For now, all they could determine was that both people and both swords were real.
The thought only flashed through Shade's mind for an instant. As he used "Laguerre's Leap" to evade once more, he touched Chloe's Ice Doll in his pocket with his free left hand before the two demonic swords caught up.
A chill raced from his left arm through his entire body. The two streaks of black sword light that followed did not strike Shade's main body; instead, they vanished upon touching the burst of extreme frost that suddenly enveloped him.
The gale howling across the snow mountain became even more piercing at that moment. Though the bright afternoon Sun still hung overhead, this spot on the snowy slope could not feel any light from her. Snowflakes drifted down in thick flurries, and the thaumaturgy had directly altered the weather.
Elder Harald, who had been preparing to communicate with the snow mountain and use the power of Fatumonst Snow Mountain itself to suppress the Angel Level Relic, felt his injuries responding to Shade's thaumaturgy. His spirit and stamina were slowly recovering.
He looked up at the frost qi that obscured everyone's view:
"And you still say you aren't from the Winter Hymn Choir?"
Chloe had indeed advanced to demigodhood because of the Winter Goddess. When icy-cold arms wrapped around Shade's neck, he also found that using Chloe's Ice Echo in the current snow mountain environment was far easier than it had been in Vesta Woodland. Even the consumption of spirit was greatly reduced:
"Could it be because summoning snowfall on a snow mountain is easier than doing it in woodland?"
Shade did not break the layer of frost and snow around himself. He had used this thaumaturgy in the woodland before, so he did not want the