Odin stared at Gungnir in astonishment.
This was the first time he had ever encountered anything like this.
Gungnir had accompanied him through thousands of years of campaigns across the Nine Realms, yet no power had ever left a lingering corrosive effect on the divine weapon.
He immediately summoned the divine power within him, trying to hold back the strange ice flame.
The two forces used Gungnir as their battlefield, colliding furiously with a piercing hiss.
The spear shuddered violently as thunder erupted within it, driving back the Heavenly Blue Ice Flame inch by inch.
Odin's brow furrowed.
He could feel that, even through Gungnir, that absolute cold was seeping into his divine power.
As though it intended to freeze his power at its very source.
"What a terrifying flame."
Odin decisively raised his hand.
"Return!"
Gungnir became a streak of light, wrenching itself free of the ice and flying back into Odin's hand.
He gripped the shaft, and his divine power erupted. Golden thunder poured down like a waterfall, forcibly scouring away the ice flame clinging to it.
But a tiny cluster of flames still danced stubbornly at the spear's tip.
He could only suppress and drive it away, not extinguish it completely.
Without further hesitation, Odin flicked the spear.
That tiny cluster of Heavenly Blue Ice Flame detached from the shaft and fell to the ground.
Freed from the restraint of his divine power, the wisp of deep blue flame he had shaken onto the ground instantly spread again, expanding wildly from the point where it landed.
The temperature throughout the Training Ground plummeted.
The metal floor crackled as it froze, cracks spreading like a spiderweb.
Frost covered the ground, freezing more than half the arena in the blink of an eye.
Odin retreated without hesitation, leaving the