Snowflakes hung motionless above Changbai Mountain. Tens of thousands of players on the defense line barely dared to breathe.
A negotiation between Main Gods was no place for them to speak.
The Flawless Throne floating at the center of the Pure White Crack radiated a pressure that crushed all opposition.
The Ice Queen had just issued her disclaimer as though it were nothing. To her, it was a favor granted to a newly ascended Main God.
Qin Chuan glanced down at the Frost Executioner, still leaking divine might in a snow-filled crater, then looked up at the blurred figure deep within the crack. He pulled his hand from his coat pocket.
"Have you spent so long hiding in that crack that your brain's frozen solid?"
The six Upper Gods from the Extreme Ice God Realm went pale.
It was an outrageous insult to their supreme queen.
The Ice Queen did not move.
"You think I'm negotiating with you?" Qin Chuan held Moment of Utmost Darkness in one hand, its blade pointed at the sky.
Space around him buckled violently in time with the Main Divine Artifact's pulse.
"You remnants of the last era couldn't survive out there. Now that Blue Star's recovering, you want to come back and reap the rewards."
Qin Chuan laid it out plainly.
"And that would be bad enough, but you're acting like you own the place."
"You had it backward. This isn't over."
Qin Chuan's gaze swept across the Upper Gods, openly sizing them up like livestock.
"I happen to need workers. These Ice Lumps will do nicely."
Stifled cries erupted along the Changbai Mountain Defense Line. The players who had been despairing a moment ago were stunned by his brazen words.
*That's a legend for you. Faced with an ancient Main God and an