After getting rid of the bugs homing all over, it was finally time to finish off the wounded army-less commander…

'Dual Lightning Style, Sword Streaking Through the Sky'!

[ You have absorbed the blood essence of a corrupted 'Minotaur Commander', purification in progress… ]

[ You have received 2,256,222 EP! ]

As soon as the commander's head reached the ground, the countless Minotaur bodies on the ground started disappearing in the same fashion they came to this place leaving nothing behind, even the weapons disappeared along with them…

Which meant I wouldn't be able to loot their bodies, but I wasn't planning to from the beginning, after all, Minotaur were still half-human monsters, and thinking about eating their meat would seem like a disgusting form of cannibalism, they also didn't have elemental cores as well.

As for their energy cores, they would become useless anyway as the energy inside it would dry as soon as the owner was dead, being less flexible than the elemental cores which retain their elements with the help of the elements in the surrounding atmosphere.

Another gate appeared in place of the commander's corpse, this time failing to surprise me, I didn't wait to check further as I stepped willingly into it.

Swoosh!

I felt as if I space was accelerated, unlike when I entered this gate, it was only one minute later that I found myself back into the underground hall, not taking as long as 1 hour to reach the gate's destination…

However, as if to leave me no chance to rest after the recent arduous battle, I was directly transported in front of the big gate at the end of the hall.

Fire sprouted out of the gates forming words once again.

{ TARGET 100/100 }

{ TARGET ACHIEVED! ENTRY PERMITTED! }

The gate swallowed back the fire to its inside, as it started to light up, releasing eye-blinding blue light…

{ ENTER! }

This time… the message was transmitted to my mind directly, which reminded me of the method used by the Thunder Lion to talk to me, and my own 'Mental Transmission' that I used when I was guiding the starry night trio, only that it was more imposing than methods!

It almost made me shudder as I could feel my whole body going cold…

I took a step forward as I felt increasingly cold yet somewhat warm, it reminded me of my feelings when I had a fever once in the middle of the cold night…

Of course, the contraction was that the warm wasn't supposed to be just warm but more like scorching to suit the icy feeling, but I already guessed the difference was due to 'Fire Immunity'...

[ You have obtained the Special skill 'Cold Resistance'! ]

[ 'Cold Resistance' has been absorbed to 'Immunity'! ]

[ 'Cold Immunity' has leveled! ]

[ 'Cold Immunity' has leveled! ]

[ 'Cold Immunity' has leveled! ]

[ …... ]

[ 'Cold Immunity' has reached lv.9! ]

As expected, the active role of 'Immunity' came to the rescue at once, as the chilly feeling started being less ice chilly and more of a breezy chill.

'Wait, what?'

A second later, I realized that I didn't really perceive how much time has passed since I started feeling cold, my senses seemed to have been eluded, and just by looking at the scenery around me, I noticed that I was already long gone from the hall, having entered the gate which sent me to this Ice-Fire road.

I reckoned that if I didn't manage to obtain 'Cold Immunity', I might have been lost in this place for far longer than this…

I opened up my status to check the time, only to find out that I had several system alerts that I missed...