"Ugh—!"
Sirin couldn't even let out a complete cry of pain; all her words and strength were violently slammed back down her throat by that strike.
She only felt an indescribable, savage immense force and a bone-chilling cold simultaneously invading her body, rendering the protection of her Herrscher armor as flimsy as paper before this power.
Her entire body was like a kite with a broken string, turning into a blurry white afterimage that smashed diagonally downward toward a distant corner of the training room!
"Rumble—!!!"
The alloy wall in the corner was deeply dented by the impact, spiderweb-like cracks spread wildly, and ice crystal fragments flew everywhere.
Sirin's figure was embedded in the wall, her Herrscher skirt armor severely damaged, and the imaginary light surrounding her dimmed for a moment before she struggled to slide out of the dent, half-kneeling on the ground, supporting herself with one hand, panting heavily. White strands of hair stuck messily to her pale cheeks, and a trace of light purple blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.
Not far away, Xing, who had witnessed the entire scene, had her mouth agape in an "O" shape, her eyes wide and round.
"Ah... this..."
She looked at the battered Sirin in the distance, then at Kevin, who had silently returned to the ground without her noticing, feeling like her brain couldn't process it all.
"That strong?! That strike just now... Teleportation? No, was the speed so fast I couldn't see it? Or..."
She recalled her previous "practice" with Kevin; although she had been beaten quite badly, he had clearly held back countless times, seeming more like he was feeding her moves and testing her limits.
"So when he was fighting me before... he was purely just playing with a child?!"
Xing belatedly felt a wave of speechlessness and inexplicable shame, but mostly a sense of powerlessness.
Kevin landed, not even sparing Sirin a glance.
He simply tapped the baseball bat in his hand lightly against the frost-covered ground beneath his feet.
"Crack... crack crack crack—!!"
Centered on where he stood, extreme low temperatures suddenly erupted and spread in a ring!
The visible ice-blue frost instantly covered every inch of the ground and walls within tens of meters of him, even the dust suspended in the air, as if it were alive!
Even more terrifyingly, as the ground froze, it began to violently heave!
"Rumble—!"
Jagged ice mountains shot up from the ground, like fortress-like cold ice structures!
They grew and spread centered around Kevin, stacking layer upon layer, forming an ever-expanding Cold Ice Domain!
The tips and growth vectors of all the ice mountains subtly pointed towards the corner where Sirin had crashed, forming a powerful suppressive aura!
Immediately after, Kevin slowly raised his empty right arm toward Sirin, his five fingers loosely curled, as if grasping something across the air.
"Buzz—!"
The ice mountains pointing at Sirin seemed to receive a command, and the cold ice energy inside them suddenly became active!
Sharper ice prisms rapidly grew and spread across the surface of the ice mountains, like countless poised Ice Spears, or like layers of tightening Cold Ice Shackles. An invisible low-temperature force field, like a massive materialized hand, fiercely pressed down toward the area where Sirin was.
The air itself froze into flakes of ice crystals and snow.
Xing looked at the rapidly spreading ice surface beneath her feet, startled, and quickly jumped backward.
"Again, again?!"
She subconsciously tried to summon her Flame Lance, only to suddenly remember halfway through reaching out—"Damn it! My Flame Lance was crushed by that guy!"
A bitter feeling welled up in her heart, making her want to smack herself. "Why did I have to be so reckless and throw it!"
She could only retreat again and again until her back pressed against the cold edge wall of the training room, with nowhere left to go.
She looked up and saw that, centered around Kevin, a good portion of the training room had completely transformed into a crystal-clear yet terrifyingly silent world of ice and snow.
The jagged ice mountains reflected a chilling light, and the cold air slightly warped vision.
The corner where Sirin was located was completely surrounded and sealed by layers of stacked ice mountains, like a custom-made Cold Ice Tomb for her.
"Is it over? That fierce white-haired girl... is she frozen?"
Xing huddled in the corner, holding her arms, feeling a strange sense of pity for the girl.
Fighting a monster like this is truly miserable.
However, just as Xing thought the outcome had been decided—
"Bang!!!"
A muffled sound came, not from the frozen corner, but from Kevin himself!
Kevin's body looked as if it had been struck head-on by an invisible giant hammer, and he suddenly slid backward without any warning!
His feet plowed two deep furrows into the mirror-smooth ice surface, sending ice shards flying wildly, and he only stabilized himself after sliding back more than ten meters!
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