Doris, upon seeing the incoming thrust aimed for her underjaw, allowed her expression to harden into a frown. At once, Astra surged from her Astra veins, flooding her body with raw elemental force. She tapped into her ability, and in that instant, the world around her changed.
The temperature dropped so suddenly it was as though the heavens themselves had exhaled frost. Just as Asher's rapier was about to pierce upward, an enormous cascade of ice exploded outward from Doris's form, enveloping everything. The battlefield was instantly transformed into a desolate ice wasteland.
Debris suspended in the air froze mid-motion, twisting into jagged icicles that glistened with crystalline brilliance. Entire buildings, once standing proudly, solidified into massive frozen blocks. Trees stiffened, their bark and branches turning brittle under the invasive cold, frost racing over them like veins of death.
