Return of the Frozen Player

itch effort to escape, they simply cursed Seo Jun-Ho with devilish faces.

“I will curse you! I will curse you even in hell!”

“On the day you come to hell, I'll personally…”

“You talk too much.”

When Seo Jun-Ho waved his hands, pieces of ice fell like petals and wrapped around their bodies.

“…!”

“…!”

The pain made them forget to scream as they fell into a daze.
In the torment, the fiends’ consciousnesses turned white.

“You are especially fierce today,” commented the Frost Queen.

“They were even more hateful today.
What right do they have to even feel that it’s unfair?”

Seo Jun-Ho snorted and lightly moved his foot.

Urururu!

When the walls of ice collapsed, the first scene he saw was Trevor protecting the residents.
He had an indescribable expression.

“Hmm, what should I say? You look as if you've met an alien.”

“…”

Trevor’s face showed appreciation, astonishment, admiration… and fear.
It had been quite a while since Seo Jun-Ho had seen such a face.
Of course, he didn't feel hurt because he had seen such a face multiple times already.

“Go to the shelter.
My allies there will lead you.”

“You…”

Trevor tried to find the words to follow up with, but he ended up shutting his mouth.
He barely managed to hold it back in case he said anything rude.
Instead of talking, he lowered his head.

“Thank you.
I'll just say this for now.”

“Don't mention it.”

Trevor looked up.
The view was clear since the buildings had collapsed.
He looked at the sea and expressed his concern.

“Just what is going on in this city?”

“Who knows?” Seo Jun-Ho calmly continued.
“There's only one thing I can tell you.
Go to the shelter.
It's the safest place.”

It was the best advice Seo Jun-Ho could give right now because he had also never seen anything like that before.

– …!

He heard a small cry that didn’t belong to a human.
The place where he heard it was located at the end of the sea, where the dark clouds were concentrated.
It was a monster so huge that it could be visually identified from a great distance.

'… No, to be exact.' 

Seo Jun-Ho frowned and vaguely found something.

‘It's not just monsters.
They’re fighting with the fiends.’

At that moment, Seo Jun-Ho discovered the fiends’ goal.

“So it’s the demon jade.”

“Demon jade?”

Unless the fiends had suddenly become mentally ill as a group, they would never fight for world peace.
In that case, there was only one answer.

“Contractor, don't tell me that the fiends are going to…
implant a demon jade into that huge monster and tame it?” The Frost Queen sounded a little afraid.

“It's already a little overwhelming, but if it absorbs the demon jade…”

“Then it will be a disaster.”

Seo Jun-Ho had no choice but to stop it before then.

“It’d be nice to go to the sea…” said Seo Jun-Ho.

“You don't seem to have any thoughts about letting him go.” The Frost Queen instantly saw through what he was thinking.

It was all because a great deal of energy began radiating from the fiends’ camp above the Dragon Rock.
The energy was looking at none other than Seo Jun-Ho.

‘Pride, the leader of Pride Squadron.’

Seo Jun-Ho turned his head and his gaze met Pride’s from 3,000m away.

Grin.

There was an expression of delight as if Pride had found an interesting toy.
Seo Jun-Ho confirmed his opponent who disappeared like a ghost and told Trevor, “Go ahead to the shelter.”

He wouldn’t be able to afford to protect other people when dealing with such a fiend.

***

“S-sir.”

Sssk.

Pride raised his hand and interrupted his subordinate.
The members of the Despair Squadron were now out at sea hunting for the demon—Leviathan.
Conversely, all the members of the Pride Squadron were infiltrating the town and hunting all the witnesses.
In a word, it was only him and his subordinate in the camp.

Pride looked at the city with his arms crossed.
No, to be exact, he was looking at the sky on one side of the town.
“Isn't it beautiful?”

“Pardon?”

“I asked, isn't it beautiful?”

The subordinate was taken aback.
He was not sure what answer to give here.
Normally, he would have been scolded for taking too long to answer, but fortunately, Pride was in a good mood right now.

“One of the two skills the Association has been looking for is darkness, and the other is ice.” Pride asked, “As far as I know, there are currently five people in the world who can use an ice elemental skill.
Is that right?”

“Yes, but they are all below D-grade.
Even if they died, they wouldn’t be able to show such power.”

“That means he's a completely different Player… I think that's at least A-grade.”

Pride's words startled his subordinate.

“It is an ice elemental skill, but you’re saying it’s A-grade? At that level, the heat on the 3rd floor…”

“We'll have to try it if we want to know, but it should be possible, even if it's a little hard.” Pride slowly nodded.
“If I offer it to the colonel, he’ll be very happy.”

“Are you going to act yourself? Perhaps rather I…”

“Arthur, he's the one who killed Dread on the spot.
But you're going to catch him? That’s nonsense.”

Crack.

Pride grinned and stretched by lightly turning his neck and shoulders.

“Oh, would you look at this.
He must have felt me, too.
Our eyes met.”

“At this distance? Unless he’s someone of at least Leader-nim’s level…”

“No, I'm sure of it.” Pride was certain that he had met his opponent’s gaze.
“It has been a long time since I felt this way.
My body is itching to fight.”

Booooom!

Pride stomped the ground and shot toward the sky.

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