Return of the Frozen Player-Novel

Mio couldn’t even take a moment to breathe under Valencia’s incessant assault, so the appearance of the Freedom Blade was like salvation for Mio.

Mio smiled sweetly upon seeing the flying swords.

The Freedom Blade granted Mio a moment of freedom.

Mio grew lively with anticipation. She was exhausted from the successive battles, and she was running out of magic. However, Seo Jun-Ho’s impending arrival vanquished the despair in her heart and filled it with hope.

Mio held her swords tightly and bravely cut down the thorns along with the flying swords. However, her expression darkened thirty minutes later.

Seo Jun-Ho still hadn’t arrived. The flame of resistance she had ignited was waning in front of Valencia’s fierce and endless attacks.

Meanwhile, Seo Jun-Ho’s flying swords wordlessly protected Mio and Mr. Shoot.

Mio finally realized that the flying swords had only been defending them.

She thought she knew better than anyone else that Seo Jun-Ho wasn’t an omnipotent god who could take care of everyone.

Mio was ashamed that she thought of leaning on Seo Jun-Ho rather than handling the situation by herself, just like those people she disliked. Mio blushed from the shame.

Mio presumed that the reason he hadn’t done that was that Mr. Shoot and her would also die if he were to kill Valencia that way.

At first, Mio thought that the flying swords were Seo Jun-Ho’s message to her, saying that she should wait because he was coming.

However, she had already realized that she was mistaken.

The flying swords were too passive to be considered support. Mio observed the way the swords were moving and finally saw through Seo Jun-Ho’s intentions.

The swords were waiting for Mio.

They had been anxiously waiting for something.

Mio would have done that long ago if she could do it herself. Unfortunately, there was an endless amount of thorny bushes, and their regeneration rate was absurd as well.

Mio examined herself and soon reached a conclusion.

In other words, Mio would die if she failed, but she wasn’t afraid.

Seo Jun-Ho was supporting her.

“It is said that there is no heaven for a coward.”

In other words, one had to be brave to reach heaven.

Mio lifted her swords.

Mio’s voice was filled with determination as she said, “Tenmei Mio, you got this!”

***

“Yes, that’s it.”

He held out the water canteen to Specter.

It was a difficult decision to make because she was basically gambling with her life.

However, Mio had made that decision because she had complete trust in him.

Specter urged his magic circuits, and a tempest of magic emerged from him.

The amount of magic that Specter had squeezed out of his magic circuits seemed like it was enough for Specter to dominate the world.

Seo Jun-Sik learned many different techniques under Sung-Jun’s tutelage, but Seo Jun-Sik prioritized learning the intricacies of Overclocking more than anything else.

However, Sung-Jun’s Overclocking focused on the bigger picture than just amplifying his power.

He had been using it in tandem with the Black Moon Heart Method.

Specter took a deep breath. The Black Moon Heart Method allowed Specter access to an infinite amount of magic, but the human vessel could only contain so much magic.

In other words, there was a limit to how much magic Specter could accommodate.

Specter’s eyelids opened, revealing a pair of golden eyes underneath.

“Dignity of an Emperor.”

Dignity of an Emperor (S) raised his Stage and allowed him to embrace the world.

Specter’s naked eyes took in the whirlwind of magic that had surrounded him.

Christin went beyond pallid at the terrifying sight. He reckoned that Specter could even destroy the world if he were to make so much magic explode.

“...” Specter’s golden eyes wordlessly looked down, and his eyes captured the figure of a petite woman.

Mio had shown that she had complete faith in Specter, and it was Specter’s turn to return the gesture in kind.

The air itself exploded as Specter clenched his fist.

“Freeze. Absolute Zero.”

The surrounding thorny bushes abruptly froze, but Specter wasn’t moved.

His goal was more than just freezing the surrounding thorny bushes.

***

Valencia’s eyes flashed.

Mio was about to make her tragic and heroic last stand.

The temperature abruptly fell as the entire castle was abruptly frozen.

She smiled in relief after realizing that her opponents could only do this much.

The thorny bushes regenerated and shattered the ice from the inside.

She was unstoppable while it was raining. She reckoned that even the Heavenly Demon would struggle against her while it was raining.

“How boring, let’s end this,” said Valencia.

She raised her hand and stared deeply at Mio.

She couldn’t help but admit that Mio had fought well against her.

A tsunami of thorny bushes emerged from behind Valencia and fell toward Mio.

“What?” Valencia’s stupefied gaze landed on the ceiling.

***

She was roughly a hundred meters away from Valencia.

All she had to do was run and swing her sword once.

Mio begged herself and hurriedly narrowed the distance between her and Valencia.

Unfortunately, the closer she got to Valencia, the more thorny bushes got in her way.

A thick thorn tripped Mio, and she collapsed to the ground with a dull thud.

A terrible wave of pain would fill her head whenever she took a step forward.

However, Mio didn’t stop even for a moment.

At this point, she was trying her best not to fall while taking advantage of inertia to move rather than actually using her energy to run at Valencia.

And she had to make full use of it, or it would be her last opportunity…

Soon, Mio finally saw Valencia’s bored expression.

“Stay away,” Valencia spat indifferently.

Dozens of thorny bushes rushed at Mio.

Mio’s shoulder, torso, and thigh were pierced, but she didn’t slice them apart. She had to preserve her strength for that fateful attack. She had to reach Valencia with minimal movements.

Her next swing had to chop Valencia’s head off rather than these thorns.

“You’re annoying,” said Valencia with a sigh. “I’m getting tired; let’s end this.”

Valencia swung her hand down, and a myriad of thorny bushes rushed at Mio.

The blind faith she had in Seo Jun-Ho wasn’t something that was built in just one day.

The issue was that Seo Jun-Ho’s plans had always been borderline impossible, but his plans had always succeeded somehow.

In that case, Mio simply had to follow in Seo Jun-Ho’s footsteps and succeed somehow.

Valencia Citrin was just five steps ahead.

Mio started imbuing her sword with as much magic as she could squeeze from her magic circuit.

The thorny bushes flying toward Mio froze over, but Valencia remained calm.

The frozen thorny bushes remained frozen for some reason, causing confusion to appear on Valencia’s face.

The fiend’s bewildered and frustrated face was just around the corner.

And that was when Mio finally figured out what was going on.

Valencia was invincible while it was raining, but…

Seo Jun-Ho had to have been waiting for this moment.

There was only one way to stop the rain.

“No way… h-he’s a monster…” Valencia muttered blankly. She finally understood why the fiends that Specter had killed all said that he was a monster.

Specter froze a vast expanse of clouds to stop even a drop of rain from falling on Valencia’s castle.

Mio arrived in front of Valencia and swung her sword without any hesitation.

“W-wait…!” The surrounding thorny bushes couldn’t emerge from the ice after losing the support of the rain.

Valencia’s head flew into the air

“I did not swing that sword by myself.”

Mio had swung her sword with the pieces of the many evils that the fiends had scattered throughout the world, and it was a sword move to vanquish each and every piece of the fiends’ evils.

Valencia’s frantic look was frozen in time as her head fell to the ground with a dull thud before rolling down the mountain of frozen thorny bushes.

It was the end of the Queen of Thorns.