The next second.
Dago released his grip on Winter Star in the Palm.
He withdrew the mental power valve that had maintained the high-pressure state.
The space in his palm even let out a sharp crack like a snapping string as it lost the restraint of that immense pressure.
Boom!
The Winter Star confined within a single palm, once the last trace of power binding it faded away, released its utterly compressed force like a trapped beast finally set free.
The dazzling deep-blue sphere exploded.
They were liquefied ice-element particles, roaring in fury from being packed too tightly.
A massive ring of deep-blue Iceflame spread outward first.
Silently, everything was frozen, scoured away, and crushed into dust.
Dust in the air was fixed within crystalline ice spikes, and even the angle of refracted light was distorted by the extreme cold.
Korklau's bone disk bore the brunt of it. It stopped spinning after only one exchange, the green light entwined around it fading in an instant before the entire disk was rapidly sealed beneath a thick layer of ice.
When the brilliant expanding blast behind the Iceflame erupted, the frozen bone disk shattered outright.
Crack! Crack!
Countless tiny ice crystals exploded into a sky full of stars.
Beneath the sky where shattered white bone fragments fell like a plunging deep-blue waterfall, Korklau threw back his head and roared, raising a small and exquisite Crystal Skull high with one arm. It radiated terrifying waves of power.
In an instant, countless green rays gathered toward him, and a gigantic skeleton "erupted from the ground" beneath his feet!
The bones interlocked, producing a teeth-grating scraping sound.
The skeletal giant formed by the spell had blazing green flames burning in its eye sockets and mouth. Its bony body possessed four arms, and a pair of