Mixed Blessing System

After psychologically preparing himself, Lothur again advanced against that little plant that looked like a thin ice sculpture.

This time he was prepared to receive the counterattack of the will that had acted against him in the first moment.

Hence, the moment he tried to pull that plant out of the ground, an icy fog again covered him, trying to suffocate him in an icy grip.

The demon saw this from its position and watched what Lothur was trying.

'Is he trying to force himself?' Its eyes narrowed. 'Does he think he's going to get the approval of the spirits of this place just because he wants to?'

'Impossible!'

'The only way to get it is to have the affinity that you clearly don't have!'

It decided to continue watching Lothur's actions in anticipation of seeing this fellow injure himself under the spiritual attacks of the will protecting the resources in that place.

It could have taken the chance to try to harvest the medicine that interested it, but watching Lothur suffer was more important to it at the moment.

'If you get weak because of this, I might get stronger than I was a short time ago, sooner than I expected.' A smiling expression appeared in its eyes and mouth.

Unfortunately for this creature, while Lothur was being pressed by a hand of ice formed by the will in that place, the system appeared to help this young man.

[Abnormal temperature detected in the host's body...]

[Triggering emergency measures...]

[40% of the host's body was frozen to the bone marrow for 1 minute, 11 seconds...]

[Iron-grade ice resistance acquired.]

[Progress: 59%.]

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[Progress: 75%.]

Lothur saw this as he began to feel less pain around his body, easing the muscles in his mouth and jaw as he let out a sigh of relief.

Surprisingly, withstanding an ice-based attack was many times harder than withstanding flames!

As such, he had suffered quite a bit in that period needed to activate the system reaction.

Fortunately for Lothur, his Will and Constitution were already quite high. That made it possible for him to survive the test of will in that area without screaming too much or risking death.

Since the area was of a high level, it did not take long for his resistance to the ice element to rise in quality!

[Progress: 99%]

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[Progress: 100%.]

When he felt a burning sensation at the height of his neck, the base of human cultivation, Lothur noticed chills and sweat all over his body.

Then the cloying sensation of cleansing medulla began to intensify in his being, along with his Super Regeneration kicking in to resolve his most severe wounds.

In this way, Lothur spent the next few seconds feeling these sensations until the impurities driven to leave his body stopped coming out of his pores.

[Bronze-grade ice resistance.]

[Progress: 3%]

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[Name: Lothur Ritter]

[Physique: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger]

[Bloodline: Life Devourer]

[Cultivation: level 12]

[STR: 59.7]

[CON: 268.3 -> 271.1]

[DEX: 53.6]

[AGI: 70.3]

[INT: 93.4]

[PER: 106.6 -> 111.5]

[WIL: 88.7 -> 91.2]

[EVF: 0]

When it saw this, the demon's eyes almost fell from its face because of how open they were to the shocking scene in that place.

Lothur had, from one hour to the next, been undergoing a marrow cleansing while he felt less and less pain from the will attack in that area.

Simultaneously, with each passing moment, the attacks on him seemed to weaken, as if the will was slowly losing interest in him.

"What's happening here?" It wondered, terribly alarmed.

But when it was too late, it looked at the resource it intended to pick up later and ran in that direction, afraid that Lothur would continue acting strangely.

'That bastard! He's out of control! If I don't do something now, I will die!'

Pow!

Unfortunately for this blue creature, when Lothur saw the progression of his ice resistance stop at 32% and the suppressive effects on him vanish, he immediately acted.

Art of Tearing Down Trees!

Lothur moved his staff as if he had an ax in hand, hurling it toward the demon's waist.

The staff violently spun as it left Lothur's hands, meeting that being's waist in the blink of an eye.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

The demon screamed as it felt that thing hit it so hard that its body was cut in half, even considering that it was not a sharp weapon.

"You don't learn, demon!" Lothur somberly commented as he exhaled his Mortal Aura, starting to get angry.

Just when this young man terrorized the demon, the first beasts sent by the high-level beings in that previous stone appeared there.

There were other beasts within this area when Lothur and the demon arrived there. But they were further into this cave, following the tunnels there.

Hence, when the first 2nd stage beings started to stick their heads out of that pond, they were the first beasts in this place that Lothur had seen so far.

But the first ones there, who were excited about the opportunity given by their elders, suddenly felt that something was wrong.

They should get in the way of a human that was training in this place. But when they got there, they first saw this human splitting a demon in half while exuding a powerful killing intent.

That was enough to scare these beings a bit!

'What is wrong with this person? Why is his aura so cold?' A 3 meters tall monkey, a member of the race of that brown-furred being Lothur had met earlier, wondered.

A 'small' toad, the size of an ordinary earthling car, looked at Lothur and felt cold as if this person was a walking fountain of ice.

'Is that the same person that my boss talked about? Why does he look so dominant? Isn't he a humble, shy human?' It realized that its leader's descriptions needed to be more reliable.

Not only did these creatures look at Lothur, but this human also looked in the direction of the small lake there, realizing that many creatures had appeared out of nowhere.

His eyebrows drew together. 'Are they purposely trying to make things difficult for me? What bastards! I didn't do anything against them!'

But Lothur did not even try to communicate with these incoming beings. He knew that 2nd stage beasts could not speak human language and just went back to his job of harvesting that medicine.

The demon would take a few moments to regenerate, so he had time to pick that up before one of these beings tried to meddle in his affairs.

This time, Lothur met no resistance, as he had gained recognition of the will in the area through his resistance to the ice element.

In the blink of an eye, he had that little plant in his spatial ring, ready to continue testing those plants one by one.

Unfortunately for him, almost all the other plants there were weaker organisms or incompatible with him and his women. So he left it there so that the creatures in this place would not complain about him being too greedy.

That was until he touched that flower that the demon hoped he would not find.

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