Chapter 410: Endurance

The barrage of comments flashes by in an instant.

Night Hero: Area control.

Heavy discipline: attempts to break the rhythm, create gaps.

Spiral trick: the ice burst structure is fascinating! It uses internal pressure differences and instant expansion of freezing air! But is it enough to deal with that big guy?

Pink Fairy Miss?: Wow, ice fireworks! But it seems Bai E wouldn't like this kind of welcome ceremony~☆

Facing this overwhelming ice storm flood, capable of shaving a mountain flat in an instant, Bai E's reaction remains straightforward.

He grips the Dark-colored Great Sword with both hands, swings from left to right, toward the oncoming ice storm, delivering a fierce horizontal slash!

There is no dazzling blade light, only a purple‑black trace that seems to cut through space as the sword edge sweeps outward!

Buzz—!!

Where the sword trace passes, space emits a low, mournful wail.

The ice storm that first contacts it halts instantly as if hitting an absolutely solid wall, then begins to crumble from its tiniest structures!

The ice blades shatter, the freezing air dissipates, and the purple‑black sword trace, like a greedy maw, devours the ice storm within a hundred‑meter range completely!

Moreover, the lingering sword trace, still forceful, slams down onto the raised ice‑mountain base below!

Crack! Boom—!!

The deep‑blue solid ice mountain, like butter cut by a red‑hot knife, is easily split by that purple‑black sword trace, forming a massive crack!

The crack edges are not smooth surfaces but are speckled with purple‑black sparks!

Immediately, within the split ice mountain, a long‑suppressed energy seems to explode, and white‑hot purple flames roar out of the crack, shooting straight up hundreds of meters!

Ice and fire, extreme cold and extreme heat, clash in this defiance of logic, producing a violent reaction.

Amid the massive roar, the ice mountain collapses entirely, and the spewing purple flames mix with the still‑lingering freezing air and shattered ice crystals, vaporizing into an intensely dense white steam sea!

Shana later, the battlefield's center is completely enveloped by this sudden mist sea.

Bai E hovers above the mist sea, his shattered purple eyes looking down, the fog swirling, the ground below a chaotic mix of rock, ice shards, lingering flames, and...

The opponent's aura, too, seems stirred into a single mass by the fog, hard to discern clearly.

(Disappeared? No, hidden.)

Bai E's head tilts ever so slightly, as if searching with a sense beyond ordinary perception.

His tattered wings behind him flutter slowly, maintaining his altitude.

At that moment, he senses—a cold 'threat' deep in the mist to his left‑rear rapidly intensifying!

Without hesitation, Bai E twists his sword‑wrist, the heavy Dark-colored Great Sword slashing the mist, raising a howling wind, and he drives it full‑force toward the sensed threat!

The sword's momentum remains immensely heavy, enough to cleave a hill in two!

Sizzle—!

The great sword pierces the dense fog, a sharp sound of cutting air rings out, but... the sensation is empty.

Only a passage opened by his sword wind, and at its end, a gigantic ice‑spear illusion, as thick as a siege hammer, slowly fading.

(Fake?)

That judgment flashes in the Shana of Bai E's near‑instinctive processing—

Below his right, near his abdomen, the dense fog is ripped apart without warning!

A figure, like a long‑hidden leopard, enveloped in tremor‑inducing heat and edge, lunges out fiercely!

It's Kevin!

He never left; instead, using the fog and extreme contraction of his own aura, he silently moved into this blind spot!

The Jiemie Great Sword in his hand now burns with flames no longer flamboyant crimson gold, but compressed to an extreme, displaying a scorching white blaze!

The sword tip points to the right side of Bai E's torso, slightly exposed as he blocked the ice‑spear illusion.

Timing! Angle! Speed! Power!

Kevin elevates the elements of this ambush to the utmost!

Before the Jiemie sword tip arrives, the extreme heat already warps the air around Bai E's right half!

Bai E's shattered purple eyes finally flicker faintly, reflecting the nearby scorching white blade.

He tries to block again, but the old strength is gone, the new not yet formed; the heavy Dark-colored Great Sword's defensive speed seems delayed by an infinitesimal instant.

It is that instant!

Slash—!!!

The scorching white tip of the Jiemie sword solidly slashes into Bai E's right side!

There is no metallic clang, more like a red‑hot branding iron cutting into an incredibly tough gelatin!

The purple‑black pattern beneath the blade flickers violently, trying to resist this incinerating strike, but the ultra‑compressed flame shows terrifying penetrability!

Boom—!

A massive impact erupts!

Bai E is slashed upward, flying off at an angle!

The purple‑black flames surrounding him dim for a moment!

Kevin, gaining the upper hand, shows no mercy!

A single slash hits; his ice‑blue eyes blaze with cold light, he plants a fierce kick into the void beneath his feet, and his figure pursues tightly!

The Jiemie Great Sword in his hand no longer seeks to cleave heaven and earth, but becomes a torrent of continuous chops like a raging storm!

Slash! Chop! Stab! Sweep!

The scorching white blade light merges into a sheet, like a death flower that blooms and withers in an instant, completely enveloping the airborne Bai E!

Each slash precisely targets the joints, the intersecting lines of his body, and the roots of his tattered wings!

Kevin raises his speed to a new level, so fast that only streaks of scorching white after‑images remain, circling the purple‑black figure in a frenzy of attacks!

"Clang! Ding! Bang! Hiss!"

The dense clatter of collisions and slashes, numbing the scalp, rang up to the heavens!

Bai E, still off‑balance from being knocked back, struggled to swing the Dark-colored Great Sword to attempt Blocking.

But his movements were always a beat too slow; the heavy blade proved clumsy against such ultra‑high‑frequency rapid attacks.

Kevin knew clearly that the opponent's strange rebound ability must have a limit, or require some reaction time.

What he had to do now was use absolute speed to unleash a continuous onslaught that exceeded the opponent's "processing ceiling," pouring damage in before they could fully "rebound."

The contest was the body's endurance!

"Ha!"

Kevin let out a low roar; after blocking the heavy swing of the Dark-colored Great Sword once, his figure suddenly rose, appearing instantly directly above Bai E, both hands gripping Calamity Annihilation, the blazing white flame on the blade surging again, turning into a pillar of flame hundreds of meters wide!

"Heavenly Fire—"

The flame pillar, following his downward slash, fell like a divine fire giant blade, smashing down onto Bai E's head with brutal force!

This time, no longer a probe!

"—Scorching Strike!"

Before the Flame Giant Blade could arrive, the terrifying heat already made the air around Bai E boil and burn!

He lifted his head, and in his shattered violet eyes, for the first time clearly reflected the blinding white light that had obscured his vision.