Ice-blue mist churned across the screen as the three-person party successfully rushed into the sealed-off edge passage.
This had once been Belobog's bustling waiting plaza, but now it was covered in strange ice crystals and dark matter.
A suffocating sense of distortion filled the air.
Snow Empress controlled her character, rare astonishment showing on her breathtakingly beautiful face.
"This ice... no, it cannot even be called ice."
Snow Empress moved her character closer to a wall corroded by the Fragmentum. "There is no flow of temperature within it, only pure spatial stagnation. This is a law capable of devouring reality and transforming it into distorted objects. This game's understanding of elements and space is astonishingly profound."
Ice Empress snorted. "Who cares what law it is? As long as it has a health bar, I'll smash it to pieces!"
In the story, the three-person party felt their way forward through the mist.
[March 7th: What exactly happened? Why did that Supreme Guardian suddenly send people to arrest us? Launching a Raid while people are sleeping so peacefully is way too underhanded!]
[Dan Heng: That woman has an unsettling aura about her... It seems my intuition did not lie.]
The road ahead was blocked by a tightly shut iron gate.
[March 7th: This door doesn't seem like it can be opened directly... Hey, don't you think the structure of this mechanism looks a little familiar?]
[Dan Heng: Indeed. We saw one at Serval's Workshop. We need to crack it quickly; the pursuers are right behind us.]
"Another one of these connection puzzles?"
Wang Qiuer's eyes lit up. Her hands blurred into afterimages, and she completed the [Magnetic Flux Threshold] puzzle in less than two seconds.
"Quick, quick, quick! There has to be a treasure chest behind that door! My Stellar Jade! My