My Sweetest Revenge: Sleeping with the Alpha King
Their skin was translucent blue, their veins black, and they hovered an inch off the ground, defying gravity.
"You bring the Earth's fire to the summit of the world, Shadow Queen," the Grand Ascetic echoed, his voice sounding like cracking glaciers. "But fire dies in the deep cold. Your soul will freeze, and your children will be claimed."
The monks raised their hands in unison.
The temperature in the courtyard didn't just drop; it plummeted to unnatural, impossible levels. A localized blizzard of dark matter and jagged black ice erupted, swirling around Killian and me. This wasn't weather. It was a domain of Soul-Freeze—magic designed to bypass the body and instantly paralyze the spirit.