Terror Descends

"Damn it! What rank of magical beast force field is this?!"

The two men's expressions changed drastically almost at the same time. The tremor rising from the depths of their souls made them instantly abandon all pretense of composure and greed.

Without hesitation, Austin immediately severed his spiritual connection to the spell array, unconcerned even about suffering backlash. Barlow directly crushed an instant shield rune.

They did not even have time to gather the precious materials from the ground. They took flight at once, turning into two streaks of gray light as they fled desperately into the sky.

However, before an existence of this rank, their speed was as slow as snails.

The moment they had risen into the air, they felt the light above them become completely blocked out.

They looked up in terror and saw the thick clouds high overhead forcibly torn apart by some horrifying power, while vast sheets of frost fell like meteors.

Immediately afterward, an enormous serpentine shadow over a hundred meters long and as wide as a city wall entered their sight, carrying the momentum to crush everything in its path.

It was a magnificent snake body that seemed carved from ice crystal. Every scale was as large as a shield, covered in mysterious natural runes.

A single dark-blue horn, like a giant curved blade, grew from its head, gleaming with a frigid light that seemed capable of freezing space itself.

Wind and snow wrapped around it as an ancient, savage, icy aura surged forth like the tide of an ice age, instantly freezing every inch of space for miles around.

The might of an ancient serpent species, a magical beast overlord at the top of the food chain, weighed upon their hearts like a mountain.

The two First-Ring Wizards, usually so lofty and