The mantis-man had clearly realized things were going south.
The instant the infernal flames inside Ataneya fully erupted, real fear finally surfaced in its compound eyes.
That power wasn't just strong—it carried something that made it instinctively recoil.
Power from The Infernal Abyss.
It jerked backward.
Its razor limbs gouged deep tracks into the ground, and the air screeched with friction as it retreated at high speed.
Almost at the same time, its energy flared.
A deep-blue frost aura blasted out from the gaps in its carapace. The energy condensed in midair, countless tiny ice crystals gathering into a single, churning mass.
In the blink of an eye, a gigantic ice sphere formed in the sky.
It was nearly a hundred feet across, its surface covered in sharp ice spikes, with a vortex of extreme cold spinning inside.
The mantis-man let out a furious roar.
It whipped its forelimbs and hurled the massive ice sphere forward.
