Chapter 226: Elaine’s Prowess
Shaine’s frame spun through the air uncontrollably, bursting into a building and causing the entire construct to collapse on her head.
Elaine’s ethereal figure drifted into sight from the distance in slow, unsteady steps, her body radiating a soft glow of blue as a trail of frost followed in her wake.
The debris of block and wood welled before bursting into dust, revealing Shaine’s haggard visage as she crawled her way off the mound of rubble.
Her aura rose with a quake, her hair billowed. Shaine couldn’t remember the last time she had been this furious or felt so humiliated.
Gritting her teeth, her anger unfathomable, she roared—verdant green flaring—as her gene skill activated with wild abandon!
Her frame swelled disproportionately, her feet slowly digging deep into the paved road to locate fresh soil as they crusted brown like roots.
Her frame twisted in a grotesque manner as it slowly rose, her arms stretching unnaturally into branches.
Her head suddenly exploded with a resounding quake as it burst into a full crown of branches, her torso twisting and crusting brown into bark.
And within seconds, a massive tree peaked out of the region...
Elaine stared aghast, feeling irritated by the sight, but still wary. She didn’t approach carelessly. Her ice-blue armor simmered as a powerful force of cold essence coursed through her.
Slowly, dim dots of green reflected off Elaine’s eyes as she stared at the crown. In an instant, the massive tree began producing myriad plump green fruits.
Elaine squinted. She might be tipsy, but she wasn’t stupid. There was no way in hell she was going to just stand there and watch her opponent finish whatever it was she was initiating.
Bursting into motion, the compressed wind forming around her frame turned frigid. Her staff spun in her grasp as she channeled her gene skill.
But just then...
Rumble! The ground quaked and welled, massive roots rising with heavy lethal intent. They tore through the air.
"Tch!" Elaine’s eyes glowed as a pulsing beam of blue charged out of her staff, freezing the root in place. Her frame barreled through the frozen root.
Crackle! Frozen and brittle, it shattered. But a shadow still loomed behind another root. Elaine ducked fast, the whipping root tearing through nothing but a few hair strands.
Channeling cold frost, Elaine’s staff tapped against the earth. A frigid wave burst on the slight impact, the entire area suddenly swallowed by cold blue.
Her armor resonating, she glided through the now icy ground, moving even faster than running. Shadows crisscrossed in the sky as more roots bore down.
This time, the fruits at the crown of the tree pulsed richer, bulging in an unstable manner.
Elaine frowned, knowing time wasn’t on her side. The glow in her eyes increased in intensity.
She abandoned all movement, standing in place a few meters away from the tree. At this point, she calculated range and judged it was enough.
"Haaaaa!" She let out an outburst as she raised her staff, her flowing locks flaring as coils of blue essence laced with black brewed across her frame.
The feel of cold and death thrived in thick strands of essence, a chill that represented death spreading into the atmosphere.
This was a new Royal-grade gene skill Elaine had luckily come across and acquired while on her customized class quest.
"Black Ice!" she whispered as she felt a sudden drain of essence fueling the gene skill. Reality warped cold and black as a dim glow pulsed. Clenching her staff tighter, she stabbed it straight into the earth.
The ice-covered ground cracked black as slow mists of darkness seeped out...
The shadows grew darker as the roots tore down without relent. The whites of Elaine’s eyes were completely swallowed by blue. Suddenly, her hair flowed black.
The cold of nether seeped out of her frame. The earth around her burst and rumbled as black glaciers tore out in waves of bolting streaks.
Tearing upwards to the skies...
Pow! The moment a black shard of ice made contact with a root, there was no contest. The entire limb suddenly shriveled dry, crusting into black ice before shattering into glinting obsidian dust.
Pow! Pow! Pow!
Within a blink, all roots were no more. Elaine, not bothering to move, merely pointed her staff...
Shaine’s consciousness panicked. All roots left were needed to draw essence. Speeding her energy flow, she poured a massive torrent of rich aura of the earth into five fruits, the rest suddenly dimming.
Streaks of black ice shards forth from behind Elaine. Within seconds, they tore their way into the massive tree, injecting it with a venomous essence of black ice.
Her bark crusted black as the entire tree trembled. A pain unlike any she’d ever felt tore through her being. The flow of poisonous black essence tore through her system, creeping up her branches.
But just before she was consumed whole by the black ice, five fruits—plump and green—detached from their branches that very second, her consciousness streaming into them speedily.
A weak screech rang through the air as the tree writhed and shuddered. The black ice consumed it whole, and there was nothing that could be done.
The essence it channeled turned into chunks of black crystal. As the venomous effect raged through, finally the tree froze and shriveled.
Cracks ran through its entire structure. It burst into glinting specks of black.
Meanwhile, free-falling through the air, the five luscious green fruits bulged unnaturally. Elaine, seeing this, aimed to strike again.
But suddenly she felt a pang of exhaustion, causing a lag in the flow of essence.
This split delay was all it took...
The five fruits landed into the earth, the sheer impact causing them to splatter into a mess of green liquid mush.
Elaine froze and blinked. Huh? Was her drunken mind deceiving her, or was that it?
Her question wasn’t left unanswered for long. From the puddles of green, figures rose in sync.
Shaine’s awareness settled into the body of her constructs. She glanced at her hands pulsing with an intertwine of green and brown.
Her eyes widened, and all five heads whipped towards the direction of the tree—and it was gone!
An unspeakable fury bubbled, terrifying auras bursting out of all five frames. A crazed voice broke the atmosphere:
"I’M GOING TO KILL YOU, BITCH!!!"
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