Both sides had their own schemes, but the princess just made her move a little earlier.
“Hmph~ You’re not as clever as I thought.” The princess took the flame from Chen Xing’s hand, which was frozen in ice.
The princess understood that if this thing was real, then she had just killed someone for it.
If it was fake, it meant the cultist woman couldn’t find what she wanted and tried to fool her with a fake.
Either way, this cultist woman had to die.
As the princess of the Ice Empire, what she hated most were cults and witches.
If it weren’t for the witch sleeping in the far north, her country wouldn’t have to be so tense, and the kings before her wouldn’t have had to come up with such extreme measures—freezing their own hearts and losing the joys of being human.
Everything this country and its kings had gone through was because of the witch, so there was no way the princess would ever side with a cult.
Once the other side lost her value, she had to be killed.
If this really was just a cultist, with her strength not even at level thirty, she’d be no match for the princess.
But right now, the person the princess was facing was… a real witch.
Black slime slowly seeped out from the ice encasing Chen Xing.
Sensing something was wrong, the princess immediately jumped back to put distance between herself and Chen Xing.
The moment the princess landed, her frost domain sensed something under her feet.
Sure enough, the next second, several black tentacles shot out from the ground, grabbing for the princess’s legs.
“What is this…” The princess reacted quickly, summoning ice blades to slice all the tentacles apart.
But even after being cut, the black tentacles didn’t slow down.
The severed pieces shot toward the princess even faster.
Feeling the evil radiating from this stuff, the princess knew she absolutely couldn’t let it touch her.
So the instant her ice blades failed, she condensed a huge shield of cold air, trapping all the black tentacles inside.
But one severed tentacle slipped through the air, skillfully dodging the ice shield.
By the time the princess noticed, it was too late—the black tentacle, only as long as a finger, had already latched onto her leg.
The moment her clothes touched the black slime, they dissolved.
The black substance clung tightly to the princess’s leg and began to spread rapidly.
In the blink of an eye, her calf and thigh were wrapped up, like she was wearing a pair of tight leather stockings.
They hugged her long legs, showing off their shape perfectly.
Even her small, tense feet were wrapped up, each delicate toe clearly visible.
You couldn’t tell when she was wearing thick pants, but the princess’s legs were really beautiful.
“What the hell is this?!” The moment the black substance touched her, the princess felt a chill like never before—not even rolling naked in the snow of the far north could compare.
For a second, it was like her soul was frozen solid.
Within that bone-chilling cold, there was also evil and darkness… The princess knew she couldn’t let it spread any further.
So, as the black substance was about to reach the top of her thigh, the princess used her freezing power to encase her thigh in ice.
It worked—the black substance stopped spreading.
Or at least, it slowed down a lot.
Even inside the ice, it was still creeping forward, just much more slowly.
In a way, the black substance lost a lot of its power once it left the witch’s body.
If it was just a little, it could be sealed.
“Mmm…” The princess could feel the black substance not only crawling upward, but also seeping into her skin and flesh.
She tried to use her own magic to fight it off, but it only slowed the invasion.
Because of her magic, unlike the cultist woman, the princess’s leg didn’t melt away.
The ice statue in front of the princess was covered in cracks.
The next moment, countless ice crystals exploded from it.
“My, my, you’re a lot sharper and more capable than I thought.”
Chen Xing, now free from the ice, smiled slightly.
Things had gone a bit beyond her expectations, but since it had come to this, she had to take the princess down today.
Looking at the princess’s long legs tightly wrapped up, Chen Xing grumbled, “Figures, you can’t be too rough with this level of corruption.”
The black substance from the witch’s body wasn’t invincible.
Once it left her, it lost a lot of its power.
It could easily devour people like the cultist woman or Salina.
But for a mage like the princess, if she fought back with magic, it got a lot harder.
Still, Chen Xing wasn’t worried.
She had plenty of ways to make someone fall.
If the black substance outside her body couldn’t devour the princess, she’d just eat the princess herself, like she did with Freya—let the princess experience what it was like to be swallowed by absolute darkness.
“Who are you?” The darkness and evil radiating from Chen Xing was beyond anything the princess had ever seen.
She’d seen plenty of cultists, but none as terrifying as Chen Xing.
A terrifying thought flashed through the princess’s mind: “Don’t tell me… this woman is the witch!!!?” Realizing this, the princess knew she couldn’t keep fighting—she had to run.
“Judging by your face, you’ve already guessed who I am~ That’s right, I’m—” Before Chen Xing could finish, the princess’s body suddenly burst with dazzling light.
Sensing the spatial fluctuation, Chen Xing immediately raised her hand.
“Trying to run!” Chen Xing tore open a spatial rift to disrupt the princess’s magic, but when the two spells collided, the spatial waves grew even more intense.
When the light faded, the princess had vanished.
“Motherfucker!!” The princess must have activated some kind of life-saving item that teleported her away in an instant.
Chen Xing noticed and tried to interfere.
But without the witch’s memories, the highest level of magic she could use without chanting was level sixty, about the same as the princess’s item.
The two spells collided.
Chen Xing managed to interfere, but couldn’t stop the princess from escaping.
Because the princess was tainted by Chen Xing’s evil, Chen Xing could sense her location.
“Ah!!” The princess’s body appeared out of thin air ten meters above the ground.
Luckily, she landed in snow and didn’t get hurt too badly.
“Where am I?” The princess slowly stood up from the snow and looked around, seeing nothing but endless white.
Because the two spatial spells collided, the teleportation distance doubled, sending her far from where she wanted to go.
There was nothing here—no villages, no people, no sign of life.
“Ugh…” The princess dragged her leg.
She could feel the corruption getting worse.
She had to find a way to get rid of it, or it would soon spread all over her body.
