Chapter 136 Ice Queen

Before anyone could react, the number of ice crystal filaments sprouting from Anna's body exploded. A dense, writhing mass like millions of earthworms coiled together, forming a blue humanoid silhouette that would make anyone with trypophobia faint.

Inside the ice sphere, the fat, clumsy humanoid silhouette remained seated, slowly levitating from the wheelchair.

Countless thin ice flakes rapidly congealed around it, spinning around the humanoid form.

In most anime, comics, novels, and video games, a sudden change in a character's appearance usually signifies "switching to combat mode," "entering phase two," "removing restrictions," and "a surge in combat power."

During the transformation, the opponent would often stand by, admiring the entire process without a word, completely unconcerned about being smashed to pieces after the enemy's transformation.

Unfortunately, Anna's transformed appearance was horrifying, nothing like the beautiful transformations in *Sailor Moon*.

And Li Ang wasn't one to be sentimental, or enjoy watching pretty girls transform into monsters.

The deity mark on the back of his hand flashed, and the two gasoline drum-shaped Burner Worms on the ground immediately stopped spewing flames.

They turned to their sides and rolled forward, and just before crashing into the ice sphere, their fat bodies suddenly sprung, sticking to either side of the sphere.

The two Burner Worms rapidly expanded, like inflated balloons, growing into spheres before detonating in a thunderous explosion!

A blinding light shot into the sky,

The shockwave from the explosion was visible to the naked eye, shattering the icicles hanging from the windows at the edge of the hall from a distance of more than ten meters, and blowing away the snowflakes that filled the palace.

The yellowish-green chlorine gas that had accumulated on the ground was dispersed,

Before the light faded, Li Ang, in his Little Red Riding Hood outfit, plummeted from mid-air, his scythe slicing through the air, aimed at the center of the smoke and dust.

The thick ice sphere, having just been hit point-blank by the sacrificial explosion of the Burner Worms, was already dilapidated and crumbling.

Now, struck vertically by the scythe imbued with Ripple energy, it collapsed and shattered into heavy ice bricks, falling to the ground.

The scythe's blade continued its downward trajectory, intent on cleaving Anna in two.

Clang—

The sound of metal clashing echoed clearly even amid the chaotic aftermath of the explosion.

Li Ang, gripping the scythe's handle, paled. He clearly felt a chilling cold surge through the handle, through his Mirage Dragon Red Mane coat, and directly into his body.

The cold was so terrifyingly intense that Li Ang felt as if his muscles, bones, and even his soul were about to be frozen solid.

Through the mist, he saw Anna's current appearance.

It was a huge, bloated, blue figure with a human outline, its surface covered in a dense, writhing mass of ice crystal filaments like thousands of earthworms.

Its hands and feet were crude hemispheres, without fingers or toes.

Its face was extremely simple, with only three sunken holes marking the positions of its eyes and mouth.

The frozen monster reached out a hand and steadily caught the razor-sharp scythe blade.

Ripple energy poured out along the blade, permeating the ice, but only slightly melted the surface of the monster's hand.

Chai Rourou's yellow figure flashed behind the frozen monster. Miss Chai swung her fists, aiming straight for the monster's head.

However, the frozen monster seemed to have eyes all over its body. Three ice pillars grew directly from its back, blocking the punches while also striking Miss Chai's waist and abdomen.

Miss Chai was sent flying, crashing headfirst into a pillar of the ice crystal palace.

The pillar, which took one person to wrap their arms around, snapped and collapsed, causing the entire palace to tremble.

The frozen monster didn't bother to assess the results. It grabbed the blade with one hand, clenched the other into a fist,

And with the whistling of the wind and a blast of cold air, it hurled the fist at Li Ang.

Princess Anna was indeed not good at fighting. This punch, whether in terms of force or angle of attack, seemed loose and unskilled.

But it was just too fast.

Li Ang was caught off guard, the punch piercing straight through his chest.

His face was still frozen in a look of astonishment and confusion, as if doubting what had just happened.

"..."

Anna looked at Li Ang hanging on her arm, speechless.

Turning into a frozen monster seemed to have slowed her thinking speed.

No blood splattered, no weight felt, no sensation of a solid hit...

The enemy she had struck was a fake.

Anna barely managed to realize this fact,

But Li Ang's figure had already begun to flicker wildly, like a black and white screen losing its signal.

Perfect-grade skill scroll [Electric Afterimage].

The effect of the skill is that within 10 seconds of activation, if attacked by an enemy, it will create an afterimage of the user in place, and make the user invisible for 5 seconds. Attacking or being attacked will break the invisibility. After being attacked, the afterimage will release an electronic vortex, creating suction, dragging the enemy towards the location of the vortex for 1 second.

The last [Electric Afterimage] scroll was used up.

Li Ang's shadow flickered rapidly, and a pitch-black spot appeared out of nowhere at the center, releasing several beams of blue electricity, firmly adhering to the frozen monster's limbs and torso, slowly dragging her towards the spot.

The power of the electronic vortex was so great that even with the frozen monster's current strength, she couldn't break free.

This short second was enough for Miss Chai to float up from the rubble, grab the ice pillar she had just broken, activate the Petrify effect of the Cyan Goose Armor,

Turn half of the pillar into stone,

And then, smash it down on Anna's head!

Bang!

The stone pillar struck the top of the frozen monster's head, breaking again into two pieces, falling to the ground one after the other.

The frozen giant staggered, losing her footing, and involuntarily fell towards the center of the vortex.

Before she could regain her balance, the Cyan Goose Armor swooped down again—this time Miss Chai had learned her lesson, using her toes to kick up the smaller half of the pillar's rock from the ground in advance,

Flying up, she kicked the boulder into the frozen giant's back.

The frozen monster was still struggling against the electronic vortex, unprepared, and was hit in the back by the boulder, sending a shower of ice chips flying.

The second finally ended, and the frozen monster was shocked to find that the vortex had disappeared out of thin air.

And at this moment, the Cyan Goose Armor had quietly attacked, a pair of upright assassination fists aimed straight at the enemy's nape.

At the same time, the sound of dense footsteps echoed on the palace steps.

Li Ang's teammates had broken free from the casters on the hillside and were the first to arrive at the battlefield of the ice crystal palace.