The Devourer had long since set its sights on Tidehunter. Every time it took one of her arrows, the next one became more agonizing, and the wounds it caused grew more severe.
The deformed blade—Hatred—came cleaving down at Tidehunter. From its momentum, it clearly intended to cut her in half.
Crack~
Ice suddenly appeared on the Devourer's arm. In the next moment, great swaths of ice spread across its body. Several dozen meters away, A'Mu, whose chest had been gnawed raw by threadworms, raised one hand. As it clenched its fist, the ice sealed the Devourer inside. This was the ice trap it had set up long ago.
Under normal circumstances, A'Mu really was an idiot. If it got hungry while washing its face, it could eat the soap, then sit in the corner spitting bubbles all morning—bubbles that even smelled fresh.
But in battle, A'Mu was not an idiot at all. From the very beginning, it had known it could not withstand the charging Devourer head-on. What it needed to block was the Devourer's ranged attacks and, after it charged over, delay it for a short while. Only then would Tidehunter have any chance of survival.
The Devourer had just been frozen into an ice sculpture when cracks appeared across the ice. A'Mu's ice prison could not hold it.
Boom!!
A shock wave spread, and the ice layer exploded into powder. Su Xiao drove a kick straight into the Devourer's abdomen. It flew backward like it had been hit by a train, turning into a blur as it shot toward the tree wall. After a roar, a large section of the wall caved in, sending dead branches flying.
Tidehunter breathed a sigh of relief. Suddenly, she felt a hand grab her collar. Her cheek trembled, but in the middle