Normally, she would have been gone for an hour, but this time, as though concerned about Li Ziran, she appeared at the entrance to Christie's Auction House fifteen minutes early. She looked nothing like her usual aggrieved self. Though still a little unhappy, she smiled when she saw him.
Their target this time was the ice monsters at the far end of the Ice Plains. The polar ice they produced was the lowest-grade freezing material in the Void Expanse. Even so, getting their hands on it would earn them at least three Void Coins.
Aside from the brutal polar cold and the chaotic elemental tide, Snow mostly discussed these Snow Monsters' ability to communicate with the snow element. They could track prey wherever snow lay. Swindling them would not be particularly difficult, but escaping the polar region would require Li Ziran to possess special abilities.
Li Ziran listened attentively, but his mind was elsewhere entirely. With his current strength, few creatures could do anything to him wherever an elemental tide existed. He was more interested in the network behind Snow. Before every operation, the girl disappeared for a while, clearly to gather intelligence.
That network was more powerful than Snow herself.
He had not partnered with Snow just to keep working like this. He needed to learn about the Void Expanse through her. Still, he was in no hurry. Patience was one of the most fundamental hunting skills.
He understood the principles of survival well. To uncover what lay behind her, he needed to deliver better results.
Savage winds swept the polar Ice Plains, where nearly all the ice element within the elemental tide had gathered. Yet amid those winds, a cloud-white frog rode the gusts at speed. Behind it chased humanoid monsters made of piled stones.
Every monster roared,