Kaiser of the New World (Ch 200+)

Beneath the Lake (269)

Another week passed, a week that Kai spent rotating between training his Statshifting, circulating his Mana and practising with Esurient. They hadn't fought a single beast during the last week, but that was mainly because Kai was hesitant to fight anything after that whole ordeal with the Polar Demon. He had now learned not to underestimate a single thing that lived on the mountain, so he was going to be a pacifist for a while.

Speaking of the Polar Demon though, after finding Petunia and resting for a while, Kai attempted to find its body so he could use Soul Memorial on it and see if he could defeat it and get any extra stats, but it's corpse ended up being buried under the avalanche and he wasn't bothered enough to go scavenging and try and dig it up, so he had to let it go.

At least, he thought he would have had to, if not for the fact he realised something after Cecilia transfered Esurient back to him.

Esurient had a max storage of three souls, Kai knew that. Two of them were taken up by the Veiled of the Dark Side and Ezekial, so he didn't want to just waste the final slot on just any random beast.

But when Cecilia had killed the Polar Demon, she had stabbed it right through its soul, which meant that the final slot had been taken up by the Polar Demon.

And unlike the Veiled of the Dark Side and Ezekial's Stored Souls, the Demon's just wasn't as appealing as theirs.

Polar Demon (C)

Under its personal blizzard, a slumbering demon awoke and came close to besting the progenitor of Statshifting only to be stabbed in the back by a future Mana Weaver. By infusing your blade with Mana, the user imbues it with the Frostbite Status effect. If stabbed enough times by this effect, the recipients body can be completely frozen over. When minorly affected by Frostbite, the recipients body becomes 5% slower.

Now, it might not look that bad at first, Kai had even believed that it was pretty decent. Making your enemy 5% slower was always going to be handy in a fight.

But it was only after becoming slightly excited did he remember where he was.

Every single enemy he had encountered while on the journey to this mountain and while scaling it had some sort of ice, snow or frost based abilities, which meant there was a 99% chance that they would be immune to the effects of Frostbite.

Which rendered that Stored Soul completely useless.

Cleaning the Ruby blade with a piece of cloth that had been ripped off of a luxurious and expensive looking cloak that had been in the treasury of the now destroyed castle, Kai gazed at his reflection and blinked.

He looked older, despite it only being a few weeks since they had departed from the city, but more had happened in those few weeks than the six months he spent in the city.

And they weren't even half way to the peak yet.

How wonderful.

Gazing at the blade, Kai activated the Polar Demon's Stored Soul and watched as Esurient was enveloped in a dark blue light, the same shade that the Demon's body had been. It also felt colder to touch, and he watched as the piece of fabric he had been cleaning Esurient with was slowly starting to freeze over.

Sighing to himself, Kai put the ripped fabric on the ground of the tent and sent Esurient back to his soul to let the blade get some more rest. They had fully recovered from using Equilibrium and the skill could now be used again, but Kai could feel that Esurient was still fatigued.

Plus, he had another thought on his mind.

He knew that he could use Soul Memorial on the souls Esurient had stored, which meant he could use it on the Polar Demon and free up that slot.