Light Fortress-Chapter 1520 - 220: Reunion at the Frozen Lake
Tundra District, covered in heavy snow.
A thin, small figure in a black cloak walked amidst the snow.
"滴."
"滴."
In the icy landscape, amidst the howling cold wind, a faint, rhythmic electronic sound echoed across the snowfield.
The black-cloaked figure walked silently, but after covering some distance, chose to connect.
"Did you see the message from [Cloud Mirror]?"
A man’s deep, resigned voice sounded from the other end of the communicator.
"..."
The strong wind blew by, lifting the cloak to reveal a pale, somewhat sickly-looking girl’s face.
Faced with questioning, the girl remained silent.
"The Source Tower has issued an emergency summons for the four envoys, a new and important task has been assigned from above, and only you are missing now."
Red Dragon sighed lightly, "I should have told you that this training period away from the Central Continent was only for a month. When the time’s up, you should come back voluntarily... Your identity is so sensitive, you should be security-conscious. You need to understand, the outside world is not safe."
"Buzz——"
Before Red Dragon could say more, the girl disconnected the call.
She completely tore off the cloak and took a deep breath of cold air.
It’s been five years.
The sinking of Sangzhou Cave happened five years ago.
In these five years, many changes have occurred across the Five Continents... but the tundra hasn’t changed much. It’s been an icy cold snowfield for hundreds of years, stretching out in all directions, vast and wild.
Gu Xiaoman looked at this bleak icy tundra, recalling Red Dragon’s words from the communicator. After pondering for a few seconds, she made a decision.
She chose not to return but to continue forward.
Each step she took was firm...
Because she had her own destination in mind.
"Crack!"
Suddenly, the Frozen Lake cracked!
The girl in the black cloak reacted instantly.
At the first crack beneath her feet on the lake’s surface, the slender figure realized the danger. Her first reaction wasn’t to retreat, but to strike first!
Gu Xiaoman swiftly drew her knife.
The knife she carried daily wasn’t a renowned weapon but just a simple and unadorned Purple Silver folding knife.
A streak of white light burst forth from the lake!
Gu Xiaoman’s gaze was calm as she firmly gripped the folding knife, aiming at the light from the lake, and struck down fiercely!
Clashing head-on!
"Boom!"
Accompanied by a piercing sound of metal clashing, this needlepoint-to-maize encounter sparked countless flames!
The black-cloaked girl reversed her grip on the folding knife, striking down on the ice lake’s surface, not like a knife user but more like a brute wielding a sledgehammer.
But unfortunately.
The "assassin" beneath the Ice Lake was even stronger!
A tremendous force struck.
Gu Xiaoman groaned, her entire arm was sore and numb, her body swept by immense power. To relieve the force, she abandoned the continued thrust of blade against blade, causing the wind and snow above the frozen lake to scatter, hurling the slender figure out, feet leaving the ground, drawing an elegant arc.
The girl furrowed her brows, looking at her Purple Silver folding knife, which had cracked from a single collision.
Who on earth was this?
Hiding beneath the frozen lake, striking upward with such force!
Was this a higher-level strong-attacking type than herself in the Extraordinary Realm?
But... no one knew about her leaving the Source Tower, let alone predicted her arrival at the tundra. How could someone be ambushing in such a place? Was it an assassination attempt?
No time to think further.
Seconds later, she landed back on the frozen lake, and at the moment she touched down, the same sound of ice shattering echoed decisively, the eerie figure hidden beneath the frozen lake had already calculated the landing point and subsequent attack.
Gu Xiaoman swiftly retreated, using her strength without reservation.
Every step she took was solid and heavy, cracking the thick ice into a huge web—
She was not only avoiding the continuous blade strikes from the assassin beneath the Ice Lake but also aimed to completely drag out the mysterious ambusher from below!
The snow flew wildly, a hundred-mile Frozen Lake, a lone black figure.
This scene was beautiful.
The hem of the black cloak danced as if ink splattered in the lake’s rupture, like a butterfly on the edge of a cliff.
But the assassin beneath the lake had even more refined skills. Amid the swirling snow mist above the lake, Gu Xiaoman still hadn’t seen clearly the material of that extremely sharp blade from the opponent. Her memory of the clash was only the utmost whiteness, as if the blade was conjured from countless clustered rays.
If so, the opponent was likely an Elemental Transcendent.
This lake-beneath knife assault and retreat step-by-step contest reached its conclusion with Gu Xiaoman’s change of tactic. Her Qi Force had worn out substantially, while the opponent stubbornly played the hidden turtle. At this rate, it was purely a matter of whose energy was more extended... Gu Xiaoman decided not to move, finally steadied her feet on the lake’s surface, and awaited the lethal blow aimed her way!
"Boom!"
At the moment the lake’s surface blossomed in radiance, the girl in black retrieved a set of Finger Tiger Gloves from her sleeve and struck down heavily!
Hundreds of meters of wind waves swept forth.
With Gu Xiaoman at the center, the solid hundred-meter Frozen Lake fractured instantly, "Hundred Explosion Finger Tiger" smashing onto the streak of white light successfully shattered this lake-beneath blade into pieces. Gu Xiaoman confirmed her speculation that the continuously chasing blade wasn’t a sealed artifact but a Light Blade!
This was the ability of an Elemental Transcendent!
