The City of Terror - Chapter 253

Chapter 253 - 8000 Evolution Points Reached!

    Leaving one's back unguarded was the best way to describe the Frost Giants at the moment.

    The Einherjars came from all sides and surrounded the Frost Giants. As long as the Frost Giants showed a moment of weakness, the Einherjars would attack the backs, leg joints, and other body parts of the Frost Giants with their weapons.

    In the end, the Frost Giants' corpses lied down on the ground. The remaining Frost Giants tried to breakthrough the encirclement with all their lives.

    The einherjars did not try to chase after them. Their losses were also not small. Killing more than 100 Frost Giants had created more than 200 casualties among them.

    Even so, the Einherjars still cheered out loudly.

    Afterwards, the Einherjars lifted the corpses of their comrades into the tree root walls.

    However, Wei Xiao Bei had not seen this scene.

    When the Frost Giants escaped, Wei Xiao Bei had already quietly chased after them.

    Wei Xiao Bei was not an idiot and would just charge at them directly in close combat.

    He was like a hungry wolf hiding around the vicinity of the Frost Giants. He would use the tree roots to hide some traps to kill these Frost Giants.

    From Wei Xiao Bei's point of view, these Frost Giants had a hard time recovering around the vicinity of the World Tree. The fog of ice around them seemed to decrease every time they fought and did not replenish.

    The total number of Frost Giants that had escaped amounted to three!

    They moved together, and the one that was most weakened had its body stabbed with more than 10 holes by the Einherjars. It was heavily injured so it could not recover from its injuries. It could only use the fog of ice to cover the injuries, but the injuries still leaked out blue blood.

    The already thinned fog of ice around it and its extremely pale face made it look like it was approaching a crisis.

    However, the one with the least injuries was also not in a better situation. One of its arm was already chopped off, and it also used its fog of ice to cover its injury but that was its only injury.

    In short, the three Frost Giants had declined to only 10 percent of their strength.

    This was something that Wei Xiao Bei could confirm.

    After three more days of following them, conflict appeared among the Frost Giants. The other two had left behind the one who was the weakest.

    Frost Giants were wicked creatures.

    In truth, the giants' society and humans' society were almost the same: full of trouble and inconveniences.

    The fact that the two giants did not kill the heavily injured giant was already a very benevolent display.

    Seeing the visages of the other two giants disappear in the forest, Wei Xiao Bei leaked out happiness.

    In truth, the main reason that he followed them this long and set up so many traps was to obtain this heavily injured Frost Giant.

    The fog of ice around it was already very thin. Even its breath was already quite weak.

    However, Wei Xiao Bei did not move impatiently and hid far away while throwing stones from time to time at the giant's wound.

    Wei Xiao Bei admitted that this method was too nasty and too one-sided.

    However, the only path to victory in the Dust World was to use any method that could be used!

    This was something that could not be helped. Before this, the method he used to harass them was to throw [Status Appraisal] at them while he was hidden.

    He found out the the Frost Giants were 3-Star Elite Creatures!

    Due to some kind of blocking skill, the only thing Wei Xiao Bei found out was their creature rank while their status, skills, and special skills were all blocked.

    However, no matter what was said, the Frost Giants had  large bodies, and the low temperature around them was a big threat to him.

    He was also careful about the ice arrows that they could shoot out from the fog of ice.

    It must be known that Wei Xiao Bei had once seen a big wolf that had been targeted by these Frost Giants. Although it had used [Madness], it was instantly turned into an ice statue by the ice arrow and then smashed to pieces by the giants.

    Wei Xiao Bei did not have the vitality and strength of a wolf that had entered madness. Thus, directly facing one of them in battle was simply suicide.

    After being hit by a rock, the Frost Giant seemed to have recovered a bit of vigor. It immediately jumped up from its dying form. It stretched out its hands, and its muscles immediately bulged up. It grabbed a big tree and pulled it out from the ground.

    Afterwards, the giant brandished the big tree and swung it towards the place the rock came from.

    In an instant, the forest had suffered devastation.

    At this time, Wei Xiao Bei had already moved and used his great spear's camouflage to hide behind the giant while watching its tyranny.

    The giant's action of pulling out the tree made it clear that it was already out of strength.

    It also could not condense the ice pike anymore.

    At this moment, the giant was only letting out a final flash of strength. The more effort he used, the weaker it got.

    After the Frost Giant destroyed the trees around it, it threw away the big tree while panting hard. When it was about to lie down again, Wei Xiao Bei finally moved!

    "Kill!"

    With a loud shout ,Wei Xiao Bei activated his [Elementary Power Burst]. With a stomp, he charged towards the Frost Giant like a bull.

    Whoosh!

    Hearing the sound coming from behind it, the Frost Giant immediately turned around. A single ice arrow shot out from the fog of ice towards Wei Xiao Bei.

    Wei Xiao Bei could not help but become surprised as the Frost Giant still had a bit of energy left.

    Precise calculation!

    In an instant, numbers about the ice arrow appeared in his mind as well as its trajectory.

    Wei Xiao Bei used the great spear in his right hand to lightly poke at the bottom of the ice arrow. In the next instant, the ice arrow whizzed past three inches away from Wei Xiao Bei.

    Cold air entered his blood channels, but it was quickly dissipated by his Qi.

    Wei Xiao Bei did not pay attention to the cold air as he stared at the giant and jumped towards it. The great spear in his hand was like a black dragon thrusting towards the giant.

    The Frost Giant that had held onto the big tree smashed down on Wei Xiao Bei with enough force to split a hill.

    However, no matter what it did, it was too late.

    The incredibly sharp spearhead was one step ahead as it pierced through the giant's chest. Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. With three thrusts, three holes appeared on the giant's chest.

    Wei Xiao Bei immediately pulled back and retreated. The leaves of the tree brushed past his nose and smashed onto the ground, scattering dust and causing the fairy hanging on the stone card to tremble.

    A small amount of carelessness would have crushed the fairy down on the ground.

    Wei Xiao Bei once again straightened his back, and his great spear once again appeared like a dragon.

    At this moment, the giant was already quite spent. After three holes appeared on its chest, the three holes were covered in blue mist as they continued to corrode its body.

    The giant tottered. It could not pick up the big tree anymore nor could it evade another thrust of the spear.

    Puchi!

    The sharp spearhead had instantly run through the giant.

    This final attack had thoroughly defeated the giant.

    The Frost Giant tried to grab something, but it could not grab anything as its body collapsed backwards.

    Blue blood sprayed out when he pulled out the great spear.

    Since there were no changes to his evolution points yet, Wei Xiao Bei kept on stabbing it while the great spear absorbed its energy.

    800 evolution points!

    Wei Xiao Bei relaxed as he got rid of the Frost Giant!

    Response search!

    Information about hundreds of meters away appeared in Wei Xiao Bei's mind.

    Seeing that there were no other movements, Wei Xiao Bei held his great spear and used camouflage. Only then did he focus on his status panel.

    After killing the Frost Giant, his evolution points had reached its highest record ever, 8690 points!

    It's enough!

    Without any hesitation, Wei Xiao Bei focused on his health attribute.

    In truth, Wei Xiao Bei was too unused to his absent left hand. It was too inconvenient.

    If his left hand recovered, then he believed that his power would increase by 30%!

    Following his focus, his evolution points quickly decreased, and his health quickly increased.

    40.01, 40.02, 40.03…..

    Compared to other attributes, his health had taken quite a bit of time.

    After half an hour, 8000 evolution points had been consumed, and his health increased to 60 points!

    When his health increased to 60 points, Wei Xiao Bei could not budge his body.

    A blazing lavlike heat gushed and surged all over his body. Wei Xiao Bei then concentrated on his left wrist.

    Wei Xiao Bei felt an incredibly unbearable itch all over, giving him the urge to dig out his skin with his right hand.

    However, he could not budge at all, dashing away his wish.

    Small meat sprouts bulged out on his left hand soon after becoming strands of meat and grew out. Then they intertwined with the bones, muscles, ligaments, joints, skins, etc.

    Although the recovery speed could be seen with the naked eyes, it was still incredibly slow.

    At this time, Wei Xiao Bei wished he could burn all the meat sprouts.

    As time passed, the itch grew stronger, similar to having honey smeared on his wound and letting ants bite on it.

    Wei Xiao Bei's mind was a field of white. He could not help but sink his consciousness and take this chance to train his Qi.

Chapter 254 - Limb Regeneration! Ice Heart!

    When he began to train his Qi, Wei Xiao Bei had a pleasant surprise. The speed of his Qi flow was even faster than when his strength had broken through.

    With his conscious control, the Qi flow became even faster. The blood channels were not able to handle this speed and ruptured, but this time, when they rupture, the warm flow was like a hungry wolf and charged forth, healing the ruptured blood channels.

    His blood channels continued this cycle of rupture and recovery, causing them to expand..

    Finally, all his fingers and hand had once again regrown. Wei Xiao Bei felt that his body began to return to normal control, so he immediately stopped circulating his Qi and focus on his left hand.

    Close, open, close, open.

    Wei Xiao Bei frowned. The newly grown hand appeared white and tender.

    Naturally, this was not much as the color returned to before.

    The only problem was that the newly grown hand's movement was a bit unharmonized. Compared to his right hand, the speed and strength were a bit lacking.

    He had to gradually work out to make it reach its previous state.

    No matter what was said, his left hand had returned.

    Wei Xiao Bei was happy. Soon after, the [Finger Regrowth] behind his health attribute disappeared and replaced by the skil he yearned for [Limb Regrowth]!

    Feeling the vitality bubbling from his body, he gazed at the Frost Giant.

    At this moment, the Frost Giant was like the big wolf as it shrunk a lot when it became a corpse. The fog of ice that covered its body had already disappeared.

    Whoosh!

    Wei Xiao Bei pulled out his great spear!

    The spearhead became covered in blue mist that had ice crystals within. However, in the next moment, the blue mist once again entered the spearhead.

    Status Appraisal!

    Wei Xiao Bei was flabbergasted. After absorbing the Frost Giant, there were no changes to its status and remained in the process of evolving.

    However, the hole that the great spear made in the Frost Giant let out a fog of ice that weakened as time passed.

    In the end, a white-colored heart floated out from its corpse,and the layer of fog on it gradually spread all over the place, decreasing the temperature around.

    Status Appraisal!   

    …...

Name: Ice Heart (Rare Quality)

Description: After a Frost Giant dies, the power of ice granted to them by nature condenses into a treasure. 10% chance to appear.

Effect 1: After being eaten, the user would be granted the power of ice. This item could only be used once. Further use would be ineffective. If the user has skills of similar power, user should not use this or it will have unknowable danger.

Effect 2: If this object touches fire, this object will explode and turn the land 2 meters around it into an environment sealed in absolute zero.

Effect 3: This object will continuously try to decrease the temperature of the surroundings to 130 degrees below zero.

Effect 4: Wearing this object will increase cold resistance.

    …….

    After looking over the description of the Ice Heart, Wei Xiao Bei immediately placed it into his Small Holding Bag.

    Damn! What a cheat item!

    It was basically a bomb based on its second effect.

    If it truly exploded in front of him, he would not be able to joke around anymore.

    Let alone absolute zero, Wei Xiao Bei would probably not be able to withstand 50 or 60 degrees below zero.

    Going back to topic, the Ice Heart was truly a treasure!

    Eating it would give the power of ice.

    If it was not due to the description at the back, Wei Xiao Bei would have directly taken it in.

    People with similar skills should not take it or they will receive unknown danger.

    After pondering this, Wei Xiao Bei guessed that [Release Electricity] seemed to be the so-called similar skill.

    For now, the only thing he could do was store it.

    Naturally, the fourth effect was not bad. If he fought with Frost Giants while wearing it, its effect of increasing cold resistance would have a powerful use.

    Its third effect should make it a highly effective freezer.

    If he was able to use its second effect properly, he could have a warhead at hand and deal with strong enemies.

    After thinking about this, Wei Xiao Bei placed the great spear into his Small Holding Bag, then followed the path where the other two Frost Giants left to.

    Those two Frost Giants were now treasure troves in Wei Xiao Bei's eyes.

    As for the Ice Heart's chance to appear, Wei Xiao Bei had totally ignored it.

    The evolution points of the Frost Giants were still equivalent to 1600 points.

    While following the ice path that the Frost Giant left behind, Wei Xiao Bei was inspecting his status panel.

    He saw that there were no changes to his creature rank and became puzzled.

    If it was according to the previous rule, becoming a 3-Star Elite Creature should require two sub-attributes to reach 40 points.

    However, Wei Xiao Bei quickly noticed a problem.

    In truth, none of his main attributes had reached 40 points, but his creature rank had become a 3-Star Creature.

    Is this a bug?

    Wrong, Wei Xiao Bei immediately understood.

    This should not be a bug.

    His creature rank rising should be due to his status increase thanks to his qi.

    It was not clearly written in his status panel, but there should be some complex conversion to it.

    Wei Xiao Bei stopped thinking about this matter.

    But now, even without the increase of his qi, he was now a real 3-Star Creature.

    After thinking about this, Wei Xiao Bei had an illusion that he had become a monster.

    He then realized why he had such a hard time in dealing with 3-Star Creatures.

    A true 3-Star Creature could suppress him with only attribute values.

    However, he was now rather cheerful as he looked at his status panel.

    I now have limb regrowth!

    Limb Regrowth: When the user loses their limbs (note: limbs do not include internal organs, and other organs), the limb would regrow in a short period of time. After receiving this effect, recovery speed increases. This ability can be obtained when health reaches 60 points.

    Wei Xiao Bei had just realized that he had a misconception of  [Finger Regrowth].

    Previously, he thought that this included the internal organs and organs like the eyes. However, the description of the [Limb Regrowth] had clarified this. Only then, did he notice that regrowth did not directly apply to his internal organs and other organs.

    In other words, if his arm was chopped off, then it would regrow in a short period of time. If he could connect back the arm, then the recovery would be swifter.

    However, if his liver was the one damaged, then he should not hope that it would quickly regrow. He could only hope that his strong recovery power could heal it.

    No matter what was said, Wei Xiao Bei was already satisfied.

    The Frost Giants were not fast.

    Their injuries were only a bit lesser than the one Wei Xiao Bei had killed.

    Thus, they attracted attacks from other creatures.

    Wolves, crows, and other monsters had severely decreased their fighting strength.

    Thus, when Wei Xiao Bei finally caught up to them, he saw that one of them was already being circled by a big wolf.

    The one that remained was the Frost Giant that had been heavily injured in the head and rib. As for the one that lost its hand, it had already disappeared and perhaps abandoned its comrade as it escaped by itself.

    Since it was able to abandon the first comrade, it would without a doubt be able to abandon the second comrade.

    The big wolf had already fixed its attention on the weakened Frost Giant.

    For a wolf that was always hungry, the giant was a giant lump of juicy meat.

    Seeing the fragments of an ice arrow on the ground, Wei Xiao Bei knew that the wolf and the giant were stuck in a stalemate.

    The wolf was able to nimbly dodge the arrow, but it did not dare approach the giant.

    The giant was heavily injured, but it was in a better condition than the previous one. If it fought with its life on the line, it could at the very least bring down the wolf with it.

    One hit of the ice arrow should be enough to get rid of the wolf.

    Wei Xiao Bei quietly retreated and made a detour around the fight. He followed the trail of ice towards the giant that had lost an arm.

    Today was probably a day of misfortune for the giants.

    When Wei Xiao Bei caught up to the Frost Giant, he contemplated when he would make a move, but then he saw a tree root move and trapp the giant under it.

    It was not actually a tree root, but a python that was the same color as a root.

    It was a python that exceeded 50 meters!

    The Frost Giant was barely able to react by shooting an ice arrow before being swallowed whole by the python.

    The ice arrow had hit the python's body, but it had only covered its scales with a small area of ice.

    The difference in power between the two was big.

    Previously, when Frost Giants fought against the giant python, around 7-8 of them were swallowed.

    Although this python was a lot smaller, it could easily deal with a giant that had lost an arm.

    The python also boasted a high defense. Moreover, with its body size, fighting it with conventional methods would extremely difficult.

    Seeing this, Wei Xiao Bei did not have any other plans. His first reaction was to turn around and leave.

    That python is at least a 3-Star Terror Creature!

    Wei Xiao Bei calculated. He compared it with the Big Tree Spirit, the Thousand Eyed Devil, the Mist Draconic Horse, and other 3-Star Terror Creatures. In the end, he could not truly tell the differences in their strengths.

    After all, they had different ways of attacking.

    If it was the Thousand Eyed Devil, it used its hallucinatory attacks and took control of the enemy. Once the Big Tree Spirit or python was controlled by it, they could only bow their heads and await their eventual death.