“Not necessarily.”

Li Ang smiled, raising his finger.

Anna followed his finger, vaguely seeing an almost imperceptible thread extending from Li Ang's fingertip.

The thread was extremely long, winding around collapsed beams, shattered casement windows, and ice blocks scattered all over the place, until it reached behind Anna.

Finally, at the end of the thread, was a dense cluster of Baneling-type worms, almost completely filling half of the palace.

All the worms were perfectly aligned, their bulging abdomens aimed at Anna, their coconut-shell-like backs facing outward in unison.

All the shells fit together perfectly, forming a giant, curved shield.

The instant Anna looked back, the entire curved wall of Baneling worms fell quickly, like a pot lid, covering the top of the frozen monster’s head.

Then, boom.

Boom!!!!

The massive explosive shockwave, carrying scorching heat, directly tore apart the shield formed by the connected back shells of the Baneling worms, sweeping through everything in the hall with unstoppable, unmatched force.

Heavy ice bricks were blown away, icicles were reduced to dust, and the surface bricks were covered with cracks, as if a layer had been directly shaved off compared to before.

The flames produced by the explosion even blew off the dome of the ice crystal palace.

Even far away in the high reaches of the city, the fire on the snow-capped mountain could be clearly seen.

Baneling-type worms are the prototype of Banelings; their abdomens are filled not with corrosive solutions, but with simpler, more violent explosives.

Earlier, Li Ang took advantage of his invisibility and his teammates' diversion of Anna’s attention,

hiding in a corner of the palace, taking out the Cat Eye,

and using the Cat Eye to create an illusion in the corner, concealing the appearance of the incubator (the invisibility effect of the Current Phantom is only interrupted when attacking or being attacked; creating illusions does not cancel the invisibility state).

After that, he frantically took out a long string of Baneling-type worms that he had cultivated beforehand from the incubator,

and then used the biological template to quickly extend a strand of flesh from his finger, connecting and enveloping the Baneling string.

In this way, he made the Baneling string a part of himself,

allowing the Baneling string to enjoy the invisibility of [Current Phantom] and the ethereal effect of [Phase Boots].

After Li Ang finished taunting and emerged from the ground, the Baneling-type worms buried deep underground were also brought to the surface, ultimately completing the detonation.

The explosion formed by so much explosive material gathered together almost completely dismantled the palace that Anna had temporarily reinforced.

In the rolling smoke, Li Ang's figure emerged, his scythe slashing diagonally, but it didn't hit anything.

In the deep crater produced by the explosion, the ice giant was no longer visible, only a pile of ice shards, and Anna, like a broken doll, her body shattered, lying on the edge of the crater.

Her eyes had lost all color.

All the patience and ambition had vanished.

A snowflake fluttered down and melted into her dark green eyes.

Li Ang slowly straightened up, stood silently propped up by his scythe. The [Detect Magic] effect of the magic mirror fragment clearly showed that the extreme cold energy in Anna's body was rapidly dissipating.

The biting chill that lingered in the hall not only did not slowly dissipate because it had lost its master,

but became even harsher due to the large amount of extreme cold energy being released, causing the room temperature to plummet.

Not only that, this terrifying energy, enough to freeze souls, instantly froze Anna's body firmly to the ground.

The entire crater was rapidly freezing, and the hall above was beginning to crumble.

Li Ang took a deep look into the pit, tapped his toes, and leaped out.

The sound of the explosion just now was indeed enormous, but fortunately, the main direction of the explosion was inside the Baneling-type worm shells.

Miss Chai had very tacitly dodged a little in advance.

John Joyce and Smoker, because they were originally in the corner of the palace, did not suffer as much from the shock wave.

Julia, at the last moment, took out a small, exquisite alloy shield from her backpack and held it in front of her, incidentally saving her teammate.

Li Ang only cared that Miss Chai was not seriously injured, completely ignoring the life or death of his teammates. He simply pulled open the zipper on the waist of his Red Hyena coat, and from under the skin on his back,

"extracted" the mirror fragment.

That's right, the secret to how Li Ang had been carrying the "magic mirror fragment that couldn't be put into the backpack" was to use a biological template to extend a section of the skin on his back and fold it inward,

forming a hollow satchel to load the magic mirror fragment.

This outrageous, even morbid behavior was not Li Ang's own creation.

It was inspired by those people who carry large quantities of loose CPU chips through customs.

(Smugglers sometimes use tape to stick loose chips all over their bodies in several layers)

Li Ang, holding all the magic mirror fragments, came to the stone fountain. The system's description of the fountain appeared in his eyes.

[Name: Sacred Paean Fountain Water]

[Type: Fixed Prop, disappears after five uses]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Effect: Heal. Heals and repairs items and lifeforms that do not exceed the quality of the Sacred Paean Fountain Water, restoring them to their normally perfect state.]

[Consumption: None]

[Cooldown: None]

[Usage Condition: None]

[Note: Only one object can receive the healing effect of the Sacred Paean Fountain Water at a time.]

[Note: The healing effect of the fountain water is independent of the amount used.]

[Note: With good intentions and love in your heart, you can retrieve the real Sacred Paean Fountain Water. After extraction, the separated fountain water loses its healing effect.]

[Note: Kindness, compassion, love, plus a little bit of fountain water.]

This was the end of the task.

Li Ang took a deep breath. At this time, Aisha's ice sculpture, like Anna's, began to release a torrent of intense cold to the outside world.

Crack crack crack—

The surface of the ice sculpture quickly began to freeze, soon engulfing the first two layers of the fountain's stone base.

Li Ang quickly activated Ripple energy, braving the cold, and grabbed the ring-shaped thick ice accumulated in the first layer of the stone base. Relying on brute force, he broke the thick ice into two pieces and lifted them up.

He tapped his toes on the ground and retreated, while putting both pieces of ice into his backpack inventory, leaving only a little crushed ice in his palm, using Ripple to heat his palm,

and constantly flashing back to beautiful scenes in his mind.

Soon, the crushed ice melted, and Li Ang smeared the snow water on the magic mirror fragments.

Streams of light flashed through the cracks in the mirror fragments, and the original simple, even rough, mirror surfaces quickly became smooth and shiny, shining with dazzling light.

Li Ang didn't have time to carefully examine the specific description of the magic mirror. He waved sharply at Miss Chai.

Chai Chai immediately understood, swooped over, grabbed Li Ang's wrist, and flew him towards the broken dome of the ice crystal hall.

At the same time, she thoughtfully and virtuously pulled up the reins of the sled loaded with extraordinary materials.

Two figures flew into the sky.

At this time, the ice pouring out of Aisha and Anna's bodies had completely covered most of the palace.

And the momentum did not diminish at all, seemingly intent on turning the entire mountaintop into a polar ice field.

The wind blew past his ears, and the sunlight broke through the clouds, shining on the bustling city at the foot of the distant mountains.

Li Ang saw that outside the palace, a dozen or so different kinds of magical beasts, exuding a powerful aura, were frantically attacking the palace gate.

The spellcasters were on the other side of the palace, anxiously hammering at the casement windows, trying to break through the barrier and rescue their princess.

Only the female physician Carly, as if she had foreseen something, knelt on the ground, watching the earth-shattering palace, silently shedding tears.

It's over.

Li Ang heard the mission complete notification in his ear, and the few player teammates huddled in the corner of the palace could not wait to teleport away, disappearing on the spot.

They just left like that?

Li Ang, floating in mid-air with Miss Chai, thought about Bob, John Joyce, and Smoker, who had first been severely injured by Anna,

and then hit by the explosive shockwave.

He clicked his tongue but didn't say anything.

If those three had chosen to leave a little later, Li Ang might have had the time to use the biological template to slightly heal their injuries, so they wouldn't have died shortly after teleporting back to the real world.

Forget it, never mind.

Anyway, Li Ang wouldn't admit that he hadn't considered the life or death of his teammates at all when he activated the Baneling-type worms.

If John Joyce felt that their rights had been violated, he could use various means in the real world to seek justice from Li Ang.

Li Ang strongly supports any action that delivers people, equipment, and props to his door.

Although he doesn't think John and the others, who were timid in the script world, would launch a heavy attack in the real world.

"It's time to go."

Miss Chai looked at the palace below, which had been completely frozen into ice, with only Aisha and Anna remaining facing each other from afar, and urged softly.

"Yeah."

Li Ang nodded, put away the Azure Garment, and disappeared on the spot.