Chapter 148: The Evil Ice Legion

When Liu Zong turned around, he found that a "mage" only half the height of a normal person was floating less than three meters behind him. This mage had a round face, with white cream dripping down from it. It was obvious that his entire head was made of an ice cream scoop.

He wore a blue mage robe and held a staff made of a popsicle in his nearly melting hand. Most interestingly, the hat on his head was made from the pointed cone base of an ice cream waffle, making it look genuinely like a wizard's hat.

Floating in front of Liu Zong, the Evil Ice Mass shrieked loudly, though the sound was completely meaningless, and there was no way to tell what he was saying.

Liu Zong didn't care about any of that; his spear thrust out directly.

Thanks to his previous battle with Liu Gu, Liu Zong had learned how to use certain aspects of this secret spear martial art. Combined with the guidance from the school's physical combat instructors over the past year, his spear skills had improved considerably.

At the very least, Liu Zong was now able to execute a semi-finished first form once or twice out of ten attacks. Most importantly, when using this move, Liu Zong no longer exhausted all his physical and magical stamina as he had before.

This time, Liu Zong did just that. He raised his hand and thrust the spear straight out, cutting across the sky like a shooting star toward the Evil Ice Mass.

Initially, the Evil Ice Mass hadn't paid any attention to Liu Zong. Appearing behind Liu Zong had not been an assassination attempt; he had simply teleported here at random, and before he could lock onto the Scarecrow, Liu Zong had taken him as a target and launched an attack.

Liu Zong's very first thrust didn't matter much—that was just a normal reaction anyone would have. But the attack he launched after turning around was a formal assault. The Evil Ice Mass naturally shifted his focus onto Liu Zong and began fighting back.

Compared to Liu Zong, who attacked with a spear, the Evil Ice Mass's attacks were much more diverse. Under his control, the popsicle staff in his hand could unleash numerous ice masses and icicles, and sometimes bone-chilling winds blew from the popsicle staff.

Most importantly, just as the Scarecrow had said, the Evil Ice Mass moved quite quickly and would randomly teleport from time to time, making it impossible for Liu Zong to lock onto his position.

Just as Liu Zong was about to hit him, the Evil Ice Mass would teleport himself away, bombarding Liu Zong with ice masses from a distance.

Once or twice was fine, but after many times, Liu Zong felt he couldn't go on like this. If it continued, the Evil Ice Mass wouldn't be beaten to death, but Liu Zong himself would freeze to death first.

Therefore, Liu Zong immediately changed his fighting style. He hunched his body, stopped trying to lock onto the Evil Ice Mass, and instead darted erratically around the battlefield, tricking the Evil Ice Mass into missing his magical attacks.

The Evil Ice Mass wanted to lock onto Liu Zong and strike, but the problem was that Liu Zong's movement speed was also fast, and compounded by the Evil Ice Mass's own random teleports, there were times when he thought he had locked onto Liu Zong, only for a teleport to send him far away instead.

At this point, the Evil Ice Mass was somewhat speechless, because the enemies he had encountered before always actively attacked him; he had never expected to meet someone who wanted to drain his magic dry.

Just as he was racking his brain over this, the Evil Ice Mass randomly teleported once again. Upon completion of the teleport, Liu Zong and the Evil Ice Mass both discovered to their surprise that the opponent had appeared right in front of them.

Liu Zong was the first to react because he didn't suffer from the delay of a random teleport. Seeing the Evil Ice Mass right before him, he didn't think twice and thrust his spear forward.

Under this thrust, the spear actually unleashed considerable power, carrying a great deal of yellow sand and swirling wind as it pierced into the body of the Evil Ice Mass.

Afterward, Liu Zong had no intention of allowing the Evil Ice Mass to teleport randomly again. Liu Zong actually released his left hand and directly grabbed the right hand of the Evil Ice Mass, while the spear in his right hand churned incessantly inside the Evil Ice Mass's body.

The Evil Ice Mass had never expected that one of his random teleports would deliver him into such a dangerous place. Facing Liu Zong's relentless onslaught, the Evil Ice Mass had no choice but to use his ultimate trump card.

The Evil Ice Mass opened his mouth wide, and a lump of ice cream spat out from within, striking Liu Zong directly.

Before Liu Zong could react, a piercing cold enveloped him, and the ice cream actually sealed him in place. Following that, the Evil Ice Mass simply lifted his left hand, severed the right hand that Liu Zong was tightly gripping, and forcibly teleported out of Liu Zong's attack range.

After being forcibly teleported away, the ice cream encasing Liu Zong slowly melted. Liu Zong wanted to pursue the Evil Ice Mass, only to find that his movement speed had slowed down significantly.

This wasn't because he had just been frozen, but rather because the ice cream on the Evil Ice Mass's body was constantly dripping, and with every drop that fell, the surrounding area grew a bit colder.

Liu Zong knew that if he let the Evil Ice Mass keep this up, the vicinity would become unimaginably freezing, rendering any further combat useless. Gritting his teeth hard, Liu Zong charged forward at the Evil Ice Mass, his spear once again whipping up a massive amount of yellow sand from the ground, the sand mixed with glittering ice crystals of granulated sugar.

This strike of Liu Zong's finally brought out most of the effect of the first form. The sand-bearing tornado engulfed the entire area ahead.

The dripping ice cream on the Evil Ice Mass was blown away by the yellow sand, and the Evil Ice Mass himself was thoroughly covered in sand.

Just as the Evil Ice Mass intended to teleport, Liu Zong noticed that the random teleportation of the sand-covered Evil Ice Mass left a visible trajectory. The yellow sand appeared prematurely in a corner not far away, and only after that did the Evil Ice Mass materialize.

How could Liu Zong let such a discovery slip? Before the Evil Ice Mass could steady himself after appearing, Liu Zong's spear thrust out once more. This time, Liu Zong poured in his full strength, activating his skill and bringing out various compounded effects.

It was precisely this strike that blasted a huge hole in the Evil Ice Mass's body, plunging his vitality straight down to about 1%.

At that exact moment, the pointed wizard's hat on the Evil Ice Mass's head exploded directly, and his body rapidly expanded until it was three times the size of a normal person. Around him fluttered colorful ice cream snowflakes. Although his vitality had not recovered, there was still a very distinct difference between 1% of Level 1 and 1% of Level 3.

The Evil Ice Mass gathered the ice cream snowflakes around him into a giant sphere, preparing to hurl it at Liu Zong and instantly obliterate him. However, a golden trident came flying from the distance.

The flight speed of this trident was not fast, but everyone had the uncanny feeling that it was impossible to dodge. Before the ball of ice cream snowflakes in the Evil Ice Mass's hands could fully form, it was smashed into fragments by a single strike from the trident. Following that, the body of the Evil Ice Mass was pinned directly to the ground, where it began to melt rapidly, blending into the chocolate mud earth, leaving behind only three unmelting items at the spot.