So this was the Dead Sea's ultimate form?
The black-haired Lady's final remark had clearly been shocking.
The inmate who had asked the question nearly froze on the spot again. It took a push from the person beside him to bring him around enough to keep moving.
Fu Qian, however, wasn't particularly skeptical.
The building was enormous, but that didn't stop him from sensing things farther away.
There really was nothing flowing outside.
What was more, the chill surging through the prison was seeping in from the darkness surrounding it.
At that moment, the underwater prison really did seem to be frozen inside a gigantic block of ice.
Come to think of it, although his fellow inmate wasn't exactly emotionally stable, he wasn't inflexible either.
Realizing they'd been forced into a desperate fight for survival and that their way out had been cut off, he'd immediately thought of finding another route—going straight through the water instead.
After all, from what they'd seen, the prison's admission standards were fairly high.
Even the weakest of the three—the burly man who had helped free the inmate—seemed to be at least Intermediate Tier.
Unless their abilities were especially unusual, the bodily reinforcement that came with Intermediate Tier should make resisting water pressure no problem.
But the situation was different now. Breaking through the ice with their bodies was one thing; this change was far too strange.
It was hard to say what they might encounter if they acted recklessly without figuring out the cause.
Current mission updated: Find Virgo La Nina before the four Apocalypse Knights descend.
As Fu Qian considered their situation, the group had already reached the junction he'd seen earlier.
Just before they passed through the narrow cleft in the ice, a new prompt rang out in his mind.