Chapter 50: A Glacial Storm Sweeping Across the Entire Ice Field!

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“Fine. Since Sister Ziqin was the one who asked you to come, I won’t say anything more. Just stay with the team and don’t cause trouble.”

Shang Hao spoke as he led the group toward the exit of Rice Fragrance Town.

Once they stepped outside the city, they saw swarms of adventurers gathered together, hunting a kind of crab monster.

Li Yao followed behind them.

As for their remarks, he paid them no attention at all.

In the eyes of the masses, summoners were the lowest-ranking and least respected of all adventurers.

Even Li Yao could not deny that.

As long as no one provoked him, they could say whatever they pleased.

Li Yao summoned the Void Mantis and let it act freely.

The requirement for clearing the first floor was for each person to hunt one hundred monsters alone.

These Ground-Crawling Crabs were only level fifteen, and merely common monsters. They were not even worthy of filling the Void Mantis’s teeth.

[Ground-Crawling Crab slain. Party status. Experience +0.004%]

“Still so little experience. Let’s finish this quickly. We’ll help Little Yana complete her hundred first.”

Seeing the experience value suddenly appear on the system panel, Shang Hao spoke without surprise.

They had all seen Li Yao summon the Void Mantis.

Even a summoner should have no trouble dealing with monsters five levels below himself.

The group worked together with remarkable coordination. They could be considered the fastest team on the first floor when it came to eliminating monsters.

In less than two hours, they had killed four hundred Ground-Crawling Crabs.

Shang Hao looked at Li Yao. “Have you reached your number? Do you need us to help?”

Li Yao’s summoned beast had been hunting monsters the entire time, so while they were killing the Ground-Crawling Crabs, Shang Hao had not paid attention to Li Yao’s tally.

“That’s enough.”

“Not bad. You’re not as weak as I thought.” Shang Hao nodded, then selected “Enter Second Floor” on the party panel.

A vortex soon appeared before them.

“Before we go in, let me explain a few things.”

The others were locals and had visited the Tower of Heaven before, so these words were clearly meant for Li Yao.

“The second floor is home to level-twenty common monsters, Frostland Eagles. They aren’t very strong, but they can fly. Of all of us, only Shang Mingxu can damage them, so this floor will take us some time.”

“Li Yao, you still have another summoned beast, don’t you? If it has any ranged skills, summon it. We’ll help Little Yana complete her fifty kills first.”

“Don’t worry. We definitely won’t forget about you afterward.”

“No need, Brother Hao. We can help Li Yao first. There’s no rush.”

Shang Yana shook her head repeatedly.

Li Yao was a guest whom even Sister Ziqin treated with caution. How could they make him help her complete her task first?

“I’m fine either way. Let’s talk after we go in.”

Li Yao’s tone was calm.

“Good. Don’t worry. Now that you’re in the Shang family’s party, we certainly won’t let you suffer any losses.”

Shang Hao laughed heartily before stepping directly into the vortex.

Clearly, he had already taken Li Yao for one of the people who paid the Shang family to escort them.

The group appeared on a vast frozen plain, where an icy wind bit into them the instant they arrived.

Li Yao glanced around casually.

There were already very few adventurers to be seen across the icefield.

Only an adventurer with nothing better to do would be willing to level here, among flying level-twenty monsters.

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The Azure Bird was summoned from the game-piece space.

Surrounded by the icefield, the Azure Bird seemed far more cheerful than usual. It fluttered around Li Yao several times, chirping happily.

Seeing Li Yao summon a ranged beast, Shang Hao signaled Shang Mingxu to draw the monsters over.

Several fireballs shot out, and four Frostland Eagles immediately flew toward them.

As a knight, Shang Hao was a capable one. He charged to the front and stood between the monsters and the others.

“Shang Qian, put up the Slowing Aura!”

“Shang Mingxu, Li Yao, you two focus on dealing damage. Leave the monsters with a little health so Yana can finish them.”

“Understood.”

Shang Mingxu nodded. As a fire mage, his skills countered the Frostland Eagles, allowing him to deal significantly more damage than he would against ordinary monsters.

Several fireballs flew toward the Frostland Eagles.

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“Not bad damage!”

Shang Hao was delighted. At this rate, they might not need much time to clear the floor.

At the same time, Shang Mingxu gripped his staff with both hands and continuously murmured an incantation.

The next moment, a crack split open in the ground, and a pillar of flame erupted upward!

Several Frostland Eagles were engulfed in the flames, releasing shrill cries of agony.

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Even Shang Qian could not help but brighten at the sight of those damage figures.

“Impressive, Little Xu! Among A-rank mages, that damage must put you near the top, right?”

“Not really. It’s just an elemental advantage.”

Shang Mingxu smiled as he spoke. His words were modest, but the pride on his face was impossible to conceal.

At the same time, he cast an intentional glance toward Li Yao.

At present, only the two of them possessed ranged attacks.

Naturally, they wanted to see whose damage was higher.

“Li Yao, where’s your summoned beast?” Shang Hao asked.

“Give me a moment.”

Li Yao had already ordered the Azure Bird to cast Glacier Storm, but it was not aimed at the Frostland Eagles before them.

Instead, it was directed toward the very center of the icefield.

He could clearly sense that, in this environment, the mana required for Glacier Storm had been drastically reduced.

He was confident that he could use Glacier Storm to cover the entire icefield.

“All right, no rush. Shang Mingxu, draw a few more.”

Shang Hao did not think much of it. Even if Li Yao had no ranged abilities, Shang Mingxu’s damage would still ensure that they did not spend too much time on this floor.

At the same time, the shield in Shang Hao’s hand shone brilliantly, suddenly expanding several times in area.

When the Frostland Eagles struck it, they could inflict only double-digit damage.

With an A-rank class and a full set of excellent equipment, dealing with level-twenty common monsters was hardly a challenge.

If not for the fact that these monsters could fly, they would already have swept through the floor as easily as they had the first.

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“No problem, Brother Hao.”

Shang Mingxu nodded and answered. At the same time, he fired several more Fireballs, drawing the surrounding Frostland Eagles toward them.

His thoughts differed from Shang Hao’s.

As a mage, he could sense the dense elemental aura radiating from the Azure Bird. It was obviously a ranged-type summoned beast.

Li Yao had told them to wait.

That clearly meant its damage was too high, and Li Yao was afraid that casting another skill would only make him look bad.

The smile on Shang Mingxu’s face grew wider. At the same time, he cursed himself inwardly for actually comparing his damage with that of a summoner.

Under Shang Qian’s Slowing Aura, Shang Mingxu’s Fireballs almost never missed. Before long, the first Frostland Eagle, too heavily wounded to remain airborne, fell to the ground.

Shang Yana glanced at Li Yao and found that he remained completely unmoved.

She hurried forward and finished off the Frostland Eagle with several sword strikes.

Shang Qian lowered her head to check the time, then said with a smile, “At this rate, we may be able to kill two hundred and fifty before evening and enter the next floor.”

“Little Xu, you may have to work a little harder.”

“It’s nothing.”

At those words, Shang Mingxu swung his staff even faster.

Among them, his standing in the Shang family was the lowest. Now that he had a chance to perform, he naturally intended to seize it.

In truth, he also had Li Yao to thank.

With another person there to serve as comparison, the value of his damage figures became all the more apparent.

Just then, Shang Yana suddenly sniffed and asked timidly, “Has anyone else noticed? It seems to have gotten colder.”

“It has,” Shang Hao said with a frown. “Could there be a boss?”

“No, that can’t be. This is only the second floor. How could there be a boss?”

Snowflakes began drifting slowly down from the sky.

A bone-chilling cold followed close behind.

Shang Hao quickly moved several steps closer to Shang Yana and warned the others.

“Whatever happens, stay fully alert!”

The area where the snowflakes were falling continued to expand.

Shang Yana was the first to notice that something was wrong.

“Look, everyone. At the tops of those Frostland Eagles.”

The others followed her gaze and immediately saw a shocking sight.

Every snowflake that landed on a Frostland Eagle was accompanied by a damage figure.

Countless Frostland Eagles filled the sky, while dense strings of damage numbers appeared above them.

They themselves had taken no damage.

The monsters were the ones being injured.

Almost simultaneously, everyone turned around.

Their eyes widened as they stared fixedly at Li Yao.

Yet Li Yao’s expression had not changed in the slightest.

“Didn’t I say to give me a moment?”

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