441 Ice Reaper Form (Part 5)



Knowing Brutus was a peak A+ rank hunter, Valery already knew she wouldn't be able to harm him using normal attacks, especially because of his powerful defensive skills.

She was losing mana at a very fast speed because of ice Reaper Form, and although she could replenish mana using a potion, the burden of using the full power of her physique was still too much for her. So instead of wasting her energy in a meaningless fight, she decided to use her strongest attack while he was still distracted.

Taking advantage of dust and debris that were blocking everyone's vision, Valery activated her unique skill 'Frozen World' that she used during the practical exam of the academy.

But this time instead of directly casting the skill, she used her spear as a medium to cast her skill. The spear was actually an A+ rank artefact that could increase the power of all of her ice type skills by 100%

As she activated the skill through the spear, a silver white orb formed at the tip of the spear. The orb was releasing a frighteningly chilling aura, but Valery controlled it so that Brutus wouldn't be able to notice it.

Valery's face turned completely white as she used most of her mana to make the skill as powerful as possible.

Her silver white hair started to turn light blue once again indicating her Ice Reaper Form was fading.

When she only had five percent of her mana left, Valery pressed her feet on the ground and jumped up, coming out of the dust cloud.

She twisted her body in mid air to gather momentum and threw her spear towards Brutus who was looking at her with frightening eyes after feeling the power of the small orb that was spinning at the tip of the spear.

"Frozen World!"

BANG!!

The spear broke the sound barrier and turned into a streak of blue light that instantly appeared before Brutus.

Brutus's face turned pale when he felt the terrifying cold energy of the 'Frozen World Skill'.

"Metallic Mirror." he hastily used his most powerful defensive skill and a sheet of transparent metal rose in front of him.

Just as the shield appeared in front of him, the spear Valery threw struck it.

For a moment, time seemed to stop when the spear's tip struck the shield.

But the next second a feeling of dread that was far stronger than they felt till now engulfed everyone who were present there.

The silver white orb that was spinning at the tip of the spear started to shake.

"Fu*k" Ryan felt his body turning cold and he turned around to run away from there.

But just as he turned around to run away

WOOOOOOOOSH!!!!

The silver white orb exploded, and a burst of icy energy spread outwards in all directions.

Ryan, who turned around to run away just felt a cold sensation all over before his body turned into a silver white coloured ice statue.

The faces of Sophie and others also turned pale when the icy energy exploded outwards. The moment they felt the power of icy energy, they lost all hope of surviving.

But surprisingly, when the icy energy reached them, it just made their bodies shiver but did not freeze them.

On the other hand, Mason and Audrey were also frozen solid just like Ryan and turned into ice statues. The life aura of all three A rank hunters instantly disappeared the moment they turned into Ice statues because the silver white ice not only froze their bodies, it also froze their blood, muscles and organs.

The range of Frozen World was far larger than the time when Valery used it during the exam. At that time it only froze the area of three hundred meters, but now that her rank increased and she was in her Ice Reaper Form, the area that was affected by her skill was ten kilometres.

Everything within ten kilometres was enclosed inside silver white ice. Be it was rock, tree or ground everything was enclosed inside ice. The entire area looked like a world frozen inside silver white ice.

But Valery was not paying attention to any of it. Her eyes were fixed on the place where Brutus was standing.

Because of being the centre of impact, the area where he was standing was covered by dense ice mist that was obstructing everyone's vision.

Valery's eyelids were heavy and she wanted nothing more than to collapse to the ground to take some rest. She already returned to her normal appearance and her ice Reaper Form ended, but she knew she could not collapse before confirming Brutus' death.

She extended her hand while panting heavily and the spear that she threw earlier returned back to her.

Sophie and others were also looking at the place where Brutus was standing with serious eyes. All the remaining people of the dark guild were killed when Valery used Frozen World so only they were left there.

"There is no way he would survive after taking an attack like this," Ian spoke in fear filled voice.

He was looking at Valery like he was looking at a monster. He still could not believe that she killed most of the people of the dark guild alone.

"I also think he would not be able to sur_"

Woosh!

Suddenly the ice mist was blown away and Valery's eyes trembled as the figure of a man instantly appeared before her and punched her.

'Sh*t' Valery quickly lifted her spear and tried to block the punch coming toward her.

BOOOOOOOM!

Valery felt a terrifying force being transmitted to her body through the spear and she was sent flying backwards.

Cough*

The impact was so powerful that she coughed out blood in mid-air even before crashing to the ground.

"Damn you bit*h, if not for the fact that I need to bring you alive, I would have killed you right now'' Brutus said in a rage-filled voice as he lowered his hand that he just used to attack Valery.

Sophie and others were shocked when they saw Brutus was still alive.

Even though he was not in his best condition and the left side of his body was almost frozen solid, he was still alive.

"He is not in the best condition. If we work together we should be able to kill him." Mark suddenly said bringing them out of their shocked state.

Sophie and the others looked at each other and nodded their heads. Brutus was the only one who was left there so they knew if they wanted to escape, they had to take care of him.

All of them charged towards him at the same time.

When Brutus saw this, he just sneered and waved his hand.

"Metal Prison" Suddenly cages of metal appeared around Sophie and others and they were trapped inside.

They tried to use their skills to break the cage but it was completely useless. Although Brutus was badly injured, his skills were still far more powerful than Sophie and others.

Brutus completely ignored Sophie and others after trapping them and walked towards Valery with slow steps.

While walking he was using his mana to break the ice that was enclosing the left side of his body.

"I can't kill you because of the orders I received," Brutus said and a metal sword materialized in his right hand, "But no one said I can't chop your hands, right?"

Valery was still trying to stand up after receiving Brutus' earlier attack, but because of the condition of her body, she was not able to stand up.

"So, which hand should I cut off first?" Valery heard Brutus' voice and saw him standing in front of her.

'So, I failed huh,' Valery thought inwardly and smiled bitterly. She stopped trying to stand up and closed her eyes.

When Brutus saw Valery was not saying anything he felt annoyed and lifted his sword to cut off the hand she used to throw the spear earlier.

But just as he lifted his sword, the surrounding area suddenly turned dark and a small black sun appeared a few meters above the frozen ground.