Taking Over

Verglas' arrival and the trade with Surtur happened in just an instant, the knights stationed outside are still running towards the room.

Skill: Flame Guard!

Weismann casted a flame barrier to counter the extreme cold coming from Verglas' aura, every person who survived was given protection.

As the ice spikes collided with the barrier, it generated massive amounts of impact everywhere.

Seeing that everyone is now safe, Weismann followed up with multiple skills.

Triple Speed Casting!

Skill: Fiery Arc!

Skill: Chaos Rain!

Skill: Flame Spears!

With the dancing flames delaying Verglas' movements, the fire orbs floating around rained down on him while the spears thrusted towards his abdomen.

Boom boom boom!

Mana Expansion: Blackfrost's Slumber!

A visible ripple of freezing wave pulsated with Verglas' body as the epicenter.

As the Mana Expansion met the attacks approaching him, all the flames have died out; the difference between the ability effects is vast!

However, during this brief window, the remaining 7 survivors including Veil and Weismann escaped the temple.

Roarrrrrrr!

A deafening roar shook the entire cavern, as the looming sensation of death touched the backs of the survivors; Verglas' destroyed the entire cave.

Massive shaking could be felt from the ground while the survivors tried to gain distance.

On an open plain slightly below the mountain, the survivors met up with the knights from the city, even some of the Adventurer guilds and teams responded.

Weismann reported everything that transpired briefly as he declared that the competition is now turning into a raid!

The target of the raid is the Blackfrost King Verglas; they must absolutely stop him from roaming the world.

Approximately 10 knights and 35 Adventurers made their battle positions as they await Verglas exit the cavern.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The massive footsteps is getting closer and louder, even in a freezing cold area, sweat run down on the backs of the people present here.

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"He is coming!" Veil warned everyone as she gulps down dry saliva and tightened the grip on her sword.

Verglas exited the cavern as he eyed his surroundings; he flashed an evil grin before jumping upwards with great force.

Crack! Bang!

A miniature crater appeared from the entrance of the cavern produced by Verglas' jump.

Skill: Frozen Skyfall!

When Verglas used the skill, he pointed his sword forward and stretched his arm, falling in an extreme speed towards the backline of the Adventurers.

Arrows, flame attacks and ranged slashes filled the sky as everyone bombarded the Blackfrost King.

Like an unstoppable bullet, Verglas never even slowed down while charging through the bombardment of skills and attacks.

Booooom! Crack!

By the time Verglas crashed down, majority of the Adventurers already avoided the area; however, some of them were still caught by the shockwave, instantly freezing into death.

The bitter battle stretched until the night arrives, only Weismann, Veil, 4 knights and 12 Adventurers remained.

They are approaching annihilation.

Veil panted heavily as she helped one of the knights stand up after blocking Verglas' attack.

Verglas', after the long battle, sported multiple wounds from his broken armor.

It was visible that the fallen warriors did their part on this battle; they did not perish for nothing.

After a momentary silence, Verglas' unequipped the broken chestplate and armguards from his upper body.

Thud!

He also threw down his helm on the ground, revealing his snowy white hair and azure eyes.

A cold glint appears on his eyes as he tightened his grip on the Rosalia and stabbed it on the ground.

Skill: Glacial Torrent!

The aquamarine blade trembled as it penetrated the ground, multiple eruptions then followed.

Everyone barely avoided the attacks, however, the erupting ground caused the snow to rise up and spread in the air, forming some sort of mist.

Verglas' made use of the low visibility to pick off the dazed Adventurers one by one.

Slash! Splatter! Slash! Thud!

The remaining Adventurers were halved while one more knight fell, their numbers are getting culled; they are straying farther away from stopping the Blackfrost King.

The bitter battle remained hopeless, until Veil shared a last resort plan with the remaining knights and Adventurers.

Weismann was forced to cast a temporary barrier to buy time.

"Sir Weismann, hit me with your purest mana possible, if it comes to it, bury me alongside him with various trapping skills. As for the rest of you, make a distraction while running, if he makes chase, that is when you will start the bombardment, do not mind me."

Everyone listening to the plan gulped, someone is willing to put their life on the line for their own, however, for them to take part of the execution?

"Very well, I will never forget this valiance, Adventurer." Weismann bit his lower lip until it bleeds as he gets flooded with various emotions.

As the barrier slowly cracked from Verglas' retaliation, the decoys started running.

After breaking free from the barrier, Verglas' noticed that his targets are escaping from him.

He sneered while giving chase as his face tried to say that no one will leave alive.

Just when he was about to charge towards the farthest Adventurer, various chains rose up from the ground around him.

Skill: Searing Chains!

His limbs are locked by the chains surrounded with flames, he could feel the pain as he tried to snap the chains, but to no avail.

Weismann, seeing that he successfully locked the target in place; he immediately followed up with every flame skills under his arsenal.

Skill: Pillar of Flames!

Skill: Blazing Claw!

Skill: Blast Rain!

Towering flames rose up from the ground as it swirled around the locked King, while various flying claw slashes rained above him.

He could not dodge anything as he was still locked by the chains; he received the full blunt of the attacks.

His domain shrunk down before dissipating, the damage was visible from his weakening aura.

Finally, the gigantic orbs of flames descended upon him, Veil made use of this window to hide behind one of the orbs to charge towards Verglas.

She must absolutely not fail, because this might be the only moment where the enemy's domain was shut off, otherwise, she would not be able to sneak an attack.

Veil, seeing that the rest of her allies have escaped except Weismann, finally slashed the orb in front of her.

The undying flames embraced the blade of her longsword as she similarly endured the pain of the heat.

Slash! Clang!

She is now on a deadlock with the looming enemy as tall as an ordinary house.

Weismann then channeled his strongest skill made up of purest mana and targeted it directly above Veil and Verglas.

Sure-kill Skill: Infernal Brilliance!!!

Bluish flames spinning with great momentum now appeared above the two under their tight hold.

Verglas has not yet broken all the chains and Veil is doing everything she can for Verglas to stay on his position.

When the massive ring of blue flames descended and reached their position, it became some sort of barrier, slowly shrinking with the two of them as the center.

Once this ring converges on the end point, the targets will surely suffer unrecoverable burns and damage.

Due to the pure mana, blue flames are produced.

Sensing the uncomfortable heat, Verglas grew even more furious and panicked; he still could not erect his mana out of his body to reestablish his domain.

Unbeknownst to him though, these flames were just masks to the true attack about to be delivered by Veil.

Weismann's true skill lies on controlling the desired effect of Infernal Brilliance.

He could either use it to force his opponents to give up with fake flames with extreme heat, or deceive his opponents with calm flames with the real damage.

Now, he used his mana to form flames that will do no damage to the targets, but still deal the burns.

Veil, sensing the massive amount of pure mana in the flames, raised her sword in a straight line over her head.

As if time slowed down, she sensed every moment that passes, individual mana strands and aura dancing around the flames.

She tried her hardest to remember the sensation of the Divine Techniques in her past life, but she knows she would not be able to use those without receiving direct guidance.

If she could only apply the fundamentals of Divine Techniques, she would still be able to produce a devastating attack despite her weak weapon and body.

Verglas slowly snapped each chains one after another, only two more on each hands, all the chains on his body and legs are destroyed.

Badump! Badump! Badump!

Veil's heart pounded like there is no tomorrow, after all, this battle is all or nothing.

If she dies in this body, she does not know what will happen to her consciousness and existence.

She still has not even discovered the reason for her reincarnation.

After abruptly opening her eyes, seemingly making all of her resolve, she controlled all the blue flames nearly hitting both of them.

Vuishhhh! Growl!

As if the flames have a will of their own, they did not immediately follow Veil's control.

Veil released every bit of mana she developed within her onto the longsword above her.

Vuimmm!

The longsword glowed with blinding light, the blue flames surrendered to her control as she felt her skin slowly getting roasted by the heat.

Even her cloak is in tatters while all snow in the massive radius of Weismann's skill has disappeared.

All the blue flames now imbued the sword in her hands.

Skill: Infernal Dance!

Veil finally started her frenzy of attacks; her mind accurately remembered the sensation of the Shadow Dance, a skill from her past life.

Slash slash slash!

Roaring sounds filled the battlefield of flames as if a Dragon is descending nearby.

Veil landed two of her attacks on Verglas' body as he snapped the last chain on his hand.

Break!

A crisp snapping sound made Verglas form an evil grin as he stretched out his right hand on his side.

"!?"

Seeing something is amiss, he belatedly realized that his sword, Rosalia, is now in Veil's other hand.

A burning longsword on one hand and a freezing aquamarine longsword on the other, Veil made a cross with her weapons as she dashes forward.

This was her plan all along, to disarm Verglas and use his weapon against him since he was not aware that Veil could wield his sword.

She then made a downward arc of flames from her longsword imbued with Weismann's flames.

Vuooshhh!

All the flames washed away off the sword, to be able to distract Verglas for a short instant.

Slash! Splash!

With her other hand, she slashed Verglas busily deflecting the flames from her initial attack, the Rosalia sent the arms away and then finally sent a stab towards his heart.

Urkk!

Verglas' azure eyes slowly lost life as he vomited a mouthful of blood.

Thud! Thud!

Verglas kneeled before finally falling on his back, followed by Veil who collapsed forward.

The aquamarine sword remained stabbed on the King's chest to the ground while all the snow that has melted started appearing once more.

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