"Crack-boom!"
Just then, the sound of shattering frost and exploding flames immediately drew everyone's attention.
Mavuika stood panting nearby. Her long hair, which had blazed as brightly as flames, had dimmed considerably, and patches of frostbite had appeared on her body.
On the other side, the Captain was in much worse shape.
Burns covered his entire body, and more than half of his mask had shattered, exposing part of his chin and cheek.
What caught everyone's attention, however, was that his exposed skin was not the yellowish or pale shade of an ordinary person's, but an unnerving grayish white.
Simply put, it was the color of skin without blood, no different from the lifeless, grayish-white skin of a corpse.
Perhaps this was the real reason the Captain needed to conceal his appearance...
"Cough, cough... you won."
Coughing, the Captain endured the searing agony throughout his body and barely managed to straighten up. As a soldier of Snezhnaya and a knight of Khaenri'ah, he would never kneel easily...
Compared with the patches of frostbite on Mavuika, the Captain had burns of various kinds practically all over his body.
Yet those wounds were slowly healing themselves. This was the immortality curse at work. It would gradually repair his wounds, but it could not stop the air of decay coming from his body.
That grayish-white skin was clearly the mildest effect of the immortality curse. To put it more directly, the Captain's internal organs and tissues had essentially stopped functioning, so he rarely ate. His stomach digested food extremely slowly. Were it not for the Cryo bestowed upon him by the Snezhnaya Empress, his physical condition would have been even worse.
Just imagine food rotting in a stomach that had all but stopped functioning. That sensation and stench would absolutely repel anyone.
Fortunately,