The shattered ice crunched beneath her boots as the woman emerged from the settling dust. The remnants of the gigantic summon, a towering icy warrior, attempted to reassemble itself, its jagged pieces moving as if drawn by an unseen force. But she had no intention of allowing it to rise again. Her sharp eyes, glowing with an intense determination, locked onto Lucien. In an instant, she moved—a blur of motion, so swift that she seemed to vanish.
Then, a thunderous BOOM! echoed through the battlefield.
Lucien's face contorted unnaturally as the force of the punch crashed into him, molding his expression into a concave of shock and pain. His entire body rocketed backward, blasting through the frozen air before slamming into a distant pillar of ice. The sheer impact sent cracks spiraling across the surface, a tremor shaking the ground as the icy pillar collapsed.
