High above, engulfed by a raging blizzard.
Massive bluish-white arcs of sword light continuously bloomed.
Facing attacks from every direction, Lilith could only unleash wave after wave of black ice to block them.
"Come out!"
"You rat who only knows how to hide and launch sneak attacks!"
Lilith screamed furiously again and again.
But the next second, her entire body jolted, warning bells blaring in her heart.
Without any hesitation, she immediately unleashed a dense barrage of black ice behind her. Yet it failed to stop the Black Ice Blade in Kuzan's hand, glinting with a trace of black light, from carving a long bloody gash across her nearly exposed back.
"Ahhh—"
Lilith let out a shrill cry of pain, thoroughly rousing her demonic ferocity.
In an instant, black mist-like demonic power erupted outward.
Countless patches of black frost began to form wildly around her, surging outward layer by layer like waves.
At the same time.
Facing the oncoming black ice, the prepared Kuzan used Observation Haki's Future Sight to proactively turn his body into an element and evade most of the attacks.
He then shattered the few black ice spikes that had struck his body where he could not avoid them, before vanishing once more into the vast white blizzard.
"Ahhhhh!"
This left Lilith utterly furious, and the situation returned to its previous rhythm.
When she tried to leave again, another impossible-to-ignore arc of sword light appeared, just as expected.
This was Kuzan's plan.
He used the blizzard to obscure Lilith's vision, then used Observation Killing to conceal his presence.
Whenever he was wounded, he used Life Return to stop the bleeding immediately, then sealed the wounds with frost so she could not track him by the scent of blood.
At the same time, he continuously used slashes to