The customers arrived in a hurry, and the caravan Yang Yi was with braked abruptly.
The snow-walker locomotives ahead split to either side, pulling diagonally backward to gradually slow the enormous Treasure Ship until it stopped before the Ice Nest Swarm blocking its path.
Their leader was an enormous Crystal Giant over thirty meters tall, larger than any Crystal Giant he had seen before, indicating strength far beyond that of an ordinary Ice Nest Elder.
And inside this Crystal Giant's chest was no longer just a human head, but a section of a human body that included the chest, with a fist-sized White Shard in the center of its forehead.
Behind it were a dozen or so ordinary Crystal Giants, all under ten meters tall.
Judging by this display, they had clearly come looking for trouble. His suspected theft of the shards had already been exposed, and perhaps his killing of an Ice Nest Elder had been exposed as well.
Yang Yi considered many possibilities, but once he noticed a familiar figure among the swarm, he understood the reason.
So that was it...
He murmured inwardly.
Amid the swarm, a frostbitten young man hung suspended. Yang Yi had seen him not long ago. After all, he had been among the first customers, and Yang Yi had even given the two of them gifts.
His older sister was there too, though frozen in a block of ice. Beside her were several guards who had died gruesomely, their faces contorted, with only their heads left frozen in blocks of ice. They had all been brought here.
Now everything had been exposed.
Yang Yi had to admit that he had underestimated how swiftly the Ice Nest Believers could act.
The Ice Nest Worms had completely surrounded the Treasure Ship.
Yang Yi's expression remained