Crack crack crack
At the central clearing of the relic, the ice layer shattered and sank amidst the rumbling, countless ice crystals sprayed from the cracks, converging into a spinning ice column in the snowstorm.
The ice column grew taller and expanded at an astonishing speed, in just a few seconds transforming from a few meters long ice spire to a vast and continuous giant ice mountain.
The peaks pierced the clouds like sharp swords, the entire mountain pure blue in color, as if sculpted from a whole block of ancient ice crystal, with a glassy sheen flowing on the surface. Numerous ancient runes flickered in the ice layer, like sleeping stars.
When the ice mountain's height broke through a thousand meters, a thick blue beam of light shot up from the mountain's peak, directly piercing the heavy lead-gray clouds, tearing open a huge light swirl in the sky.
