"Ugh..."
Earl Gregory clutched his neck tightly and staggered backward, tears sliding down his pain-contorted face.
Before he could react further, the wind Sigrid had whipped up surged before him. His legs instantly went numb, and Sigrid's vicious kick smashed into his knee, sending him spinning as he dropped to his knees.
In the blink of an eye, rushing air and explosive booms closed in. Sigrid's lunge punch followed by a sideways palm strike left Gregory seeing stars. His ears could no longer make out the chaotic wind and snow, and he was on the verge of passing out.
At this moment, he found it difficult even to open his eyes without the sun.
Strange rays of light intertwined one after another, forming a web of light that left him nowhere to flee.
Every snowflake on the snowy plain glittered beneath the radiance that should never have appeared, transforming the entire snowfield into a fantastical world paved with countless diamonds.
The clear yet increasingly impassioned strings of the Moon Goddess instantly turned the originally silent and frigid atmosphere warm and restless, as if it had leaped from one extreme to the other.
"I'll see how long you can keep this trick up!!"
Earl Gregory roared, his voice breaking apart.
In the Land of Eternal Night, if they did not continue toward the Demon Realm, they would still have to wait several hours for the brief daylight to arrive.
The sun summoned through magic would eventually burn through this human's mana.
Once his opponent's mana was exhausted, even if he was seriously wounded, he would still catch and kill the two of them before they could escape the snowy plain!
Earl Gregory's figure twisted beneath the sunlight on the snowfield, his strength slow to recover.
He trembled with fury beneath the