The first thing they saw was a dazzling flash of sword light erupting from beneath the water's surface, freezing everything before cleaving it apart.
By the time the sword radiance finally faded, the world before them had been reshaped in mere seconds.
The once-rippling river had vanished completely, replaced by a vast expanse of ice and snow.
The river water within several hundred meters had instantly solidified into hard ice.
Even more shocking was that the river had been cut cleanly in half down the middle. The cross-section was as smooth as a carefully polished mirror, as though that sword light had truly split the surging river in two and severed its original course.
Caesar stared fixedly at the frozen world before him, fantastical yet terrifyingly real, his face filled with astonishment. It was as if he had been nailed in place, unable to move an inch.
Time seemed to freeze in that instant. After an unknown amount of time, he finally snapped out of it and slowly turned his head mechanically toward Nono beside him. His voice trembled slightly from shock as he asked:
"What Word of Power has the power to freeze things? Do you know?"
Nono was equally stunned by the sudden frozen world before her. Only after hearing Caesar's question did she come back to her senses.
She paused slightly, her brows knitting together. After a brief moment of thought, she answered:
"Judgment seems to possess the ability to freeze things. It can directly impose an order of death upon everything within its range. It has cutting properties and can form icebergs on the sea.
"So what happened here was very likely caused by the Word of Power Judgment!"
Caesar fell silent again for a moment before speaking heavily:
"A high-risk Word of Power ranked 111?