Jiu Ming might have been thinking of throwing in the towel, but that iceberg had no such intention. The wind and snow howled without pause, and then, in an even more exaggerated turn, the sky suddenly grew darker still. Jiu Ming looked up, and his mouth immediately twitched.
He really wanted to know just how someone had taken a part of this thing's body and used it as material to forge an Imperial Arms... Well, how many people would have to die to accomplish that?
"By the way, what was your Imperial Arms like before you used it?" Jiu Ming asked curiously. From the very beginning, Esdeath had never held an Imperial Arms in her hand like everyone else. That was also why Jiu Ming had once assumed she was one of this world's ability users.
"A pot of blood."
"I see... Aren't you afraid of metal poisoning?" Jiu Ming muttered. An Imperial Arms in the form of blood? That was certainly unique. The blazing flames surrounding them stopped spreading and flowed back toward Laevateinn, causing the flaming greatsword in his hand to surge with power.
When the flames shrank to a radius of five meters, Jiu Ming gripped his sword with both hands and slashed at the icy peak already pressing down from the sky. That thing was trying to suppress them here!
The instant Laevateinn, wreathed in transparent flames and condensed with nearly tangible fire, touched the icy peak, it immediately displayed the might of a Divine Artifact. The entire peak shuddered violently and ceased its descent, completely engulfed by roaring flames as it melted away at rapid speed. Wind and snow melted alike. It was as though a new sun had risen over the far north, and every creature living there could not help looking toward that