novelraw Chapter 456: The Horn of Winter (2)
Chapter 456: The Horn of Winter (2)
Time Acceleration!
Su Zhan increased his speed, dangerously and sharply vaulting upward and to the side, breaking out of the core impact zone of the cold wave.
"Sss—!"
Although he avoided the frontal impact,
the edge of the cold wave still swept across his deployed fleshy wings and lower body.
Dark-red scales were instantly covered with a layer of ghostly blue solid ice, and that ice crazily ate inward.
A chill that could freeze thought itself shot straight into the depths of his soul,
making Su Zhan's movements stiffen.
Flame of Destruction, ignite!
Su Zhan snarled low in his heart, the overwhelming Flame of Destruction surging madly from within, violently clashing with that ghostly blue solid ice.Dark-red and ghostly-blue lights intertwined over his body surface.
In the end, thanks to the Flame of Destruction’s domineering attribute of burning everything to ash, it barely vaporized the surface layer of ice.
But Su Zhan felt his blood surge and churn, his spiritual energy and Mist energy drained heavily.
A single probing attack had already imposed enormous pressure on him.
The Horn of Winter's four paws trod the void, ice-crystal steps automatically forming beneath them as it swiftly closed in on Su Zhan, instantly narrowing the distance.
Huge ice claws rose and slammed down toward Su Zhan's head.
Su Zhan's pupils contracted, Future Vision screaming alerts.
He could not take it head-on!
Time Acceleration!
His figure became a twisted afterimage, slipping through the gap between the ice claws at the last possible moment.
The cold claw wind scraped his scales as it passed, the chill numbing half his body.
The Horn of Winter’s attacks came in unbroken succession.
One claw missed, another already swept across, and at the same time its long ice tail, like a massive whip, silently sealed off Su Zhan’s retreat.
Attacked from three sides!
No escape!
A harsh light flashed in Su Zhan's eyes.
He compressed and detonated a massive amount of Flame of Destruction right before him in an instant!
"Rumble!!!"
At the explosion's core, space violently twisted.
The shockwave tore up thick layers of snow and frozen earth, revealing the black rock beneath.
Su Zhan was thrown backward by the blast's recoil, a metallic taste in his throat as he forced the rising blood back down.
Many places on his scales shattered, oozing streaks of blood that instantly refroze from the low temperature.
The Horn of Winter was stalled by the sudden fierce explosion; small fissures appeared on the ice claws and sweeping ice tail it had used, but with a flash of ghostly blue light they quickly repaired.
It opened its giant maw made of ice crystals.
A point of ghostly blue light condensed within its mouth, the temperature plummeting to a terrifying degree.
Future Vision sounded alarms.
This strike could not be completely dodged.
Its core destructive energy was enough to grievously wound or even kill him!
Time Remolding!
Su Zhan immediately used his trump card.
His spiritual energy and mental strength drained greatly in an instant, and the injuries caused by the explosion shock and the cold invasion were restored as if they had never happened, his condition returning to peak.
"Hum—"
A condensed beam of ghostly blue light shot toward Su Zhan.
Where the beam passed, space seemed to freeze into an eternal ice-crystal corridor, everything falling silent.
In Su Zhan's restored peak state after Time Remolding, Future Vision precisely traced the beam's trajectory.
His body left countless afterimages in the air as he executed ultra-high-speed, irregular directional changes.
The ghostly-blue beam locked tightly onto him, constantly fine-tuning its direction, astonishingly fast.
"Pu!"
Although Su Zhan pushed his evasions to the extreme, the edge of his left wing was still grazed by the beam.
The grazed part, along with that portion of Flame of Destruction and scales, instantly crystallized into the purest ice structure, then dispersed like dust.
Su Zhan grunted, his left wing injured, his flight posture thrown off balance.
The Horn of Winter’s enormous body shadowed him, and another ghostly-blue beam was already brewing in its mouth.
Madness burned in Su Zhan's eyes.
The Flame of Destruction only explodes truly powerfully at close range; only then could it maximize its force and have a chance to break this creature’s defense.
His remaining right wing flapped frantically to forcibly stabilize his stance.
He did not retreat but instead surged forward, charging at the Horn of Winter.
Time Deceleration again affected the ice-wolf.
Su Zhan, razor-close, grazed the edge of the second ghostly-blue beam and lunged toward the Horn of Winter’s massive neck.
He concentrated all his strength, all his Flame of Destruction, all his spiritual energy, compressing it without reservation into his right fist.
Then, he threw a punch!
Target: the core area at the ice-wolf’s neck where ghostly-blue runes flowed!
The Horn of Winter clearly did not expect Su Zhan to be so recklessly fearless as to pounce straight at it.
The ghostly-blue runes on its body instantly flared, forming a thick layer of Absolute Ice Armor.
"Thud!!!!!"
A sound of crushing dull impact rang out.
Su Zhan's fist smashed hard onto the Absolute Ice Armor.
"Crack... crackle..."
Centered on Su Zhan’s fist, web-like cracks spread across that seemingly invincible Absolute Ice Armor.
For the first time, the domineering attribute of the Flame of Destruction truly shook the defense of a Calamity Seventh Stage entity.
"Roar—!"
The Horn of Winter let out its first battle cry filled with pain and fury.
The ice armor on its neck shattered, revealing a deeper, more profound ice-crystal core beneath.
It violently shook its head, and a tremendous surge of freezing force slammed into Su Zhan, hurling him away.
Su Zhan tumbled through the air; his right arm bent unnaturally, scales around his fist shattered into gore, exposing pale finger bones.
That blow nearly drained more than half his strength, and the recoil left him grievously wounded.
Yet when he looked at the shattered ice armor on the Horn of Winter's neck, golden vertical pupils blazing, excitement flared in his eyes.
It worked!
The Flame of Destruction could hurt it!
The Horn of Winter was thoroughly enraged.
Ghostly-blue light swelled across its body.
Countless sharp ice-crystal spines began falling from the sky.
At the same time, its massive pupil locked onto Su Zhan, and an even more terrifying energy began to gather—preparing to unleash a killing blow.
Su Zhan was in terrible condition: left wing damaged, right arm broken, internal energy nearly depleted.
Facing this evidently more powerful-than-before killing intent, he seemed to have no way out.
Time Remolding!
Left wing reborn, right arm restored.
Because of the successive consumption and the stimuli of battle, the pinnacle barrier of Calamity Fifth Stage collapsed with a roar at this moment.
Calamity Sixth Stage!
Strong power flooded his body anew.
The Horn of Winter’s ultimate strike was already prepared.
Its entire head seemed to have become a ghostly-blue light source, a ten-meter-wide torrent of eternal ice-silence charging toward Su Zhan.
This attack covered an enormous range and moved faster.
The Power of Law it contained nearly solidified all the space around Su Zhan.
No way to evade!
Then... smash it head-on!
Battle intent filled Su Zhan's gaze.
The power he had just broken through gave him the capital to gamble everything.