Second World Chapter 990 990. Scaling A Moving Ice Mountain

Chapter 990 990. Scaling A Moving Ice Mountain

The colossal ice golem looked slow, but when the foot came, it was very fast. Luckily, both Red Death and Rayne were fast-moving cla.s.ses. They jumped and rolled in different directions as the ma.s.sive foot stomped where they stood a moment ago.

The ground cracked open from the force of the stomp. Ice dust filled the air.

Red Death tried using her Inspect on the golem but failed. All she managed to get was the golem's name, Ice t.i.tan.

The ice t.i.tan saw that its stomp had failed to hit the two. Its fist now came down.

Red Death saw the t.i.tan was targeting her. The gigantic fist came down from heaven to where she was running to. She immediately made a sharp turn before the fist slammed onto the ground.

Rayne made a throwing motion. Five flying knives flew up and struck the head of the t.i.tan. The head was low enough because it bent down when it punched the ground. Although Rayne was mostly a.s.sa.s.sin-based, he also had a few skills from Hidden Weapon Specialists.

The five flying knives just bounced off the t.i.tan's hard skin. A small damage number appeared above the t.i.tan's head. Rayne's sharp eyes could see the faraway numbers, which demoralized him. Each hit from the flying knives only caused 1 point of damage.

The flying knives didn't attract any of the t.i.tan's attention, it was still focusing on Red Death. The arm it just used to punch was now sweeping along the icy ground, sc.r.a.ping all the snow. The hand was chasing after Red Death.

The t.i.tan's lower arm was flat on the ground during the sweeping motion. It covered a very wide area. Whether Red Death ran to the left or right, it was not enough to escape the arm's reach. Hence, she jumped upward when the arm almost got her.

She lost the double jump ability after exchanging her original unique boots with the set equipment given by Wrath. But one of the abilities from this set equipment enhanced her jump, enabling her to jump even higher than a normal a.s.sa.s.sin.

Her enhanced jump allowed her to escape the t.i.tan's arm, but she saw the t.i.tan's other hand come from the opposite direction. Its opened large palm was bigger than her body and it was right beside her.

"Red…!" Rayne called worriedly when he saw the t.i.tan's hand clenched around Red Death's figure who was in the air, but his mental connection with her informed him that she was all right.

The t.i.tan opened its clenched hand but Red Death was not there. Red Death had used Vanish just as the t.i.tan's hand was about to grab her. She teleported away and was now in invisible mode.

She sent Rayne a mental message to distract the t.i.tan.

"Distract? For what?!" Rayne asked, but Red Death didn't answer.

There was no need for Rayne to create a distraction. With Red Death being invisible, its attention was now on Rayne.

"s.h.i.t!" Rayne uttered when he saw the t.i.tan stand back up. It took a step. Its foot was aiming for Rayne.

Rayne immediately ran away. The t.i.tan chased after him step after step.

When the two were focusing on one another, Red Death was following the t.i.tan from behind. She appeared again when she used a skill. A non-standard skill that could be learned by any ranger basic cla.s.s, Grappling Hook. The skill shot a rope that could attach to any surface and pull the user toward the object it attached to. At the first level, the rope was 30 meters long, its cooldown was 20 seconds.

The grappling hook attached itself to the back of the t.i.tan's knee before pulling Red Death up. Red Death used her daggers and stabbed them into the t.i.tan's icy skin to allow her to cling to the leg. She was glad that Wrath had given her these unique-grade daggers. If it was still her old daggers, she was not confident that it could pierce the t.i.tan's hard ice skin.

Even though the daggers managed to penetrate the t.i.tan's skin, the resulting damage was still only 1 HP damage. The t.i.tan similarly didn't feel these stabs. It continued to chase after Rayne. It was oblivious that Red Death was on its leg.

Seeing that the t.i.tan didn't show any response, Red Death pulled out one dagger and stabbed it at a higher part of the leg. She alternated between her two arms and slowly made her way up the t.i.tan's leg.

But it was easier said than done. The t.i.tan constantly moved around. Red Death had to make sure that her stab was deep enough so that she could continue to cling to the t.i.tan even with all those shakings. The t.i.tan's skin was also hard like stone, making her feel like she was climbing an actual mountain instead of a living creature. If anyone ever climbed a steep mountain during an earthquake, this should feel like that.

There was a time when the t.i.tan made a sudden twisting movement to give Rayne a hard punch. This sudden movement caused Red Death to lose her grasp. Luckily, her grappling hook was off cooldown and she used it in the air to get back to the t.i.tan's body.

She was more careful then and tried to predict when the t.i.tan was attempting any large move. She would then stay still and prioritize holding on to the t.i.tan's body.

Carefully, she made her way up slowly. She was now on the upper waist part. When she was still climbing, she caught movements from a few icy layers on the t.i.tan's back.

She was unsure at first because the t.i.tan was constantly moving, but then these icy layers grew legs. She could see then that what she saw were some sort of ice bugs clinging to the t.i.tan's body. These ice bugs were now crawling toward her.

"d.a.m.nit!" She uttered. She used her Inspect and found that these ice bugs were level 65 special elites.

They were not a problem to her in a normal situation. But with her having to stay clinging onto the t.i.tan, these bugs were now huge problems.

Red Death saw six of these ice bugs crawling toward her. She kept one of her daggers inside the t.i.tan's body while the other dagger was ready to deal with the incoming bugs. Her fast movement which was her edge was now nullified in the current situation. She had to fight while staying still and with only one hand.

Luckily, the bugs didn't seem to have any ranged capabilities. They came and attacked using their mouths, which were filled with sharp teeth. She stabbed the incoming bugs who tried to bite her with her fast-stabbing motion. She aimed at their mouths, deflecting their attacks as well as damaging them since her damage power was higher. The demon tooth in his hand granted large damage points.

With six bugs circling her, she was unable to fend off every attack, though. Some managed to bite her. Each bite of these bugs delivered ice damage and had a chance to cause freeze status. Luckily, aside from providing high defense, Wrath's set gears also gave her immunity to freeze and resistance to the ice element. This allowed her to tank these bugs' attacks even when she was not a tank-type cla.s.s.

She didn't just stay pa.s.sive, though. She used Combat Clone. Her copy appeared behind one of the bugs that encircled her. This copy used the same gears as hers. The copy similarly stabbed one dagger to the t.i.tan's skin and then used the other dagger to stab the bug from behind.

The static battle went on for some time. Red Death and her clone managed to kill one bug with their coordinated attack, but Red Death's own HP kept on decreasing. Even though her unique set armor gave her very high defense, resistance, and pa.s.sive HP recovery, she was still an outworlder with a cla.s.s that generally had low HP.

When her HP fell to almost one-third, she waited for when the t.i.tan seemed to calm down and didn't do any sharp movement. She then used Phase Strike. She disappeared and reappeared at an upper elevation behind one of the ice bugs.

After completing her strike, she landed on the bug and sat on it. She first drank a recovery potion, before unleashing most of her melee skills on that bug, bringing its HP down rapidly.

When the t.i.tan moved again, she quickly pierced her one dagger into the t.i.tan's skin for a handhold again. In this way, he slowly wore down the ice bugs' HP. When his Phase Strike was still on cooldown, she used her non-standard skill, Back Shift, which had a similar effect.

With her porting around, some of the bugs started to shift their attention to her clone, allowing her a breather. Since her clone could not use any skills or drink potions, her clone fared worse than her. When the ice bugs were down to two, her clone also died.

But then she noticed something strange, the t.i.tan had stopped moving. She also received a mental warning from Rayne.

Red Death turned to where the t.i.tan's head was and saw the t.i.tan's two large blue eyes staring back at her.

Due to the long battle with the ice bugs, the ice t.i.tan was now aware of her existence on its body!