Don’t look down on its simple attribute line or the one-use-per-day limit. When it comes to instantaneous absolute defense and counter-lethal, only the Absolute Deflection Prism can perfectly do it.
Automatically reflecting any fatal attack of any energy form meant no assassin could insta-kill Weilin. Furthermore, the reflected attack could even lead to the tragic farce of “I-kill-myself.”
The Snow Giant Hand slammed into the Absolute Deflection Prism. The sound was swallowed as if entering a vacuum, producing no echo. Its force, capable of shattering a mountain peak, couldn’t even make the prismatic column tremble.
“What…?!”
In the distance, Wu Gu’s eyes widened in disbelief, as if seeing a ghost. The Imperial warrior, Lord, looked up and was equally horrified.
Though Weilin’s face seemed relaxed and mocking, a drop of cold sweat slid down her temple… because only she knew just how close that was.
The Absolute Deflection Prism only activates its automatic protection function when the System determines an attack to be fatal or capable of causing near-death. In other words, without this Divine Artifact’s protection, she would probably be hanging on by a thread right now…
At the moment of impact, the Absolute Deflection Prism absorbed all the kinetic energy delivered by the Snow Giant Hand. The energy, sufficient to shake hills, condensed into a deep blue beam of light, jumping and deflecting within the triangular prism column. It made a full circuit, returning to its origin point. The deep blue beam erupted violently from the impact point, completely pouring into the Snow Giant Hand, which was frozen in time at that instant…
Crack—
The force of “returning the attack to the sender,” in just a single moment, covered this massive Snow Giant Hand with tens of thousands of horrifying, fine cracks, their number still multiplying…
“Is this what you wanted?”
Inside the illusory, transparent triangular prism, the girl crouched down, reaching her hand toward the icy, flawless snow lotus at her feet. At the same time, her gaze stared off into the distance at the handsome yet now shocked and furious face beneath the trench coat, a quiet smile playing on her lips.
“…But it’s mine now.”
Boom————————!!!
The Snow Giant Hand, riddled with ten thousand cracks, finally exploded in a deafening detonation. It swept up countless magic fragments like a tempest, while the unleashed energy rampaged ruthlessly within the narrow lair…
The girl’s voice fell. The snow lotus was stowed away into her space. Her figure vanished with Teleportation. The ethereal, transparent prism also silently erased itself from existence.
With the pulverization of the Snow Giant Hand, the massive backlash of the magic caused Wu Gu to spit out a mouthful of fresh blood. His aura wilted, his body collapsing, almost falling to his knees. When the Second Prince lifted his gloomy eyes, the snow lotus and Weilin were both gone, leaving only cascading rocks falling from above…
The lair was about to collapse.
“Lega Weilin… the woman who even made Wu Yin suffer…”
Licking the blood clean from the corner of his lips, the Second Prince let his gaze linger on the spot where Weilin vanished. The shame, shock, and fury that had filled his face a second ago now slowly receded, a hint of malicious amusement flashing in his cold eyes:
“You’ve definitely got some skill… But how could she possibly have imagined that of two treasures growing together in the same place, the most conspicuous one… is precisely the one that’s completely unnecessary?”
“Your Highness Wu Gu! The cave’s collapsing! We need to get out… Damn it! That bitch already blocked the exit!”
The reason Weilin had told Airi to flee first was that she anticipated the lair and cave would inevitably collapse after the Absolute Deflection Prism reflected the fist’s power.
Before escaping, Airi had remembered the strategy agreed upon with Weilin and had blasted the exit with an Explosive Fireball, leading to the current situation.
“…Wu Gu, what the hell are you still doing?!”
Seeing Wu Gu ignoring the falling rocks and instead walking slowly toward where the snow lotus had vanished, Lord roared with fury. “The Ice Soul Lotus is gone! Are you crazy, still going over there?!”
Ice lances formed from thin air with magic, precisely striking every rock dropping toward his head, either deflecting them or blasting them apart mid-air. Completely ignoring Lord’s shouts, Wu Gu walked through the rain of rocks like this, dragging his internally injured body step by step up to the stone platform. He bent down and picked the “Ice Soul Life-Transferring Flower” (8th-Tier) swaying quietly in the corner of the stone platform, the one that seemed so serene amidst the chaotic world.
“Heh, found you…”
A sickly smile spread across his handsome face. His eyes housed a madness that made even the distant Lord’s scalp tingle with shuddering dread.
?
Weilin and Airi escaped from the Snow Demon Lair without a hitch, fleeing ten miles further until they finally stopped beneath a giant tree.
The Ranger’s heart was pounding, her excited little face flushed red, as if unable to believe Weilin had so easily pulled off a desperate counter-lethal and snatched the treasure the enemy had painstakingly sought.
The Ranger still felt lingering fear. That sudden, killing blow from Wu Gu—even with fully stacked movement speed, she would’ve been unable to react.
But Weilin actually… blocked it so handsomely?
As expected of the employer. Her use of Spatial Warp is divinely brilliant; she couldn’t possibly be an ordinary person!
She probably just hired me to kill monsters because she couldn’t be bothered to do it herself… That must be it!!
“Weilin, what kind of treasure is that Ice Soul Flower? Quickly, take it out and let’s have a look.” Airi’s eyes sparkled, even more impatient than Weilin herself.
Weilin didn’t refuse. She sat down cross-legged, her palm sweeping over the thick snow-covered ground. With a flash of white light, a spiritually radiant, ice-brilliant snow lotus bloomed silently before the two.
After all, just hearing the name ‘snow lotus,’ you could tell it had a high aesthetic value.
And indeed, it did. If this snow lotus were placed beside Airi’s overly simple ‘Elegy of the Wind God,’ and people were forced to choose under the double conditions of no Appraisal Technique and no “only kids make choices, I want them all,” at least ninety percent would choose the snow lotus.
“So beautiful…”
Airi marveled at its beauty. In fact, a snow lotus itself is beautiful and pure, exactly matching the impression humans have of it. But… Weilin felt something was off.
“…Appraisal Technique.”
[Millennium Snow Lotus (5th-Tier)]
[Attribute: Purification and recovery effects are extremely significant. It is a precious cooking and alchemy ingredient. Can also be consumed directly.]
[Note: This is just a very ordinary Millennium Snow Lotus.]
An ordinary person who snatched a Millennium Snow Lotus for free would be exhilarated. Even if useless to them, selling it would fetch at least 5,000 gold coins, and 10,000 gold coins wasn’t impossible…
But Weilin’s brow furrowed, showing not a trace of happiness.
It was a joke. Right now, the last thing Weilin was interested in was money. Even if she stole ten more Millennium Snow Lotuses, there probably wouldn’t be any ripple of emotion.
The current problem was…
“What’s wrong?”
“…This isn’t what he called the Ice Soul Lotus.”
“Ah, how could that be… Could it be, could it be because he made a mistake too?! After all, it seemed like his first time there too, he didn’t know if there really was an Ice Soul Lotus inside.”
“Let’s hope so.” Weilin paused, her voice carrying an extreme displeasure for the first time. “…Otherwise, I, you, and that Imperial man were all played by him.”
