Above the mage!

Chapter 533 Origin of the Unknown Creature
Sunefa and Catherine, enveloped in azure energy, sped through the cold winds of the North, a hundred meters above the ground, their figures like two azure shooting stars.

The reason for maintaining this altitude is that Catherine needs to capture and track the traces of the Sheep Master's aura.

The path that Master Yang took when chasing that unknown creature was roughly at this altitude.

If the temperature is too high or too low, the smell will become extremely faint and difficult to trace.

Looking up, in the inky night sky, only a very thin silver line shimmered in the distance.

That was moonlight reflected from the clouds high in the sky, like someone had strung a silver thread across the night.

It was already late at night, and the world was pitch black.

But for mages of Sunefa and Catherine's caliber, darkness is not an obstacle to their progress.

“War Mother, the scent is getting stronger. We should be no more than ten kilometers away from him. We're almost there,” Catherine suddenly said, her voice filled with confidence.

Sunafa nodded slightly.

Catherine's flying speed is certainly no match for Master Sheep.

But Master Yang is chasing after that unknown creature, and he will definitely keep trying to stop it from escaping along the way.

In this protracted struggle, each encounter caused delays on the road.

They only need to follow the scent trail in a straight line, without having to deal with any obstacles. As long as they don't lose track of the scent, they will eventually catch up.

Sunefa recognized this, which is why she decided to use Catherine's tracking ability to support Master Sheep.

Minutes after Catherine made her judgment, two blurry shadows appeared in the sky not far ahead, locked in fierce combat, within the vision enhanced by the spell [Dark Vision] on both of them.

Around one of the shadowy areas, bursts of crimson light occasionally erupted, like sparks blooming in the darkness.

With each flicker of firelight, a slender, dark purple figure could be vaguely seen twisting and fleeing in the flames.

Like a startled venomous snake trying to break free from the gaps in the flames.

It was Master Yang and that unknown creature.

"You wait here, don't come any closer." Sunafa immediately realized that they had found their target, made a decision in an instant, and immediately gave Catherine the instructions.

Before she finished speaking, she tapped her toes in mid-air, and the azure energy around her suddenly solidified, carrying her forward like an arrow, instantly widening the distance between her and Catherine.

Catherine stood still, watching Sunefa's figure rapidly approach the battlefield ahead, completely obeying Sunefa's orders.

Putting everything else aside, that monster was able to fight Master Yang, so its strength was at least at the fifth level. For her to get close to it would only be suicide.

Catherine was well aware of her own limitations and simply kept her eyes fixed on the battlefield ahead.

If anything unusual happens, be prepared to immediately send a message back to Phoenix.

As Sunefa flew closer, the outlines of the two shadowy figures ahead became clearer and clearer.

Master Sheep hovered in mid-air, swinging his giant hammer.

Red light continuously bursts from the honeycomb-shaped holes in the hammerhead.

Each time the giant hammer was swung, three tongues of fire shot out from the hole, like three burning chains, crisscrossing and licking at the monster on the other side.

Flames streaked across the air in crimson arcs, dispelling the surrounding darkness and revealing the unidentified creature's true form to Sunefa.

Even though she had prepared herself mentally from Catherine's description, her pupils still constricted slightly.

The monster was covered in a dark purple soft shell, and the flesh beneath the shell was like wriggling gel.

Most horrifyingly, dozens of eyes were densely embedded in the dark purple flesh.

These eyes vary in size, some as small as mung beans, while others are as large as fists.

These eyes have no fixed direction; each one is darting around aimlessly.

Some stared at Master Sheep, some scanned the sky, and some even looked down at the snowfield, as if they could observe the movements in all directions at the same time, looking for an opportunity to escape.

At this moment, the flames shooting out from Master Sheep's giant hammer were constantly bombarding the monster's soft armor.

Each hit produces a "sizzling" sound.

Where the flames come into contact with the soft armor, the dark purple armor will turn black.

But immediately afterward, a strange, pale purple energy will surge from the monster's body.

This energy, like a living thing, coiled around the flames, gradually "melting" the crimson fire.

The originally scorching flames, upon encountering this energy, would quickly lose their temperature, turning into a wisp of black smoke and dissipating, ultimately leaving only a shallow burn mark on the monster's soft armor.

In between defending against attacks, the monsters would occasionally launch a counterattack.

From its many eyes, streams of dark purple energy occasionally shot out.

The energy stream traced a curved path through the air, avoiding the interception of the flames, and headed straight for Master Yang's face.

These energy flows are extremely corrosive; wherever they pass, the air seems to be tinged with a pale purple and emits a pungent odor.

Master Yang merely snorted in response, gripped the hammer handle with his left hand, and slapped the hammer head with his right.

A wall of fire instantly erupted from the honeycomb holes in the hammerhead.

The wall of fire, like a burning shield, blocked all the dark purple energy streams.

The moment the energy flow came into contact with the fire wall, a crackling sound erupted.

The temperature of the fire wall suddenly dropped, and a layer of light purple smoke rose from its edges, but it eventually burned away the dark purple energy flow completely.

Sunefa noticed that the monster's soft armor was covered with charred marks, and in some places even the dark purple flesh underneath was exposed.

Clearly, this battle has been going on for quite some time.

The prolonged struggle enraged Master Yang.

He suddenly raised the giant hammer in his hand high, his arms bulging with veins.

The fire elemental magic around him surged wildly, pouring it all into the hammer.

Suddenly, the flames spewing from the honeycomb holes of the hammerhead surged, and three tongues of fire converged in mid-air, condensing into a fire snake several meters long.

The fire serpent's scales are made of crimson-gold flames, and the surrounding air is distorted by the flicking of its tongue.

"Go!" Master Yang roared, swinging his giant hammer forward.

As if receiving a command, the fire serpent opened its massive jaws and rushed towards the dark purple monster with an overwhelming wave of heat.

The fire serpent was several times the size of the monster, and the energy it contained was terrifying, making the purple creature appear incredibly small in comparison.

However, the monster remained unusually calm in the face of such a terrifying attack.

At this moment, all its eyes stopped moving and stared at the approaching fire serpent, a strange purple light flashing in their pupils.

Just as the fire serpent's massive jaws were about to bite it, the monster's body suddenly glowed with a dark purple light, rapidly "melting" like ice being thrown into a raging fire.

Its body did not disintegrate, but instead transformed into countless dark purple particles with extremely low pixel count.

These particles are still connected by faint filaments of light, like shattered light and shadow, maintaining a blurry outline in place.

The fire serpent passed straight through the particle swarm without causing any damage, and finally crashed heavily onto the snowfield below.

With a loud "boom," a crater more than ten meters in diameter was created. The ice and snow in the crater instantly melted into water under the high temperature of the flames, and were then vaporized into white water vapor by the subsequent heat wave.

The rising mist enveloped half of the snowfield, but not a single particle of the monster was touched.

Immediately afterwards, the dispersed particles suddenly accelerated and coalesced.

Amidst flashes of purple light, the body of the unknown creature reformed and even slid backward several meters using the momentum of its reassembly, avoiding the scorching heat of the fire serpent's aftershocks.

It shook off the lingering glimmer of particles from its head, a hint of mockery flashing in its scarlet compound eyes, as if laughing at Master Sheep's attack for being futile.

Master Yang frowned, and the flames on the giant hammer gathered again.

This is why he has been unable to defeat the monster for so long:
The moment the monster became ethereal, the surrounding space subtly distorted.

Those particles did not disappear, but briefly entered another dimension, as if their bodies had been "broken down into tiny particles" and hidden in the cracks of the void.

This ability not only allows him to evade physical attacks, but even his magical power cannot penetrate it.

Unless you can block the space around the monster with an attack just before it becomes intangible, which is easier said than done.

Just as Master Yang was pondering a solution, Sunefa, who was standing nearby, saw the scene clearly and already had an idea in mind.

With a slight thought, she had already taken the ice bow from her back.

With the Blizzard in hand, it glows silvery-white like moonlight in the darkness.

She gripped the bow with her left hand and drew the string with her right.

The air around the bow suddenly cooled down, and countless tiny ice crystals quietly appeared between the bowstrings.

As if guided by an invisible hand, they quickly combined into two crystal-clear arrows of pure ice.

The arrow was covered with ice patterns, its tip gleamed with a chilling light, and its tail trailed two thin streaks of ice mist. Even before it was released, it lowered the surrounding temperature by several degrees.

collapse!
The bowstring twitched slightly.

Sunefa released the bowstring, and two True Ice Arrows shot out with a sharp whistling sound.

As the arrow spun, it stirred up countless wisps of cold air and snowflakes, forming two small ice crystal tornadoes behind it.

Wherever the tornado passed, it sucked up all the ice particles in the air.

Two ice arrows, one on the left and one on the right, like two blue lightning bolts, crossed and shot towards the dark purple monster, blocking all its escape routes.

Master Sheep and the monster had actually noticed Sunefa's arrival long ago, but they were too engrossed in their battle to notice.

Seeing Sunefa make a move, Master Yang's face lit up with joy.

He had fought directly with Sunaf and knew clearly how formidable Sunaf's strength was, even though Sunaf was only a fourth-ring mage.

As for the monster, since it doesn't have facial features, it's hard to tell what its emotions are, but they probably aren't positive. Several eyes suddenly turned to Sunefa at the same time.

His pupils, which had been darting around, froze instantly, and his dark purple soft armor tightened.

Because its sensory system is exceptionally sensitive, it can clearly sense the immense power contained within these two True Ice Arrows.

It's not about quantity, but quality.

The ice arrows do not contain ordinary ice elemental magic, but a more primal and pure power.

Pure Ice is one of the most fundamental forces in the world, representing the ultimate form of ice.

This force may be even harder to counter than Master Yang's killing move.

The monster was wise; instead of fighting back head-on, it used the same trick again.

The dark purple light around him shone again, and the energy beneath his skin began to surge, clearly preparing to disintegrate his body once more, turning into particles to hide in the void crevices.

Just as its body was about to "melt," the two arrows of pure ice suddenly crossed in mid-air, their bodies bursting with a dazzling pale blue halo.

The halo instantly spread, forming a circular ice field with a diameter of more than ten meters.

The edge of the icy region was covered with fine ice patterns, like a giant ice net, trapping the monster firmly in the center.

Sunefa never intended to attack the monster from the beginning.

Therefore, the two arrows of pure ice she fired were a control technique that Sunefa had prepared specifically to subdue monsters.

Using the extreme cold of Zhenbing, temporarily freeze everything around the monster.

The power of ice is inherently adept at freezing.

The monster's sensory system immediately went into overdrive.

It discovered that the particle energy within its body could no longer resonate with the void, and its body, which was about to disintegrate, was bound by invisible shackles, only able to maintain its intact form.

It frantically waved its limbs, trying to break through the blockade of the ice field.

But Master Yang had already made his move at that moment.

He seized this excellent opportunity and slammed the giant hammer down heavily in the air.

Flames shot up from the giant hammer, forming a huge goat's head shape behind Master Sheep.

The goat's head broke free and charged forward, trailing a torrent of flames behind it.

He unleashed his ultimate move in this attack, holding nothing back.

His previous attacks had been evaded by the monster's ethereal form, which had already fueled his rage. Now, with Sunefa's icy barrier, he was finally able to deliver a fatal blow.

All the pupils in the monster's eyes were filled with fear. It twisted its body frantically, trying to break free from the cracks in the ice field. Dark purple energy condensed on its body to form a thick shield.

But it was too late.

Everything shattered under the impact of the fire from the goat's head.

After watching Sunefa and Catherine leave together, God had no heart to do anything else and chose to wait for Sunefa's return.

Time slipped away quietly while we waited.

The night outside the window gradually faded, and a faint glimmer of dawn appeared on the horizon.

Having not slept all night, Gao De rubbed his throbbing temples, his unease growing stronger.

He stood up, about to do something, when suddenly rhythmic footsteps came from outside the corridor, the steps steady and rhythmic.

Gao De's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately stood up.

The next moment, Sunafa pushed open the door and walked in first.

She was followed by Master Sheep and Catherine.

Faced with Gao De's questioning gaze, Sunafa nodded slightly, which immediately put his mind at ease.

Sunafa had no obvious injuries and her face was rosy, clearly indicating that she had not only resolved the matter but was also unharmed.

This is undoubtedly the best result.

"Please have a seat," Gao De said with a relaxed tone, gesturing for the two to sit down before asking, "What exactly is the situation?"

"Let me explain," Master Yang said, taking the initiative to speak.

(End of this chapter)