Divine Prayer Barrier

Within a hundred-meter radius, the entire ground turned blood-red. Countless golden gears of varying sizes floated in the air and along the barrier's edges, arranged in orderly rows. Chains extended from the gears, their spearheads driven into the ground, which gradually turned red as well.

The blizzard came to a stop. Welt halted the Star of Eden, and the surrounding gravity remained normal. There was no doubt that the Divine Prayer Barrier had begun operating successfully.

Seeing Theresa still standing within the Divine Prayer Barrier while gripping the chain spear, Enoshia breathed a sigh of relief. When Theresa had charged forward while everyone else retreated, she had already guessed what Theresa intended to do. However, it was only February 8, and she had been worried that Theresa was merely putting on a brave front because she had not yet mastered the Divine Prayer Barrier. The facts proved that her worries had been unfounded.

"There's no low temperature, but it feels like my body is about to split apart. Just standing here feels like it's draining all my strength." Within the Divine Prayer Barrier, Theresa leaned her entire body against the chain spear, gasping for breath as sweat continuously seeped from her forehead.

"I only have one minute. I have to hurry..." Theresa pulled the chain spear free, then dragged her leaden legs toward the Herrscher of Frost with great difficulty.

Seeing that Theresa looked ready to collapse at any moment, many people wanted to help. But they also understood that the Divine Prayer Barrier did not distinguish between friend and foe. The moment they rushed inside, they would lose their combat ability. Not only would they be unable to help, they would become a burden instead. Yet watching their comrade endure unimaginable suffering alone while they could only stand by helplessly was an ordeal in itself.

Using the chain spear as a crutch, Theresa took one step at a time toward its true body. The distance was only a little over ten meters, yet it took her nearly half a minute to cross it.

"This ends now." Theresa raised the chain spear high, aimed at its left chest, and drove it in with all her strength.

Next, the Oath of Judas would completely lock down the Honkai Energy within the Herrscher's body. Even the most skilled cook could not make a meal without ingredients. No matter what abilities the Herrscher possessed, without Honkai Energy, it could only stand there and watch its heart be pierced. Not only would the crisis be resolved, Schicksal could also remove the Herrscher Core and take it back for study.

If nothing unexpected happened.

The instant the chain spear touched that mass, a strange black mist emerged from the core of the Oath of Judas and flowed along the chains into its body. The chains of the Oath of Judas began thrashing about erratically.

"How is this possible? How can the Herrscher still have energy fluctuations inside the Divine Prayer Barrier?"

On the face that had originally possessed no features, a pair of deep-green eyes suddenly opened. The instant Theresa met those snake-like pupils, pain stabbed through her chest. Her expression turned aghast when she discovered that her connection with the Oath of Judas had actually been severed.

"Judah, what's wrong?" Theresa cried out anxiously in her mind as she gripped the Oath of Judas's chains with all her strength. But in the next moment, a repulsive force burst from the Oath of Judas and sent her flying. Theresa, who had already been at her limit, lost consciousness. In just half a minute, the Divine Prayer Barrier collapsed.

Everything had happened too suddenly. Theresa could only determine one thing: the energy fluctuation released by the Herrscher of Frost just now had definitely not been Honkai Energy.

Faced with the sudden change, Welt made a decisive move. He operated the Star of Eden to reduce the surrounding gravity, causing the airborne Theresa to drift even farther away. Cecilia leaped up and caught Theresa in her arms, and the two safely returned to the ground.

The instant the Divine Prayer Barrier completely dissipated, a blizzard even more violent than before swept up. Combined with the attacks of the Frost Lanterns, Siegfried and the others could only protect themselves and had no strength left to launch another attack.

"Ah, Cecilia. In the end, you were the one who saved me." Theresa slowly opened her eyes and found herself lying in Cecilia's arms like a baby. She immediately understood what had happened.

Seeing Cecilia hold her while fending off the Herrscher of Frost's attacks, Theresa was overcome by guilt. She tried to extend her legs and walk on her own, but her completely drained body did not have the strength to move even an inch.

"Why am I the only one left? Where's my team?" Enoshia realized that with Theresa out of action and Cecilia caring for the wounded, she was currently the only one who could attack the Herrscher. She hid behind the Emperor-class Honkai Beast under her control, timing her arrows to fire during the gaps between its attacks.

The arrows formed from Honkai Energy struck its body. They might not have caused much damage, but at least they were better than nothing. In the face of its terrifying regenerative ability, Enoshia was certain that the damage she inflicted was being healed far faster than she could deal it.

As for using her authority to erode the Herrscher of Frost? Under the current circumstances, she absolutely did not dare. Eroding a Death Herrscher who had only been born for a dozen minutes and had actively sought death had already exhausted nearly all her strength. Having a single-core, unawakened Herrscher like herself erode a Dual-Core Herrscher whose newly gained powers were unknown? Without anyone else weakening it first, success was simply impossible.

Beneath those emerald, snake-like pupils, a hollow appeared, seemingly forming its mouth. It bit down on one of Judah's chains and swallowed it into its belly like someone slurping noodles. Under everyone's astonished gazes, it actually swallowed the entire Oath of Judah.

But not long afterward, it seemed to have eaten something it should not have. It spat Judah's chains back out. However, it deliberately chose its angle, sending them shooting toward Old Yang.

Against the Herrscher of Frost, who could also control gravity, Old Yang was a top-tier support who could dispel debuffs from his teammates, but it was difficult for him to use the Star of Eden to damage it. After all, however he neutralized its gravity, it could break his move in the same way. They had been taught by the same master, so neither could break the other's technique. Faced with Judah's chains suddenly aimed at him, he was completely unprepared while constructing the Mimic Heavenly Father. He was bound at once and dragged over by the hook. Unable to move while restrained by the Oath of Judah, Old Yang could only watch helplessly as he was swallowed.

After swallowing Old Yang, its entire body spasmed once before spitting out Judah in its entirety. Looking at the cross lying in the snow and emanating black smoke, it was difficult to see it as the same Judah from before.

"This is bad!" Seeing Old Yang dragged away, Enoshia seized an opening and tried to rescue him, but her efforts were futile. She was not worried about Old Yang, who was skilled at repeatedly bouncing back from defeat. No one could really kill him. He had merely been eaten; he would probably revive at full health after some time.

But with Old Yang gone, the battlefield instantly fell out of control. Perhaps because it had swallowed Old Yang, the Herrscher of Frost erupted with even greater power. A blue radiance shot into the sky, its body rapidly expanded, and its Honkai Energy reaction continued rising at an astonishing rate.

At the same time, the gravity across the entire battlefield immediately became several times stronger, and fine cracks appeared in the ground. Other than Enoshia, everyone else was pressed flat against the ground as if a mountain had been placed on their backs.

The two Frost Lanterns fell to the ground, then flew toward the Valkyries like spinning tops once more. Directly above it, countless ice crystals rapidly gathered in the empty air. Their diameter soon exceeded ten meters, and their growth showed no sign of slowing. Reality was not a game, after all. The Herrscher of Frost could release multiple skills at the same time. Wang Luowei was certain that once it completed charging its attack, no one except him would survive.

(There were two reasons for strengthening the Herrscher of Frost: it was necessary for the plot, and the Herrscher of Frost in the Previous Civilization was far too weak in the original work, nowhere near the level that destroyed the Mù Continent in the Previous Civilization, so I wanted to raise its power a little. As for why it possesses other abilities, the answer was already given before the protagonist transmigrated in Chapter One.)