Chapter 454: Balder

When Roy’s black ice blocked his vision, Mundus, who was inside the s.h.i.+eld of the Wall of Sighs, realized that something was amiss.

To him, be it Sparda or Osiris, they were both enemies that he had to be vigilant of. Now that they had suddenly joined forces to block his vision, they definitely planned to do something against him. He absolutely could not let them succeed.

Thus, he frantically attacked from inside the s.h.i.+eld, attempting to break Roy’s frost blockade.

Roy went all out this time and continuously output his magic power without holding back. He did not choose to fight against Mundus’s magic power but instead used an instant repair method. Wherever the frost s.h.i.+eld broke, he would immediately replenish it and maintain the effect of blocking Mundus’s vision.

Even so, Roy’s magic power was rapidly depleting. Fortunately, with the high-speed magic power recovery of the Cold Winter Armor, he did not exhaust his magic power.

“Sparda, faster!” Roy urged while gritting his teeth.

Sparda did not answer, but his actions had no delays at all. He drew an isolation magic formation around Mundus. The foundation was still based on the pentagram magic formation, but the demon symbols used were vastly different from the seal formation that Roy saw earlier. As for what the use was, Roy did not know, so he could only choose to believe him.

As time pa.s.sed, Sparda’s magic formation was almost complete, and Mundus became more and more anxious. In the end, he did not hesitate to consume an immense amount of magic power to use a big move.

A soaring grayish-white pillar of light suddenly burst into the sky. Not only did it instantly break through Roy’s entire frost s.h.i.+eld, but it even spread out to the surroundings and attacked Roy and Sparda. The gigantic pillar of light was more than a hundred meters thick, and it was as dazzling as a grayish-white sun in the dark sky of the Demon World.

When the light attacked, Roy and Sparda quickly retreated, but the light still shone on them. The grayish-white light was like acid as the strong corrosion burned their skin and armor.

Sparda could only swing his sword and cut off the burnt flesh on his body. Then he relied on his recovery ability to regrow the flesh. Roy was slightly better. The damage to the Cold Winter Armor was not much, and he could repair it with magic power.

“Is it done?” Roy asked Sparda. This was what he was most concerned about.

Sparda nodded. He had completed it at the last moment and had not wasted Roy’s efforts.

“Then what are you waiting for?” Roy grinned. “Pull this b.a.s.t.a.r.d out of that d.a.m.n turtle sh.e.l.l!”

Looking at Mundus, who had already revealed his true appearance under the s.h.i.+eld, Sparda flipped the demon sword in his hand and stabbed it into the ground in front of him. The demon sword glowed with blood-red magic power, and this light was like a meandering centipede that spread along the ground to where Mundus was. When it came near Mundus, it suddenly spread to both sides, forming an enormous circle, and the pentagram formation was activated.

With this pentagram as the foundation, a thin membrane of light appeared in the area covered by the magic formation. Then this membrane of light soared into the sky and turned into a ma.s.sive cylinder that covered the s.h.i.+eld as well as Mundus inside.

“I can’t forcibly break the connection between the s.h.i.+eld and the Demon World, but I used a magic formation to separate out the s.p.a.ce where Mundus is!” Sparda said proudly. “Although we can still see him now, he’s actually no longer in the same spatial axis as us! This separation won’t last long, but it’s enough for us…”

“So, as long as we rush in, we can break his s.h.i.+eld?” Roy spread his demon wings and floated up. Frostmourne appeared in his hands once again.

The next second, the figures of Roy and Sparda turned into two streams of light that rushed straight into the cylindrical light screen.

The moment the magic formation activated, Mundus understood what was going on. Sparda and Osiris had noticed how the Wall of Sighs worked and thought of a way to break it. Now that the connection between the s.h.i.+eld and the Demon World was suddenly cut off, Mundus’s heart skipped a beat.

But before he could respond effectively, he saw two figures appear above his s.h.i.+eld. Roy and Sparda slashed at the same place on the s.h.i.+eld!

Clang! Clang!

The Wall of Sighs did not continue to persist tenaciously like before. Instead, after a crisp sound, it instantly collapsed.

“Die, Mundus!” Sparda took advantage of the opportunity to kill Mundus. He raised his sword and slashed hundreds of sword beams at Mundus in an instant. Roy followed closely behind and stabbed Frostmourne into one of Mundus’s eyes.

Mundus let out a deafening scream as his bloated body collapsed into countless pieces. Purplish-green blood sprayed out several meters high from the eye that Roy had stabbed.

Roy and Sparda, these two demons, had ferocious and murderous expressions on their faces as they jointly completed this epic scene…

Sparda panted as he looked at Mundus, whose dismembered body was on the ground. When he saw that Mundus’s body was showing signs of self-recovery again, he could not help but have a headache.

Mundus’s soul was still attached to this body, which meant that the body was still alive even though they had dismembered it into this state. As long as he was given some time, he would be able to resurrect again. Unless Mundus himself got his soul to leave the body, in which case he would turn the body into a walking corpse that could be completely eliminated.

And Sparda believed that neither he nor Osiris could forcibly detain an immortal soul like Mundus…

Could it be that I can only seal him?

Sparda thought.

But at this moment, Roy said, “Sparda, move back!”

“What are you going to do?” Sparda asked, but he had already subconsciously spread his wings and retreated a few meters.

“Farther!” Roy knelt and placed his hand on the pieces of Mundus’s body.

After Sparda retreated a few hundred meters, an intense cold aura immediately spread throughout Roy’s body.

Under Sparda’s astonished eyes, darkness enveloped Roy’s location and Mundus’s body pieces all around!

The Black Domain of Silence activated!

Under the ultra-low temperature, the speed of light around them slowed down, causing the naked eye to have problems capturing light within the range covered by the ultra-low temperature. Thus, under Sparda’s solemn gaze, Roy and Mundus’s body pieces fell into a huge pitch-black and lightless hole, and he could not see what was happening inside at all.

Fortunately, this region of blackness only lasted for a few seconds. Then when the light returned to normal, Sparda saw Roy standing up with a cold aura all over his body.

And Mundus’s body was completely frozen in black ice.

The black ice exuded an extremely cold temperature that frightened Sparda slightly. He could not help but ask, “W-what did you just do?”

Roy did not say anything as he quietly looked at Mundus’s body on the ground.

He was still unable to reach absolute zero, which could freeze everything. After all, it was quite difficult to make atoms and electrons lose their kinetic energy and totally lose their material temperature. But during his time in Frostfire City, he had been studying this problem, and he had already vaguely sensed a clue about how to solve this problem.

Roy believed that the most important thing to reach true absolute zero was not how strong his magic power was but that he had to grasp the crucial factor of ‘time’!

Any movement of matter was related to time. Precisely because of the existence of time, atoms and electrons would continue to maintain motion and thus gain temperature. As long as there was temperature, even a tiny bit, it was equivalent to rejecting the effect of absolute zero.

In other words, if Roy could ‘freeze’ time, then even without much magic power, he could achieve ‘absolute zero’…

Of course, he could not touch any threshold for ‘time’ currently. The only one he had ever seen who grasped an ability of time was Demon King Lilith, whom he had seen in the Darksiders world…

Even so, Mundus completely withstood the condensate effect brought about by Roy’s Black Domain of Silence.

Under this state, although Mundus’s cells had not totally stopped functioning, the cells had lost their function due to taxis[1]. In other words, they were completely dead!

Obviously, Mundus also realized his terrifying situation. All his self-healing abilities were utterly useless at this moment, and even with his soul, his body could not recover.

He could not speak. In fact, he did not have a ‘mouth’ organ to begin with. When he spoke, it was through the voice of his soul, which was the foundation of the demon language.

“W-what did you do to me?!” Mundus’s soul roared and said the same words as Sparda just did.

“Nothing. I’m just blocking your immortal body!” Roy replied casually.

“How is this possible?!” Mundus roared angrily. “Even the most powerful frost demon I’ve ever seen wasn’t able to do this. How is this possible?!”

Roy smirked. “You haven’t seen it before, but haven’t you seen it now?”

With that, Roy squatted down and looked at Mundus’s pierced eye with interest. “Speaking of which, how long do you plan to stay in this necrotic body? Don’t you want to come out?”

“…” Mundus was silent and did not know what to do.

An immortal body and an immortal soul were complementary to each other. Even if he had an immortal soul, after losing his body, Mundus could not use his strength. If he left his body and completely exposed his soul, who knew how these two fellows would deal with him…

“No, it can’t be like this!” A moment later, Mundus suddenly roared, and the voice of his soul shook the entire Demon World. “Balder!! Where are you?! Are you still not going to appear?!”

With the roar of Mundus’s soul, Roy and Sparda looked around in puzzlement, not knowing who this Balder he was talking about was.

But at this moment, Rafaro’s warning suddenly appeared in Roy’s mind. “Your Excellency, there’s a powerful energy signal coming from the spatial channel! Something is coming out of it!”

Roy was shocked. He looked up at the enormous spatial vortex in the sky. After Sparda saw his action, he looked over in doubt. Then they saw an incomparably powerful golden holy light s.h.i.+ning from the spatial vortex.

In the pervading holy light, a man with a golden half-mask on his face appeared. He was wearing a white robe full of beautiful golden patterns, and at the back of his head was a circle of magnificent feathers that looked like standing phoenix feathers forming a collar…

[1] Movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.