Extra And MC-Chapter 105 - 101 - Avalanche

-Tuk!

Rooting another mana beacon into the ground, Aiden progressed through the thick, foggy, blanket of white caused by the snowstorm presently raining down on the snowy landscape, a few occasional hailstones smacking into the visor of his battle suit’s retractable helmet.

Judging by how heavy the snowstorm was continuously getting, it didn’t seem like it would be stopping anytime soon.

Glancing over his shoulder to look behind himself, he watched as the multiple mana beacons he had placed on the ground at regular intervals, glowed brightly within a commendable radius of over three meters with a green glow, illuminating white abyss behind him.

These beacons that he had firmly placed into the ground despite the insanely thick layers of pristine snow that was constantly piling up by the second, led the way back to the entrance of the fissure while also providing a bit of visibility in case he needed to head backwards.

Not that he even had any of such thoughts right now.

’Need to keep moving. Have to get out of this impenetrable fog…’ Aiden inwardly commented as he took another step through the heaps of piling snow.

The moment Aiden had stepped into the fissure and had realized, just as Flynn had, that the rare phenomena in fissure called ’shuffling’ had happened, the youth had made it a priority to find his way through the snowstorm, intent on clearing it while believing he would meet Flynn along the way.

He had also checked his brother’s vital signals through the suit’s rectangular panel and upon seeing that Flynn was still in tip-top shape, gave him a calming sense of relief.

That being said, in addition to the mana beacons he placed, corpses of a few Polar Newts could be found in the wake of his trail, their murky blue blood still visible ever-so-slightly, despite the downpour of the heavy snowstorm.

As Aiden kept trudging forward, implanting another mana beacon into the ground, he sensed two white creatures heading for him from within a few meters despite his visibility being completely zero.

"Crieeekkk!!!"

"Hiiissssss!!!"

Despite the unsettling battle cries the monsters had let out, Aiden had been unable to hear it over the raining snowstorm and had instead, solely focused on using his mana sense to locate where they would appear from and respond accordingly.

In one simultaneous motion, the black-haired youth retrieved his finely crafted, titanium-steeled, behemoth of a greatsword from his spatial ring and swiftly, spun around in two rotational slashes, immediately slicing through the bodies of another set of Polar Newts that had tried to pincer him like hot butter through knife.

’Hmm?’ the youth mused as he watched the creatures drop dead like flies, his thoughts continuing.

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’I thought they were both Polar Newts but, there’s a small Frost Serpent this time?’

’More than one specific type of monster?’ Aiden inwardly asked with a slight hint of confusion on his currently indifferent features.

After questioning himself, the youth stopped advancing for a few seconds, retrieved the fissure-level reader from his spatial ring and began to wait for its reading.

He had originally found it a bit odd when the very first monster that had attacked him from the first few seconds of him entering the fissure was a Polar Newt but due to being unable to find Flynn at first too, the youth hadn’t focused too much on the weird occurrence.

Adding to that was how he had immediately began placing the beacons in an effort to maintain visibility back towards the fissure behind him.

So despite even dealing with multiple Polar Newts along the way, him deciding to use the fissure-level reader to check out the weird occurrence had not been a major priority as at then.

About a minute or so passed as the youth kept staring at the screen of the gadget and as he did, the results soon showed up.

With an internal sigh that mirrored a feeling of resignation, Aiden returned the gadget back into his spatial ring, all while muttering to himself.

"Well I’ll be damned... It’s a spiking fissure…"

"This just made things a bit more perilous" Aiden said to himself, returning back to his advance through the foggy abyss of complete layers of white and pristine snow.

Spiking fissures were fissures that had the tendency to have their grades suddenly increase on the fly.

This increase is usually not because mana levels of the fissure suddenly spiked up but because of the various monsters one would find in said fissures, affecting the environment around them with the mana in their bodies.

These monsters, depending on the place an individual was on in the map, could be as low as D-tier and as high as S-tier.

However, a certain rule of thumb that had been noticed by rankers over the years of constantly having to clear fissures was the fact that spiking fissures would never increase past two tiers.

Spiking D-rank fissures could only ever increase to B-rank, C-rank to A-rank, B-rank to S-rank and so and so forth.

Nevertheless, spiking fissures were a very rare phenomenon to say the least and the odds of it happening was less than 1% out of 99%.

’At this point, I’m beginning to wonder if this world just has a thing for thrusting us into dangerous and unexpected circumstances’ Aiden thought to himself while adding a few more internal thoughts.

’That being said, if the readings from the gadget fluctuated from D-rank to B-rank, it means I’m close to where more dangerous monsters are situated’

-Tuk!

"I’d best be fully on guard then" the youth indifferently spoke, his hand embedding another glowing mana beacon into the ground.

Following this, Aiden kept advancing forward for a few more minutes and eventually, he began to watch the snowy white abyss gradually clear up.

Watching as the visor of the helmet on his face automatically retracted the moment he got out of the snowstorm, Aiden found himself at the edge of a fairly tall snowy cliff.

The cold here for some weird reason or the other, wasn’t even remotely biting or bone-chilling to say the least and instead, it was very, very mild.

This made it so much easier for Aiden to breath without feeling like his throat was been assaulted by thin and spiky frost-like needles.

Currently overlooking the wide, expansive, white space below him with the sparsely scattered towering ice pillars that the snowstorm wasn’t getting to, the youth soon realized, along with using mana sense, that there were fairly close to about twenty Frost Serpents below.

Not as big as the mechanical one he fought in the entrance exam but more around a quarter of its size, with some even being slightly smaller.

’Well at least you guys won’t be regenerating like that metallic menace…’ Aiden inwardly remarked while staring at the B-ranked creatures and that were yet to notice his presence.

To further prevent the multiple slithering creatures from spotting him, the youth deactivated the constant wave of bloodlust he had around him from the first few moments he had stepped into the fissure.

No matter how strong he was, there was no guarantee that he could easily take on twenty B-ranked monsters by himself.

Knowing fully well that he had to fight smart, the youth began to go through a bunch of ideas that would make it efficient for him to kill all the creatures in the shortest time frame possible, thereby preventing them from ganging up on him.

While contemplating this, Aiden raised his gaze up and watched as the expansive white space ended in a giant slope that led up, all the way to an immensely tall, snowy mountainous peak.

Seeing this, Aiden had a few internal thoughts that ran through his head.

’It’d suck so bad if an avalanche was to happen…’

’…’

’I just raised a red flag, didn’t I?’

-Sigh…

Pushing his pessimistic thoughts aside with a sigh of resignation, the youth looked behind him, the snowstorm still raining heavily but not going past a certain, seemingly invisible line.

Seeing all the mana beacons lighting up the way through the snowy blizzard though, Aiden felt comfortable enough that at the very least, when he found Flynn and they were able to clear the fissure, getting back would be very easy.

With that thought established, Aiden turned around to face the edge of the cliff, took in a deep cold breath, exhaled it out, and then, jumped off of the cliff and onto the snowy ground where the Frost Serpents were.

Immediately using [Grav Boost] the moment he landed on the ground, Aiden swooshed through the air, a trail of pristine white snow spraying about as his greatsword split through one of the Frost Serpent’s torso in an instant.

As the blue blood erupted like a fountain from its body and the creature fell to the ground with a fairly loud thud, the youth did the same to about three other Frost Serpent’s before they could react to what was even happening.

By the time they had gathered their wits though and realized that they were being hunted, another Frost Serpent fell to the ground, it’s head separated from its body in an instant.

As Aiden began his massacring spree, he was oddly surprised to see that despite using [Grav Boost] in quick successions, he didn’t even feel like he had expended the tiniest bit of his mana pool.

Very quickly, the youth realized that Darius’s mana cuffs had done their work as he had promised it would and now, his control over the use of mana from his core was immensely efficient.

That being said, Aiden immediately ducked as a frosty beam of ice shot at him at a ridiculous speed, effortlessly evading it.

The onslaught of beams didn’t stop there however as now, almost every slithering creature in the vicinity were completely alert and were ready to gang up to defeat the enemy that had come to destroy their ambience.

As Aiden kept dodging the multiple frosty beams and was about to put the next phase of his plan into motion, the youth felt the ground around him vibrate with a very strong intensity.

Without even been told, both he and the Frost Serpents that were locked in a heated battle, turned their head around to see an avalanche roaring down from the mountain peak, it’s progress unstoppable as it brought along with it, a torrent of snow and destruction, swallowing everything in its path.

The Frost Serpents, being fairly intelligent creatures, immediately went into a frenzied state of panic as they wondered how they were going to evade this destructive phenomenon that would be upon them very soon, completely disregarding Aiden’s presence.

"Well shit!"

As Aiden cursed himself for raising a red flag a few minutes before the avalanche had now finally happened, his eyes caught onto something.

Squinting his eyes even further to get a narrowed view, the youth soon had a wave of disbelief wash over him as he watched his brother, skillfully carving down the slope, desperately riding the mountain’s edge to escape the oncoming avalanche’s deadly grasp, along with a gigantic, snowy-white, ape-like monster that was seemingly also threatening to catch him with its elongated claws.