Paaaan…
I’m preparing for the raid, releasing the impact of the seal like before.
The owners used their bracelets from their respective positions, and Lasty cast a magic circle before returning to the space.
And finally.
[Oh]
[Riding, we’re riding]
[Sre is so cute]
[So adorable, lol]
[It’s massive!]
Flap.
“Wow.”
I was floating in the air, stunned by Sre’s body, which was bigger than a mammoth. I cast amplification magic.
“Everyone, get ready.”
With my signal, a chilling blue aura spread throughout the sea.
The Kraken in the distance flinched, but since it was so far away, it couldn’t easily be affected.
[Let’s go~]
“Haah!”
“Shall we cast?”
“Ice Prison!”
“Frost Storm!”
“Ice Spear! Ice Spear! Ice Spear!”
“Can shields also work?”
Hundreds, thousands of ice-based techniques were fired into the air or at the sea.
The size, power, abilities, and effects were all different, but they were all ice-based techniques nonetheless.
Occasionally, a user would cast a non-ice skill, but it wasn’t enough to stand out.
‘Oh?’
Whoooosh!!!
“Blizzard!!”
Crack!!
With the call of chilling cold, a tornado of ice was shot towards the sea.
The feeble chills were all swallowed by her tornado, growing larger incrementally.
As expected from a rank 9 ice sorcerer.
Looking to the opposite side, Leo, with his hair dyed bright blue, was madly shooting out ice.
At a glance, it seemed like a haphazard effort, but due to his innate excellence, he was unleashing more cold than even Baekseol.
In addition, numerous rankers were firing ice-related techniques, and about five minutes in, Yena scratched her head, pondering various attempts.
Wooong.
“Got it.”
Sufficient cold had gathered in the magic circle.
“Shall we shoot?”
“Yeah.”
Wow.
Sre, with an icy heart, the clone of Sugarado and the fragment of the ‘Frost’ Demon King, sought my permission and opened her mouth.
Crrr…
Even I, who was riding on her, felt a chill swirling around as the temperature near Sre drastically dropped.
“C-cold!”
“Everyone, get back!”
“Whoa…!”
Despite being in the sky, the cold formed a blue sphere around Sre, like a barrier.
Finally, Sre gathered all her energy and exhaled the cold.
[Breathe!]
“Paaaaaaa!!!”
Flash!
The extreme cold breathed out tore through the sea, hurtling toward the Kraken.
Every drop of water in the breath’s path froze, and some of the tentacles shot out by the Kraken became frozen octopuses.
Splash!
Ding!
[A multitude of Bracelets of Sealing gathered, but imperfections were mixed in.]
[Some seals are successful!]
[The duration of the seal is 1 hour and 30 minutes.]
[The fourth eye of óctĭpes awakens.]
[Imperfect seal state. The eye closes.]
[Imperfect seal state. The effect of regionalization is greatly reduced.]
Fizzle…
Only thick cold flows over the sea that has turned into an ice rink.
Once again, it’s an imperfect seal state, but if there are any benefits, it’s that the second and third eyes were destroyed and can’t regenerate.
And the most important point is…
Flap.
“I’ll go.”
It’s also the fact that I can fight.
Sre’s wings sliced through the air.
■
The Kraken was my opponent in the duel.
We had countless battles, and every time, the outcome was always clear, win or lose.
The way we fought was simple.
I had recovery through Holiness.
The Kraken had an almost infinite regeneration ability.
Without needing to check each other’s hands, we could go full throttle and during the cycle of recovery and regeneration, the first to give up would lose.
Sometimes I gave up, and other times, the Kraken did.
There are many strong beings in the world, but strong beings that can ‘communicate’ like the Kraken are rare.
Here, communication means having a level of interaction that goes beyond simple conversation to understanding mutual interests and not crossing lines.
Such beings number at most ten fingers. Among them, even fewer could resonate with me.
The Pharaoh was an emperor, and Myeosin was the god of the Beastmen.
Lasty was, before she ever suffered defeat at my hands, a progenitor of vampires, something akin to the god of death.
Since each had their own position and interests, the whole concept of dueling was ambiguous…
“…You’re back again.”
“Today would be nice if you didn’t give up.”
The Kraken was different.
The Kraken was a unique monster not affiliated with anyone.
Some sea monsters revered him like a god, but he simply didn’t care and continued to enjoy life in the deep sea.
‘Originally, neither the heavens nor the demon race liked the sea, which made things relatively peaceful.’
Of course, as wars intensified, everything, whether on land or sea, turned into total chaos.
Anyway, I was glad to have an opponent other than ‘him’, and the Kraken was pleased to face the first formidable foe as the lord of the sea.
It was a possibility made possible by our mutual interests.
Swoosh…
“I’ve learned something new.”
“Cold?”
“Yes. It’s one of the techniques of the Ice Dragon, and since it’s a sea creature, it might freeze, right?”
“Udara… That’s a ridiculous notion. Do you think a dragon like that could freeze me?”
He snorted, and in reality, with Sugarado’s clumsy techniques, the Ice Dragon couldn’t freeze the Kraken.
Couldn’t be helped.
But the possibility appeared.
Splatter.
‘If the power of cold is strong…’
Splatter…
If the power of cold is stronger than the Kraken or at least on the same level,
it can freeze it adequately.
■
Splatter!!
The Kraken is freezing.
The entire sea is filled with cold, and the legs that were moving freely have become sluggish, unable to even approach Sre.
Sre’s claw points to the distance.
“Mooner.”
“Yeah. It’s the octopus.”
My old sparring opponent.
The octopus is glaring at me.
[LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL]
[Mooner Mooner]
[Wow, it’s so freaking cold!]
[The sea is really cold right now]
[Can’t approach it ;;]
[Sre run~]
[Help, the dragon is cute]
[Isn’t Lily cold?]
“It’s not cold enough… but it might get cold soon.”
So far, it’s just a bit chilly.
If I draw on the power of the fragment of extreme cold, it would be hard to endure, but Sre, to begin with, can’t use that power.
The fragment embedded in Sre’s claw is literally meant as a ‘weapon.’
We approach the Kraken riding on Sre.
The fourth eye that has risen is focusing on me.
As the trembling eye glows, thousands of dagger-like legs rain down upon Sre and me.
“Defense!!!”
Crash!!
An ice shield formed around Sre, completely blocking the legs’ daggers.
The shield turned into something like a hedgehog.
As Sre shook its head, numerous daggers fell into the sea.
“Now.”
With my signal, the cold that was forming the shield all seeped into the White Guardian.
‘Bracelet of Extreme Cold.’
Splatter…!
As the bracelet worn on my wrist emitted extreme cold, the White Guardian completely froze.
I jumped up and smashed the Kraken.
‘Bludgeon Technique, Ice Dragon.’
Boom!!!
A white explosion burst from the Kraken’s body.
[Oh]
[Wow]
[LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL?]
[????????]
[Crazy]
[The explosion is art!]
[Death?]
[I used the myth bracelet]
Swoosh…
Whiff.
‘Ah…’
My fingertips are numb.
Even though I tried to control it, is this much still too much?
“Is it still chilly?”
As I landed in the air and looked closely, my fingertips were frozen and had not healed.
It’s magic imbued with cold, not divinity.
Moreover, it’s the price of using the power of the ‘Demon King’ of extreme cold.
To begin with, my body is made of divinity.
Magic is practically poison, and no matter how much it’s a fragment of a fragment, directly using it would be quite a strain.
Luckily, due to my traits, my body is enhanced to this extent; otherwise, my entire hand would have been frozen like before.
“Is it cold?”
“Is that so?”
“Just a little. Not enough to worry about.”
Sre, who came to pick me up, lifted his head with apparent concern.
Despite holding the ‘Fragment,’ the source of such dangerous power, Sre, being an Ice Dragon, didn’t particularly feel the cold.
“…But if I think about it, Sugarado couldn’t endure it either.”
Among the dragon tribes, there weren’t many who could compare to the Ice Dragon, yet even Sugarado collapsed under the fragment that the Frozen Demon King abandoned.
In the end, the clone left behind by Sugarado gained new life and became Sre…
“But Sre looked completely fine despite holding the fragment.”
No matter how will-less and inactive the fragment was, a Demon King is still a Demon King.
A mere hatchling of an Ice Dragon could never withstand this chill.
The reason must be one of two things.
One is that it was simply protected by the System.
“Or maybe the will-less fragment recognized the young hatchling for some reason.”
It must be one of those two, but whatever it is, it’s not a bad deal for me.
“Huuh…”
I momentarily activated the fourth state, pushing out the remaining magic from my body, and checked on the Kraken’s condition.
Nine of its ten legs were frozen solid, and the remaining one was on the brink of freezing to death.
Its body was also half-frozen, yet the eye part was perfectly fine, containing a profound energy worthy of being called the Great Ocean.
The fifth eye was already emerging.
“Lily… Elbrite…”
Have you touched something unclean…?
“Unclean thing?”
“The magic of the frozen demon… eternal death…”
“……”
“Are you mimicking the ‘Impossible Being’? You’re just a half-measure. You can’t handle it…”
“I have no intention of doing so.”
This is just an exception; I dislike demons just as much as Celestials do.
There’s no need to keep using opposing powers.
I raised the hammer again.
The attack of the White Guardian came down twice.
If I used the Technique of the Ice Dragon that I’ve held back once more, I could send the Kraken into a short slumber.
As the power of the Ice Dragon surged, the Kraken’s fifth eye fully opened.
“Die torn apart.”
The Great Ocean was upturned.
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