Down on the shattered ice shelf at the foot of Script-Nail #1, Ice-Bear Chieftain Xiong Ba roared in desperate defiance. As the mile-long halberd of the [Rank 6 Peak Upper-Realm Ice-Puppet Guardian] screamed down from the freezing sky.
Behind the giant white bear chieftain, fifty thousand Ice-Bear Demon mothers and Northern Snow-Folk elders huddled over their crying cubs inside the cracked igloos.
For ten thousand years, the tribes of the Extreme North had endured the minus-150-degree permafrost radiating from the black five-mile pillar. Believing it was a natural curse of the heavens.Only ten minutes ago, when the public projection screen in their village square had broadcast Teacher Gu’s live show from Hellfire Volcano. Had Chieftain Xiong Ba realized that the black pillar towering over their ancestral home was actually an Upper-Realm vampire spike!
And the instant Xiong Ba had led his warriors out to inspect the pillar’s base, the automated Rank 6 Peak Ice-Puppet Guardian had awakened to wipe out every witness!
CRACK-CRACK-CRACK!
Even before the mile-long frost-halberd touched the ground, its terrifying Rank 6 Peak absolute-zero pressure froze Chieftain Xiong Ba’s fur solid and cracked the two-foot-thick bone shield in his paws!
“Protect the cubs!” Xiong Ba bellowed, blood freezing on his muzzle as he braced his twenty-foot white bear frame to take the blow with his own back. “Even if this old bear gets smashed into ice-dust, don’t let the frost-wave reach the nursery—”
