The Evil Wolf's claws scraped against the ice armor, producing a harsh sound and leaving five deep scratches, but failing to penetrate.
Gray took the opportunity to turn, and sharp spikes suddenly protruded from his ice-armored elbow, striking the Evil Wolf's nose bridge with force.
Cana seized the chance to draw a dark, black card, its face depicting a ferocious Raven monster: "In my name, Evil Crow King, seal Release!"
She tossed the card high, and the moment mana was injected, the card erupted in a rich black light.
A jet-black Raven monster burst from the card, its five-meter wingspan stirring up a fishy wind.
It had a humanoid body but a Raven's head, blood-red eyes, a sharp beak with a metallic luster, and talons like curved hooks forged from fine steel.
The Evil Crow King let out a piercing shriek, the sound wave flattening all the surrounding grass. It swooped down, its sharp beak aiming directly for the Evil Wolf's eyes, forcing the black wolf to retreat temporarily.
Gray removed his ice armor and stood back-to-back with Cana, both breathing heavily: "Good teamwork!"
Gray wiped the sweat from his forehead; the exertion of ice magic had left his face slightly pale.
Cana took a deep breath, her fighting spirit burning even brighter: "It's not over yet."
She drew two more cards, radiating powerful mana fluctuations, their material clearly superior to her other cards, "In my name! Frost Spirit! Storm Banshee!"
"Seal Release!"
An ice-blue eyeball spirit hovered over her left shoulder, a snowflake-shaped pupil at the center of the half-meter diameter eyeball. The surrounding temperature plummeted by ten degrees, and fine frost flowers condensed on the grass.
On her right shoulder, a translucent Wind Banshee appeared, about one meter tall, its humanoid outline formed by flowing air currents, creating a small whirlwind around it.
Cana had actually managed to acquire another rare elemental beast.
The Storm Banshee is a Wind Demon formed in places where wind elements are highly concentrated.
It looks like an elemental spirit similar to the Frost Spirit, but there is actually a difference.
The Storm Banshee is formed by human fear and resentment of natural disasters like storms, under specific environmental conditions.
According to legend, this type of Wind Demon is born in tornados or the eye of a typhoon, possessing the innate power to create storms.
Ezreal raised an eyebrow, a flicker of admiration in his eyes: "No wonder you said you don't earn enough money; it turns out the new guy you got is a Wind Demon! Using all three trump cards at once. You're really giving me face."
Cana flicked her wrist, and three more cards fell into her hand: "This guy is very strong; I spent a lot of effort to subdue it."
Ezreal laughed, "It looks like I need to get serious too."
He snapped his fingers, and the ground suddenly vibrated violently, the turf rippling like waves.
A ten-meter diameter swamp appeared out of nowhere, bubbles rising from the muddy water, emitting a pungent sulfurous smell.
A three-meter tall Marsh Frog leaped out, its dark green skin covered in poison glands, its bulging vocal sac rising and falling with its breathing.
It opened its huge mouth, and viscous poisonous mist spewed from its body. The purple mist rapidly spread, wilting vegetation in its path.
"Leave the poison mist to me!" A nimble female voice rang out. The Frost Spirit's eyeball rotated rapidly, and extremely cold freezing air sprayed out in a fan shape, condensing the poison mist into purple ice crystals that fell to the ground.
The Storm Banshee simultaneously rose higher, one hand lightly lifting to stir up a five-meter diameter azure hurricane, dispersing the remaining poisonous gas.
The two summoned creatures cooperated perfectly, one responsible for freezing, the other for clearing.
The Evil Crow King took the opportunity to swoop down, its jet-black feathers shooting towards Ezreal like an arrow rain, each feather entwined with shadow energy.
The Blue Buff's stone palm slammed to the ground, and an earth wall rose up to block the feather attack, but the feathers actually penetrated the earth wall, only their speed greatly reduced.
Ezreal dodged sideways, three feathers grazing his cheek, cutting off a few strands of hair.
Gray suddenly slid out from the side of the earth wall, two exquisitely crafted ice blades forming in his hands: "Dual Blades · Snow Slash!"
The ice blades cut out intersecting cold light, spiral-shaped freezing air entwined on their edges.
Ezreal leaned back to avoid the first blade, but the second cut through the hem of his clothes, the fabric instantly freezing and shattering.
Ezreal looked down at his clothes, slightly surprised, "This is, Ikaruga's sword art?"
Cana had leaped ten meters into the air at some point, six cards forming a perfect hexagram array in her hands, the mana fluctuations distorting the surrounding air: "Elemental Judgment!"
Her voice became ethereal under the mana resonance, and six colored light pillars descended from the sky, each containing destructive elemental energy.
In the nick of time, six Red-Blue Stone Golems burst out of the ground, raising their shields to form a defensive formation.
They were six meters tall; the Red-Eyed Stone Warriors held stone axes and round shields, while the Blue Warriors wielded stone hammers and square shields.
The light pillars slammed into the stone shields, erupting in dazzling flames. The two Stone Men in the front row shattered into rubble on the spot, but they bought Ezreal valuable time to dodge.
Ezreal watched the shattered Stone Man gradually fade and disappear, and praised, "You can even break the Red and Blue Warriors; your progress is really obvious, Cana."
The blond youth raised an eyebrow, lifted his hand, and pointed at Cana and Gray, "Red and Blue Warriors, split."
Following Ezreal's command, the remaining four Stone Men suddenly each split into three, and twelve identical Stone Men instantly surrounded Cana and Gray.
Ezreal raised his left hand, and a white light glowed at his fingertips. A white magic array composed of ancient characters appeared in front of him, "Dimension · Speed Amplification!"
"Dimension · Mana Amplification!"
A white light flashed in the eyes of the twelve Stone Men and then disappeared. Their bodies visibly shrank to two meters but their speed greatly increased, and white magic runes appeared on their stone weapons.
The Evil Crow King hurriedly moved to defend but was intercepted and entangled by the Evil Wolf.
The battle between the two giant beasts was earth-shattering. The Evil Wolf's claws tore off large patches of Raven feathers, and the Evil Crow King's sharp beak also left bone-deep wounds on the wolf's back.
Black smoke and feathers intertwined in the air, and blood rained down like drops.
Fine sweat seeped from Cana's forehead; continuous use of high-level cards had consumed more than half of her mana: "These Stone Men are made of magic-sealing stone; defeating them requires a huge amount of mana, we can't get bogged down."
She threw out three flame cards, which transformed into three waves of fire, blasting away the approaching Stone Men. Suddenly, she felt a chill at her feet—the Frost Spirit had been caught by the Marsh Frog's long tongue at some point and was being dragged towards the swamp.
"No way!" An ice-blue magic array spread out beneath Gray's feet, and ice chains flew from his hands, entangling the Frost Spirit and engaging in a tug-of-war with the Marsh Frog.
Barbs condensed on the chains, digging deeply into the frog's tongue.
The Storm Banshee seized the opportunity to release dozens of wind blades, precisely cutting the same spot on the frog's tongue.
The Evil Crow King also broke free from the Evil Wolf and swooped down, tearing at the frog's eyes with its sharp talons.
Cana seized this opening, throwing her last five elemental cards into the air and forming complex hand seals: "Elemental Resonance · Meteor!"
The five cards merged in the air into a burning meteor thirty meters in diameter, its surface flowing with lava-like light, trailing a long tail of fire as it fell.
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