A countdown appeared in the white world. On it was the amount of time he had until he had to go to war.
He was given a shorter time to prepare compared to his last military expedition. But he wasn't concerned about it.
He smiled when he saw this and said, "At least I don't have to read the military codex again."
Strings of bubbles containing information about the Umbra world appeared before him. He got to work reading them immediately.
While he was busy preparing for the foreign battlefield, Icon was busy being hunted and hunting him.
Actually, Icon was mostly being hunted and was running. He was only hunting Kelvin passively and was trying to get away from the person hunting as soon as possible.
He was flying through the air while a naked white figure chased after him. Wherever the white figure passed, the air froze.
The demigod called out as she chased after him, "Don't run, Icon. Wait and let us have a chat."
Icon called back, "Stop tailing me, Frigid. I am not running away from you because I am afraid of you. I am just busy right now. So don't bother me anymore. I'm warning you now, don't push me too far."
She laughed out loud when she heard that. "What pride! You must think you are still a hotshot. You're still so arrogant despite being beaten to this level."
"I want to see what your source of confidence is. I want to see where you got the confidence to speak to me like that. I must see why you're not begging me but instead are bragging in front of me."
Icon frowned in anger. He really didn't want to fight her. But she was chasing him doggedly.
Not even teleportation could get rid of her. She was always able to find him because of her sensitive nose, which can sense the souls of others.
She can't catch him. But if she continues to chase him like this, she will draw attention to herself, which will draw unwanted attention to him.
He didn't want that and has tried to reason with her. But she refused to give up.
She was one of the few people who supported him in the past. She supported him with all her might. Even her friends died for him. But then he let everyone down when he didn't sever Earth-11 from Yggdrasil.
So she is determined to hunt him to the ends of the earth. Nothing he could say would be enough to convince her otherwise.
He growled in anger and decided to fight back.
He said to her, "I didn't want to do this to you. I know I owe you a lot, and I don't want to increase my debt to you. But you're forcing my hand."
She sneered and said, "Spare me your rhetoric. You were always good at lying and deceiving people. I won't let you deceive me today."
Icon stopped running and produced many puppets around him. One puppet created an illusion while another one created a spatial maze.
The illusion was supposed to fool the demigod, but it didn't affect her at all. It was an alpha ability that depends heavily on the power rating for its effect.
Since the demigod was too powerful, the alpha ability was useless against her. Only the spatial maze created with an omega ability had an effect on her.
The spatial maze works by twisting space into circles and dead ends. It is invisible, but anyone who enters it will only go around in circles.
The spatial maze is nearly unavoidable because it is invisible. It is also like a barrier between someone's goal. So as long as someone wants to reach a goal, they will have to contend with the spatial maze.
This demigod also didn't have a choice. She could see her target, but she couldn't reach it. This is the power of an omega ability. It can help someone bridge the gap between raw power.
However, this ability could only have an effect. It couldn't trap her.
A cold wind formed around her, which she spread into her surroundings. Wherever the cold wind blew, ice formed.
Everything around her became frozen. Even the spatial maze was frozen.
An ice hell formed around her. Then the ice sculptures broke apart with a slight push. This caused the spatial maze to collapse, which freed her from it.
During that short period, Icon had set up other abilities to delay her. He was delaying her while preparing a means of attack to subdue her.
The problem was that everything that approached her was frozen. This was a power that nullified almost any ability.
This was also why he mustn't let her approach him. Once she does, capturing him would be as easy as taking frozen candy from a frozen baby. There won't be any resistance whatsoever.
Her paper and ability also limited the things that he could use to attack her. Whatever can harm her must be immune to freezing.
There were very few things that could achieve that. Fortunately, he has a lot of puppets, so he can manage to find something to use against her.
First he sent out his invulnerable puppet. It was the same puppet he sent to fight Kelvin the first time he met him.
The puppet had crushed Kelvin's attacks easily. It couldn't do so to this demigod. But it could withstand her cold and fight her to a standstill.
Then he used his telekinesis puppet for long-range attacks. The telekinesis puppet mainly pulled and pushed the demigod. It hindered her movement so that the invulnerable puppet could beat her easily.
After that, he let the puppet with the strongest fire attack fight her. This puppet is also a long-range fighter. It stayed far away from her while producing laser beams that struck her.
She sneered when she saw the third puppet. She said in ridicule, "You even brought out Sun Beam against me. I totally deserve it."
"Sun Beam had called you a liar back then and was antagonizing you. We had helped you defeat him and turned him into a puppet for you to use. Now you're using him against me after you did the thing that Sun Beam said you would do."
"How foolish we were. We were foolish to have faith in you. We should have believed in Raijin instead. You were a wolf in sheep's clothing."
Icon didn't listen to her. He couldn't let himself be distracted for one moment at all.
Currently, they are in a stalemate. But it is a stalemate that won't last for long.
Things look like he has finally stalled her, but it is only for a moment. She is not injured at all despite everything he is doing. Meanwhile, the cold wind she is producing is growing in size.
Soon the cold wind will reach the long-range fighters and him. He can't stay too far away from his puppets, so he can't avoid her and her cold wind. Once that cold wind hits him, his capture or death will be a foreclosure.
This is why he was still preparing the best weapon he had at hand to fight a demigod. This weapon is the puppet that creates spatial cracks.
The spatial cracks are a product of an omega ability too. Unlike the spatial maze, which bends and twists space, this one is more destructive and takes longer to prepare.
The longer the puppet prepares the ability, the more destructive the spatial cracks will be, and the larger the range of attack will be.
He was delaying her to buy time for this ability. He would have wanted to spend more time delaying her, but he sensed that another demigod was coming, so he detonated the puppet immediately.
He made the puppet rush towards the demigod and explode in her face. Space cracked like glass after the explosion.
The explosion itself was silent. But its effects were deadly.
The cracks in space spread out quickly. They cut up anything they encountered in their way into shreds.
The demigod rushed back to avoid the explosion. But she was too close, so she couldn't avoid it.
She created an explosion of cold wind to block the spatial cracks. But it only slowed down the spread of the cracks. She was still hit by it.
Her explosion created a snowstorm on top of the ocean where they were fighting. When the snowstorm calmed down, Icon and the demigod were no more.
Icon had disappeared with teleportation. As for the demigod, half of her body had been destroyed. So she had rushed into the water to hide.
The demigod that was attracted by the fight came to the scene and found no one.
This demigod is naked, so their smooth and cracked skin was visible. From those cracks, an empty cavity containing a bright light can be seen.
The demigod had green hair and glowing green eyes. The green light from their eyes scanned the area many times.