Is the person you sculpt as cute as me?

at the same time--

The duel begins.

Looking at the fawn that has become an enemy before my eyes——

"Let me make it clear, I've already been very lenient—pre-reading skills and taking medicine before the duel are both manifestations of understanding the game..."

Yu Man moved his mouth quickly, but even so, it was far inferior to the vast ice curtain falling from the sky.

They released enough power to drown out all of Yu Man's words.

Yu Man looked at the sky, a little surprised.

The strength of this soul weapon is higher than he thought, and the bonus to magic seems to have reached the level of seventh level... But if his specialization is higher, maybe he can reproduce the momentum of the ice dragon calling for a natural disaster in a short period of time.

But now, this should be enough to decide the outcome.

“—I learned.”

"...Hmm?" Yu Man felt a little uncomfortable.

She could clearly hear the deer talking, as if the sound of a trumpet could float from the concert hall to the outside, loud and long.

This shouldn't happen.

This localized snowfall is one of the weapon's ultimate abilities, arguably its current maximum firepower. The icy shards that fall from the sky, the ice storm that rains down blades, are both capable of instantly killing people...

Then—she heard the sound of a sword and saw the man holding the sword.

Like a cult purger carrying out a beheading, Xiaolu held the evil sword in both hands and raised it from bottom to top.

Although we failed to cut through all of it, we still managed to carve out a safe path in the local snowfall.

Then—her toes lightly tapped the ice, and she flew towards Yu Man at the speed of a bullet.

When her sword reached Yu Man's neck, the piece of ice where she had stood remembered that it should explode.

Amidst the loud bangs and the noise of falling snow, Yu Man felt that the world was extremely peaceful.

Because—she was very close to death.

The closer the deer's two-handed sword was to his neck, the closer he was to death.

It’s amazing that every time before death, the world slows down and stretches out infinitely.

"Sigh—the sword I ordered for her...it's a bit formidable in her hands."

Thinking so complacently, Yu Man felt relaxed and happy, unleashing the new skills he had learned.

"Ice coffin."

This is her secret skill, which Xiaolu doesn't know about.

I was going to save my ultimate move to deal with her...

But there is no way. If I don’t take it out now, I will be defeated at the speed of light.

But, don't freeze yourself.

That would be the final word on your life, and you would live two more seconds.

But released to the fawn——

"Eh..." She noticed Yu Man's new thing and reacted instinctively, "The center of the lake——"

But he was a step slower.

Compared to his own defensive measures, Yu Man’s ice coffin was one step ahead.

At first, the little deer saw a few snowflakes on his arms.

She subconsciously thought it looked like scales, very beautiful—

But along with the thoughts at that moment, they were frozen in the "ice coffin".

The snowflakes bloomed instantly, one after another on her body.

They rise and fall one after another, covering and complementing each other.

In the blink of an eye, countless snowflakes turned into a coffin containing the fawn.

"What a talent..." He almost lost - Yu Changchang breathed a sigh of relief.

If she used the reflection magic skill called "Lake Heart Mirror", her head would undoubtedly be chopped off.

Before this, Xiaolu had never encountered a situation where he needed to use the "Lake Heart Mirror".

Plus, Yu Man was using a new skill, so Xiaolu was a bit slow to react... but she figured out a countermeasure in a split second... What a talent! Yu Man was once again amazed.

Now Yu Man has less than two seconds left.

She quickly retreated to create distance, while at the same time directing the still violent localized snowfall.

They are no longer loose forms, but directly condense into each other, becoming sharp, pencil-like forms.

It hangs over the fawn's head.

This was not enough, Yu Man used shaping magic madly to control the surrounding ice and snow.

Control – requires extensive and forceful control.

It was as if countless tanks were crashing into a wall from all directions. Now Xiaolu's ice coffin was that wall. Yu Man summoned countless ice and snow to block Xiaolu's space for movement.

Not only that, countless ice hands, strings, and prisons were all nearby, eager to try.

As soon as the deer come out of the ice coffin, they will stick to her endlessly.

Yu Man no longer had enough magic power left to pay for other skills.

The cooldown of "Ice Coffin" is too long, I can't use it a second time in this battle...

If this method still doesn't work to win, then I'm in trouble.

Also beware of Xiaolu's unused ultimate move...

Through the layers of transparent snowflakes, Yu Man and she in the coffin looked into each other's eyes.

Now, Yu Man has two skills left.

One is the "Sweet Nap" from the ring, a very powerful sleep control. However, if the deer uses a big move, the overly strong resistance brought by "No Blood"... may make the control ineffective.

There is another one - the skills brought by soul weapons.

"Retaining Time"

A completely unknown skill...should I believe in it?

“——Crack… crack…”

There is no time to think, two seconds are up.

The ice coffin showed the first crack.

Then—it fell apart.

All of Yu Man's accumulated control, like a ghost that had been hungry for a hundred thousand years, rushed frantically towards the deer. At the same time, the huge ice spike in the sky also roared down.

Backfired.

All this work was in vain.

"...Hey, can this be big?"

Yu Man felt that his control was as fast and sufficient as possible.

But in Xiaolu's eyes, there was still a glimmer of hope, enough for her to start.

"No blood."

This is not a manifesto, but a summary.

It was with her dark sword, which seemed to cut through the dusk and usher in the night—

A summary declared to this sea area.

"Tsk."

Not only the controls that pounced on the deer, but also the ice spikes that fell from the sky.

Also——cut apart by her sword.

"...He calmly thought out his strategy in the ice coffin... He even planned the process inside the coffin... So, he escaped immediately..."

The human blood that once existed in the fawn's body was paid as a price for some kind of evil.

An extremely rich evil force has now replaced them, becoming the fuel for the swordsman to transcend humanity and reach a state of madness.

From the two halves of the giant ice, the little deer climbed to the highest peak and looked down at Yu Man, feeling neither happy nor sad.

Only the black afterglow of the sunset surrounded her.

Ah... I still lost...

Yu Man was extremely frustrated. A fragile ice mage simply couldn't handle such explosive melee combat...

Without the ice coffin, he couldn't withstand her powerful attack.

"……Can--"

Want to try it?

Who responded to the thought in my soul that I was bound to lose?

That is the echo—that is the instinct—that is the recitation.

It was like when I was reading a book silently, the sound of someone reciting aloud came to my mind.

It was like asking yourself what one plus one equals, and the number two naturally flowed out of your mind.

It's like the last hope that emerges instinctively in a desperate battle.

That was a skill that resided in a corner of Man's soul, remaining silent until now—

"Retaining Time"

……

The deer stood on the iceberg and slowly sank into the sea with it.

But she took the time to take a screenshot, which was the scenery the winner saw.

Yu Man stood there gritting his teeth, looking up at himself. Ha, he looked very unwilling to admit defeat.

It doesn’t matter, my ultimate move is used.

Next, just jump over and chop it, and the unagi is ready.

only--

Yu Man opened a page of the "Holy Book of Time and Snow".

?

Then, time went back.

?

"I'll give you all my magic power!"

Yu Man flipped through the pages of his soul weapon, and following his instinct, used his newly acquired skill, "Retaining Time."

The feel is strange.

It is a directional skill, there is no problem with that. Yu Man pointed at the deer.

But then, it had a range of operation that Yu Man had never felt before.

Even in the first week, Yu Man didn't have - let alone heard of - this feeling.

"...I'm...adjusting...time?"

All the magic power she donated turned into this momentary scale.

And this skill is precisely to manipulate the scale called "time".

“…Rewind time?!”

But all the magic power Yu Man contributed was only enough to turn the scale back three seconds.