LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 448: Throne Hall
She moved like a ghostly mist with nothing able to track and attack her, but whenever she passed by an insect, its head would freeze and shatter.
It looked simple, but her offense skill was sophisticated. The Weave concept required her to weave something to activate it and what she weaved was white death for others!
Her Weave Imprint was an offensive skill that weaved different kinds of imprints with different effects, but all based on Ice's offensive aspects supposed by Life and Mist's aspects of Super Exotic Element and designed with Aethir's attributes.
So far, she had created 2 attack imprints—Ice Coffin and Specter Dust.
She mostly used Spectral Dust as it was highly penetrative with Mist and Life aspects that supported Ice to work its power. Mist could be invasive and Life supported Mist further to penetrate into a living target with Life.
As long as they were alive and living, Lily had made such that Spectral Dust could enter inside one with Aethir's attributes, mainly Liberty.
Upon entering, it would show its true colors and freeze the target from inside before beginning its destructure as the frozen micro-structure would fall apart and its life consumed.
This was why whenever Lily passed by and attacked an insect's head with a Spectral Dust imprint, its head would break into microdust—deader than dead!
Her movement-type skill was Mist Ghost and was similar to Isabella in the sense that it worked with her body turning into elemental form. Lily was always more proficient in that, so her new movement skill was also similar, but just more enhanced and way better.
Just like other skills, this movement-type skill was also sophisticated with Aethir's attributes and Soul Vice. She hadn't worked on her defense skill much due to not having enough time.
Isabella and Lily didn't have as much time as others for skill creation training, but they had solid ones to start, and while battling here, they were constantly improving.
Lastly, Aria had created a unique set-skill. She had the most training time compared to others. After creating an offense skill and movement skill at first, she spent the rest of her time creating a Summon-type skill.
Animated Spirit Warriors! After all, her Animus element had such a powerful effect of breathing a soul into nothingness and making it something, so combining it with Aethir's attributes, she created humanoid warriors focused on various extreme points.
Although she had rough designs for five, she only completed 2 Warriors so far.
Warrior Solen—It was a defensive warrior with a focus on control and defense move-set, its crux being the Exotic Element—Solenix. (Light x Crystal x Water).
With Aethir's attribute, she designed two powerful defensive moves and a binding move for this warrior. It looked like a minotaur with draconic scales.
The other was Warrior Tezer—it was an offensive warrior with a focus on pure destructiveness and speed that boosted the offense further while giving it mobility.
Its crux was her second Exotic Element— Tezeremp (Storm x Ice x Lightning).
But Aria was still in the refining phase of these two warriors and was testing out things.
After a few minutes, the four of them killed all 89 Insects.
It wasn't like the inspects were not troublesome, but they were not life-threatening to them as long as they fought properly and cautiously.
"I killed 23 Insects," Erix said with a laugh. "Half of Easy Level is done."
"Tsk, you won this time," Rin clicked her tongue. "I killed 22. Just one less."
"I am at 17 kills," Lily wryly smiled. "You two still fast."
"But we'll catch up soon," Aria said with a pout. "My Animated Spirit Warriors are powerful, but killing speed is slow. I need to improve them."
"Fighting is helping us refine our skills further, so we'll improve fast," Isabella smiled.
"Yes!" Aria nodded and grinned at Isabella, "Isabella-sis, you killed 18, right? You became so powerful, hehe."
Aria looked at the passage to the next cave far away and excitedly said, "Let's go, let's go. I want to fight more and get better."
"Indeed," Erix smiled, his eyes eager. "Let's see what other caves have in store for us."
The group moved to the next cave, but instead of a horde of insects like before, they met a single, rather strange insect that proved to be very annoying to the squad because…
It was too darn small and fast!
Even Erix's Abyssal Impale couldn't strike it and his attack was the fastest and most precise in the group!
But they understood and worked together to trap and kill it after wasting 30 seconds.
While the group continued exploring the caves and killing Zigus Insects to complete the challenge, Korin was done with his work.
At the mountain base deep within the hazardous frost jungle, a 10-meter-tall box-like structure made of eccentric stone and wood with patterns was constructed.
Inside this box-like structure, Korin stood and established this area as the group's hall.
[Do you wish to put this area as your Throne Hall?]
Korin replied and a throne appeared in front of him.
On top of the throne, a hologram was produced after a second that showed something.
[Throne Hall—Relintes.]
_Grade: Common (Upgrade available)
_Members: Erix, Rin, Isabella, Lilith, Lily, Aria, Nira, Sameira, Kenshin, Korin.
_Artisan Points: 7840
_Features: None unlocked or Gained.
_Throne Rank: 8
Korin was surprised, "They already gathered this much? It seems everyone passed Difficult level task in every challenge."
'Alright, we turned misfortune into fortune and we are ranked 8 for now, so…' Korin started thinking about the next steps.
'The best way to remain in higher ranking is to destroy at least 1 Throne Hall on the first day. I'll have to find our target.'
'And if they gathered this many Artisan Points already, then all three groups must have finished almost all challenges,' Thorin rubbed his chin and took out his badge called Nira first.
'Let's check their status first.'
But he couldn't connect to anyone out of nine, indicating that they were in the challenge or receiving the reward.
'Alright. I'll try after 30 minutes,' Korin put away the badge and flew out. 'After exploring the area behind the mountain range, I can mark the event location if I find one while searching for a Throne Hall.'
A ferocious gleam passed through his eyes as he expanded his senses and used his Scout-type skill to observe the areas while flying without fear.
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It was time to find the first prey for him in this War of Thrones, but…he didn't know that someone was coming here like a hunter to hunt them.
"What? Ragna went alone?"
"Yes. He told me to bring the team there while following his trails."
"That bastard! Going alone is stupid! This is his first time in War of Thrones, Gracy. You could do something about it."
"What can I do? Don't dilly-dally and let's go."
"Hehe, you are our leader, Gracy. Why can't you tame one junior?"
Gracy pouted, "I can't tame him and I don't want to. Master told me to give him freedom and follow him on certain things. He knows the rules of War of Thrones, so if he decided to do this, then he must have a good reason."
"Now that our talk is over, let's go."