Divine Prayer Barrier

Within a hundred-meter radius, the entire ground turned blood-red. At the edges of the air and the barrier floated countless golden gears of varying sizes, arranged in orderly patterns. Chains extended from the gears, their spearheads piercing the ground, which also gradually turned red.

The blizzard stopped. Welt halted the Star of Eden, and the surrounding gravity returned to normal. Without a doubt, the Divine Prayer Barrier had successfully activated.

Seeing Theresa still standing in the Divine Prayer Barrier, gripping the chain-spear, Enoshia breathed a sigh of relief. When Theresa charged forward while everyone else retreated, she had guessed what she was planning. But it was only February 8th, and she worried Theresa hadn't yet mastered the Divine Prayer Barrier and was overexerting herself. However, it turned out her fears were unfounded.

"Even without the cold, it feels like my body is splitting apart. Just standing here feels like I've used up all my strength." Inside the Divine Prayer Barrier, Theresa leaned her entire body against the chain-spear, gasping heavily, sweat constantly beading on her forehead.

"I only have one minute. I need to hurry..." Theresa pulled the chain-spear from the ground and lifted her legs, which felt as heavy as lead, trudging with difficulty toward the Herrscher of Frost.

Seeing Theresa on the verge of collapse at any moment, many wanted to help, but they also understood. The Divine Prayer Barrier did not distinguish friend from foe. The moment they rushed in, they would lose their combat ability, becoming a burden rather than a help. But watching their comrade endure unimaginable pain alone while they could only stand by and do nothing was undoubtedly a torment for them.

Using the chain-spear as a crutch, Theresa walked step by step to its main body. A distance of just over ten meters took her nearly half a minute.

"Now, this ends." Theresa raised the chain-spear high, aimed at its left chest, and thrust it in with force.

Next, the Oath of Judas would completely lock down the Honkai energy within the Herrscher's body. Even the cleverest housewife can't cook without rice. No matter what ability the Herrscher used, without Honkai energy, it could only watch its heart be pierced. Not only would the crisis be resolved, but Schicksal could also extract the Herrscher Core and take it back for research.

If nothing unexpected happened.

The moment the chain-spear touched that mass, a strange black mist emerged from the core of Judas, flowing along the chains into its body. Judas's chains began to sway erratically.

"How is this possible! Within the Divine Prayer Barrier, how can the Herrscher still have energy fluctuations?"

On its originally featureless face, a pair of deep green eyes suddenly opened. The moment Theresa met those serpentine pupils, she felt a sharp pain in her chest, and her expression turned to shock, because she realized her connection with Judas had been severed.

"Judas, what's wrong with you!" Theresa shouted anxiously in her heart, gripping Judas's chains tightly, but the next moment, a repulsive force erupted from Judas, sending her flying. Already at her limit, Theresa lost consciousness. In just half a minute, the Divine Prayer Barrier collapsed.

Everything was too sudden. Theresa could only be certain of one thing: the energy fluctuation from the Herrscher of Frost just now was definitely not Honkai energy.

Faced with the sudden turn of events, Welt made a snap decision. He manipulated the Star of Eden to reduce the surrounding gravity, and the flung Theresa drifted further away. Cecilia leaped up, caught Theresa in her arms, and both landed safely on the ground.

The moment the Divine Prayer Barrier completely dissipated, an even fiercer blizzard than before swept in. Combined with the attacks from the ice hairpins and the Frost Lantern, Siegfried and the others could only defend themselves, utterly unable to launch an attack.

"Ah, Cecilia, you saved me again in the end." Theresa slowly opened her eyes, finding herself lying in Cecilia's arms like a baby, and immediately understood what had happened.

Seeing Cecilia holding her while fending off the Herrscher of Frost's attacks, a wave of guilt surged in Theresa's heart. She tried to extend her legs to stand on her own, but her completely exhausted body had no strength to move even an inch.

"How is it just me? Where are my teammates?" Enoshia realized that with Theresa incapacitated and Cecilia tending to the wounded, she was the only one left who could fight the Herrscher. She hid behind the Emperor-class Honkai Beast she had controlled, shooting arrows at it during the gaps in its attacks.

The arrows, condensed from Honkai energy, struck its body. It was hard to say how much damage they did, but at least it was better than nothing. Faced with its terrifying regenerative ability, Enoshia was sure the damage she dealt was far less than the speed at which it recovered.

As for using her own authority to erode the Herrscher of Frost? Under the current circumstances, she absolutely dared not. Previously, eroding a Herrscher of Death that had only been born for a few minutes and was actively seeking death had already taken all her strength. For her, an un-ascended single-core Herrscher, to erode a dual-core Herrscher that had gained some unknown power? Without someone else weakening it first, it was simply impossible.

Below its pair of deep green, serpentine eyes, a hollow appeared, seemingly its mouth. It bit one of Judas's chains and, like slurping noodles, swallowed the chain into its belly. Under everyone's astonished gaze, it actually devoured the entire Oath of Judas.

But not long after, as if it had eaten something it shouldn't have, it spat Judas's chains back out. However, it deliberately chose the angle when spitting, shooting them in Old Yang's direction.

Facing the Herrscher of Frost, which also controlled gravity, Old Yang, though a gold-medal support for removing debuffs from his teammates, found it difficult to inflict any damage on it with the Star of Eden's abilities. After all, however he neutralized its gravity, it could counter his moves in the same way. Same teacher, can't break the technique. Faced with Judas's chains suddenly aimed at him, he was completely defenseless while constructing the Mimic Heavenly Father, and was directly bound and dragged over. Bound by the Oath of Judas, Old Yang couldn't move, watching helplessly as he was swallowed.

After swallowing Old Yang, its entire body convulsed once, and it spat out the entire Judas. Looking at the cross on the snow, emitting black mist, it was hard to see it as the same thing as the Judas from before.

"This is bad!" Seeing Old Yang dragged away, Enoshia tried to seize the opportunity to rescue him, but her efforts were in vain. She wasn't the least bit worried about Old Yang, who was an expert at getting back up. No matter what, they wouldn't kill him. Being eaten was probably just a temporary setback; he'd likely be back at full strength in a while.

But without Old Yang, the battlefield instantly spiraled out of control. Whether because it had swallowed Old Yang or not, the Herrscher of Frost erupted with even greater power. A blue light shot into the sky, its body rapidly expanded, and its Honkai energy reaction soared.

At the same time, the gravity of the entire battlefield instantly multiplied several times, causing cracks to appear in the ground. Everyone except Enoshia was pinned to the ground as if carrying a mountain on their backs.

The two Frost Lanterns landed and once again spun like tops toward the Valkyries. Directly above it, countless ice crystals were rapidly converging, soon exceeding ten meters in diameter, with no sign of slowing down. After all, reality wasn't a game; the Herrscher of Frost could release multiple skills simultaneously. Wang Luowei was certain that once its charging skill was complete, no one except herself would survive.

(Strengthening the Herrscher of Frost: first, the plot demands it; second, in the original work, the Herrscher of Frost of the current civilization was too weak, completely lacking the intensity of the Previous Civilization's destruction of the Mù Continent, so I wanted to boost its power. As for why it has other abilities, the answer was actually already there before the protagonist's transmigration in the first chapter.)