Where cold creatures roam

'This is only an advanced creature. wow it was powerful.'

'Advanced creatures power varies, and some are mentally superior while others are physically stronger.'

'The two new skills I got are [limb regrowth] and [stillness increase]'

the first one helps me regrow severed limbs. while the other increase his energy gathering speed as long as he stays still and the more still and as time progresses the increase strengthens.

'This will help my control focus and mind strengthen'

I was tired from my mind berating, and the sun was getting low. So, I decided to eat the core and it broke then tasted smooth. It left a cool tinge at the back of his throat. He quickly finished it.

[first eaten howling mirror core] {1600exp, 15int stat, 5con stat}

[Quest Complete-Kill creature 50 levels higher] {random rare control skill}

[Quest Complete-kill first advanced being] {2x random uncommon nature skill}

---obtained---

[Rare- growing ice manipulation] {control the creeping ice element}

[Uncommon- environment integration] {allows user to blend into the environment}

[Uncommon- Nature sense] {feel the flow of natural energy}

It seems I'm level 14 already, this has been a great start.

'Now with the nature sense I can feel the natural energy flowing around and into those trees then disappearing.'

"I think they are living creatures like the pond." Rein said as he walked over to the broken tree. He hit them middle of the tree hoping to get the core beneath. But it was hard to split, and when he got close to tree trunk, he heard the heavy rings. so, he used the glaive to split the trunk more.

The trunk split revealing a green core, poking out of the earth. He grabbed the core and pulled out out, with a thunk.

[First kill Basic- siren bell tree] {600exp, 3int stat}

he started biting the core and this one had a spongier texture than the pond.

[First eaten Basic- siren bell core] {700exp, 5int stat}

'Now it's time to get the other ones.'

I went around and took the cores from each tree around the pond. There were 15 trees in total, and I got another 5 levels from them, and my intelligence reached 119.

I looked around and made sure no creatures were around, then I ventured deeper into the forest. As he moved further in it got colder and colder. The trees were also becoming larger and larger.

He came across a dark blue tiger with two tails and dark ice spikes running toward its back. Its strips were white while its body was dark blue. Or maybe his strips were dark blue while his body is white. It doesn't matter because the creature was jumped on by short white wolf.

It didn't stop as it ran past me too. Soon after a thumping was heard and many monkey like blue creatures came running and swinging and jumping from the direction the wolf came. Many were holding clubs and the tiger quickly sped off. I was going to try my luck with the apes. So, I aimed my spear at them.

"You can't fight this many, or it will be a weaker repeat of your first death." Sys said.

'Your right' I thought and turned to catch up to the wolf. I soon caught up to the fast creature and noticed it had something in its mouth.

"Why are they after you" I said with a series of growls. It only snorted as it ran acting like it didn't hear me. I asked again and it suddenly took off running faster as we went deeper into the forest. But that didn't stop me as I moved through the trees, quickly catching up again. A bigger monkey was slowly gaining on them as well.

The wolf started to get frustrated with the fact I was keeping up. So, it let out a few muffled barks I assumed it wanted to leave the monkeys to overtake him. It kept speeding up, but so did I manage to remain by its side and above it. The trees provided a disadvantage to its speed, while they only help me.

Then an axe went flying between them into a tree in front of them. It split the tree straight down the middle and it hit me into another tree. The creature large monkey gained even more distant on me, and they had a crazed aura and roars.

"Tell me what they want and ill lead us to a place we can fight them." I said as I started running again.

Woof* woof* the wolf said just as quickly while shaking its head up and down. I made a turn and the wolf started following me now. That ape was still on our tail as well. We ran toward a large hill sticking out of the tree line. It was devoid of any trees.

we didn't have time to worry about that, since we just broke the tree line. we made our way up the hill and got ready to battle. Only moments later two blue apes appeared from the tree line. One had a crude metal axe, and the other had a metal club. The ape smashed the club on the ground causing cracks and fissures to form all around the base of the hill.

Right after the other ape used control to make ice spikes form from the cracks and fissures. The spikes were over ten feet long and had smaller spikes pointing at the hilltop. the apes stopped chasing and started beating their chests and roaring. It was like a war drum.

'This is the best chance to find out what the wolf carrying'

"Oh no, they trapped us up here. but I can get us out of here." I said to the wolf standing behind me, growling ready to fight. As it heard it didn't hesitate to nod fast.

"Well, I'll get us both out if you give me what you're holding." The wolf shook its head while jumping back in a huff. Then it gave three muffled barks I know that told him to go fuck himself.

"Ok

While this happened the two apes kept thumping louder as more apes began to surround the circle. Each of them joining into the rhythm making it sound like thunder. It also gave a cold aura to the ring and cemented the already frozen ground.

"time's ticking and I bet your ears are hurting."