Zong Shen paid no heed to the three heavy hammers crashing toward him from behind with the force of wind and thunder.
All his focus was fixed on the deep-blue ice shield before him, riddled with cracks and embedded with his battle blade.
Although the Ice Crystal Golem Captain's head was covered in fractures, its silver light had not yet gone out.
Yet its torso and arms still maintained their defensive posture through inertia.
That ice shield remained tough as ever, blocking the battle blade's advance.
Just as the three heavy hammers wreathed in blue lightning arcs were about to strike the thin grayish-white halo behind Zong Shen—
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Dull, drumbeat-like impacts rang out in succession. Violent ice-and-lightning energy collided with his resilient body, spraying blue-white sparks across the air.
Zong Shen's body shifted slightly, yet he forcibly withstood the three consecutive blows powerful enough to split mountains and shatter stone.
A sharp gleam flashed in his eyes.
He did not try to pull the battle blade back from the ice shield.
Instead, he released the hilt with his right hand and thrust out both palms.
Concentrated grayish-white beams of Chaos light, almost tangible in their solidity, burst from all ten fingertips at once.
They were not aimed at the golem's head.
Instead, they precisely pierced the densest intersection of the spiderweb-like cracks on the ice shield itself.
"Break!"
The inclusive and dissipating properties of Chaos divine power were pushed to their utmost limit.
Like the finest surgical scalpels, the grayish-white beams invaded, spread along, and assimilated the breaks in the ice shield's internal energy pathways.
The thick deep-blue ice shield rapidly darkened from the center of its cracks.
It seemed as though it had endured the erosion of countless ages.
Then, without a sound, it turned into