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Chapter 85 - Chapter 85: The Frozen Throne and the Team's Sighs (Part 1)

Battle Erupts!

Without warning, without prelude. Enuvar's Void Chill Marrow Staff merely tapped downward lightly.

Buzz——!

Centered on the pale vortex at the tip of the staff, a visible ring of pure "freezing" concept, in deep blue, instantly expanded! Wherever the ring passed, space groaned under unbearable strain, and the flow of time was forcibly twisted and slowed! This was not an attack, but a declaration of domain—Chill Desolation Realm · All Things Return to Slumber!

Within the domain, everyone felt their thoughts as if infused with heavy lead and mercury, every movement of their bodies becoming immensely burdensome, blood flow nearly stagnating, even the surging energy within their bodies like sinking into a viscous ice swamp. Lin Ya's emerald green life glow was compressed to the extreme, barely forming a thin, cicada-wing-like warm membrane on everyone's surfaces, resisting the omnipresent conceptual erosion. Rex's armor shell was instantly covered with several inches of deep blue solid ice, joints emitting harsh grinding sounds, energy operation efficiency plummeting sharply.

"We can't just wait to die!" Fa took a deep breath, his right eye's star pupil flickering, decisively ordering: "All units attack! Concentrate forces, defeat him together!" The twelve moved simultaneously, each unleashing their ultimate skills, launching a fierce assault on this Lord of Chill Desolation.

Full Assault and Suppression!

Yuyuer (Illusory Tide Heart · Abyssal Resonance): As the water mage most sensitive to the environment, Yuyuer was the first to react. He raised his Dragon Bone Gem Staff high, the crystal orb erupting with unprecedented deep blue radiance—not to counter the severe cold, but to guide and resonate! He madly infused his mental power into the eternally frozen solid ice beneath his feet, attempting to sense any lingering ancient ocean water veins within. "Abyssal Touch · Tide Call!" An invisible oscillation wave, containing the deep rhythm of the ocean, like a stealthy giant whale, surged silently toward the base of Enuvar's ice crystal throne, aiming to shake its foundation and trigger resonant collapse of the ice layers!

Zhamisi (Venom Fang · Soul-Devouring Fury): The snake woman's emerald green vertical pupils burned due to her companion's initiative. Her figure flashed like lightning, rapidly gliding under the cover of ice pillars, her dual blades "Venom Fang" flowing with nearly substantial dark purple venom glow, the power of the abyssal lord's venom glands urged to the extreme. "Twin Venom Fangs · Soul-Devouring Sever!" She let out a coquettish cry, her entire body spinning like a venom dragon tornado, dual blades weaving two spiral-shaped, highly compressed corrosive venom streams, tearing through the cold air, stabbing straight at Enuvar's waist and abdomen! Wherever the venom streams passed, even space emitted faint "sizzle" corrosion sounds.

TISK (Furnace Heart · Shattering Shock): The dwarf roared like thunder, his Lava Core Forging Hammer erupting with molten gold-like crimson radiance! His stout body exploded with berserk power disproportionate to his size, both feet stomping heavily on the ice surface, actually cracking the steel-hard deep blue ice layer into spiderweb patterns! "Shatter for me! Furnace Fury · Earth Pulse!" He raised his warhammer high overhead, drawing the earth core lava power from the hammer's core, smashing it ruthlessly into the ground! A fan-shaped surge of impact with dark red halo, containing ultra-high temperature and terrifying shockwaves, rushed toward the throne, targeting to destroy the connection between the throne and the ice palace body!

Rex (Leap Core · Spatial Disruption): The robot's cold electronic eyes locked onto Enuvar, the Leaper armor on his back jetting out ghostly purple ion streams, forcibly breaking free from the domain's lag, instantly teleporting to a tricky angle. "Void Singularity · Disruption Field!" His arms transformed, extending complex energy emission matrices, aiming at the space around Enuvar for full output! The spatial disruption field, enhanced by the Void Singularity core, like invisible giant hands, madly stirred Enuvar's surrounding spatial structure, attempting to interfere with his energy condensation and form stability, creating opportunities for companions.

Gorg (Skullbreaker · War Trample): The orc giant let out a war cry that shattered ice crystals, his chainsaw war axe engine roaring to its peak! Like a frenzied war beast, ignoring the domain's suppression, stepping on the ice surface cracked by TISK's shockwave, he boldly charged! "Gorg's Judgment!" The heavy war axe carried momentum to tear everything apart, wrapped in bloody sulfur aura, sweeping horizontally toward Enuvar's legs! Pure physical destructive force, simple, direct, savage!

Lirian (Green Whisperer · Nature's Bind): The forest elf closed her eyes in concentration, her emerald longbow "Life Whisper" flowing with gentle glow in her hands. She extended her perception, attempting to capture even the faintest natural remnants in this dead silent ice domain. "Root Vein Dirge · Entangle!" What she shot was not a physical arrow, but a pure life energy-formed emerald light stream. The light stream sank into the ice surface around the throne, instantly turning into countless flickering faint green vine phantoms, stubbornly wrapping around Enuvar's ice crystal robe and staff, attempting to absorb his icy energy and delay his movements.

Enuvar's Indifference and Counterattack:

Facing the surging assaults from these several people, Enuvar's ice-mirror-like face showed no fluctuation. It didn't even move an inch.

Yuyuer: Sacrifice to Deep Chill

But Yuyuer's body, with its warm water elements belonging to the ocean, became the most fatal weakness in this extreme dryness and cold. He attempted to raise his Dragon Bone Staff, "Illusory Tide · Mind Freeze!" The crystal orb flowed with blue light, however, that fluctuation, upon touching the pale freezing aura circulating around Enuvar, vanished like a clay ox into the sea, instantly frozen and annihilated! Enuvar didn't even move, just a slight mental shift.

"Water... is the cradle of ice. The first one." A thread-thin ray of "Void Chill," yet a hundred times deeper than the surrounding deep blue solid ice, shot out silently from the pale vortex at the staff's tip, faster than vision!

"Yuyuer!" Zhamisi's scream was heart-rending.

Puff!

The ray precisely hit Yuyuer's arm raised with the staff. No explosion, no sound. Only that arm, along with the gripped staff, from the contact point, instantly turned into the purest, most crystalline deep blue chill ice! The freezing spread at terrifying speed, along the arm, shoulder, sweeping the whole body! Yuyuer's astonished expression on his face didn't even have time to turn to fear before being eternally solidified in the translucent ice layer, becoming the newest statue in the hall's ice sculpture group. He maintained his casting pose, the blue light in the crystal orb at the Dragon Bone Staff's tip completely extinguished.

Zhamisi: Venom Flame Burns the Heart, Chill Ice Buries Affection

The sight of Yuyuer turning into an ice sculpture before her eyes thoroughly ignited the most intense venom flame in the depths of her soul! "Beast! Give Yuyuer back to me!" Zhamisi's eyes were bloodshot, her emerald green snake scales standing erect in extreme anger! She completely abandoned defense, burning and fusing all her water-attribute magic and abyssal deadly poison without reservation!

"Abyssal Venom Fang · Ten Thousand Snakes Devour the Sky!", her dual blades "Venom Fang" erupted with unprecedented dark purple nearing black halo! The device at her waist, fused with the abyssal lord's venom gland crystal, buzzed madly, highly compressed venom containing deep sea pressure and lord-level deadly poison, like the bursting dam of the Styx River, gushed from the dual blades! The venom automatically split and twisted in the air, turning into thousands of roaring ink-purple energy venom snakes, carrying corrosive will to incinerate everything, overwhelming toward the chill ice throne! The air was eroded by the deadly poison, emitting piercing "sizzle" sounds, even space seeming slightly distorted under this extreme corrosion!

"Anger... heat... yet so... fragile." Enuvar's mental voice held no ripples. Facing the abyssal venom tide capable of melting steel and eroding souls, it merely raised that hand formed of pure Void Chill Marrow.

Buzz!

In front of the throne, space suddenly collapsed and froze! A "Absolute Zero Wall" composed of countless tiny, constantly generating and annihilating pale ice crystal prisms appeared out of thin air! Thousands of venom snakes crashed into the ice wall—sizzle——!

No earth-shaking explosion, only the despairing sound of annihilation. The deadly venom snakes, like moths to a flame, upon touching the ice wall, had their molecular motion of the deadly energy forcibly reduced to absolute stillness! All corrosiveness, impact force, soul erosion properties lost meaning before the conceptual-level "freezing." The snakes' forms instantly disintegrated, turning into puffs of fine, frozen into deep purple ice crystal dust particles, rustling down.

The venom tide was directly and thoroughly nullified!

"The second one." Enuvar's finger, through the ice wall, remotely pointed at Zhamisi, who was rigid in place from full eruption, and lightly tapped.

A thicker, more condensed Void Chill ray than before instantly crossed space!

Zhamisi only had time to cross her dual blades in front of her, her eyes burning with unwilling rage and endless affection for Yuyuer.

Crack! The dual blades, along with her arms and body, were mercilessly devoured by deep blue absolute solid ice the moment the ray touched. Her face, mixed with anger and deep affection, echoed Yuyuer's astonishment from afar, together becoming eternal collections of the Chill Desolation Ice Palace.

TISK: The Furnace's Lament

"Bastard! Pay with your life!" TISK's roar was like a furnace explosion! Witnessing Yuyuer and Zhamisi successively turn into ice sculptures, the dwarf's craftsman soul's fury thoroughly ignited his bloodline! His eyes bloodshot, beard and hair bristling, the Furnace Heart within him throbbed madly!

"Lava Core · Undying Roar!"

He urged his lifetime of metal magic attainment and the Lava Hammer's power to the extreme! The Lava Hammer's body turned blinding dark red, the hammerhead interior as if surging with magma roaring! He didn't smash toward Enuvar, but ruthlessly smashed the warhammer into the deep blue ice surface beneath his feet!

Boom——!!!

A deafening blast! Centered on TISK, the ice surface within a ten-meter radius was instantly torn, melted, vaporized by the berserk lava power! Crimson lava earth fire, like a giant dragon imprisoned for eons, roared skyward from the shattered ice layer! The scorching magma flood mixed with shattered metal runes condensed in the air into a fire dragon with bared fangs and claws, scaled armor distinct, carrying momentum to incinerate all directions and melt eternal chill ice, pouncing fiercely down on the chill ice throne! This was dwarf TISK's ultimate arcane, using himself as the furnace core, detonating the earth vein fire source!

"Interesting... heat wave. But, futile."

Enuvar's Void Chill Marrow Staff in hand, the pale vortex at the tip slightly rotated.

Whoosh——!

An invisible, intangible, yet seemingly able to freeze "heat" itself, pale freezing aura, like the breath of the cosmic abyss, instantly met the roaring lava fire dragon!

Sizzle——!!!

Extreme cold and heat collided! No heaven-shaking explosion, only a heart-chilling annihilation! The crimson lava giant dragon, upon contacting the pale freezing aura, had its surging magma flood visibly solidify, lose color, turn black! The scorching energy and metal fragments forming the dragon's body had their molecular motion forcibly terminated, heat conceptually stripped and absorbed! The massive fire dragon from head to tail rapidly cooled and stiffened during the charge, ultimately, still ten meters from the throne, completely turning into a lifeless, lusterless black rock giant dragon statue, crashing down and shattering into countless cold remnants. The lava earth fire was forcibly extinguished, the earth vein crack instantly sealed by thicker deep blue solid ice.

TISK maintained his hammering pose, his body steaming with scalding vapor after using the forbidden move, his face ashen.

"The third one." The Void Chill ray hit without suspense. The dwarf craftsman soul, along with his dimmed Lava Hammer, was sealed into deep blue ice crystal together.

Rex: The End of Technology

"Target locked. Energy characteristic analysis... failed. Physical laws distorted... beyond specs. Execute final protocol: 'Void Singularity · Overload Annihilation'!" Rex's cold electronic voice echoed rapidly inside the armor, data streams cascading like waterfalls on his retinal projection, flashing red warnings. He instantly judged conventional weapons completely ineffective.

Buzz——!

His back's "Leaper" armor erupted with unprecedented ghostly purple radiance, space violently distorting! That precious "Void Singularity Core" was forcibly extracted from the armor's depths by him, suspended between his mechanical palms! The core's twelve facets spun madly, the interior light points like a miniaturized universe rapidly expanding and brightening, emitting extremely unstable, seemingly space-tearing destructive energy fluctuations! At the same time, hundreds of nano-drone swarms like suicide bees, burning their last energy, trailing ghostly purple tails, shot toward Enuvar from all directions in self-destructive trajectories, attempting interference!

"Core energy output overload 300%! Target: spatial structure destruction!"

A condensed to the extreme, seemingly able to pierce and annihilate space itself, ghostly purple energy beam shot from between Rex's palms! Wherever the beam passed, space groaned under unbearable strain, leaving black cracks!

"Ice-cold... mechanical logic... meaningless struggle." Enuvar's mental voice carried a hint of disdain for "inferior constructs." Facing the annihilation beam capable of tearing conventional space and the suicide drones, it didn't even move the staff.

On that pale ice-mirror "face," ice crystals slightly flowed.

Crack... crack crack crack...

Centered on it, within a hundred-meter radius, space temperature plummeted to an incomprehensible absolute domain! Space itself seemed frozen!

The whistling nano-drone swarms, upon entering the frozen space, had their flickering energy lights suddenly extinguish, flight trajectories forcibly solidified, like paused footage, hovering in mid-air, surfaces rapidly covered with thick deep blue ice layers.

That Void Singularity beam capable of annihilating matter, upon entering the frozen space, speed plummeted! The violent energy particles forming the beam had their motion forcibly slowed and stagnated! The beam's form like a frozen purple ice river, difficultly and slowly extended less than a meter forward, then completely solidified, dimmed, ultimately turning into a suspended, energy-lost ghostly purple ice ridge!

Space frozen!

"The fourth one." Enuvar's staff lightly tapped. A Void Chill ray pierced the solidified space, precisely hitting Rex, whose body sparked with arcs from overload, armor melting in multiple places. The cold deep blue rapidly covered the flickering electronic eyes and scorching metal shell.

Jack and Gorg: The Final Cry of Flesh and Blood

"You damned stinking ice block!" Jack roared, "Eat this big one from me!" Jack, witnessing companions successively turn to ice, eyes bloodshot with fury! His mechanical prosthetic eye locked on the throne, madly calculating trajectories. The "Thunderer" rune rifle's barrel heat-dissipation runes shone to the extreme, the gun body trembling violently from energy overload! He slammed a precious, high-purity magic crystal stone containing berserk thunder elements into the chamber!

"Thunder God's Fury · Star Pierce!"

Boom——!!!

A unimaginably thick, purely golden thunder-compressed blazing light pillar tore through the solidified chill aura, carrying purifying evil and piercing stars momentum, bombarding toward Enuvar! This was Jack burning his life potential in one strike!

"Roar! Gorg comes to tear you apart!" Gorg erupted synchronously! His whole body muscles expanded to the extreme, veins twisting and coiling, orc berserk bloodline thoroughly boiling! The engines of his two chainsaw war axes emitted near-disintegration mad roars! The dark red dried blood on the axe blades seemed to come alive, burning with sulfur-like black-red flames! He stomped the ground fiercely with both feet, shattering solid ice, like a human siege ram, closely following the thunder light pillar, dual axes crossed, carrying heaven-splitting, earth-cracking, shattering everything momentum, wildly chopping! Target straight at Enuvar's "head"!

"Weak... lightning... primitive... brute force." Enuvar's mental voice still held no ripples. Facing the thunder light pillar capable of severely wounding a dragon and the orc's sacrificial berserk chop, it merely raised that Void Chill Marrow-formed hand.

In the palm, that miniature pale vortex suddenly enlarged!

The Thunder God's Fury light pillar bombarded into the vortex, vanishing like a clay ox into the sea, without stirring a ripple, all thunder energy mercilessly devoured, frozen, annihilated by the vortex! Gorg's unstoppable dual axes, upon chopping into the vortex range, had the burning black-red flames on the blades silently extinguish, the roaring chainsaws like jammed gears, emitting harsh grinding sounds before completely stopping! An irresistible, freezing all things chill instantly spread up along the axe handles!

"The fifth one... the sixth one..." Two Void Chill rays shot out almost simultaneously. Jack maintained his shooting pose, his face solidified with unwillingness and roar; Gorg maintained his chopping heroic stance, eyes burning with unextinguishable battle intent, both turning into new warrior ice sculptures in the ice palace.

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