Chapter 185: Winter Is Coming [4]
Chapter 185: Winter Is Coming [4]
(Extra Chapter because of Magic Castle: 3/3)
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Amon sighed as he slumped down to the snow from tiredness.
The body of Klein before him dematerialized into blue digital particles before disappearing.
At the same time, the voice of Maxville boomed from above.
[Maxville: Participant Klein from Team B has been eliminated.]
Catching up to his mana, Amon stood up, rubbing his cold gloved hands for some heat.
He had expended mana above the amount he was supposed to for eliminating Klein, which was why he was a little tired.
All because...
He looked back at the storm approaching towards him now.
The second timer of the storm had ended as well and it had started to approach the third target circle.
'Fuck' Amon cursed.
Not because the storm had started to move. No, he had already expected for it to move after he was done with Klein.
But because he was currently out of the third checkpoint.
Which meant the storm was only a few minutes away from devouring him.
Clicking his tongue, Amon pushed lightning around his whole body while immediately jumping on a tree with his usual blood threads.
After this checkpoint, only 3 hours would be left until the challenge would end.
And currently, the second team was down by one member.
BLIZZZZZZZ!
Amon's eyes widened as he felt his blazer flap vigorously and viciously in the air.
He looked back, only to find the storm dangerously close to him.
4 minutes away, if he had to estimate.
Gritting his teeth, Amon was about to push even more mana before he suddenly got an idea. Creating a blood marble, he quickly marked it.
Then coating his whole arm in lightning, he took a familiar pitching position from his previous life.
And then, he pulled back his arm and raised his leg before pushing forward and throwing his marble forward at full speed.
Multiple air rings flew through the air as the marble boomed through the air with Amon following behind it.
And after a few seconds, he spoke up.
[Voidteleport].
***
Nadia sat down on the ground as the blonde-haired boy before she dematerialized.
The voice from above quickly boomed.
[Maxville: Adam Ravenfield from Team A has been eliminated.]
She was fully covered in injuries.
'How the hell was he that strong?' She thought, wide-eyed.
Multiple cuts and gashes on her body.
All from a single-element blonde-haired body.
It was baffling for her to sustain this many injuries from just a single battle.
But she knew why.
He...
He was so fast and ferocious that even with three elements, she found it difficult to follow his movements, let alone hit him with her attacks.
Her face suddenly crunched up with pain as the snow started to affect her wounds.
Unfortunately, she couldn't just die here.
Gritting her teeth, she stood up brushing back her hair, her blue eyes glowing.
Currently, it had been a while since the storm had hit the 3rd checkpoint.
And now, she was out of the safe circle of the 4th checkpoint.
She needed to hurry up.
'Amon Ashford.'
That was the only person she had in mind right now.
She wanted to meet him again.
That loss...
After losing from him and witnessing his power afterward, it was then that she realized how wrong she was.
He was so much stronger than her.
Yet she thought of him as weak and tried to humiliate him while getting destroyed by just 1 of
his elements.
It irked her. That loss.
But she didn't let her pride cloud her honesty.
What use was pride when she wasn't even able to maintain it?
He had won that match fair and square.
That was why she wanted to apologize for her behavior.
And also fight him again. This time serious from the start.
Unfortunately, she had still not been able to find him.
She knew that since Alya was the leader, she would take the central path.
Especially since Amon wasn't the type to take center anyway.
Due to that, she had taken the left path but it was her bad luck that she ran into Adam there.
Which meant that Amon had probably taken the right path.
And the death of Klein was the best proof of that.
But it had been a long time after that so nobody knew where he was.
'Shit, I need to find him soon.' Nadia concluded.
Glimmering energy started to pour out from her hands which quickly formed into a torrent of
flames and water.
But just as she was about to launch again, Maxville's voice came from above again.
And the words that he said...
Made Nadia's eyes widen to the point that they looked like they were about to bulge out.
***
[10 Minutes Earlier]
Amon crashed into the surface of the frozen river.
The sheet of ice was quick to give into the pressure, the cracks immediately breaking and
sinking him whole into the cold water.
His eyes shot open as he found the sudden cold assaulting his body.
It made his whole body numb, making pain shoot up through his whole body as it invaded the
cracks from his crash.
Gritting his teeth, Amon immediately used [Voidstep] two times in succession, emerging
right out of the water.
His mouth opened hard as he gasped for air.
Air that he had been unable to get while escaping the storm.
He crawled on the bank of the river, shivering from the cold that made his vision blurry.
His mind was completely frozen, making him unable to think of anything.
Trying to control himself and catch his breath, he slumped down on the ground.
It was only after some minutes, that he was finally able to gain some clarity.
'I swear to myself...'
'I'm never doing that shit again.'
Never in his life would he have expected that the marble was still flying through the air when
he teleported.
Because of that, he crashed straight into the river, unable to control his momentum in time.
At least he was out of the Blizzard again though.
But there was a piece of unfortunate news that he was only able to see while crashing through
the air.
Adam.
He had been eliminated.
And considering that Miller had been clapped by him before, the only person who could do
such a thing was...
Nadia.
Now the teams were down to 2v2.
But since the news was relatively new, that meant Nadia was in a hurt condition right now.
Which was why he had to quickly find her.
But as he pushed mana through his body again, a voice came from above that made his eyes
widen.
Something that didn't happen even in the novel.
[Maxville: The rules of the competition have been changed. The Blizzard time for stay and
catching up has been reduced to 15 minutes.
Additionally, killing the opposing team would not result in a win. The only way to win now is to find the Warm Shelter and the first team to occupy it wins.
If both teams fail to do so, it will result in a draw which means the elimination of both teams.]