chsdbacks Chapter 1066: Julius’ Domain (1)
Chapter 1066: Julius’ Domain (1)
Chapter 1066
The Emperor just raised a single hand and uttered:
"Magus Dominion: Sub-Zero"
Then the world answered.
At first, it was subtle.
A sharp drop in temperature swept outward in a silent wave, so sudden that the air itself seemed to crack.
The sudden change in temperature a few meters away caught the attention of those fighting, making them pause for a single second, but they could barely see anything as frost bloomed across the ground in jagged patterns, racing over stone, trees, and walls alike.
Breath turned to mist.
Moisture in the atmosphere crystallized instantly, filling the space with drifting particles that shimmered like frozen dust.
Then came the sound—a low, haunting creak, as though glaciers were grinding together beneath the earth.
Outside, the domain announced itself with overwhelming force.
A massive sphere of pale blue energy expanded around the Emperor and Orion, not violently, but with cold certainty.
Wherever it touched, the environment froze solid.
The earth stiffened under layers of expanding ice.
Even the sky above shifted, storm clouds gathering as snow began to fall in heavy silence.
To those standing beyond its reach, it looked as though a fragment of winter itself had descended upon the battlefield—a frozen world encased within shimmering boundaries.
And then—inside the domain, everything changed.
The battlefield vanished.
In its place stretched an endless tundra beneath a silver-white sky.
Towering glaciers rose like ancient cathedrals, their surfaces glowing faintly with trapped light.
Frozen peaks pierced the heavens, while beneath them lay fields of untouched snow that extended farther than the eye could follow.
The air was deathly still, broken only by the distant howl of winds that sounded less like weather and more like mourning.
Snowflakes drifted endlessly, but they did not melt, did not settle.
They hung suspended at times, as though time itself moved slower within the frozen expanse.
The cold was unbearable.
Not ordinary cold—the kind that numbed skin.
This was a deeper force, one that seeped into bones, slowed blood, and dulled thought itself.
Muscles stiffened. Reactions weakened.
Even magical energy felt sluggish, as though freezing from within.
Every step left no footprints, because the snow healed itself instantly.
And at the center of it all stood the Emperor.
Untouched.
His presence was calm, absolute, like a sovereign of winter seated upon an invisible throne.
Around them, ice moved as if alive.
Spears formed from thin air.
Glacial walls rose at a thought.
Storms answered gestures.
Within this space, frost was not an element. It was law.
The domain was not merely a battlefield.
It was an execution ground where the enemy was slowly claimed by winter itself.
Kael, who was outside, turned the moment he struck an enemy down.
His eyes widened on seeing the domain spread out.
"No, no, no, no! The hell have you done?! You will die from that!" He bellowed with all his might, but it was for naught.
The domain was cast and now, Julius along with Orion had been ostracized from the main battlefield into the Emperor’s own world.
He wouldn’t hear anything.
Kael was stumped.
Why? Why had his old man decided to sacrifice his life? They would win regardless of this. So why?!
The battle still raged on, but only a few people who knew the consequences of what the Emperor had just done paused.
Kael, Captain Amir, Scarlet, and Greg.
Everybody knew the Emperor’s condition.
The more powerful the spell cast, the more the cracks on his mana core would deepen, and when it completely shattered, he would die.
And now, he had just gone ahead and used a domain?
The strongest power-up that a mage could have.
This was crazy, knowing that he wouldn’t survive this at all.
But at least, there was no hope that Orion would survive this either.
"Come on, Kael," Amir rushed forward and grabbed the young adult by the shoulder.
"We still have a battle to fight."
"Bu-But..." Kael stuttered as he looked in the direction of the domain, his teeth grinding repeatedly.
Looking back at the larger battlefield, he could see that the Otherworlders were still many.
They had a lot of work to do.
Balling his hands at his sides, he gnashed his teeth once more.
There was nothing he could do.
Knowing Julius, he must have already added a law refusing to let anybody enter the domain.
So Kael wouldn’t be able to go in and knock some sense into the man.
It was all decided over there.
But over here? It wasn’t yet.
Lightning arced across his frame as he looked at the larger battlefield.
"AAAAAAAAAAH!" He thundered and bolted forward with vengeful wrath.
The Otherworlders spotted him and quickly dashed his way, but they didn’t make it past a few steps before they were ruthlessly struck down by lightning from above.
It was as clear as day, Kael had already lost it to anger.
Refusing to hold back anymore, he was raining down spells and strikes that were enough to not only paralyze, but to incinerate from the inside out.
Weaving under the volley of earth spikes, he thrust his hands forward, and a crackling sphere of lightning tore forward, ripping through men and beasts alike.
A warrior reached his side, but with a sharp spin, Kael swung a lightning sword toward the opponent, clashing with his blade.
Then, he drove his foot, which had an intense amount of lightning arcing around it, forward.
The man got blasted backward with blood ripping from his mouth before crashing into the midst of his allies.
"AAAAAAAAH!"
Swinging his hands downward, Kael summoned a heavy downpour of lightning strikes that was set to eradicate hundreds of men at once.
Seeing him delve deeper into rage, the Dawn forces nodded.
This was the first time anybody was seeing Kael furious.
He was usually calm and composed, as if nothing could faze him, but here, he was angrily tearing through men like they were worth nothing.
The elite forces that knew him were worried but couldn’t stop him.
The rage would help them in the long run, so who were they to stop him?
Instead, they all concentrated forward, fighting their own battles with all their might while Zodiac One watched in amusement.
’Interesting,’ he mused inwardly as he turned behind him to look at the domain.