Chapter 38: Greed... A Sin?
Chapter 38
Defeating a newly manifested awakened beast wasn’t supposed to be a problem for awakened sorcerers like him and Yuki, who had more than five years of training, but that was only the usual case.
Exceptions always existed, and looking down at the creature standing below them, shards of ice piercing the skin of multiple dormant beasts as they scurried forward, they both knew that before them was a creature they would rather not scuffle with.
The beast possessed natural counters to their battle styles and Yuki’s flames—their best ace—with its ice and long-range attacks.
Megumi couldn’t imagine the level of focus he would need to evade attacks of such nature, and it would also depend on what the scale of its attacks was. Whether it could throw one shard, ten, or a hundred, as well as how fast each shard could go.
He lingered for a while, staring at what looked like a frost cyclops, a single icy blue eye resting on its forehead—if he could call it that—like a cold, frozen lake.
Its snow-white skin looked smooth as marble, glowing with a bluish hue, and from it hung tiny ice shards ready to unleash frozen fury upon anything that came close to it.
Leaning back on top of the tree, he was about to heave a sigh when he saw something suddenly come flying toward him.
A crystalline shard, gleaming like a fragile mirror, shot toward him as it whistled through the air. He dodged the attack, allowing the ice dagger to embed itself in the branch of the tree...
... And then his eyes widened...
As the dagger pierced the tree, it shattered, and the shattered ice fragments lingered around the branch. They latched onto it, and then he watched as a crystalline weave slowly began spreading across the branch, leaving behind ice trails.
The ice weaves continued to spread across the tree. It went from the branches to the twigs, the leaves, and then down to the trunk of the tree. Prompting him and Yuki to jump away as quickly as possible.