone. The ice block disappears, its essence emanating from the now cold stone. White cold smoke comes out of the hardened stone.
The tired Seche, feeling weak from the effects of Qi depletion falls down to her knees. Her breathing was uneven and fast. Her body is covered in a cold sweat as the rest of the party goes toward her to check on her condition.
"I am fine…just depleted"
Seche said as Mors makes a gourd appear in his left hand. Seche nods her head as she takes the gourd, taking a drink of its cold water as she refreshes her throat and body. Mors then goes ahead and makes more gourds appear and gives them to the rest of the party.
"Thank you"
Girina, the polite Dwarf said to Mors as she takes a drink of some of the water inside of the gourd. As the party relaxes and drink some water, Bujir spoke up, his body resting against one of the wall caves. Even if he defended himself from attacks with his stone shield, the attacks still did some damage to his body.
"I think we should rest here and continue moving tomorrow"
Normally some of the other Dwarf master crafters will argue with his decision, but they all knew how stupid it is to continue to fight while tired. So, they decided to follow his decision, after all, Seche has Qi depletion and it will take a while before she can gather enough Qi.
As the party decided to take a rest here, Mors started to make the camping gear the Dwarf pack into their backpacks appear in front of him. As the party started to set up camp in this cave room. While a bit cold, the Dwarf could always make a small fire to keep them warm and combat the coldness that comes out of the stones.
As Okin, their cook for today started to prepare a hearty and fulfilling meal for them, Mors is looking at the system shop after getting an idea. The way Seche dealt with the magma lake, the source of the heat, gave Mors the idea of using that same technique against the Magma Spirit. But he saw how slow and Qi-consuming that could be, plus his current race doesn't allow for the learning of Mythical techniques.
So, he turns to the one place he knew will have something similar to what Seche did, the system. The system has proven to be very helpful to the couple, from buying stats, to equipment. But no matter what they do, there is always a need for more fate points.
'I haven't even explored a Tower yet, I really need to do one when we go back to the sect'
Mors thought to himself as he bought an item from the fate store. A blue crystal in the shape of a square appears in his right hand, thankfully he had his back turned to the party, so they did not see the blue crystal appear from thin air. Mors looks at the blue crystal in his hand, the crystal is finely crafted and polished. But Mors did not buy this crystal to just look at how pretty it is.
[Spirit Crystal Ice Grenade]
[This Spirit Crystal is full of the water element when infused with Qi, it would explode and turn the water inside of it into ice. This deals ice damage and drastically decreases the temperature of the room, proportional to how much Qi was put into it]
With a smile on his face, Mors buys 6 of these Spirit Crystals. Planning to use this to deal with the Magma Spirit. As he stores the Spirit Crystal in one of his storage rings, Mors takes out his tea set and some Sunlight Dandelions. Sunlight Dandelions tea increases both defense and cold resistance. The defense can be used against the Magma Spirit and the cold resistance for the after effect of the Spirit Crystals.
[Six Spirit Crystal Ice Grenade for 9000 fate points have been bought]
[Name: Mors Mundin
Cultivation: Warrior Rank 7
Stats:
Mind: 231
Body: 231
Soul: 231
War Manifestation: 231
Blood Line: Imperial(Emperor)
Legacy: War's Everlasting Concert
Martials Art:
[War Everlasting Dance(Primordial) Rank 2]
[Flamengo Bloody Dance(Primordial) Rank 1]
[Soragui(Heaven) Rank 5](Spears)
[The Man Hunter(Heaven) Rank 4]
[War's First Symphony(Primordial) Rank 2]
[Spirit Farmer Insight(Sky) Rank 1]
[Labyrinth Shattering(Heaven) Rank 1]
Talents:
[Soft Feet][Martial Aura][Blood Thirsty Eyes]
Fate Points:2,372]