Overcoming The Beast

"I'll leave it for later, now I have to do something else."

Arriving at the volcano Leon, this time the journey was much easier. Without any hesitation Leon jumped down into the volcano. Using the fire energy to slow him down and then eventually stand on the magma he says a soft incantation and a majestic crimson red magic circle with nine Phoenixs in the center appears in front of him. The fire energy starts get s.u.c.k.e.d as the red egg appears.

The fire elemental energy like a whirlpool starts to get s.u.c.k.e.d into the egg. Leon feels some of the energy entering his body and coursing through he quickly controls the egg to go under the magma and starts to practice the Pure Fire Cloud art.

Leon at lightning speed broke through to the peak of the art, he broke into the Pure Fire Cloud level, reaching it he was able to form a cloud of fire that surrounded him. He jumped out of the magma and landed on a rock.

"With this I should be able to get my first contract beast. "

Leon puts all ten fire resistant pills in mouth and jumps back in to the magma. He sinks himself lower and lower while running the Pure Fire Cloud art.

The heat gets hotter and hotter. The pressure on his body increases more and more. To the point where he felt his body burning. He had gone much deeper than before. He swallowed the pills and called the Phoenix egg to protect it he went lower and lower until he found a cave he swam into it until he found a dead end of stone.

He built up fire energy on his right leg and smashed through the stone wall into a cave filled with ice. Behind him the lava trying to flow in to the cave rapidly freezes forming the wall again.

The cave seemed deep as the exit couldn't be seen. The walls were covered in a purple crystalline ice emitting a faint light. The dull purple light that had no source made the atmosphere eerie. Through the motionless cave Leon could hear the faint cries of ghost ominously resonating throughout the cave.

The ice formed sharp icicles and spikes that pierced out covering the path forward making it much more difficult to go through. A white chilling fog that thickened as you walked in just made thinks worst.

Breathing in the air. Leon could feel ice form in his lungs. His hair, eyelashes all had ice grown on it. His skin had turned pasty white and he could feel his body's blood flow slow down.

After unsummoning the Phoenix egg. Leon uses the Pure Fire Cloud art to create a thin layer of cloud on his body to protect himself from the ice. After that he runs into the cave while putting the ten ice resistant pills into his mouth.

He jumps and ducks dodging the ice. He makes the soul book emit fire energy into his body to keep warm. He avoids touching the ice with distances of centimeters between them. With a kick he front flips over a spike, lands in one hand and does another flip. Leon then creates a platform of fire cloud energy which he uses to jump over the spike in front of him on to the ground. He tries to make it through the gave as nimbly as possible.

But his bodily instincts knew he couldn't stop moving or his body would be drained of all the heat it held.

Leon's body grew fatigued, the constant coldness lessened his control over his body as his muscles reflexively tightened. His skin got cut by the sharp ice. The wound promptly froze stopping the bleeding but the ice energy entered his blood and spread like a fast moving poison. He could feel his whole body get shiver and his brain had started to hurt.

When in the air Leon could feel the cold energy pierce into his body like knives. It made him want to huddle up in a corner. He could even feel his mind go delirious as the world started to spin, his will felt like it would break any second.

Leon hurriedly ran. His body had gotten much stronger after going through the affinity training. Most mental challenges normally would be a piece of cake for him. His body contained a lot of fire energy, even when you didn't count the Pheonix. This stopped him from being overly affected and should have allowed him to run through with ease.

Leon had gravely underestimated the challenge.

"This cave is covered by netherworld ice. This ice is only naturally found on the bottom in the deepest caverns in the netherworld. It has extreme freezing properties, and is mainly known for freezing the soul. Although it isn't high quality it still is much stronger than any of the ice that can be found on this continent. It should have been brought here by an ancient cultivator to create a space for cultivation." Leon deduced out loud to keep his body active.

"The cultivator most likely set up a formation that breaks the will of anyone who walks through here killing them."

Leon sees a skull as he jumps over another icicle.

"Sorry but I won't be dying!" Leon's eyes relight with fire.

Seeing end of the cave Leon took out the white heavy sword he had made. With heavy slashed he broke the tops of the netherworld ice. By using his m.a.t.u.r.ed intuition Leon aimed for the softer and weaker ice. Reaching the end of the cave the netherworld ice got softer and easier. After breaking over a dozen large pieces of netherworld ice the white heavy sword was completely covered in ice and would shatter in another hit, he stores it in his spatial ring. Following this he took of the spatial ring, that already had ice on it, and placed on the side of his mouth.

"The spatial ring will probably break if I keep it outside anymore."

Spatial rings were made of very hard materials that were almost unbreakable. That was why Leon was able to easily use it in magma. However this ice has eroding properties that would break the formation on the spatial ring if it was exposed to too much of the NetherWorld ice energy. So by keeping it in his mouth Leon tried to minimise the effect.

"I got some netherworld ice, now I should get quickly get this done."