Chapter 469: Valkyrie and Saintess
"Holy Knights. It’s the Holy Knights."
Li Wei fell into thought upon hearing the Half-Beastman chief’s answer.
’So the ones who have been chasing me are the Holy Knights of the Light Divine Sect.’
This news was neither good nor bad.
At the very least, it was ten thousand times better than being pursued by a Cardinal in person.
After a moment of thought, Li Wei looked down at the Half-Beastman chief and asked, "How many Holy Knights are there? Are they still in the city?"
The Half-Beastman chief hurriedly replied, "Four Holy Knights. They... they should still be in the city. I only saw them enter; I never saw them leave."
Li Wei nodded. He figured he wouldn’t be able to get much more out of him.
Frankly, the Half-Beastman chief was just a low-life. It was impressive enough that he could even recognize a Holy Knight.
After all, in the isolated Ice and Snow City, there were no channels for contact with the Light Divine Sect.
The fact that the Holy Knights were seeking help from the Ice Queen made it clear that there was no Divine Hall of Light in the Ice and Snow City.
Otherwise, the Holy Knights would have had no reason to seek the Ice Queen’s aid.
This was a place so remote that even the Light Divine Sect had yet to establish a foothold.
Even so, the Light Divine Sect’s influence was still effective, just greatly diminished.
Seeing that there was a Legendary Level Holy Knight among the visitors, the Ice Queen didn’t dare to rashly refuse their request, lest she offend the most powerful force on the continent: the Light Divine Sect.
Li Wei asked a few more related questions, but the Half-Beastman chief’s answers were always vague. It was either "I heard..." or "Someone said..."—nothing he could confirm for himself.
Li Wei gave up hope of learning anything more.
Just as he finished his questions and was about to leave, his sharp hearing picked up the sound of light footsteps outside the door.
He extended his Spiritual Perception and discovered they were surrounded.
Li Wei’s brow furrowed. ’This trouble is really endless.’
’It seems I can’t stay in this Ice and Snow City any longer.’
This was fine, as Li Wei had been wanting to follow Xiong Er back to his tribe anyway, to meet their Witch Priest and ask about the Extreme Cold Abyss.
"Listen up in there! You’re surrounded! Surrender peacefully, give up resisting, drop your weapons, and come out."
Hearing this, the Half-Beastman chief’s eyes lit up, and his heart leaped with joy. He felt like his saviors had arrived.
He quickly turned and shouted toward the door, "Lady Valkyries, the wanted fugitive you’re looking for is in here!"
Li Wei glanced at him. ’Isn’t this guy afraid I’ll just kill him first?’
’So arrogant.’
But he probably hadn’t considered that possibility.
’Valkyries?’
Li Wei’s gaze flickered. ’The guards of the Ice and Snow City?’
BANG!
The main door was kicked open from the outside with great force, and several fully armed Valkyries in ice-blue armor appeared before Li Wei.
Each one looked formidable, their powerful auras impossible to ignore.
A Valkyrie’s sharp eyes swept over Li Wei through the slit of her helmet.
After a second of staring, she confirmed that the person before her was the one Her Majesty the Ice Queen was looking for.
SHING!
The one in the middle drew the Longsword from her waist, pointed it at Li Wei, and shouted, "Surrender peacefully! Stop resisting!"
Naturally, Li Wei had no intention of surrendering on the spot.
If he were caught by them and taken to the Ice Queen, he would most likely run into the Holy Knights who were hunting him.
He was not willing to clash head-on with the Holy Knights right now.
Whether he won or lost, it wouldn’t be a good outcome for him.
If he won, the Light Divine Sect would just send even stronger people to hunt him down.
If he lost, the result was easy to imagine.
He would either be captured and dragged back to the Light Divine Sect or be killed.
Neither was a good outcome.
Li Wei scanned the people around him, then looked up at the ice ceiling.
The Valkyries watched Li Wei’s strange actions, feeling that something was odd.
Seeing that Li Wei had no intention of surrendering, the Valkyries wasted no more words, charging forward with their weapons to capture him.
BOOM!
A ball of fire erupted from within the house, and a scorching red light flooded everyone’s vision.
The Half-Beastman chief and his lackeys let out miserable screams.
A moment later, they realized the flames hadn’t harmed them.
The fire was primarily aimed at the surrounding Ice Walls.
RUMBLE!
The ceiling overhead was blown off, and Li Wei shot up into the sky.
Blocked by the eruption of flames, the Valkyries could only look up and watch Li Wei fly away.
Li Wei had only flown ten meters when he felt the Ice Elements in the surrounding air become unusually active.
"Frozen Crystal Coffin!"
By the time Li Wei realized it was Ice Magic, the spell was already complete.
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
In an instant, Li Wei was encased in a large mass of Ice Crystals. Like an insect trapped in amber, his movements were completely frozen and stagnant.
The coffin-like, rectangular block of Ice Crystal fell to the ground.
Not far away, a woman in a fur-trimmed, ice-blue Mage Robe retracted her Magic Staff. She looked at the frozen Li Wei and let out a sigh of relief.
She had just breathed that sigh of relief when, the very next second, an ominous sound reached her ears.
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
The supposedly unbreakable Frozen Crystal Coffin had actually developed numerous cracks.
Faint wisps of hot air seeped out from the fissures.
The Ice Mage’s eyes widened in disbelief.
"Th-this... How is this possible?"
’No one should be able to cast Magic while frozen.’
With a tremendous BOOM, the incredibly solid Frozen Crystal Coffin exploded, shattering into countless fragments that flew in all directions.
Steam rising from his body, Li Wei slowly walked out of the exploding mist of ice.
Wisps of flame still lingered at the corners of his mouth.
After being frozen by the Frozen Crystal Coffin, it was indeed impossible to cast Magic.
The Frozen Crystal Coffin seals off the victim’s ability to perceive and manipulate external Elements.
It places them in a sealed state.
However, it cannot stop the trapped person from using the Power within their own body.
Unless it was a Forbidden Spell Level freezing Magic like "Absolute Zero."
Li Wei used Dragon Flame to break the Frozen Crystal Coffin’s seal.
The moment he broke free, he locked onto the Ice Mage who had cast the spell.
WHOOSH!
In the blink of an eye, Li Wei appeared before the Ice Mage.
The Ice Mage’s eyes widened, and she froze.
She never imagined a Mage could be so fast.
The Ice Mage’s reaction speed was also incredibly fast. Almost the instant she saw Li Wei appear, she subconsciously used the "Ice Resistance Ring" spell, wanting to push him away.
Her Casting speed was also astonishingly fast.
This showed that her strength was by no means weak and her talent was extremely high.
However, the distance between them was too close.
No matter how fast her Casting was, it wasn’t faster than Li Wei’s move.
Li Wei slapped the Magic Staff out of the Ice Mage’s hand with his right hand, interrupting her Casting. A Fireball appeared in his palm, which he then thrust toward the Ice Mage’s head.
WHOOSH!
The gust of wind from the Fireball blew off the Ice Mage’s hood, sending her hair flying.
When Li Wei saw her face, he felt a strange sense of familiarity.
’Have I seen her somewhere before?’
Subconsciously, he stopped his attack.
"Stop! Let go of the Lady Saintess!"
The Valkyries rushed over frantically.
"Saintess?"
Li Wei was inwardly surprised. He stared at the Saintess for a moment, and for reasons unknown, instead of delivering a killing blow, he hoisted her over his shoulder, flew straight into the sky, and vanished before their eyes.
He left the Valkyries standing in disarray in the cold wind.