Zhou Tianyu's crimson flames blazed across the boundless ice field, surrounding Skaya, yet Zhou Tianyu held no advantage.
He had discovered a problem: this endless ice field possessed an Absolute Zero environment, which heavily suppressed all flames.
Even divine fires varied in strength. If it were a divine fire with a five-dimensional structure, such as Positive Yang Divine Fire or Nether Yin True Fire, it naturally would not fear such low temperatures. However, the divine fire he wielded was merely at the four-dimensional level and was cast through the power of his bloodline, so it was naturally affected by Absolute Zero's cold.
More importantly, his own body heat was constantly draining away. Resisting that cold consumed a considerable amount of his divine power.
Although Skaya was also affected, his bodily structure was better suited to resisting the effects of such low temperatures, putting him in the more favorable position instead.
"Under the high temperatures brought by my flames, its Life Force is being activated instead?" Zhou Tianyu observed Skaya with his spiritual sense. He vaguely sensed that mycelium was slowly extending from the other's left arm and merging into the other parts of his metallic body.
Hermes's attainments in alchemy were exceptionally high. An artificial human's body possessed functions nearly identical to those of a normal human, with virtually no outward differences, but its core was entirely different. Though both bodies consisted of basic elements such as wind, fire, water, and earth, their proportions differed, as did their structural composition.
Though rare metals were metals, they were not all dominated by the metal element. Heavenly Fire Iron, for instance, was primarily composed of the fire element. The elemental ratios within god-tier alloys were even more diverse, so bodies forged from them would naturally not be directly restrained by the fire