Chapter 81 Ritual P2

Arriving at the third node site, Shiro scanned the ground below her to map out the layers.

"Hmm… this o-"

However, before she could finish what she was going to say, she felt danger from 4 sides and quickly entered the rift the moment she had the feeling.

*BOOM!!!

Four separate attacks missed as they frowned.

"Where did she go?" One of them asked.

"Keep an eye out. Get the guys below to focus as well. We've already lost 8 nodes."

"Understood!" Three of the assailants replied in sync.

Shiro, who had entered the rift earlier, was hiding near a cement column.

'Seems like our actions were noticed. Not too surprising, but I don't like people sneak attacking me." Shiro thought with narrowed eyes.

Yin Style Phantom Arts: 1st Phantom + 2nd Phantom.

Her body flickered to the closest grunt who was near her. Dragging him by the collar of his shirt, Shiro manoeuvred her body nimbly around his that it almost made her seem like a snake.

*CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK!

Dislocating all of his joints, she slit his throat without much hassle.

*BOOM!!!!

A fireball suddenly hit her spot as Shiro just barely managed to enter the rift once more to dodge.

"Che, ruthless." Shiro clicked her tongue.

If she had been any slower, at least an arm would have been blown off.

Frowning slightly, she knew she had to take care of the leader of the group first. He had the best reaction and was also the one who had fired the fireball.

Leaving the rift while in cover, she peeked out slightly.

Her eyes widened when a fire spear was already about to strike her head.

Yin Style Phantom Arts: 2nd Phantom + Faded Snow Movement.

Quickly bending her body back, Shiro gritted her teeth feeling the heat of the spear that narrowly missed her head. Since she was a snow girl, she had a 25% vulnerability to fire damage.

Seeing her HP drop rapidly, Shiro slammed her palms into the ground.

*KRRRR!!!!!

Ice expanded out at an outrageous pace, covering the area and turning it into an icy tundra.

The captain frowned seeing her almost instantons reactions.

"Tsk, troublesome." He scowled. Flicking his wrist, fire columns lit up around the area and melted the ice.

Choking from the heat, Shiro made a slightly painful face.

'Of course I'm against a fire type mage.' She cursed.

Breathing out cold mist, Shiro surrounded herself in ice to relieve the heat.

'With my 25% vulnerability to fire. I need to deal with the surroundings first.'

"Blizzard it is." She muttered. Clasping her hands, Shiro opened them to reveal a small orb of neon blue light.

Pinching the light with her right hand, she made three more orbs of light.

'Now!'

Yin Style Phantom Art: 1st Phantom + 2nd Phantom.

Jumping up, she twisted her body and threw the four orbs in four different directions.

*BOOM!!!!

Blizzard appeared near each of the fire columns as it fought for dominance.

"Futile actions." The captain scoffed before snapping his fingers. The fire columns morphed into fire giants and wrestled the blizzards before destroying them.

Shiro frowned as she decided to give it one more try.

'If I don't kill him this time, I'll retreat.' Shiro thought as she wasn't too bothered about the fact that she needed to run away if things didn't turn out well. She wasn't a headstrong idiot who'll charge into a battle she couldn't win whilst also having the option of running away.

If running away wasn't an option, only then would she fight it out.

Making a magic circle, Shiro suppressed the pain she was feeling inside her body. She gritted her teeth whilst cursing at the one who destroyed her broken links.

'I don't know who this body belonged to but you can bet that I'll skewer the killer. They broke the links and I'll break something else in return!' Shiro cursed in her mind whilst resisting the pain to activate her elemental armour.

Crystal ice armour formed on her arms, legs, shoulders and head. Seeing her MP drop down rapidly, Shiro got to work.

Jumping out of her cover, she saw the captain being surrounded by the remaining two grunts.

'Three… this might be pushing it a little.' Shiro thought.

Twisting her body, she dodged two attacks whilst lashing the spiked chains at the three.

*DANG!

The two grunts activated their elemental armour as well and blocked the chains. While it wasn't True Elemental Armour like what Helion has, it was still a pain to fight again.

However, Shiro had already taken this into account since she wanted them to block her attack. Making an ice spear, she controlled it to shoot towards the captain.

Grabbing the spear effortlessly, the captain looked at Shiro with disdain.

*BZZZ!!!

Before he could speak, lightning erupted out of the spear. He frowned when he felt the numbness.

"Die!"

*BOOM!!!

A sudden beam of energy covered Shiro's vision as she entered into the rift in a state of panic. She had felt the danger but was barely able to react when she saw the attack.

"What the f*ck was that?!!" She cursed out loud.

Retreating roughly 10 meters away from the area, she exited only to see 3 pairs of legs without an upper torso.

"Huh?" Shiro muttered out in surprise.

"You looked like you were having a bit of trouble little snow. Thought I might help out a little." Nan Tian smiled whilst appearing behind her.

Shiro frowned as this meant that she lost out of three potential kills along with a potential level up.

She turned off her elemental armour before pulling out her phone.

[I had it under control.]

"But why did it seem like he was about to unload a face full of fire bullets at you?" Nan Tian raised an eyebrow seeing her stubbornness of not wanting help.

[Look at their location.]

Shiro rolled her eyes and gestured at the three pairs of legs.

Looking over, Nan Tian saw three ice spikes locked and ready to shoot upwards.

[Their guard was focused in front of them. I could have escaped their attack while the ice skewered them.]

"They had their elemental armours. How were you so sure that it'll even work?"

[Does it look like the elemental armour had an ass plate? You think their ass cheeks would be tensed whilst they defended in front of them?]

Shiro shrugged.

Nan Tian only chuckled slightly at her logic. It was indeed correct since no one clenches their rear whilst fighting. It would limit their leg movement.

So, her logic of redirecting their focus of abuse this natural weak point was indeed a prime strategy that will work.

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