A crimson and warm embrace

Silence

The door opened yet nothing came out of it but the adventurer did not let his guard down ,but he stopped moving backward ,he could feel it from the temperature

{ It's behind me, this thing }

Tsss

The chilling cold that came from ahead,from the boss room shi, now its location, the boss monster had escaped and , now the chilling cold came from behind

' haaaah '

Chris felt his heart sinking in despair and terror ,the boss was outside the room now and was behind

Clink

{ M..my shoulder?? }

On his right shoulder on top of his armor was a hand, a pale hand that grabbed him from behind, one look was enough for Chris to realize what type of monster it was from it's hand

{ An ice wraith }

tssss

" Gg "( gritted his teeth )

That hand that grabbed his shoulder began to release a lethal frost magic that began to freeze his body, but before the frost spread out ,the adventurer in panic hurriedly jumped to his left

Not minding his frozen shoulder Chris immediately looked at the ice wraith that nearly froze him solid, what he saw as expected gave him a grave expression and a realization of how much this place hates him

" Holy shit "

Floating in the air at least 3 meters in height with a ghostly pale transparent body while being enveloped in ice energy, it had no head like structure but one eye red on it's upper body and black veins visible throughout it's body, it had no legs and simply floated like a ghost with it's two skinny arms

Chris, although he had heard and read about this monster ,this being his first time see it

' Aaargaaarrg '

Hearing it's soft and hollow grunts along with see it's inhumane look of wrongness up close his went completely pale with Shiver running down his spine

Seeing the fear in the human's eyes the wraith suddenly jetted at Chris with it's body enveloped with lethal cold energy that would freeze anything it touches to death in a blink

Chris perceived the incoming attack but to his despair his body reacted a second too late due to his terror and what resulted was him blocking the incoming coldness with his arm covered with all his remaining mana to prevent the ghost from passing through it however

He was sent flying back towards the door and crashed into the room with a loud thud

He felt his back and his entire body going number from the crash but slowly, slowly got his head up atleast ,his sword was still on his hand but it was then a frightening realization hitted him

" AAAAAAAAA MY ARM !!! MY ARM!!! "

Screaming in terror, he found that his left arm broken apart from his elbow ,it was frozen down to the bone and broke apart on his crash like glass

" aaa aaaaaaAaa "{ FUCK FUCK!! }

He quickly turned his gaze towards the door only to find the ice wraith looking at him from outside unmoving and simply looking at him with it's crimson eye that showed nothing, no hunger no malice no hatred, it's gaze was simply hollow and empty devoid of reason

" You fucking bastard!! "

The enraged adventurer for a moment forgot his fear and dragged himself up using his sword for support, his expression turned ugly

" Come!! LET'S FINISH THIS YOU FUCKING MIDDLE CLASS DEMON!!! "

His breathing was heavy and he was starting to feel the pain, 5 broken ribs , a lacerated lung , hypothermia was kicking in too due to the monster's powers, he was gonna die soon from his internals being messed up ,his potions were low classed ones and injuries of this level would require atleast 5 of them to heal or 1 middle class hp potion

" COME ON!! "

He roared

" COME ONN!!!!!!!! "

Again he roared but the demon, it did not move at all , instead it turned around and and left the cave as it flew up the dungeon

{ Wha...wha?? }

Tsss

Haaa haaa

Seeing the demon leave,the injured adventurer slowly slowly dragged himself to the walls and sat down ,the cold was too much to bear standing while suffering from internal injuries after all, for some reason even after the ice wraith left ,the cold didn't dissipate one but, he was drained and couldn't move anymore, after sitting down as even the outside was now below 0 degree Celsius, and it was still dropping

Feeling death getting closer by each second Chris looked to his left and saw the dungeon core about 8 meters away ,it was a red or shining like a crimson ruby

Shivering and chattering his teeth Chris thought about how fucked his choice of making quick cash got him and about how he should not just

{ die a dog's death....yeah (grabbed his remaining three mp potions and 2 Stamina potions and drank them all down) } " If I'm gonna die anyway might as well go out with a bang "

Hethrewd the empty potion vials away , feeling his internals healing slightly and his strength somewhat returning his took up his blade again under the freezing hell where even the moisture in his breath instantly condensed up , holding his sword became even harder, but he did and dragged it across the room making his way to the dungeon's core shining on the boss room's altar

Looking at the core shining with its crimson radiance Chris raised his sword and brought it down on the shining core and broke it apart like glass, a shockwave of incredibly dense red mana exploded from the broken core

Chris took the full brunt of the foreign magical exposure and stood strong and as the shockwave of mana dissipated, he fell down ,his body was slowly shutting down from extreme hypothermia, from his calculation he'll likely die in one minute

{ A dungeon's core is the dungeon's heart and source of power, the boss monster is the strongest guard made by the dungeon to protect it's core , however that thing just dipped meaning that it's an anomaly, a boss monster created by an irregular dungeon, it was a monster with free will , since I destroyed this irregular dungeon's core , another anomaly will not be born } " Well ain't I a nice guy? "

His vision turned blurry and he started to feel warm, it was the human body's last vain attempt to save him ,Chris was happy about it aat least,it made him relax as a warm embrace of death came to welcome him

{ This ... Isn't too bad }

However to his disappointment the lethal and hateful cold returned, he instantly opened his eyes to find himself frozen stuck to the ground

" Aaaargg!! (gasping for air he looked around) "

" I... I'm alive??? { How..how the hell am I! ... My internals } "

He quickly spread his mana over his body and to his shock he could clearly tell that he was completely fine,too fine infact, his arm was still missing but and his other injuries all healed up

" This...is one crazy day (smiled) grrg"

He then began his struggle to get out of the frost, using mana to strengthen himself,he quickly got out from the frost and stood straight up to find that although he felt cold ,somehow he wasn't freezing anymore

"{ My cold resistance has increased } (looked at himself) what on earth happened to me? "

He took a moment to check himself and his surroundings to find that he was somehow alive and more resistant to cold as well, and the treasures of the dungeon albeit frozen were still there in the corner of the room ,he was gonna leave instantly but he atleast took a 100 gold coins that he found in the chest inside the room and a sword sheathed in a golden scabbard that was at the back of the boss room ,with that ,while activating most of his detection, stealth and enhancement skills he hurriedly left the boss room without looking back even once ,he was too scared to think about the possibility of another bad luck happening again after all

But while on his way out he noticed some changes on himself

{ huh?? } " Was I always this fast? "

End of chapter

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