292: Chapter 292 The Price of a Clash Between Legendary Powerhouses! Morvis's Purpose!

Outside Aksai City.

The Frost Giant Legion came to a halt.

They stood quietly like towering mountains.

With every breath, the expelled white mist condensed into a low-hanging cloud curtain in the cold wind.

Movis did not immediately order Ilorn to launch a siege.

With a light tap of her toes, her entire body detached from Ilorn's shoulder like a snowflake and floated upward.

Her silvery-white long hair scattered in the wind, every single strand entwined with a faint, wispy frost aura.

Her skirt unfurled silently, blooming quietly like a flower woven from ice and snow.

An extremely powerful frosty aura began to emerge from her body, spreading outward like invisible ripples centered around her.

The moisture in the air began to condense, transforming into tiny ice crystals that slowly revolved and drifted around her...

In the sky outside the city.

She lowered her gaze, looking at Rowan on the city wall.

In that gaze, there was not the slightest emotional fluctuation, only an absolute, bone-chilling indifference.

In an instant, inside and outside the city wall, everyone's gazes followed her line of sight, involuntarily converging on the figure standing at the highest point of the city tower.

The Frost Giant Legion raised their heads.

The defenders held their breath.

Rowan looked at the woman suspended mid-air and understood the meaning in her gaze.

That was the most direct challenge!

He was silent for a moment, and then, under the watchful eyes of everyone, his toes lightly tapped the blue bricks of the city tower.

Boom——!

After a muffled sonic boom, his figure soared into the sky like an arrow released from a bowstring!

He stabilized his figure in the air about a hundred steps away from his opponent, faint blood-red light swirling around his body.

The two faced each other from afar.

The air of the battlefield seemed to congeal.

Everyone looked up at the figures of the two.

Invisible forces began to collide, intertwine, and probe within the space between them...

On one side was the bone-chilling Law of Ice and Snow.

That power carried the desolation and annihilation of frozen earth, as if it could freeze all vitality into eternal dead silence.

On the other side was the bizarre and unpredictable Law of the Red Moon.

That was an aura carrying bloodlust and madness, seeming capable of eroding all order and rationality.

The two forces met in the void.

There was no earth-shaking roar, but it stirred up ripples of space visible to the naked eye, the waves surging and spreading out in all directions...

Movis looked at Rowan, her thin lips parting slightly as she uttered three words: "Movis."

Her voice was not loud, but it clearly entered the ears of everyone present.

As her words fell, she raised her hand and waved.

There were no incantations, no hand seals.

Merely with a gentle sweep of that slender, glossy palm, dozens of ice spears formed out of thin air before her!

Rowan looked over, his pupils narrowing slightly.

Those ice spears were not ordinary ice crystals.

Their entire bodies presented a deep azure blue, with countless intricate runes faintly flowing within them.

He could sense that every single rune contained the origin power of the Law of Ice and Snow.

Merely being pointed at by those spear tips made his skin feel a needle-like chill, and the speed of his blood flow seemed to slow down by a fraction.

Thus, he likewise raised his hand.

The authority of the Red Moon Proxy suddenly activated!

A ferocious blood-red giant python gathered and emerged above his head.

This was the materialization of the Blood Erosion Law!

The two exchanged a glance.

The next instant—

The ice spears roared, tearing through the sky, trailing ice-blue wakes as they aimed straight for Rowan!

Wherever every ice spear passed, a white frost trail was clearly visible.

Rowan's pupils violently shrank, and the blood python above his head also let out a heaven-shaking roar, abruptly opening its mouth—

A thick curtain of blood-red light spewed out from it, meeting that rain of ice spears!

Boom——!!!

The ice spears and the blood light curtain fiercely collided in mid-air.

There was no dust from an ordinary explosion, only a pure counter-charge of the power of laws.

The power of the Law of Ice and Snow attempted to freeze everything, solidifying the blood-red erosion into an eternal ice sculpture.

Meanwhile, the power of the Blood Erosion Law frantically devoured, disintegrated, and corroded the structure of the ice and snow, causing those ice crystals that should have been indestructible to collapse inch by inch...

The two forces entangled with each other, exploding circle after circle of terrifying energy ripples in the void.

At the very moment the collision occurred.

A fluctuation invisible to the naked eye began to spread to every corner of the entire world along some deep channel of the world...

Within a certain range, legendary powerhouses everywhere suddenly opened their eyes, unanimously casting their gazes toward the direction where Rowan and Movis were fighting.

They sensed it—

In the Northern Territory, legendary-level powerhouses were fighting!

For a time, some frowned, some contemplated, some wore playful expressions, and others slowly awakened from deep sleep...

Some also discovered a fact at this moment, blurting out: "Red Moon Proxy?!"

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After the blow, the violent aftermath of the laws slowly dissipated in the sky.

Ice shards and blood-red light flickered, refracting a mesmerizing glow in the morning light.

However, Rowan's expression changed slightly.

He could sense that during the process of exchanging the power of laws with his opponent, the panel in his mind seemed to have undergone some subtle changes?

His consciousness sank into his mind, looking over.

Then, his heart shook.

The proficiency of his Myriad Furnace Breathing Technique had actually decreased by a chunk?

It looked like about several hundred points of proficiency!

It could even run in reverse?!

Rowan remained calm on the surface, but inside, he was shocked.

He quickly began searching for the cause.

Soon, he discovered the root of the problem.

The blood core in his furnace had suffered an imperceptible loss, which led to the decrease in the proficiency of the Myriad Furnace Breathing Technique.

And that blood core represented the law core condensed when he advanced to become an Red Moon Proxy; it was the source from which he invoked the power of the Law of the Red Moon.

He understood in an instant.

Although the Red Moon Proxy represented the authority of the Red Moon, this power was not infinite.

From a Vampire Prince to an Red Moon Proxy, it had cost a total of one hundred thousand proficiency points of sacrificial blood energy, which allowed him to acquire the ability to drive the Law of the Red Moon in the Northern Territory.

But this power was a fixed stock; before truly breaking through to the legendary realm, he could not replenish this origin power of the law by himself!

Every single consumption match against the power of laws of the same tier was consuming the origin power stored within the blood core!

If he exhausted this power within the blood core of his furnace to the limit, what would happen went without saying...

Just as his thoughts turned rapidly, Movis opposite him did not make another move.

She seemed to have been quietly and closely observing the changes in Rowan's expression since just now.

Seeing Rowan look back at her, a faint, intangible smile seemed to flicker across her cold, breathtakingly beautiful face, and then she spoke:

"Count Golden Flame, I suppose you should have noticed by now that combat between legendary-level powerhouses, unless necessary, actually benefits neither side."

Hearing this, Rowan frowned slightly.

The opponent was a long-established powerhouse and clearly knew the consequences of clashing the power of laws between legendary powerhouses.

Therefore, from the very beginning, she never intended to fight him to the death.

That blow.

Was more like a probe, a confirmation.

Then, what on earth was her purpose?

He was silent for a moment, then said in a deep voice:

"What do you want to do?"

Movis thought for a moment, seeming to weigh her words, before speaking earnestly:

"A contract, a promise."

Rowan's brow furrowed a few fractions deeper:

"What do you mean?"

Movis turned serious, a flash of solemnity passing through her eyes, and said word by word:

"I hope that at some point after the gap of the Moon Chant Tide opens, Your Excellency Red Moon Proxy will preside over a ritual on my behalf."

Hearing this, Rowan's eyes narrowed slightly.

He lowered his head to glance at the Frost Giant King below who was tilting his head to look up this way.

Then he raised his head again, looking at the breathtakingly beautiful snow elf suspended amidst the ice crystals opposite him, and said in a deep voice:

"What kind of ritual?"

Pausing, his voice grew a fraction colder:

"What if I refuse?!"

Hearing this, Movis chuckled lightly:

"Your Excellency Agent, there is no need to be so resistant. I guarantee this will be a win-win choice…"

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