Chapter 235

Inside the valley, there were snowfield hyenas everywhere, hungry and constantly looking up and howling wildly.

These snowfield hyenas were not large in size, resembling dogs in appearance, a size smaller than snow wolves.

But size does not represent combat power.

In fact, in most cases, snowfield hyenas are much more difficult to deal with than snow wolves.

One is that the starting rank of snowfield hyenas is the first circle, which is naturally much more powerful than the zero-circle snow wolves.

And their bite force is amazingly astonishing, capable of easily biting through hard bones.

So as long as you are bitten by a snowfield hyena, you will at least lose half your life.

The second is the personality problem.

Snowfield hyenas are typical opportunistic predators that flexibly adjust their predatory strategies based on food sources and competitors in the environment.

They will seize any available opportunity to obtain food, including "picking up leaks."

That is, following behind other predators, and after they work hard to obtain food, they swarm up to forcibly seize the labor results of other predators.

This makes them an existence hated by everyone on the snowfield.

And this thing is not only a gregarious creature but also extremely vengeful. In order to retaliate against you, it can even follow behind you for several months, just to wait for an opportunity.

So ordinary people dare not provoke this thing.

Since Baluke is ready to take action, he is planning to annihilate the other party.

A pack of about a hundred snowfield hyenas, among which there will be at least one second-circle snowfield hyena.

Even without a second-circle snowfield hyena, just a hundred or so first-circle ley line creatures are terrifying enough.

If there were no Baluke, even if Gao De were given a hundred guts, he would not dare to take action against them.

But now, with a big thigh leading the "brushing of the map," Gao De's task is just to ensure his own safety and try to grab as many "heads" as possible.

Here, Baluke has already aimed at the target and took action decisively.

Capture the thief first, capture the king.

His first target is the snowfield hyena leader lying at the highest point in the valley.

This leader is slightly larger than other snowfield hyenas, occupies the best position, and is very easy to identify.

A snowfield hyena pack commanded by a leader will be more difficult to deal with.

So since he decided to take action, he must strive to eliminate the snowfield hyena leader first.

Baluke stretched his hand forward.

Gao De widened his eyes.

The next moment, he saw a medium-sized palm formed by the black soil of the snowfield appear on the ground where the snowfield hyena leader was lying.

That palm appeared extremely abruptly, and as soon as it appeared, it grabbed upward.

Just like the Five-Finger Mountain of the Tathagata Buddha, it directly grabbed the snowfield hyena leader firmly in its hand.

Then, the hand stretched out by Baluke made a clenching and squeezing action.

The medium-sized palm formed by soil immediately followed the same action.

Awoo!!! The snowfield hyena leader, who was caught off guard, felt the pain and immediately let out a sharp and miserable cry.

It wanted to break free from the restraint of the palm, but it did not succeed at the first moment.

It didn't break free, and Baluke's second spell had already followed suit.

Violent spell fluctuations were released, without any concealment.

The ground within 20 feet around the body of the snowfield hyena leader was twisted and deformed at this moment.

Following that, large patches of hard ice thorns broke through the ground.

Each ice thorn was like an ice sword, viciously inserted into the body of the snowfield hyena leader.

Ah!!! Under this intense pain, the snowfield hyena leader let out a sound like a human woman wailing, and then blood spurted from its whole body.

The blood splashed out and immediately cooled in the low temperature of the Northern Realm.

Just like the life of the snowfield hyena leader, it had already completely cooled down and was no longer fresh.

In just the blink of an eye, a fierce and difficult second-circle snowfield hyena turned into a corpse hanging on the ice thorns.

Just when the snowfield hyena pack hadn't reacted, another flame beam "descended from the sky," directly blasting a first-circle snowfield hyena to the ground.

Then, the second flame beam flew over, and the target was exactly the snowfield hyena that had just been blasted to the ground.

This snowfield hyena hadn't recovered yet, so naturally, it couldn't talk about dodging, and could only take another flame beam hard.

The huge impact generated by the flame beam explosion only allowed that snowfield hyena to let out a miserable howl before death.

The one who took action was Gao De.

In the situation where Baluke took the lead, Gao De, while sighing at the other party's powerful strength, also followed closely and cast a spell, aiming at a first-circle snowfield hyena within the nearest spell distance, and took action fiercely.

With intention calculating the unintentional, the results were quite prominent; just two 【Firebolt+】 harvested the life of a first-circle creature.

However, this kind of good thing only happened once.

The snowfield hyena pack in the valley had already reacted at this time.

They howled and rushed toward the two people on the hillside.

But seeing this scene, Baluke laughed loudly, without any sign of fear.

He swung his right hand diagonally downward, his movements extremely smooth.

With this action, a powerful magical fluctuation immediately rippled in the air, spreading out like ripples.

This magical fluctuation condensed into substance in an instant.

Countless tiny ice crystals appeared in the air, rotating and dancing.

Crinkle, crinkle, crinkle.

These tiny ice crystals swarmed toward Baluke's palm.

The next moment, in his originally empty right hand, a light blue crystal greatsword made of ice crystals appeared.

This sword looked like a lightsaber in Star Wars, emitting a faint cold light.

The sword body was made of pure ice crystals, crystal clear, as if it could reflect the surrounding scenery.

【Ice Sword】.

An ice sword condensed from spell power, the edge of the blade was extremely sharp, and every inch of the sword body exuded a cold aura.

With the Ice Sword in hand, a cold light flashed in Baluke's eyes, and he became more confident and flamboyant.

Facing the snowfield hyenas rushing in groups, Baluke did not retreat but advanced.

He clamped his legs, and the Ice-Mane Tiger Lai En under his crotch kicked its four limbs, carrying him toward those snowfield hyenas.

This scene looked like a knight launching a fearless charge against the enemy army.

Of course, the one who died was not Baluke, but those snowfield hyenas.

At this moment, Baluke, holding the Ice Sword, broke directly into the snowfield hyena pack and began to slaughter.

The two snowfield hyenas rushing to the front had already leaped up, pounced toward Baluke, and barked wildly, biting toward Baluke.

They opened their mouths, revealing sharp teeth capable of biting through bone marrow, aiming at Baluke's neck, a touch of cruelty appearing in their small eyes, as if they had already seen the ending of Baluke's blood splashing five feet.

Blood flowers burst.

It's just that this blood flower did not come from Baluke.

That was the two blood flowers brought out by the Ice Sword delicately sweeping across the bodies of these two snowfield hyenas.

Several more snowfield hyenas pounced on Baluke.

However, Baluke drove the Ice-Mane Tiger Lai En to nimbly dodge their pounce and swung his sword while dodging. Several more snowfield hyena corpses fell on the snow, and blood sprayed all over the ground.

Under the low temperature of the Northern Realm, it quickly cooled and froze, just like a splash-ink painting.

Baluke, with fruitful results, had already rushed into the center of the snowfield hyena pack's encirclement under the rapid speed of the Ice-Mane Tiger Lai En.

His sword-swinging movements were fast and ruthless, as if he had practiced thousands of times. Usually, it only took one strike for a snowfield hyena to howl and fall to the ground, never to climb up again.

He was at ease, as if he were dancing with these snowfield hyenas.

These snowfield hyenas, as his dance partners, cooperated extremely well, jumping under his Ice Sword one by one, bursting out one blood flower after another.

Gao De, who was still staying on the snow mound, saw this scene and was stunned.

This was completely different from the traditional magic user combat style in his impression.

Shouldn't a magic user control the distance, cast spells from a distance, and constantly pull the enemy?

How could there be someone like Baluke, who relied solely on a spell sword and a mount to kill into the enemy group and deal with the enemy with exquisite skills.

Gao De only then reacted as to why the other party's hands were so rough when shaking hands with Baluke earlier.

Clearly, it was caused by years of practicing skills.

Baluke's combat style could also be considered an eye-opener for Gao De.

The so-called magic user does not necessarily have to be constrained by the traditional concept of casting spells from a distance; combining spells with exquisite skills can even exert a 1+1>2 effect.

Just like if he mastered the "Nine Yin Bone Claw" and combined it with 【Cat's Claw】, it would be quite amazing to think that the combat power would also be very amazing.

Of course, it's just thinking.

Compared to spending a lot of effort and time to learn that "Nine Yin Bone Claw," it is better to learn a few more spells. However, in the case of limited spells, indirectly improving the power of mastered spells through skills is also definitely a train of thought.

Various thoughts flashed through his mind, and Gao De's hands were not idle.

Taking advantage of the fact that the snowfield hyena pack's attention was focused on Baluke, he hurriedly turned into the output position under the "main T," and cast spells one after another to "pick up leaks."

But this time he no longer used 【Firebolt+】, but 【Ray of Frost+】.

Because Gao De discovered that the damage caused by the 【Ice Sword】 in Baluke's hand was exactly cold damage.

And although Baluke's skills were exquisite, he could not guarantee that every sword could kill a snowfield hyena in seconds.

There were always a few snowfield hyenas that were lucky or dodged in time, avoiding vital points, only injured, and not dead.

These snowfield hyenas were exactly Gao De's targets.

As long as these snowfield hyenas were hit by Baluke's sword, the cold damage received was enough to directly trigger the freezing effect of Gao De's 【Ray of Frost+】.

And the power of 【Ray of Frost+】 that triggered the freezing effect would be increased to 10 degrees, and under the circle-up casting, it would be 20 degrees.

This power even exceeded 【Firebolt+】, not to mention that it also came with a freezing effect—although in most cases it was of no use, because after being hit by Baluke's sword and then receiving a 【Ray of Frost】 from him, that snowfield hyena would basically die suddenly.

Baluke held the Ice Sword, rode the Ice-Mane Tiger, and kept rushing back and forth in the snowfield hyena pack.

Facing the attacks rushing like a tide, he stood as still as a reef, easily shattering their attacks and taking their lives by the way.

And in this process, Baluke even had the spare energy to intercept the snowfield hyenas that crossed him and wanted to attack Gao De, creating a good "output" environment for Gao De.

Soon, a pile of snowfield hyena corpses piled up in the valley.

When Baluke swung his sword again to cut off the head of a snowfield hyena that pounced from behind him, the remaining snowfield hyenas that could still move normally were already less than fifty.

These snowfield hyenas no longer pounced forward at this time, making low wooing sounds.

The wisdom of animals made them understand that the enemy in front of them was not something they could deal with.

The next moment, these remaining snowfield hyenas let out a mournful cry toward the corpse of the leader hanging on the ice thorns, and then turned around and fled in all directions without hesitation in the blink of an eye.

Baluke saw this scene and was not surprised.

Rich experience made him understand the habits of snowfield hyenas extremely well.

He clamped his legs, drove the Ice-Mane Tiger to turn around, and rushed toward Gao De on the snow mound.

From afar, before reaching Gao De, he stretched out his hand forward.

Gao De also instantly understood his intention.

When the Ice-Mane Tiger leaped past his side, he grabbed the hand stretched out by Baluke, leaped upward with the force, and landed steadily on Lai En's back.

"Cutting weeds requires removing the roots. We must annihilate these fleeing snowfield hyenas, otherwise, with their numbers, they can still form a small pack and attack nearby tribes," Baluke's steady voice came.

"Lai En's nose is very sensitive, and these snowfield hyenas have a foul smell, so they can't escape."

"However, it is estimated that it will be delayed for a few days."

"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry," Gao De said hurriedly.

It's not that he's not in a hurry at all, but the opportunity to "brush the map" with the big boss is rare, so naturally, he's not in a hurry for that moment.

Although Lai En's nose is very sensitive, these snowfield hyenas are also very cunning and fled in a scattered manner.

And the snowfield is so vast; chasing these hyenas in such a large place is ultimately not an easy thing.

Four days.

Baluke took Gao De and spent another four days around the valley, during which they chased down thirty or so snowfield hyenas, only then did they stop.

"The remaining snowfield hyenas have already run very far. Running so far, wanting to find companions is not an easy thing for them."

"Snowfield hyenas not forming a pack will not pose too much of a threat to human tribes," Baluke said.

"Next, I won't delay any more time. I'll take you to the Sinuofu clan first."

"No delay, no delay," Gao De laughed.

He said this sentence sincerely.

The benefits of acting with Baluke are obvious.

If he acted alone and encountered a first-circle ley line creature, unless the number was less than three, he would definitely not dare to take action rashly.

But on the snowfield, ley line creatures acting alone are really not common, so wanting to obtain first-circle origin, the progress definitely cannot be fast.

But together with Baluke, just on the first day, he obtained a complete first-circle origin from 【Snowfield Hyena】.

And in the subsequent four days of chasing, they also encountered snow wolves several times.

Gao De just rubbed along and mixed in two "heads" of first-circle ice snow wolves, and the origin progress of 【Ice Snow Wolf】 also reached 4/7.

Therefore, even if he stayed on the snowfield with Baluke for another month, Gao De would be ten thousand times willing.

However, since Baluke said so, Gao De definitely couldn't say he refused.

In a simple cave.

A humanoid soul body that looks like a ghost but has no face is busy.

It moves one stone after another, piling them into a stone circle in the center of the cave.

After doing these, it flies out of the cave in a floating form.

Not long after, it flies back holding a large handful of wood.

In Gao De's burning gaze, the soul body places these woods in the middle of the stone circle and lights a fire.

Subsequently, it diligently cleans up the sundries in the cave.

"Is this also a spell? What a powerful spell," Gao De looked at the busy soul body and said with interest.

After these few days of getting along and contacting, Baluke no longer had much defense against Gao De. At this time, seeing Gao De curious, he said casually:

"Yes, it is a spell, but it cannot be called powerful; it is just a first-circle auxiliary spell."

"It is called 【Wild Agility】, which can be considered one of the must-have spells for our Snowfield Guardians. Although it has no damage ability, it is very practical for us who travel alone on the snowfield all year round."

"It can do many things, including finding food, water, shelters, cleaning up camps, and other chores. Mastering 【Wild Agility】 is equivalent to having an extra servant that can be summoned at any time."

He looked at Gao De and suddenly said, "If you are interested, I can teach you."

(End of chapter)