The icy pool in the depths of the ice cave emitted a ghostly blue silence, its waters so cold they pierced to the bone, even the air was filled with tiny shards of ice.
Suddenly, a splash erupted on the surface of the pool, and a man dressed in black emerged, struggling desperately to surface. Just as he was about to cry out for help, several pitch-black tentacles shot out like venomous snakes, wrapping tightly around his limbs and neck.
It was a demon resembling a squid, its entire body covered in a slimy black membrane, with tentacles bearing fine barbs that dripped with pale green poison.
It dragged the man back into the depths of the pool, its massive body clinging tightly to him, the black membrane suctioned onto his skin like a vacuum.
The sound of "sizzle" came from the point of contact, and the man could clearly feel his Spiritual Energy being aggressively drained, his meridians gnawed at by invisible mouths, causing his whole body to convulse in pain.
