The heavy city gates slowly opened before the woman, revealing a skybridge beyond them that led straight to the palace gates.
Warm white radiance poured down from the heavens, falling upon her dress covered in ice crystals and making it shimmer brilliantly.
Kaila raised her hand. Snow-white light curled around her fingertips. As she gently lifted a finger, the little white dragon perched on her left shoulder immediately leaned over and absorbed the radiance into its body.
Then she raised her head, looked at the skybridge arching across the heavens like a rainbow, and drew a quiet breath.
She walked forward slowly.
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He Ao extended his hand and watched drifting snowflakes land in his palm before slowly melting.
But before the snow had fully melted, dense new flakes fell onto He Ao's hand.
In an instant, his hand was covered in thick snow.
A faint chill spread over his skin and seeped into his bones. Yet this chill had not come from the snow, but from when he had used only his divine sense to pass through the Frozen Sea.
The chill of that seawater was not mere cold. It could even affect an angel's body.
But He Ao had no time to think about that. He glanced at the drifting snow around him, then turned back to look at the blizzard barrier behind him and took a deep breath.
He Ao was almost certain that the god behind the scenes had the ability to break free from that connection-point sea area and interfere with his thoughts.
But near this blizzard barrier was perhaps the area least affected by the power of Its projection.
The reason He Ao had reached that conclusion was simple.
Because it was near this blizzard barrier that he had sensed the completeness of that