Chapter 5, The Servant Of Winter 2

I shatter the right side of my ribs and free myself from the Spike of Ice impaling me. How in Null's name did his Ice not dissipate into mana as it passed through the Green flames?

Green Flames or Ghost Flames are flames that induces Fear, Chills of death while also eating away all of the mana around it to nothing, thus it is the natural enemies of mages and wizards.

A single seed of green flame if placed correctly could nullify an entire Barrage fireball and absorb all of its mana growing larger in an instant.

But despite all that, That thing's Ice still manages to pass through it without losing a single bit of man-

Another barrage of rooted Ice spikes passes through the wall of flames and attack the area around me and the others by thrashing around and growing more ice spikes to thrust them all over.

Williams and the Haunts manage to avoid all of them but the others could not be said the same as some of them are either impaled into a skewer by it or smacked by its side.

[Give them back!] Said the silhouette annoyed through telepathy.

"If you are so keen on trying retrieve those slugs then they must hold something very precious yes?" I said excited at the fact that they are apparently not useless after all.

Hm?

Something then catches my eye when I look at the rooted Ice spike's parts where it passes the Green flames. From the edges of the Ice spike's that touches the green flames I can see a bluish aura coming out of the Ice spike being absorbed into the green flame, so it is affected by the green flames.

Although I have realize that the Ice spikes are indeed affected I still do not understand why it hasn't start to shrink and dissipate into nothing. Bah! Forget it! I should focus on driving this creature away from here first!

"John! Go run pass those flames and-"

***

What the hell is it with these flames! They won't even go out under this much snow!

I send roots of ice spikes pass the flames but despite its utter coldness the flames just grows stronger instead. Out of all the enemies I have to fight why must it be an annoying undead, moreover why did he even capture them in the first place!?

If this flames won't go out then I'll just have to bury them with ice-

Suddenly a large fat Zombie jumps passes through the flames and shows its dirty rotting teeth towards me ready to bite down on me. I destroy its head and impale its heart with my roots of ice killing it and making it fall violently onto the ground beside me.

Does he really think that by just sending a single undead pass these flames of his he would even manage to defeat me?

I forgot how much idiotic undeads are.

"Klacklack!"

?

I look to the zombie corpse beside me, Is it still alive?

I knock its body over and Black skulls with blue flames falls of its stomach glowing brightly as their fire grows bigger and bigger, what are-

Before I could finish the skulls exploded infront of my face launching me far back the hallway.

*Tack*

As I got launch back to the hallway I could feel my right middle thorax leg shatter and breaks away from me in the air. The snow surrounding the hallway quickly catches me in the air and quickly creates an exact replica of my right middle thorax leg made of pure Ice and sticks it onto my middle thorax.

Soon after the Ice begins to melt and my leg was back made of chitin and good as new, if I was a normal Black Fourmi then all of this wouldn't even be possible but dear Hexios that was close!

Had it been closer to my head I'd be knocked out for sure! This undead is no idiot, I can't imagine how Lilac even deals with these types of undead, moreover he doesn't even care about sacrificing his comrades by turning them into bombs.

Infront of me the green flames burns out revealing the skeleton wearing that.... Hat. He nonchalantly walks forward with his undead underlings behind him staying still.

"OHO! So that is your true form! All this time I thought you were an oversized black slug! Moreover I thought you are their father for a second but I was Wroo~oong!!" Shout the skeleton surprised.

"Who would have thought a FOURMI would be the one trying to return them! MOREOVER! A fourmi able to withstand this much cold!? You must truly have an intresting morphology and Physiology to be able to endure all this!!" He gleefully shouted while he dance around grabbing snow off the ground.

What is wrong with this undead? Aren't undead supposed to be dumber than goblins?

"I truly can't wait to dissect that body of yours! I want it! I want to learn it! I lust for it!" He shouted happily as he throw the snow upwards making it rain from the ceiling.

"And for that..... You must die" he said bluntly.

[Out of all the Undead I've faced, you are one sick bastard] I said frankly.

I created gigantic roots made of ice at the size of a small boulder around me and launch them forward towards the skeleton.

"Charlotte! Combine now!"

A barrage of flying burning skulls comes rushing out from behind him like a swarm of wasps which then moves infront of him and all of them fuses together creating a large burning sphere made entirely of skulls blocking the hallway with its body.

Doesn't matter, I'll just wreck through them.

The roots thrust themselves onto the Sphere of skulls trying to wreck through only to be stop stopped by the sphere entirely. How in the- What's up with this thing! Fine I'll just blow it up!

[Frostnova!]

A pure white orb forms around the roots of ice and explodes destroying the hallway and turning it into a huge crater filled with Ice and snow whilst leaving a thick chilling mist.

I have never seen anything survive [Frostnova] directly upclose and I doubt that large lump of skull could either, but just incase I make my roots of Ice thrash around trying to destroy everything within its vicinity to nothing but debris.

Suddenly from the mist flies out 2 ghostly entities with their sickles drawn out nearly invisible to my eye as they were transparent, Wraiths?

I disintegrate the transparent sickles by creating a small blizzard made entirely cold wind around me as a shield.

"Blast! I almost had him!" He shouted angrily.

Shit, does he control every single creature within this floor or something!?

Although if I remember correctly, from what Lilac had mention me last time all of them should be low ranking wraiths belonging to around H rank, they shouldn't be too much of a problem. I need to quickly go back to being the offensive, I am getting pushed back.

The chilling mist clears up and the sphere lump of skulls is nowhere to be seen, perfect.

I create more gigantic roots made of ice from the snow around me and move them together forwards with the roots near the crater I created. Instead of running away he gets up on the back of one of his pale undead underling and rides it towards me while the rest of the undead follows him as he charges.

***

Blast you wind! If it wasn't for that sudden blizzard that suddenly appear around him I would have manage to stick 2 sickles inside that Fourmi's head! Once again, BLAST YOU WIND!!

Calm down Sol Van Heim, you need to act quickly and make sure this last plan of yours works!

As the roots of Ice spike come close so does my plan to victory comes closer to become true. I may be weak, pathetic, and a coward alone... But with my servants by my side! I SHALL PREVAIL THROUGH ANYTHING THROWN AT ME!!!

"Williams! after we defeat that Fourmi I shall make sure have you evolve into a greater undead!" I shouted.

Soon after we meet face to face with the roots of Ice spikes. While carrying me on his back William manages to dodge 3 of the Ice roots coming at us, but alas we got hit on the 4th. Williams body is impaled and I jump of from him. The root of ice that impaled Williams turns its edge into a Morningstar exploding Williams to bits and pieces.

Don't worry Williams! I shall create you a new body after this!

I land on my feet on the floor littered with snow and I proceed to run forward towards the Black Fourmi. Infront of me I could se 2 more Ice roots slithering their way towards me.

While running I rustle my bag and search for a bright purple jar inside. I grab the Jar and as I look back forward I see a giant root of ice about to scatter and shatter my bones all over by crashing into me.

"CHARLOTTE!!" I shouted full of vigor.

A swarm of bones appear from the snow all around and headbutts the root of ice infront of me upwards, THANK NULL some of them manage to disperse on time. When I saw an orb infront of Charlotte I was certain that it was trouble and so I told her and the other haunts to disperse immediately, sadly only around 50 of them made it unshattered to pieces.

"CHARLOTTE! PROTECT ME!!!" I Shouted.

As I continue to run forwards passing the 5th root of ice Charlotte and the other haunts flies quickly infront of me and they all fuses together once again into a sort of shield made of skulls.

As the 6th and final root of ice comes closer it turns its edges into a The same shape of a Morningstar that exploded William to pieces and strikes at us with full force, DISPERSE! DISPERSE!!!

As it strikes down on us I jump to the side however my whole entire right arm including my suit's sleeve is ripped away as they were hit in the rubble. Agh! Although I as undead cannot feel physical pain this is taking quite the toll on my precious suit!!

I land on my feet onto the snow once again and-

*Crack*

I ignore the cracking sounds coming from my legs and feet and I continue to run straight foward towards the fourmi that is now right in front of me. When I splash you with this special acid of mine you shall regret ever ripping my suit!!!

"REVEEEEEENGEEEE!!!" I shouted.

I smash the jar onto the fourmis head releasing the acid inside all over as a sudden root of Ice thrust me from below him striking my spine, shattering it, making my skull fall off hitting the snow floor and my vision becoming a blur.

From the blur I could see the fourmi struggling and panicking in pain as the highly concentrated acid I created burn and melts away his head, seconds later my vision started to darken and soon after it became nothing but the abyss.