Abe the Wizard

Abel touched the “ice bed” and felt a chill that would hurt any wizards in place. It was like he was an exception. The chill was helping him. His heart wavered the feeling, so he sat on the bed to try something that he hadn’t been doing for the past few days, the blue dragon “ice crystal breathing technique.” A strange, chilling qi following his breath and entered into his body, elevation every one of his bodily traits.

He started channeling the blue dragon ice crystal breathing technique, and to his surprise, the effect was double to that of normal. It’s pretty impressive because the “blue dragon ice crystal breathing technique” was supposed to be done every day over a long time. No, it’s not like he could use the light stones for it because light stones were only supposed to be for regular wizard meditation. Before this, the only way he could make progress was to do it without any sort of support.

“Good boy!” he laughed loudly as he placed his ice bed into the Valaya’s ring. Unbeknownst to him, this ice bed was actually a treasure of the Blizzard clan. It was the sole tool that helped Wizard Malon to gain the power that he possessed.

No matter what wizard organization it was, as long as there was a law-defying wizard, that was an indication that there was going to be at least one item with the ability to make contact with the power of Rule. For example, the Land of the Lightning Fall. It was a territory of the lightning clan, and the endless streaks of lightning that were roaming there was the treasured possession there.

For the Blizzard clan, the treasure would be the ice element rule training spot for their wizards. That’s where Abel was at now, and the ice bed he collected was the most significant thing that was here. For a rank twenty wizard to promote himself to become a law-defying wizard, this was the only get-to there was. It was why only the most accomplished members of the Blizzard clan would come into contact with treasures such as these. So Abel’s act of taking it away was, ultimately, removing the root of power from the Blizzard clan.

Having gathered everything he wanted, Abel looked again towards every room there was in the underground building. He had emptied everything he could at this point. It was actually pretty surprising for him because he’s never expected a law-defying wizard to have so little things up his collection. That’s fair because Wizard Malon’s collection was quite small. The poor man spent most of his resources on trading for life elixir because that was the only thing he needed to prolong his lifespan.

Having cleared through almost every restriction of the underground infrastructure, the research spirit here was now his own. It became quite easy for him to bypass the defensive circle that was installed here. All he needed to do was conceal his presence with his transformation necklace, and although he was sure if this was enough to bypass the detection of rank twenty wizard, he thought that he could at least bypass the power of the Will scan while he was at it.

During this time, everyone was busy inside Frost City. The infrastructure work was continuing in the city. People wanted to fix the remains that were left from the last war. Abel hid under his invisibility cape as he continued to move with the “instantaneous movement” spell. Meanwhile, keeping the mana ripple produced out of his body to the very minimum. For him, what he was most worried about was still the city spirit here, but what he didn’t know was that the damage he dealt the last time was already enough to turn everything here into shreds, so much so that it became virtually impossible for a new spirit to be replaced immediately. City spirits weren’t just bought with money. Not only did they need a lot of resources to be created, but a lot of time was also needed to be invested into nurturing them into maturity.

Abel discovered something. Frost City basically had no security. The outer defensive circle remained open, but there was not one scanning circle that remained opened inside. It was lucky for him because that would mean that none of his actions here were under any form of surveillance. It gave him the courage to call for the battle command spirit to do an entire scan of the city with his battle command spirit.

Very quickly, Abel received a map that illustrated what Frost city looked like. He needed to get out of the city. Before, he wanted to use the “instantaneous movement” to leave, but having realized that there wasn’t any inner design, he started to change ideas.

Frost City’s teleportation circle was located at the center of the city, at a mission hall designed for just the Blizzard clan alone. The teleportation circle was just on the side. Very quickly, a map of Frost City flashed across Abel’s brain. It was very helpful since he wanted to get out fast. Before, he was planning on using the “instantaneous movement” to get out, but he decided to change his idea as soon as he realized that there wasn’t anything set up inside.

Since there wasn’t any city spirit, there hadn’t been a time that a wizard had detected that he came. Because of this, he was moving towards the mission hall relatively easily.

A Blizzard wizard pointed towards the teleportation circle as he spoke to his partner, “Wait, look! Why is that open when there’s nothing on it?”

Abel stood on the teleportation circle the whole time. He was listening to what that wizard was saying, but he wasn’t afraid of anything. He was very certain that the teleportation circle was now free for anyone to use. Yes, with the city spirit removed, anyone could get on it and move at their own will. Either way, he would have the battle command spirit do some hack work for him if needed, but it turned out that there wasn’t a need to do so.

Of course, it wasn’t like he was just going to get out of here after all the trouble he’s been through. His issues with the Blizzard clan were not going to be resolved with the death of one law-defying wizard. The threat was permanent. As long as the Blizzard clan was alive, he would be under the constant threat of being attacked at any point, any place. He was rank eighteen wizard, but still. The Blizzard could always have some sort of hidden cards up their sleeves. Mercy was not a choice. He had to make sure that his rivals had no ways of laying their hands on him.

Having used all of the super explosive balls last time, he prepared another twenty to be used very quickly. Since he was wearing the invisibility cape, his power of the WIll could extend to a maximum range of about one thousand meters. After sending two to eight directions with his “telekinesis,” he then put another four to the ground below him. He was going to blow this place up as soon as he left with the circle.

“What’s that on the ground?”

As soon as the wizards realized the super explosive balls rolling on the ground, they all started to ask together. That’s when Abel made a very, very quick movement. It made everyone frantic, and they all left the mission hall as quickly as they could with the “instantaneous movement” spell. Abel’s shadow quickly appeared in the middle of the circle. His mind started counting down.

“3, 2, 1.”

When he counted the last number, he felt a very subtle vibration on the ground beneath him. It didn’t catch the attention of anyone else inside Ice Crown City. So far, it was just him that knew that the twenty super explosive balls were really detonated. He came out of the teleportation circle, found a carriage to ride on, and headed straight out of Ice Crown City. Once he came out, he found a secret location to summon White Cloud and flew straight towards Frost City.

White Cloud was under invisibility mode as it flew rapidly towards Frost City. In just ten minutes, it came right to the top of Frost City. The grand city was no longer what it was now. The amount of damage his destructive forces created was much, much more than he’d expect. He remembered destroying a small-sized city with just ten while he was back on the Holy Continent. Frost City was not much bigger, but its geographical location made everything more serious than that last time.

Instead of being affected by the explosion, the defensive large circles continued to produce ripples that were moving back and forth, creating powerful effects that went back and forth. Frost City was decimated at this point. Only one defensive large circle was protecting the whole ruins. The circle’s base was located underground. Luckily, that prevented it from being damaged by the super explosive balls.

Since all the explosions took place at the inner part, the defensive large circle only received the explosion’s impact and was not directly hit by it. Most importantly, to prevent Abel from launching another wave of assault, the Blizzard clan had already put twenty advanced magic gemstones inside the energy slot of the defensive large circle. They did plenty to hold off the shock wave of the super explosive balls. Yet, it was also because the shock wave could not be released from the defensive circle. It had to bounce off a few times as it became weaker and weaker.

Right now, the spectacular thing about Frost City was the streak of “soul light” that was produced. There were forty of them in total. Their brightness and size made everything in the scene pale in comparison. Abel didn’t think that he would get to see so many advanced wizards die at once. From his understanding, advanced wizards could easily get out of Frost City within a span of six seconds if they wanted to. There was a part he was missing about that, though, and that was that not all advanced wizards possessed the ability to predict incoming threats precisely.

Meanwhile, plenty of advanced wizards had appeared all over the borders of Frost City. Some were survivors that went to hide in the underground infrastructure. Some were those who lived at the borders. Some were smart that already had their own defensive structures in their homes and had resorted to using different methods to get out. In any case, the advanced wizards were all experts on surviving. Apart from the unlucky ones that were stranded outside, most managed to find their ways out in a very short period of time.

So Frost City was gone, and along with it, the Blizzard clan. That’s what every survivor thought. The law-defying wizard should show up given the amount of casualty taking place, but no, no one came to rescue. Soon, they all started to dig up the things that were buried. Treasures. Wealth. Even those that belonged to the wizards that were dead were preyed upon. The chaos became worse and worse even in the presence of the three elders.

Speaking of the three elders, Elder Maltz already had grave injuries. He was leading the reconstruction work at the time, the one that was facing directly against the first bunch of shock waves produced by the super explosive ball. If he hadn’t used the “instantaneous movement” so many times, he would’ve been in pieces and not in his current state.

The other two elders had just light injuries. Now that the three were all together, they could no longer contain order around the entire Blizzard clan group.

Elder Maltz said with a very bitter look, “Get the grand elder, Elder Bunch!”

Elder Bunch shook his head, “I tried, but… he hasn’t responded!”

“Well, again! If you still can’t reach him, get a spirit to do it!”

Getting a spirit to pass on a message was the last resort. It was meant to be reserved only at times of extreme emergency.

Elder Bunch nodded his head, “Wait here. I’ll make contact with the spirit.”

Having said that, Elder Bunch took out a wizard crest to make contact. Luckily, most of the important circles were built underground, ensuring that long-distance communication was still possible at a time like this.

“Wait, no!” a look of shock appeared on Elder Bunch’s face, “There is no connection!”

Elder Maltz spoke out and asked, “Is there anything wrong with the circle?”

Elder Bunch shook his head and spoke with a dry voice, “It’s fine, it’s just… the spirit… looks like it’s gone for some reason.”

The three elders looked at each other and looked towards Frost City in chaos. They were already without a group to do their biddings.