In just a few minutes, she had successfully mastered the water element of this area!

But after seizing control of the place successfully, Fremay did not strike immediately; instead, she called out:

"Herbert, take action!"

"As you wish, milady."

Herbert, who was already prepared, chuckled and suddenly shot up from the ground, flapping his wings as he flew towards the center of the lake.

Target — the Centaur lady!

While Fremay was in a standoff with the Holy Grail, Herbert was not idling, he had already planned the route back and forth.

Taking advantage of the Holy Grail being suppressed by Fremay and having no distractions, he flew directly to the center of the lake and grabbed the wrist of the floating centaur... in the water.

"So light!"

The normal weight of a horse ranges from two hundred kilograms to twelve hundred kilograms, and a centaur's body includes the upper half of a human, so it definitely wouldn't be light.

But this female centaur was unexpectedly light, being pulled out of the water by Herbert by the arm directly.

No more than forty kilograms maximum!

"Hm!?"

Just at the moment of physical contact with her, Herbert suddenly sensed something was wrong.

Good news, the Centaur lady was indeed not dead.

Bad news, she had never... been alive.

"Is she a ghost, uh, spirit body?"

Though having the tactile sensation of a solid body, there was no trace of vitality.

["To be precise, she is a Heroic Spirit."]

Nenasha timely explained: ["Servicing as Heroic Spirit in the Divine Kingdom to the Divine Spirit, her power is already close to becoming a Holy Spirit."]

Swish — smack!

The blood-red tentacle suddenly whipped over, smacking heavily on the water surface beside Herbert, causing a huge splash that nearly made him lose control and crash.

"Hold on!"

"Hold on! It was she who hit you, go after her, don't vent your anger on me!"

Herbert raised an eyebrow, dodging the increasingly frenzied tentacle attacks while spiraling upwards, asking: "So, is she your follower?"

["She was."]

Although Nenasha did not deny this, she said regretfully: ["But I already don't remember her."]

"That's so heartless?"

Herbert blinked and said with a smile: "I thought Divine Spirits would really do as they said and remember every follower."

["Hehe, that's all a trick~ Divine Spirits are really heartless beings."]

She chuckled softly and whispered:

["Besides, so much time has passed, one always forgets some unimportant things."]

"Forgotten? That's pretty good... Huh!?"

As Herbert was sighing, he suddenly felt the centaur he was dragging plummet suddenly.

What!!?

Looking down, the tentacle indeed had grasped the centaur's hind leg, jerking hard downward, trying to snatch her back.

"You are so heavy!"

Herbert strove to fly upwards, but was no match for the force being dragged downward.

The Holy Grail seemed to retain some sense in its frenzied state, not using full force to pull, fearing of harming the centaur, allowing Herbert to persist a bit.

"Tsk, what a powerful force!"

Herbert was not on land now; if he were, he could rely on his own strength to exert force.

But at the moment, he was in the air, relying only on the thrust of the Holy Mark.

No match at all.

Sensing his body descending inch by inch, Herbert gritted his teeth and said: "Do you know there's a kind of love called... letting go!"

"Fremay!"

Swish —

Before the words fell, an ice blade swept across, directly slicing off the tip of the tentacle.

The tightened rope suddenly snapped, Herbert, along with the centaur, was flung into the air by the massive impact.

While gliding in the air, Herbert heard the sound of a painful whimper from beneath the water.

"Woo—"

The sound didn't resemble that of a giant sea creature; instead, it was like a young child sobbing.

Hmm?

The current situation didn't allow Herbert to think much; he glanced once and ceased to focus, carrying the centaur flying towards the shore.

Even after having its tentacle severed, the Holy Grail did not give up and attempted to snatch the centaur.

But this time, it was directly blocked by Fremay.

Crack, crack, crack...

The temperature on the lake surface unknowingly dropped below zero, drifting up pale cold air.

"I won't let you hurt him."

Fremay descended from mid-air, landing on the water surface, calmly repeating: "No one can."

"Now... with no one in the way anymore, I can act without worries."

Did Herbert rescue the centaur to the shore because he was curious about the centaur's composition?

No.

Although he was curious, this time it really wasn't.

It was Fremay who requested him to do so.

The purpose was to prevent anyone unrelated near the lake from being hurt accidentally.

And once the centaur was taken away, the entire lake had only the Water Elemental Spirit left as a creature.

Fremay could act without worry.

She watched the tentacle becoming rigid rapidly under the cold air, her lips gently parted.

"Sorrowful Ice River!"

Crack—

In just an instant, the whole lake water froze into ice.

Not like when the Ice Goddess embodied last time and froze only a layer of the lake surface, but the entire lake water froze up!

And this was the Legendary Magic named and developed by Fremay herself — [Sorrowful Ice River]!

Which was the origin of one of her titles.

Upon flying above the lake surface, she had already started preparing this magic secretly, until just now barely completing the preparation.

After casting this magic long awaited, Fremay seemed somewhat exhausted, gently landing on the ice surface.

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