My Skill Bar is Full of Monster Skills-Chapter 95 - 90: Mutated Ice Spirit (Part 2)
"Boom!!"
The blue-white energy ball, containing a large amount of frost energy, exploded instantly, and a dense torrent of freezing rain mixed with hail poured down, quickly covering a large surrounding area.
The freezing rain and hail were so dense that outsiders could barely see inside; all that was visible was a vast expanse of white.
Raine saw, that although the ranger named Zane was struggling to jump and dodge with all his strength, a Third Level Spell is not so easily evaded.
Although he wasn’t directly hit, as the freezing rain continued to fall, the frost energy spread immediately, and the ground turned into an uneven ice layer in an instant.
This made it difficult for even someone with the dexterity of a ranger to move around.
Meanwhile, the true danger of the freezing rain began to emerge, as a large area of white frost covered most of Zane’s body.
Visible white ice layers quickly formed on the left side of the ranger’s body, which had not yet escaped the Snow Rainstorm area.
The ranger named Zane’s face turned pale, his lips purple, and he couldn’t help but shiver all over. He used his last remaining hand to pick up a potion emitting a faint red glow and bit it open, guzzling it down.
At this critical moment for the ranger, the situation on the scene changed again.
A large hand made of condensed flames traced a straight line and suddenly struck the Ice Spirit, which was about to deliver a fatal blow to Zane.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, a large amount of fire exploded around the Ice Spirit.
The clash of cold and heat created a vast amount of steam around it, resembling thick fog.
Even with the protection of Frost Armor Spell, the Ice Spirit felt a certain kind of pain or damage in the face of the Burning Hand First Level Spell.
In the next second, a semi-transparent humanoid phantom floated towards the Female Mage, clearly seeking revenge for the recent strike.
"Well done!"
"Hayley, nice work!"
The imminent crisis of losing a member was narrowly averted by the Female Mage named Hayley’s timely intervention.
Yet, both Raine and the other two beside him, as well as Schneider in the center of the field, understood that this stalemate was only achieved after Hayley nearly exhausted her spell slots.
"What do we do?" Elise appeared worried.
Her words were immediately noticed by Schneider in the center of the field.
"It’s them!"
Schneider suddenly turned his head and, upon seeing the trio on the rock for the first time, recognized Raine instantly.
After all, the Horned Helmet and irregular Black Shield were quite distinctive.
Beside Raine, Elise, clad in the Earth Divine Hall Priest Robe, made him overjoyed.
Schneider called out loudly and urgently, "Everyone, I’m Schneider, the captain of the Giant Blade Squad. Can we work together to kill the Ice Spirit ahead?"
"Twenty gold!"
"Twenty gold to ask for your help!"
Just after Schneider spoke, a Shield Armor Warrior beside him couldn’t help but ask, "Captain, do you know them?"
"We met once. That one is an official priest from the Earth Divine Hall, possibly mastering Healing Truth Mantra!" Schneider nodded.
"With healing, this fight can be won!"
The Paladin indeed possessed a Healing Spell, but it required contact for slow healing.
...
On the rock.
Raine and his companions heard Schneider’s shout naturally.
Raine looked at Laisa and Elise and saw Elise nodding heavily, clearly wanting to help.
This did not surprise Raine, considering Elise’s role as an official priest of the Earth Divine Hall; both her doctrine and personality made her willing to lend a helping hand to those in distress.
What puzzled Raine somewhat was that Laisa, too, nodded without much hesitation.
If that’s the case...
"Alright!" Raine also immediately nodded and said.
From the moment he jumped onto the rock, Raine was pondering over the matter.
He had two reasons for intervening. One was that, according to Laisa, the Giant Blade Squad, especially the captain Schneider, had an excellent reputation among Black Iron Level Adventurer Squad.
If he helped them, besides earning the reward of twenty gold coins and gaining friendship with the Giant Blade Squad, there was a chance they could together defeat the Mutated Ice Spirit.
The other crucial reason concerned Raine himself.
Just after killing the Frost Blade Leopard, he vaguely sensed that mastering a stronger Frost Spell might trigger the tallest phantom among the seven or eight.
The special Ice Spirit in front of him was an excellent opportunity, wasn’t it?
Whether it was the unseen Ice Mirror Spell or the Snow Rainstorm Third Level Spell, both surpassed the Ice Blade Spell in frost magic.
He initially thought killing the Frost Blade Leopard would conclude this first expedition to the Lankote Snowfield, but unexpectedly stumbled upon a special Ice Spirit here.
Perhaps, the outcome may not necessarily be successful.
But if there’s a chance to take on a stronger special class, shouldn’t you seize it?
Of course, Raine had already weighed the safety issues early on.
However, after acquiring the Frost Armor Spell and Cold Resistance lv3, Raine believed he could attempt a fight without fearing being completely restrained by the Ice Spirit’s frost magic.
Thus, the three of Raine, who decided to help, naturally didn’t continue to just watch.
"Elise, disperse for that Ranger."
"I’ll hold off the Ice Spirit."
Holding off the Ice Spirit wasn’t asking for trouble, but because Raine hadn’t forgotten that according to the rules of the Golden Finger, he needed to cause the maximum damage during the battle against the Ice Spirit.
"Laisa, act according to the situation."
While speaking, the three of Raine rushed towards the Ice Spirit’s location.
Seeing that the three of Raine seemed to agree to help and quickly charged over, the members of the Giant Blade Squad were naturally overjoyed.
"Priest! Give me a heal!"
Especially the Shield Armor Warrior, whose eyes lit up instantly when he saw Elise, immediately shouted!
However, hearing the loud shout from the Shield Armor Warrior made Elise, who was running, almost stumble and fall into the snow.
"I... I can’t." Elise, with an embarrassed look, waved her hands repeatedly.
Although a bit embarrassed, Elise understood that this was during combat, and she needed to quickly let the other side know she couldn’t perform the Healing Truth Mantra.
Otherwise, that Shield Armor Warrior might think she could provide remote healing and stand stubbornly against the Ice Spirit, which would be quite harmful.
After all, dressed in the robes of an Official Priest like hers, it was almost assumed that she knew the Healing Truth Mantra, which was a quite normal assumption.
"Oh my!"
"Can’t?"
The captain of the Giant Blade Squad, Schneider, with a beard already frosted, heard Elise’s response and couldn’t help but feel a ’thud’ in his heart.
’Can’t?’
Schneider really wanted to ask this priest girl, ’If you don’t even know the Healing Truth Mantra, isn’t coming to the dangerous Lankote Snowfield as an Official Priest somewhat inappropriate?’
However, no matter what, the other side had come to help.
As an experienced Black Iron Level Adventurer Squad captain versed in human interactions, saying such things was naturally not an option.
And Schneider looked again at Raine rushing over.
’A Warrior Apprentice who’s not even a proper class, just what are these two here for... Hmm, wait, what’s that?’
Suddenly, Schneider noticed a nearly overlooked graceful figure.
’An Official Rogue of a not low level?’
’Is that what you two were relying on?’
’But against an Ice Spirit, there’s not even one ranged class...’
For a moment, Schneider was quite disappointed, realizing he might have picked the wrong people to ask for help!
But the next second, Schneider’s thoughts were interrupted by the actions of Raine and Laisa, his eyes widened as he shouted:
"Wait, that Warrior Apprentice, don’t charge in!"
"And that Wanderer!"
"Damn it, don’t you understand, the Ice Spirit absolutely cannot..."
But immediately, the latter half of his sentence ’your close combat attacks will all suffer frost backlash’ got stuck in his throat.
Because before he could finish the latter half of his sentence, the ’Horned Helmet Warrior Apprentice’, shield in hand, executed a ’charge’, diving right into the Ice Spirit’s embrace.
"Oh my!"
"That female Wanderer went in too?"
"Each is more reckless than the last!" the Shield Armor Warrior exclaimed, eyes wide with astonishment.
Now, Schneider thought there was no need to say what was next.
After all, it was too late!
Only... what to do next in the fight?
That was another big question.
Originally, Schneider thought that spending twenty gold to hire an Official Priest, while expensive, could still be acceptable if it was to solve an urgent problem.
Although the Mutated Ice Spirit was strong, if an Official Priest joined, it should be possible to take it down with some cost and time.
But unexpectedly, the nearby observing squad had such a bizarre combination!
Not a single ranged class, and the only highly anticipated priest girl couldn’t perform a Healing Truth Mantra.
All the main combatants were like meat cleavers, weren’t they just sent to be served on a platter?
