The ice crystal arrow ultimately failed to strike directly.
Just as its tip was about to pierce that crimson eye, the vertical eye on Wanda's forehead abruptly contracted, then violently expanded—a beam of black-and-red light burst from the depths of its pupil and slammed into the arrowhead, which gleamed with icy radiance!
"Pop."
A soft sound, like ice splintering.
The arrow exploded at once, yet it had not been destroyed. Rather, as if it had been prepared all along, it suddenly "bloomed."
It shattered into countless tiny particles of icy crystal dust, glimmering with pure blue light as they swiftly spread across the battlefield.
The ice crystals seemed alive, drifting lightly toward everyone still struggling against the corruption in their hearts.
They fell upon the enraged Hulk, rapidly spreading to temporarily seal him away along with the surging black-and-red veins; more ice crystals hovered in the air, forming rings of small, faintly glowing barriers that sheltered everyone within.
The battlefield, once violent and chaotic, abruptly sank into a strange silence as this ice crystal flower bloomed.
Even the thick stench in the air seemed to have faded considerably.
In that instant of utter stillness, when everyone's minds had been seized—
A pink streak of light, like the softest petals of early spring gathered together, swept across the battlefield at a speed too fast for the eye to catch, silently descending among those protected by the ice crystals.
The glow dispersed, and Elysia appeared.
She still wore that magnificent attire, a longbow in hand, her pink hair gently stirring.
She did not look at anyone. She merely closed her eyes softly, then opened them again.
A warm, clear voice, as though it could seep into the deepest depths of one's soul, rang directly within everyone's hearts:
"In the name of my