Past 1: CH 1 Part 4 Frozen Prison

📢 Hey everyone, Reaper 800 here! ❄️ The tactical forest highway has officially hit absolute boiling point! We are slamming on the brakes and launching right into an ultra-premium, action-packed edition of Chapter 1 Part Four: THE FROZEN PRISON! 🥶 🃏 The Wing Feather Deception: The shonen workspace comedy explodes inside the truck cab when Remielle Dan brags about her twelve consecutive card wins, only for Liang Huàn to clinically accuse her of hiding playing cards inside her white angel wing feathers! ✨ The Five-Second Spark Wipe: A pack of five terrified human citizens stumble out of the brush warped into horrific progressive Chimera states, but I dive out with the golden Magenta Staff to completely flush the animal traits out of their systems in five seconds flat! 🧊 The Glacial Surgeon Extinction: Fifty black-armored Dark Knights launch a ferocious tactical ambush, but Liang Huàn casually steps out onto the frost grass with his sub-zero ice cane to cleanly encase all fifty enemies up to their necks in solid blocks of crystalline ice! Like | Share | Comment 👉 Follow my profile for Chapter 1 Part Five — THE ETHEREAL APEX! The Past I: Sheree Backstory Chapter 1, Part 4: Frozen Prison The heavy tactical armored transport truck roared down the dirt path, its tires spitting up loose gravel as it breached the dark forest boundary. Outside the windshield, the twisted, overlapping branches of the ancient forest clawed at the gray twilight sky, casting ominous shadows over the trail. Inside the cab, however, the atmosphere remained complete slapstick comedy. Reaper 800 was driving with a completely deadpan expression, loosely holding the steering wheel. Meanwhile, packed tightly onto the bench seat beside him, Remielle Dan and Liang Huàn were completely ignoring the creepy forest, locked in an intensely aggressive game of Black Five! Remielle Dan: "BOOM! Black Five! I win again, you reindeer creep! That makes it twelve rounds in a row!" Liang Huàn: "This is clinically impossible. My highly sophisticated brain calculations indicate that you are definitely hiding extra card tracks inside your white angel wing feathers. There is no other logical explanation for this statistical anomaly." Remielle Dan: "Excuse me?! I am an honorable Angel Thiren! I don't need to cheat to beat a former space pirate who wears a lab coat over a zoot suit! Accept your utter defeat gracefully!" Reaper 800: "Quiet down, you two idiots. Look out the windshield. The target parameters are right ahead." Reaper slammed his foot onto the heavy brakes, causing the armored truck to screech to a violent, smoking halt. Through the dense forest fog, a pack of five terrified, howling mutant monsters stumbled out from the brambles. They were common human citizens, but their bodies had been horribly warped into rare, progressive Chimera states, displaying multiple mismatched animal limbs, claws, and fur carapaces that juddered uncontrollably. Reaper 800 didn't waste a single microsecond. He kicked the driver-side door wide open, leapt out onto the dirt path, and reached into his spatial trench coat to grab the golden White Mage style Magenta Staff. Moving with absolute shonen agility, he spun the staff like a propeller, unleashing five consecutive, hyper-velocity arcs of magenta-pink energy sparkles that zapped across the clearing. ZAP! ZAP! ZAP! ZAP! ZAP! In exactly five seconds flat, the violent alchemical code inside the mutants completely dissolved. Their animal limbs and fur violently twitched before snapping back into flawless human silhouettes. They collapsed safely onto the grass, completely cured. Remielle Dan: "Oh, come on, Reaper! Look at you, just jumping out and clearing the field in five seconds! You are such a massive show-off!" Liang Huàn: "Agreed. I was explicitly preparing my medical instruments to run a baseline diagnosis on those chimeras. You took away all the fun, Reaper." Reaper 800: "Calm down, you're safe now. Where is your home city? We are heading down there right now to take down that rogue evil wizard on your profile." Citizen 1: "W-What city...? We don't know what you are talking about! He... he is the one who turned us into those mutant monsters! He rules the shadow tracks from that dark castle!" Before the citizen could finish their warning, the dark forest foliage exploded outward. Creeping out from the thick shadows came a massive blockade of fifty Dark Knights clad from head to toe in oppressive, black plate armor, wielding heavy iron halberds. Dark Knight 1: "You outside scum better shut your mouths! And you three intruders... you better drop your S-Rank weapons right now and surrender yourselves to the crown!" Reaper 800’s eyes flared a dangerous purple beneath his tech-skull mask, his stance shifting as his Path of Soul energy began to gather. But before he could act, a cold hand clad in a midnight-aqua sleeve pressed against his shoulder. Liang Huàn: "Let me handle them, Reaper 800. I know your combat metrics all too well—you will easily slaughter all fifty of them in ten seconds flat, but there is absolutely no need for that kind of lethal mess. Instead, I'm going to prison them clinically." The battlefield went deathly silent. Liang Huàn took a single deep breath, his dark cyan hair catching the cold breeze. Moving with absolute, unreadable light-speed velocity, the Glacial Surgeon casually walked straight past the front lines of the fifty Dark Knights, his boots clicking softly on the frost-covered grass. His crystalline cane, The Glacial Scalpel, vented a brief, sub-zero cloud of white vapor as he slid it smoothly back into his pirate battle gear coat pocket. Liang Huàn: "Frozen Prison." CRACK-SHHHHH-FREEZE! The absolute microsecond the tip of the cane clicked inside his pocket, a catastrophic explosion of sub-zero cyan ice erupted directly beneath the fifty soldiers. In a seamless flash, all fifty Dark Knights were completely encased up to their necks in solid, unbreakable blocks of crystalline glacial ice! They could frantically move their eyes and speak, but their entire body matrix was completely locked in absolute stasis. Dark Knight 2: "W-What kind of terrifying surgery is this?! I can't feel my arms!" Dark Knight 3: "Wait a minute... look at that bone-white deer skull mask! That's Liang Huàn, the legendary S-Rank Void Hunter! Oh no... that means the rest of them are Void Hunters too! We're completely done for!" Remielle Dan: "Start talking, tin can! Where is your leader hiding at?!" Dark Knight 1: "W-We can't tell you outsiders! It is strictly forbidden by alchemical law to tell you anything... anyway, if we ever whisper his name... he will hear us right now..." Suddenly, a high-pitch, raspy electronic whistling noise crackled violently directly inside the brains of the frozen knights. Even though he was miles away inside his dark alchemist dungeon lair, the evil wizard’s voice echoed clearly through their minds like a psychic curse. Dark Wizard: "So, you incompetent fools let yourselves get prisoned in ice by a doctor? Well... that is a massive shame. Oh well! It is time to turn one of you into a sacrifice Ethereal!" Dark Knight 1: "No! Dark Wizard, please! Anything but that! Spare me!" But his desperate pleas were completely useless. The 0.1% alchemical mutation code inside his armor violently overclocked. The ice block around him shattered into a million sharp shards as his flesh began to swell, morphing into a towering, multi-winged, grotesque monstrosity bubbling with corrupt Ether energy. Reaper 800: "Oh, you have got to be kidding me! A Sacrifice Ethereal?! Those things are a colossal pain in the neck to deal with. But since he turned them into a Sacrifice Ethereal, we have no choice but to kill them. Agreed?" Remielle Dan: "Agreed! You citizens, get some shelter behind the truck immediately! This is going to be a big battle!"