The frost beneath Yvonne’s feet pulsed outward, expanding in perfectly symtrical patterns, each crystalline shape blooming like a fractal flower. Above her, the sigil grew and rotated slowly, complex enough to resemble an ancient constellation lost to ti.
Lilith’s flas flickered in response, her instincts sharpening as the spiritual pressure shifted. She knitted her eyebrows.
"She’s serious..." she muttered, excitent and unease mixing in her voice.
Naturally, Ignis felt it too. Her massive wings lowered, claws burrowing slightly into the scorched earth, her body bracing for the next exchange that it wouldn’t be rely combat, but a clash of concepts between ice and fire.
Then, the air crystallized. Every breath condensed into glittering frost.
Yvonne whispered softly of the na of her ultimate skill.
"Eternal Winter—Frozen Crown Judgent."
A crown of fractal ice ford above her head, each shard glowing with moonlit brilliance. The sky dimd not because sunlight vanished, but because heat itself withdrew from existence. The very concept of warmth recoiled from her presence.
The terrain transford as colossal pillars of ancient ice erupted from the ground, encircling the battlefield in towering, rune-etched structures.
A massive sigil ford beneath everyone, Ignis, Lilith, and Yvonne herself, stretching across the battlefield like a frozen empire.
Ti slowed down.
Mana thickened.
Even Ignis felt resistance, not physically, but taphysically, as if her heartbeat, flas, and thoughts were being dragged through heavy snow.
Yvonne raised her hand slowly, not in a rush, simply commanding.
Lilith’s fla armor flickered violently as frost crawled across it, warping magenta fire into violet embers. Her whip trembled, fla fighting to stay cohesive.
She gritted her teeth as the domain was crushing her just as brutally as any blow.
Ignis remained standing, but steam rose from her armor as frost attempted to force its way into her scales.
Yvonne finally exhaled a single word:
"Shatter."
The pillars creaked. Every frozen sigil detonated, not outward, but toward Ignis.
The force wasn’t just cold, it was finality. A technique ant not to wound, but to enforce stillness, immovable stasis, turning living beings into eternal monunts.
The battlefield froze into silver brilliance.
Lilith shielded her eyes as her breath fogged violently, her fla shrinking as frost crept up her arms.
The frozen storm reached the dragon. For an instant, just one—Ignis’ movents slowed to a halt. The flas around her body dimd, the Sunblood armor thickened into silent steel, and the battlefield seed ready to witness the impossible.
Yvonne knitted her eyebrows, the feeling of uneasiness creeped up on her because Ignis still hadn’t moved even after reaching this point.
A low growl vibrated through the air. Then, the frost cracked—not physically, but conceptually.
Ignis lifted her head, molten eyes glowing brighter than ever as excitent could be seen on her face.
"Now witness mine." Her voice echoed on the battlefield.
Heat surged, not from her chest, nor her mouth, nor her wings—but from every scale, every thread of mana, every atom of her existence itself.
The frozen sigil beneath her ignited, lines of ancient frost glowing with violent orange cracks, as if the ice was being burned from the inside by sothing older than elental law.
Yvonne’s eyes widened in surprise.
Ignis spread her wings slowly, deliberately, shaking frost loose in cascading streams of burning steam.
Then her voice thundered, shaking the battlefield.
"Imperial Apocalypse—Eternal Solar Pyre."
Above her, a second sun suddenly appeared.
A blazing celestial body surged into existence, radiating heat so intense that space wavered and the sky bled red-orange like the horizon of doomsday.
The frost domain collapsed the mont its shadow touched the battlefield. Sigils shattered, pillars cracked, and the absolute cold that once choked existence lted into vapor within seconds.
The temperature skyrocketed to the opposite extre as frost beca steam, steam turning into glowing heat haze, and heat transforming into roaring solar wind.
Lilith shielded her face with both claws as her fla armor instinctively reinforced itself.
Yvonne held her ground, but the frost crown above her head fractured, splitting along radiant seams of heat.
The world was now caught between two opposing absolutes. Winter that froze existence and a sun that burned it out of reality.
For a stretched heartbeat, neither force yielded.
Yvonne’s boots cracked the stone beneath her as she braced, frost radiating from her fingertips in trembling waves.
The battlefield hung in a suspended breath as it was caught between unbearable heat and collapsing winter.
The second sun above Ignis blazed brighter, its flaring outward in violent solar prominences that scorched the sky in red-orange waves.
Below it, Yvonne’s Frozen Crown Judgent that was once a flawless empire of ancient frost, splintered rapidly, fracturing like delicate porcelain beneath a stampede of primordial fire.
Cracks ran through the frozen sigils.
One.
Then another.
Then dozens, spreading outward like lightning across glass until the entire domain trembled under the inevitable collapse.
Yvonne grit her teeth, frost swirling violently around her arms as she reinforced the domain again and again, pouring everything she had into sustaining it, not just technique, but the core essence of her Eternal Frostheart Physique.
Her breath turned brittle white, and her eyelashes frosted silver, but her posture remained unbowed.
Lilith stood beside her, tails whipping the air wildly as magenta flas surged around her body.
She fought not with theory, control, nor patience, but she fought with raw burning will, attempting to tear through the solar pressure with claw and fla, refusing to yield even as her foxfire armor cracked and flaked away under the assault.
For a mont, just a mont, the two forces held. And then... Everything broke.
Yvonne’s frost shattered first like a glass struck by a hamr, exploding outward in a storm of glittering shards that evaporated before they touched the ground. Her Crown fractured, breaking into dozens of luminous splinters before dissolving completely.
Lilith’s fla armor shattered next, the magenta fire bursting away from her body like scattered embers, her weapon whip disintegrating into fading violet sparks.
The collapse sent shockwaves rolling outward, lting entire sections of terrain into glowing molten rivers and scattering debris into flaming arcs.
The battlefield flared with overwhelming heat, and for the first ti since the fight began, both Lilith and Yvonne were completely exposed.
Then, Ignis made a move by extending her wings fully and casting the battlefield under their blazing shadow.
Fla condensed in her throat as she opened her jaws wide. And a beam of pure solar destruction fell toward them.
Lilith felt her breath stop.
Yvonne felt her mana lock.
Neither could move.
Just as the attack left Ignis’ mouth, Guardian Lu finally made his move and appeared in front of them with an indifferent expression.
A calm voice left the old man’s lips, carrying the weight of a decree no one could disobey.
"That’s enough!"
Facing such a strong attack, the old man only raised a palm and created a thin translucent barrier around them.
Ignis’ attack struck it a heartbeat later.
The mont the fla collided, the barrier sparked, one soft ripple spreading across its surface like a pebble touching a still lake.
And then, just like a candle being pinched shut, the eruption vanished instantly.
No explosion.
No shockwave.
No aftermath, not even smoke.
The cataclysmic attack that could turn a battlefield into a crater was gone in an instant, snuffed out as if it had never existed.
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