The team was in a very peculiar situation. Tim had this ten foot tall ape on a choke hold, but since he mana into this advahat he made for himself, he couldn’t keep things going for long, as his mana pool was not infihe Soul Grabber ability was currently taking sixty points of mana out of him, every sed, and this example was not cheap.

  That aside, this ape seems to be quite tolerant to the team's attacks, they wouldn't be able to kill him so easily even if they wao! Tim felt that he had to iate.

  “Do we have to kill you, sir Lestuk?” He bluffed.

  “You try,” The other picked up on his bluff.

  “You wao try, huh? Okay.” Tim threatened, but this time he wasn’t bluffing as much, because he wasn't as clueless anymore - He had an idea! “Skendus, what do you make of his brain?”

  “Intelligent for an ape, but I'm probably smarter than him… by a nudge.” Skendus was quick to answer.

  Timothy smiled in respohis was the best thing that he heard today! He loved dealing with enemies who in bleak parison, were dumber than him, because he khat in a way, they were very vulnerable!

  To set his pn into motiohen removed the bones from the yeti's gross, chest arm, and bashed those bones ii's head instead. Every part of this process was telekiic, so he didn’t have to lift as much of a finger in order to impale the target again, he just had to spend a lot of mana!

  However, he then noticed that the yeti was still protesting, he was resistant, and since his mana was very limited, Tim had to ask for help. In this case, Skendus was to e in really handy!

  “Do your work on him, try to overload his brain!” He requested, “If we 't kill this big bastard through brute force, then we'll just fry his head from the inside.”

  “I see what you're trying to do,” Skendus nodded, and then he pushed his arms forward.

  Skendus was an illusionist, so when he used his retly-overcharged powers, symbolic eyes appeared to mark his involvement. The eyes were very realistic too, they were as big as his head, and by figure one could tell that each single eye beloo a different species!

  These eyes then floated around his head to the point where they looked like Saturn's rings, and that was when the magic happened. He poured hundreds of points of mana towards the yeti, to make him live these very real-looking, torturous illusions!

  The yeti’s fears were used against him, Skendus made Lestuk imagihat his bones were suddenly very breakable. The illusioured Tim breakiuk's bones, and then rolling him up like a banana leaf, it was brutal but very effective! The following screams of fear and pain were unavoidable, Lestuk was being tortured, so at this point one may eveion Tim's ways of handling things, as he may have gooo far here.

  “Is this really necessary? We just knock him out.” Arvena added, of all people, she was the ohat was ed by this dispy of brutality.

  “We 't let him go, because if he found us once, he find us again.” Ortana argued with her, she was an experienced, oldish woman who has seen a lot of the world. “Besides, if even your fireball 't burn this spooky thing, then what makes you think we stop him ime?”

  “Rex, I'll make his death quick… and mostly painless.” Tim guaranteed.

  Afterwards, he used a trick that he had been holding on to, it being the Electro Nerve Splitter ability! He hadn't used this ohat much so far, because it was very costly to do so, but if he didn't use it now then he may never get to. This abomination of a yeti had to die today!

  Tim casted multiple nerve splitters against the target, they cost hundreds of mana points, but they did travel to their destination very quickly, in a blink even, so it was mana well spent! They hit the yeti's brain, and then scorched a bunch of hat were ected to his brain!

  That and Skendus' help with the matter, brought a result that everyone was at least relieved with, if not fortable in a moral sehey fried the yeti's brain, quite successfully, so Tim finally stopped using his powers.

  The brain damage was extensive, irreversible, so the yeti died ten mier, in a paralyzed, and senseless state of mind. He did not suffer much, and this issue was over.

  Timothy did not get any rewards for killing this ape, which was very weird, as the system should have rewarded him with thousands of system points! She was supposed to, but yet she argued that Timothy did not kill this ape alone, and she also insisted that the ape was not real, in a physical sehere was no easy way to uand what she just said, but he couldn’t take system points out of her by force, so he just let it be, regardless of how much mana he had spent on this ape.

  Anyway, out of all the things that they expected to happen today, entering a mutant-looking ape wasn't one of them. It seemed like a bizarre case, but theeam realized that it wasn't too bizarre after all!

  For example, this pce was called the Frozen Red-leaf Forest, and the weather here was absolutely uable. The yers of snow that had coated the forest for a couple of days, didn't seem as weird now when they realized that a yeti had lived in this forest, things made sense! Weird stuff like this was supposed to happen in this forest, as it was sidered natural.

  Timothy was not a fan of what just happened heless, so he looked at Arvena, and scolded. “How the hell is it that yht us here, knowing full well that we could've gotteen to death by an ape?”

  “You give me too much credit, I barely tell one forest apart from the other.” Arvena argued, she sounded quite sincere. “If you want someoo bme, bme that Innkeeper we visited a couple of days ago, he didn’t bother warning us, even though it was him who told us what this forest’s name was.”

  “For someohat's native to this universe, you sure sound stupid. The forest ractically on your doorstep, how would you not know about a forest with iructible gorils?” He argued.

  “I'm a mage, not a…” Before she could answer properly, a bolt of thuru a tree hem, and it muffled her words effectively.

  The booming sound almost gave them heart attacks, but this uable weather was just part of the forest's charm. At first things weren't too weird, but theemperatures around them suddenly dropped by a solid 40°C, all within a few seds, and this part retty weird!

  Degranus Goblins weren't particurly known for their resistao cold and harsh enviros, so iably, they all started shivering badly, more than they already were. Arvena almost went into shock, even, she was not tolerant of such cold, so she immediately started shooting a few small fireballs in front of her feet, with the hopes of getting a bush burning, for it to act like a mini-campfire. She tried, but it ointless!

  Harsh winds picked up around them, and the wind developed into a blizzard moments ter, and this could not be any more demotivating than it already was! These circumstances had a very high probability of killing them, if they didn't act fast!

  Tim gave a hard look at the situation that they were in, and since a great portion of his stingray life included hiding and taking shelter, he quickly reized that most of what this forest tained, would not help them survive this cold! With that said, he focused ohings that may give them a fighting ce, those being pin dirt and old animal bones.

  It took little time to summon more bones from within his close viity, and once he had those bones multiply into hundreds of bones all within just a few seds, he then had them dig a ditch. They were tiny and sharp, so they bashed their way through the dirt quickly, ultimately fulfilling his ands!

  The ditch then turned into a tunnel, because the bones had also dug sideways, and this tunnel went a couple of feet underground, and created a of sorts as a result. It took half a mio do this, and it perhaps put the team in further risk by leaving them exposed this long, but this was their best shot they were going to get, they had to go underground in order to avoid this sudden, brutal enviro!

  “If I was alone, I could've just floated my way out of here.” Tim thought to himself, however, he didn’t nearly regret saving the group.

  They went underground, and Arve a couple of fireballs burning above her palms, to maintain some of the heat. sidering that they were avoiding most of the wind and snow now, they only had to deal with the desding temperatures. Now the undergrouhey were in helped avoid half of the cold, but they still had to work their way around the other half.

  Tim guessed that it was about -25° the right now, and if they couldn't fight this situation, they may die of hypothermia within a few hours. It solely depended if this blizzard would hold out for long, but as far as they were ed, it was only getting cht now!

  Either way, he was fresh out of ricks. The abilities he used retly were still o him, he bought them st, and he only got to use them properly today, but he already noticed their charm faded away! Soul grabbing, nerve splitting, and bone multiplying would not save him from the cruel death that hypothermia could bring, it wouldn't work out.