Seeing Balga's arrogant speech, a flash of anger involuntarily flickered in Krus's eyes, but he quickly reined it in.
As a long-established Crown Tier powerhouse with the Crown title of "Ruler of Ice", he was naturally not unfamiliar with Balga, the vanguard general of the Demon King's Army. He also understood that after entering the other party's spatial technique domain, short of heavily injuring or killing the other party, it would probably be difficult to escape using ordinary means. Yet he did not feel particularly worried or nervous about this.
Although Balga's past record was astonishing—having not only reversed the momentum of a large-scale siege battle by relying on his own strength, but also having single-handedly slain several Crown Tier powerhouses—his strength was undoubtedly formidable. However, those Crown Tiers slain by Balga were either purely mental-type mages whose powers were suppressed under the spatial trial technique, or purely physical-type mages who could not discern Balga's exquisite spatial movement and were thus directly wounded by him.
Furthermore, none of those Crown Tiers had ranked in the top one hundred and fifty back then; while they possessed Crown Tier status in strength, they were worlds apart from true Crown Tier powerhouses. On the other hand, as the Ruler of Ice, whose Crown ranking currently sat at one hundred and twenty-seventh, his combat prowess was simply not on the same tier as those targets slain by Balga. Moreover, he also inherited the Frost Giant Bloodline of the Froststar Clan, granting him physical strength far surpassing that of ordinary humans.
And he himself was an accomplished master of water-type magic and totem magic.
At the same time, he had meticulously cultivated the way of assassination, making him an absolute all-around warrior.
Making a comprehensive judgment, let alone facing World-Shattering Fist Balga today, even if