Chapter 636 Chapter 94 As if Approaching the Shadow of a Frost Calamity
The pink-haired girl, although only showing her profile, was completely different from the expressions of the people around her, which were anxious and very worried.
“Veer, are you… looking at that girl?” Ig followed her gaze and saw the pink-haired girl in a silk long dress, like a noble young lady.
“Mm.”
Verafia nodded, her cheek turned, and her lips parted slightly, “Verafia, do you think… that girl knows Azer? Otherwise, why would she have that kind of expression?”
“This…”
Ig hesitated for a moment, “But Azer never mentioned knowing a girl like this, and even Sirius hasn’t mentioned it…”
As soon as Ig finished speaking, there was a loud bang. The demonic power cast by Kaino stirred up a vast wave of light. In the air, waves of cold air condensed, then were shattered, falling to the ground like shattered glass with a sound.
On the ground, waves of cold air froze into light blue crystals and spread across the ground, but at a certain boundary, they stopped abruptly. Azer’s hand supported the ground, kneeling on one knee, his flame demonic power, in crimson, stirred up high temperatures, melting the approaching chill.
Suddenly, the knight’s footsteps fell, crushing the frost frozen on the ground into powder. Kaino held his sword, and the blade edge covered by demonic power shimmered with a cold, blinding light. A smile was etched on his face:
“Azer, you should have fallen under that attack of demonic power… It seems I underestimated you, or have you improved again in these short ten days?”
Although Kaino’s attack seemed fierce, it was offset by more than half by the demonic power released by Azer. The actual impact on him was only a minor injury, and it did not pose any fatal threat.
Therefore, Cardinal Bro’s golden radiance did not stop the continuation of the battle.
The red-haired boy propped himself up with his hand and slowly stood up again. His sky-blue, clear and cold pupils, like ice crystals, met the approaching knight youth. He suddenly spoke:
“Lord Kaino, you have come here, it seems, only to defeat me.”
Kaino held his sword, and a smile appeared on his face, “Heh… Young Master Azer, do you think I came all this way just to surrender to you? As a God’s Chosen Knight, why can’t I do this?”
Azer did not reply, only looking at the other. He knew that Kaino clearly understood his meaning, and his words were just a cover for his intentions.
Researching his swordsmanship, researching his habits so accurately… it seemed that he was sure that in the end, it would be him who would appear opposite.
“Kaino. Lord Trist… Lord Trist, to defeat me, how much did he tell you?”
He suddenly raised his head, his voice spreading in the icy air.
Kaino’s expression gradually subsided. The sword he held, though clearly under the power of lightning, seemed to be frozen with frost, like the eternally unfrosted ice from the deepest abyss.
Azer did not ask further. The other’s sword was reflected in his pupils. This was not a weapon of great fame, but it gave Azer a sense of extreme danger.
And his own sword was once forged for him by Sirius… Azer’s palm touched the sword hilt.
Suddenly, Kaino’s steps moved again, stepping on the ground where golden light sprinkled. The sharp edge of the long sword cut through the air: “Young Master Azer, you asked my question… then, why did you come here?”
“Me?”
Azer felt the demonic power condensing in the air. His hand gripped the sword hilt, and the scorching fire marks shattered the metal, slowly spreading on the blade. He forcefully raised his face.
“It’s just that someone wanted me to come. Even if he wasn’t here…”
Before the red-haired boy’s tailing voice fell, Kaino let out a hearty laugh and stomped his foot. The sword waved with one hand, and purple wild thunder surged, igniting with a hissing thunder fire, sweeping like a flag.
The rustling gale surged in mid-air, and the churning storm, amidst the flashing demonic power, seemed to condense into substance, embellished by the ignited lightning, like a collapsing tsunami, pouring down to devour the youth!
Azer also drew his sword at the same instant, but it was not any exquisite swordsmanship. It was as if the entire sword was ignited by the spreading scorching heat, burning with scorching golden flames!
“This is—”
From afar, Verafia’s golden eyes shrunk in disbelief. The scorching golden flames burning on Azer’s blade were not unfamiliar to her, no, to her, they should be extremely familiar.
“Is this Veer’s flame?”
Ig exclaimed in surprise. The flames spreading and burning from Azer’s sword were almost the same as the blazing flames that once burned in his End, the golden divine flame that ignited the will of “Annihilation”!
—Even if it was only a tiny wisp, and even if he were not a chosen of the girl and had personally controlled and endured such flames, even a Saint Rank would not have been able to recognize it, but it was indeed the undisputed “Divine Flame”!
“But, why can Azer use the Young Lady’s flames… Could it be that he learned it from that flame crystal, in the lantern Veer gave him, in just these ten days?”
Ig thought in extreme disbelief, the only possible explanation. But such a guess was even more astounding.
Not long ago, Verafia had recorded flame runes burning with the authority of “Annihilation” in her alchemy techniques. Ig had even imagined whether someone could glimpse the will of flames from it in the future.
However, if Azer had indeed learned it from the flame crystal as he guessed, and released blazing flames containing a wisp of the girl’s authority, the difficulty would have been far greater.
In a short moment, only Verafia could see the reason clearly, as well as a few people like Ig who knew her identity. Most people only saw the surging thunder on Kaino’s sword, the roaring demonic power like a giant flag rolling, or the giant mouth of a fierce beast engulfing Azer.
And the pink-haired girl who had once been gazed upon by Verafia, her light golden beautiful eyes, were wide open, filled with shock.
Azer did not retreat, raising his long sword to block in front of him. Around him, he was enveloped by dense demonic power, and the scorching fire marks spreading on the blade were extremely conspicuous.
—Ding
An indescribable sound. The storm of roaring demonic power, carrying lightning and ice, collided with the long sword, and at that moment, it entered a state of stillness. That terrifying prestige, before this sword blade burned by flame patterns, was annihilated.
However, all of this was just an illusion of people’s vision.
In that instant when the sword and the storm intersected, the high temperature caused the demonic power’s structure to collapse instantly. Kaino’s attack, like a raging wave, collapsed at that moment, and then, withered and scattered before the flames!
“Boom!”
Amidst the terrifying sound of mountains collapsing and storms shattering, even the Cardinal of a Saint Rank could only capture the high temperature of the sword blade.
However, in the direction pointed by the sword edge, both the terrifying demonic power and the vision of intertwined ice and lightning were split in two by the traces stirred by the sword blade, and then burned in the blazing firelight.
And the sharp edge held by Azer, swung straight towards Kaino, who was at close range with an astonished expression!
“Mmm!”
Held tightly in the arms of the Ice Dragon Girl, the petite and lovely red-haired loli suddenly raised her face at this moment. As usual, her seemingly innocent voice revealed a hint of nervousness. Her big red eyes widened, and she spoke discontinuously,
“Just now… just now, for a moment, Niya seemed to have seen ice—”
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At this moment, Azer’s long sword slashed down. Kaino instinctively raised his sword to defend, but it was undoubtedly defeated.
Whether it was an illusion or not, at that moment, Verafia felt a powerful force appear on Kaino.
However, nothing happened. The scorching sword of blazing fire cut straight through him. With a booming sound, Kaino’s body was thrown dozens of meters away, scattering blood in mid-air.
Suddenly, a beam of golden light descended, blocking Azer’s sword Qi that followed closely in front of him. Kaino’s body was heavily thrown to the ground with a heavy sound, followed by his pained voice.
—That descending golden radiance was the Divine Arts of Cardinal Bro, to protect the safety of the participating knights. Even though the outcome was not announced, in everyone’s eyes, the battle was already decided.
On the stands, deafening cheers erupted. Although they were not familiar with the red-haired boy, in everyone’s eyes, the boy who was forced into a desperate situation and was clearly about to lose in the next second, had reversed the situation with a single sword strike, decisively and crisply.
This was clearly an extremely exciting and inspiring event. Even those who had been indifferent to him before were celebrating for him.
Among the crowd on the stands, the happiest, without a doubt, was the pink-haired girl who had been most nervous and scared before. Seeing Azer’s counter-sword strike crushing Kaino’s attack, at that moment, she completely disregarded her ladylike image and jumped up.
All of this happened in just an instant. Before Niya’s voice had even finished, no one had replied to her yet.
“What did Little Niya just say… ice?”
The Ice Dragon Girl lowered her small face and looked at the red-haired girl held in her embrace.
“Mm… just now, Niya felt a very cold feeling, like the ice outside.”
The red-haired loli’s small hands were grasping her sleeve cuff, and her actions showed that Niya was still nervous, but it still did not make Ophi’s understanding clear.
“What is Little Niya talking about…”
Ophi tilted her head in confusion. She was a giant dragon of ice crystals and had a high talent for ice element… Niya said nothing she could feel.
“Niya said… frost? Could it be referring to… a frost calamity?”
The white-dressed, golden-haired girl suddenly spoke.
The usually absent-minded Ice Dragon Miss did not understand what she was saying, but Verafia clearly understood the meaning of Niya’s words better.
This petite and lovely red-haired loli was an elemental spirit of fire… At this moment, Azer was wielding her flame, which could almost be considered the hottest power in this world, but Niya said “ice.”
Was it frost revealed under the raging fire?
Her gaze suddenly lifted. Opposite Azer, Kaino was lying on the ground, trying to support himself to stand up, with an expression of frustrated defeat and pain intertwined.
He looked completely like a defeated knight.
“But, if it’s not Kaino, then…”
Verafia thought, and her pupils trembled slightly. As if triggering a specific node, she felt the temperature in the air dropping, and a substantial frost and snow began to blow!
She would not be unfamiliar with this feeling. On the first night she arrived on this continent, snow began to fall behind the frost-haired witch.
The North Wind Witch brought what the world called a frost calamity… and now, it was like approaching the shadow of a frost calamity.
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I wrote too much about the battle…
