Having witnessed Polina's methods.

The remaining Kimchi Country team members on the island instantly had expressions full of shock on their faces.

Each of them acted as if facing a formidable enemy, gripping their weapons even tighter and watching the stunningly beautiful woman before them with vigilance.

On the contrary, Park In-maeng, who was surrounded by the crowd in the middle, behaved exceptionally calmly.

He merely waved his hand calmly, signaling his surrounding team members not to be impatient.

"Young Miss Polina, what do you mean by this?"

Park In-maeng's voice was gentle, devoid of any discernible emotion.

Polina smiled radiantly, her azure-blue beautiful eyes resembling the most crystal-clear sapphires.

"I don't mean anything else."

"I'm simply very interested in something on you."

"You must have already obtained that key on the island, right?"

"I hope you can hand it over voluntarily."

She paused.

Her gaze swept over the battle-ready team members behind Park In-maeng, her tone relaxed.

"Judging by the current situation, your chances of winning are not high."

"After all, besides me, there is also an SS-Rank Expert from Great Xia Nation on that ship."

Hearing this, Park In-maeng furrowed his brow imperceptibly.

"It looks like you all have also discovered the secret of the key."

"Then you should be very clear that this key is probably related to a true Divine Artifact."

"Do you really think I would hand it over so easily?"

Polina shook her head gently, her confident expression looking as if everything was under control.

"Naturally, I know you wouldn't agree easily."

She took elegant catwalk steps, slowly closing in toward Park In-maeng's direction.

"But I am not discussing this with you."

The moment her voice fell.

She snapped her fingers once more.

"Snap."

The crisp sound echoed in the sea breeze.

An invisible mental fluctuation filled with seductive power suddenly spread out with her at the center!

The eight S-Rank team members behind Park In-maeng trembled violently!

Their faces flushed red at a speed visible to the naked eye, their breathing grew heavy, and their gazes began to blur.

Just a few seconds passed.

Their eyes, which were originally filled with vigilance and killing intent, were replaced by endless infatuation and fanaticism.

"Thud!"

"Thud!"

Those eight arrogant Prodigies on ordinary days actually threw away the weapons in their hands at the same time.

With hearts in their eyes one by one, they knelt on both knees facing Polina and prostrated themselves!

Even that SS-Rank Flame Emperor, Park In-maeng, was no exception.

His body trembled slightly, and that handsome face similarly displayed a look of struggle.

Yet in the end, he slowly knelt on one knee.

When he raised his head again, the gaze he directed at Polina was likewise filled with infatuation.

On the steamship, Zhou Huai couldn't help but secretly admire in his heart upon seeing this scene.

Is this the Desire Sovereign?

It's too bizarre.

This unreasonable group control is simply the nemesis of all men.

It feels like aside from someone like himself whose true body is not present, no one seems to have a way to easily break free from her control.

On the island, Polina looked at the scene of submission beneath her feet and let out a series of giggling, coquettish laughs.

She walked up to Park In-maeng, stretched out her slender fingers, and gently pinched his handsome chin.

"Come on, good boy."

"Be a good boy and hand over that key."

Park In-maeng nodded submissively, his eyes left with nothing but complete infatuation.

A white light flashed in his hand, and a huge bronze key materialized out of thin air in his hand.

On Polina's face appeared the smug smile unique to a victor.

"This is unexpectedly smooth."

She reached out her hand, preparing to take the bronze key from Park In-maeng's grasp.

However.

Just at the instant her fingertips were about to touch the key.

A sudden change occurred!

I saw that deep within Park In-maeng's eyes, which were originally filled with infatuation, an icy, bone-chilling glint flashed without any warning!

The next second.

"Boom——!"

A dark blue flame, like a waking demon, erupted suddenly and fiercely from within his body!

In an instant, it completely swallowed Polina, who was close at hand!

"Urgh ah——!"

A miserable scream, so shrill it didn't sound human, suddenly came from within those dark blue flames!

Polina's stunning face was filled with incredulous shock and pain.

"You... how could you..."

Park In-maeng slowly stood up from the ground, the infatuated expression on his face having long since vanished.

Replaced by it was a biting coldness and mockery.

"You investigated me, could it be that I wouldn't go investigate you?"

"Polina, SS-Rank Profession, Desire Sovereign."

"Able to use a silent mental power to control all members of the opposite sex who generate desire toward oneself."

He looked at Polina rolling in agony within the blue flames, the corners of his mouth curling into a cruel arc.

"However, I'm sorry."

"I have never liked women!"

Polina's entire body was frantically scorched by those dark blue flames.

Her sexy red bikini instantly turned to ashes.

Her fair skin turned charred black and curled up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Her entire body twisted and rolled in pain on the ground, emitting wave after wave of scalp-tingling wails.

She was a pure support-type Professional, with a frail physique.

Once restrained by someone using this special method, she instantly fell into a desperate situation!

On the steamship, seeing this scene, Zhou Huai's expression also sank abruptly.

The situation is not right!

"You all stay on the ship, don't move!"

"I'm going to save her!"

Zhou Huai gave a deep command to the members of the Dragon Fang Special Forces behind him.

Finished speaking, he prepared to step on the deck and leap down.

However, right at this moment.

Park In-maeng on the island abruptly cast his icy gaze toward the direction of the steamship!

He raised his staff high, chanting obscure incantations in his mouth!

"【Dark Blue Purgatory】!"

The next second.

Pillars of dark blue flames, like magma gushing from the abyss of Hell, surged violently up into the sky from the seawater beneath the steamship!

In the blink of an eye, they completely enveloped the entire steamship!

The moment those dark blue flames came into contact with the seawater, far from showing any sign of extinguishing,

Instead, as if gasoline had been poured on them, they shot up with a "boom" into even higher flames!

Water turned out to be its best fuel!

This sudden scene caught everyone on the ship completely off guard!

"Ah——!"

"My hand!"

Several nearby team members were instantly burned by the flames, emitting painful screams.

Zhou Huai's brows furrowed tightly.

No wonder Kimchi Country sent a fire-attribute mage to participate in this ocean-based ruins exploration.

Turns out his strange fire actually had such a bizarre effect.

As the saying goes, water and fire are incompatible.

Yet when it came to him, water could instead fuel the fire and make the flames burn even more fiercely!

While pondering these questions.

Zhou Huai's actions didn't pause in the slightest.

He raised the Eternal Judgment in his hand high, the mana value within his body surging wildly, and instantly completed the chanting of the incantation!

"【Forbidden Spell: Thousand Mile Ice Seal】!"

Crack——!

An irresistible absolute zero temperature erupted explosively with him at the center!

Those dark blue flames, which were sufficient to melt gold and iron, were directly frozen the moment they came into contact with this chill!

They transformed into lifelike blue ice flowers!

Following closely, that terrifying chill, like a breached flood, spread frantically in all directions!

In an instant, it completely covered the entire steamship along with that island!

The flames vanished.

Replaced in their stead was a frozen world exuding colorful halos!

Those Kimchi Country team members still kneeling on the ground on the island didn't even have a chance to react before they were instantly frozen into crystal-clear ice sculptures.

"Crack!"

A crisp sound!

The ice surrounding Park In-maeng shattered first.

He broke free from the ice entrapment, but on that handsome face, an unprecedented solemnity surfaced.

The remaining few team members were trapped within that sturdy 【Ice Prison Cage】, unable to break free in a short period of time.

At this moment, Park In-maeng only felt his brain groggy and heavy, as if someone had struck it hard with a heavy hammer.

What shocked him the most was that the cooldown times of all his skills had inexplicably increased by 30%!

"That Forbidden Spell Mage from Great Xia Nation is truly troublesome."

Park In-maeng muttered to himself.

He cast his gaze not far away toward the corpse that had long since been burned into a humanoid charred lump.

However, the next second.

His icy eyes abruptly constricted!

I saw that on top of that charred black corpse, lines of fine cracks emerged without any warning!

"Crack..."

The cracks grew more and more numerous and larger and larger.

Finally, with a "bang", it completely burst open!

A flawless, snow-white figure slowly peeled itself out from within that charred black shell!

Like a butterfly reborn from a cocoon, or a new snake shedding its old skin.

Polina was completely unharmed!

She quickly pulled out a brand-new and sexy set of clothes from her Spatial Ring and put it on.

Then she slowly turned her head.

Within those azure-blue beautiful eyes, the previous coquettishness and playfulness were completely gone.

There remained only endless coldness and fury.

"You have really made me angry."

In the distance, on the steamship.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Huai was also directly dumbfounded.

Orochimaru?

Is that you, Orochimaru?