"Hmph, even if that's true, one day I'll turn it into my prey!" Esdeath suddenly fixed Jiu Ming with an intense stare.
"What?" Jiu Ming wiped his face strangely. "Is there something wrong with my face?"
"No. I just want to ask—can you deal with it? Honestly."
"Completely." Jiu Ming considered it for a moment, then decided he couldn't be bothered beating around the bush and answered directly.
"I see. I knew I hadn't misjudged you. Let's go back."
"..." She changed her mind fast. Jiu Ming twitched his lips. After giving the ice beast entirely encased in icy armor one last look, he took out the Imperial Arms he had swiped earlier. This thing needed coordinates for teleportation. There was definitely a coordinate here, and the place that had sent them here should have left one behind from its activation as well.
Whatever. He'd know once he activated it.
A Bagua-like pattern lit up beneath Jiu Ming and Esdeath's feet. The final sight before they left was the ice beast's long-gathered attack... It truly was ice sealing ten thousand miles. Hmm, come to think of it, that ice beast's armor really did look like a demon.
"So we really came back." The moment that numbing chill vanished, Jiu Ming knew they had left the land of the far north. Looking at the Imperial Arms in his hand, he screamed internally that this made no sense. This thing was simply... too energy-efficient! If Jiu Ming used it himself, relying solely on his recovery ability, he could use it without limits every day.
"Oh? The lower the level, the less it consumes?"
"That's strange. Going by what you said, would I have this problem with other weapons too? Then why haven't I felt it... Is this also an effect of the