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Boom! Boom! Boom!
Shin danced around the group of Ice Golems as they bombarded him with a series of punches that destroyed the surroundings. The trees were taken down as well as the other plantation in the surroundings that were shielding them from the violent wind and intense downpour of rain that was sweeping through the entire place.
The strength of these ice golems was quite remarkable, but they were not enough to threaten Shin in the slightest. Their battle formation under Leviathan's control was also a little troubleso to deal with, but even that was still manageable.
What made Shin wary of these ice golems was they could divide themselves into multiple smaller golems after he cut them. Moreover, they would explode when they reached the smallest size that they could get.
The might of each explosion was so powerful that Shin was forced to retreat multiple tis. Even his Psychic Barrier ford through his Demonic Telekinesis was not enough to withstand these explosions, especially when they were releasing a powerful ice wave every ti they occurred.
The explosion froze the surroundings, which the barrier could withstand. But the sharp ice fragnts mixed in the explosions were able to break through the barrier, forcing Shin to repeatedly retreat.
At tis, he was also caught off guard by so slimr golems that had a pair of arms ford into blades. They were executing complex and unorthodox swordsmanship that forced him to engage in a lee battle.
Aside from this, he also discovered that the Ice-Elental Powers of his opponent were slightly stronger than the Power of Abyssal Moon that he wielded. It also carried the unique powers of Demons and Demonic Player, the Demonic Energy.
At first, Shin was not using his ice powers since it did not fit his current style and swordsmanship. Now, he had another reason not to use it – the opposing side was able to absorb his ice-elental powers due to its superiority.
Fortunately, his other forms of mana and elental powers were not affected by this. His Primordial Lighting was more than enough for him to hold his ground.
Regardless, the state of the battle was still in a stalemate as neither side could take down their opposition.
Shin had repeatedly tried to approach Leviathan, but the battle formation was so enough to block him. Even if he used his movent skills, the latter was cunning enough to maintain a decent space between them.
Even if Shin was able to break through the formation, the 'Puppeteer's Barrier' protecting Leviathan was sturdy enough to buy ti for the ice golems to catch up to him.
Moreover, the barrier also possessed an ice aura that was affecting his movents once the freezing effects started to pile up. Even if his resistance coming from his equipnt, titles, and battle physique was not enough to withstand these effects once they had accumulated enough stacks.
"Tsk! This is going to be a little troubleso," mumbled Shin as he dodged yet another bombarding attack from the ice golems.
At the sa ti, he also glanced in the direction where Alice and Belphegor were currently fighting. Then what he had seen was sothing he did not expect. The battle between those two mage-class players was much more intense than what was happening to his side.
"Woah! That is one hell of an exchange," he comnted before focusing on his battle.
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On the other side of the battlefield, Alice was sowhat having trouble keeping up with her opponent. She had to use so of her most advanced techniques to match the other party.
There were three elental dragons surrounding her as she used one of the signature techniques that made her known as the Elental Goddess.
'Legendary Combat Technique: Elental Dragon Dance'
Just like Shin's 'Infinity Edge' and 'Eclipse Wielding', Alice had already promoted this technique to Legendary Rank and could even use them along with her spells, making it a part of herself and her overall style.
Currently, she could only summon three of the Elental Dragons – the Wind, Lightning, and Water Dragons – due to the current situation and the environnt that they were in.
Regardless, she was still able to use her three Elental Spirit Possessions at the sa ti, making her 'Elven Partners' fuse with her magic.
This made the might of her Elental Magic and the casting ti of all her related spells reach another level.
But despite this being the case, she was still unable to force her opponent to move from his spot. She could not even force the other party to chant or make a hand gesture to cast a spell.
Moreover, even her innate talent – the Mind Reader that let her read the thoughts of her opponents – was ineffective against Belphegor.
Aside from that, there was also the strange power that kept bothering her since the start of the battle. She kept getting drowsy during the fight, making it hard for her to cast her spells. Her focus kept on slipping whenever she was trying to cast an advanced spell. Even if she tried to cast a cleansing skill to try to remove this debuff, it was still ineffective.
Instead of removing the drowsy feeling, it was only getting stronger as ti went by. She could not even keep her eyelids from falling the more ti passed.
She understood that she could not let this continue as she would only lose sooner or later. Once she could no longer keep her eyes from shutting, she would most likely lose consciousness and get killed later.
Getting killed was one thing, but losing a level at this stage of the ga would hurt, especially when leveling up beca much harder.
Moreover, the 24hrs ban (real-world ti) after getting killed would delay her progress greatly, especially when she was in the middle of clearing a quest. She could not let this happen as it was clear that the opposing side was planning to do sothing in this place, which she suspected to be related to the Spirit King that she was trying to rescue.
Thinking that she was running out of ti, she could only use her version of the combat state that she recently acquired.
She first disengaged from the battle and created a suitable distance between her and the opposing party before letting her Elental Dragons protect her. Under the control of her Elental Spirits, these dragons could move independently and fight for her.
At the sa ti, she was able to focus on herself, not caring about her opponent for the ti being.
She closed her eyes and focused her mind, controlling the mana circulation within her body. Then she absorbed all the surrounding elental particles in the surroundings, fusing them with the circulating mana within her.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Due to the abundance of wind, lightning, water, and wood elents in the surroundings, the mana within her matched these elents while circulating through her Mana Circuits.
Boom!
Soon after, they combusted with a silent explosion that created an Elental Storm revolving around her body.
She then used the unique thod of her family's ntalism technique to control the surrounding energies, making the elental storm turn into a mana fla with an alternating blue and jade-like color that covered her body.
This was her self-created combat state after mixing the tricks she had picked up from the insights that Shin and the others had shared about 'Reality Manifestation' and the insights she had gotten when studying the elental magic inside the ga.
At that ti, she knew that the 'Reality Manifestation' was not ant for her, so she found a way to modify it and co up with this after her experiences from the tests of the Mysterious Instructor and the battles within her promotion quests.
Adding the unique style within the ga that she had along with her achievents in ntalism in the Real World, she created her unique version of 'Magical Formation' Combat State.
'Special Combat State: Elental Ignition'
She had ignited all the elental energies that she had accumulated within her body, reinforcing her body and mind with the different elents that she had absorbed.
She was getting different buffs and boosts from different elents, which could make her stronger depending on how many types of elents she had absorbed.
Different elents had different buffs depending on their properties just like how the fire elent could boost the firepower of her spells, the wind elent increased their speed, the water elent enhanced her control, the earth elent made her defensive spells much tougher, and many more.
The more elents she absorbed, the stronger the power she could wield, and the more powerful she could be.
Levitating in the air, a whole ter above the ground, Alice looked like the real goddess of this place, especially with the elental fla that was surrounding her body.
Her eyes were glowing bright due to the combined effects of Elental Sight and Mana Eyes.
In her current state, the surrounding mana must obey while all elents had to worship her.
Roar! Roar! Roar!
The three elental dragons danced around her while releasing aggressive roars, making the surroundings tremble.
Belphegor, who seed to be waiting for this opportunity, suddenly beca alive and excited. The drowsy look on his face and sleepy eyes disappeared as he looked at Alice. This was what he was waiting for, so he had to rip all the benefits before going back to his sleep.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
A series of magic circles appeared behind him one after another while a huge magic formation was suddenly ford underneath his feat.
The surrounding mana gathered around him while a dark aura shrouded his body. The Mana that entered the magic formation was instantly corrupted and turned into dense Demonic Energy.
A pair of slender horns grew from each side of his temple and extended outwards, forming a wavy pattern.
'Racial Special Trait: Demonic Transformation (Perfect)'
He then sat on his broom lazy, but his eyes were full of savageness and liveliness. He stared at Alice, who was floating in the air while carrying a crafty smile.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
With a thought, the magic circles behind him released a blinding light before firing a barrage of shadow beams toward Alice.
Alice could instantly asure the might of each of these shadow beams. Each of them carried a power comparable to interdiate magic while the bigger ones would not lose that much against advanced spells.
Without holding back, she raised her Elental Staff in the air commanding the surrounding mana to obey her command.
The Elental Particles gathered in front of her before forming a sturdy wall made of wind elents.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
At the sa ti, the plants under her suddenly grew at insane speed while the fallen trees seed to have beco alive after heeding her call.
The thick roots of the trees and the vines of the plants grew and rged before forming a cocoon that surrounded Alice, protecting her from any harm.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The shadow beams first collided against the wind wall, weakening their impact, before landing on the wooden barrier that protected her.
The roots were instantly corroded by the demonic aura mixed in those shadow beams, making them rot at an extre rate. But before they could affect the rest of the barrier, the affected parts imdiately detached themselves from the rest. Then the roots and vines continued to grow, patching up the holes that appeared.
Within that cocoon-like barrier, Alice was busy chanting out a series of elven prayers, summoning rune after rune of elvish language that arranged themselves in a specific magic sequence.
Swoosh!
When she was done, the top of the barrier suddenly opened itself like a blooming flower, matching Alice as she pointed her long scepter toward the sky.
At the sa ti, a beam of light suddenly shot toward the sky, connecting the clouds and the top of her scepter.
Boom!
Then a thunder roared in the sky while flashes of lightning danced in the dark clouds.
Swoosh!
Roar!
Then a huge lightning dragon fell from the sky and headed straight to the spot where Belphegor was standing.
'Elven Sage Skill (Tier 2): Advent of the Thunder Dragon'
Boom!
The thunderous explosion reverberated in the entire mountain range while the ground shook violently when the dragon struck.
Electric currents filled the air, causing the surrounding trees to be scorched while releasing a series of cracking sounds.
The might of this spell signified how strong her current state was.
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