A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 6366

The second ice gate stood even taller than the first.

It also felt heavier, as if the whole slab had been carved to press down on whoever stood before it.

The sigils carved across it were denser, too.

More complicated.

Their lines twisted like savage dragons, one after another, flickering with a dim blue glow in the darkness.

At the very center of the ice gate, three large characters were carved deep into the surface—"the Trial of the Ice Soul."

"The Trial of the Ice Soul tests combat strength."

Aldric's voice sounded inside Jared's consciousness field. "You need to defeat the Warden formed from the ice soul. The Warden's strength will change according to the cultivation of whoever enters. The five of you are going in together, so the Warden's strength will be the sum of all five of yours."

Jared's brow furrowed. "The sum of all five of us?"

"That's right." Aldric's voice carried a trace of gravity. "So you need to work together. If you fight alone, none of you can win."

Jared turned and looked at Gwendolyn, Alaric, Elara, and Cedric.

"Once we're inside, follow my lead."

The four of them nodded.

The ice gate slowly swung open.

Beyond the gate lay an even more expansive chamber.

The chamber was hundreds of yards across. Ice walls surrounded it, and every one of them was carved with battle sigils.

At the center of the chamber stood an ice-blue figure.

It stood three yards tall. Ice armor covered its body, and an ice blade rested in its hand. Its face was a blur, with only those blood-red eyes showing clearly.

The Warden.

Jared pulled out the Dragonslayer Sword. Purple chaotic force flowed along the blade.

"Go!"

All five companions moved at the same time.

Gwendolyn's ice-blue divine radiance split into countless ice needles and shot straight for the Warden's eyes.

Alaric slashed out a 100-yard ice-blue blade-flare with his ice blade and brought it down head-on.

Elara's ice whip turned into an ice serpent and coiled in from the left.

Cedric's ice spear became a streak of icy blue light and thrust in from the right.

Jared brought the Dragonslayer Sword down from above, trailing purple chaos-flame.

Five attacks crashed in at once from five different directions.

The Warden didn't dodge.

It raised its ice blade and cut downward with a single swing.

The icy blue blade-flare slammed into all five attacks and exploded with a deafening roar.

The chamber shook violently.

The sigils carved into the ice walls flashed in a wild frenzy.

The five companions were driven back several steps.

The Warden gave ground too, but only one step.

Something sharpened in Jared's eyes.

The Warden's strength really did match the combined power of all five of them.

But it had a weakness. It wasn't fast, and its attacks were too simple.

"Gwendolyn, Ice Seal!" Jared shouted.

Gwendolyn formed seals with both hands. Ice-blue divine radiance surged out and condensed into an ice wall in front of the Warden.

The Warden shattered the ice wall with one slash.

But that instant of delay was already enough.

"Alaric, keep it tied down from the front!"

Alaric charged straight in.

His ice blade slammed into the Warden's ice blade with a hard, ringing crash.

His cultivation fell short of the Warden's.

But he wasn't there to win. He only had to hold it in place.

"Elara, left side! Cedric, right!"

Elara's ice whip lashed around the Warden's left arm.

At the same time, Cedric's ice spear drove into its right shoulder.

The Warden's movement dragged for half a beat.

Jared moved.

The purple figure cut through the void and left an afterimage behind.

In the next instant, he was already behind the Warden.

The Dragonslayer Sword, wreathed in purple chaos-flame, drove into the middle of the Warden's back.

The Warden's body locked up all at once.

The blood-red glow in its eyes faded little by little.

Its body started to break apart, crumbling into a sky full of ice-blue motes of light.

The motes drifted through the chamber like countless fireflies.

Jared pulled out the Dragonslayer Sword and turned around.

"Let's go."

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