CHAPTER 1523: CHAPTER 1523: ICEBALL MONSTER

The howling wind and snow swept across He Ao’s face. He lifted his gaze, and a faint orange-gray light flickered in his field of view as he quietly observed the ’aurora’ before him.

The luminous giants in the sky and those ancient mechanical giants were actually the three incomplete angels that could be summoned from the pages of the Book of Bygone Days.

The luminous giant was the Immaculate, and the mechanical giant was the Wonders Builder.

Only, He Ao mixed in many powers from Super Memory into the luminous giant, adding his own status.

His purpose was simple, to make everyone who ’saw’ this luminous giant have a certain perception of him.

This perception, for the Transcendents, was a bit overwhelming, but for ordinary people, it was enough for He Ao to follow this mystic link and touch their memories.

Of course, even for ordinary people, just relying on this momentary mystical link was not enough to massively alter their memories and fate.

However, He Ao did not intend to do that. He simply added a fragment of illusory ’memory’ to everyone, a ’dream memory’.

The content of the memory was very simple, it was ’customized’ for each person, the memory of having received ’evacuation training’.

Actually, this whole city was not big, what hindered people’s movement was just the people themselves.

This was He Ao’s first large-scale attempt at collective memory enhancement, adding different memories to thirty thousand people in an instant. Even though he did not touch the fate of these ordinary people, the Super Memory greatly enhanced his thinking, still making him feel some difficulty.

He had not yet fully controlled the Talent Sequences, nor could he entirely utilize the power of Super Memory.

Of course, the result achieved by exchanging this small obstacle was worth it.

That is, once realizing that the people in the city had fled, and the monsters it controlled could not devour a large amount of life in a short period, the aurora hanging in the sky directly chose to ’close the net’.

Even though the places the city’s people fled to were not far from the city.

It was evident that this aurora also realized that He Ao was not so easy to ’deal with’, if it couldn’t get past He Ao, it couldn’t truly hunt down those mortals.

He Ao would not give it a chance to kill mortals to enhance itself.

And once the crowd was fully evacuated, they would undoubtedly bring Kela back to clear these scattered monsters.

Just now, the cooperation between He Ao and Kela had already cleaned up many monsters.

Instead of letting He Ao slowly ’eliminate’ the monsters it created, it might as well directly intervene and have a bout with He Ao.

As long as it won against He Ao, it could naturally enjoy those people now on the frozen sea surface.

So, it directly gathered all the monsters here to form such a massive ’ice ball’.

He Ao could feel that the bodies of the monsters fused in the ice ball were rapidly ’melting’, all the monsters, at this moment, piling up to form a new, immense entity.

The last bit of aurora suspended in the sky also fell at this moment, completely enveloping the gigantic ’ice ball’.

Then these auroras began to melt swiftly, penetrating the ’ice ball’ bit by bit.

"Ah——"

The heads on the ice ball opened their mouths at this moment, emitting fierce screams.

These screams overlapped, like twisted, terrifying vibrations, impacting He Ao’s soul.

The twisted and terrifying pressure began to spread outward with the fierce wind and snow, an uncontrollable hunger continually surged from deep within He Ao’s soul.

It was as if an unfillable hunger, a void in the depths of the soul, urging He Ao to hunt, to bite, to fill this never-ending void.

And at this moment, urgent running sounds came from behind He Ao.

He Ao turned his head back, behind him, a slender ice path extended from the snowstorm, and a finely crafted ice reindeer rapidly broke through the snowstorm towards him.

And the moment the ice reindeer saw He Ao, it directly collapsed, turning into scattered ice crystals.

The woman in a white dress swiftly passed through the permeating ice crystals due to inertia, landing beside He Ao.

And at that instant, she slightly paused her cold brows and looked behind He Ao.

A burst of light instantly flew out from her hand towards behind He Ao.

And at this time, He Ao also turned back, looking behind him.

The icy brilliance collided in the air with a semi-transparent tentacle from the ice ball.

That tentacle was clearly planning to ambush He Ao, but at this moment, with a slight tremble, it was instantly frozen.

However, at this instant, several more semi-transparent solid ice tentacles extended out, attacking He Ao.

This time, before Kela could raise her hand, a faint orange-gray light flickered in He Ao’s field of view.

The tentacles trembled momentarily, covered in cracks, then in the next moment, suddenly shattered, turning into scattered ice crystals.

Along with the tentacle Kela froze also shattered in an instant.

At the same time, Kela landed next to He Ao, her high heels sinking into the snow. She lifted her head, looking at the gigantic ’ice ball’ formed from stacked monsters, and the monsters wriggling between the ice ball, "Are these the sources of pollution?"

"Yes."

He Ao gazed at the auroras enveloping the monsters.

After the ’ambush’, the ice ball monster did not initiate another attack, as if everything just now was merely an illusion.

He could vaguely feel the terrifying power gestating inside this ice ball.

At least it was Angel Tier power.

Although compared to a true angel, there seemed to be some strange deviation.

But it was evident that after these auroras merged with these monsters, they could definitely exert Angel Tier power.

This might also be why this aurora monster dared to step down and contend with He Ao, feeling confident to deal with He Ao.

After receiving the affirmative answer, Kela shifted her gaze, looking at He Ao.

It was evident she was inquiring about He Ao’s ’tactics’.

And the instant she shifted her gaze, countless slender transparent tentacles instantaneously surged from the monster’s body.

Like a dense rain of arrows, they pierced through the void, veiling the sky as they attacked the two of them.

Kela immediately raised her hand, an ice wall instantly rose in front of the two.

And He Ao also opened his eyes, the orange-gray light gathering in his deep pupils.

The orange-gray eyeball embedded in an inverted triangle slowly surfaced above his head.

Bang bang bang——

Tentacles pierced through the ice wall, but Kela immediately pulled up a new ice wall.

And the eyeball above He Ao’s head had already shifted its gaze, looking towards the core of the giant ice ball monster.

Actually, from the beginning up to now, He Ao had not been idle.

He was searching for the core of this ice ball monster.

Perhaps it was due to gathering all the transparent monsters that this enormous ice ball monster had many ’cores’ at the base of the world, densely stacked together.

But it was evident that these were not the innermost core of this ice ball monster, and these cores were visibly withering, the power within rapidly being ’siphoned’, leaving only empty shells.

But this monster did not even consume these ’shells’, as if intentionally left here to block ’sight’.

If there were no things, there was no need to block, so this monster likely also had a core.

This was also the reason why He Ao didn’t launch an attack during the monster’s fusion, and sometimes even turned away to attract the monster’s attack.

He was using the energy fluctuations caused by the monster’s attacks to further pinpoint the location of its core.

And at this moment, he finally found it.

Orange-gray light gathered in the eye embedded in the inverted triangle, then instantly vanished.

In the deepest parts of that world, amidst densely packed sucked-dry core shells, a giant core entwined with countless lines was gently trembling.

Deconstruction!

The vast power instantly exerted itself upon that core.

But also at this moment, the surrounding cores that had not been drained yet instantly fused, forming a thin membrane that covered the giant core, like an invisible shield protecting the core.

The Power of the Eye of Truth slightly paused, then after consuming a portion of energy, directly cut into that membrane.

And on the surface of the world, a gigantic crack appeared synchronously on the body of that massive ice sphere monster.

Countless hideous faces instantly shattered, transforming into dispersed ice crystals.

Those surging tentacles also retreated significantly, and Kela immediately erected a new ice wall, white brilliance spreading along the ice wall, freezing most of the tentacles attacking the ice wall.

In the end, the membrane still couldn’t completely resist the Power of the Eye of Truth and was directly cut open.

The huge core shivered abruptly at the moment the Power of the Eye of Truth touched it, with nearly a third of it directly erased.

"Ahhhhh—"

The faces embedded in the ice sphere let out painful howls, overlapping with each other.

And at this time, in the deepest part of the void, it was as if some invisible force trembled.

Immediately after, the huge core, under He Ao’s ’gaze’, began to ’grow’ rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, restoring to its original state in an instant.

As if He Ao’s attack had never happened.

Even the illusory membrane started to recover rapidly, with more undrained cores starting to gather toward the giant core, merging into that protective membrane.

Before the giant core was discovered, they could shield its existence.

But now that the giant core has been discovered, they have no reason to exist.

He Ao lowered his gaze, not continuing to attack, but glanced into the depths of the void.

In the deepest part of the void, he ’saw’ nothing, yet could faintly sense some invisible lines pulsating.

One end of the line was attached to the core of the ice sphere monster, while the other seemed to stretch into the void, or perhaps into the earth.

The power to repair the core appeared to come from these elusive lines.

This didn’t surprise He Ao; these auroras have not yet fully ’digested’ these monsters until now.

This means it can’t exert full power and would be constrained by consumption.

Yet it still descended, gathered the monsters, and prepared to absorb their power.

It must have the confidence to not be eradicated by He Ao.

Now, He Ao understood where its confidence came from.

’Undead.’

In some sense, it possessed the same nature as those ordinary monsters, only stronger and more complete, even able to repair its core.

While He Ao’s thoughts raced, the crack on the ice ball rapidly healed, though the shattered faces did not come back.

Kela turned her head to look at He Ao.

She didn’t inquire about the outcome of He Ao’s attack but quietly awaited his next words.

"Can you freeze this entire monster?" He Ao lifted his head to look at Kela and asked.

He could see the ’growth’ of Kela’s ’power’.

When she first met him, she could only create a sled. Later, she could make two sleds, lay down an ice path, and even raise towering ice walls from the earth.

The power hidden deep in her body and soul was being rapidly ’developed’.

Upon hearing He Ao’s words, Kela lifted her head to look at the ice sphere in front of her.

This ice sphere was overall olive-shaped, terrifyingly large compared to an ordinary person.

About three to four hundred meters in length, and four to five meters in height.

Besides the part He Ao just cut, the surface was densely covered with twisted faces of various sizes.

At this moment, these cheeks were howling in pain, producing distorted sounds.

After a brief examination, she looked back at He Ao and quickly said, "I’ll try."

"Alright," He Ao nodded slightly, "I’ll keep its attention on me."

"Okay," Kela didn’t respond directly, but watched He Ao’s empty hands and gently asked, "What weapon are you used to using?"

He Ao paused slightly, looking at Kela, and after a brief halt, replied softly, "A sword, I guess."

Kela raised her hand, gathering strips of white light in her palm.

Seemingly due to the withdrawal of power, the giant snow wall behind her began to collapse.

The immense monster seemed to realize something, with numerous transparent tentacles once again pouring in from all directions.

He Ao lifted his gaze, looking at those tentacles, as the orange-gray light converged into nested rings at the center of his pupils.

The segments of the tentacles shuddered in the void, quickly erased and vanishing.

Yet there were still dense tentacles rushing forward, supplementing the erased parts.

In front of He Ao, Kela seemed unfazed by the incoming mass of tentacles, as the white light gathered at her fingertips, little by little compressing and solidifying into the shape of a longsword.

Finally, the light subsided completely, and a slender knight sword made of ice appeared in her hand.

This sword was engraved with exquisite patterns, its entire shape elegant and slender, as if sculpted by the heavens.

Kela handed the knight sword she had condensed over to He Ao, "Here."

"Thank you," He Ao was not polite, accepting the knight sword.

He then leaped up, sword in hand, rushing toward the tentacles sweeping through the sky.

Kela turned away, raising her hand, as white brilliance glided across her fingertips.

The dense mass of tentacles was instantly frozen, forming an ice sculpture resembling waves.

At this moment, He Ao’s figure also reached the tentacles, striking out with the sword.

The tentacles shattered with a roar, scattering into countless fragments of ice, while He Ao’s body didn’t pause, heading straight for the massive ice sphere still shrouded in laser.

Meanwhile, Kela also took a step, leaping high, raising the light at her fingertips, and started rapidly running along the edge of the monster.

Wherever she went, the roaring faces were instantly frozen.