How could this...
Compared to Rachel, who was already dumbstruck, Li Min was clearly much more mentally resilient.
Even so, that frenzied attack had nearly shaken the hard-won clarity from her mind.
Though she couldn't understand what was happening, she grabbed Rachel and frantically retreated, while frost rapidly gathered into a shield before them.
She didn't think she could create a defense stronger than the cliff, but she had to do something—
A crisp cracking sound rang out. Li Min's heart jolted as she realized that spike after spike was sprouting wildly across the ice shield she'd just formed, spreading forward and plunging into the water below the cliff.
No...
She knew full well that the forces inside the Sea of Ashes were unstable, but she had never imagined something would go wrong at a time like this.
She'd tried her best not to draw attention, only to end up counterattacking that Divine creature. For a moment, despair welled up inside Li Min.
Yet as frost swirled around her, Li Min clung to Rachel, ready to face the Divine creature's wrath at any moment. Then she noticed that, strangely, everything had gone quiet.
It was gone?
The sea, dotted with floating ice, showed no trace of the enormous tentacle.
"Did that thing... hide underwater?"
Rachel had finally come around, her voice trembling slightly.
"No."
Li Min shook her head.
"It's not there anymore. I'm sure of it."
"It left?"
Rachel froze. She instinctively breathed a sigh of relief, then a host of questions came to mind.
"Then what did it come here for? Why didn't it kill us?"
"Looks that way. Judging by what it did just now, if it had really wanted to kill us, there was no way we could have escaped."
Nor could they have withstood it.