Mixed Blessing System

[Winter's Breath] [Rank: Silver]

[Introduction: the Winter's Breath is a natural flower from the Central Glaciers of Concordia, specifically the Frozen Origin, the home of the densest and most potent Natural Laws concerning low temperatures.]

[Feature: it can be used for producing Silver-grade pills or potions or consumed. In general, it creates an affinity with the elemental to ice, improves Intelligence by 20% to 40%, and improves understanding of techniques based on the ice element.]

[Detail: if the one consuming it already has an affinity to it, there is a 1 in 10,000 chance that such a person will awaken an innate ability connected to the ice elemental.]

'Oh?' Lothur opened his mouth in surprise at finding something so valuable in this place.

He looked at that little flower that the demon wished to ingest and thought he had found something crucial for one of his women to awaken some innate power.

Neither Viktoria nor Annaliese had awakened the Physique or bloodline. So by finding an item that could increase the chances of something of the sort happening, Lothur could not help but see the immense value of that to him!

'When I return, I will do a test to judge which of the two has the greatest affinity for this element. Then I will give it to the one who does best in this test!' He made up his mind before using some strength to pull that flower from the ground.

When the demon saw Lothur storing such a thing in his spatial ring, it almost vomited blood, feeling that young Ritter was doing it on purpose to hurt it.

'You bastard!'

'You will pay me, Lothur!'

But before this creature could cause any problems, one of the newly arrived beasts looked at Lothur with blood in its eyes, targeting this human's things.

These beasts had no affinity with the ice element, so they could not take those plants, some of which they could not even see. But seeing Lothur harvesting such resources, some had become interested in these items.

After all, as much as they could not use such cultivation alternatives, this did not mean that there was no value in these things for them. On the contrary, bartering items between beasts was the most common type of trade in this world, so every resource had its value.

Since those were not low-level medicines, those strongest to notice what Lothur was doing could not help but set their eyes on this young man's stuff.

'Hehe, this human is coveting things he doesn't have the power to protect...' A grand, black- and white-furred bear thought to itself as it remembered the things its leader had told it.

The high-level beasts of this lake were not sure what Lothur's forces were like, but they had a good idea.

Lothur had given up running from the toad of earlier, meaning that he was weaker than these local high-level creatures. But at the same time, he had managed to keep up with that giant toad as it moved.

Because of this, those creatures knew that Lothur's strength should be between the beginning and the end of the 2nd stage.

Some of those creatures, such as the leader of that bear's tribe, had assumed that Lothur had cultivation near the middle of the 2nd stage. As such, they had sent subordinates between levels 12 and 15.

Precisely because of what it had heard from its leader and considering its own power, that level 14 bear looked at Minos with greed.

'Human, hand over your things! These medicines now belong to me!' It opened its mouth and roared, unable to communicate effectively but too clear in its actions for Lothur to be confused.

This silver-haired young man turned around and saw that level 14 creature. He quickly understood that such a bear was challenging him, probably over his resources.

'Challenging me?'

[Painted Bear]

[Cultivation: level 14]

[STR: 169.8] [CON: 178.1] [DEX: 168] [AGI: 163.9]

'This creature is powerful, but it won't be able to beat me!' He looked at that being and thought about fighting.

But as he saw that bear running towards him, before he acted to attack it, Lothur saw that two other beasts were beginning to act against him.

One was a level 13 colored snake, and another a level 14 toad, a dangerous combination for him.

'I can't fight those creatures!' He realized this immediately. 'As much as they can't kill me easily, if they put pressure on me and all three attack simultaneously, they could even finish me if they so desired.'

He was not sure of those creatures' intentions, but he would rather not take any chances.

With that in mind, Lothur grabbed that demon by that creature's neck and ran, heading toward one of the tunnels, shocking those beasts.

'What? So fast?' The confident black and white bear thought about it in surprise, not expecting that such a human could actually escape them like that.

The other two beings still tried to chase Lothur. Still, since this young man's body was the most powerful there, he managed to escape from them temporarily.

'He's really fast...' The toad remembered the words of its boss.

The snake then narrowed its eyes and pondered. 'But will he be able to overcome what lies ahead?'

All these creatures had entered this Immortals Well at least once or twice before. Hence, they knew the place well and the challenges one had to face following each of the tunnels available at the entrance to that area.

In the case of the tunnel Lothur had chosen, there was the area of the Death Pools!

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'Looks like they stopped chasing me for some reason...' Lothur looked back and began to slow his speed.

Meanwhile, the demon being dragged by Lothur realized that the place they were about to enter was not simple.

'This?' The creature's eyes narrowed as it felt comfortable energy coming from the area ahead.

Lothur could not see what was ahead, as his visual ability was restricted to the area he was in. But he noticed a negative sensation as he came out of that tunnel and entered an area a little darker than the previous one.

But since he had an affinity for the element of darkness, as he entered there, Lothur did not feel as bad as the beasts chasing him earlier had thought he would.

He, yes, was feeling uncomfortable. But this was not suffocating for him, who already had an almost Bronze-grade resistance to this element.

But even though he was feeling better than his opponents wanted him to, Lothur came upon an area filled with dark pools within that cave. At the same time, the shadows in the surroundings in that place seemed to stare at him, challenging him.

Lothur focused on that area and tried to get a better look at what was there, slowly noticing that there was nothing in the shadows looking at him. Still, some beasts were in the area, inside the pools.

'What is it?' He tried to understand the situation when he suddenly felt something approaching him.

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