At this time, Garan’s eyes were also glowing, and he turned in a direction with a solemn expression on his face. However, he flinched when he felt someone stab a high-level weapon through his stomach.
It was the second pierce now, and he just kept it from bleeding with his ice.
What surrounded them was a vast ice plain and a lot of blood. He was going against nearly twenty top powerhouses now, but half had already been frozen to death, leaving the rest livid, and Garan exhausted.
Garan raised his hand and swiped at the enemy, and the man, heavily wounded, jumped back to avoid it, even when he fell down due to the weakness of his legs.
Anyone Garan touched, when he was in this state, would instantaneously freeze. With the mana they had left, they wouldn’t be able to fight against it anymore.
Garan currently had a different, nearly ethereal aura around him, though to his enemies, he was no different from a demon.
It did not start this way, of course. When Garan lured the enemies to fight against them without collateral damage from his side, he was intent on not holding back and dealing with them quickly so he could return to his wife’s side as soon as possible.
As soon as they were away, he tapped into that hidden power he used before. He had been practicing it the past couple of months, with some success, so he could trigger it in emergencies.
However, it was still a fact that he’d be exhausted to the point of becoming temporarily bedridden if he utilized it excessively. Hence, the plan was to finish the fight as soon as possible, and not tapping onto that power for too long. Otherwise, if the power disappeared, he’d be extremely vulnerable instead.
Things were not as straightforward as he had hoped because he realized that the enemy...had been prepared for him. Reinforcements above level 30 arrived, and Garan knew he wouldn’t be able to extricate himself soon.
It was an explosive fight, their combined forces decimating part of the mountain. Despite the level differences, he defended well and held on for a while until he was forced to trigger the hidden power.
When he activated the power, he could freeze the area into a cold snap, and the sudden freezing of the ground was enough to distract them. He rushed to them with his weapon, directly killing one and injuring the other.
He did not hold back and barraged them with attacks. Because the enemy levels were much higher than his, and a portion of them were even elementalists, he had no choice but to do so.
He felt his energy drain quickly, but he did not mind. He was determined to finish them in five minutes or less. He had to be conscious by the end of this; he wouldn’t be able to get back to his wife’s side.
Unexpectedly, more and more people surrounded him. A team of powerhouses came from Hassen, specifically. Like many others, since they went from Hassen, they had to go on foot to Valov to take the array, and they were a bit later than others.
This time, there were several people above level 35. A good portion of them were even fire users.
They were targeting him. For what reason, it could be that they saw him as a threat, or perhaps something else.

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