Versatile Mage: Get the Desert Emperor clone at the start

Chapter 397 The Void Queen Descends, Void Creatures Merge with Desert Demons!

The first to bear the brunt was the former ruler of the Sahara Desert, second only to Emperor Azir.

Its very existence is the embodiment of the Blood Shadow of the Desert.

The moment its majestic form touched the Antarctic ice sheet, the surrounding frigid zone cried out in despair, unable to bear the strain.

What he brought was not a simple heat wave, but a more fundamental force of "drought" and "death", which spread out from its center!
Crimson sand surged forth from nothingness; it was not sand grains, but highly condensed crystals of incinerating energy.

They danced wildly and roared, instantly "evaporating" the millennia-old ice they touched, along with the icy magic contained within, completely erasing it and revealing the dark, ancient rock layers below.

With each step it took, a domain belonging to the desert was born beneath its feet, carving out a burning path in this extreme cold inferno.

Under its unparalleled might, the Sandstorm Emperor, the Flowing Sand Emperor, the Desert Crocodile Emperor, the Desert Abyss Emperor, and other demon emperors also unleashed their earth-shattering auras, leading their desert armies, which resembled a golden tide, on a mighty march forward.

In the sky, the phantom of the sun disk summoned by Azir shone brightly, like a second sun, continuously showering its people with pure light and heat.

Under this light, each desert demon was covered with a faint golden glow, and their strength, speed, and recovery abilities were significantly enhanced.

However, Antarctica's will should not be underestimated.

This is a land forever frozen, a forbidden zone for life.

The omnipresent, biting wind, like billions of ice blades, relentlessly scrapes away at their surface energy defenses.
The solid, yet mysterious ice beneath their feet constantly emanates a bone-chilling "extreme cold erosion," continuously consuming the heat and vitality upon which they depend for survival.

Even more terrifying is the "ice elemental domain" that permeates the air, which greatly suppresses the power of fire and sand-based magical abilities.

With this ebb and flow, even with the support of the solar disk, the desert army still felt as if they were carrying an immense burden, and could only exert six or seven tenths of their full strength at most.

Just as the battle between Emperor Azir and the Ice Emperor Ernos reached its climax, with each collision between the two supreme beings causing the heavens and earth to tremble and large areas of ice shelves to collapse, another unexpected event occurred!

"Boom--!"

With a deafening roar as the glacier shattered, countless powerful auras surged forth from the deep crevasses torn apart by the aftershocks of the battle, from the interiors of collapsed icebergs, and from beneath the seemingly calm ice plains!

Those are native Antarctic monsters, either slumbering here or awakened by war!

They come in all shapes and sizes; some resemble giant bears clad in ice crystal armor, others are twisted elemental creatures made of ice and resentment, and still others are terrifying sea beasts lurking beneath the icy abyss...

Among them, there were almost no weaklings; monarch-level demons roamed in droves, like a white tide of death!
Even more so, from those deepest, ancient-aura-filled ice abysses, several chilling imperial-level pressures rose once more—clearly, Ernos's words were true; the ancient beings hidden on this continent were beginning to be disturbed!
These Antarctic demons, who held an absolute home-field advantage, launched a frenzied and efficient attack on the Shurima army as soon as they appeared.

They used the icy mist for concealment, traversed the ice layers, spewed out frigid breaths capable of freezing souls, and summoned all-encompassing ice storms. The desert demons formed ranks to resist, and although brave and fearless, their casualties began to rise sharply due to the overwhelming disadvantage of the environment, making the advance of the battle line extremely difficult, and they gained almost no advantage.

Just when the battle was at a stalemate, and the golden tide was being blocked and devoured by the endless white—

"Crack!"

The void in the Antarctic sky, already turbulent with energy storms, was torn open by an even more bizarre force, creating a massive rift with edges shimmering with a mesmerizing purple light!
The Void Queen, Bervis, with her "elegant" figure, slowly emerged from the rift.

Her cold gaze swept over the horrific battlefield below.

Without saying anything more, she simply raised her arm and pointed downwards.

The silent command transcended space.

The next moment, the Void army, which had been stationed in the Indian Ocean and was already poised to attack, surged towards the Antarctic continent like a purple torrent, led by the roars of the two Void vanguards—the Devouring Beast Cho'Gath and the Void Burrower Rek'Sai!
Behind them are billions of Void Insects!
These grotesque otherworldly creatures were the "nutrients" transformed from countless sea monsters that perished in the previous Indian Ocean campaign, which Pierre Vilvis used to summon and hatch into weapons of war.

Their carapaces gleamed with an ominous purple light, and their compound eyes held only a greedy desire for all the energy in the material world.

The addition of this new force gradually changed the balance of power on the battlefield.

But an even more shocking scene then unfolded—

The Void Worms that landed did not only attack the Antarctic Demons; some of them even actively attacked the nearby Shurima Desert Demons!
A hard-shelled "symbiotic void worm" suddenly leaped up and attached itself to the back of a desert giant lizard that was fighting an ice mammoth.

The next moment, the purple void energy spread rapidly like living tissue, covering the giant lizard's entire body and undergoing a violent transformation and fusion with its flesh, scales, and armor!

In the blink of an eye, a set of grotesque void creature armor with flowing purple energy patterns enveloped the giant lizard's body!
This armor not only has amazing physical defense, but more importantly, it forms an effective "void isolation layer" that greatly blocks the direct erosion of external frost and cold!

At the same time, the armor also granted the giant lizard the ability to manipulate void energy, making its claw strikes have a spatial tearing effect, and its breath mixed with a corrosive purple light!

Two completely different forces—the power of the Shurima sun and the power of the Void's devouring force—merged together in an unbelievable way at this moment!
Instantly, it helped these desert demons break free from the constraints of their environment, causing their strength to increase dramatically!
The most shocking part of this fusion scene is the symbiosis between the Sandstorm Emperor and that special "Eternal Silence Core Void Worm"!

This core Void Worm is the remnant of the fallen Lord of Glacier's Eternal Silence. It was captured by Bervis and cultivated using Void Arcane Arts, resulting in a unique individual.

It contains extremely pure dual characteristics of ice and void!
The true form of the Sandstorm Emperor is an invisible spirit of wind and sand, without a fixed shape. On ordinary days, it conceals its core with endless sandstorms, condensing into its normal giant body.

Upon arriving in Antarctica, the sand that made up his body was severely affected by the extreme cold and humidity, making it difficult to condense and flow, thus greatly reducing his strength.

(End of this chapter)