With a clench of her slender, fair hand, the absurdly long beam of flame retracted back into the girl’s small palm at a speed that defied perception.
Illumination Spell—a first-tier magic. Any mage could instantly activate and deactivate it.
(Other mages: Stop! That’s not an Illumination Spell at all!)
“Gentle Breeze Spell.”
After unleashing that otherworldly sword strike with a range of forty meters, the Gentle Breeze Spell carried Weilin as she flew down, landing on the nearest tall building. Then, the girl turned to look back at the still-standing Snow Giant…
The agony of his body being torn apart by flames elicited a long, piercing scream from the Second Prince.
But Weilin didn’t believe it was over.
The man had already stopped being human. Weilin even suspected that burning away Wu Gu’s remaining half-body was exactly what he wanted…
“Lega Weilin!… You… you dare destroy my body?!… Haha… hahahahaha!!”
After the scream, this voice, filled with deep resentment, perversion, and triumph, actually came from the Snow Giant’s mouth, booming like muffled thunder…
The giant body, akin to a snowy mountain, moved with steps that shook the earth, slowly turning around.
Every single movement of the 100-meter-tall Snow Giant was practically a minor avalanche in itself.
Weilin frowned.
Wu Gu’s burned body was gone… In just a few seconds, the incinerated remains of his body had fused into the Snow Giant’s head. Then, a giant fleshy, blood-red eye grew out from the center of the Snow Giant’s forehead…!
A giant made entirely of snow, now sprouting a mobile, all-too-human eye of flesh—it was absolutely horrifying and grotesque, no matter how you looked at it!
“I must thank you… Because of that strike, I’ve completely fused with the Snow Giant!”
“But, Lega Weilin—!”
It was no longer Wu… No, the Snow Giant was speaking.
Weilin’s expression remained calm. Not flustered at all, she leisurely waited for Wu Gu to continue.
“I have to admit, I never expected this. Huan Xuezhi, so proud and aloof, actually swallowed her pride and secretly recruited such a formidable outside helper like you…”
“Recruited,” huh? How could the Second Prince possibly anticipate that Weilin came uninvited?
“Though I don’t know what my kingly sister promised you… someone with your mind and strength can shine anywhere, even being granted titles of royalty and nobility with ease… Why throw everything away for a dying kingdom fated for destruction?”
Weilin smiled, a somewhat intriguing, curious smile. Narrowing her eyes, she asked, “…Could it be the Second Prince wants to recruit me to join the Empire alongside you?”
“This is merely mutual appreciation between intelligent people. As much as I despise you, I’m willing to show you a clear path… You have a bright future. Why fight me to the death here?!”
“Who has mutual appreciation with you? ‘The Snow Giant has a fatal flaw of being cumbersome, and you happen to perfectly counter it, so I’m chickening out’—couldn’t you just be direct about it?” Weilin suddenly sneered.
“?! …You bi-!!”
As expected of a “smart person,” the second his intentions were exposed, he instantly reacted, flew into a rage from embarrassment, and launched a furious thunderous strike.
A giant fist, akin to a small hill and wrapped in an extreme freezing wind, came smashing down. Before the fist even arrived, a cold wind seemingly blown from an icy hell swept past, instantaneously freezing the tall building Weilin stood on into solid ice!
“BOOM! CRACK!!!”
The frozen building was shattered into pieces by the punch.
Weilin warped away just in time, but she was still grazed by the cold wind…
“Seems I got a debuff…?”
【Gentle Breeze Spell: Movement speed +400%. Duration: 99h; Slow: Movement speed -20%. Duration: 30s】
Such a potent debuff. Now Weilin could only fly at 380%.
Taking advantage of the Snow Domain’s natural environment, the Snow Giant’s mana perception was extremely vast. Every location Weilin teleported to was accurately locked onto by the Snow Giant.
This time, Weilin teleported directly behind the Snow Giant.
Suddenly, the Snow Giant twisted its terrifying, dozen-meter-high head around, startling Weilin.
“ROOOAAAR!!!”
From its roaring, snow-basin-sized mouth, it blasted out the same extreme freezing wind that could flash-freeze everything.
“Gentle… Gentle Breeze Spell!”
Two storms with diametrically opposed directions and forces collided mid-air!
Probably because the Snow Giant’s “Freezing Wind” excelled in “freezing” rather than “wind force,” the Gentle Breeze Spell actually won the clash of winds. Consequently, the Snow Giant was showered by its own deflected breath, causing ice to form all over its face…
“Electric Discharge!”
Crack!!
This was Weilin’s lightspeed counterattack. Amidst the shrill screeching of intertwining lightning bolts, a devastating pillar of thunderous light shot out at Mach speeds, striking the giant fleshy eye on the Snow Giant’s forehead before it could even close!
A Thunder Annihilation that even the Ice Crystal Skeleton couldn’t withstand. Predictably, the enormous fleshy eye was pierced straight through, exploding into a fountain of bloody gore with a “Pop!”
This didn’t seem to be the Snow Giant’s weakness or core, though.
No, the true Snow Giant itself had no weaknesses. Weilin was simply targeting that disgusting eye out of spite.
“…Ohhhhhhh—!!!”
This only incited the Snow Giant’s ferocity even more!
Amidst a heaven-shaking howl, it began rampaging like a mindless beast, furiously attacking the air or spewing freezing wind everywhere… The result was the buildings and mansions beneath its feet collapsing and shattering like building blocks in droves. The overflowing frozen storm created an Ice Disaster Zone…
Weilin didn’t flee far in fear. Instead, relying on the long range of her Illumination Spell and Electric Discharge, she continuously kited from the edge using Spatial Warp and Gentle Breeze Spell.
As long as the Absolute Deflection Prism hadn’t triggered, Weilin could fool around as much as she wanted.
But…
“So this is the Snow Giant’s true strength after all…?”
The Illumination Spell could only barely break through its defense, leaving behind a superficial, harmless scorching red mark. The laser cannon also only barely damaged it, blasting out a charred black spot…
Considering the Snow Giant’s size and the possibility that it possessed regeneration magic, if Weilin wanted to kill it with these two skills, it was truly going to be a struggle.
As for Wu Gu’s half-body and that fleshy eye, they never belonged to the Snow Giant in the first place.
Just as she was pondering, a sense of crisis flashed through her. Without a second thought, Weilin warped far back half a kilometer to evade the brunt of its madness. At the same moment, the luxurious restaurant she had just been standing on was mercilessly crushed under the Snow Giant’s foot…
“It seems that fleshy eye likely housed the Second Prince’s consciousness or something similar…” Weilin’s expression grew slightly solemn as she speculated. “When the eye was destroyed, did he go berserk?”
A human’s delusion of merging their weak, insignificant life with an ancient demonic beast, the Snow Giant, was sheer wishful thinking from the start.
The one thing Wu Gu should never have failed to account for was that after fusing with the Snow Giant, his human “fragility” was inherited by the Snow Giant in another way, allowing Weilin to easily find a vital point to attack.
A Snow Giant with a “weakness” and a Snow Giant without one were two entirely different existences.
…But even a Snow Giant without weaknesses wasn’t necessarily something Weilin couldn’t kill.
At least for now, Weilin couldn’t just sit back and watch the rampaging Snow Giant continue to destroy Mistlight City. After all, sooner or later, it was Huan Xuezhi’s city anyway…
“Then, let’s put an end to this.”
