CHAPTER 282 Desperate Stand

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CHAPTER 282 Desperate Stand

297 AC

POV THIRD PERSON

As Pyp's head rolled to the ground, the undead warrior finally fell silent, his body collapsing into a lifeless heap at Jon's feet. With a guttural roar of rage, Benjen seized a hefty piece of burning wood from the nearby campfire, his eyes blazing with fury as he hurled it toward the towering figure of the white walker. For a fleeting moment, hope flickered in his heart, the flames of the burning wood offering a glimmer of possibility the white walker might have the same weakness to fire.

But as the fiery projectile hurtled through the frigid air, its heat rapidly waned in the face of the white walker's chilling presence. By the time it reached its target, the flames had dwindled to mere embers, leaving only a trail of wispy smoke in its wake.

With a hollow thud, the extinguished wood struck the white walker's icy armor, leaving behind a faint smudge of black upon the glistening surface. He showed a smug smile and started to walk towards them. All hope was starting to wane. Jon and Benjen couldn't accept the fate they were dealt with, so they both started running toward the White Walker with rage-filled shouts.

White Walker didn't care about their swords. He caught Jon's sword with his hand, then kicked him, sending him flying a few meters. Jon got wind knocked out of him and having a hard time breathing. While getting hit by Benjen's strike, without caring for the attack, the white walker stabbed him in the shoulder. 

The white walker turned towards Jon and slowly approached him as his icy gaze fixated on Jon's vulnerable form, poised to strike the final blow. A sudden disturbance shattered the eerie silence. A sharp whistling sound pierced the frozen air, growing louder with each passing moment. 

The white walker's keen senses detected the impending danger, prompting him to raise his head just in time to witness a massive stone statue hurtling towards him. With a swift leap, he evaded the looming threat, the statue crashing to the ground with a deafening roar that echoed through the desolate landscape.

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As Aermir traveled with top speed on top of Sith, he was passing through the land like a hurricane. When Sith got tired, he would turn into a bird and continue flying. When she rested enough, he would summon her and continue riding her. Using this method, he was moving towards Jon's group as fast as he could. At this moment, Skadi's voice echoed in his mind.

-Master, the white walker, caught up with them. I have used all of my council to slow it down, but it didn't help much; I only have one left for scouting.-

He was almost there, but it was too late; they stood no chance against a white walker. From what he saw in the dreamscape, they were weaker than his familiars when it came to one-on-one; they could be beaten by a level 2 or 3 spell or Valyrian steel. But ordinary beasts and humans stood no chance.

-Master, he is not killing them right away. He and his beast are playing with them.-

A momentary hope bloomed inside Aermir's heart as he forced his wings to go faster. "come on, continue to play with them."

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Aermir could see them, but the situation was dire; He had stabbed Benjen and was getting ready to finish off Jon. Aermir had to try something crazy. He folded his wings and started to dive like a peregrine falcon. Just as there was close to 100 meters between them, he returned to his human form and buffed himself with everything possible in seconds and encased his body with stone skin buff.

With a resounding crash, he descended upon the field like a meteor. His body was encased in a protective shell of stone as he collided with the unforgiving earth below. As he touched the ground, he managed to roll and reduce the effect of the crush, but Aermir's legs still bore the brunt of the force, crushed beneath the weight of his own descent. Yet, despite the searing pain that coursed through his body, he remained steadfast; the only thing that was keeping his legs together was the stone skin buff.

White walkers were not mindless undead like the wights. They were living beings, and this white walker was one of the younger ones. It was only a few hundred years old. A select few of the shamans and healers of Freefolk settlements had dealings with the Night King, and they would provide a child every year for him to turn them. So you could say they were half-human and weren't exactly the same thing as Night King.

The white walker realizes that the being in front of him is more powerful than him, but he is compelled by his king's orders to kill every warg they come across. Jon was the reason he was chasing them. But the new enemy was a bigger problem. He had never felt a warg as powerful as him on this side of the wall. He had to kill both of them.

White Walker didn't want to give Aermir any time to collect himself and charged at him. Aermir raised his hand, and his hands started to glow with orange lights. White walker's eyes grew in shock as he felt the magical power in the air and pulled out the ice shield that was hanging on his back.

Tongues of flames started to come out of Aermir's hand and drowned the white walker in a sea of fire. The icy shield was able to hold on, so Aermir freed one of his hands from the spell and cast a wind spell to feed his flames, making them more ferocious. 

Combined with the winds the flames roared like a beast and shattered the ice shield then force of the blast pushed the white walker towards a big rock. Using that moment Aermir started casting healing spells on his legs. The spider stopped fighting with Edd and Sam; and jumped toward Aermir but from the tree line many shards of ice started to fly toward the beast causing many minor wounds.

Skadi managed to catch up with Aermir and continued to bombard the spider with ice shards, keeping it at bay. Aermir turned his attention to Benjen and cast healing magic on him too. By this time white walker raised up and threw an ice spear toward Aermir right away.

Aermir controlled the earth and raised an earth wall in front of him. The spear managed to penetrate that wall, but it got stuck. Aermir slammed both of his hands together and then made a motion to push. 

"Incursus Tegon!(Earth Blast)"

The wall of earth in front of Aermir exploded like a claymore mine towards the white walker bombarding him with many big pieces of rocks. He brought his hands together and created a ball of fire the size of 1 meter in diameter. then he started to push until it condensed into a head-sized ball. Aermir waved his hands around the fire, and he started to change its shape and add a spin to it. 

The ball had turned into an arrow, just as the white walker got up Aermir released the spell. The white walker tried to dodge but the spell was too fast and hit him on his right shoulder. As it hit his shoulder the blast took half of his torso instantly killing it.

As the white walker exploded, blue blood and bluish flesh blasted in every direction. The icy light in the white walker's eyes had disappeared and then its body started to flake off turning into tiny ice specks. With the wind, all of those ice specks started to fly, leaving nothing behind of its body.