Intermediate Magic Artifact (Part 1)

A little less than half an hour later.

Reilo could clearly feel the space around him growing ever more vast.

He had obviously passed through the fissure in the surface and entered the true abyss.

Compared with the blizzard in the fissure, the temperature here was even lower, but the wind was much weaker, clearly because he had passed beyond the fissure's mouth.

Grr, grr, grr, grr, grr...

Suddenly, a flock of strange birds flew toward him. The sound of their rapidly beating wings was like that of a swarm of dragonflies.

Standing at the center of his blazing Star Body, Reilo gazed at the creatures circling him. Since the strange birds hadn't attacked right away, he sensed there might be something more to them.

"These... seem to be a mutated branch of the Bone Abyss Flying Scorpions?"

Although these creatures looked slightly different from the Bone Abyss Flying Scorpion specimens Reilo had collected, as a scholar who studied Evolution's Profound Meaning, he could keenly sense their bloodline connection. They had simply undergone adaptive evolution after surviving in this frigid environment for a long time.

For the time being, Reilo named them Ice Abyss Flying Scorpions.

There were about twenty Ice Abyss Flying Scorpions, several of which had already reached the level of third-tier creatures.

Even in his current state, Reilo found himself hard-pressed to deal with so many.

The flying scorpions were incredibly fast, moving several times faster than an Extraordinary Scholar who wasn't skilled at flying. Their transparent wings beat rapidly in the sky, leaving only streaks of afterimages. In moments, they had already circled the strange fireball dozens of times.

They surrounded him without attacking.

After his initial wariness, Reilo didn't want to waste time here. He let the creatures circle him and continued descending into the