novelonline Chapter 3624 Ancestral Relics
Chapter 3624 Ancestral Relics
Chapter 3624 Ancestral Relics
The location where the middle-aged man was bound by the strange technique immediately exploded, and at the same time, six ice spikes rose from his feet and pierced into the sky.
Stella breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the magic had worked, but in the exploding ice mist, the familiar hammerhead came crashing down on her again. This time, the hastily erected ice shield shattered with a single blow. Although the hammerhead was eventually deflected, Stella herself was bleeding from the corner of her mouth and staggered back several steps.
The middle-aged elder, who had barely moved since the beginning, burst out of the cold mist created by the "Frost Blast," wielding his hammer with both hands and smashing it towards Stella. This was not a simple physical attack; the white-haired girl felt as if an iceberg was crashing down on her, and the white frost emanating from the hammer vaguely reminded her of the immense power she had sensed when she accidentally touched the sacred artifact years ago.
Instead of fleeing, she raised her hands high to meet the hammerhead. But this time, it wasn't to erect a shield or control ice and snow; what shone from her hands was the supreme power of the sun:
"Sun Fist!"
The frost met the blazing sun, and the steam blurred everyone's vision. Claire leaped up, caught Stella who had been knocked away, and while frowning as she healed her wounds, she inwardly grumbled about how excessive her ancestors had been.
The phantom wielding the hammer stood where he had just clashed with Stella. He appeared unharmed, but the silent clowns clearly sensed that his figure had become somewhat transparent.
"It's a pleasant surprise that a tribe that worships the god of winter would produce descendants who can use the power of the sun."
“If you find this unbelievable, I can make you even more unbelievable.”
She handed Stella to Sylvie, who was standing nearby, and then walked forward somewhat unhappily:
“That girl was my apprentice. She embarrassed herself, so as her teacher, I'll finish the second round for her.”
"Do not."
But the visions of the Fourth Age rejected her, as did the somewhat eager Miss Asperger:
"I can give my fellow clansmen an equal chance. But from now on, I will stop your advance without hesitation. I don't want to harm the descendants of my own kind, so let's find someone else."
"Then I'll do it. We can't linger here for too long."
"Shad said, flames rising from his raised right hand. Seeing him step forward voluntarily, the others had no objections, but the phantom of the Fourth Age seemed slightly surprised:
"The Primordial Fire?"
"Oh? You know that there are flames on the snow mountain?"
The phantom then laughed:
"I see. It seems fate has indeed arranged everything. Then come on, defeat me, and you will be qualified to shatter the stars."
"Remnants of chaos!"
The spinning crimson fireball was thrown forward, and after colliding with the ice-blue light sphere thrown by the ancient elder, an even denser layer of water vapor enveloped the underground space.
Those in front of the door could only hear the continuous thumping sounds coming from the mist, and see two shadows clashing against each other. Each collision of the greatsword and the long-handled hammer made the mist even more damp and cold.
Eventually, the water vapor condensed into ice, seemingly freezing the two of them. But then the ice shattered, and Shad, his entire body engulfed in flames, broke free of the ice and threw a spinning fireball down into the air.
Amidst the swirling snowflakes, a phantom wearing a horned hat appeared out of thin air in front of Shad, but as it unleashed its attack, Shad vanished just as suddenly.
From behind the phantom, a thunderous wave unleashed from the left hand slammed the middle-aged elder to the ground. As he tried to rise, a buzzing, red and yellow moonlight wheel floated down from above. He immediately swung his hammer to meet it, but the moonlight greatsword pierced towards his chest from in front of him.
But then the echoing soul exploded, and the icy blue light instantly engulfed Shad.
When the light faded, the ground of the battle area was covered with solid ice that was difficult to melt. The phantom of the Fourth Age reappeared on the chair in front of the coffin, the eerie blue light of the candles on both sides illuminating his transparent body.
He looked at Shad, who stood in the middle of the solid ice, seemingly unaffected:
"So, you were blessed by our Lord's chosen ones?"
Xia De nodded:
“I’m not sure if it was a blessing, but I did share power with them.”
"Yes, everything is inevitable."
The man in the chair closed his eyes:
"There is more than one path to the lair of the beast of war. The one I am guarding is only the theoretically most convenient and safest one. You should proceed as soon as possible. That fallen star and frozen destiny awakened once during my lifetime, but we disposed of it as proof that we were accepted by the snow mountain."
It has probably fully awakened in this era, so you must be careful when facing it. After approaching it, you must first confront the echoing soul summoned by the beast. It is a being very similar to me, a powerful being who died in this sea over the years, whose fate was intertwined with war.
Then you will face its true form, first the initial state of the 'Star Egg', in which it still has the seal we left behind. Attack it as much as possible before it hatches. Next is the War Beast in its larval state. Although it can fight back at this time, it is not strong. Finally, there is its true beast form.
Aside from its Star Egg form, it calls upon Echoes for help in its latter two forms.
"Star Egg, Larva, Adult, three stages in total?"
"You must be careful, the War Beasts of that time were incredibly ferocious. Even in the era when the astral plane shattered, they could still hide in the astral fragments to avoid disaster."
Furthermore, when you face it, many people can deal with its echoing cries and phantoms, but no more than three people should attack its main body at the same time. The remaining people cannot even apply buffs to those three, otherwise the War Beast will enter the fourth stage of berserk state.
Large numbers of people create a scene of 'war,' and in war, no one can escape its fate.
That's all he said:
“There are some things in my coffin that I left for my descendants. Take them all; they were originally meant for you.”
"Ancestors, how did you defeat that beast?"
Claire asked hurriedly, afraid that he would disappear immediately.
The man in the chair then replied:
“We obtained a spear from the temple. That weapon can respond to any force from the sky; it is powerful enough to shatter stars. But it is a one-time use item. A fragment of the spear is in my coffin; you may take it with you.”
He opened his eyes and looked at Claire, Stella, and Miss Asperger:
"Being able to see that their descendants still exist and possess such power, everyone here can rest in peace. Please take care of them."
He spoke to Shad one last time, and with a sigh, the candles on both candelabra went out simultaneously, and his body vanished from the chair. The remaining light within his body split into three streams, flying towards Claire, Stella, and the "Winter Singer."
The witches and sorceresses each have their own unique gains, gifts from their ancestors in a distant era.
Surprisingly, the seemingly illusory long-handled hammer remained after he disappeared. Miss Asperger's examination confirmed it to be a sacred relic of the order recorded in the Winter Choir's archives.
"Back then, the ancestors who left the far north also took a portion of the religious order's assets with them."
The three women then prayed together beside the coffin before opening it. Inside the coffin was another coffin containing a corpse. Next to the smaller coffin were items clearly intended for the group.
"This is."
Snake slough, snake fangs, snake eyes resembling topaz, a small clump of snake blood sealed in ice, and a snake heart resembling a ruby—besides the divine spell to transform into a snake and the Ring of Miracles, five of the seven exchangeable items that Shad saw in the temple had appeared:
"Ha! Snake Fang! We've finally found it."
He said with a hint of surprise, and besides the five items placed together, there were five other items lying quietly beside the small coffin. They were a holy emblem of the Old God [Winter Maiden], a star-blue metal fragment, a seemingly ordinary block of ice, a huge rolled-up scroll, and a map.
The metal fragments were from the spear that shattered the stars, while the ice block, the size of two fists, was of great importance to Miss Asperger and Claire:
"Fragments of Winter?"
Xia De immediately flipped through the books in the [Strange Tree Academy] in his mind and learned that this was a special material related to the god of winter. Legend has it that only ice that the god had stepped on for more than ten thousand years after his descent could form this material, making it the most superior of all frost materials.
"I wonder what happened to Chloe later in the Silver Mountains."
The scroll was written in the language of the Fourth Age. After Shad deciphered it, he found that it described the power of the ancient Fatu and the ancient divine magic of the "Winter Maidens" cult. Although the power system of the Fourth Age—the arcane sorcerer—is not interchangeable with the power system of the current ring sorcerer, it is still of great significance to Claire and Miss Asperger.
The final map was drawn on a piece of leather, which Megan said was dragon skin. According to Miss Asperger, the map on the dragon skin was a world map from the Fourth Age. Although it was incomplete, it marked the route taken by people who had traveled from their homeland to this place.
Unable to return to his hometown, he buried the map that led him there with him. So the map was left in the stone coffin, and everyone else took the rest of the items.
This is a legacy from the ancestors of the Fatu people, and of course it can only be distributed among the three ladies. Neither the clowns nor the witches have any objections to this.
Miss Asperger didn't want any of the five pieces of material related to the candidate:
"Let the Summoner take it."
The knowledge on the ancient scrolls could be shared after being copied, so there was no need to allocate them. The three of them then divided the other three items equally. The extra long-handled hammer was temporarily kept by Claire, since it was left by the ancestors of the Fatu people. However, Miss Asperger would definitely negotiate with the Fatu people later to find a way to retrieve it.
The lady took the powerful old sacred emblem, an ancient relic that was far more powerful than the emblems they used themselves because it originated in an era when the gods still existed.
Claire didn't choose the most expensive "Winter Shard," but instead left it for Stella:
"Since you need frost-related materials for your ritual to enhance your talent, you can use this."
PS: The dominant force in the Third Age was the Witcher, in the Fourth Age it was the Wizard, in the Fifth Age it was the Witch, and in the Sixth Age it was the Ringwitch.