A mighty procession of over a thousand Skeleton Soldiers arrived at the scene, their ranks as orderly as an iron formation, the dense grinding of bone against bone sounding like rain.
Leading them was an equally tall blue skeleton. It wielded a massive sword glowing with a dark-red halo. The blade was a deep, dusky gold, its surface covered in fine patterns—clearly the result of special tempering.
A Second-Order Peak Spiritual Energy fluctuation radiated from its body, rivaling that of the alien beast.
The arrival of the reinforcements instantly reversed the tide of battle.
Sensing the suppression of two powerful Spiritual Energy forces, the lizard alien beast slightly restrained the ferocity in its eyes and let out an unwilling growl from its throat.
It glanced at the approaching reinforcements, then at the enemy clinging to it like a dog worrying a bone. After weighing its options for a moment, it abruptly turned around and charged toward the magma lake, its enormous body shooting forward like an arrow loosed from a bowstring.
With a leap, its scarlet figure was instantly swallowed by the crimson magma, leaving behind only several churning waves and the pungent smell of sulfur.
The battle finally ceased. The air was thick with a mixture of steam and sulfur, chokingly difficult to breathe.
The ground was strewn with the wreckage left by the interweaving of ice and fire... Some rocks had been roasted black and brittle, shattering at the slightest touch, while others were covered in a thick layer of white frost that glimmered coldly in the faint light.
The blue skeleton "panted" heavily. Though it had no breath, it could still feel the violent fluctuations of its Spiritual Energy.
The Spiritual Light around its body gradually stabilized. Without bothering to inspect the damage to its bones, it