Yes, I became a god just by exercising.

Chapter 20 Second Loss of Control
The cold wind was extremely fierce, like a mad beast roaring wildly in the air.

Extremely low temperatures enveloped Xia Fa, as if trying to freeze him from head to toe into an ice sculpture.

Hail, snow, freezing rain... everything spread between heaven and earth.

A white dove flew through the air, but instantly turned into an ice sculpture, crashed to the ground, and shattered into pieces.

Xia Fa stared at the ice wall in front of him, which seemed to grow ever taller and wider. He was only slightly stunned for a moment before his mind began to race.

Seeing this, he immediately understood that the damned snow demon had descended!

Although no one knows why it arrived prematurely on the fourth day after it was entangled, the snow demon did indeed arrive!

A shrill, hoarse scream came from behind him, piercing through metal and stone, like a sharp awl stabbing into his eardrums, trying to penetrate his skull.

Xia Fa turned around and saw a strange humanoid figure with disheveled white hair and a pale face slowly coalescing into a body amidst the blizzard.

The humanoid creature was bizarre, with deathly pale eyes and no pupils, like someone who had died unjustly. Its arms were also grayish-white, with fine black veins protruding like a spider web on its forearms, and its five fingers were sharp claws with nails as sharp as thorns.

It wore a tattered long dress, had no legs, floated in the air, and stared at Xiafa with its pale eyes.

Without a doubt, this is indeed the Snow Demon.

Every spring, it starts with a notorious and eerie event that kills more than a dozen people!

This is just one snow demon; if all the snow demons in the world were added together, countless people would perish at its hands.

Now, Xia Fa understands that he is about to become one of them.

A voice filled with extreme anxiety and worry suddenly came from afar, through the ice wall.

"Xia Fa, you...this snow demon...how could you...Quick, run this way!"

Xiafa recognized the voice as that of Archbishop Chestnut, but he immediately sensed something was wrong.

Logically speaking, if this ice wall were blocking the church door, the sound of chestnuts should have sounded like they were right next to us.

He looked around and realized that this freezing world had somehow moved far away from the church, only stopping a hundred meters away.

Then, the ice wall began to extend, instantly transforming into a thick, circular wall surrounding him and the snow demon, like the Colosseum in ancient Rome, where a fierce, one-sided battle was about to take place.

Little did Xia Fa know that to the people outside the church, everything seemed so strange.

Ordinary people cannot see the snow demon, so they only saw that after Xia Fa walked out of the church, the butler and the carriage in front of him were instantly turned into ice sculptures.

Then, Xia Fa was inexplicably moved to a place more than 100 meters away from the church.

Fortunately, most people know something about the supernatural, so they immediately kept their distance.

Even the few who dared to go all the way to the corner of Daniel Street before they dared to stop and watch.

Suddenly, everyone saw the Archbishop of the Silver Church, Chestnut, running out of the church in a great hurry, his fair face filled with worry.

Following Archbishop Chestnut were a dozen or so extraordinary individuals, all dressed in white robes with star patterns embroidered on the collars and cuffs.

Some held crosses, some raised flintlock pistols, and others carried swords; all of them wore extremely serious expressions.

"Archbishop, we can't go over there! This snow demon has clearly lost control for the second time, and its strength has reached the elephant level!"

An extraordinary individual offered a stern warning, noticing that Chestnut seemed intent on rescuing the ordinary man named Xiafa.

Fungi, insects, eagles, wolves, elephants, whales... even Governor Ellis, the strongest in Rum City, barely reached the level of an elephant-level superhuman.

As for Archbishop Chestnut and Archbishop Glenn, as well as the tax collector and chief judge of Rum City, they are all just Wolf-level superhumans!
Normally, a team of three to five other extraordinary beings at the elephant level would be needed to kill a bizarre creature, often at a considerable cost. In other words, they are currently completely powerless against this snow demon that has gone out of control twice!
call out!
A beam of light descended from the sky, and Governor Ellis, dressed in a blue and white knight's uniform, appeared. The light fell and disappeared on him like raindrops, but his resolute face remained as serious as steel.

"What's going on? An elephant-level snow demon? Shouldn't snow demons be wolf-level creatures?!"

Governor Ellis demanded, his brow furrowed:
“If this is not handled properly, it will be a disaster. People in several blocks will probably be killed along with this snow monster.”

Chestnut remained silent; the rat girl seemed somewhat lost in thought at that moment.

"I don't know. Although I know the Snow Demon lost control for the second time, but... normally, this shouldn't happen. It's rare for a monster like the Snow Demon to lose control a second time..."

She had high hopes for Xia Fa, and even believed that once Xia Fa had trained his body well in a year and become a superhuman, he might be able to join the Solar Nebula of the Silver Church in due time.

But now, it's too late to say anything...

Not far from the two, vines suddenly grew out of the cracks in the floor and intertwined to form a circular magic circle. Archbishop Glenn flashed out from within, his two swords at his waist.

His once cunning, fox-like gaze had vanished, replaced by astonishment and fear as he stared at the snow demon in the distance.

The extraordinary beings could see the Snow Demon, and naturally they could also see the extremely cold world surrounding the Snow Demon, as well as Xia Fa, who was surrounded by a ring of ice walls.

The ring-shaped ice wall is translucent, like solid ice that has never melted.

Chestnut and the other two could see through the ice wall to the inside, but the slightly lower-level superhumans could only see two blurry figures.

Major General Ellis suddenly noticed the Bald family butler, who had been frozen into an ice sculpture not far away, and then looked at the mithril emblem lying on the ground.

His eyes flickered, as if he had remembered something, but he immediately composed himself.

Chestnut and the other extraordinary individuals had already noticed the ice sculpture.

But there was nothing that could be done in this situation; the butler was beyond saving.

"Thank you both. Come with me. Even if it costs us our lives, we must do everything we can to hold off this snow demon and prevent it from harming the people. I will immediately send a secret message to the lieutenant general for help!"

Governor Ellis suddenly drew his rapier from his waist, and at the same time, took out a crystal from his pocket with his other hand and crushed it without hesitation.

Inside the transparent crystal were about a dozen shimmering runes. The moment they were crushed, the runes flew swiftly into the sky.

"it is good!"

Archbishop Glenn gritted his teeth, agreed, and drew his longsword, bearing the family crest of a roaring lion, from his waist.

Chestnut nodded vigorously, her little face full of seriousness and earnestness. Then, she made a pinching motion in the air with both hands, and a huge battle axe appeared.

The battle axe had an extremely exaggerated shape, and its entire body looked like it was made of red crystal. It was a double-edged giant axe.

But the axe blade was covered with serrations and even had dark red bloodstains, as if it had been hacked and slashed countless times on the battlefield.

Inside the axe handle was a spine, carrying an inexplicable desolation.

Even in this moment of extreme crisis, Governor Ellis and Archbishop Glenn couldn't help but glance at the long-handled, double-bladed giant axe in the rat girl's hand, which was several heads taller than her petite frame, before they looked away.

"Other extraordinary individuals, step back. This is beyond your capabilities. If you have signed the Wind Pact, head to the streets around Daniel Street now and try to lead the people away. If you have signed the Water Pact, conserve your extraordinary power and be ready to heal the people at any time!"

Governor Ellis shouted orders, and seeing the Silver Church's extraordinary individuals disperse in an orderly fashion, he nodded.

Then, with heavy but firm steps, he led the two archbishops step by step toward the Snow Demon, surrounding her.

(End of this chapter)