472: Chapter 472 This time, she's truly broken through.

The fifteenth resurrection.

The gray mist in the cavern had been completely dispersed by dense lightning and sword energy.

The icy ground was plowed with deep trenches.

"Thump... thump..."

A ghostly light lit up once again.

Holm struggled to reassemble his body.

This time, he couldn't even hold onto his giant axe, and it fell to the ground with a "clang."

He did not Charge, nor did he roar.

His massive body stood in place, his hollow eye sockets staring fixedly at Chen You.

Chen You raised his hand, lightning wreathed around his fingertips.

"Wait!" Holm suddenly let out a deafening roar, his voice actually cracking slightly.

Chen You paused: "What? Last words?"

Holm took a deep breath, and the surrounding cold air trembled along with him.

He pointed at the altar, his tone filled with disbelief and anger.

"Big brother! That's not how you play this game!"

Chen You blinked.

Holm grabbed his bald, frosty head in a breakdown and loudly accused him: "I am a mechanic boss! Do you understand what a mechanic boss is?!"

"My setting is immortal, meant to test a player's wisdom and observation skills!"

"You can't damage the altar, so you should be looking for clues! Look at the surrounding walls, aren't there murals? Look in that corner, isn't there a strange lever?"

"I've practically told you the weak point directly! Why don't you think of a way? Why do you keep hacking at me?!"

The more Holm spoke, the more aggrieved he became, his massive body even hunching over slightly.

Chen You rolled his eyes and casually tossed a spirit recovery pill into his mouth.

"Looking for clues takes too much brainpower."

"And if I find the wrong one and waste all that effort, wouldn't people laugh at me?"

Chen You stood up and brushed the dust off his clothes: "I'm an honest person."

"You said you were immortal, so I just wanted to see exactly how many times you could resurrect."

"Are you sick?!" Holm broke down, "Do you know how painful it is to be shredded by sword energy every time? Do you know what it feels like to be blasted into slag by lightning? You're torturing me!"

"Oh." Chen You raised the yuhuang sword expressionlessly, "Then let's continue."

"No, no, no!" Holm retreated in a panic.

Holm was truly crying.

Although only ice shards flowed from his hollow eye sockets.

He was a dignified level 50 mutant lord, the gatekeeper of the Abyss Ice Mine, once an existence that made countless beta players tremble with fear.

He had never imagined that one day he would be pinned to the ground and beaten like a training dummy, and repeatedly at that.

"You don't even know how impressive I used to be!" Holm pointed at his chest, ice chips constantly falling from his massive body.

"Those guys who called themselves pro-gamers were one-shot by my axe, and they ran corpse runs in front of the altar until their shoes wore out!"

"They searched every corner of this place, checked guides, took notes, and died dozens of times before they could barely grasp the edge of my mechanics!"

Chen You looked indifferent: "So what?"

"So you should respect me!" Holm roared, his voice sounding somewhat comical because of the air leak, "I am the examiner! You are tearing up the test paper!"

Chen You touched the hilt of the yuhuang sword: "Tear it up once more?"

"Don't do that!" Holm's massive body shrank suddenly, waving his hands repeatedly, pointing at the icy ground.

"Big brother, look carefully at the ground, aren't there some flickering bright spots?"

Chen You looked down and swept his gaze over it; indeed, there were a few ghostly blue light spots flickering within the ice layer.

In fact, he had seen them as soon as he came in, but he was just too lazy to deal with them.

"Those are Frost Crystals!" Holm spoke quickly, fearing Chen You would draw his sword again, "They can be collected! This is the mechanic!"

"As long as you collect ten crystals and place them on the Heart of Frost on the altar, you can purify the pollution."

"It's that simple! Please, go collect them!"

Chen You walked to a light spot, crouched down, used his sword hilt to break the ice layer, and pried out a diamond-shaped ice crystal.

"Just this?" Chen You weighed the ice chunk in his hand.

"Yes, yes, yes! This is it!" Holm rubbed his hands in excitement, "Find nine more, get all ten, and slap them onto the heart, and my task will be considered complete."

Chen You sighed: "If you had just said so earlier, you wouldn't have had to take fifteen beatings."

Holm shut his mouth aggrievedly.

I didn't say it? Is that because I didn't want to?

Do you know how lazy you are?

Five minutes later, Chen You slowly wandered around the cavern and pried out all ten Frost Crystals.

He walked to the black altar, looked at the dark red heart that was constantly spewing gray mist, and smashed all ten crystals onto it at once.

"Sizzle—"

A harsh purification sound rang out, and the ghostly blue light instantly swallowed the dark red.

The gray mist dissipated rapidly like remnant snow encountering a scorching sun.

The Heart of Frost shed its eerie color, turning into a crystal-clear blue gem that floated quietly in mid-air.

Holm let out a long sigh, and his massive body began to dissipate into ice-blue light particles.

"Big brother, the pollution has been cleared." Holm's voice finally returned to the deep tone a lord should have, but his tone was filled with humility.

"You have successfully unlocked the level 50 dungeon 'Ice Cavern', and you can now bring your team to run it."

Chen You nodded with satisfaction: "You're quite sensible."

"Alright, I'll keep that in mind, and I'll come visit you again if I get the chance."

"Don't!" Holm's dissipation speed tripled instantly, his voice echoing desperately in the cavern, "I beg you! Please don't ever come back! Go torment someone else!"

Before his voice even faded, Holm completely disappeared.

Immediately after, the black altar emitted a dull roar.

The hard stone cracked inch by inch and finally collapsed with a boom.

A huge, azure portal slowly rose on the original site of the altar, with starlight flowing within it, exuding a bone-chilling cold.

The system notification sounded in Chen You's ears.

[Ding! Task completed. You have successfully cleared the pollution source at the bottom of the Abyss Ice Mine.]

[Ding! Aurora City public plane has been connected.]

[The entrance to the level 50 dungeon "Ice Cavern" has been activated.]

With a flash of white light, the scene before Chen You distorted slightly.

The cavern was still the same cavern, and the portal was still the same portal.

But the difference was that the originally empty cavern was suddenly filled with a dense crowd of people.

Noisy sounds surged into Chen You's ears like a tide.

"Ice Cavern group forming, come to Ice Cavern to get your endgame gear!"

"It's so cold, Mage, give us some fire!"

"Level 50 newbie looking for a carry, is there any big brother who can carry me?"

Obviously, where Chen You had just been was a mirrored task space separated by the system.

Now that the task was complete and the mirror was lifted, he was thrown directly back into the public channel.

The most critical part was that the position where Chen You was currently standing was right on the center steps of the portal.

Looking down from above, he was the center of attention.

The originally noisy cavern suddenly became eerily quiet the moment Chen You appeared.

Hundreds of eyes stared fixedly at this man who had suddenly popped out.