“Now!” Billy nodded in response.
“I’ll gather the troops right away!” James Reynolds replied loudly.
“Reynolds, you don’t need to come. There are still many matters in the city waiting for you to handle.” Billy responded. “I’ll have Lord Hum and Elder Shepherd bring a group of people with me!”
“Lord Dragon, the Frost Palace is one of the three major forces in the Polar Domain. Its strength should not be underestimated. I should go with you.” James Reynolds asked.
“Don’t worry, leave it to me!” Billy smiled faintly. “By the way, you have General Coates lead a group of people to station near Veridiania’s headquarters!”
“Veridiania?” James Reynolds was slightly surprised. “Do you mean to say…?”
“If my estimation is correct, this incident should be the work of Veridiania, prompting Frost Palace’s involvement.” Billy responded again.
“What?!” James Reynolds frowned. “Veridiania is really asking for trouble!”
“We’re only speculating for now. We’ll know for sure once we reach the Frost Palace.” Billy said with a serious tone. “If it’s confirmed to be Veridiania, we’ll settle all scores with them at once!”
“Understood!” James Reynolds nodded vigorously.
Twenty minutes later, three sledges drove out of the city gates and headed towards the direction of Frost Palace. Besides Billy and his entourage, Ernest Shepherd and Otis Hum brought a hundred people to join them. Most of these hundred people were elders from domestic super sects.
Frost Palace’s stronghold was about a five to six-hour drive from the city. Along the way, they encountered several waves of fierce beast attacks, but their attacks were not very strong. For everyone, it was just a piece of cake. After more than five hours, the sledges arrived at a relatively empty ice and snow plain. As far as the eye could see, there was endless ice and snow, with no signs of human habitation. There were no footprints or tracks on the snow or ice.
“Azure Dragon, are you sure their stronghold is nearby?” asked Judge.
“That one-eyed guy shouldn’t be lying!” Azure Dragon looked at his electronic device and said, “Based on the coordinates, it should be in that valley ahead.”
“Let’s go and take a look!” Billy nodded.
In no time, the three sledges arrived at the entrance of the valley.
“Azure Dragon, I think you’ve been fooled by that one-eyed guy!” Soul Chaser looked around and smacked his lips.
“It shouldn’t be!” Azure Dragon’s eyebrows furrowed slightly.
“Honey, do you see that place? It looks different from the others, right?” Harleen pointed to a large block of ice about ten meters high not far away.
Upon hearing her words, everyone looked in the direction she pointed.
“What’s different? I don’t see anything!” Stout looked for a while and spoke up.
“What can you see, you little brat!” Ivy glared at him and continued, “In other places, there’s more or less snow and ice falling from the strong winds, but that particular block of ice has none.” After saying that, she looked at Billy and said, “Billy, that place might be a problem.”
“Yeah.” Billy nodded slightly and said, “You all step back!”
Everyone responded and moved back about two to three hundred meters. Then, Billy’s eyes narrowed, and he raised his hand, sending a powerful gust of wind crashing into the ice block.
Boom! The entire block of ice exploded instantly, causing the surrounding snow and ice to fall, resembling a small avalanche. Fortunately, it posed no threat to everyone. After the ice block shattered, it revealed an ice cave entrance about four to five meters wide and over ten meters high.
“Who goes there?” At that moment, more than twenty men rushed out from the entrance of the cave, with different skin tones ranging from black to white.
“Damn! There are actually people here!” White Tiger exclaimed. “Could their stronghold really be built inside an ice cave?”
“You bastards, who are you? How dare you come here and act so recklessly, do you have a death wish?” one of the men shouted loudly.
Swish!
Before he could finish his words, Vermilion Bird swung his hand and unleashed a powerful slash.
The man, only at the level of a War God-Emperor, didn’t have time to react and was sliced in half by the blade.
“We’re under attack!” the others shouted loudly upon witnessing this scene, and quickly ran into the cave.
“Elder Shepherd, you and Lord Hum stay outside with everyone else for now. We’ll go in and check it out first!” said Billy.
“Alright!” Ernest Shepherd nodded. “Be careful!”
“Yes!” Billy responded and led Casey, Harleen, and the others towards the cave entrance.
They looked inside the cave entrance and saw a snowy passage, with smooth ice surfaces all around and a considerable amount of accumulated snow on the ground. The end of the passage couldn’t be seen at a glance.
“Boss, there’s something unusual about this place!” Frostblade spoke up after entering the cave.
“Everyone, stay together and follow me!” Billy nodded and led the group into the ice cave. At the same time, a powerful defensive aura enveloped everyone.
“Damn! How long does this passage go on for?” After walking for several minutes, Soul Chaser muttered.
Just as he spoke, a crisp sound reached their ears, indicating that someone had stepped on something.
“Be careful!” Billy shouted at the same time.
As his voice rang out, countless ice spikes of various sizes shot out from the surrounding walls, like blades, attacking the group. Densely packed and unstoppable, within a few hundred meters around them, the ice spikes rained down, totaling at least several thousand. However, each ice spike that collided with Billy’s defensive aura exploded into pieces.
“Damn! This trap is really something!” Soul Chaser cursed. “From the looks of it, even a War God-Emperor wouldn’t be able to withstand these ice spikes and would end up like a hornet’s nest.”
“Soul Chaser, you’re underestimating this trap. Even someone at the early stages of the Sovereign realm wouldn’t be able to defend against it!” Casey retorted.
“No way? It’s that powerful?” Soul Chaser exclaimed in surprise.
“Yea.” Casey nodded in response.
The group continued forward, and after another two minutes, the ice spikes finally stopped, and the passage returned to silence.
Boom!
After walking for another two minutes, the group arrived at a slope. Just as they took a few steps forward, a loud noise erupted. Billy looked ahead and saw more than a dozen large ice spheres, around two to three meters in diameter, rolling down the slope at a high speed, causing the entire passage to tremble.
“Damn!” Azure Dragon, who was right behind Billy, cursed. He could tell that the energy contained within these ice spheres was not something that even someone like him, at the mid-stage of the Sovereign realm, could easily dissolve.
“Billy, watch out!” Harleen exclaimed at the same time.