Anyone caught in Chen Xiao'en's golden gaze instantly found their shadow becoming a burden.
As their shadows grew heavier, their bodies slowed as well.
Meanwhile, some bizarre skill woven into the raging blizzard chilled them to the bone, even dulling their reactions considerably.
What drove them to even greater despair was that the icy wind extinguished their flame skills, the dark snow blocked their light skills, their mental attacks had no visible targets, and their spatial skills could find no bearings.
The sudden blizzard had completely shut down everyone's skills.
In that brief moment of hesitation, the black shadows on the ground surged up and pinned them down.
Then they were shocked even further.
Their skills were not merely blocked by the blizzard-they were also suppressed by the strange beasts within those shadows!
Those at domain sequence level two had no power to fight back against Chen Xiao'en.
Baron Henry's attendant stared in terror. "You're... actually at domain sequence level four?!"
Chen Xiao'en ignored him.
Once everyone was trapped, Chen Xiao'en flicked the silver coin into the air again and caught it.
"Collect the debt."
At his command, the beasts' eyes within every shadow lit up at once.
Boom!
The entire ground churned like boiling water, and countless black shadows emerged beneath their feet.
They had no fixed shapes. Some resembled wolves, others tigers, and others were nothing but mouths bristling with fangs.
They looked like monstrous beasts that had crawled out of hell.
One Sequence Ability User had only just raised a protective barrier when a beast's maw in his shadow bit down on its edge. A few seconds later, a ring of tooth marks appeared on the barrier's surface, and it shattered.
The man from the European Nation was dragged straight into his own shadow.
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