The chaotic spatial turbulence raged within the crater for a moment before gradually subsiding.
Icarus's compound eyes swept over the notification of increased points: [Share 30% with Zong Shen].
That was right—this creature had currently been transformed into a "half-awakened" state.
By slaughtering the monsters under the Night King's command, or... those Lords, it could earn points.
And vice versa.
Lords could choose to cooperate with Icarus, or they could choose to destroy it.
But not just anyone could catch the eye of the Great Demon of Magic Abyss.
The reason it had been willing to cooperate with Zong Shen was, in truth, because it had been drawn to the power of chaos within him. After all, the Magic Abyss was a place of elemental disorder.
It had already begun to take on the rudimentary form of chaos.
The power within Zong Shen possessed a natural allure for it.
Even from a great distance away, it could sense it intensely.
At this very moment.
Without pausing, it turned its massive body northward.
Its twelve arthropod limbs moved, leaving fresh elemental footprints across the ice plains as it sped toward the second coordinate indicated by Zong Shen—the Corrupted Tundra beyond the Wail Ice Peaks.
As Icarus crossed the jagged, grotesque Wail Ice Peaks, which resembled enormous faces twisted in agony, the air suddenly became thick and foul.
The darkness of the Eternal Night had settled here into a nauseating violet-black hue. Amid the bone-piercing cold lingered the stench of sulfur and the sickly sweetness of ancient rotting flesh.
The ground beneath it was no longer pristine frozen earth and ice, but a layer of constantly writhing violet-black moss that emitted a dim phosphorescent glow.
This was the so-called [Corrupted Tundra].
Deep within the tundra, a mountain-like silhouette appeared and vanished amid