Lasers traveled as fast as light.
But that was only the ideal figure under normal conditions, or even in a vacuum.
For laser weapons, the current environment was utterly unsuitable.
A blizzard shrouded the entire Icefield, filling the air with snowflakes and ice crystals.
Those snowflakes and ice crystals would absorb, scatter, and reflect the laser beams, causing severe energy attenuation and loss of power.
They would also greatly weaken the lasers' beam quality and focusing ability.
And those two factors were precisely what allowed laser weapons to deal such devastating damage.
Repeated scattering and refraction would turn an originally straight laser beam broad and diffuse.
When snowflakes absorbed energy from a laser, they would heat the surrounding air locally, changing its density and directly causing the beam to distort, deviate, and lose focus.
In other words, using laser weapons in a blizzard like this was essentially pointless. They would inflict no damage on their targets.
The earlier laser beams had shattered the Frost Giant Axe because the City Defense Barrier had kept the blizzard outside, leaving the beams virtually undiminished.
Now, with the Frost Giant Ape enveloped in a thick blizzard, Wu Qiming should never have used laser weapons, no matter how one looked at it.
At the sight, a mocking smile appeared on the Ice Crystal Spider Demon's lips. It had created the blizzard.
Even the Frost Giant Ape's eyes filled with disdain once again.
These Frost Creatures understood the properties of ice and snow all too well. The Frost Giant Ape did not even consider dodging. It merely raised its Ice Axe and swung at a heavy combat vehicle that had been harassing it.
But how could Wu Qiming not know that blizzards countered laser weapons?
There was not the slightest trace of nervousness on his face.