Chapter 699: Breakthrough
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
Roland’s absolute maxim on luck: when two people with bad luck are together, a third unfortunate person will soon appear.
And in order to not beco that unfortunate person, I chose the wisest possible thod to deal with this situation.
“...I’m going to leave the potion right here. You guys decide who gets to use it. I’m going out for a walk.”
Yep, that’s right, I ran away. Even though I had never run away before, this ti, I was truly afraid. I ran away not only because I was afraid of their supporters who were rushing over to help them, or because I was afraid of the rumors about which were becoming ever more ridiculous. It was because of my own maxim about luck. If I got too close to Klose and Victoria, it was likely that I would be the one who had the worst luck in the end. And if I had bad luck regarding this situation... I had plenty of fun watching Krose and Victoria’s situation in the past, but it would beco a tragedy if I experienced the sa thing. It would be far better for people to continue thinking that Princess Peach had actually been Reyne.
“I’ve run away now, so at least the potion shouldn’t get spilled onto . And if soone else is unfortunate instead... Hah, it’s fine as long as it’s not . I can even enjoy the show then.”
I, my System, and Harloys all ntally agreed that no matter what happened afterwards, it was incredibly unlikely that either Victoria or Krose would be able to successfully take the Spring of the Drowned Man potion.
I unhesitatingly stepped right into the Dinsional Door leading to the Fire Elental Plane in the volcano. I felt that I would no longer be so unfortunate if I went to an entirely different dinsion. I also needed so ti to continue practicing my combat techniques so that I could achieve a breakthrough with my power level as soon as possible.
“Separation Blades.”
I reached out with my hands and took a deep breath, exhaling countless ice swords.
These ice swords of mine devoured everything before them. Anything that was slow moving, no matter if they were magma giants or fire elentals, were instantly sliced into tiny pieces by the ice swords.
So fire lizards suddenly erged from the magma sea before . Fire lizards had a more militaristic society. They were either holding spears or shields. More than 30 of them had been waiting here in ambush formation for prey to arrive. This was actually a small military squadron.
“Double Tornado!”
I suddenly waved my hands, casting a spell that I had already prepared beforehand. With at the center, two icy tornados suddenly appeared which crashed into and tore at each other. All living creatures within a thirty-ter radius were all attacked and frozen by my blizzard tornados.
The extre coldness of the tornados soon turned the fire lizards into lizard popsicles. The flas on their heads and backs were extinguished, which ant that these half fire elent and half physical creatures had died. There were only a few high-level fire lizard kings who were still struggling in the cold.
*Shing!*
The fire lizard kings didn’t even get a chance to call for reinforcents when several ice arrows pierced them right through the middle of their heads, stealing away their final remnants of life.
I waved my hands again, causing my ice bow and arrows to vanish. There was now nothing living around .
I had finished clearing away the mob monsters. Before was a magma pool that still kept bubbling with flas. It seed that on the other side was the Fire Elental Plane. This dinsional space was still summoning fire elent creatures.
For a typical elental connection point to an Elental Plane, it would take quite a lot of effort and ti to reverse engineer it using regular space magic. However, I knew that there was another thod to break through an elental portal, other than using the proper key.
“Judgent of the Ice River.”
A hamr of ice appeared above my head. This hamr continuously largened until it completely covered my head. Only then did I have it swing forward and smash.
Tbe gigantic ice river crashed into the magma pool, sending boiling hot steam everywhere. Ice elent and fire elent clashed against each other in this location. Once everything cald down, this magma pool beca a pool of water.
The temperature in this area rapidly began to lower. I had now sealed shut this Fire Elental Plane connection point. No matter what the principle was for how the connection point worked, it was a certainty that the fire elent powered the connection point. In that case, all that was needed was for to cover it with fire’s opposite, the ice elent.
Of course, closing off one connection point would barely do anything. The entire Fire Elental Plane was now connected to the mortal plane. There were still hundreds or even thousands more connection points.
In order to clear away this elental connection point, I had used nothing but pure ice magic. I even dealt with it by using a classical mage’s way of thinking. In a way, Harloys’ thod of stuffing my brain with knowledge had indeed been effective.
Her categorization of ice magic was sothing that really fit my style. With her assistance, my ice magic finally beca more regular and systematic. It was just that...
“Separation Blades summons so ice swords, and Judgent of the Ice River is just summoning a ball of ice to crash down. Must I incant these nas? It’s so chuunibyou and humiliating!”
“Of course you must. A spell’s na is not only a mage’s subconscious self-suggestion which increases the effect of the magic formula, it’s also a standard by which you can categorize your own magical abilities. If the list of spells you know how to cast are all just so random naless spells, how are you supposed to use those as the foundation to combine and create bigger spells...? Don’t even ntion that ridiculous Ice Aeon to . That spell is completely unmagical.”
Harloys’ involvent helped my ice magic to improve incredibly swiftly. But, the biggest change of all was the change in my fighting style.
The separation of ice magic and snow magic helped to better understand my own powers. Since I was skilled in martial arts to begin with, then I should have taken the appropriate path of becoming an ice magic warrior. The core idea of this would be to simply create all sorts of ice weapons to kill my enemies with.
Ice spears, ice arrows, ice swords, ice shields, and ice hamrs. Various ice designs were standardized, and I beca accustod to using these “weapons” in battle to kill my enemies with. Indeed, it was far easier to slay a giant with a several dozen ters long ice sword compared to using a “toothpick”. The only part that I hadn’t gotten accustod to was how Harloys kept giving these techniques rather embarrassing nas.
Ordinary ice mages used ice magic spell formulas that were fixed and lacked adaptability. In comparison, I was far more flexible. When I used ice magic, it was as if there was a giant behind dancing with ice weapons and showing off his martial prowess, while ordinary ice magic mages were just simply and roughly throwing magical formulas. Although this didn’t seem like a large difference, there was a huge difference on the battlefield. It was the large difference between a veteran fighter and a complete newbie commoner’s ability to fight.
As for compared to my past self... Forget it, let’s not talk about it, because I couldn’t even compare to ordinary ice mages previously.
As for environntal type snow magic spells that mostly killed enemies through low temperature, I had only mastered “Ice Tornado”, “Avalanche”, “Hailstorm”, and such common snow calamity magic spells. This was in order to raise my overall combat strength, but even more to prepare for my reaching the next power level.
Perhaps this was the difference between having a teacher and needing to figure everything out by oneself. Although it didn’t seem like much of a difference, the more I learned, the more I was able to display the difference on the battlefield.
Several days had already passed since I entered the Fire Elental Plane. Although my magic power hadn’t foundationally changed, if it was only my abilities in ice and snow magic, I was now confident that I could beat ten of the past . Previously, my techniques in using mana were far too coarse. I would gather mana to summon the ice elent and then toss it out. This would naturally waste more than half of the mana I used. Such a rough attacking thod couldn’t even compare to directly using these ice swords to attack with.
But now that my ice magic foundations were solid, it seed that I was a lot closer now to making a breakthrough to the next power level.
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