Chapter 247: Forbidden Ice Needle, Continue Adapting!

"Are you specifically looking for me?" Hearing what Loychi said, many thoughts flashed through Gao De's mind, but he still couldn't grasp the other party's intention.

Mainly, he couldn't find a reason for the other party to specifically look for him.

Gao De carefully recalled everything he had done since entering the northern realm, and there was indeed nothing special.

"That's right, we are specifically looking for you."

"You ran away quite fast, and it took us a lot of effort to find you." Loychi looked at Gao De with a half-smile.

"I was entrusted by Guardian Baruke, and I traveled thousands of miles from the Snuofu Clan to your branch, just to help deliver a letter. Not to mention how much credit I have, there is always hard work, but the people in your branch actually harbored malice toward me." Gao De, seeing that Loychi was unkind, spoke up to defend himself.

"Although I don't know the specific reason, I didn't do anything out of line; I just sensibly ran away as early as possible. Why go as far as sending hunters to track me for thousands of miles?"

Gao De was both accusing and asking for clarification.

This matter, he felt somewhat inexplicable from beginning to end.

According to the situation of the Snow Plain Guardians introduced by Baruke, not to mention order-good, how could it be a neutral-good organization? Why did they do "ingratitude" to him? "Entrusted by Baruke..." At this time, the hunter wearing a mask behind Gao De spoke, and what surprised Gao De was that it was actually a female voice.

"According to the news received by the sect, Baruke is highly likely to have abandoned the doctrine and committed slaughter on the snow plains for his own selfish desires. We cannot find Baruke's whereabouts for the time being, so naturally, we have to find you, an outsider who claims to be entrusted by Baruke, first."

Gao De was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly shouted, "How is that possible?"

"Baruke abandoned the doctrine and slaughtered northern tribes? He just intervened to save the Snuofu Clan, who were besieged by the snow wolf beast tide, and nearly lost his life in the wolf pack not long ago. How could he have abandoned the doctrine?"

"The one who abandoned the doctrine is someone else. Baruke discovered that there was another mastermind manipulating the beast tide behind the scenes, which is highly likely to have come from within the Snow Plain Guardians."

"It's just that Baruke was seriously injured to save the Snuofu Clan and could not move, so he entrusted me to help deliver the message."

Gao De explained briefly and quickly: "If you don't believe me, you can go to the Snuofu Clan to ask about the situation."

"Snuofu Clan?" Catherine, who was wearing a bronze mask, chuckled, her eyes under the mask very cold, "Where is the Snuofu Clan now?"

Gao De was stunned and subconsciously asked: "What do you mean?"

Catherine snorted coldly: "The Snuofu Clan was long ago submerged by the snow wolf beast tide. When we arrived, the huge tribe had already become ruins, full of skeletons, and no one survived."

When Gao De heard this, his heart went cold.

At this point, how could he not react? It must be that the mastermind drove the beast tide to attack the Snuofu Clan again after he left, completing the silencing.

And Baruke, who was almost unable to move, had also died in this second beast tide attack in nine out of ten cases.

More importantly, the mastermind who possessed this ability was clearly an extraordinary existence within the Snow Plain Guardians.

The so-called news of "Baruke abandoning the doctrine" must also have been deliberately released by this mastermind to frame Baruke.

What should I do now? Explain the specific situation?

Empty words, how to explain? If Baruke really died in the beast tide, that would be death without proof, and this was a high-probability event.

The mastermind is also a big figure in the Snow Plain Guardians. The arm cannot twist the thigh. He is an outsider, and he is on someone else's territory. How can he prove his innocence and protect himself? Isn't he just being manipulated? Run? Can't run... The other party is a hunter among the Snow Plain Guardians, at least a second-circle mage. If he runs, he might even suffer heavy losses.

Various thoughts flashed through Gao De's mind, and finally, he found that he had actually fallen into an unsolvable situation.

He never expected that a simple letter-delivery mission would bring him such big trouble.

"You'd better honestly come with us." Catherine, wearing a bronze mask, said coldly.

Gao De, at this moment, really had a feeling of a mute eating coptis, having bitterness that he couldn't speak of.

"Rest assured, the doctrine of our Snow Plain Guardians is to guard the snow plains, and we never kill the innocent, let alone easily convict a Guardian."

"If it is finally discovered that Guardian Baruke is innocent, we will definitely not make things difficult for you anymore." That Loychi even kindly comforted Gao De.

It was just that Gao De clearly didn't dare to hold such expectations.

This mastermind could even take action to eliminate Baruke; he is a first-circle mage, and he is on someone else's territory, so he must be easily manipulated.

"Don't waste so much breath on him. We didn't take action directly, which is already giving him enough face." Compared to Loychi, Catherine was much more indifferent.

"I understand." Among the two, Catherine's status was clearly higher, so Loychi, upon hearing this, just shrugged and answered, then paced forward slowly, approaching Gao De.

"You'd better not have too many thoughts. If you force me to take action, I might not be able to control the severity."

Gao De watched Loychi approaching gradually, finally gritted his teeth, quickly added 【Skating Spell】 to himself, and ran away.

Although Loychi and Catherine being able to track him on the vast snow plains was enough to show the other party's strength, it was not Gao De's style to surrender without even trying.

What if the other party was just bluffing him?

In the case of not being able to accurately know the other party's mage level, everything is possible.

But just as Gao De lifted his legs and ran two steps, Catherine let out a cold snort.

The next moment, Gao De felt a violent impact on his mind, as if an invisible force had suddenly crashed into the depths of his brain.

In an instant, his thinking became chaotic, and everything in front of him became blurred.

Following that, an intense numbness swept through his whole body, spreading from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

Gao De's footsteps stopped abruptly, and his whole body stiffened in place, as if he had been hit by an anesthetic needle.

2nd-circle enchantment spell, 【Human Hold Person】! Gao De had already been controlled by this powerful spell power, and even blinking became difficult, only his thinking could operate, reacting to what he had been hit by.

At this point, he no longer held any fluke mentality.

The other party was indeed a genuine second-circle or higher mage.

Loychi walked slowly toward Gao De and shook his head: "Why bother? Isn't this looking for trouble?"

Gao De couldn't move, and he already understood in his heart that he really had no room to resist this time, so he could only follow the other party's wishes.

After speaking, Loychi took out an exquisite ice crystal bottle from his pocket.

As soon as the ice crystal bottle was opened, a chill rushed toward his face.

Gao De glanced at it and discovered that the bottle actually contained many tiny ice needles.

These ice needles were as small as hair, and the number was around twenty.

"Looking at this guy's mental strength, he is just a first-circle mage who has just been promoted." Catherine, who had just cast 【Human Hold Person】 to control him, said lightly to Loychi. 【Human Hold Person】, as an enchantment spell, is essentially a mental attack, only effective against existences whose mental strength is weaker than the caster.

And in this process of mental confrontation, Catherine, as the caster, could also perceive the other party's mental strength.

Of course, the premise is that the mental strength must be weaker than hers.

This is like arm wrestling; the winner naturally knows how much strength the loser has.

But the loser cannot know how much strength the winner has, only that it is greater than their own.

"Just promoted to a first-circle mage... then five should be enough." Hearing Catherine say this, Loychi nodded.

Afterward, right under Gao De's gaze, Loychi took out five crystal-clear, hair-thin ice needles from the ice crystal bottle.

Then, right under Gao De's gaze, Loychi's technique was like a skilled old Chinese doctor, his wrists turned slightly, and with an extremely elegant posture, like acupuncture, he inserted these five ice needles one by one into the various vital acupuncture points of Gao De's body.

Each insertion of an ice needle was accompanied by a slight tremor of Gao De's body, but he tried to remain calm.

"What is this?" At this time, the effect of 【Human Hold Person】 had passed, and Gao De, whose body had recovered sensation, changed his face slightly and couldn't help but ask.

"Forbidden Ice Needle. Don't look at it as thin as hair, but its main material is True Ice." Loychi introduced to Gao De leisurely.

"True Ice?!!!" Gao De was shocked in his heart. The prestige of True Ice was something he, an outsider who had just entered the northern realm, had heard of.

"Yes, the reason it is called the Forbidden Ice Needle is because I used a special technique to insert them into your mana circulation route, and only I can take them out of your body."

Loychi explained: "On the surface of the ice needle, we attached a layer of special material that isolates the chill. Usually, this Forbidden Ice Needle cannot cause any impact on your body."

"But as long as you want to mobilize mana to cast a spell, the process of mana circulation will inevitably touch these ice needles, and then the Forbidden Ice Needle will be activated to release the chill of True Ice."

Loychi's eyes became sharp: "The chill of True Ice is the best in the world, even the Ice-Born bloodline cannot withstand it, let alone you, an outsider."

"Even if it's just a little bit of True Ice, it's enough for you to experience what it means to be in pain."

"If you don't believe me, you can try it." Loychi grinned, revealing his white teeth.

Gao De felt a chill in his heart, and his expression had become extremely ugly.

He tried to mobilize the mana in his body, trying to verify whether what Loychi said was true or just bluffing.

The next instant, his mana touched some indescribable foreign object.

Following that, a bone-piercing, extreme chill that was hard to describe in words erupted from his body.

This chill, like ten thousand arrows piercing the heart, went straight into the bone marrow, and besides the cold, it also brought Gao De incomparable pain.

In just a split second, Gao De was already gasping for air, his face turned as pale as paper, and cold sweat dripped from his forehead.

Hearing a hundred times is not as good as seeing once; seeing a hundred times is not as good as experiencing once.

He had always heard that the chill of True Ice had no equal in the world, but only after experiencing it personally could he know what a terrifying existence it was.

Even though Gao De had the primary Ice-Blessed Body, in front of this kind of chill, it was just a decoration.

Seeing Gao De's expression, Loychi's mouth curled into a playful smile: "Believe it now?"

"Don't blame me for not reminding you. Trying once is enough. If you come a few more times, the chill of True Ice will also cause great damage to your body."

"However, you can be considered a tough guy. Ordinary people feel the chill of True Ice for the first time, and they are so painful that they can't even stand still, but you didn't even hum." Even, he had the mind to praise Gao De.

Of course, Loychi didn't know that this was because of Gao De's experience in prison, which allowed him to adapt to an extremely high pain tolerance.

"This thing, we generally only use it on people who are truly tricky. Using it on a first-circle mage like you can be considered looking up to you." On the other side, looking at Gao De, whose face was gradually returning to normal, Catherine snorted coldly.

With the Forbidden Ice Needle, Gao De is equivalent to an ordinary person, unable to cast a single spell.

Naturally, the two don't need to worry about Gao De playing any more tricks.

"Then I am truly honored." Gao De suddenly became calm and responded calmly to Catherine's undisguised "sarcasm."

This reaction made the two look sideways slightly.

Ordinary mages are mostly broken when they find they cannot mobilize mana.

For transcendents, losing transcendent power is often harder to accept than losing life.

And being able to return to calm so quickly like Gao De is really rare.

In fact, what the two didn't know was that Gao De was not only returning to calm at this moment, but even becoming somewhat happy.

Because just in the process of triggering the Forbidden Ice Needle, along with the chill of True Ice, there was some natural information: 【Enduring the chill of True Ice, your cold resistance increased by 100.3%】.

Information from the specialty 【Adaptation】.

The cold resistance, which had stopped increasing and was fixed at 100.1%, jumped up by 0.2% the moment he triggered the Forbidden Ice Needle, reaching 100.3%.

And this was just an instantaneous increase.

Moreover, the 【Adaptation】 triggered by the Forbidden Ice Needle didn't stop there:

【Enduring the pain of extreme cold, your pain tolerance increased by 67.5%】.

【Suffering from extreme cold injury, your body's injury recovery ability increased by 1.1%】.

One Forbidden Ice Needle triggered three 【Adaptation】 increases, including the cold resistance that had already evolved into the primary Ice-Blessed Body.

A blessing in disguise? This Forbidden Ice Needle, on the surface, is a restriction on him, a shackle, but in fact, it can also be viewed as a "cheat" for quickly grinding experience.

With 【Adaptation】, he can completely improve his cold resistance by continuously and actively triggering the Forbidden Ice Needle.

And when the cold resistance is increased to a certain level, the chill of True Ice will be nothing but an itch to him.

The so-called forbidden magic will naturally be self-defeating and lose its meaning.

This feeling of freedom being within reach made Gao De's originally depressed mood relax a lot.

It's just that the only thing that can be resolved is the crisis from the "Forbidden Ice Needle." How to throw off this black pot, Gao De still has no clue.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 248 =====