Chapter 145: Battle of the Deities! (Additional content with 1100 Monthly Tickets)
December 23, 2014
Author: Floating Tower (诸生浮屠)
By the road leading to Arendelle.
Out of nowhere, an iceberg appeared, standing about thirty meters tall, its azure ice seemingly infused with other powers. Nearby, the grass and trees had already frozen, and one could faintly see frozen statues, one of which depicted a masked figure in a black bodysuit, now devoid of any life. No one dared to approach this bizarrely abrupt iceberg; even an idiot would know that there was something dangerous happening.
The iceberg had existed for quite some time.
A chill spread outwards, causing the temperature around to drop sharply.
Suddenly.
Cracks appeared on the iceberg, spreading at an astonishing rate, and soon covered the entire structure. With a loud rumble, the iceberg began to collapse and shatter, and the frozen statues cracked open, revealing dark red layers beneath the frozen flesh. Countless shards of ice fell to the ground, creating numerous pits, but in the center, something seemed to be there, with the fallen ice blocks being repelled, exposing an oval-shaped transparent energy shield.
“Damn it!”
A Drow stepped out, her face pale and rigid; for someone with naturally dark skin, her complexion had turned white, indicating she had been trapped inside for a long time. Her fingers trembled slightly as faint frost quickly melted away; her wizard robe was soaked, revealing her curvaceous and delicate body, along with prominent whip marks on her back, visible through the wet fabric. She silently snapped her fingers, and all the moisture around her disappeared, returning her appearance to what it originally was.
The Drow coldly glanced at the nearby shattered, frozen corpse, then frowned and said, “A bunch of useless males!”
After saying that, her figure flew into the air.
The Drow observed the shattered ice around her; the fragments were melting rapidly. This was supernatural ice, unlike the ice found in nature. She looked towards the direction of the sea, where Arendelle lay, her brows furrowing as she murmured, “How could an ice avatar of a Fate Sorcerer trap me?”
“This ice even seals off the dimensional space!”
“This is a power that mere mortals cannot possess!… Arendelle’s Princess!… What have you hidden from me, Winter Maiden?!…”
She extended her fingertip and carved open a spatial door. Then she stepped directly inside.
The ice on the ground diminished, gradually revealing the bloodstains and the shattered limbs of those turned into frozen statues, a faint smell of blood spreading around.
………………
At the castle of Arendelle.
The Long Princess, who looked almost identical to Princess Anna, turned her head. In the icy mirror before her was an iceberg, and with a step forward, her figure vanished into thin air. The remaining image of her dissipated with the cold wind, and one could faintly see glistening snowflakes dancing down.
In the next moment!
Her figure appeared directly at the shore, where swirling snowflakes converged in the air to form the beautiful, icy visage of the Long Princess.
“Winter Maiden!”
The Long Princess gazed at the ice-bound statue at the dock, a flicker of anger reflected in her azure eyes. Just that brief moment of hesitation had frozen thousands nearby, and chilly ice was spreading towards Arendelle. The air was filled with the terrified cries of civilians. Against a power that resembled that of deities, these mortals had no means to resist; anyone touched by the spreading ice would soon turn into ice sculptures.
The expression on the Long Princess’s face turned fierce, as she waved her hand angrily like a queen in command. From the frozen seaside, spikes of ice shot up several dozen meters high, forcing the Winter Maiden back hundreds of meters. The coastline quickly cracked, revealing frozen fish within, as the surface of the sea was not only frozen on the surface but even the water below was completely encased in ice.
A sharp momentum spread. The ice and snow intensified.
As the most praised female heir of Arendelle’s history, the Long Princess was the complete opposite of Anna, her charisma difficult to describe in words; if anything, it could be summed up as the aura of a legendary ruler.
This was someone who, at first glance, seemed to embody the majesty of a queen, an existence that inspired awe!
In Arendelle, some even worshiped her as a deity.
“Your Majesty!”
“Your Majesty!”
Waves of magical light appeared, as the court mages of Arendelle finally arrived. Many among them were female, and a beam of azure light descended from the sky; it was a legendary-ranked Professionist. Arendelle was a wondrous kingdom, where the talents of women far exceeded those of men, with almost half of the spellcasters in the court being female. In this land, women could also be appointed as city lords, holding status equivalent to men, though without the discrimination against males seen in the Drow.
Legends say they are the descendants of the Ice and Snow Goddess; an ancient deity once left behind their bloodline here.
Throughout Arendelle’s history, female members of the royal family hold reign nearly half of the time.
The Long Princess glanced at them, then said sternly, “Stand down.”
The entity before her was not something mere mortals could oppose; not even a legendary Professionist would have the ability to confront her.
Because she was the Winter Maiden.
One of the deities that have existed in this world for a long time, though confined between weak divine power and low-tier divine power, she was still far more powerful than the vast majority of legendary Professionists!
“Your Majesty!….”
The surrounding court mages hesitated for a moment but obediently retreated, including one legendary Professionist among them. It seemed the Long Princess held great prestige in Arendelle, and as the court mages withdrew, they began to weave spells hand in hand, casting protective barriers against the increasingly spreading ice. Ice spells of the sculpting school were very prevalent in the Frozen Kingdom, often resulting in encounters with sculpting ice witches.
Finally, the Winter Maiden spoke.
Her voice resonated ethereally, as if she didn’t belong to this world. She expressionlessly looked at the Long Princess and slowly said, “I’ve come to take back what rightfully belongs to me! A mortal does not deserve such power!”
The Long Princess frowned, barely understanding the opponent’s words.
Yet she remained serious, “Deities should not descend carelessly to the mortal realm, nor should they harm innocent civilians. Winter Maiden! Please withdraw your avatar. Otherwise, you shall face judgment!…”
The Winter Maiden revealed a peculiar smile, her lips slowly inching up, “Do you truly think this is merely my avatar?”
Her figure disappeared from sight.
A piercing cold wind swept past, and the Winter Maiden’s figure scattered with the wind, appearing directly behind the Long Princess, her finger turning into a cold, icy beam, thrusting swiftly towards her heart!
Blood danced through the air.
The fair hand pierced straight through the Long Princess’s heart, the blood-soaked hand grasping a still beating heart. Then she squeezed tightly!
Boom.
A cruel smile spread across the Winter Maiden’s face as she declared slowly, “Indeed, she is merely a humble mortal, unworthy of possessing such power!”
A chorus of gasps erupted around.
“Long Princess!…”
“Your Majesty!…”
Several figures shot forth, and a beam of azure light streaked across the sky, revealing an enigmatic, ice-enshrouded creature that resembled nothing human.
The heart turned to dust in the Winter Maiden’s grasp, but the original blood suddenly transformed into glistening snowflakes.
The Long Princess’s rigid form blew away with the wind, turning into swirling snow. The droplets of blood that fell melted entirely, and the smile on the Winter Maiden’s face stiffened as she cast her gaze down at the sea.
Another Long Princess appeared on the surface of the sea.
A glimmer appeared in her azure eyes, her silver hair billowing in the wind, her dress morphing into a shimmering azure instantaneously. The surrounding space seemed to warp, vaguely revealing a shadowy figure cloaked in ice and snow behind her. The Long Princess raised her toes and stomped fiercely down on the frozen sea, and in an instant, a crystalline snowflake outline appeared, covering an area of hundreds of meters.
Six pillars of ice rose up, causing countless shards to spread. The entire sea surface shook violently.
Sparkling ice crystals spread at an astonishing rate. The swirling snow created walls on the surface, and four snowflake insignias appeared on the walls, culminating in an enormous, hundred-meter diameter ice fortress that resembled a prison, enveloping the Winter Maiden’s figure within.
The Long Princess’s silhouette appeared before this ice-captured fortress.
Her expression was very serious. Furrowing her delicate brows, she watched the Winter Maiden within; she could sense a tremendous power brewing. The opponent had not sustained any injury but was merely temporarily trapped inside.
The ice on the surface of the sea gradually cracked.
In the blink of an eye, the newly formed ice fortress stood valiantly on the frozen sea, and the Long Princess raised her hand to draw open a shadowy space portal, dimly revealing countless shining stars and glimmering, radiant substances. She frowned and took a deep breath, then slowly raised her slender finger.
With a sound reminiscent of the earth breaking apart, the entire sea level rapidly collapsed, the hundred-meter-wide ice fortress gradually rising, revealing a gigantic gap in the frozen sea.
Then.
The entire ice fortress was transported into a different dimensional space, and the ice-bound sea was left with cracks.
The Long Princess’s complexion paled slightly; she looked up at the sky. The dark dimensional void had vanished, and one could faintly see a bluish ice fortress soaring in the void, merging with the strange glowing substances, momentarily turning into tiny specks.
She lightly waved her hand, and the frozen sea began to melt gradually, the spreading ice dissipating rapidly over dozens of miles.
……………… (To be continued ~^~)
