After descending another three thousand meters or so, they entered an enormous ice cavern. The cavern was vast, roughly the size of two basketball courts, with a ceiling thirty to forty meters high. Icy cold seeped from all around, and the temperature had dropped to an extreme. Even Wharton and the others had to cover themselves in battle qi shields.
The Arctic Ice Bear from before was already there, though it had entered through a different passage from Wharton and the others. Looking around, they found a pool three to four meters wide in the center of the cavern. A dazzling, multicolored ice lotus had blossomed in the middle of the pool, its radiant hues making it seem like a paradise on earth.
"Roar!"
Upon seeing Wharton and the others, the giant bear from the other direction let out an angry roar and swung its massive paws at them. A faint blue glow shimmered over its paws.
It was the same Arctic Ice Bear from before. However, unlike last time, it attacked the two of them without so much as a greeting.
"Roar..."
Faced with the bear's attack, Little Gold had been prepared and refused to be outdone. They had spotted the bear the moment they entered. With a furious tiger's roar, it transformed into a giant tiger as large as the Arctic Ice Bear and charged forward. With a beat of its enormous wings, it appeared before the bear, its massive tiger claws swiping straight at the bear's head.
Although the Arctic Ice Bear held the advantage of terrain here, where water-elemental energy was exceptionally dense, Little Gold was not affected in the slightest. Though it had only reached Level Nine Early Stage, it was a mutated magical beast with wind and lightning dual attributes. Its speed was so