novelraw Chapter 633 - 426: Reconnaissance and Battle Squad Assembly
Chapter 633 - 426: Reconnaissance and Battle Squad Assembly
Those nail marks are the traces left by anti-slip ground spikes.
When Zong Shen strolled to the entrance of the Lord’s Small Tower.
He saw the condition of the door firsthand.
That’s when he realized why he couldn’t push it open.
The entire door was encased in ice. Although the ice layer wasn’t as exaggerated as on the ground,
it was still very solid, forming a sealed ice shell.
There were some not-so-obvious cracks at the corresponding position of the door.
These were the results of Zong Shen’s previous attempts to push the door open with force.
Now he was ready to break the ice from the outside.
This way, the door of the small tower would not be damaged.
After a brief contemplation.
He flipped his hand and took out a weapon.
Heavily drove it into the ground!
The ice layer outside the porch left a cobweb-like mark from the strike.
This was a trident about two meters long.
Its design was somewhat similar to a long-handled fish spear.
The middle lance stab was longer, and the two on the sides were shorter.
The whole body presented a black color, with a dull and unpolished appearance, looking like rough cast iron.
The long handle didn’t have any flashy decorations, just simple patterns that increased grip friction.
The end driven into the ground had a cone-shaped impact head.
This trident was the one Zong Shen found in the Burial Fortress.
A Rare Level quality [Wind-Fire-Thunder Trident].
Whether it was once the weapon of the Blood-Burning Demon or one of those powerful figures in the Alliance Army was unknown.
This thing wasn’t light, comparable in weight to the [Broken Calamity Giant Spear].
Now it seemed very suitable for breaking the hard ice outside the door.
Zong Shen gently shook his wrist, swinging the trident.
As he swung, each of the three prongs emitted a different elemental power.
There was scorching flame, sharp wind blade, and shining electric light.
Without a doubt, this was a special effects-packed weapon.
However, Zong Shen did not intend to use the prongs to break the ice but aimed the cone-shaped impact head at the ice layer outside the door, starting to pound forcefully.
With the support of 135 points of strength attribute, each strike of the cone-shaped impact head gouged a bowl-sized hole, sending shattered ice flying in all directions.
Zong Shen followed the crack, repeatedly pounding more than ten times, finally chipping off a large piece of hard ice.
Seeing its astonishing thickness, Zong Shen secretly clicked his tongue in amazement.
His hometown on Earth was in the south, where snow only fell in certain years and was as ephemeral as morning dew, melting by noon.
It was only after he personally chipped away the hard ice that he realized how terrifying the freezing rain had been.
Once a breakthrough was made, the subsequent ice-breaking work became simpler.
Zong Shen forcefully dug along the gap, prying off entire sections of the ice wall.
The ground was covered with large chunks and scattered pieces of hard ice.
A couple of minutes later, he had completely chipped away the ice layer covering the door.
The door opened, and Luna and Wenresa were the first to step out.
Behind them, Marie and the Dragon-kin Ranger sisters also stepped out slowly.
Carefully stepping over the broken ice, they huddled together, stepping beyond the eaves in a daze, entranced by the peculiar icebound scene.
Due to the large-scale freezing, the ground was as smooth as a mirror, and everything in sight was covered with an ice layer, presenting a view starkly different from usual, with a kind of fantastical feel, as if from a fairy tale world.
Light snow drifted in the sky, landing on the thick ice layer, keeping its crystalline snowflake form and starting to accumulate anew as dry snow.
Although the supercooled water ice rain had ceased, and the wind and snow weren’t too overwhelming, according to the strategy guide, the temperature was much colder than in the first phase of Frosty Winter.
A golden temperature digit appeared before him.
(-27℃)
Although this temperature couldn’t match polar temperatures, it was already the standard for the Northern Territories.
Each breath Zong Shen took felt icy from his trachea to his lungs.
Zong Shen took out a pair of anti-slip ground spikes and handed them to Wenresa and the Ranger sisters.
He himself carried the trident, walking across the ice layer to the outer area of the Lord’s Courtyard.
Beside him, the [Tier Two Market] had completely turned into an ice house.
A row of icicles about a meter long hung under the eaves on both sides.
The semi-open entrance resembled a frozen waterfall, showing traces of having flowed and then frozen again, its surface uneven.
Zong Shen only glanced at it, with no intention of entering or engaging in more ice removal.
He had a more important task – to search for the tracks of the yetis.
According to previous announcement tips, after entering the second phase of Frosty Winter, besides falling temperatures and persistently harsh weather, each area would respawn 10,000 Commander Level yetis.
Slaying these yetis would earn points, with each one representing 1,000 challenge points.
This was on par with the Burrow Heroes in the Burrow Challenge.
Additionally, as Commander Level monsters, each yeti Zong Shen killed would not only earn points but also a Strength Extraction Value of 1,000 points.
In daily life, accumulating once 1,500 points of extraction value wasn’t easy.
This skill needed to be seized during the Lord Challenge activity to diligently accumulate points and take advantage.
Wenresa put on the anti-slip ground spikes and stood beside Zong Shen.
Luna also rode out on the Sentinel Black Panther.
Marie stood at the door, nervously looking outside, but finally grit her teeth and walked out together with the Dragon-kin Ranger sisters.