Chapter 61: The Contract (II)
Finding that the contract with Nylis would not make any progress for a while, Heatham continued on his way, returning to his makeshift nest with his bird's meat.
The appearance of the Ice Elf Nylis did not have much impact on Sistum, she did not influence Sistum's actions, nor did she make such or such demands, she would only hang above Sistum's head, watching Sistum's actions, and everything around her.
If Systham hadn't spoken up, Nellis would have remained silent.
Systham could sense that Nellis liked conversation, and that he hadn't spoken to anyone in a long time except Shava.
So in the process of hurrying, Heatham would talk to Nellis from time to time.
As Systm and Nylis get acquainted, Heatham learns a lot about Nyris's last contractor, the White Bear.
In fact, in Systham's opinion, it can't be regarded as a story, because these stories basically have no plot, and they are roughly the hunting career of a white bear.
In fact, there is not much food in the freezing Lêlte Forest.
In addition to absorbing the power of frost in the air, the white bear likes to eat fish, and can only eat fish.
Usually it crushes the ice with its sturdy ice bear claws to catch fish underneath the water.
The lake where the white bear catches fish, Sistem, has seen it in the clouds, and it is the lake with countless brown butterflies, and after the cold weather, there is an abundance of fish living under the ice of the lake.
Nylis also transmits images of the White Bear fighting an Abyssal Demon to Sistham.
With icy claws and angry roars, the white bear's eyes burst into pillars of ice-blue light, finally defeating the demons that invaded the territory.
But such a powerful white bear, because of the melting of the ice and snow, refused to leave its territory and went to the Lierte Mountains, and finally died quietly......
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For several hours, Sistemm used his tentacles to weave rapidly through the trees, and he got closer and closer to his makeshift lair.
The closer he got to the makeshift nest, the stronger Sistem's [intuition] became, and the soldier Sava in the makeshift nest didn't die, but the rest of the ant people were mostly unlucky.
And when the sun had completely set, Systm suddenly felt a strange stream of heat from the ice-blue aura above his head.
Heatham felt faintly dizzy, and he immediately sent a spiritual message to Nelith, but Nelly did not respond at all, and seemed to fall into a deep sleep again.
Systham knew that the pact between him and Nylis was about to begin......
"A sword, a shield, a wing, or a claw......"
Heatham muttered about what Nylis had said to him, and he wondered what kind of frost power he would gain from it.
There was a sudden buzzing roar in Sistum's ears, which disturbed him.
The sound was familiar, and Systm recalled, he had heard a similar roar before he had listened to the sounds of the world and gained the talent of [perception], and then he had appeared in the middle of a white world.
Heatham soon discovered that he had indeed appeared in the white world, as if this was the last time he had listened to the world's voices.
But Syst noticed the difference, this time he could clearly feel his presence, he could see more than a dozen tentacles growing on his body, and he could freely control these tentacles to move.
There seemed to be no gravity here, and he was floating in mid-air, completely unable to control his body to move.
It wasn't long before a special ice-blue aura suddenly surged from the void and completely enveloped him, and Sistemm felt his spirit gradually become tired, and after that, he fell asleep again......
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Sistum's coma was surprisingly short, and perhaps he wasn't in a coma at all.
When he regained consciousness, his tentacles were still in the same shape as they had been on the branches, and the sky had not turned dark at all.
From the time recorded in the [Tools menu], Syst realized that only a dozen seconds had passed between the time he entered the white world and the time he woke up from a coma.
Looking around, Systham suddenly noticed that the ice-blue circle above his head had disappeared.
"Could it be that the contract failed?"
Sistemm touched the original aperture above his head with his tentacles as he glanced around for the Ice Elf Neris.
Bite! You gain the special talent [Frost Form].
Bite! Your [Frost Breath] ability level increases.
Bite! You gain the [Ice Spike] derivation, which is only available in [Frost Form].
Bite! You gain the Tokenized Ability [Frost Slime], which only works in [Frost Form].
After a series of [Tools Menu] tones, Systm found that his body was filled with frost energy, and his [Frost Breath] was directly upgraded to level 11, entering a new level, and gaining a lot of frost-related abilities.
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Frost Form (11/25): A special talent obtained by Sistem's contract with Nyris. Activate this ability to transform into a frost form and gain the power to drive frost.
[Ice Spike] (11/21): Sistem's [Frost Form] special derivative ability. Ice spikes can be spawned at the ends of tentacles as weapons.
[Frost Slime] (13/27): Special abilities obtained from [Frost Form], [Frost Breath], and [Corrosive Slime]. Can spit corrosive frost slime.
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Feeling the unique rhythm of the frosty energy in his body, Systm tried to use his newfound power, the Frost Form.
Heatham felt a chilling power seem to rush out of his heart and begin to flow through his body's blood.
A layer of hoarfrost gradually appeared on his body, which gradually solidified and formed pale blue ice crystals, and Sistrem's body eventually formed a pale blue ice crystal armor with strange patterns like those on his exoskeleton.
At the same time, a dozen of Sistum's tentacles slowly turned from brown to ice blue.
The tentacles were still soft, but the ends of these tentacles gathered frosty energy, eventually forming spikes of ice crystals five centimeters long.
Of course, in addition to the above changes, the ice-blue aperture on Sistum's head also reappeared after Sistum activated the [Frost Form].
The process of Sistum's transformation into [Frost Form] may seem slow, but it is actually only completed in an instant.
Under the [Frost Form], the physical fitness of Sistham's whole body has been improved to varying degrees, and the frost energy contained in his body has increased dozens of times.
However, the [Frost Form] was a bit of a burden on Sistm's body, and Sistm felt that he could only hold on for about fifteen minutes, after which his body would be completely exhausted, so in order to avoid losing his ability to move, he could only activate it for about ten minutes.
Systm casually waved his new Frost Tentacles, and he found that he was now more than twice as fast as he could do so.
With a thud, Systm stabbed the tree with the sharp end of his tentacle, and the 5-centimeter spike sank into the trunk entirely.
With [Ice Spike] alone, Sistemm was able to easily kill the Black Hawk who had worked so hard to subdue him.
By observing the information on the [Tools Menu], Systm found that his combat power directly increased by more than ten times after changing to [Frost Form], from 3.7 to 43.
And his rank has also been improved, from transformation to magic.
It seems that in this state, he has transcended the limitations of mortal things and become a magical species.