The Thunderbolt barrage stopped, leaving several huge, charred craters in the stage. It was a wreck.
The Scale-Skin Mother Demon crawled out of the rubble. Her scales were scorched, and dark purple lightning kept flickering across her body.
She was furious, letting out one shrill cry after another.
"She's still alive?!"
Mo Xie's expression changed. He stared at the Scale-Skin Mother Demon as she rose again, caught between shock and disbelief.
She had taken a second-tier Intermediate Level Lightning Element attack, one empowered by the top-grade Spirit Seed Boundless. She should have been gravely injured, if not dead.
He glanced at the heap of wreckage and understood.
She had hidden beneath the rubble and escaped the worst of the Thunderbolt barrage.
"What a cunning creature. No wonder an intelligent, high-level Demon Beast is so hard to deal with!"
Still, he was not too worried. She had dodged the later bolts, but she had taken considerable damage.
The Scale-Skin Mother Demon clenched her fangs. That damned human had made her look like this. She would tear him to pieces!
She stamped a hind leg and sprang forward like a slingshot, slashing her sharp claws at Mo Xie.
"Frost Breath · Ice Vine · Coverage!"
A wall of ice shot up between them.
Mo Xie pushed off the ground and leaped backward into the shadows cast by the crisscrossing stage lights, sinking into the darkness.
Her claws came down like a blood-red cutting machine, slicing clean through the three-meter ice wall as easily as tofu.
"Frost Breath · Ice Lock · Bone Grinding!"
The ground beneath the Scale-Skin Mother Demon suddenly turned bitterly cold. Cracks split the frozen surface, and massive ice chains burst out, ringing like metal whenever they struck one another.
She stared at the Ice Locks in shock. It