The clamor and fervor on the sea came to a screeching halt at this moment.
The laughter of all the pirates froze on their faces. They stared with wide eyes and open mouths, gazing blankly at the ice lotus that remained unscathed after the baptism of fire, appearing even more translucent than before.
"Wha... What is this?"
"Blocked... It blocked them? It blocked them all?"
"You've got to be kidding! That was a volley from over a hundred cannons!"
Aboard the flagship, Krieg felt that the golden armor he was so proud of could no longer provide him with even a shred of security.
His laughter was stuck in his throat, and his facial expression was distorted to the extreme.
"A mon... monster..."
Just as everyone was in a daze, the massive ice lotus slowly retracted its petals, revealing the unharmed Lorne inside.
He stood up, stretched his slightly numb ankles, and looked around at the ships surrounding him like an iron barrel, his brow furrowing slightly.
"So annoying!"
He spoke softly, yet his voice was low and clearly reached everyone's ears.
Then he lifted his foot and lightly stepped on the deck beneath him.
Buzz~
An invisible ripple radiated outward from Lorne in all directions.
Immediately, within a thousand-meter radius centered on Lorne, the surging motion of the seawater was forcibly terminated.
"Crack... Crackle crackle..."
The tooth-aching sound of freezing came from all directions. The originally azure sea surface lost its original color and form at a speed visible to the naked eye, rapidly turning into a silent, pure white.
In just a few breaths, Krieg's massive fleet—thirty pirate ships along with the surrounding seawater—was all frozen into one giant ice field!
The ships' keels groaned under the extreme cold, their hulls firmly imprisoned in the ice, unable to move.
Panic spread through the entire fleet like a plague.
"The ship! The ship can't move!"
"The... the sea is all frozen! How is this possible!"
"He's a demon! He's a demon!"
The pirates screamed in terror; they had never seen such inconceivable power.
This was already beyond their scope of understanding; this was simply a great power possessed only by a god!
Krieg watched his proud fleet being instantly frozen, and fear finally occupied his arrogant face.
"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"
He roared hysterically, taking out a peculiar shell from behind his back and aiming it at Lorne.
"Die! MH5!"
He fired his proudest weapon, a gas bomb containing deadly poison.
He believed that as long as the opponent was a living creature, they would definitely be unable to withstand this terrifying poison!
The specially made shell whistled as it flew toward Lorne.
Lorne merely glanced at it and extended a finger, lightly tapping toward the shell flying in mid-air.
"Freeze."
The gas bomb carrying Krieg's last hope suddenly halted in the air, still a hundred meters away from Lorne.
A layer of white frost quickly condensed on the surface of the shell, and the gas inside instantly turned into solid crystals, becoming a harmless ice sculpture suspended in the air.
Krieg was completely stunned!
He looked at the stationary gas bomb and the endless ice field, a bone-chilling cold rushing from the soles of his feet straight to his skull.
He finally realized what kind of existence he had provoked.
Lorne no longer paid attention to the collapsing pirates. A crystalline path extended from the ice beneath his feet, connecting straight to Krieg's flagship.
He set off, walking unhurriedly along the ice path toward Krieg.
Every step on the ice surface made a crisp sound that echoed across the silent ice field, like a death knell tolling on Krieg's heart.
Krieg watched that man—the "frost fairy" he had regarded as prey—approaching step by step, his legs beginning to tremble uncontrollably.
He wanted to retreat, but found his feet as if nailed to the deck.
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