Chapter 208: Unfortunately, You Encountered Me, Secret Technique—[Shattered Winter Mirror]!

Countless crimson thunders filled the entire arena, like thick red lightning snakes wildly slithering about, a terrifying aura spreading in waves like a tide.

This was a celebration of thunder, with no trace of frost remaining.

The massive snow kingdom that had previously stood in defiance against the thunder now seemed to have collapsed.

As this spear of lightning, akin to divine punishment, was unleashed, the area around the central platform eerily fell silent. Many talented wizards participating in the ranking battles stood on stone pillars with solemn expressions, while those of lower ranks, generally at levels one or two, turned pale.

Even with protective arrays and significant spatial distance, the mere visual impact brought them waves of suffocating pressure.

This was an unimaginable terrifying power, as if merely looking at it could shatter their souls.

As time passed, amidst the rampaging lightning, the figure of Jupiter gradually emerged.

At this moment, crimson lightning coiled around Jupiter, his imposing aura growing stronger. He expressionlessly raised his hand, and all the lightning in the platform immediately obeyed his command, gathering towards a single point like loyal subjects awaiting their ruler's orders.

The void at that point rapidly collapsed under the convergence of countless thunders, the crimson lightning transforming into a thick, viscous lightning sludge, resembling rolling lava or dark, congealed blood, gradually condensing into a sphere.

The terrifying red lightning, shifting from blue to purple and then to a deep crimson, became even more fearsome as it was compressed to its extreme, releasing an increasingly terrifying power.

Many gazed at the gathering dark red lightning sphere, their eyelids twitching, a sense of heart palpitations rising within them.

To some extent, the lightning sphere Jupiter was manipulating now was even more terrifying than the divine punishment-like lightning spear he had unleashed earlier.

Jupiter clearly had plans to end everything.

However, at that moment, a booming sound erupted.

The collapsing lightning sphere emitted a series of cracking sounds, suddenly beginning to expand again.

All eyes were drawn to the lightning sphere, Jupiter's gaze flickered slightly, and a beautifully crafted bracelet engraved with lightning patterns on his right wrist glowed as he closed his fingers.

Under the influence of this power, the expanding lightning sphere suddenly shrank back, but in less than a second, "Boom!"

The massive lightning sphere exploded entirely!

"Rip—"

Amidst a series of rapid tearing sounds, something emerged from the center of the explosion, forcefully tearing through the rapidly cascading lightning like a waterfall.

It was a bright, towering figure.

Standing over two meters tall, with long, pearly white hair mixed with dark blue cascading down to his waist, thick, lightning-like white light danced across his robust body.

An invisible and terrifying domain radiated outward, firmly blocking all lightning.

Two hands, thickly entwined in black light, came together in front of his chest, tightly grasping a ball of crimson brilliance, as if it had already solidified into electric light.

"Swish—"

On the edge of the platform, a massive flesh-and-blood demon body suddenly stood up.

The appearance of this figure seemed to pique Rufus's great interest.

The latter fixed his gaze on the position where the figure stood, his eyes flickering with light, lost in thought.

"Crack—Boom!"

The towering figure that had suddenly emerged from the lightning sphere suddenly twisted his hands inward, as if crushing something, and the electric light he held shattered, exploding into countless crimson thunders, instantly enveloping the figure.

Jupiter's eyes narrowed slightly as he saw the figure, whose face had remained unclear, bathed in the rapidly fading lightning, slowly raise its lowered head.

Veins bulged, and on the enchanting face adorned with snake-like scales on both sides, the lips moved slightly.

"A very strong move; it almost killed me."

"Boom!"

As the words fell, an indescribable terrifying aura erupted around Ronan, clearing all the crimson lightning from a section of space.

The demon-like towering body vanished from sight.

In the next moment, he abruptly appeared less than five meters in front of Jupiter!

With over a thousand points of mastery in the [Purification Body] from the [Ascetic Body Refinement] skill, Ronan had "completely giantized"! In less than a breath, he lunged towards Jupiter, almost able to see the tremor in Jupiter's pupils.

He suddenly raised his hand and struck forward. Under the enhancement of the basic [Ancient Power], the space between him and Jupiter collapsed directly, dense black runes tearing through the air like a ferocious ancient giant python, "biting" through Jupiter's mental field, causing the built-in spell defenses to explode layer by layer with a "bang!"

Ronan felt as if he had struck something, but Jupiter's figure suddenly exploded, transforming into a cluster of fleeing lightning and vanishing.

Ronan remained unfazed. In his "completely giantized" form, his already keen perception had been elevated to an unfathomable height.

He didn't even need to release his mental power to probe; his battle instincts immediately captured Jupiter's landing point.

"Boom!"

With a thunderous sound, Ronan transformed into a pure white lightning bolt within the realm of crimson lightning, accurately shooting towards a spot in the void where Jupiter's figure barely materialized.

"Bang!"

With a punch, Jupiter again transformed into scattered electric light and disappeared.

Ronan was unconcerned, casually twisting his neck.

"I wonder how many more times you can escape?"

"Boom—"

His figure vanished.

After a brief silence, the crowd of wizards erupted into an even more intense discussion than before.

Jupiter's power was so formidable it sent chills down their spines, but no one expected that Ronan, who faced him, possessed even more terrifying hidden combat strength.

"He withstood the resonance of three stages of law domain thunder spells without a scratch. Isn't he an ice mage? How is his strongest ability actually a body modification spell?!"

"Perhaps it's not a modified body, but some powerful and ancient bloodline."

"What kind of bloodline can possess such terrifying physical strength? This person is too mysterious; I've never heard of his name before."

Countless discussions about Ronan contrasted sharply with the situation at the beginning of the battle.

"Zing—"

At this moment, on the central platform, Ronan traced a completely blurred shadow in the void, almost simultaneously appearing at the same position as Jupiter.

"Got you."

With a fist enveloped in ancient power, he struck out fiercely, tearing through layers of obstruction as Jupiter landed, directly piercing through his chest.

"Hmm?!"

Ronan's expression froze for a moment.

He had pierced through Jupiter's body, but strangely, he felt no contact with flesh at all.

His hand seemed to have penetrated a mass of air, encountering no resistance.

Ronan stared at the spot where his right hand landed, seeing Jupiter's chest, which he had pierced, rippling like silver water beneath the torn wizard robe.

He sensed a familiar wave of power.

As if lightning had flashed before him, Ronan blurted out.

"Spatial mirror system spell. No, it's the power of a magical artifact.

Did the Thunder Council give you the Dawn-Tier magical artifacts obtained from the ancient mirror court's secret realm?"

Ronan furrowed his brow, unable to suppress his self-doubt: "No, your current strength shouldn't be enough to wield Dawn-Tier magical artifacts."

"Yes, you're right."

Jupiter spoke calmly, but his voice eerily came from behind Ronan.

The "Jupiter" that Ronan had pierced through with his bare hands quietly shattered like a mirage.

Ronan quickly turned around, seeing the unharmed Jupiter standing a short distance away, surrounded by rippling silver waves, his form seemingly straddling the line between illusion and reality.

"Three years ago, Angle Leo's despicable tactics left me gravely injured and on the brink of death."

Jupiter gently placed his hand on the spot where Ronan had just struck him, speaking in a tone that was both strange and reflective: "But I must thank him.

If it weren't for this, I probably wouldn't have accepted the experiment of merging my body with a magical artifact."

"Fortunately, I succeeded."

Jupiter suddenly became blurry, dispersing into countless silver particles, then reassembling, becoming clear and solid once more.

This miraculous and bizarre transformation left Ronan momentarily stunned.

At that moment, he heard a shocked whisper from someone on the stone pillar at the edge of the platform.

"Body elementalization?!"

Body elementalization? Ronan's mind shook.

Both mental and body elementalization were powerful techniques characteristic of dawn-tier wizards, with body elementalization being at a higher level; even newly ascended level four wizards could not achieve it.

How could Jupiter, at the third level, master a technique that even level four dawn wizards could not?

But judging by the methods he had just displayed, it indeed resembled the rumored body elementalization.

Ronan frowned, as if realizing something, and spoke: "It's not body elementalization; you've merely grasped a portion of the mysterious powers of the spatial mirror system magical artifact after abandoning your physical body and merging with the dawn magical artifact."

"You have more insight than they do."

Jupiter nodded in acknowledgment, calmly stating: "It's indeed just leveraging the mysteries of the ancient mirror court's magical artifact... but it's not far from true body elementalization.

At least in the mist stage."

Jupiter looked up, suddenly sweeping his gaze around the stone pillars, locking eyes with every prominent figure, including the lofty Serena, the radiant Adam, and the mysterious Livicky, exuding an overwhelming, regal aura.

Countless thunders naturally appeared around Jupiter.

His gaze returned to Ronan, and he spoke, his voice booming like the simultaneous roll of countless thunders.

"You still have time to concede."

Jupiter raised his right hand towards Ronan, and bolts of lightning gathered around him, once again forming into the shape of crimson spears, each exuding a suffocatingly terrifying aura.

Jupiter's expression was calm.

Three years ago, as one of the young kings of the six wizard factions, he had been ambushed, falling from his throne and collapsing to the ground like a wounded dog.

No one knew the torment and suffering he had endured over these three years.

Now, he intended to reclaim everything he had lost.

He remembered Ronan, who hailed from the Silver Magic Ring, and Ronan's strength far exceeded his expectations.

The method of merging with dawn-tier magical artifacts to achieve a "semi-elementalized" state was one of his trump cards.

This trump card was not meant for Ronan, yet it had been forcibly drawn out.

But Jupiter didn't mind.

After all, in the mist stage, almost no one could break this technique; the timing of its exposure mattered little.

Although Ronan's physical body was strong, without being able to inflict effective damage on him, defeat was only a matter of time.

"Boom!"

"Boom! Boom!"

The massive booming sounds continued to echo.

Ronan darted around like a pure white lightning bolt, swiftly moving through the arena, each strike precisely shattering a figure belonging to "Jupiter."

Yet Jupiter remained completely unaffected, his form continuously shattering and reassembling like a mirror under the intertwining electric and silver light of his soul.

The momentum belonging to him in the arena kept accumulating layer by layer.

Jupiter remained utterly composed, freely laying out his strategies.

At his command, seven or eight crimson electric spears coalesced in the void, subtly forming a formation, releasing a terrifying power that was no less than the previous three-stage law domain resonance divine punishment spear.

When the number of electric spears accumulated to twelve, Ronan halted his pursuit, lowering his head as if deep in thought, or perhaps having completely given up.

At this moment, the surrounding spectators were engulfed in an even greater wave of astonishment.

Figures rose from the stone pillars; some were shocked, some wore grim expressions, and others fell into contemplation. Even the lofty Serena seemed to gaze at the battle with Jupiter with a hint of strange and inexplicable color.

Techniques akin to body elementalization, skills that only dawn-tier wizards could master, were nearly invincible in the mist stage.

Jupiter was inherently in an undefeated position.

No wonder, despite being only at the mid-third level, he harbored ambitions to aim for the top.

Finally, Jupiter's momentum reached its peak.

The number of electric spears he summoned had reached the limit he could currently control.

The densely packed terrifying electric spears occupied a small portion of space, dyeing a small patch of sky above Jupiter crimson.

With the electric and silver light of his soul as a backdrop, Jupiter's intent shifted, and the tips of dozens of electric spears all pointed towards a figure in the arena.

Ronan, targeted by the numerous thunders, stood alone, his once fierce and domineering aura now completely suppressed by Jupiter.

During Jupiter's power accumulation phase, he seemed to have done something as well; countless frost swirled around him, and the previously collapsed snow kingdom had been rebuilt, continuously extending outward.

However, Jupiter paid no mind to this.

"Are you trying to use that trick against Andariel?"

He glanced at the swirling frost and snow, shaking his head: "A futile attempt."

"Ronan Damien... I should not have misremembered this name, right?"

"Don't you understand yet?"

Jupiter took a gentle breath, his eyes bursting with brilliant electric light, his gaze becoming distant, crossing over Ronan and looking towards higher and farther places.

"From this moment on, the south is about to welcome the era of me, Jupiter!"

With that, Jupiter lightly waved his hand.

His demeanor was cold, like a high and mighty ruler issuing a decree of slaughter to the kneeling sinners below.

All the crimson electric spears fell simultaneously, leaving dazzling trails in the void, rapidly shooting towards the center where Ronan stood.

At that moment, Ronan quietly raised his head.

His waist-length white hair was blown by the wind and thunder, and in his originally pure white eyes, which had a hint of blue, mysterious silver light suddenly burst forth.

"Congeal!"

Ronan softly uttered.

Within the realm of consciousness, a Soul Rune once known as [Tundra Permafrost] suddenly shone brightly.

In an instant, across the vast arena, within the range of Ronan's snow kingdom.

Every snowflake suspended in mid-air, every thorny ice spike growing from the void, every flickering Ice Flame, and every wafting frost emitted a strong force of space stagnation.

These stagnation forces converged, transforming the entire spatial realm into a mirror-like structure, as if crafted from ice crystals, vividly lifelike and exquisitely beautiful.

Everything came to a standstill.

The space seemed to transform into a plane, the descending crimson electric spears, and a portion of the body that had already become "elementalized," were ultimately held firmly in place in a bizarre posture, their expressions frozen, with only the eyes occasionally flashing with shock and disbelief—Jupiter.

Within the absolutely still mirror of the snow kingdom, only Ronan moved freely.

Ronan, like an independent entity outside of everything, stepped on the smooth mirror crafted from ice crystals, his long hair flowing, walking step by step towards Jupiter.

"Unfortunately, you are not truly body elementalized."

"Unfortunately, the powers of dawn-tier mirror system magical artifacts that you can wield are still too few."

"Unfortunately, you realized it too late…"

"Unfortunately."

"You encountered me."

Ronan stood before Jupiter, towering over him at over two meters tall in his completely giantized form, looking down at him as if gazing at a small "figurine."

"The past, the present, and the future."

"None of them belong to your era."

"Anglie is right here, but unfortunately, you have no chance to seek revenge on him."

"My poor Jupiter…"

With that, Ronan calmly pointed a finger at Jupiter's forehead.

"Crack—"

The sound of a mirror shattering echoed.

A crack appeared on Jupiter's forehead, rapidly extending and expanding in all directions. The entire mirror-like space composed of the ice and snow kingdom trembled.

At this moment, the surrounding wizards fell silent, their expressions dazed, deeply captivated by this exquisitely cold and beautiful scene, completely forgetting to speak.

Only amidst the shattered, exquisitely beautiful snowy landscape, a voice softly resonated.

"Secret Technique—[Shattered Winter Mirror]!"

Similar in principle to [Silver of Shattering].

Only this time, what was shattered was an entire icy "world" that Ronan had personally constructed! 

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