The bone-chilling frost spread toward Lucian in a fan shape, freezing into ice spikes the instant it touched the ground.
The ice spikes then shattered inch by inch, exploding into fragments that shot toward Lucian once more.
Lucian summoned a storm, blocking the frost and the shards of ice.
But even without directly harming him, the drop in temperature still inevitably caused Lucian discomfort.
As the storm dispersed, the Ancient Hero of Zamor charged at him again. Lucian raised his left sword to block while swinging his right along her path of approach.
But when the Ancient Hero of Zamor reached him, she did not swing her great curved blade as she had before.
Instead, she pushed off with the tip of her foot and drifted to the side, spinning through the air.
She not only nimbly dodged Lucian's strike, but also landed behind and to his right.
Following through on her spin, the Ancient Hero of Zamor swung her curved blade in a full arc, slashing at Lucian's shoulder while his right hand was still recovering from its attack.
Her position was exceptionally clever. Lucian's left sword could not reach her in time to block, and his right hand had no time to change moves.
If that strike landed, Lucian would likely lose an arm outright.
But Lucian was no longer the man he had been before.
He simply imitated the Ancient Hero of Zamor, turning his body counterclockwise as he summoned a storm.
Driven by the storm, his left sword successfully blocked the Ancient Hero of Zamor's curved blade.
His right sword followed immediately, aimed straight at her waist.
The storm around Lucian made the scale armor strung around the Ancient Hero of Zamor's waist clatter.
This was a storm capable of tearing apart Demi-Human flesh, yet it