Volume 3, Chapter 74 – Power of Frost

Tianyin did not know when the battle had started.

Maybe it was in an instant.

Maybe it was because of some kind of accident.

But before Tianyin could react, the battle had already erupted.

No one knew for sure how it started. It seemed like a half-beast had accidentally exposed his silhouette. Even so, because they had made preparations for an ambush beforehand, this ambush could still be considered a success.

The resting Beastman army had never imagined there would be an ambush. So when Tianyin launched her attack, most of the Beastmen had not yet reacted.

And in that state, the Beastman army had no doubt handed Tianyin a chance to defeat them.

“Here we go, Xiaobingxue, Xiaomengyao!”

Tianyin’s eyes started to shine with a blood-red light. Yet matched with that face that was criminally cute, Tianyin in that state gave people a strange sense of cuteness.

“Nn!”

Even though it was her first time facing an actual battle, Xiaobingxue did not seem timid.

Her pale little hands were covered by ice-blue crystalline layers, and even those pure sky-blue eyes of hers became as dazzling as jewels.

As for Xiaomengyao, although she was not used to a battle of this scale, after she calmed her pounding heart, her condition slowly returned to normal.

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The unique power of a Blood Knight was brewing within Xiaomengyao’s body, and the weapon Tianyin had given her, a short sword, was gripped tightly in her hand.

“Whew, Master, I’ll do my best too!”

Up ahead, the Beastmen troops led by Grinmu were already engaged in combat, and Tianyin knew she could not keep standing by and watching.

After spending a brief moment switching into the state of the “Seven Original Sins”, Tianyin handed control of her body over to Samael.

After all, when it came to war and battles, it was better to leave it to Samael, who had past experience.

「Xiaoyin, you have power that surpasses common limits and yet you don’t even think about mastering it yourself, you know that is really too convenient~」

The moment Samael took over Tianyin’s body, her voice rang out in Tianyin’s mind with a hint of helplessness.

『Wuu, mind your own business! Since I have you, Samael, whenever I run into this kind of situation, I just need to slack off properly!』

Tianyin had unconsciously grown dependent on this habit of directly putting the battle on “autopilot”, and now saw it as perfectly natural.

Even though this was not very good, Tianyin was still Samael’s host. So even if Samael felt something was off, she only pointed it out verbally and left it at that.

While the two of them were talking, Xiaobingxue’s small figure had already arrived at the very front line, and her petite body was floating in midair where she stood out extremely clearly.

“Too cocky! Shoot this brat down!”

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The Beastmen were all hotheads. Although they had been caught completely off guard at the start, because the half-beast army Tianyin had brought with her had never actually taken part in real combat, after just a few minutes of fighting, the Beastmen had already recovered from their initial confusion.

Noticing Xiaobingxue flying around arrogantly all alone in the sky, the Beastman archers in the rear all raised their bows and aimed their arrows at the small loli above.

“Hm?”

Locked onto by hundreds, even thousands of killing intents, Xiaobingxue, whose senses were “innately” keen, tilted her head in puzzlement, then instinctively made a guarding motion.

She only lifted her hand slightly, yet in that instant, a thin, crystal-clear, transparent “wall” appeared out of nowhere in front of her.

However, because it was transparent, the Beastmen did not realize a wall had appeared in front of Xiaobingxue, so they all hurriedly drew their bows and nocked their arrows.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!

The sound of arrows cutting through the air rang out. In an instant, a dense rain of arrows flew toward Xiaobingxue.

It was almost a scene of ten thousand arrows loosed at once. Just the arrows in flight were enough to blot out the sky.

And Xiaobingxue’s figure was far too small among those arrows, so most of the arrows simply rained down onto the battlefield below where the fighting was taking place.

In the Beastmen’s eyes, Xiaobingxue was just someone who had managed to gain the ability to float in the air. She had no combat power at all. So in their expectations, Xiaobingxue should have been pierced through by countless arrows.

But…

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What actually happened took the Beastmen by surprise.

The arrows that drew near Xiaobingxue seemed to collide with some unknown resistance and were abruptly held there in midair.

『Huh, what’s going on?』

Already charging into the enemy ranks and slaughtering Beastmen left and right, Tianyin noticed Xiaobingxue’s situation and asked with some confusion, speaking to Samael who was currently controlling her body.

「It is very straightforward. If Xiaoyin takes a closer look, you will find out that all the arrows near Xiaobingxue have been frozen~」

As Samael casually turned a Beastman soldier who rushed at her into a point of light, she still had the leisure to answer Tianyin’s question even while fighting.

『I see… I didn’t expect Xiaobingxue to be that amazing…』

「Well, her true form is a Frost Dragon after all. Though this time, the only power she can use is the Frost Dragon’s power of frost. She does not have the dragon’s original fighting style and other abilities, so in my view this is still incomplete.」

『Eh……. so that means Xiaobingxue’s power actually is not complete?』

Tianyin asked.

In response to Tianyin’s question, Samael only gave a silent laugh.

「Xiaoyin, you can rest easy about that. Even if her powers are incomplete, I don’t think Xiaobingxue will be hurt by those small fry. Right now, what we should be thinking about is how to get the greatest benefit at the smallest cost.」

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Since ancient times, in so-called wars, both the victor and the defeated would suffer their own losses.

And at the moment, the Beastman army was ten times the size of the half-beast army.

It was true that they currently held the advantage of an ambush as well as superior high-end combat strength. But since the half-beast army had never taken part in real combat, they were still taking losses on the battlefield.

Precisely because she had considered the fighting strength of the half-beast army, Xingyu Muxi’s request to Tianyin was not annihilation, but to hold the Beastmen back and buy time.

『Wuu… keeping this up really is not going to work. Even though wiping out this army is easy, if we do that, our side will suffer very heavy losses too.』

Tianyin was a bit of an idiot, but after being “trained” by Xingyu Muxi, her way of looking at problems had improved.

At the same time, Xiaobingxue high in the sky began her counterattack.

The arrows that had been immobilized were directly turned back and sent straight into the Beastman formation.

Not only that, Xiaobingxue also copied the shape of the arrows and formed new arrowheads out of “frost” from thin air.

Seeing Xiaobingxue sending those frost arrows into the Beastman ranks, an idea suddenly came to Tianyin.

『Wait… if all we need is to hold these Beastmen here, Samael, I’ve got a way!』