Chapter 3297: Dance of Ice

"Since you are ready, please enter the banquet hall. Please remember, you cannot stop within ten minutes, otherwise it will be considered a failure."

The maid reminded with a smile behind them, and then watched them push open the door and walk into the banquet hall.

The ice sculptures that were all still just now had already paired up and started dancing. Some ice sculptures formed a band by the wall, and the music at this moment was very soothing.

Xia De was already holding hands with Miss Sabeier. At this time, after finding a position with her, he put his arm around her waist.

The sorceress clearly was not used to him doing this, but having decided to treat herself as an ordinary adventurer this time, she did not dodge.

So the two started dancing with the music. Xia De found that Miss Sabeier, who had amnesia, didn't need his guidance at all to dance. It seemed that she should have received systematic training, so she retained muscle memory.

The clothing of the two was actually not suitable for attending a ball. Xia De was wearing a winter black coat and trousers, and Miss Sabeier was draped in his coat and wearing a scarf. But when they really started dancing, they cooperated quite well, as if they were already very familiar with each other.

Even the witch... sorceress was surprised that they were so in sync.

Miss Sabeier's height was about 1.72 meters, and she was not wearing high heels, so she had to look up to look at Xia De at close range. One looking down, one looking up, for a moment of eye contact, they both felt a bit awkward. After all, strictly speaking, the two had known each other for less than fifteen minutes.

But after Xia De smiled at her to adjust the atmosphere, the yellow-haired girl felt that her face was a bit red again for some reason:

"This person is really good-looking."

She thought in her heart, and then leaned closer to him slightly, making the dance steps more fluid.

It was just that both Xia De and Miss Sabeier felt that the current situation was a bit absurd. Dancing gracefully with a group of ice sculptures in such a "forbidden zone of life" probably only happened in the most grotesque dreams.

The two danced while being alert to possible dangers around them. At first, they didn't communicate, and then they reminded each other about dance steps. Then, as the music gradually became more cheerful, the distance between the two gradually became closer.

The yellow-haired girl felt more warmth because of this. She was embarrassed to look at Xia De again, but felt that the man in front of her seemed to be getting more and more intimate.

In the third minute after the dance started, Xia De also said something to make conversation:

"Have you recovered some memories now?"

For some reason, the girl who felt her heartbeat accelerating nodded gently:

"There are some memory fragments recovering. I should be of noble birth, and I had a tutor specifically teaching dance courses when I was young... However, I don't like balls, and I have never danced like this."

She also cared about Xia De:

"Continuously sharing your soul temperature with me, are you okay now?"

Soul temperature originates from soul power, just like flames, even if they can melt solid ice, they may also be extinguished by solid ice; excessive use of soul temperature will cause the exhaustion of soul power.

But Xia De had divinity in his soul:

"I'm fine for now. My soul is stronger than most people's. Even the soul of a Thirteenth-Tier warlock may not be able to compare with mine."

The girl who was feeling the warmth at this moment completely agreed with this point:

"Before, I mean in those memories I still had, I never thought that I would be helped like this by others. You are a good person. If I can survive, are you willing to chat with me about your affairs?"

She was paving the way for what would happen later. Xia De was naturally willing, and maybe he could learn more about the island's past, but the premise was that the other party was a person within fifty years.

The girl who hadn't been protected by others for a long time closed her eyes after receiving the promise, and then, in a situation Xia De didn't expect, took the initiative to lean her head on his shoulder. It was slightly intimate, but not truly intimate—at least that's what she thought.

On one hand, it was for more warmth and peace of mind, and on the other hand, it was a long-lost desire to relax and try to let others shelter her from the wind and rain.

After all, that responsibility was simply too heavy.

But the peace didn't last long. As the girl danced with Xia De's steps, she suddenly caught a strange "buzzing" sound. She opened her eyes and turned her head to look, and a large amount of silver-shining ice powder was sprinkled toward them by someone unknown.

And before she could take action to fight back, she only heard Xia De, who was close by, sigh softly almost in her ear:

"Space-Time Freeze!"

At that moment, it seemed that the entire palace was resonating with the power Xia De used. In the eyes of "Miss Sabeier," the man hugging her didn't call out his life ring, didn't even prepare in advance, didn't finish chanting, but just with a sigh, almost completely solidified a whole piece of space-time.

Although in appearance, it was just freezing the ice powder in the air, but as a master of time power, she could see the terrible essence of it—using cold to freeze time, rather than directly manipulating time itself.

This was a power in a completely different direction from "Adele's Time Stop" that he used in the dream. He might not have gone as far as her on the path of time, but he clearly walked out of another path.

"Truly remarkable."

She praised softly. Xia De didn't understand what she was praising, but he found that although miracles and spells like flames couldn't be used here, the power of the ice system had indeed been greatly enhanced.

Those ice powders were sprinkled by an ice sculpture with a female image dancing. Although he didn't know what it was specifically, Xia De still hugged Miss Sabeier's waist and moved away from that area.

Because "Chloe's Space-Time Freeze" could only target dead objects, there was no restriction of only being able to select one target at a time, so he kept that piece of ice powder frozen in the air.

And the girl who was almost in his arms moved her lips:

"On the path of time, you really walked out of a path that belongs only to you."

Xia De laughed:

"No, no, no, the miracles used in your dream just now and now were not created by myself. It's just that two very good ladies taught me such power... Well, the latter one was actually just that lady giving me a 'seed', and I let it sprout."

The "seed" was 【Chloe's Ice Echo】, which was the Witch Emperor giving a part of the essence of her power to Xia De.

Miss Sabeier nodded gently. As she was spun by Xia De, her skirt fluttered. In her heart, she was actually carefully thinking about which other High-Tier warlock in this era besides herself had such time talent:

"However, he actually has two teachers? Truly unfaithful."

She was a bit bothered by this.

The chill spread wantonly with the movements of the ice sculptures dancing. It was colder here than when they first came up. But because the sorceress was closer to Xia De at this moment, she borrowed the warmth of Xia De's embrace to keep warm and didn't feel too much discomfort.

She even felt that this action of being almost hugged by him was very familiar, but after checking all memories and even checking the brand of time, she didn't find the source of this familiarity.

And in the process of her letting her imagination run wild, the four groups of dancing ice sculptures surrounding the two surrounded them from four directions. When it was necessary for the male to hold the female and spin again, the four female-image ice sculptures swung out ice blades with bone-chilling coldness from their skirts while spinning, flying toward the two in the middle together.

"I'll do this one. You keep the dancing movement unchanged, otherwise that mean maid will talk about us."

The sorceress was still a bit unconvinced. She was also being spun by Xia De, but because of this, she could see four targets at the same time in a short time. In order not to expose her identity, she didn't use her best skills. While spinning, four translucent light blades were swung out from the edge of her skirt.

The light blades collided with the ice blades, but only caused the latter to shift in some direction. But it was precisely because of these slight changes in direction that Xia De found the opportunity to hold Miss Sabeier up completely, letting her legs leave the ground.

So the four ice blades collided under her brown long boots, and a complex-shaped ice lotus flower exploded at that position immediately.

Even though she was held up by Xia De, Miss Sabeier's long boots and Xia De's shoes were frozen because they were close to the ice lotus flower, which led to them being unable to move.

But the freezing speed this time was not as fast as before, so the sorceress who had been hit twice this time would not repeat the previous mistakes. Before the ice layer spread to her lower legs wrapped in long boots, a yellow-gold watch face appeared in the sorceress's right eye.

When the hands reversed, the ice layer spreading on her feet also faded extremely slowly. Although this attack was not carried out by the ancient demigod witch herself, this castle originated from the power of a demigod, so even for her, it was extremely difficult to resist.

The normal scenery seen by the left eye changed suddenly at this moment. When the two reappeared in another direction of the banquet hall, she understood that the man holding her used space movement to avoid that area just now.

And Xia De was wondering why Miss Sabeier was so "heavy". The spirit consumed by taking her to jump through space was huge, but then he thought that this might be because of the environmental influence.

After moving away from that "ice lotus flower", the melting speed of the ice on his body was faster than the speed of the sorceress reversing time. After all, Xia De's basic resistance was higher and he really had fire in his body.

When he put Miss Sabeier on the ground at the end of the next movement, there was only some ice layer on the bottom of the sorceress's long boots, but she still fell into Xia De's arms:

"Sorry, my legs... are a bit numb."

"It's okay, before you fully recover to normal, I will take you to dance."

Xia De nodded to show understanding, his eyes looking around to prevent any accidents from happening again. At this time, "dancing" had progressed to the sixth minute, and it was very close to the end of ten minutes.

"However, I have to praise you, your use of time power is very exquisite."

When observing the surroundings, Xia De still had the heart to chat with her:

"With your tier reversing time, such a small output of spirit causing such a significant effect on time, I couldn't do this at your tier."

She was quite embarrassed by Xia De's praise. While being held by him and moving, she said in a low voice:

"After this matter is over, I can teach you."

Unfortunately, Xia De didn't hear this sentence, because at the same time the sorceress was speaking, the surrounding ice sculptures surrounded them again. Xia De didn't want to come into direct contact with these things, so he performed another space movement, and then was forced to keep wandering among the ice sculptures.

?? PS: To prevent readers from thinking that the author deliberately weakened Xia De's strength, so he didn't recognize who Miss Sabeier was, it needs to be explained in advance here, and it will actually be explained later—

? The leader seat of a small group does not just represent that she can lead others; she has power that other members do not possess as a leader. Coupled with the fact that the venue weakens perception, Xia De didn't recognize it.

? (End of chapter) ***