429. CURSED TOWN

The crunching sound of ice being crushed under the weight of someone's foot echoed in the room all seven of the experts were in. But something had changed.

A crimson liquid had now begun to taint the pristine bluish-whiteness of the ice in the room, and as the mist cleared, it revealed Noah's unbound figure and the impaled bodies of the masked men.

Large stakes of 7ft tall ice had punctured each of their chests, they would be dead in a short while. Their profuse bleeding caused puddles of blood to form, but the cold worked on it.

Kius and his daughter, however, found half of their legs completely frozen, and they feared that rash movements would shatter their frozen limbs. They stayed in place and watched Noah's tall figure emerge from the cloud of mist that had formed from his body.