Battle Against the Glacier Lord
The instant the Glacier Lord awakened, the air at the entire ice-fire boundary seemed to freeze and tear apart! That ancient rage and destructive will, born from a thousand years deep within eternal ice, transformed into a tangible psychic storm that slammed viciously against everyone's soul barriers!
"Ugh!" Kayla let out a muffled grunt. The phantom of her Beast Soul Titan rippled violently; the electric arcs on her thunder claws dimmed noticeably. TISK planted his feet firmly on the ice, the ice-fire runes on his Lava Hammer flashing frantically as he barely held his ground, yet even the dwarf's resolute face was etched with gravity. Arya, Yuyuer, and the others with more sensitive minds turned pale; countless icy needles seemed to pierce their minds, bringing dizziness and nausea. Only Fa, relying on the stellar power flowing through her star eyes, forcibly dispelled most of the psychic assault—though her right eye still throbbed with sharp pain.
"ROOOOAAAR——!!!"
The Glacier Lord unleashed an earth-shaking roar, its voice like ten-thousand-year ice sheets fracturing, shaking massive icicles loose from the surrounding walls. Its colossal body—over thirty meters tall and entirely composed of ghostly blue-glowing, unmelting ice crystal—fully rose from the fissure, bringing an overwhelming sense of oppression! The two balls of blue soulfire in its head locked onto the group with murderous hatred, as if determined to crush them into nothingness!
With its roar, the glacier fissures behind it burst open like breached dams. Countless grotesque frost magical beasts surged forth like a tidal wave! Ice-crystal direwolves howled and spat freezing breaths; glacial constructs lumbered forward with crushing steps; swarms of ghostly blue ice bats blotted out the already dim sky like dark clouds! Their sole target: to tear apart these audacious intruders who dared trespass in the Glacier Lord's domain!
"Prepare for combat! Kayla, TISK—support Thunder Wing! Hold the Glacier Lord! Everyone else—clear the minions! Protect the survivors!" Fa endured the pain in her star eyes and barked orders, her voice cutting through the howling gale. Her star eyes spun at full speed, predictive senses capturing every subtle movement and energy flow of the Glacier Lord's massive frame as she searched for weaknesses.
"Leave it to me!" Kayla's battle lust overpowered her fear. Her Fifth Stage Transformation: Beast Soul Titan instantly solidified! The colossal thunder soul giant let out a heaven-shaking roar. Wreathed in swift ice-thunder claws, it charged fearlessly toward the Glacier Lord's descending massive ice-crystal foot!
"Thunder-Frost Cataclysm • Void-Rending Claw!"
BOOM——!!
Thunder claws collided head-on with the ice foot! Violent lightning and bone-chilling frost energy clashed, mutually annihilating in blinding shockwaves that exploded outward in rings, hurling nearby frost beasts into the air and shattering them! Kayla's enormous soul body was driven backward by the overwhelming force, each step gouging deep furrows into the solid ice; fine cracks appeared across her soul chest! Yet she successfully blocked this annihilating stomp!
"Dwarves never retreat!" TISK roared like thunder. His Lava Hammer "Earthshaker" erupted with unprecedented ice-fire brilliance!
"Magma Core Detonation!"
His stocky body launched skyward with astonishing explosive power. The warhammer—carrying interwoven ice-fire destructive energy—crashed down like a meteor onto the Glacier Lord's relatively slender knee joint from the side! Ice shards and energy fragments flew everywhere! The Glacier Lord staggered from the impact, roaring in fury!
"SCREEEEE——!" Under Rhea Medusa's mocking gaze, Thunder Wing faced the Glacier Lord's assault. It let out a piercing shriek and snapped its massive thunder wings! **BOOM!** Dozens of thick purple-white lightning bolts tore through the air like spears of judgment, slamming viciously into the Glacier Lord's thick ice-armored head and shoulder blades! Electricity danced and exploded wildly across the ice crystals. Though it failed to inflict fatal damage, it successfully drew the Glacier Lord's attention, buying precious breathing room for Kayla and TISK!
The Glacier Lord whipped its head around. Its blue soulfire locked onto Thunder Wing. A gigantic ice-crystal arm swung down with space-freezing cold! Thunder Wing evaded at the last instant with superior speed; the ice arm grazed its thunder wings, freezing a patch of lightning feathers into brittle shards!
The Tidal Wave of Frost Beasts vs. the Team's Slaughter
While Kayla, TISK, and Thunder Wing tangled with the Glacier Lord, the tidal wave of frost magical beasts had already crashed upon them!
"Lin Ya! Protect them!" Fa shouted to Lin Ya, who was guarding Kael and the other survivors. She vanished in an instant, short-range teleporting into the densest part of the ice-beast swarm!
"Ice Spike Prison • Thousandfold Hell!"
Her hands slammed to the ground; ice-blue radiance flared in her star eyes! Countless razor-sharp, metallic-glinting giant ice spikes erupted from the ice, instantly impaling and pinning more than a dozen charging ice-crystal direwolves and constructs to the frozen surface!
"Rain of Light Arrows • Evil-Breaking!" Arya stood on elevated rear ground, drawing her Storm Bow to full moon. Countless arrows shining with holy radiance poured down like golden rain, precisely striking the energy cores or joint gaps of the frost beasts! Light's heat energy dealt extra damage to ice-based creatures; wherever the arrows passed, beasts wailed and dissolved into ice shards or collapsed paralyzed!
"Deep Current Venom Fang • Diffusion!" Zhamisi slithered nimbly across the ice like a phantom. Her twin blades danced; ink-green venomous mist spread outward as if alive. Though low temperatures weakened the fog's potency, it still corroded weaker ice bats and ice-crystal structures, slowing movements and mottling surfaces with corrosive spots.
"Wind-Thunder Dance • Slaughter Storm!" Celestia's four wings thundered. She became an uncatchable purple-electric storm, charging straight into the ice-bat swarm! The Spear of True Sight whipped up air-rending wind blades and leaping lightning with every swing, precisely slicing fragile wings and cores! Ice bats fell like meat through a grinder, shattering and plummeting! She also used her extreme speed to constantly harass ground-based ice beasts from the flanks.
"Water-Mirror Bastion • Ice Spike Refraction!" Yuyuer raised her staff high; the crystal orb swirled with azure light. Massive water mirrors engraved with purifying runes rose in front of and beside the survivors' formation! Falling giant icicles from the glacier and ice beasts' spitting ice spikes struck the mirrors—most were cleverly refracted and deflected into empty air or bounced back to smash other ice beasts!
"Nano-Swarm • Saturation Ice Burst!" Rex's mechanical eyes locked onto the front line of the charging ice-beast swarm. Hundreds of reinforced ice-blue-glowing nano-drones formed a metallic storm and dove downward! **BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!** Chain ice-core detonations erupted densely among the beasts! Extreme-cold shockwaves blanketed wide areas! Though ice bursts dealt limited damage to same-attribute ice beasts, the ultra-low temperatures caused devastating "brittleness" effects! Ice-crystal bodies developed countless cracks; movements turned stiff and sluggish; defenses plummeted! This created perfect harvesting opportunities for close-range fighters Zhamisi and Celestia!
"Shadow Demon Dragon • Frost Soul Breath!" Salsa's soul form fluctuated. The adolescent Shadow Demon Dragon phantom coalesced from the shadows and unleashed a deep-blue dragon breath mixed with extreme cold and shadow corrosion toward the densest cluster of ice beasts! Wherever the breath passed, ice beasts froze and had their souls corroded by dark magic, losing combat ability en masse. At the same time, several shadow hawks shrieked forth, pecking at soul cores and sowing chaos.
Lin Ya pressed both palms deep into the ice. Emerald natural life-force laced with starlight motes seeped into the lifeless cold.
"Thorn Bloom!"
Countless incredibly tough, gold-starlit vines covered in razor barbs burst through the solid ice, growing and intertwining madly! These thorns not only blocked the ice beasts' charge routes but actively coiled around and pierced those already brittled by ice bursts or slowed in movement! The fusion of natural vitality and stellar essence briefly resisted the extreme cold domain's suppression, forming a sturdy mobile defensive line that firmly protected Kael and the others.
The battle instantly reached white heat! Every strike from the Glacier Lord shook heaven and earth; Kayla's soul body, TISK, and Thunder Wing danced on the edge of destruction while holding and distracting it. Below, the tidal wave of frost beasts crashed against the team's seamless, perfectly complementary coordination—like iron walls and steel nets—being efficiently strangled and blocked! The sounds of shattering ice, roaring energy, beast howls, and weapon clashes wove into a symphony of death.
The Roar of Magma: The Arch-Rival Awakens
Yet the earth-shaking awakening of the Glacier Lord—and Thunder Wing's signature violent thunder—ultimately roused the other overlord of this domain!
BOOM—RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE——!!!
The ground beneath them—and the adjacent lava river—shook violently! Unlike the glacier's cold tremors, this shaking carried apocalyptic heat and fury! The lava river boiled like a giant cauldron, churning and surging, raising dozens-of-meters-high crimson waves! From deep in the riverbed came a muffled, heavy roar that seemed capable of igniting souls! The explosive will within that roar was in no way inferior to the Glacier Lord's!
"Damn it! It's the Volcano Lord! It's been awakened!" Kael's face turned ashen; his voice trembled with despair. He had once felt this hellish, core-magma-like aura from afar!
As if confirming his words, the center of the lava river exploded into a massive vortex! Molten magma shot skyward like a geyser! A figure as colossal and even more grotesque than the Glacier Lord slowly rose from the boiling depths!
The Volcano Lord—in the form of a three-headed hellhound!
Over thirty meters tall, its main body was composed of constantly cooling and remelting dark-red volcanic rock flowing with crimson magma, radiating terrifying heat and sulfurous stench. It possessed three enormous, ferocious heads—each like burning demons, mouths dripping lava, six molten eyes blazing with pure red destruction! Spikes resembling miniature volcanoes jutted from its back, constantly erupting black smoke and searing volcanic bombs! Its thick limbs strode across the magma as though on solid ground! Behind it, countless lava elementals, incinerator-form stone golems, and flame-spewing winged fire lizards surged from the lava river!
The Volcano Lord's three heads and six molten eyes instantly locked onto the Glacier Lord currently tangling with Thunder Wing! The scent of its arch-rival ignited boundless fury!
"ROOOAAARRR——!!!"
All three heads roared simultaneously; sonic waves carrying scorching airflow and magma fragments slammed toward the glacier domain! It completely ignored Fa and the others—its eyes saw only its ancient ice-block nemesis!
The Glacier Lord also sensed its rival's arrival. Its blue soulfire flared violently. Abandoning its fight with Thunder Wing, its massive body turned toward the lava river and unleashed an ice-cold, provocative, furious roar! Ice and fire—two ultimate, mutually hostile forces of destruction—crashed together at this narrow boundary! Air crackled and exploded from rapid cold-heat alternation; space twisted even more violently!
"Ha! Finally here! The real show begins!" Rhea Medusa—who had been watching with arms crossed and leisurely amusement—suddenly lit up with excitement. A wild, childlike grin of pure delight spread across her face at witnessing the most thrilling spectacle. She looked up sharply at Thunder Wing, which hovered uncertainly in the sky after the Volcano Lord's appearance, and shouted:
"Hey, stupid bird! Stop daydreaming! Grab all these little ones on the ground and haul them into the sky! As high as possible! NOW!"
Her command carried absolute authority. Though reluctant, Thunder Wing's fear of Rhea Medusa far outweighed its dread of the two lords below. It let out a submissive screech; its massive thunder wings snapped! It dove like lightning! Thunder claws swiftly and precisely snatched TISK and Kayla closest to it; at the same time, several flexible energy chains of lightning shot from beneath its wings, instantly wrapping around Fa, Arya, Celestia, Zhamisi, Yuyuer, Rex, Salsa (including her mechanical cat shell), and—protected by Lin Ya's vines—Kael and the other survivors!
"Hold on tight!" Fa barely managed to shout. The next instant, Thunder Wing erupted with unprecedented speed and rocketed skyward! Violent updrafts stabbed their eardrums; the scene below shrank rapidly.
**Sitting on the Mountain Watching Tigers Fight: The Ultimate Clash of Ice and Fire**
Thunder Wing hovered hundreds of meters high. Below lay rolling clouds of chaotic energy that partially blocked the terrifying pressure from the ground. The group, hearts still pounding, looked down at the battlefield that had already become a true inferno.
With the common external enemy (Fa and her party) removed, the Glacier Lord and Volcano Lord—harboring hatred accumulated over countless ages—finally clashed without restraint, like two doomed planets colliding!
The Symphony of Ice and Fire:
- **Glacier Lord**: Both arms swung, summoning a sky-blotting "Eternal Freeze Storm" composed of countless ice crystals. The storm carried space-cutting extreme-cold ice blades and absolute-zero soul-freezing rays that swept viciously toward the Volcano Lord! At the same time, massive ice-thorn domains spread from its feet, attempting to freeze the lava river and restrict its rival's movement.
- **Volcano Lord**: All three heads spat simultaneously! The left head unleashed "Core Inferno Flow" that could melt gold and stone; the middle head spewed sky-covering "Volcanic Ash Cloud" laced with explosive power; the right head sprayed ultra-viscous, strongly corrosive and gravity-pulling "Magma Swamp"! Its back volcanoes constantly fired massive lava meteors like cannonballs toward the glacier! The lava river beneath it boiled and roared, raising magma tsunamis that battered the glacier's edge.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE——!!!
Every collision sounded like meteor impacts! Ice and fire energies clashed, annihilated, and exploded in blinding blue ice, crimson flames, ghostly blue cold, and pitch-black smoke—a vision of utter destruction!
- The Glacier Lord's Eternal Freeze Storm was forcibly evaporated by the Core Inferno Flow, producing sky-obscuring white steam clouds, yet residual extreme-cold blades left deep gashes and frozen zones across the Volcano Lord's rocky body.
- Volcanic ash clouds slammed into the Glacier Lord's thick ice shields, triggering chain explosions. Shields shattered; the Glacier Lord's massive body sprayed ice shards—but its absolute-zero rays pierced through one of the Volcano Lord's lava streams, freezing and cracking half its face!
- Magma Swamp tried to engulf the Glacier Lord's legs but was forcibly frozen and blocked by spreading ice-thorn domains—yet scorching corrosive energy continued eroding the ice.
- Lava meteors collided with the Glacier Lord's swinging ice-crystal fists, exploding into showers of red fire-rain and blue hail!
Space grew fragile under the full-force bombardment of two King-level lords—small, black-wound-like spatial rifts constantly appeared and were just as quickly stitched shut by raging energy chaos. The entire ice-fire boundary terrain was utterly transformed: vast sections of glacier collapsed; lava rivers froze and remelted; the black heat-resistant rock platform had long been pulverized. Their respective beast legions also crashed together like two floods—ice beasts and fire beasts slaughtering each other in the extreme environment: melting, freezing, evaporating—scenes of utter carnage.
"Hiss… this is… the power of Kings…" Arya sucked in a cold breath; her emerald eyes filled with shock. Even from high above, that world-destroying might still made hearts tremble.
"Pure primal collision… the aesthetics of annihilation…" Rex's electronic eyes recorded every frame below at high speed; his core processor blared overload warnings from the sheer data volume.
"Fight! Keep fighting! Best if they both drop dead!" Rhea Medusa sat leisurely on Thunder Wing's broad back, legs crossed, watching with relish and occasionally clapping in delight like someone enjoying the finest gladiatorial match. Her sharp gaze swept the battlefield, especially focusing on the most violent collision zones where the two ultimate energies annihilated each other most thoroughly.
Time passed amid heart-stopping combat. One hour… two hours… The battle not only refused to end but grew even more brutal and frenzied! The Glacier Lord's body was covered in charred scorch marks and massive lava craters; its blue soulfire dimmed noticeably. The Volcano Lord's three heads were equally ravaged—one frozen and shattered halfway, another missing an ear from ice blades; large patches of its rocky body were encased in frost, slowing magma flow. Both auras had clearly weakened considerably, yet hatred drove them to continue their life-or-death struggle.
Finally, after nearly six hours of apocalyptic warfare, both lords were at their absolute limit.
"About time." Rhea Medusa finally dropped her spectator demeanor; a glint of sharpness flashed in her amber eyes. She patted the top of Thunder Wing's head:
"Hey, stupid bird—descend! Time for us to wrap this up!"