Experimental Log of the Crazy Lich Chapter 644 - Battle of Ice and Snow

Chapter 644: Battle of Ice and Snow

Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu

The snowflakes kept increasing in size. The ground was now thickly blanketed in snow. An ordinary person’s vision could now only see a few ters ahead. The snowflakes were literally as large as a person’s hand. In fact, a snowflake falling on a person’s body would cause noticeable pain.

Extrely condensed ice elent separated itself in midair and descended in its natural forms, snowflakes, snowballs, and snow bricks. However, they were foundationally no different. They were all part of the forbidden spell which was creating a world of ice and snow.

Saying that this place had beco a world of ice and snow was no re description. It was a concrete fact. As the forbidden spell spread, all other elental powers were naturally rejected in this location. All non-ice magic spells would see their power decreased by an extre amount, or even be rendered completely unusable. This was the anti-magic zone that a complete forbidden spell would bring.

The foundational reason for this was quite simple. The ice elent had gathered in far too great an amount here, which reduced the space for other elents to exist. Since mages needed to make use of the power of the elents, it would obviously be a nightmare for those who weren’t ice mages.

The most pitiful would be fire mages as fire was the opposing elent to ice. Near the end of the forbidden spell Ice Aeon’s completion, even a Legend-ranked fire mage would be unable to throw a single fireball.

The appearance of the anti-magic zone doubtlessly ant that the forbidden spell was nearing its end. It was already in the final parts of the explosive period. The powerful forbidden spell, capable of destroying everything, was almost ready to be released at any mont.

“Kill him! Stop him!”

Everything would be dying in the next instant? Perhaps death was simply another form of “eternal life”. However, all living creatures had instinctual fear of death, which was currently warning them with full force. The already berserk demons beca even more berserk. Yet, the demons found it difficult to proceed forward in the blizzard.

Demons also had their natural elents and natural talent abilities. The fact that most demons reeked of sulfur was already the best explanation. The great majority of demons would be born with excellent fire and poison resistance. Many demons would also be experts at using fire magic.

Not only was this a natural-born ability, explosive attack power would be necessary to survive in the dangerous Chaos Abyss. This naturally ant that fire magic, which was easily usable in most environnts and possessed great destructive power, was the most popular magic type. A high-level demon job class like inferno demon was what many demons would consider the perfect job class.

Now, the will of the Chaos Abyss had forcefully conscripted demons and turned them into demon war slaves, giving them the ability to self-destruct. Self-destruction was one of the most common techniques available to all fire elent creatures. This basically ant that the demon war slaves had all been bestowed with the fire elent.

But now, these natural fire elent demons t with great trouble. Not only did the blizzard constantly sap them of warmth and stamina, it was also expelling the burning fire mana in their blood. In fact, so of the demon cannon fodder even beca unable to self-destruct.

However, it wasn’t only the enemies that suffered from the blizzard. Elven clothing styles all had one thing in common—they were quite light and simple as elves typically used low-level magical accessories and spells to keep themselves warm. However, all low-level magic equipnt had already started to lose their effect in this anti-magic zone. The elves were starting to shiver and regret how little they were wearing.

Luckily, the human reinforcents from the Northlands were likely the most skilled army in the world when fighting in snowy environnt. In fact, their ice mages even ca prepared with sleds. The snow would be their natural ally. The demons beca much easier to deal with after becoming slowed and dulled by the snow, and even if parts of the city wall were destroyed, snow could be stacked up to solidify the walls again.

“Ice Aeon...”

The trembling Empress Afina the First managed to squeeze these words out from between her chattering teeth. All the Elven Gods were shouting the nas “Roland” and “Yongye”. By this ti, everyone had recognized this ultimate ice elent forbidden spell.

A bit more than one hundred years ago, it was precisely Ice Aeon which destroyed multiple elven kingdoms. So of those elven kingdoms’ land was still even now locked in an eternal world of ice and snow. Emperor Yongye had been quite famous for loathing elves. The elves had also viewed him as their mortal enemy, and Ice Aeon beca a taboo buried in history, not to be spoken of again.

Forbidden spells were also categorized into different levels based on the power, area of effect, and functions. But, no matter how you tried to categorize Ice Aeon, it would definitely be top-tier among all forbidden spells.

The complete version of Ice Aeon was all about creating a world of ice and snow. The area of effect and duration could all be modified based on the caster’s desire. Of course, the more powerful the spell, the more mana and preparation ti would be required. The Ice Aeon spell had already created countless calamities before. The largest ever usage of this spell had directly frozen the territory of an entire elven kingdom.

That was only a smaller country that only had several mid-sized cities. However, even that elven kingdom’s territory was several thousand square kiloters in size. The power of ice magic had frozen over this entire territory for more than a century by now. Even in the current day, this location showed zero signs of thawing. However, so powerful individuals had still managed to survive that incident. In that case, most people understood that Ice Aeon’s strengths were its trendous area of effect and long duration, but its overall attack power wasn’t that ridiculous.

Just one use of Ice Aeon would likely transform the new Moonwheel Capital Elven Empire into another land of ice and snow for more than a century. It was likely that not a single elf would be able to calmly leave here when thinking of this.

The elves could only have tears in their eyes as they said goodbye to their ho. They would then board the airships in the sky while having incredibly complex emotions and expressions. Without a doubt, Emperor Yongye was currently casting Ice Aeon from the sky.

Events that happened one to two hundred years ago would be nothing more than bedti stories or legends to other species. However, the long-lived elves could rember such events like they happened just yesterday. Every elf would tremble in fear when talking about the forbidden spell Ice Aeon. Yet, Ice Aeon had now resurfaced, and was even being cast in order to protect the elves. It was truly ironic.

But right now, I didn’t have the free ti to care about the elves’ feelings. The current situation was giving a headache.

“I think I used too much mana... I think I used three tis more than what I was expecting?”

As I was always overly cautious, I personally felt that the forbidden spell’s explosive period would only be half an hour, which was why I added so extra ti just to be safe in case I went overboard, but I really did go overboard in the end...

Ice Aeon was probably the forbidden spell cast the most over the past three hundred years. I could be considered incredibly experienced in comparison to unfortunate mages who either exploded themselves or suffered a decrease in power level after casting a forbidden spell.

As I was one of the few mages in the world with the experience of casting forbidden spells repeatedly, along with the fact that I personally invented Ice Aeon, there would be no need to emphasize how familiar I was with this spell.

However, while the spell Ice Aeon hadn’t changed, I, and the surrounding environnt, had changed.

Compared to before, since I now had a far more powerful bloodline, along with better understanding of ice and death magic that improved my mana pool, my magic power and mana pool seed to be equal or even greater than when I was previously Yongye. My improved understanding of the fundantal nature of ice, along with the foundational ice magic I learned from the Frigid Nightmares, ant my magic abilities had greatly increased. Sothing that I previously would have needed to give 100% of my magic power to would now likely only require 50% or less.

Even I didn’t expect that my foundational ice magic would be so compatible with Ice Aeon.

As I previously ntioned before, my foundational ice magic was the most basic ice magic of all: ice sculpting, creating what I imagined with ice. anwhile, Ice Aeon was a spell to materialize a world of ice and snow that I imagined in the actual world. Foundationally speaking, Ice Aeon was also a type of ice sculpting, although of course the scale was much larger, and the final formula far more complex.

To use an analogy, I was like an artist who had previously required three hours to paint a single person’s portrait. But then, I worked hard on my fundantal skills, and also changed my drawing tools. Now, three hours would be enough ti for to paint an entire family. Since I was still calculating ti by my previous abilities, it was only natural for to make a mistake with the estimation in the end.

The end result was that I used the sa amount of magic as before, but with about twice the results. Plus, my new physical body also strengthened the effects of my magic, along with the new high magic environnt also buffing all magic power. It seed likely that the Ice Aeon I cast here would far surpass all Ice Aeons in “historical records”.

This wasn’t a good thing.

Only a novice would try to cast the most powerful magic spell possible. An overly powerful magic spell would quite often be beyond the ability of the mage to control it. Basically, an overly powerful magic spell was like a bomb that might detonate at any mont, and even if it didn’t, the casting ti required and difficulty of the spell would be greatly increased. Currently, ti was of the essence, and equaled lives...

“I still need at least another half an hour? I’ve truly gone overboard this ti...”

The battle between mortals and regular demons was still alright as the blizzard had greatly reduced the demons’ attack power. However, Anslo’s situation was constantly worsening in his battle against Donatis.

As I previously ntioned, in normal situations, during a battle between Main Gods, it would be quite common for the battle to last several years or even decades rather than just a few days or months.

However, this was no normal situation. The demon wave was Donatis’s ho territory. His combat strength was at its very peak. anwhile, not only had Anslo lost his Divine Kingdom, he was also seriously injured, and most importantly of all, Anslo would still be weaker than Donatis even if Anslo was also at his peak. With all these factors added up, the difference between them was now even greater.

The gigantic Anslo was knocked over yet again. His head, which had just been crushed, speedily regrew. The entire head had finished regenerating by the ti that Anslo got up again. However, this would consu precious divine power.

Every single part of a God’s true body would be crafted out of their divine power. The God’s true body would be the final line of defense. Although regenerating a head seed quite easy, that would an losing several hundred years’ worth of accumulated power.

anwhile, Anslo’s opponent, the even taller black giant, was also covered in injuries, but had yet to be knocked over even once.

Ti was limited. Donatis didn’t fight like normal by testing the waters first. Since his heroic spirit temple was completely empty, he was unable to summon any helpers. So, Donatis unhesitatingly chose a lee fighting style where he was willing to risk injury in order to kill his opponent. This was already the fourth ti that he had “killed” Anslo.

It was quite obvious to everyone that this was a terrible situation for Anslo. Nobody could guarantee how much longer Anslo could hold out. Without his Divine Kingdom and countless worshippers, it would be difficult for him to even replenish any divine power.

When his divine power beca used up to the point where he was no longer able to regenerate himself, that would result in his death... And, the death of any Main God would an the end of their entire faction.

Since we were on the losing end in the Gods’ battle, it naturally ant that more Demon Lords and demon war slaves were able to pass through the Elven Gods’ blockade. The mortals also t with even more powerful enemies, while even I was coming under threat.

So inferno dragons had already neared the new Borealis. Although they were instantly killed and shot down from the sky, the inferno dragons were still a threat, and if the new Borealis was knocked down from the sky, that would an that the forbidden spell would fail.

I didn’t know how much longer Anslo could hold out, but I felt like it might even be possible that my people would lose first.

My anxiety transford into motivation as I did my very best to think of what I could do. Yet, the anti-magic zone brought by the blizzard also decreased my own options.

“Wait a mont, perhaps I can make use of all this ice elent.”

My previous experience with constructing ice walls to block off Conservation’s undead army reminded that I was the one who controlled this forbidden spell. All of this ice elent had been born because of . In that case, I could also use this ice elent how I wanted.

Right now, I was still muttering the Ice Aeon incantation and constantly making hand gestures to control my forbidden spell. It was impossible for to focus on casting other spells. However, mages had long since invented a workaround to cast spells while they were busy casting another spell: using the other half of a soul connection to cast spells in their stead!

That was right, having the magical pet who signed a soul contract cast spells for the mage!

“Harloys!”

I unhesitatingly gave her all of my relevant knowledge, mories, and creations regarding ice magic. Her magical knowledge far surpassed mine anyways, so I might as well teach her everything I knew.

Elven Empress Harloys, who was currently on the city walls and commanding the battle, was suddenly stunned for a brief mont as if soone had hit her on the head. She then imdiately understood as she helplessly shook her head.

“This is... forget it, I’ll just treat it as grinding reputation.”

Harloys looked around her and saw that the other Elven Empress and her retainers weren’t far away. Both sides were looking at each other with rather awkward expressions. This was especially more so for Empress Afina the First. She had a truly complex expression as she looked at Harloys.

Harloys then started floating up in the sky as floating snowflakes gathered around her, transforming into a staircase of ice and snow. She had her eyes closed as she stepped high into the air, causing shouts of astonishnt from below.

*Snap!*

One snap of her fingers caused several dozen flying snow birds to appear. These were ice elent creatures that had just been born.

Harloys was borrowing my abilities over ice to gather the ice elent and create ice elental creatures. This would be no different from using a mage tower’s assistance to cast magic spells. There would be barely any mana consumption at all for Harloys personally.

These snow birds were soon torn apart by the demons and returned to ice and snow. However, Harloys chuckled at seeing this scene because it ant that her experint had already succeeded.

“Arise, my guardians of snow and ice.”

At Harloys’ command, ice elent creatures were continually given life from the snow. They then unhesitatingly attacked the demon army.

Snow wolves, horses, dragons, and so on. The ice elent creatures had many different forms. There were hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands, and even more of them in an astonishing amount. The most critical of all was that even though they were soon shattered into tiny pieces, the snow and ice would then reform into a new ice elent creature.

Right now, the Moonwheel Capital appeared more like the Ice Elental Plane than the Ice Elental Plane itself. Challenging the ice elent creatures here was basically no different from challenging the limitless Elental Tide.

Even more astonishing was that these ice elent creatures were actually evolving in battle. These newborn ice elent creatures were indeed quite weak, but after multiple rebirths, they beca sly and skilled warriors. The elite elental creatures who survived longer even started lding together to create even stronger ice elent creatures.

Any Elental Plane would require hundreds or even thousands of years to complete the path of evolution. Yet, evolution was completed here in just a short few minutes. Additionally, as various higher-level ice elent creatures were born, it seed like Ice Elental Lords were about to be born soon as well.

There was a tall and muscular ice giant, an arctic wolf king whose roars could summon blizzards, and a trendous ice dragon that covered the skies. These were all extrely rare elental creatures. Yet, these ice elent creatures showed everyone how they evolved right in public. They had all evolved from the most basic ice elent creatures.

The creature that attracted the most attention was an ice phoenix. She didn’t fight on the frontlines, but everywhere that she went, ice eggs would appear. Soon, young ice phoenixes would jump out of the eggs, and then these ice phoenixes would dance in the wind and snow and soon grow to the size of their mother before unhesitatingly jumping into battle.

These high-level ice elent creatures obviously already possessed intelligence. After they were born, they would first glance at the Borealis in the sky. Roland, who was still casting his forbidden spell, was the source of the magic that gave birth to them. It could be said that he was their father. Then, the ice elent creatures would lower their heads to Harloys as she could be considered their mother who created them.

After that, the ice elent creatures would unhesitatingly step into battle. They instinctively understood that if this forbidden spell was interrupted, they would all return to being nothing more than ice and snow. Furthermore, as long as Ice Aeon was cast successfully, this entire land would beco a frozen land of ice and snow, and they would be able to beco truly independent ice elent creatures.

It was evident that at this ti, Roland and the Goddess of Order’s powers over Creation had miraculous usages here.

Due to the addition of these ice elent creatures, the battle which had been going poorly for us was now in stalemate once again. anwhile, Harloys’ trendous display of power by casually summoning such powerful ice elent creatures so easily truly astonished all the witnesses.

“Is this the power of the ‘most naturally magically gifted species of all, the Goddess of Order’s most spoiled children, the Gold Elves?’ Or, is this sothing unique to ‘Harloys the All-knowing?’”

Before, working to rescue the elves had given others the impression that Elven Empress Harloys was magnanimous and kind. But now, Harloys had displayed the power necessary to any leader in this dangerous world.

Being magnanimous to one’s own people as well as being incredibly powerful would an that her crown would beco ever more solid as long as she didn’t do anything too foolish.

anwhile on the floating airship, Didina finally ca to a decision as she watched what unfolded before her.