Balerion beat his leathery wings, and the gale the dragon brought first churned up the drifting white mist.
Amid a stretch of ice behind the Wight Horde, the wight leader appeared, holding the Horn of Ice. The hornblower was gaunt and unyielding as bare bone, his skin as pale as milk.
The White Walker leader sat upon a towering Frost-Ice Throne. Blue-white light flowed over the throne, as though it could nourish the surrounding Wight Horde.
The hornblower was not the Night's King, but as the commander of this attack and the horn's master, his status was equally exalted.
The Horn of Ice was curved and fashioned from Frost Ice. Its various runes shone with a dazzling blue-white light when blown.
Around him stood a ring of White Walkers of the same appearance. They opened their mouths, their voices like a frozen lake cracking, full of mockery.
"Dragonfire!" Balerion roared, and black-and-red fire spears swept toward them.
The White Walkers protecting their leader raised their weapons: Frostswords, Frost-Ice Shields, or Frost-Ice Long Spears.
The White Walkers' armor looked like snow in the cold night, but their blades gave off a blue glow.
Black-and-red dragonfire collided with blue-white light, like boiling water poured over ice, testing whose raw power was greater.
White Walkers feared dragonglass and dragonsteel, and true dragonfire naturally held a suppressive advantage over them as well.
Gendry tightened his grip on Lady Justice again. Sword aura danced with the longsword, and an arc of sword aura swept toward the Wight Horde.
The sword aura consisted of shifting flames, its power savage and overwhelming. Ordinary dead things could not withstand it at all and immediately caught fire.
The deep-blue flames at its core and the flames of other colors came not only from Lady Justice's "Dawn" rune, but also