"Rumble~~"
Kolan held his blade, his speed instantly surging to its limit. He moved so fast that the world itself seemed to tremble and rumble around him.
In an instant, Kolan was high in the sky!
Without a sound, Kolan dove from above, blade in hand, and slashed viciously at the Ice Prison King.
But strangely, the strike made no sound at all, nor did it cause the slightest spatial tremor.
It looked like an utterly ordinary slash.
Yet the Ice Prison King remained where he was, completely unconcerned.
"Impressive!" The Ice Prison King exclaimed in admiration.
But in the next moment, the Ice Prison King swung his long whip, and it became hundreds of giant pythons, each seeming almost alive.
After countless years of nurturing by the Ice Prison King, the whip had become a Highgod Artifact of fairly fine quality.
It was far superior to Kolan's blade.
After a thousand years of nurturing, Kolan's blade had also reached the level of a Highgod Artifact.
But it still fell far short of the Ice Prison King's whip.
In an instant, Kolan's blade's momentum was disrupted.
"Kolan, your strike is indeed powerful, but it's still not enough to hurt me!" The Ice Prison King looked impressed.
"Again!" Kolan charged at him with his blade once more.
As the two fought, space shattered, and they became two blurs of light.
Suddenly—a flash of red seemed to flicker past.
"Hm?" Kolan furrowed his brow, feeling a sudden pang of unease. He reached out almost involuntarily and caught the red flash.
The red flash turned out to be a diamond-shaped red crystal resting in his hand.
The moment he saw the red crystal, Kolan felt as though his soul itself were being drawn to it.
With the red crystal in his hand, Kolan