Kaiser of the New World (Ch 200+)

Movement (262)

Kai remained completely still, going over the situation in his mind. The demon had trapped him, and it was also much stronger than he had expected.

It also didn't help that Cecilia had gotten trapped with him, so he had to make sure that no harm came to her.

However, something strange was happening.

The demon... wasn't attacking them.

Instead, it was simply looking around, its horrifying black eyes scanning over Kai, making him resist the urge to shudder.

He then heard the faint sound of snow crunching behind him, courtesy of Cecilia having taken a step backwards.

The next moment, the demon screeched and launched itself forward, much faster than it should have been able to considering it was a Strength based creature.

Internally cursing, Kai activated Soul Flame and put all of the additional stats into Dexterity. With his newfound speed, he threw himself at Cecilia and carefully tackled her to the ground, just in time, as the demon ended up soaring over them, it's long and sharp claws cutting off a few strands of her hair.

Reacting quickly, Kai stood up just in time to see the demon hit the black body of its dome, only instead of seeing it feel pain like he had, Kai watched as it stuck to the dome like a spider before throwing itself at them once more.

After that, a variety of things happened.

Kai's body grew in height as he activated his fusion with Umbra, a Ruby blade appeared in his right hand, the blue flames surrounding him changed to a mixture of red, blue and violet. His Strength doubled with the help of Indomitable, before it was boosted even further using Ignition. This time, Kai chose to boost his Strength, Dexterity and Stamina all by 1.5× so that he should be able to dodge the demon's attacks semi successfully.

Reaching out, Kai thrust the tip of Esurient at the demon's head, but he could only watch in horror as he heard a loud crack, the beasts neck bending at an unnatural angle as it avoided the attack and got even closer to him.

Its claws slammed into Kai's chest, managing to pierce his armour and cut into him, making him cry out in pain as he was flung backwards.

The main was much worse than a standard slash should have been, meaning there must have been something else to the demon's power. Looking down, Kai-

Cursed.

His armour, which was normally a lustrous silver colour, was slowly being turned a pale blue. Kai felt the coldness infiltrate his chest, the icy feeling edging closer to his lungs, threatening to freeze them whole.

Quickly, he took a health potion out of the satchel and downed it, only to his horror, it didn't make much of a difference, it only slowed the speed the frost was spreading at by a little.

The familiar sensation of his body freezing over was one that Kai had not wanted to experience again after escaping from his cell beneath the castle, but it seemed that he wouldn't be so lucky.

Panicking slightly, Kai used Minor Restoration on himself, hoping that the power of an Epic rarity skill would be able to stop the frost from spreading.

And it did.

... To some degree.

Instead of actually healing the wound and actually getting rid of the frost, it had only temporarily stopped it from spreading. As soon as Kai stopped using Minor Restoration on it, the frost would begin taking over his body once more.

Which meant that he was on even more of a timer than before due to the fact that the skill would be constantly draining his Mana.

Gritting his fangs, Kai roared out at the flames surrounding him intensified even more. A pair of two menacing eyes appeared in the flames behind him, looking down on everything they saw.