As the octopus suddenly vanished after five hours of battle, Rael managed to break free with swift consecutive punches to the sheet of ice.
Rael crawled out of the hole he made with the punches and rested on the ice, shivering from the cold and battered from his recent encounter with the octopus. His heart pounded in his chest as he gathered his bearings, the pain from his broken body still lingering.
"Teacher… I…" Taking heavy breaths, he was about to say something, but the sight captured by his eyes turned his face paler in an instant.
Selene, arguably the second most powerful demigod in Freyles, who had been training him, was encased in a block of ice, her body frozen solid. Her once formidable aura was now gone, leaving only a cold, lifeless shell. Rael's breath caught in his throat. "She…"
He rose to his feet and dragged himself to her corpse.
