Chapter 218: Tacit Understanding

Chapter 218: Tacit Understanding

The King of the North Ulyssan’s scream rapidly became a roar. Outside the cave, a blizzard immediately rose, so violent that one could not see anything beyond five meters.

The howling wind carried dense “goose feathers,” filling every inch of space in a wild flurry. At the same time, an ice-blue halo rapidly expanded, spreading outward along the ground. Everything it touched froze from bottom to top into an ice sculpture.

Klein’s vision and hearing were both affected by the blizzard, but a corresponding image suddenly surfaced in his mind. He hurriedly bent his knees, exerted strength through his ankles, and leaped straight upward, allowing the ice-blue halo to sweep past beneath him.

Mobet Zoroast, who was not especially skilled in combat, discovered the ice-blue halo only when it was already quite close, leaving him no time to jump.

At that moment, someone grabbed his shoulder and yanked him upward. Beneath his feet, a violent hurricane surged into the air. Combining both forces, he was passively flung high, avoiding the fate of being frozen.

Mobet turned his head and unsurprisingly saw Siatas’s stern face. Because flight was prohibited here, the elven singer could only control the gale and slowly glide forward.

Anderson, Edwina, Snowman, and Longzel each reacted in their own ways, jumping in time and avoiding the attack without much danger. Only the giant Groselle had just freed himself from the snowdrift while carrying his broad sword when he encountered the ice-blue halo. Unable to dodge in time, his feet were touched by it.

A thick layer of ice crystals instantly surged upward. Groselle froze in place like a corpse locked in ice for ten thousand years.

Woo!

The exaggerated blizzard blocked the Beyonders’ vision, making them completely lose their lock on the frost dragon Ulyssan. They could only defend passively against attacks.

At that moment, Snowman, the ascetic who had not yet landed, once again opened both arms. In a solemn voice, he spoke in ancient Hermes:

“God says: it is ineffective!”

The raging blizzard instantly subsided considerably. Whether violent hurricane or dense goose-feather snow, all were weakened out of thin air, or nearly half of them disappeared.

Vaguely, Siatas saw a huge, ugly lizard-like face. Part of the broken long arrow remained embedded in its forehead.

The frost dragon Ulyssan had used the previous opportunity to close the distance between both sides!

Siatas did not panic. The gale abruptly changed direction, pushing her and Mobet backward. At the same time, her lips, pale from cold, opened, and she sang in ancient, obscure Elvish:

“Reefs shall be torn apart by waves;

“Great trees shall be felled by storms;

“Mountains shall be shattered by thunder…”

Because each Elvish word was rich with meaning, the sentences they formed were extremely brief. These lines did not take Siatas much time to sing. And from the very first word, from the moment the beautiful yet forceful melody began to emerge, the wind inside the blizzard changed!

The howling wind instantly became chaotic, scattering in all directions. The enormous body of the King of the North Ulyssan reappeared before Klein and the others.

As Siatas sang the third word, the Punishment Knight Longzel had already extended his right palm and spoken in a deep voice in ancient Hermes:

“Imprison!”

In an instant, the frost dragon that was about to crash into Siatas and Mobet solidified in place. Around it seemed to appear layer after layer of transparent walls.

At almost the same time as Longzel’s low command, Vice Admiral Iceberg Edwina, who had just steadied herself, suddenly saw her pale-blue eyes turn black. Inside them flowed a viscous liquid that seemed formed from every evil thought at the bottom of a living being’s heart.

Her right palm only lightly clenched, and the King of the North Ulyssan roared as it reared upright, instantly tearing apart the effect of Imprison.

The frost dragon’s dark-blue eyes were filled with confusion and pain, as though it were still immersed in the sudden eruption of madness and violent emotions!

Even though that had always been its normal state, having those emotions fully detonated was still extremely uncomfortable.

Without a doubt, it was a dragon with very poor emotional control!

Seizing the brief pause in Ulyssan’s movements, Anderson Hood condensed a blazing white spear of flame in his hand. He then stepped forward, twisted his back, and hurled it out.

Without looking at the result, the Strongest Hunter summoned flames beneath his feet, and those flames condensed into liquid form.

Whoosh!

The blazing white flame spear accurately struck the frost dragon’s half-open mouth. It swiftly melted through the thick ice-crystal scales and still had force left to pierce the upper jaw.

Ulyssan screamed again. Its hind legs pushed off the ground, and its body lunged forward without regard for anything else. Hugging the ground, it charged toward Anderson at terrifying speed.

Only this tiny insect that had inflicted no small harm on it remained in its eyes!

Rip!

The snow split open, and a deep, broad trench was plowed into the surface. The trench extended all the way to where Anderson had been standing and beyond.

Bang! Carrying terrifying inertia, the frost dragon smashed into a boulder covered in thick ice, shattering its outer shell and cracking its inner layer.

Had that collision landed squarely on Anderson, the Strongest Hunter would undoubtedly have become meat paste. Even if only grazed by it, he would very likely have died on the spot.

However, at the place in the trench where Anderson had originally stood, there was now a vertical, pitch-black hole just large enough for a person to enter.

Pa!

A hand grabbed the edge of the hole and pushed hard. The Strongest Hunter, hair disheveled, jumped out.

After throwing the flame spear, he had not panicked and dodged randomly. Instead, he had directly used his Beyonder abilities to melt the snow beneath his feet and burn through the soil, silently creating a shallow hole. Then his whole body had sunk inside and crouched there, perfectly avoiding the King of the North’s collision.

At that moment, a pure, bright pillar of light descended and struck Groselle, rapidly melting the ice crystals covering his body.

Using an offensive method, Snowman the ascetic removed the restriction afflicting the giant guardian!

Dawn radiance immediately erupted. Groselle raised his greatsword and strode before the frost dragon, launching a frenzied series of slashes.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Groselle was only a meter shorter than Ulyssan when the latter was not standing upright, and his strength was similarly exaggerated. In the continuous clashes against the dragon’s foreclaws, he visibly swayed and retreated, but he soon recovered, stepped forward again, and entangled his opponent.

With the giant guardian blocking the front, the others each responded in a relatively calm manner.

Snowman maintained his posture with both arms spread. Around him appeared a halo resembling a scorching sun. The halo spread swiftly outward, warming every companion present and bringing intense courage. As though under precise control, it avoided the King of the North.

Not far from him, Siatas’s hair spread wildly as her bowstring drew back. She fired arrow after arrow that seemed condensed from wind blades or lightning. Since the target was enormous, every arrow landed, and almost all of them hit the same place: the frost dragon’s “shoulder.”

Mobet Zoroast cooperated with Groselle. At times, he stole away the thought in the King of the North’s mind just before it could be put into action, causing the dragon to briefly freeze. At other times, he tried to steal its abilities, but with his limited number of attempts, he had yet to succeed.

Anderson, holding the pitch-black short sword, carefully circled toward the side, seemingly wanting to attack a specific spot. The Punishment Knight Longzel swung his iron-black straight sword, using prohibitive laws, imprisonment, and other verdicts to assist Groselle in melee against the frost dragon. Without his restraint, even if the giant were a Guardian, he would long since have been swept away and suffered lethal stomping or breath attacks.

Klein, meanwhile, looked toward Edwina and raised a hand to point at himself.

“Invisibility!”

He did not know whether she could imitate such an ability. If not, he would have to consider another method.

Edwina did not ask why. Her pale-blue, clear eyes immediately reflected Gehrman Sparrow’s figure, then lost their color and became transparent.

Klein’s body in turn faded, became transparent, and disappeared.

After confirming his state, Klein swiftly rushed toward the dragon and giant in fierce combat. With a roll, he arrived beside the King of the North’s left hind leg.

Then, while paying attention to dodging Ulyssan’s stomps during battle, he relied on the vision of Spirit Body Threads he had long since activated and extended his spirituality to manipulate the illusory black threads.

Immediately afterward, he rolled at times and side-leaped at others, searching for safe spaces beneath and around the frost dragon.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Silver-white lightning arrows and pure-cyan wind-blade arrows struck a small region, shattering ice-crystal scales and tearing resilient skin. Very quickly, the frost dragon’s “right shoulder” turned pale blue, and the movement of the corresponding foreclaw showed a subtle sluggishness.

The Punishment Knight Longzel keenly noticed this. After sidestepping an ice-blue breath attack, he pointed at that position and solemnly declared in ancient Hermes:

“Death!”

With a soft puff, the area on Ulyssan’s “right shoulder” that was covered in pale-blue blood instantly shriveled, tearing open until its translucent bone could be seen.

At that moment, Edwina also took out a palm-sized brass mirror and reflected that part of Ulyssan’s body into it.

Her right palm reached out and actually sank directly into the mirror’s surface, gripping the image inside. Then she tore hard, dragging it outward!

Ulyssan’s wound instantly became exaggerated and continued spreading, as though one of its foreclaws were about to be lost.

It released a shrill scream and abruptly raised its body, standing upright.

Pale-blue, nearly white light surged from within the dragon. Within a radius of a hundred meters, the temperature plummeted, accompanied by an almost irresistible feeling.

All at once, every Beyonder seemed to have suffered long-term freezing. Their bodies became cold to the extreme, stiffened severely, and began trembling uncontrollably.

Siatas was like this. Mobet was like this. Edwina was like this. Klein was like this. Groselle, Anderson, and Longzel were also like this. Only Snowman, who seemed to have been tempered by countless bouts of ice-cold hardship, could still barely move.

Maintaining his posture with both arms spread, he half-closed his eyes and spoke solemnly:

“God loves the world!”

Sunlight pierced through the wind and snow, shining in. A warm feeling began melting the frozen stiffness.

Bang!

Ulyssan swatted Groselle away with one claw, striking the giant guardian so hard that his chest caved in and he suffered no light injury.

For the moment, it ignored the others. Aiming at the ascetic Snowman, it charged at high speed!

No one is protecting Snowman… He’s about to leave my five-meter range… His body still somewhat stiff, Klein watched this scene and felt the impulse to turn and run back into the cave, pray to himself, then go above the gray fog and respond with the Sea God Scepter.

Just then, a crimson fireball reached Snowman’s side ahead of the frost dragon, then exploded without the slightest courtesy, blasting the ascetic away.

It had come from the Strongest Hunter, Anderson.

At the same time, a fireball also condensed in Edwina’s hand and was thrown toward the area behind Ulyssan, though she did not appear to have any intention of hitting the target.

She was creating a path for Klein to Flame Jump!

She knew from Danitz that Gehrman Sparrow possessed such an ability!