Up on the surface of Shattered Glacier Valley, the disappearance of the four human fugitives into the subterranean river chasm went almost unnoticed amidst the ferocious battle between the Imperial Vanguard and the Rimefrost detachment.
Seeing that forty thousand imperial soldiers and four Half-Step Martial Emperor Royal Guardians had completely surrounded the southern, eastern, and western ridges—and believing that the four human fugitives had escaped down the river after stealing her aunt's Glacial Heart-Lotus—Grand Duchess Svetlana Volkov's ice-blue eyes blazed with cold, regal fury.
