Versatile Mage: Get the Desert Emperor clone at the start

Chapter 408 A Real-Life "Iceberg Theory": Another Emperor of the Antarctic Roof

"Bastard!!" Karl Morpheus's eyes widened in fury.

Endless anger and grief transformed into even more ferocious flames. He no longer cared about the consumption of magic power and scorched the ancient tree wildly!

Outside the spatial barrier, Elder Erwin closed his eyes in anguish, his body trembling slightly.

The nation has lost two more powerful combatants!

However, under the relentless attack of another forbidden spell mage, the massive ancient man-eating emperor tree finally let out a dying cry.

The main trunk was completely carbonized and shattered.

The man-eating flower bud that had devoured two forbidden spells withered and died under the interplay of extreme cold and raging flames, turning into ashes.

The imperial aura dissipated rapidly.

The spatial barrier shattered, and the light and shadow of the four heroic souls dimmed considerably as they slowly returned to Mount Fashen to recuperate.

Without the support and rule of the emperor himself, the remaining plant demons and insect swarms in the city, though still numerous, are no longer organized.

Under the relentless counterattacks of countless mages, they were gradually compressed, wiped out, and dispersed.

When the last living magic vine was burned to ashes by the raging fire, and the last cloud of insects was purified by the thunder, the entire "New Hope Barrier" seemed to have experienced a nightmare.

Victory.

But the city is now a scene of devastation. The steel jungle that once symbolized the hope for the revival of North American sorcerers has been largely destroyed!

The air was filled with a mixture of smells of blood, burnt food, and decaying plants.

The statistics on the casualties among the monks are all shocking.

The fall of the two forbidden spellcasters, in particular, cast a shadow over this victory that will never fade.

This was a Pyrrhic victory, won at the cost of countless lives and top-tier combat power.

The once thriving new city has been reduced to this state, and they have no choice but to spend enormous resources to rebuild it all over again.
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The perspective shifts to the main battlefield of the demon empire's battle.

Here, the scorching yellow sand and the eternal frost continue their most brutal struggle.

The allied forces, comprised of the desert armies of the Shurima Empire and the otherworldly creatures under the command of the Void Queen Bervis, are locked in a fierce and protracted battle with the Antarctic glacier demons who have the advantage of home ground. The sky is dark and the earth is engulfed in darkness!

The "Divine Path" forged by Emperor Azir's supreme divine power still flows like an inexhaustible artery, continuously transporting the hot sands of the Sahara to this frozen hell.

Countless grotesque desert demons, draped in the faint glow of the sun's disc, surged forth like golden waves along the light channel, relentlessly crashing against the pristine white ice plains.

Meanwhile, along the coastline, accompanied by the sounds of shells rubbing together and the hissing of void energy, bizarre void creatures continuously crawled ashore from the icy seawater.

And Antarctica, this ancient, frozen kingdom, also revealed its hidden fangs to the invaders.

As the imperial-level forces collided continuously, and countless demons trampled and impacted the energy, the ice sheet, several kilometers thick, roared and rang out!
Huge cracks spread like a spider web, and towering icebergs collapsed and overturned in the shockwave.

Beneath the abyss where the ice layer fractured, many more glacial native demons of various forms, who had been sleeping there, were awakened!

They also joined the battle, making the situation even more intense and chaotic.

However, at the very center of the battlefield, the balance of power was still determined by the duel between the two supreme beings.

The Desert Emperor Azir hovered in the air, with the illusory image of the sun disk behind him shining brightly. Even in the core of this extremely cold inferno, the light and heat he emitted were like the real sun, completely dispelling the surrounding blizzard and cold air, forming a "golden divine realm" that belonged only to him.

With each swing of his scepter, he unleashed a torrent of divine power, which either transformed into a destructive golden torrent or coalesced into countless burning golden spears, raining down upon his opponents.

His opponent was the Ice Emperor Ernos.

It has now transformed into a terrifying whirlwind that stretches to the heavens and the earth, composed of countless ice crystals and auroras, stirring up the chill of the entire Antarctic.

However, despite its extremely advantageous location in Antarctica, the battle situation was clearly unfavorable for Elnors!

Azir's power far exceeded its imagination.

The power of the sun continuously melts and purifies the frigid realm of Ernos.

Wherever the golden light reached, the ice crystal whirlwind was forcibly torn apart, and the condensed ice spears were vaporized by the high temperature before they could even get close to Azir.

Even Ernos's absolute zero domain could not completely suppress the radiance of the "sun" surrounding Azir!

"boom--!"

After another earth-shattering collision, the ice crystal whirlwind that Ernos had transformed into was fiercely repelled by a pure beam of light, and a small portion of it dissipated.

It was forced to reveal part of its solidified body, which was made of blue ice, and its aura became noticeably disordered.

While activating the cold air to repair its body, it involuntarily retreated while fighting, leading the battlefield deeper into the heart of the Antarctic continent.

“Azir…”

"Your power far exceeds my expectations, and your light truly possesses the power to scorch glaciers."

"But don't forget, this is Antarctica!"

"The glaciers you see, the icebergs you shatter, the Antarctic demon army you face... all of this is just the tip of the iceberg!"

There is a theory about icebergs: the magnificent icebergs floating on the ocean are so large and immeasurable that only about one-tenth of them are visible above the water.

Even larger, darker, and more terrifying ice bodies lie hidden beneath the unfathomable depths of the dark icy ocean.

What you see now is only 'one-tenth' of what's floating on the surface!

This is not a bluff.

Ernos was fighting and retreating at this moment.

It aims to lure this powerful desert emperor to a specific region.

It is a forbidden land that looks no different from other ice fields, but in fact, an ancient being that even it fears lies dormant beneath it!

"It's time to wake up, my 'neighbor,' and let this monarch of the desert witness the true power of Antarctica!"

Ernos unleashed his power and slammed it into the seemingly solid ice beneath his feet!
next moment--

"Boom!!!"

A heavy heartbeat, not from the sense of hearing, but directly affecting the very essence of the souls of all living beings, seemed to come from the very core of the continent!
The entire Antarctic ice sheet trembled violently at that heartbeat!
Immediately afterwards, an ice-level power, like the breath of a sleeping ancient god, erupted from the depths of the ice!
This power is so pure, ancient, and vast that it is in no way inferior to the current ruler of Antarctica—the Ice Emperor Ernos!
A hint of surprise flickered in Azir's usually calm, golden eyes.

He felt as if the ice beneath his feet had come alive.

The will of a terrifying emperor, no less powerful than his current adversary, is slowly awakening from its eternal slumber.

(End of this chapter)