Chapter 261: Assassin's Metamorphosis!

With the burst of dazzling light, Ice Cream's body rapidly expanded in the light; amidst the endless frigidity, its posture underwent a tremendous change.

When the light faded, Ice Cream immediately returned from its Epic form to a size roughly that of a person, having completed its second evolution, appearing before the members of the Luoyue Guild.

A Frost Cold Crown hovered above its head; Ice Cream's head remained round, but was considerably smaller than before.

Or rather, its more mature proportions made its head appear even smaller relative to its body.

Below its head, the flowing skirt was replaced by a torso armor forged from pure ice crystal; beneath the armor, the skirt transformed into a plain white fish‑tail skirt.

The added segment of its body made its figure far more elegant and slender.

Six ice crystals exuding cold floated around Ice Cream, draped with icy‑blue gauze like a curtain, forming the new manifestation of the Azure Snow Gauze.

Aside from its pair of ice‑crystal eyes, the only thing unchanged was the Frost Guard Slash hovering in mid‑air, emanating piercing cold.

【Spirit Beast Race: Frostblade Dancer】

【Spirit Beast Attribute: Ice】

【Spirit Beast Level: Epic Tier Lv40】 (0/100000) 【Player Level reaching Epic allows advancement】

【Spirit Beast Trait: Blade Edge Dance】

【Spirit Beast Base Value: 100000】

【Spirit Beast Affection: 100%】

【Spirit Beast Skills: Moon·Frost Cold (Passive), Moon·Breaking Frost Slash (Active), Moon·Seek Frost Trace (Active), Moon·Snow Shadow (Active), Moon·Azure Snow Gauze (Active), Moon·Residual Frost Domain (Active), Moon·Flying Frost Instant Splendor Dance (Active)】

【Equipment Affixes: Extinction (Moon Halo Lv10), Eternal Winter (Moon Halo Lv10)】

【Current Affix Usage/Cooldown: 15 minutes/5 minutes】

【Spirit Beast Description: Ice Spirit Beast Frostblade Dancer, evolved from the Frost War Spirit, a ghostly assassin that stalks frost‑snow; the moment you see it, your death is sealed.】

Second Epic Tier Spirit Beast!

The moment Ice Cream locked eyes with him, a smile appeared on Qin Chuan's face.

In the past, whenever he had free time, he would exchange sword techniques with Ice Cream; this combat‑skill interaction noticeably sped up the growth of its affection, which had already reached 99% before the breakthrough.

Now, the sudden surge in power shattered the affection limit in an instant.

From now on, he can bring back two contract consciousnesses to the real world, instead of just one.

Thinking of this, Qin Chuan couldn't help but glance at Silver Horn nearby.

Silver Horn's affection currently stands at 98%.

Starting yesterday, Leonhart voluntarily took on the guild's chef duties, greatly improving the members' meals.

For Silver Horn, this food‑loving fellow, the rate at which affection increases can also rise significantly, putting 100% within reach.

Suppressing his swirling thoughts, Qin Chuan turned his gaze to Ice Cream's panel after its evolution.

The Epic Tier upgrade is largely the same as before.

What matters now are the new trait and the strengthened skills.

【Blade Edge Dance: Own defense reduced by 90%, all probabilistic affixes and skill effects are guaranteed to trigger】

This trait…

Qin Chuan finished reading, and his pupils contracted.

There is a phrase that describes danger: 'dancing on the blade's edge.'

This trait carries a hint of that feeling.

This is still the first time he has seen a trait that imposes a negative effect on himself.

Yet, while paying this price, its other effect is extremely strong.

All probabilistic affixes and skill effects are guaranteed to activate.

This means Extinction's 30% critical chance becomes 100%, guaranteeing that the affix effect translates into a 210% attack increase.

No, not just Extinction.

After Qin Chuan continued to examine the skill details, he suddenly realized that this trait granted Ice Cream a boost far greater than he had anticipated.

【Moon·Frost Cold: Passive skill, greatly lowering the temperature around the Spirit Beast; the extreme cold reduces enemy targets' speed by 60% within the area, and the condensed ice gains increased resistance to melting.】

【Moon·Breaking Frost Slash: Active skill, swinging the longsword releases a powerful burst of cold, instantly freezing and slicing the target at 150% attack; damage against targets in the Frostbound state is doubled.】

【Moon·Seek Frost Trace: Active skill, the user scatters into countless snowflakes, able to appear at any snowflake position within ten seconds; while in snowflake form, they can charge up, each second of charging increasing the next attack by 10% after materializing.】

【Moon·Snow Shadow: Active skill, constructs a clone of oneself from frost‑snow; the clone is unaffected by skill cooldown, releases the same skill once and then shatters, raising the next attack by 20%.】

【Moon·Azure Snow Gauze: Active skill, surrounds the body with a gauze condensed from extreme cold; if the gauze is touched it shatters, putting the toucher into Frostbound, and after the gauze breaks the next attack gains a 20% boost.】

【Frostbound: Target cannot move, lasting 2 seconds】

【Moon·Residual Frost Domain: Active skill, centered on the user generates a domain that applies Frostbound to enemies inside every 3 seconds; each Frostbound target within the domain grants a 10% attack increase, up to a maximum of 200%, lasting 12 seconds.】

【Moon·Flying Frost Instant Splendor Dance: Active skill, instantly delivers 12 consecutive slashes at 10% attack power to a designated target; each slash has a 20% chance to additionally deal 1% of the target's current HP, cooldown 60 seconds.】

After Shui Hua's earlier evolution, the changes to its skills were relatively uniform, mainly adding a stacking effect to the water‑flow marker.

With Ice Cream, however, the skill‑effect changes are far more complex.

First, Frost Cold: the description of temperature reduction gained 'greatly', and the resulting cold now has a tangible effect on foes—reducing their speed by 60%.

The improvement to Breaking Frost Slash is relatively simple, adding the phrase 'at 150% attack', meaning that, all else equal, its damage rises by 50% over the base.

Pure numbers, extreme power.

Seek Frost Trace changed from granting a 20% attack boost after materializing to, while in snowflake form, charging up—each second of charge adds 10% to the next attack.

At first glance the ratio seems lower, but the ceiling is higher.

Because Seek Frost Trace can maintain the snowflake state for up to ten seconds.

Snow Shadow shifted from being unable to attack to being able to ignore skill cooldown and unleash the same skill once; this lets Ice Cream instantly cast a skill twice, and the attack boost after the clone shatters remains as before.

Azure Snow Gauze lost its former ten‑second channeling requirement, meaning Ice Cream can now seamlessly chain the skill and enter combat more calmly.

In Residual Frost Domain's effect, the previous cap of a 10% attack increase per Frostbound target was 60%; now it is 200%, meaning Ice Cream can explode when many foes are grouped together.

The so-called assassin is one who takes the enemy's head among ten thousand troops.

As for the final skill, it is also a brand-new skill obtained after snow cream broke through the Epic stage: Flying Frost Instant Splendor Dance.

This is another bonus point of the trait Blade Tip Dance.

Paired with the equipment affix Eternal Winter and the Snowy Shadow after transformation, Qin Chuan seemed to have already seen a scene called cruelty.

Corresponding to the splendid transformation in form, there is a splendid leap in skill.

This wave is the assassin's transformation.

(End of chapter)