Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

Ted repositioned himself far away from Irene. He had to change his plans and takedown the woman first before he could reach that little girl. Playing with his dagger, he said "I must admit you are quite skilled but don't think that it is enough to defeat me. I have not used all of my powers yet however, it seems that you are worthy enough for me to go all out".

Irene silently circulated her powers, the air surrounding her started to freeze at a rapid speed and a layer of ice started to appear all around the house. Currently, she was wearing an ice blue phoenix mask and even though she tried to hide her face, her lustrous pink lips that could tug at one's soul were still in full display.

After these past few weeks of continuous levelling, her level had risen to 103, but even though her level had increased by a hundred, most of her powerful skills were still locked. However, it was still enough to overwhelm Ted who according to her analysis was a level 379 [Killer Assassin].

With a frenzied look in his eyes, Ted activated all his skills "Frenzy, Super cutting enhancement, Super agility, Baleful aura, Super Strength, Body enhancement". His body started making cracking sounds and the entire aura around him seemed to have been amplified.

With just a light step, the floor beneath him immediately cracked and his body sprang forth leaving a sonic boom in his wake.

FLASH… FLASH… FLASH… FLASH… he was so fast that he left many afterimages and it became increasingly hard to spot him for even an instant. "Hahaha, playtime's over. Now then I wonder if you can keep up," Ted said in a self-confident tone as he zipped around.

The dagger he was holding onto had a reddish-brown aura laced onto it due to the [Baleful Aura] skill that was applied to it.

He zoomed around Irene and charged towards her from the side. "Gale Magic Mastery:- Howling Wind" Ted cast Gale magic on his dagger and sparks immediately started coming out of them as they slashed through the air.

An attack so sharp that it could even slash Whitesilver in half sped towards Irene. Whitesilver is a type of metal that is said to be ten times stronger than ordinary metal and is used for forging weapons and armours.

Ted was sure that the woman in azure blue clothing wouldn't be able to take on his attack which was up until now able to take down all his enemies in one shot.

However, the scene that unfolded after was so shocking that even Ted couldn't have imagined that in his wildest of dreams. The attack that was powerful enough to even slice Whitesilver in half was stopped in its path by a block of thick ice.

CLANG… a sound of metal colliding with metal echoed out as the thick wall of ice easily withstood his attack that had previously been able to take down all of his enemies. Freeze… before he could even organize his thoughts, he was forced to pull back as the dagger stuck to the ice wall was starting to get frozen.

Now standing a good distance away from the woman, Ted looked at his hand which had a layer of frost covering it with disbelief. The attack he was so confident of was stopped in its track by the ice wall, the moment his attack collided with the ice wall it was as if all the power behind the attack mysteriously vanished.

The power contained within that ice wall was so great that it was able to nearly freeze his arm the instant the dagger made contact with it. His mind was in disorder and his self-confident aura was deflated but how could Irene give him enough time to reorganize his thoughts.

Lightly twisting her body, she immediately floated in the air as an azure blue light wrapped around her body, and her jade white hands made a profound seal. An icy cold wind blew across the entire Forest Spring Spirit Village and the temperature around the surrounding sharply plummeted.

Cecilia who was standing behind Irene looked at their confrontation with wide-open eyes. The power displayed by the man was so great that she couldn't even see his movements and his attacks that were so pressuring was easily deflected by Irene.

Not only that but the man was slowly getting pressured instead as he faced Irene and was starting to get cornered.

"Permafrost Magic Mastery:- Eternal Ice Light" Irene's beautiful voice sounded out. Permafrost Magic is the advanced tier form of the novice tier Ice magic. Similar to infernal magic, Permafrost magic required an immense amount of mana to cast.

Fortunately, in these past few weeks, Irene had levelled up quite a bit and hence can barely sustain the immense consumption of the advanced tier Permafrost magic. The azure light surrounding her became piercingly bright in an instant before she released her magic.

Alarm bells were continuously ringing on Ted's head as he looked in terror at the logic-defying speed by which the woman was casting an advance tier magic. Though the advanced tier magic held enough power to flatten a big city in an instant, it took a large amount of time to cast such magic.

Even a master tier [Grand Sage] won't be able to cast magic at this speed. It was precisely because the advanced tier magic required a long period of casting, that it made them vulnerable and opened up opportunities for others to disturb the flow of the magic.

However, he couldn't believe the spectacle in front of his eyes. The advanced tier magic that required a long period of time to cast was being completed at a speed that defied all logic.

The increased sense of danger snapped him out of his daze, he swiftly dashed towards Cecilia as he believed that the woman wouldn't be able to use her advanced tier magic on him if he captured Cecilia.

Nonetheless, he still underestimated Irene's prowess and skills that were at the pinnacle of this world. The advanced tier permafrost magic was completed, the azure light filled the entirety of the village except for the room where the Forest Spring Spirits were enslaved.

The light was so bright that Cecilia had to cover her eyes and when she opened them back, everything for as far as she could see was covered in a thick layer of ice. A few meters ahead of her was the man completely covered in multiple layers of ice making a grabbing motion towards her.

Seeing that the man was so close to her, Cecilia panicked and tried to step back but her ankle slipped and she fell on the cold floor that was now covered with a thick layer of ice.

"Don't worry he is completely frozen" Irene helped her get back up and assured. Nodding her head, she looked around the surroundings and seemed to be still in a daze. At this moment a cracking noise came from Ted's frozen body alerting the both of them.

Irene observed the frozen body carefully before she finally realized that the cracking noise was coming from the object that was in that person's hand. An unusual white light came out of the object that looked like a small shell.

The white light slowly broke through the ice and mysteriously disappeared. Irene creased her delicate brows, she was aware of what that peculiar light was.

It was a sound transmission sent by the shell that was in the hand of that person. It seemed that during the last moments of his life, the person decided that it was futile to dodge the attack and instead chose to send a sound transmission to someone.

It was exactly as Irene had surmised. Ted knew that he couldn't dodge the advance tier magic in time and thus decided to send the news back to his guild using the transmission shell given to him by one of the Seven Swords.

He had to make sure that the guild knows about the terrifying prowess of the women and hoped that they could take appropriate measures before things started getting out of control.

Cecilia was surprised when the ice statue started making cracking noises but was relieved to find that there was no further movement.. "What was that white light?" she asked as she had also seen the white light cracking out of the ice and disappearing.