With a collision sound that compressed the air, a black shadow was sent flying a hundred meters from the point of impact like a cannonball. Her night-colored cloak billowed wildly in the wind as she twisted her body in mid-air to control her center, smashing through several Danger Beasts before finally stopping her momentum. Rin, covered in blood, was sent flying quite a distance before she finally managed to steady herself.
The moment Rin's fist collided with the Black Qilin's claw, Rin felt as if she was directly clashing with a mountain flying towards her. This was the first time Rin had been defeated in a direct confrontation of strength since she had mastered Mana Burst. Of course, a major reason was that magic could not be used in the Akame ga Kill World, and thus reinforcement magic could not be used either.
Because Rin had consumed the Ice Phoenix's blood to create the noble phantasm Demon God's Descent - Essence of the Devil, her Mana could generate a "freezing" attribute change externally. Rin, who never suffered losses, did not let the Black Qilin off easy either. The moment their fists and claws collided, Rin's Mana had already invaded the Black Qilin's entire body. The extremely cold freezing Mana was raging within its body, causing the Black Qilin's entire body to stiffen and making it difficult to move. Thus, it could not pursue Rin, who had been sent flying.
Rin glanced at the ice wall that the Black Qilin had just crashed through. Because Rin's ice walls were all ten meters long and wide, they all had a Qilin-shaped hole crashed through their middle. The remaining parts of the ice wall showed no signs of additional damage or cracks, indicating that the Black Qilin's ability was not to shatter the ice walls with tremors. Rin's recent direct confrontation with it further confirmed this point.
Could this be a Super Danger Beast known for its sheer strength and tough hide?
The extremely cold Mana, capable of freezing city gates, could only slow down the Black Qilin's movements. If it were a Special Grade Danger Beast, Rin's punch would have directly turned it into countless ice shards flying across the sky.
Rin frowned as she watched the Black Qilin gradually regain its movements. Its actions were indeed affected by my Mana; directly, it didn't seem to be exempt from the "freezing" effect. However, there were no signs of internal organs or blood freezing within its body. Since it couldn't be exempted, it meant the temperature wasn't low enough to freeze it.
Rin could guarantee that the coldness of that punch was enough to freeze one claw of a Wind God Winged Dragon, and this Black Qilin's body was not even half the size of a Wind God Winged Dragon's claw. This strange Danger Beast was truly unfathomable.
At this moment, the increasingly close sounds of battle caught Rin's attention. The Seventh Legion officers' battle was getting deeper and gradually approaching here. Once they entered Rin's and the Black Qilin's battle, they would undoubtedly be instantly crushed without any resistance.
I can't let them get close here. I need to establish a battlefield advantageous to myself first.
Rin made up her mind. A cold, cyan light bloomed beneath Rin's feet. Instantly, a freezing chill radiated outwards from Rin, rapidly spreading in all directions. The Danger Beasts that couldn't escape this ice domain were all indiscriminately turned into ice sculptures in an instant. High-grade and Special-grade Danger Beasts could still maintain the posture they had at the moment of being frozen, standing tall on this frozen land. The weaker Danger Beasts, whose bodies were not tough enough, were directly shattered and returned to the sky and earth.
The place where Rin and the Black Qilin were fighting was near the edge of the Forest of Dangerous Species. Half of the radiating ice domain was within the Forest of Dangerous Species. The freezing air radiating towards the battlefield was quickly detected by the Seventh Legion officers, who immediately retreated. After the ice surface spread two kilometers towards the battlefield, a ten-meter-high wall rose, enclosing a sealed absolute domain.
Just then, a Danger Beast that had been sent flying crashed into the domain's ice wall. The cold air enveloped it the moment of impact, then it shattered into pieces along with the ice shards.
"This, what is this?..."
The sudden anomaly startled everyone, but the thousands of Danger Beasts that perished in this single strike were undoubtedly a huge aid to the Seventh Legion. At this moment, Rin's voice echoed from the depths of the ice plain, reaching the ears of the Seventh Legion members.
"No one is to approach this frozen domain. Those who disobey will die!"
Rin no longer had the mind to care about external matters. She now had to figure out the Black Qilin's weakness and eliminate it before her body's Mana ran out. In fact, Rin had discovered an extremely terrible situation as early as when she arrived in this world. Before coming into contact with noble phantasms, she couldn't use Mana, which was somewhat negligible. But now that she had come into contact with methods of using Mana, this point became greatly disadvantageous to Rin.
There was no Greater Source in the Akame ga Kill World… In this world, there was no Greater Source of life force floating in the air. Therefore, Rin could not infinitely absorb and convert Mana from the air. In this world, Rin could only use the Lesser Source Mana converted from her own body's life force. Rin's body was indeed incredibly powerful, even surpassing true Divine Beasts and Phantasmal Species, but this was still too far from infinite.
"Roar!!!"
The Black Qilin roared again. As it ran on all fours, the ice surface beneath its feet instantly shattered, and the entire frozen ground trembled with its strides. The shattered ice layers would immediately restore themselves after the Black Qilin's claws left. Countless giant ice shards rose up, obstructing the Black Qilin's steps from all directions, instantly appearing like an entire frozen forest rising out of thin air.
"Boom!"
However, the Black Qilin was like a speeding steel battering ram. No matter how hard the ice shards were, they were rendered useless, shattering upon impact. The Black Qilin's charge was extremely fast, instantly breaking through all obstructions and reaching Rin. Just then, an ice pillar instantly emerged beneath Rin's feet, lifting her ten meters high. The Black Qilin, reacting too slowly, directly crashed into and broke the ice pillar beneath Rin's feet. Rin somersaulted in mid-air, facing downwards, and another ice pillar suddenly materialized behind her as a relay point. She pushed off with both feet, like an arrow released from a bow, charging towards the Black Qilin's back—
Boom!!!
Exploding, flying ice shards danced in the sky, and the ten-meter radius of frozen ground shattered like a blossoming flower! Rin was seen standing on the Black Qilin's back, holding the lake light of no regret with both hands reversed. The knight's longsword plunged towards the Black Qilin's eye socket, but was blocked by the tiny scales on its closed eyelid and could not pierce through.
"What a joke!"
Mana imbued with the "freezing" attribute instantly flowed down the sword. The extremely deep cold Mana Burst acted on the point where the sword tip touched the Black Qilin's eyelid, rapidly freezing the Black Qilin's right eyeball through the scales. Rin slightly raised the sword tip and then forcefully stabbed (smashed) down again. With a "crunch!" sound, the Black Qilin's right eye was crushed and shattered within its closed socket.
The extremely cold temperature would numb sensations. Although the Black Qilin couldn't feel the pain of its eyeball shattering, it understood that one of its right eyes had been destroyed. The enraged beast immediately rolled sideways, intending to crush Rin with its body weight. Rin, of course, would not fall for such a move. She leaped with all her might, and a rapidly growing ice surface caught her. What truly concerned Rin, however, was what happened next—
"Boom!!!"
The moment the Black Qilin's body touched the ground as it rolled sideways, it directly triggered a violent earthquake! The hundred-meter radius of solid ice was directly shattered, and huge cracks spread further. Even the ice platform beneath Rin's feet was instantly cracked.
Too heavy! The weight of this Black Qilin is severely out of place! Rin thought with a frown.
Just a single roll to the side caused an impact like a comet landing, shattering ice harder than steel as easily as foam.
One must know that the exertion of force requires sufficient support; it's like being unable to leverage anything in the air.
The reason this Black Qilin has always been unstoppable is because it is extraordinarily heavy, and at the same time possesses enough agility to control its body weight.
Its body, though only the size of a bull, weighed as much as a mountain.
Such immense weight concentrated in such a small space had almost reached the critical point of crushing space itself.
On the icy surface of the ice domain, two ice-sealed cliffs, tens of meters high, rose out of nowhere, sandwiching the Black Qilin.
Rin's hands clasped together in front of her chest, and the two ice cliffs crashed together, becoming one.
Rin, having consumed the Demon God's Descent - Essence of the Devil, was like an Ice Phoenix reborn; her mastery over freezing and ice had surpassed the realm of magic!
Ice was as freely controlled as her fingers.
In this frozen domain, before her magic power ran out, Rin was an absolute god!
However, a moment later, the ground trembled as if an earthquake had struck, much like Sun Wukong breaking free from the Five Elements Mountain.
The Black Qilin, in less than a moment, broke free from the ice mountain, bursting out and leaping towards Rin on the hundred-meter ice platform.
With its weight, this impact on the ground would be enough to create a meteorite crater.
Facing the Black Qilin, which lunged like a meteor descending from the sky, Rin's delicate brows furrowed slightly.
She knelt down, placing her right palm on the ice platform beneath her feet, and ice-blue magic power surged forth—
Mana Burst (Ice)!
Rumble, rumble, rumble—!
Just as the Black Qilin reached its highest point and was about to descend towards Rin, a massive ice mountain rose from the ground, carrying the Black Qilin higher and higher into the sky, moving like a high-speed train rushing towards heaven.
As the ice mountain continuously rose, Rin also faced the ice mountain and leaped vigorously, stepping on the side of the ice mountain.
When Rin stepped on the ice surface, a thin layer of solid ice appeared on the side of Rin's shoe soles, allowing her to stand on the ice parallel to the ground.
While rising with the ice mountain, she ran swiftly towards the summit, treading on the ice surface as if walking on flat ground, parallel to the earth.
When the ice mountain rose several hundred meters, even the hardest ice could no longer bear the combined weight of the Black Qilin and the ice itself.
Cracks instantly spread from the highest peak to the ground connection, and then it exploded with a crash!
At this moment, Rin's figure also reached the position of the Black Qilin at the highest point.
Her combat boots stomped forcefully on the head of the still somewhat bewildered Black Qilin, and she leaped vigorously higher into the sky!
At an altitude of a thousand meters, with the bright sun behind her as a backdrop, Rin looked down at the Black Qilin, which was falling towards the ground with her, a hundred meters below.
"Let me see what else you've got!"
"Snap!"
A crisp snap echoed through the sky.
An ice orb appeared in the space between Rin and the Black Qilin.
The ice orb rapidly froze and expanded at an unimaginable speed, instantly transforming into a behemoth with a diameter exceeding five hundred meters!
Profound Mystery: Ice Moonfall!
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