The ice spike that had pierced the guild’s dome tore a massive hole open, allowing sunlight to pour in. Ice sealed the dragons, their crystalline brilliance dazzling. The utterly shocking scene resembled a frozen hell…
“Wu Yin…! What a damn First Prince! Pah! Today, this old man will show you what it means to be a human electroshock machine!!”
Though Master Lei was still reeling in shock, his fury overpowered everything else. He roared and charged straight for the First Prince.
Wu Yin knew they could no longer stay within the Cloudstride Merchant Guild. They leaped directly to the first floor, intent on escaping. After all, once outside the guild, they were on their own territory!
‘Ball Lightning’ transformed Master Lei’s speeding form into a single sphere of lightning, leaping and folding through the void, arcing like thunder across the sky as it raced behind Wu Yin and his group.
“Big Brother… behind us!”
Wu Xi shouted, unable to contain his frantically pounding heart.
Although all the princes had considerable magical prowess, they clearly stood no chance against Master Lei, a man nearly two hundred years their senior.
Lightning hissed behind them, but Wu Yin merely gave a cold sneer, still striding forward with large steps. Wherever he passed, ice walls continuously erupted from the ground on both sides with a “hiss-hiss,” blocking those who tried to intercept him. Without turning his head, he spoke to his third and fourth brothers: “—Ignore whatever’s behind us. We’re leaving!!”
“Ignore it? Ha, hahahaha…” Master Lei’s rage twisted into a mocking laugh. The ball of lightning swelled, becoming even more tyrannical and massive, and in an instant, had covered the three-hundred-meter distance, reaching right for Wu Yin’s back. “Take this… …Huh?!!!”
He abruptly lost sight of Wu Yin.
His entire field of vision was suddenly filled with mirrors of ice-blue.
In that world seemingly lined with countless ice mirrors, the reflection staring back was Master Lei’s own old, aghast, and incredulous face…
The ball lightning slammed into a giant ice mirror. Lightning covered its surface as a sound of fracturing silver ice echoed— “Crack—!”
Crackcrackcrackcrackcrackcrackcrackcrackcrack—!!!!
The scalp-tingling sound of shattering ice erupted madly around Master Lei’s ears in the very next instant, all the sounds separated by less than 0.01 seconds.
In a single moment, all the ice mirrors shattered at once.
The instantaneous explosive force sent this legendary lightning mage flying far back, a rain of blood showering the sky, until he finally crashed into a wall a hundred meters away and came to a jarring stop.
Leaning his ruined body against the wall with great effort, Master Lei coughed up a heavy mouthful of clotted blood. With the greatest bewilderment and fear he had ever felt in his life, he tremblingly raised his gaze…
A hurricane roared in his ears. He saw that the hundreds of thousands of shattered ice mirror fragments had not fallen. Instead, they were spinning at an ultra-high speed, transforming into blades that could slice through anything. A storm of tiny yet incomparably deadly ice blades surrounded him with impenetrable density…
If he so much as stood up or made a single suspicious move, he would be shredded into mincemeat as if thrown into a meat grinder.
And within the gaps of the high-speed spinning ice shards, his aged, wide eyes caught a glimpse of a stunningly beautiful figure…
Surrounded by countless ice crystals of all sizes like stars orbiting a moon was a young girl. She possessed ice-blue eyes bright as cold stars and beautiful, short ice-blue hair. From beneath her lace-trimmed pleated skirt, a smooth-scaled dragon’s tail gently swayed, adding a layer of sacred majesty. She was a breathtaking beauty, a stunning combination of a perfectly voluptuous figure and a Loli’s physique.
Yes, the dragon tail was truly ‘voluptuous’…
She floated a meter above the ground. Her indifferent blue eyes, as if eternally undisturbed by ripples, held a gaze of absolute, disdainful superiority over all living things—a look only a god could possess.
“…A… Star… God…!!!”
Master Lei’s dry throat worked convulsively before he could hoarsely utter a term that made even this legendary mage feel abjectly humbled and terrified.
A Star God… from the Federation?!
The boisterous, fleeing crowd fell silent, staring blankly at this Star God they had only heard about in ethereal legends, now actually appearing before their very eyes. Their trembling hearts felt an involuntary urge to bow in worship…
Reverence for a deity transcended national borders.
“Truly full of mistakes, utterly foolish…”
The Star God murmured an ethereal whisper.
This single whisper reached the fleeing Wu Yin, causing his body to freeze rigidly in place. Extreme humility flooded his pupils, and his shaking knees almost buckled, yet he dared not utter even a single word of defense.
How could Wu Yin not know that the Virgo Star God, among the Twelve Star Gods, was the one who most pursued perfection, flawlessness, and meticulousness? After all, Virgo had always been synonymous with obsessive-compulsiveness…
And the plan he had thought to be flawless had been completely and utterly defeated at Weilin’s hands. He had even been caught with the evidence of his crime! In the eyes of the Virgo Star God, who was assessing his capability, giving him a zero was probably being too generous…!
“I will not offer him any assistance, but… he cannot die yet.”
The Star God’s voice, like a divine decree, resonated lightly in the depths of everyone’s heart. And a divine decree was irreversible, both in spirit and in strength. Even a powerhouse like Master Lei was no match for her in even a single round.
Weilin, still on the third floor, had been closely watching the rapidly changing battle below.
Witnessing the descent of the Virgo Star God with her own eyes, Weilin was also struck speechless with shock.
“Eye of Truth!”
[Virgo Star God: Feilin]
[Race: Silver Ice Starlight Dragon]
[Warrior Lv. 85 / Mage Lv. 85 / Star God Candidate]
[Strength: 11000 / Agility: 9725 / Constitution: 49500
Mana: 9700 / Spirit: 4550]
[More Information: Blocked by Godhood, unable to view.]
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None dared speak, none dared defy. Feilin’s ice-blue eyes shifted, and her form vanished in a flicker, like starlight.
Even as everyone watched Wu Yin walk out of the Cloudstride Merchant Guild step by step, no one dared to stop him any longer.
Weilin’s face was cold, and she turned to leave.
“…Miss Lega, p-please don’t be impulsive!”
But at some point, Reki had appeared right behind Weilin, tightly clutching her clothes and trying to dissuade her.
Weilin glanced back at Reki and abruptly reached out a hand. “Give me the Mirror Crystal.”
“…That’s a Star God! What is Miss Lega planning to do?”
“The Virgo Star God cares deeply about her reputation. Give me one second to draw a Doujinshi, and I’ll make her recognize the difficulty and retreat… if she doesn’t want her draconic-human romance to become famous across the continent.”
Damn it, having to draw Doujinshis for spiritual warfare because she had no offensive magic was just too shameful…
And Weilin utterly disdained using such despicable means to threaten others… unless she had absolutely no other choice.
“What… is Miss Lega talking about?” Reki asked, bewildered.
“Give it to me, quickly!”
Under Weilin’s increasingly impatient tone, Reki pursed her lips with a hint of grievance and handed the ‘evidence’ to Weilin.
Immediately after, the girl spun around and used ‘Spatial Warp’, vanishing into thin air right before the stunned Reki.
?
When Wu Yin stepped out of the main entrance of the Cloudstride Merchant Guild, the vast, bright sky, though eternally snowing, suddenly seemed much more lovely and agreeable in the eyes of His Highness the First Prince.
If he could just turn back, muster his subordinates, and threaten Reki with forcing the guild to suspend operations for a calamity cycle, he could force her to hand over the ‘evidence’. Then he would once again be in an undefeatable position.
But…
He suddenly recalled the “Snow Maiden” who had appeared inside the guild and blocked the Ice Dragon’s Roar.
And all “Snow Maidens” were beings akin to personal guards of the Illusory Snow Queen. The appearance of a “Snow Maiden” here meant…
A sudden, bone-chilling cold wind hit him like needles piercing his marrow. In that instant, his boiling blood lost all its due warmth. His body and consciousness were on the verge of freezing solid.
“…King’s Sister?!”
