There was no flashy charge, just one elegant yet deadly step forward.
The ice crystal longsword in her hand traced out a mournfully beautiful arc of cold light, so fast that one could only see an ice-blue afterimage!
Her figure was light and graceful, moving with nimble Agility, like an elven dancer amid the Xue, yet also like a queen ruling over the icefield; in just a single exchange, countless sword flashes flickered and all converged on the MegaSix-Eyed Sand Spider’s massive pincers.
“Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!”
-15!
-15!
-890!
…
Countless damage numbers appeared!
Finally…
Crack! Crack!
In an instant, the densely packed slashes cut it more than a hundred times, and the MegaSix-Eyed Sand Spider’s terrifying, battering-ram-like giant pincers were forcibly severed at the roots, crashing down onto the hard ice surface like two small hills and letting out a dull boom!
The entire icefield trembled from the impact, yet the ice surface remained smooth as a mirror, without even the slightest crack!
『MegaSix-Eyed Sand Spider (elite)』
『HP: 6127/12000』
In just a single exchange, 2000 HP of the MegaSix-Eyed Sand Spider evaporated, and on the ice surface only the giant spider’s painfully twisting severed limbs and splattering dark green ichor remained.
This was thanks to Lu Sheng’s shared vision, which let He Wanying easily find the MegaSix-Eyed Sand Spider’s joint weak points, so she could effortlessly sever its two giant pincers and deal several consecutive fatal blows!
But this was only the beginning!
He Wanying’s figure flickered and weaved across the ice surface like a ghost; with every elegant spin and every precise thrust or slash, sheets of ice crystal shards flew up, and wherever the Ice Sword in her hand passed, extreme cold spread!
“Roar… !”
Terror crept into the MegaSix-Eyed Sand Spider’s roar.
It tried to spit venom, tried to struggle, but every movement was accompanied by heavy frost rapidly forming across its body surface!
-637!
A huge, glaring ice-blue damage number suddenly popped up!
『Eternal Winter Unerring Sword』… Frost Mark stacked, absolute ice seal!
Its massive body instantly turned into a lifelike giant ice sculpture, crystal clear and reflecting a cold light.
Crack!
He Wanying reversed her grip and stabbed her sword into the ice sculpture’s core, and the ice sculpture shattered with a bang, turning into a sky full of glittering ice dust!
Freeze! Shatter! Freeze again! Shatter again!… Under He Wanying’s smooth, flowing attack, this terrifying behemoth that had driven Lu Ningyu Team into desperation was like an ice crystal toy to be butchered at will, dismantled with no power to resist as its roars grew weaker and its struggles feebler.
The final strike!
He Wanying suddenly stopped moving and stood at the center of the icefield, raising the ice crystal longsword in her hand high, pointing straight at the sky!
The crystalline judgment sword that was floating high in the sky seemed to respond to the summons and instantly burst out with a cold light that pierced the heavens!
“Annihilation!” The icy declaration rang throughout the icefield!
Boom… !!!!
The enormous Ice Sword crashed down like divine punishment, piercing straight through the MegaSix-Eyed Sand Spider’s frozen head with perfect accuracy!
-1024!
Amid the deafening boom, the MegaSix-Eyed Sand Spider’s huge body exploded like a glass artwork struck by a heavy hammer, turning into countless ice-blue fragments of light that scattered in all directions.
The terrifying shockwave swept out in an instant, smashing the 『Eternal Permafrost Sword Domain』 to pieces as well and turning it into a sky-filling storm of glittering ice crystals that slowly dissipated into the scorching desert air.
At the center of the storm, only a slender ice-blue figure stood tall with a sword in hand.
The cold wind lifted He Wanying’s hair and brushed across her icily stunning face.
She slowly sheathed her sword, her movements clean and crisp, unstained by even a speck of dust.
Sunlight poured down again, refracting into seven-colored halos on the ice crystal fragments that still clung around her whole body, draping her in a gorgeous, multicolored radiance.
Silence.
A deathly silence.
Lu Ningyu and her teammates were like five frozen ice sculptures as they stared blankly at that solitary back; all their fear, despair, and post-disaster relief was, in this moment, entirely replaced by an even stronger emotion that bordered on worship!
In their eyes, only that figure bathed in ice crystals and sunlight remained.
In their hearts, only a single thought remained.
So handsome!
So beautiful!
So cool!
The immense shock echoed like aftershocks in the hearts of the five around Lu Ningyu for a long time.
They collapsed onto the cold sandy ground, their bodies still trembling slightly, unsure whether from the chill or from their awe of He Wanying, and their gazes could not move even a fraction away from that slender ice-blue figure.
“Th-this… is this what a true powerhouse is?” Lu Ningyu murmured softly, her voice hoarse.
But very soon another thought surfaced in all of their minds at the same time.
Wasn’t He Wanying… an E-rank life-class profession masseur?
With abilities like this, could she really be a masseur?
They recalled the desolate back view of He Wanying leaving after awakening as an E-rank masseur yesterday, then looked at her current posture like an ice-snow goddess, and the huge contrast made them feel dizzy.
There was only one possibility… He Wanying had also awakened a second class!
And it was a very powerful ice-element combat-oriented class that let her be reborn from the flames and soar straight into the sky!
Just then, Lu Ningyu’s gaze unintentionally swept over He Wanying’s coldly perfect profile, her skin looking even fairer and more delicate against the ice crystals, and that focused and powerful aura…
A strange, unprecedented fluttering suddenly exploded in the depths of her heart without warning!
Her cheeks uncontrollably flushed with a tide of red, her heart pounded erratically, and the look in her eyes as she gazed at He Wanying’s back actually carried a hint of… obsession and greed?
It seemed… like the greedy gaze one would have only when encountering a love-at-first-sight white moonlight.
“Sister Lu, wake up!! Hurry and put away those bad thoughts!?!”
A teammate beside her cried out in a terrified whisper, like a splash of cold water. “Are you crazy? Campus belle He hates that kind of look the most! Have you forgotten that cautionary example in our first year, the one who ended up in a wheelchair?!”
Lu Ningyu shuddered all over and instantly sobered from her dangerous delusions, cold sweat breaking out all over her back.
Right! He Wanying was not someone to be trifled with! Her temperament was as cold as ice, and her strength was even more unfathomable! If that look in her eyes just now had been noticed… the consequences would be unimaginable!
Thinking back on the three years of high school, it was not that no boys had dared to pursue the ice-cold beauty He Wanying; there had even been one especially bold boy who, after confessing and being rejected, felt humiliated and intercepted He Wanying halfway after school.
As a result, he did not come to school for the next month, and when he finally returned he was in a wheelchair, his whole body wrapped in bandages; from then on, the look he gave He Wanying was filled with fear, and he went from a sunny, cheerful big boy to a gloomy, twisted sewer rat.
She hurriedly lowered her head and pinched her own thigh hard, silently chanting in her heart, “Calm down, Lu Ningyu! Your life and your legs are more important! There are plenty of beauties in the world; this one… you really can’t afford to provoke!”