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    Thend was covered in ice as it was painted white, and multiple small boulders could be seen between the environment full of mist. A four-meter-tall creature made of ice roared and mmed his hands down; An avnche appeared and shook the area around.


    The creature roared and rushed at its opponent, a gray-haired boy whose feet were surrounded by a violet mist; moved back to dodge the attack, but the monster made up of ice curled up in a giant ball of snow. It rolled through and gained momentum, bing bigger as he approached.


    The boy was caught off guard, He quickly used his defensive skills. An armor made of ice appeared and surrounded his body; It was as if it had been carved through crystal white snow; it shone a light blue and created a dim barrier.


    "BOOM!" A small explosion took ce. The giant ball stopped after hitting the opponent, and a body could be seen thrown back like a cannonball. Its back hit the boulder "Crack," and the sound of multiple cracks appeared; In between the shocked reactions of the ice golem, the boy slowly stood up.


    Multiple cracks could be seen on the boulder behind him; the print created by his body was still present there, and a perfect replica could be cast using it. The boy coughed a little blood before wiping his mouth and saying, "Much better.", He then looked at his opponent and said, "What a surprise! I should get a little serious."


    A violet smoke released from his feet; His body bent a little before being released as a bullet. He moved like a blurred object in the mist, and small cracks appeared on the ground wherever he passed by. He moved his hand in the air, and a ck spear appeared. As he approached his opponent, the spear was covered in ayer of ice.


    Heunched multiple attacks at the opponent from different directions; each attack appeared with a powerful momentum carrying a chill wind. The creature moved his hands in different directions and even fired multiple ice spears, but his opponent was quick on his feet, and weak attacks were not even able to bypass his armor.


    The ice golem was frustrated and smashed his hand on the ground, releasing a powerful avnche. He was again about to use its special move, but then multiple ck chains appeared from below and held it in ce. Two chains releasing violet smoke with a pointy dagger at their ends pierced through his back and shackled his neck.


    A light blue magic circle appeared below the creature, and before long, ''BOOM,'' another explosion took ce. The ice golem cried in agony as multiple parts of its body were sted into pieces; It looked at its opponent with anger, but his opponent had a mocking smile on his face.


    He appeared before the ice golem with two swords in his hands; They were both covered in a thinyer of ice. A dark fire was burning above its de; The body jumped in the air as two chains in front of him joined together to form a step; he used it to jump higher.


    His eyes met the ice golem, which was still surrounded by chains. The best roared to intimidate him, but his body danced through the air with his two swords shining in a light blue glow. Instead of an explosion, only a ''swish'' sound came. A giant head the size of an oversized gym ball fell from the shoulders of the monster.


    The boy swung his sword again and created a hole in the back of the creature. He then used his hand to pull out a circr orb shining in a light blue glow. The monster''s body broke into small crystals, releasing pure ice energy; The boy sat there and absorbed the energy.


    After absorbing every bit of energy there, he went back to the cave. The rock he was sitting on was covered in ck miasma; The area around it was simr. It was all due to the impurities thrown out of his body while absorbing unpurified ice energy from the cores.<novelsnext></novelsnext>


    He cleaned the area a little before starting again. It had been three days since he started changing the ice crystals inside his body into mini-cores. At first, he was motivated, but he soon ran out of Beast Cores. He hunted again and refined the cores before running out of them again.


    The more he hunted the stronger the opponents became; it was bing more dangerous as Ice Golems were always in a group of one or two. He would need to give his all to defeat two such opponents.


    His contract Beast was also helping him by trying to gather as many cores as possible, It was hard for them to bring Beast Cores as they needed to defeat the Ice Golem in one shot and not give him any chance to recover.


    Which was not the hardest part; the hard part was if they used too much force then the Beast Cores would also be destroyed with the Ice Golem. They were able to still seed by teaming up; he patted them both before moving back to the cave.


    He never thought that he was not the only one who could have gotten this crazy idea; others have given up due to the amount of resources required. This amount of pure ice energy was no joke. Even the best refiners could only convert 70% of the energy inside a beast''s core into pure ice energy.


    This was not the only hurdle; As he created more ice cores, he needed to be more cautious and keep in mind to divide his focus to keep them stable. They were ticking time bombs. If he miscalcted, then they would go Kaboom! His body would st into mush if such a thing happened. Even if his regeneration was five times stronger, he would still die.


    Only selected creatures were capable of cellr regeneration; they were considered half-immortal. Rishi''s regeneration was impressive; however,pared to those creatures, it was a difference between a newborn that had just learned how to stand and an adult who could sprint; Only time will tell if he will ever reach such heights.


    He activated his ''Extreme Focus'' and started to focus. He was 80 percent done; It was all due to working day and night for three straight days. He calmed down and absorbed each core one by one. Time passed by, and before long he was 99.99% done; only thest crystal remained; The problem was that only faint energy remained in thest Beast Core he was using.


    He crossed his fingers and continued. He was not mentally prepared to go on a hunt again. He calmed himself and started transferring the small amount of energy left in thest beast''s core. The small crystal shone and slowly transformed into arger, white-colored spherical orb.


    He sighed. "I was lucky," he said as he looked at thest core in his hand, which wasckluster and soon cracked and turned into a white powder. He felt his back and closed his eyes. He was tired from all the work he had done in the past few days.


    He summoned his shadow energy from his shadow core. A violet mist surrounded him; He asked his core to remove all the impurities inside his body before closing his eyes. The ck orb shone before flooding his whole body with shadow energy.


    Every impurity was exterminated and thrown out of his body. This time, he was going through aplete purification. The small pores opened all over his body, and a ck miasma released from them; this time it was an evenrger quantity.