Building My Empire in the Frozen Apocalypse (Riley Carter) novel Chapter 685

Chapter 685 Fractured Sanity

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TartKing spotted an opening. She hurled a fireball to blow a gap in the enemy’s defense, then slammed her Frosted Judgment Greatsword right after it.

The shield bearer stumbled sideways from the heavy impact.

Riley darted forward, cutting straight between the two enemies.

But she only got two steps out before Pineapple Beer resolved her own crisis.

She didn’t dodge when the black sword came slicing down.

She simply lifted her gaze and stared straight at the man wielding it.

Her eyes were unnervingly calm, so much so that his attack slowed for a split second.

Pineapple Beer’s aura shifted all at once, like she was about to break down and cry.

Her voice was soft and shaky.

“Why? Why did you lie to me? Why would you do this to me?”

The black sword man’s pupils shrank slightly, yet he didn’t stop his strike.

“Because you can’t leave this place alive with that artifact!”

The longsword swung down hard.

Pineapple Beer’s expression flipped in an instant, every trace of vulnerability vanishing without

a trace.

She flipped her dagger upward, sliding it along the inner edge of the blade to deflect the slash. The crystal artifact floated up beside her shoulder, and a burst of chaotic light crashed straight into the man’s chest.

His protective charm shattered on the spot.

The force knocked him stumbling three steps back.

Pineapple Beer pressed her advantage, turning ruthless once again. She stabbed her dagger seven times in quick succession, each strike landing perfectly in a different gap in his armor.

The silver–gray armored woman had no choice but to lift her shadow lockdown from the

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formation plate, rushing in to save her ally.

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PineappleBeer’s shadow movements returned the second the lockdown faded.

Her figure blurred and vanished from the four–man encirclement.

The next moment, she reappeared perched on the stone throne’s armrest.

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Her toes rested lightly on a carved beast head statue, the crystal spinning steadily above her palm.

Every survivor on the platform locked their eyes on her.

She looked down on the crowd, her face blank.

“All of you want this?”

A shout burst out from the ragtag group in the back.

“That’s a relic left behind by the ancients! Finders keepers!”

The leader of the reddish–brown heavy armor squad spoke in a cold, sharp tone.

“The tomb’s open now. It’s every person for themselves. You can’t keep that artifact all to yourself, Pineapple Beer.”

The black–cloaked assassins said nothing, but they’d already split up and moved to flank both sides of the throne.

The scarred man from the dark–blue cloaked squad turned to the three veteran fighters.

“You said she was badly injured, barely hanging on.”

The black sword man wiped the blood from his lip, his voice icy.

“She’s not acting normal right now.”

Pineapple Beer heard his words and looked down at him.

“Not normal?”

A flicker of confusion crossed her face.

Then she let out a faint, cold laugh.

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“And what about all of you? Are you normal?”

She lifted her hand, and the crystal’s light spread outward.

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Every stone table, stone bench, broken cup, and floating debris shard on the platform began trembling in unison.

“Tart, watch out!”

A tight sense of dread gripped Riley’s chest. She grabbed TartKing and quickly took cover beside the throne.

The second she spoke, dozens of debris shards surged to life, shooting out in every direction across the platform, pulled by the crystal’s power.

This was no indiscriminate attack.

Every shard steered clear of Riley and TartKing.

But every enemy surrounding them got caught in the deadly storm.

The reddish–brown hammer user raised his weapon to block, only to get two deep gashes sliced into his arm by flying metal fragments.

The dark–blue cloaked mages threw up a barrier, which immediately cracked under the impact of three slamming stone shards.

The black–cloaked assassins leaped to dodge, but a frozen floating cup suddenly accelerated, slamming into one assassin’s knee. His body lurched, and he nearly tumbled off the edge of the platform.

TartKing stared in shock, stunned for a moment.

“Is she helping us?”

Riley kept her eyes fixed firmly on PineappleBeer atop the throne.

“Not sure.”

It was true that Pineapple Beer had spared them.

But there had been zero emotion in her gaze just now.

It was like someone standing in the middle of a brutal war, simply choosing to ignore two targets she had no desire to kill for the time being.

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Riley charged down to the base of the broken throne steps, and PineappleBeer looked down to

meet her eyes.

They stared at each other across the shattered stone steps.

“PineappleBeer.”

Riley spoke her name softly.

PineappleBeer’s brows twitched faintly.

“Do you know me?”

TartKing rushed over from the side, her voice trembling with fear.

“Pine, don’t scare me like this.”

PineappleBeer turned her gaze to TartKing.

She stared at her for a long, quiet moment.

Long enough for TartKing’s eyes to well up with tears.

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