Benjamin made his decision and acted at once, dropping his disguise. The immense Great Light Manifestation abruptly appeared amid the wind and snow!
Thousands of Rune Artifacts poured down like a violent storm, instantly blanketing the entire settlement!
The thunderous blasts caused by the dense barrage of energy bolts rang through the ice valley alongside the Snow Monsters' shrill screams.
Caught off guard by the sudden attack, the Snow Monsters had no time to organize an effective counterattack before they died in droves beneath Benjamin's terrifyingly precise barrage, turning into ice crystals and dust that swirled through the air.
With no high-level units blocking him, Benjamin's destructive power was brought fully into play.
Just like the previous purge, Benjamin ended the battle swiftly and efficiently!
In less than five minutes, the Snow Monster settlement that had just been bustling with noise was reduced to scattered ice fragments and a handful of intact ice crystal cores. Seizing the time, Benjamin cast Soul Search once more, extracting every intact Snow Monster soul from the settlement one by one for deep analysis.
He had to find out what had happened here, and where all the powerful beings in the settlement had gone!
Very quickly, from the souls of these Snow Monsters—especially that sole Level 2 Snow Monster—he obtained an answer that was hardly an answer. Their memories were filled with an almost fanatical premonition of a "summons."
Previously, every Level 2 and higher Snow Monster in this settlement had been summoned by an inexplicable yet powerful force to the core region deep within the Frost Dark Realm.
The entire settlement, along with the small outposts nearby, had been left with only a very small number of Level 1 Snow Monsters.
The reason this Level 2 Snow Monster had remained was that it had