He seemed completely intoxicated in the slaughter and chaos he orchestrated.
Suddenly, an inexplicable fluctuation caught his attention.
He opened his eyes, his gaze locked onto a breathtakingly beautiful girl riding on the back of a giant black-feathered vulture, continually attacking the Rune Formation, her smile gradually widening.
His eyes flickered, and he formed a Seal with his hands, manipulating the Array to rumble into action.
Following that, the black-feathered vulture, initially attacking the Array, suddenly turned its head, its cold and sinister gaze cast forth, and in a blink, it let go of the girl on its back and transformed into an old woman in a Black Robe, rushing towards him at high speed.
The next moment, above the Ancient Fairy City Ruins, two unparalleled black "Arrogant Suns"... clashed fiercely!
Lively and skipping golden Light Arrows, like beautiful porcelain, shattered between the narrow, Sharp fingers into countless tiny specks of broken light, scattering around.
Selena’s eyes lost their calmness, both shocked by the "Transformation" occurring on Ronan and distracted by the turmoil outside, continually casting her gaze between the sky and the battles erupting below.
A double-toned, deep voice resonated by her ear.
"You shouldn’t be distracted.."
As the voice sounded, all the noisy sounds by her ear seemed to vanish, and even the air stopped flowing.
A hard-to-describe Deep Cold abruptly invaded Selena’s heart, bringing her the most intense sense of crisis she had ever felt.
Without warning, Selena’s figure was shot backward like a cannonball.
The layers of interwoven golden light around her body collapsed in an instant.
In the dispersing golden light, like startled fireflies, a tyrannical and fierce body abruptly appeared beside Selena as if about to brush past her.
Dark red hair gently swept across Selena’s nose, and in the prolonged moment, Selena turned her head in astonishment, meeting a pair of crimson, bizarre vertical pupils.
The absolute stillness and Deep Cold emanating from those eyes, like a disregard from ancient times, made her shiver involuntarily.
In the next instant, everything vanished completely, as if it was only a momentary illusion.
Only a few blood-red snowflakes gently floated by in front of her.
Selena didn’t have time to react when a Giant Power struck her from the back, she grunted and shifted from retreating to lunging forward...
In the blink of an eye, Selena’s body twisted in multiple directions within the not-so-large Space on the platform, time alternating rapidly between extremely fast and extremely slow, each pause in time showing an image of Selena changing postures and being "pummelled."
In an instant, Selena let out a yell, and a powerful golden light burst out from her entire body, her golden lavish female-style armor shining almost to the brilliance of colored glaze in an instant!
The terrifyingly explosive Energy oppressively gushed past like a strong wind.
Ronan stopped in his tracks, slightly squinting his eyes, his dark red long hair whipping high due to the powerful Energy impact, resembling a cascade of Bloodfall.
As the intense light gradually faded, the regal and majestic Selena reappeared, gripping a golden Big Bow, with golden arrows congealed on the bow with physical-like flint tips aflame in gold. Upon closer inspection, one could see they were composed of numerous tiny, minimized rune patterns.
Selena coldly spat out an ancient syllable, and as this syllable was uttered, densely packed golden lightning flashed over her head and then streamed like water, converging on the arrow in her hand.
A brilliant golden "Arrogant Sun" burst forth in the Void!
Golden Light Arrows, far surpassing those before by several folds, were released. This time, it belonged to the true power of the "Forbidden" Domain. Merely the commencement moment created an invisible fluctuation, completely tearing apart the Void in the arrow’s path, forming a startling twisted trajectory.
Facing this arrow, Ronan’s face showed no fluctuations.
He merely gently lifted his hands.
In his palms, Forbidden - Red Ice rapidly grew, eventually forming two long and narrow blood-colored blades.
An unspeakably terrifying aura emanated from the blades.
"Ice Frost leads slaughter, Deep Cold accompanies Death..."
"Forbidden - Red Ice!"
Ronan whispered silently, holding his twin swords and lunged forward in an incredibly graceful motion.
The bloody halo spun in his eyes, turning the world in his view into a stark contrast of red and black.
A perception even more penetrating than the Eye of Truth allowed him effortlessly to catch the golden light arrow shot towards him.
Time seemed to slow down immensely at that moment.
His left long sword was raised, tracing a mysterious path in the Void, gently knocking against the light arrow, which immediately shattered and dispersed.
His right hand swung directly towards Selena.
The intertwining force fields around Selena, which had seemed like numerous impregnable mountains before and he couldn’t break through no matter how hard he tried, now seemed as fragile as thin paper.
The blood-stained ice blade cut through the layers of force fields towards Selena’s neck, and at the moment it was about to reach her throat, Ronan’s eyes slightly flickered.
The long sword shifted its trajectory, drooping diagonally downward.
"Sizzle——Crash——Crash——"
A series of brilliant golden rune sparks burst forth...
When all clashes had ended.
Ronan’s figure appeared at the other end of the platform, swords in hands, standing calmly and poised.
Behind him, Selena stood still, behind her, a golden humanoid phantom wearing a crown, holding a magic wand in one hand and a big bow in the other, its upper body silently sliding off, crumbling, vanishing...
Below, Selena’s expression blank, she raised a hand wanting to touch her pristine and perfect neck, but her gaze involuntarily fell, landing on a distinct long sword mark on the armor over her chest.
At the place where the sword mark landed, the exquisite and luxurious armor was completely cut, all runes were broken, dimmed, and through the cuts, one could faintly see the pale, lustrous delicate skin inside.
Selena’s lips moved slightly, murmuring incredulously and hopelessly: "How... how is this possible..."
At this moment, Selena’s dignity, composure, and elegance were all lost, as if verifying the words Ronan had said before the battle — once the beautiful outer garment was torn off, she was nothing more... than just an ordinary person.
At this time, however, Ronan did not show the joy or exhilaration anyone would have imagined.
He lowered his head slightly, looking at the gradually disintegrating blood-colored swords in his hands, his face revealing a bit of melancholy, as if he was longing for more.
"Is it... that simple?"
He seemed to be whispering to someone.
"Otherwise? It’s just dealing with an ant."
It was as if a voice was buzzing in response to him.
Ronan slowly raised his head.
The numerous voices chanting "Hekarter" and "Ice Frost," sharp, slippery, evil, and nauseating, began to rise in his ears, growing louder, as if urging him to something, wanting to completely overwhelm him.
At a certain moment, he directly cut them off.
"You’re too impatient..."
Ronan shook his head, then raised a hand, the circle around him resembling a dazzling Star River, now truly gathering swiftly in his hand.
"It’s not the time yet."
He muttered to himself, his eyes hazily watching the brilliant "Star River" converging in his hand.
This is the Legacy of the Legendary Wizard, Natural Magic Manipulator Heramus.
When the blood battle ended, this legacy naturally and completely belonged to him.
The glow from the Heramus Legacy briefly interrupted the ancient will of "Hekarter", and when that brilliance completely converged, pushing aside the layers of deep blue mist, Ronan could finally see clearly, the brilliance was actually a beautifully crafted glass-like arm bracelet.
On the arm bracelet, countless mysterious and complex rune patterns appeared and disappeared intermittently, displaying a mysterious and vastness akin to the starry sky.
Ronan gently grasped the arm bracelet in his hand.
In an instant, a vague, profound, unspeakably noble purple light enveloped him.
His entire being, shrouded in this legacy power, continuously soared upwards, the long-silent Ancient Fairy City was shaken once again, beneath the ground, a magnificent glow surged up, lifting Ronan entirely...