BOOM!
In the blink of an eye, the bloodthirsty snow bat that had been hit by the fire arrow instantly turned into a pile of ashes, scattering down from midair.
And just at that moment, another bloodthirsty snow bat flew straight through the ashes.
Immediately, white bat turned into gray bat.
And Daji finally saw the trail of the bloodthirsty snow bat and lunged straight at it.
WHOOSH!
The bloodthirsty snow bat was split cleanly in two by her sharp claws.
Blood splashed across the ground, instantly blooming into dots of red plum blossoms on the snow.
Whoosh!
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Ethan was also shooting like crazy.
But there were simply too many snow bats, and under the snow monster's summons, countless snow bats across the ice field were awakened, popping out of the snow with muffled thuds and surging toward Ethan and the others.
"Damn it!"
Ethan was anxious.
He himself would be fine, but behind him were five residents.
These five had no superpowers at all. If a snow bat got close, it would mean death.
That was why Ethan had Daji protect them.
Originally, with Daji's speed, she could barely hold the line.
But the problem was…
"Meow!"
Daji missed again.
Luckily, Ethan's agility had increased several times over, allowing him to fire arrows in time.
Otherwise, that snow bat would probably have broken through the defense.
The color of these snow bats, against the snow, was really too hard to tell apart.
Daji seemed to be a bit snow-blind. In this snowy environment, she could not see clearly at all and was unable to accurately track the movements of the snow bats.
Ethan had already seen her miss several times.
Whoosh!
Another fire arrow shot out, skewering two snow bats together like candied hawthorns.
But these snow bats seemed endless, no matter how many were killed.
"Damn it, I have to think of a way!"
"If I could make these bats change color, then Daji could…"
(๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧ 'Got it!'
Ethan immediately took out the ashes of the red-hat goblin.
He grabbed a handful of ash and scattered it toward the sky full of snow bats.
"Have a taste of your damn ashes!!"
Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!
The snow bats' radar systems were instantly disrupted by the ashes Ethan threw out, plunging into chaos.
And the snow bats were all dusted with ash, turning from white to gray.
Daji finally saw the snow bats.
She instantly exploded into action.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Several flashes of cold claw light streaked past.
Countless snow bats were directly sliced into multiple pieces by Daji and fell to the ground.
It was just like playing Fruit Ninja.
With Daji's assistance, Ethan finally had the time to go after the true culprit, the snow monster.
He aimed his fire arrow at the snow monster.
And at this moment, the snow monster seemed to sense the danger. It simply tossed aside the treasure chest and dove headfirst into the snow, rapidly digging a hole as it prepared to escape.
Although this snow monster looked enormous, no one would have thought… that this thing was actually so fast.
In almost the blink of an eye, the snow monster stuffed its more than three-meter-tall body straight into the snow.
And without the snow monster's command, those snow bats also scattered.
They seemed no longer very interested in Ethan and the others.
"Phew!"
Ethan turned his head and only then looked around him.
A full circle of snow bat corpses had piled up around him. Each one or two had been cut cleanly in half, and some were even chopped into fragments, like watermelons that had been triple-sliced or quadruple-sliced.
They were shattered beyond recognition, with pulp splattered everywhere.
[Bloodthirsty Snow Bat Meat: Contains trace mutated virus. Can be eaten, but there is a certain chance of fever or mutation! (Mutation chance 1%)]
[Bloodthirsty Snow Bat Eyeballs: Have a cold-resistance effect. After consuming, can increase cold resistance!]
[Bloodthirsty Snow Bat Fangs: Can be used to make poison arrows!]
It even dropped loot.
Ethan collected everything.
[Water-type Beast Cores +27]
[Earth-type Beast Cores +12]
[Bloodthirsty Snow Bat Meat +32]
[Bloodthirsty Snow Bat Eyeballs +64]
[Bloodthirsty Snow Bat Fangs +64]
After collecting the items dropped by the snow bats, Ethan continued moving forward across the ice field.
And the direction he was heading was exactly where the snow monster had dived into the snow and gone underground.
He walked closer and took a look.
The snow where the snow monster had entered had already returned to being flat and smooth, with no trace at all that a three-meter-tall monster had just burrowed into it.
Instead, near the spot where the snow monster went in, there was a small exclamation mark.
If it were not for the exclamation mark being red, Ethan would really have almost missed it.
[Illusion Snowflower: A special flower that only blooms in snowfields frozen for ten thousand years, containing powerful illusion-transforming abilities.]
[PS: An excellent material for making hallucinatory magic tools, extremely rare.]
'So this was the thing the snow monster was holding earlier.'
Ethan picked up the flower lying in the snow. It looked just like a snowflake, completely transparent like ice, and covered with many fine patterns, looking like a three-dimensional snowflake and extremely beautiful.
So earlier, the snow monster had been using this thing to create illusions, making them see the desires in their hearts.
That was how he had almost been tricked into a dangerous situation by the snow monster.
Ethan put the Illusion Snowflower into his backpack.
Then he led the team forward again.
After going around the snow mountain, Ethan finally found the real location of the platinum treasure chest.
The platinum treasure chest was not hidden at all. It was placed openly on the snow mountain. It was just that earlier they had been on the other side of the mountain, so they had not noticed it.
"Daji, stay down there and protect them. I'll go up and collect the treasure chest."
"Meow!"
Daji replied and then circled around the residents once.
She then dragged out a circle with her footprints and tail.
The meaning was simple and obvious, as long as you do not step out of this circle, this area is under my protection.
"Then I'm going!"
Ethan's agility stat had now flipped directly to 68, more than six times that of an ordinary person.
If he went up the snow mountain alone, it would probably only take a few minutes.
If he brought the residents along, that would definitely be dragging him down, so Ethan simply went up by himself.
Whoosh!
However, the moment Ethan stepped onto the snow mountain.
A huge brownish-red tentacle suddenly stretched out from beneath the snow and swept toward Ethan's position.
The tentacle was covered in countless suction cups.
At the instant it swept toward him, Ethan could even feel the pulling force coming from those suction cups.
Ethan hurriedly did a lazy donkey roll, dodging the tentacle monster's attack.
"Holy crap!"
"What the hell is this thing?"
[Magma Octopus: Looks like an octopus, but its size is hundreds of times larger than a normal one. It needs to draw volcanic magma to survive, yet because its body overheats, it must rely on snowfields to cool down.]
[PS: Do not even think about shooting it with fire arrows. It was born eating fire. The little bit of fire element you have is not even enough to fill its teeth.]
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