Over on Gray and Caesar's side, the two Ice Mages were fighting with unusual intensity.
The roar from Caesar's mouth was like an invisible force, making the surrounding air tremble.
The ice-blue coldness spread outwards at a terrifying speed; wherever it reached, the ground was quickly covered in ice, the once solid earth now smooth as a mirror, reflecting a cold light.
Gray stood on the ice, his ice boots keeping him firmly rooted in this icy world.
His gaze was fixed on Caesar, without a trace of fear in his eyes, only a thirst for battle.
"Ice Make: Lancer!" Gray growled, clapping his hands together. The cold air in his palms rapidly condensed, and sharp ice spears formed before him, glinting with a chilling light as they shot out.
Caesar's lips curled into a disdainful sneer. He violently swung his tiger claws, and a blast of ice-blue cold air roared out, directly shattering all the ice spears Gray had launched.
"Is that all you've got?" Caesar's voice was low and hoarse, full of mockery.
"It's enough to deal with you!" Gray, expressionless, clapped his hands together again, cold air rising around him. "Ice Make: Ice Spikes Formation!"
In an instant, centered on Gray, countless dense ice spikes erupted from the ground. These ice spikes advanced rapidly towards Caesar in a formation, each one incredibly sharp.
"Such fast shaping speed..." Caesar's pupils slightly contracted when he saw this.
He let out a deafening roar, and the ice-blue cold air around him surged again, forming a solid Ice Shield around him.
The Ice Spikes Formation crashed against the Ice Shield, emitting a series of dense cracking sounds, and ice shards flew, but they were ultimately unable to break through Caesar's defense.
"Too bad, the strength isn't quite enough, kid," Caesar sneered, then leaped up, charging towards Gray like a cannonball.
He raised his tiger claws high, thick layers of ice condensed on them, with sharp ice blades faintly glinting within the ice. If this strike connected, it would be enough to tear Gray to shreds.
Gray's expression changed slightly; from Caesar's large, robust physique, he knew the close-combat strength was absolutely exaggerated, and he dared not be careless in the slightest.
Ice-blue cold air spewed from his feet, and a layer of ice crystal road pushed him along. The moment Caesar was about to hit him, his figure flickered, appearing several meters away.
Caesar's tiger claws slammed heavily onto the ice, the powerful force directly smashing a huge crater into the ice, and the surrounding ice layers also cracked.
"Only running away?" Caesar landed, twisted his head back, and swung his tiger claws again. Streaks of ice-blue cold air shot from his claws, roaring towards Gray.
These cold air attacks, shaped like claw marks, carved deep gouges into the ice, shattering the ice layers wherever they went.
Gray clapped his hands on the ground, and a cerulean Ice Wall rose from the earth, blocking the cold air claw marks' attack. After a brief delay, the Ice Wall shattered into thick cold air.
"Ice Make: Ice Bird!" Gray clapped his hands together, and a giant ice bird formed in his hands.
This ice bird was lifelike, its outstretched wings several meters long, its eyes glinting with a cold light, as if it possessed life.
The ice bird flapped its wings and flew high, pouncing towards Caesar.
Caesar looked at the flying ice bird, a disdainful sneer on his lips.
He suddenly exhaled a blast of cold air, which instantly condensed into countless slender ice arrows, shooting towards the ice bird.
Under the attack of the ice arrows, cracks appeared on the ice bird's body, but its speed did not decrease as it charged towards Caesar.
Just as the ice bird was about to collide with Caesar, it suddenly opened its mouth and spewed out a powerful blast of cold air.
Caesar hadn't expected the ice bird to have such an attack method. He didn't have time to dodge, but he wasn't flustered. He opened his mouth and also spewed a blast of cold air, freezing the ice bird along with it, arriving first despite starting later.
Caesar raised his hand and punched the ice bird sculpture in front of him, shattering it. As ice crystals flew, dozens of ice crystal spears shot directly towards his face.
Through the gaps in the ice crystal spears, Caesar saw Gray's expressionless face, confident and composed.
"Such shaping speed is indeed unusual," a hint of excitement flashed in Caesar's eyes. He hadn't encountered such a formidable opponent in a long time.
Caesar made a grabbing motion with both hands towards the front, and the cold air around him condensed into two giant ice tiger claws that shredded the incoming ice spears.
Gray's chest heaved violently, his ice boots carving fine ice crystals on the mirror-like ice.
Caesar gently shook his hand, and ice shards on his white fur refracted a diamond-like luster.
The white mist exhaled by both of them collided in the air, condensing into tiny ice beads that fell rustling.
Caesar's tiger tail swept fan-shaped cracks across the ice, and he bared his teeth in a ferocious grin, "What good is fast shaping speed?"
His right claw suddenly tripled in size, and tiger stripes appeared on the condensed ice blade. "My ice, it eats people!"
The piercing shriek of the ice tiger claw tearing through the air stung the eardrums.
Gray crossed his arms, and cold air instantly rose from the ground in front of him, condensing into an Ice Shield, but it was immediately sent flying backward by the immense force upon contact.
The ice surface plowed a ten-meter-long gully under his boots. Gray suddenly lifted his foot and stomped, and an Ice Spike Wall suddenly shot up behind him, barely helping him stop his momentum.
Fragments of the shattered Ice Shield embedded into his arm; the blood that had just seeped out was frozen into red crystals by the cold.
"Ice Make: Ice Coffin!" Gray bent down and clapped his hands on the ground, his fingers digging into the ice.
Six Ice Walls rose from the ground, sealing Caesar within, and hundreds of inverted spikes instantly grew inside the ice.
But before the ice coffin could fully close, cracks exploded from within—Caesar had actually bitten through the ice crystals with his fangs!
Ice-blue blood dripped from the white tiger's mouth, Caesar's pupils contracted into two vertical slits, his fierce aura making it impossible to look him directly in the eye. "Not enough, still not enough!"
Caesar landed on all fours, stomping the ice with a deafening roar. Instantly, the ice surface within a hundred-meter radius simultaneously swelled and shaped, and countless ice cones, like sharp tiger teeth, burst from the ground.
Gray leaped into mid-air, stepping on the constantly crumbling ice. An ice bird suddenly condensed beneath his feet, but in the next second, its wings were pierced by an ice pillar that shot up into the sky.
Gray tapped his feet in mid-air. The moment the ice bird was pierced by the ice pillar, it raised a wing to cushion his feet.
Gray pushed off the ice bird's wing with force, and his entire body shot sideways like a cannonball.
The ice pillar grazed his clothes, the sharp ice blade cutting a long slit in his garment.
Gray performed two consecutive aerial flips to dissipate the force, then rolled upon landing, kneeling on one knee, his ice boots creating a shower of sparks against the ice. He pressed his hands onto the ice, and ice-blue cold air erupted, "Ice Make: Swarm of Snakes!"
From within the cold air, several giant ice snakes emerged from the ice beneath his feet. They twisted their bodies, their ice-blue scales glinting with cold light, and as their forked tongues flickered, they exuded a bone-chilling coldness, surging towards Caesar.
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