The icy suppression of the starlight and the solemnity of the military formation in the center of the battlefield provided perfect cover for Monica's quiet escape.

She was safe for the time being, but she witnessed Anna and Enzo fall again.

It's not that Monica was cold-hearted, but the moment she saw those Dark Church soldiers descending from the sky, she knew that there was no way the three of them would escape unscathed.

If Mark was there, with the help of Mark's blasphemous mark and mutation passive ability, they might be able to wipe out all the soldiers of the Dark Church.

But in the absence of Mark, the core of the team, the three of them are only slightly better than ordinary professionals, and it is impossible for them to achieve the result of crushing the army.

In addition, neither Enzo nor Anna had the shadow stealth skill similar to her, so after a brief exchange between the three of them, she chose to escape the encirclement by escaping into the shadows before the Dark Church soldiers arrived.

Fortunately, the tracking marks planted on them did not seem to be shared with these soldiers in real time. She also had to find Mark and assemble the team as soon as possible to have a chance of rescuing Enzo and Anna.

That was when Monica turned back to look for Mark.

At this moment, from the direction of the three fortresses above the canyon, the low roar of the huge engine continued to be heard, like the gloomy drumbeats in the background of the battlefield.

…

Next to the pine forest.

"Where's the core?!" the officer roared, spitting at Torge's ice-covered face. "The Heart of the Star Remains! Hand it over!"

Torge did not respond. His empty ice-blue eyes seemed to move slightly, and his body wrapped in ice crystals was still struggling stubbornly.

Trying to break free from the sword tip and the giant net, a low, muddy, and meaningless gurgling sound came from his throat.

As he struggled, even richer blue starlight overflowed from the gaps between his joints, freezing the air around him.

The officer's eyes burned with anger, and he pressed the tip of his sword down a little harder, making a harsh scraping sound as it rubbed against the hard ice crystals.

"Don't you understand what I'm saying, shorty? Look at all those bugs hiding there!"

He suddenly raised his hand and pointed at the group of dwarves standing silently under the huge ancient tree not far to the side, like blue sculptures, and raised his voice with a threatening tone.

"If you hand them over, I can give you, these tainted wretches, a quick death! Otherwise, I'll order them to be crushed before you one by one! Torture them until you speak!"

Torge's struggle seemed to intensify slightly when he mentioned "bugs", but his empty blue eyes and stiff movements remained.

The gurgling sound in his throat became sharper for a moment, then died down again, without any verbal or emotional response.

His cold eyes didn't even look in the direction the officer was pointing.

The officer lost all patience after the continuous questioning.

The rage of humiliation and being ignored on his face was like boiling magma, burning through the last bit of sanity.

"Damn you, stubborn stone! I don't believe I can't pry your mouth open!" The officer's voice was hoarse, murderous intent flashing in his eyes. "Your head can be my trophy too! I just don't believe I can't get the whereabouts of the Star Relic Heart out of the mouths of other dwarves!"

On the other side, Mark's eyes were fixed on Torge's huge ice crystal body, which was entangled in a giant net and half-kneeling on the ground.

The dark knight's rune sword was raised high, and the cold blade was pointing directly at the back of Torge's neck covered with dark blue ice crystals.

A strong sense of crisis gripped Mark's heart, and his eyes subconsciously swept towards the dead and silent pine forest.

Those Deepfurnace dwarves whose formations are neat but whose souls are as violent as lava.

The sweat on the officer's face had frozen into beads of ice, and Torge's empty struggles and meaningless gurgling completely ignited his brutal patience.

He squeezed out his voice through his teeth, wrapped in extreme coldness and shame and anger: "Stubborn stinking stone! Even if you die, you can still dig out what I want!"

The sword light, with the determination to shatter the frozen rock and the filth of dark magic, slashed down fiercely!

Right now!

“Ughhhhhhhhhhh!!!”

A shrill and distorted scream suddenly exploded from not far away, suddenly attracting everyone's attention.

That was Enzo, who was being dragged tightly by several dark chains and escorted from the ice crevice to the edge of the main battlefield!

When the soldier in front of him was distracted, he mobilized the rune forging hammer hidden in his body and hit him hard on the back of the head!

The escorting soldier was dizzy from the sudden blow and his hands loosened.

However, even though the Dark Rune Forging Hammer could not be blocked by the Forbidden Magic Chains, Enzo was still restricted and failed to find an opportunity to break out of the blockade of other soldiers.

Almost at the same time, the weak air flow next to the snow pit was cut off.

Monica's figure seemed to emerge from the shadows and rolled silently into the cover point beside Mark.

"mark!"

"Hush, look at the woods!"

Mark's eyes didn't move at all.

At this moment, the officer's sword has not yet been swung!

Time seemed to freeze for a moment.

In the cold pine forest, there were hundreds of eyes that were originally closed or open in the distance.

They opened at the same time in an instant!

Hundreds of extremely cold faint blue lights, like hundreds of neatly arranged ice lanterns suddenly lit up, instantly pierced through the thick shadows in the forest!

In the silent queue, every Deepfurnace Dwarf who was eroded by the Star Remains had an ice-blue vortex in his empty eye sockets that was exactly the same as Torg's, representing the complete arrival of the Star Remains' will!

“!!!”

The officer who swung the sword seemed to sense the sudden eruption of an icy frenzy behind him that was hundreds of times more powerful than a single Torge, and tried to turn around and look back in horror.

It's too late.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom—!

The deafening sound of ice shattering and frozen soil cracking filled the air!

The entire pine forest was instantly smashed to the ground by an invisible giant hammer!

Hundreds of figures covered with hard blue ice bent their knees and pushed off the ground in unison!

The movements were stiff and synchronized, like puppets controlled by the same mind!

The permafrost beneath their feet exploded into pieces under their sudden force, and broken ice and permafrost blocks splashed everywhere like a rainstorm!

Just as Monica stabilized herself, the light of identification flickered wildly in her eyes, and her field of vision was instantly covered by the mark of [Star Ice Despair Dwarf].

"Watch your head!"

She cried out in a low voice.

Mark's vision was obscured.

The sky disappeared.

Hundreds of ice crystal meteorites of various sizes...

No, it was hundreds of copies of the "Torg," dragging icy wakes like the deadliest hail.

With a completely desperate attitude, they smashed down fiercely towards the Knights' Army of the Dark Church, which had not yet recovered from the commotion of the escort and whose formation was slightly disrupted by the strange changes in the forest!

Fortunately, the scene was so shocking that Monica's scream did not attract anyone else's attention.

The dwarves' target was not Mark and her who were hiding in the snow cave.

Before the Knights of the Dark Church could react, they had already rushed into their legion!