The entire temple was collapsing. The height of the collapse caused the rubble to fall down like meteors, creating numerous craters in the temple. However, the two people who were currently fighting seemed to completely ignore the threat that was so close to them.
With a flash of black light, that gigantic giant disappeared without a trace. The next instant, I swung my sword.
* Clang! *
Amidst the rubble, my sword and my heavy fist clashed. Sparks flew everywhere as I was fiercely smashed into the ground. My sword-wielding right arm was in great pain, and my purlicue was bleeding. However, I had a delighted expression on my face.
"You were actually able to block my attack!"
That's right, being able to block Ömdiroken's heavy fist was already beyond my expectations. This was a result that exceeded my expectations.
"'If I block it, I might be able to win!' Is that what you're thinking?"
A thunderous roar echoed throughout the temple. The cruel Elemental God was venting his anger and mocking my delight.
"Then let me tell you. That attack just now was only 10% of my power. Do you despair now?"
Hearing this, I laughed even louder. Was he trying to test me? Even this was different. That sword attack of mine still hadn't revealed my trump card. Even though I was quite disappointed, I couldn't lose verbally.
"Who doesn't know how to talk? That attack just now was only 1% of my power. Are you trying to give me a massage? "
The power of ice spreading through my sword was gradually thawing. Everything was as I expected, but before I could stand up, that flurry of attacks came again.
* Whew. *
Ömdiroken took a deep breath but didn't reply. His body trembled and he suddenly stomped on the ground, vanishing without a trace in the next instant.
His gigantic body displayed inconceivable agility. His flashing shadow actually surpassed my ability to see with the naked eye. In a blink of an eye, he appeared right in front of me. The only thing I could do was follow my combat instincts and swing my silver crystal sword.
An unstoppable force came from my sword. The scenery in front of me rapidly changed, and I was instantly smashed into the ceiling that reached the clouds.
* Cough! *
The impact on my back caused me to spit out large mouthfuls of blood. This attack had seriously injured my internal organs. It would seem that the difference in power between us was far too great. My physical strength, which was enough to rival giants, was nothing in front of him. No wonder the tower giants were only able to take one hit from him.
My right arm was already frozen, but I didn't let go of the ice sword that was frozen in my hand. This time, when our swords clashed, I was still defeated, but I smiled.
Gravity was pulling me downwards, but a pair of crystal-clear ice wings suddenly unfurled from my back.
"The preparations are OK. The opponent's guard should be down by now. Then, let him have a taste of the poison of this world."
The young girl's voice seemed to remind me that I wasn't facing my mortal enemy alone, and the rocks that were hurled from below turned into a deadly rain.
"Dong dong dong!"
Huge holes appeared in the ceiling as I glided through the meteor shower.
Dive, roll, and glide. Under Heloise's control, Ömdiroken's pebbles had no chance of hitting me at all, which allowed me to focus on my next attack.
"Ömdiroken!"
Accompanying this angry roar was the sword energy of my Ice Fury Sword. This was an incredibly direct challenge.
Seeing that I was gliding through the air, obviously intending to fight head on, Ömdiroken wasn't afraid at all. He was an expert in melee combat, so why would he be afraid of a surprise attack?
However, some sort of instinct seemed to remind him that an ominous premonition was surrounding him, causing him to unconsciously look at the sword in my opponent's hand, the abnormally beautiful ice sword.
This was a super long sword that was nearly 1.6 meters long. The sword's blade was made entirely out of ice crystals, and the hilt had the image of a pair of goddesses hugging each other. The sword's blade was made out of two intertwining ice blades. They were crystal clear, and it seemed as if stars were twinkling within them.
Even though this sword was clearly so exquisite that it seemed like a rare work of art, Ömdiroken instinctively felt fear when he looked at this sword. This was an emotion that he had long since abandoned.
But right after, he stomped his foot and took a deep breath, causing that mysterious fear to vanish without a trace.
"A magic sword that can affect one's mind? So what! "
The combination of his well-tempered heart and body allowed this unconventional Super Warrior Monks to ignore all negative emotions. In battle, he would always be able to use 100% of his combat strength. A magic sword that could only affect one's mind would be nothing more than scrap metal to him.
This time, Ömdiroken had no intentions of dodging. He intended to teach his opponent what true strength was.
Emordilorcan's ice crystal wings descended, but Emordilorcan suddenly leapt into the air. Under the command of their battle instincts, the frost-covered longsword and the heavy fist still fiercely clashed against each other.
Just like before, I flew into the air again. This time, the ceiling was just as firm as before, making me want to cry. However, I used my sleeve to wipe away the blood that I spat out as I looked at my opponent and smiled in delight.
Ömdiroken wasn't injured, but there was a flicker of blue on his right arm. Then, that blue suddenly started spreading.
The gigantic black giant glanced at it and noticed that it was spreading, so he gritted his teeth and swung his left hand like a knife.
* Crack! *
His entire right arm and right shoulder fell off and transformed into a block of ice that shattered on the ground. However, strangely enough, nothing happened at all.
However, Ömdiroken wasn't affected at all. Back in the immemorial generation, he had lost limbs more than once or twice against powerful enemies. All he had to do was absorb the earth element to regrow his limbs, so it wouldn't hurt at all.
However, he was quite displeased that he had been tricked, which was why he glared at me angrily.
"Idiot, you only know how to use useless tricks, I —"
Before he even finished speaking, his angry glare transformed into astonishment and disbelief.
"… You, what did you do? Why can't I regrow my limbs! Why? This is impossible! "
"What did I do? I didn't do anything at all. It's just that this ice sword of mine isn't so easy to deal with. This is my strongest sword! "
What did it mean to be strong? Was there such a thing as being the strongest in the world? Every existence would have such doubts as they grew up. Even if they relied on their strongest understanding, they would still walk down different paths.
On the path of becoming stronger, the natural world's evolution and the cultivation of the strong were actually the same thing. If you believed that sturdy defense was the best, perhaps you would wear heavy armor or grow a sturdy shell. If you believed that being so fast that others couldn't see you was the best, perhaps you would become an agile assassin, or perhaps you would grow wings and be fast.
True top-level existences were impossible to replicate. Their understanding of strength would condense into their own path.
"Only a sturdy physical body and the best physical techniques will be able to deliver the strongest punches."
Emordilorcan was incredibly strong. He abandoned all those fancy and extravagant elemental magic and focused wholeheartedly on the mastery of physical power. He transformed all the elemental power into the physical constitution of his physical body, increasing his physical power, which was already at the peak of the world. Then, he learned the combat techniques of other "weak lifeforms" and used his most practical talent powers to evolve his physical combat ability to the extreme.
To be honest, when I saw Emordilorcan's heavy fist shatter space, I knew that if we only fought hand-to-hand, no one would have the confidence to defeat Emordilorcan, even if he was currently covered in injuries, even if his power level wasn't even 10% of his peak.
Sword Saint? Ömdiroken's combat experience and techniques were far superior to any so-called human Sword Saint. His more than ten thousand years of combat experience allowed him to understand countless martial arts styles. Perhaps he lacked the creativity of humans and was unable to come up with anything new, and he had once lost to a certain genius in a competition of pure techniques, but if he had his unparalleled physical body, he would still be an undefeatable existence in actual combat.
But no matter how strong he was, it was all meaningless to me.
This wasn't because I was arrogant. It was because I had a different understanding of what it meant to be strong.
"So-called strong is nothing more than an unbreakable sword (irresistible attack), an unbreakable shield (irresistible defense), and a strange attack method that's difficult to dodge (incredibly difficult to defend against)."
Perhaps it was because I was a transmigrator, but my understanding was completely different from the mainstream view of this world. That was why I never rejected other small ideas. As long as they could be of help to me, I would try to learn them and incorporate them into my own system.
If Ömdiroken was the representative of "single-mindedness" and walked the path of strengthening one's advantage, then perhaps my path was the representative of "multi-mindedness".
"Perhaps I'm no match for Ömdiroken in certain areas, but I'm able to find the perfect combination of power to counter Ömdiroken's power, and use my own strengths to attack Ömdiroken's weaknesses. Is Ömdiroken really strong? Indeed, but his attack method is obviously too simple. In that case, a shield to counter and defend against Ömdiroken's advantages, and a 'sword' to cut through Ömdiroken's sturdy defense would be more than enough. I don't need to suppress Ömdiroken's strengths. I only need to defeat Ömdiroken. "
"So-called strong is just enough power to defeat Ömdiroken."
And right now, I just happened to have a magic sword that could easily cut through Ömdiroken's defenses.
"Ice Calamity!"
This was an incredibly dangerous magic sword. In fact, it was so dangerous that I didn't even dare to use it in the mortal plane.
The reason? Just like the Seven Calabash Brothers, Ice Calamity's power originated from "Shadow", an incredibly dangerous Divine Sin. I didn't want to enjoy being surrounded and attacked by all the Gods.
But after Ice Calamity combined with Heloise, who had the ability to transform into a blade, I finally grasped this incredibly frightening double-edged sword. Ice Calamity's "Cold Flames of Despair" also became my power.
"Come, Ömdiroken. What will appear when it's cold to the extreme?"
My crystalline ice sword sliced through the dazzling light of the Milky Way. The arc-shaped sword light actually slashed out with blue flames.
This wasn't any kind of mixed magic. It was simply the gathering of pure cold. This was the Divine Sin of Ice's ability that even the Gods feared.
When things reached an extreme, they would move in the opposite direction. When it was cold to the extreme, the extreme cold would actually condense into the form of flames.
But just looking at the slowly burning ice flames made Ömdiroken feel like he couldn't breathe. It was as if the ice flames were still spreading on his arm and the Grim Reaper was circling around his neck.
If I hadn't cut off my arm just now, my entire body would have likely been frozen over for all eternity.
This was a Divine Sin's curse on the world. Shadow's natural talent ability was to bring all objects into his body's extreme low temperature (absolute zero).
At such an extreme temperature, matter wouldn't appear as liquid, solid, or gaseous. Instead, it would appear as a single "superatom". This superatom would appear as a single entity.
It would stop, stop, and freeze. It would simply exist.
At absolute zero, all energy would vanish, and all consciousness would enter hibernation. Only its existence itself would appear as if time itself had frozen.
Of course, Ömdiroken's arm wouldn't be able to regenerate. His arm would still exist in concept, just that it would be frozen. Just like how it was impossible for a human to have three arms, he would never be able to regenerate his arm unless he destroyed it!
This was a poison, a poison of the world capable of freezing everything. It was a poison of time capable of stopping the most basic dimensional laws of the world — time itself.
This was also why I was so afraid of "Shadow". If Shadow directly spat out a mouthful of ice flames at me, I would probably be able to sleep until the end of the world.
It was impossible for me to be immune to this ice flame. I was able to use it because I had an even sturdier shield that was more than enough to resist the world's poison.
Since even time could be frozen, how could there possibly be an existence in this world that could defend against them? Yes, this world didn't have such an existence, but that didn't mean that there wouldn't be one in the new world.
"Whew, this really is the coldest ice. My hands are so cold that I can't feel them anymore. Damn it, damn it."
Even though I was in the scorching hot Earth Elemental Plane, I was still screaming out loud as if it was winter. My new world's [Coldest Ice] had already frozen over my arms.
Although it was said to be the coldest, it actually wasn't much different from the ice in this world. And since I defined it as "the coldest ice in the world," then even the Divine Sin's freezing flames wouldn't be able to lower the temperature of this ice. In that case, my hands would be safe.
Of course, there was no way to prevent frostbite afterwards …
This was the Creator Goddess' special ability, the indestructible armor that I had prepared for myself.
Was I wrong? It should be indestructible, not indestructible? Heh heh, you'll soon find out.
The calamitous ice sword suddenly stabbed into the ground, causing the familiar frozen earth to appear around me once again.
"Ömdiroken, welcome to my world — Frigidwinter Earth!"
"You … you actually dare to challenge the Creator Goddess' special ability? You maniac! "
His angry words came to a sudden stop. The ice suddenly covered me and transformed into a heavy armor of ice. Meanwhile, the dangerous ice sword's blue flames suddenly burned fiercely, turning me into a flaming man.
"This is a nightmarish opponent. You actually dare to wear such a thing on your body? The power of a Divine Sin, the Creator Goddess' special ability. You're an even crazier heretic than I am. You're opposing all the True Gods! You're challenging the most basic order and natural laws of this world! "
My evaluation of my opponent kept rising, but seeing this scene, I knew that I had still underestimated my opponent. My opponent was completely unreasonable.
For the first time ever, Ömdiroken lost confidence in defeating my opponent. From a mere human that I looked down on to an opponent that could threaten me, from a maniac who was challenging the Creator Goddess' special ability, I was probably completely insane. For the first time ever, Ömdiroken saw his own future. For the first time ever, he regretted making such a troublesome and dangerous mortal enemy for the sake of a few mortals.
How could I possibly miss that trace of regret and fear as I was protected by my ice armor? And so, I smiled in satisfaction.
Ice had already covered this entire area. After a long preparation period, my Winter Lands had already descended upon this area. The next instant, I dragged Ömdiroken into this ice plain as well. This time, he was unable to escape.
* Ding ding ding! *
With a series of crisp sounds, countless pieces of ice condensed into gigantic ice swords. The entire plain was now covered in swords. Next, I stabbed my Calamity Swords into the swords, and every single ice sword's blade was covered in lethal blue flames.
I casually picked up one of the swords, and the ice flames on it burned like a torch. I smiled in satisfaction. This time, it was my turn to charge at Ömdiroken.
"Ömdiroken, the time for you to repent is over. Then, let us begin the second round, the second round where you fight to the death! I said before that it's time to settle everything! High and mighty Gods? Have a taste of the vengeance of mortals that you all view as ants! "
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