It was the world born out of one's skills.
A world that relied thoroughly on the concepts! Of course, everyone had their own 'replicas' here, but it was far harder to use skills here. The husband's knife and equipment were all here, but the prepared fire cards were not!
Those cards made with Xaya's help couldn't be used here!
And those cards were what Kyoya had in mind from the very beginning, but all he had to do was break this mind world and just take the fight outside. A normal card still could be summoned as it was the husband's power.
Due to his game system and Xaya's wish to be the supportive character, the husband relied on his wife to make those cards! But he could summon the raw power here!
"Beautiful light."
Lodden commented when he saw the golden-red light appearing around the husband's hand. This light carried the sealing concept out of Trickster Gods powers!
Of course, the ice master didn't know what exactly this light was, but he could feel the familiar feeling out of it. It was power that could affect the mind!
"Wanna see it closer?"
"It's you who want me to see it closer."
His smile then grew a little colder. It was not only due to the impending, but also because his cold storm escalated to a dangerous size! It swallowed up half of his body and then one could see flickering blue lights that were exactly the cold flames.
Feeling the coldness increasing ten-fold, Kyoya as quickly as possible moved his light, then coated his whole left hand with it.
It was clear that the ice master realized his weakness.
The husband had to touch him in order to break this mind world and take the fight outside! It meant that Kyoya's eyes continued to look at the increasing storm before he thoroughly prepared his own power.
The moment he did, his whole vision turned blurry!
"How fast. You are the fastest 19th adventurer I have seen."
These words rang out a second after the husband's charge. Only a second was enough to gauge Kyoya's speed and his pattern! It was hard to predict movement, but the master skillfully stopped the frontal attack by breaking the frozen lake beneath them.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Any careless steps would result in fall and Kyoya felt that it would be the worst. As this land was prepared by Lodden, his ice should be sturdy! Kyoya would only feel the death here!
His speed slowed down, but Kyoya naturally began taking detours and stomped on the broken ice pieces that floated around him!
No matter what, his charge couldn't be stopped!
Thanks to the ice resistance from the Ice Divine, Kyoya bravely pushed through the ice obstacles and then the obstacles from above started to descend from the sky.
It seemed like the cloud above the husband began to vomit out some shit!
And it just helped Lodden to build up more ice defenses. It was not only the storm with broken icicles and blue flames around, but the bluish mist was also slithering around his robes!
'He is just adding more and more concepts… Can I even touch him?'
Kyoya thought while kicking the last ice below him. At this point, it was either him or the ice master. As his body could withstand a lot of coldness thanks to The Ice Divine's Blessing, Kyoya could just evade the cold nature and falling ice obstacles.
His knife also didn't lose much and parrying was possible.
Thus, what was left was the husband and ice storm! The Ice Master himself was dressed in the ice element from top to bottom, his smile the only thing seen!
When the husband's body met that storm, his equipment screeched and the coldness began to penetrate through his defenses! Despite their contact just lasting a few seconds, Kyoya already felt the blue flames passing through him.
His hair stopped due to the torturing coldness. He himself was shivering while trying to tear through this ice storm with his knife that was the only warm thing in this whole battle! It was facing many concepts, so it just stood still while going against the broken icicle that was thin yet strong!
"You are human, so this can't be due to your race. You are also on the fire continent, so it also doesn't make any sense… And yet you possess so unique Ice Resistance…"
"..."
The husband didn't answer at all, his left hand trying to find a gap to just touch this man, but despite many things floating around them, the gap was nowhere to be seen. This just made things harder as Kyoya began to shiver more.
"The more we fight, the more you reveal. Haha~~ Should I appear on this continent with my real body?"
"Isn't it harmful… to possess so many different beliefs?"
"It's not. Let me tell you one single sentence about the gods, so that you understand our situation. 'They are all cold bastards'. Though I am also unique on my own as I can keep using those concepts from all ice gods."
"Ugh…"
"And you are also unique as the concepts don't even reach you. It's just cold for you, isn't it?"
"..."
This made Kyoya shocked inwardly as he never thought this resistance could be this useful! But wasn't it the blessing from the god himself? The husband was so blessed yet he was always stopped by various enemies!
As such a thing was truly hurtful to his pride, the husband clenched his knife tighter! He also couldn't waste all his experiences and meetings with other strong people, so the loss was unforgivable here!
[Your Trickster God Mana has turned hot.]
It was just a lie that the husband did to himself. But it made him feel hotter and allowed to just keep going! The husband's eyes also could search through the ice storm easier thanks to this trick.
Of course, the husband's change didn't go unnoticed.
It just made the ice master more interested in this low adventurer.
His whole land shook and the white cloud began to descend from the sky! The white forest rustled and continued to do so while sending the white wind that was one of the strongest concepts.
However, the white cloud, which was the strongest concept, hit him relatively quickly. This made Kyoya completely freeze as his trick could no longer be applicable. Swallowed by all those elements, his golden light from the knife also began subduing.
Its beautiful light just kept dimming and dimming and then…
"Oh, what a pity."
The whole vision blurred.
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On the outside.
Xaya was shouting the husband's name!
"Kyoya! Kyoya!"
As the husband suddenly became silent and literally disappeared in the mist, Xaya called the phenomenon 'filthy thing' and rushed to help him. She took him out and then held gently while caressing the cold face.
But the husband didn't awake no matter what!
The rest was also worried. Their weapons pointed at the invader already!
Some time passed, but the husband had yet to open his eyes!
"This filth!"
Thus, Xaya stood up angrily, her husband in her embrace. She then hugged Kyoya tighter as what Xaya had in mind was the kick!
As the soft pillow jumped a little, Kyoya suddenly opened his eyes.
A kick from yandere wife was enough to break the connection!
"The husband! You need more warmth… A naked body is what you need then!"
"D-d-don't let him… escape!"
"The husband, so it was really some filth pulling you in?"
"Y-yes… Let's get rid of this consciousness…"
[Xaya has healed you using her soul essences.]
[Your mana and health has been restored.]
"Let's fight together, the husband!"
"He was strong, really strong. We can't let him escape!"