I Regressed With a 10,000x God-Tier Multiplier-Chapter 51: The Silent Kingdom

The Grand Army marched out of the ice tunnel and into a sprawling, subterranean cavern.

Lucifer halted his Nightmare Steed. The Aether-Steel Dragoons hovered to a stop behind him.

The Radiant Arch-Seraphs and the Star-Kissed Elves fanned out, securing the perimeter.

They stood at the edge of the Silent Kingdom.

It was an entire city buried beneath the Northern Glaciers. Towering spires of carved sapphire, massive domed cathedrals, and wide courtyards stretched into the darkness.

But the city was not empty.

The streets were filled with people.

Thousands of figures stood frozen on the pristine ice avenues. Merchants holding out frozen coins. Guards reaching for their swords.

Mothers clutching their children. Every single one of them was encased in thick, flawless, transparent blue ice.

"They were flash-frozen," Elara whispered. She rode her mount beside Lucifer, her golden eyes scanning the horrifying statues.

"An entire civilization wiped out in a single second. They did not even have time to run."

"The dragons did not just freeze themselves to sleep," Lucifer stated coldly. "They froze everything around them to ensure their tomb remained undisturbed."

As they stepped further into the city limits, the temperature plummeted beyond natural constraints.

[System Warning: Environmental Curse Intensified!]

[Curse of Absolute Zero: Level 4.]

[Effect: Severe Vitality Drain. -5% Maximum Health per second to all non-resistant entities. Magical heat sources suppressed.]

The cold hit the Grand Army like a physical wall.

The blue thrusters on the Aether-Steel Dragoons sputtered.

Behind them, the Radiant Arch-Seraphs flared their golden wings, but the holy heat was instantly choked out by the aggressive, magical cold.

The golden light dimmed. The Star-Kissed Elves, relying on the angels for warmth, collapsed to their knees.

They gasped for air, their skin turning a deadly shade of blue.

The Elves are taking massive damage and their health bars are plummeting.

Lucifer felt the intense cold pressing against his dark armor. His Void Arcanist core easily neutralized the chill for his own body, but his troops were dying. He could not fight a war with an army of frozen corpses.

He needed to break the curse.

Lucifer raised his right hand. He stripped off his heavy iron gauntlet, exposing his bare skin to the freezing air.

The faint, silver constellation of Astrid, the Starweaver, glowed brightly on the back of his hand.

"System," Lucifer commanded. "Target the Blessing of the Starweaver."

[Target Acquired: Divine Blessing of the Starweaver (Passive)]

[Effect 1: Celestial Regeneration (Active in Darkness).]

"Apply the Apex Multiplier to the Aura Radius and Thermal Output," Lucifer ordered.

He channeled his massive, Archmage-level mana pool directly into the silver constellation on his skin.

He forced the raw power of the Void into the divine blessing, tearing the restrictions of the passive skill wide open.

[Divine Talent: Apex Multiplier Activated!]

[Applying 10,000x multiplier to Divine Aura Radius.]

[Applying 10,000x multiplier to Thermal Output.]

The silver constellation on Lucifer’s hand erupted.

A blinding, explosive wave of pure, silver Starfire blasted out of Lucifer’s body. It was not destructive. It was the deep, steady warmth of a fading star.

The Starfire Aura expanded at lightning speed. It washed over Elara and Sarah. It rolled over the struggling Aether-Steel Dragoons, instantly melting the thick frost off their black armor and reigniting their blue thrusters to full power.

It swept over the freezing Star-Kissed Elves and the dimming Arch-Seraphs.

The aura did not stop. It formed a massive, shimmering silver dome extending five hundred meters in every direction, completely enveloping the vanguard of the Grand Army.

Inside the dome, the Absolute Zero curse was annihilated.

The air turned perfectly warm. The Elves gasped, pulling in deep breaths of clean, heated air as their health bars instantly shot back to full under the multiplied Celestial Regeneration.

The golden wings of the Arch-Seraphs flared brightly once more.

[System: Environmental Curse Suppressed.]

[Active Buff: Starfire Aura (Multiplied).]

[Effect: Absolute immunity to Cold damage. +1,000% Health Regeneration for all allied units.]

"The cold is gone," Sarah breathed in awe. She lowered her Scepter of Cosmic Alignment, basking in the warm, silver light radiating from Lucifer. "You turned a personal blessing into a legion ward."

"I scaled it to the threat," Lucifer said simply. He slid his iron gauntlet back onto his right hand.

But the sudden, massive influx of heat into the frozen city triggered an ancient defense mechanism.

The heavy, transparent ice encasing the thousands of screaming citizens began to crack.

CRACK. CRACK. CRACK.

The sharp sounds echoed wildly down the silent avenues.

Lucifer drew his longsword. The Carnage Core at his hip flared bright crimson, sensing a powerful surge of hostile life force at once.

"They are not just statues," Elara warned. She leveled her silver spear, pointing it down the wide avenue.

The ice shattered.

The citizens of the frozen kingdom burst out of their centuries-long stasis. But they were no longer human.

The Absolute Zero curse had hollowed out their souls, replacing their humanity with pure, predatory ice magic.

Their skin was pitch black. Their eyes burned with piercing, icy blue light. Their fingers ended in foot-long, razor-sharp icicles.

[System Warning: Hostile Swarm Engaged!]

[Enemy: Glacial Hollows (Level 40)]

[Quantity: 5,000+]

Thousands of Glacial Hollows shrieked, the sound like metal scraping against stone. They rushed over the broken ice, charging straight toward Lucifer’s warm Starfire dome.

"Form a firing line!" Lucifer roared. "Do not let them breach the aura!"

The Aether-Steel Dragoons shifted instantly. They formed a tight, horizontal wall of black steel across the wide avenue. They lowered their aether-cannons.

"Fire," Lucifer commanded.

Blinding streams of volatile blue energy ripped down the street.

The aether-blasts slammed into the charging horde of Glacial Hollows. The intense heat of the cannons, combined with the sudden clash of temperatures from the Starfire Aura, caused the ice creatures to explode on impact.

Black limbs and shattered blue ice exploded into the air, raining down on the ruined city.

But there were too many of them. The Hollows crawled up the walls of the frozen buildings.

They leaped from the sapphire rooftops, bypassing the Dragoons’ firing line and dropping directly into the center of the army.

"Arch-Seraphs! Clear the flanks!" Lucifer ordered.

The golden angels sprang into action. They swung their massive, radiant halberds in perfect, sweeping arcs.

Every strike cut a Glacial Hollow in half, their holy light instantly melting the monsters into puddles of black slush.

The Star-Kissed Elves drew their bows, firing volleys of starlight-infused arrows that pinned the leaping Hollows to the ice walls before they could land.

A massive, hulking Hollow, wearing the frozen armor of an ancient city guard, crashed onto the ice directly in front of Lucifer. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

The beast swung a massive, jagged ice-blade aimed at the Warlord’s neck.

"Gravity Crush," Lucifer whispered.

A microscopic black hole materialized directly on the Hollow’s chest. The intense gravity slammed the monster downward.

The ice-blade missed Lucifer’s head by an inch as the beast was violently forced to its knees, its black frozen armor cracking under the pressure.

Lucifer swung his longsword. The ruby-red light of the True Damage enchantment flared.

He decapitated the Glacial Hollow in a single stroke.

The monster dissolved into a pile of smoking black slush. The Carnage Core pulsed, absorbing the death energy and feeding it into Lucifer’s Warlord aura.

[Hostiles Eliminated: 142]

[Hostiles Eliminated: 415]

[Hostiles Eliminated: 890]

The battle was intense, chaotic, and loud. The shrieks of the Hollows clashed with the booming aether-cannons and the ringing of celestial halberds.

Lucifer did not stay on his Nightmare Steed. He vaulted out of the saddle, dropping directly into the thickest part of the melee.

"Void Step!"

Lucifer vanished. He reappeared instantly behind a cluster of ten Glacial Hollows that were attempting to swarm Elara’s flank.

He didn’t swing his sword. He channeled his Void Arcanist magic into both gauntlets and slammed his fists together.

A spatial shockwave erupted from his hands. The sheer concussive force of the Void magic hit the ten Hollows like a battering ram.

Their brittle, frozen bodies shattered into millions of tiny pieces, scattering across the ice.

Elara spun around, her silver spear dripping with black slush. She gave Lucifer a fierce, bloodthirsty smile.

"They are fragile in the heat!" Elara shouted over the din of battle. She drove her spear through the chest of another leaping Hollow, incinerating it instantly.

"Keep pushing them back!" Lucifer ordered.

He moved very fast through the battlefield. He used Void Step to teleport across the avenue, striking where the enemy density was thickest.

His True Damage sword cleaved through the Hollows without any resistance. He was a Level 50 Warlord fighting Level 40 mobs. It was not a duel; it was an execution.

The Starfire Aura continued to pulse from Lucifer’s body, keeping his troops fully healed and completely immune to the freezing environment.

After ten minutes of relentless, brutal combat, the shrieking stopped.

The last Glacial Hollow was pinned to a sapphire wall by three glowing elven arrows. The monster thrashed for a second before a Dragoon’s aether-blast vaporized its upper half.

Silence returned to the frozen avenue.

The ground was covered in a thick layer of black slush and shattered ice. The thousands of frozen citizens were gone, reduced to puddles of melted particles.

[System: Hostile Swarm Eliminated.]

[Area Secured.]

Lucifer flicked his longsword, shaking off the black slush, and sheathed it smoothly at his hip. He exhaled a long breath.

The Starfire Aura surrounding the army remained steady and bright, pushing back the dark and the cold.

Elara walked up beside him, resting her spear on her shoulder. Sarah rode her white mare forward, looking at the devastation.

"The city is dead," Sarah murmured. "They were cursed long before we arrived."

"They were collateral damage in a dragon’s hibernation," Lucifer said coldly. He looked down the long, wide area.

At the very end of the street stood the massive, towering gates of the inner palace.

The gates were carved from solid, glowing blue glacier ice. Behind those doors lay the wyrm nests and the Throne Room of Eternal Ice.

"The perimeter is clear," Lucifer announced. He summoned his Nightmare Steed and vaulted back into the saddle.

He looked back at his pristine, undamaged army. The Starfire Aura had protected them perfectly.

"Reload the cannons," Lucifer commanded the Dragoons. "We march on the palace. The wyrms are waiting."