The Villain's Story

Chapter 655: [655] A new spell!

Alan was kind of lost, if he was being honest. Though he may have remembered Azmakulʼs speech and the lessons he gave through it, he had a hard time putting everything in his own perspective.

The scene of symbols of multiple elements reacting to one another was splendid, and a bit complicated.

Sighing to himself, Alan decided to take the simpler approach, one that was centered around Azmakulʼs advice. He used the Ame-No-Sakahoko to draw symbols of the elements in the snow, those he could remember and wanted to use in his ʼexperimentʼ.

A legendary spear back on Earth, one that brought the end to a demon at the rank of a duke, and single-handedly was the source of an entire nationʼs hope, and one of Earthʼs most formidable weapons, was currently being used for art. Being treated like a stick a child found on the side of the road in the middle of winter to make drawings on the snow.

Alan may not know a lot about the previous owner of the spear, Hiro, but he did know that if Arken saw the beloved weapon of his deceased brother in arms being used like this, the least he was going to get was a few broken bones.

The worst, a few missing limbs.

Thankfully, Arken wasnʼt here, and neither were any of his teammates who could potentially tattle on him. He knew they were not the type to do that, but his master had his ways of getting people to talk. And they were not pretty.

Thankfully, his only company at the moment was an expanse of pure white, a bit destroyed because of his prior actions, and an odd pillar of glowing ice.

There was nobody to tattle...except.

ʼI hope the spear doesnʼt tattle on me, though.ʼ

The Ame-No-Sakahoko did have an ego, though Alan guessed he could rest easy that it wouldnʼt speak. It didnʼt even speak to the person it chose as a successor, why would it choose to speak to Arken?

Alan composed himself, and did the best he could in making ʼartʼ. He recreated the symbols as much as his limited artistic talent allowed. He decided to create the symbols he remembered most clearly first.

First were the four basic elements of fire, water, air, and earth. The rest were the elements of Death, Life, Shadow, Darkness, Ice, Metal, Magma, Poison, Nature. As a bonus, he even tried drawing the elements of space and gravity.

Space was relatively easy, he just made an oval shape in the snow to represent a portal, while gravity proved to be a bit tricky? How does one exactly portray gravity?

Should he draw an apple? Or should he take it a bit further and draw an apple falling from the symbol of Life, a tree, and hitting a skull, the symbol of death?

Would the esteemed Isaac Newton be proud of such a portrayal of his most prominent discovery?

”Probably not.”

Alan chuckled, it was funny to imagine using the symbols of life and death, two elements at the very top of the elemental ladder and a fruit from a planet that could be considered a speck of dust in a galaxy barely out of its diapers to draw the symbol of gravity, a sub-element of space?

Alan merely settled on using his gravity field as an inspiration, he drew four cubes, representing rocks, the conduit he used for the [Gravity Field] spell, and connected them with the help of strings. Or a line as shown on the snow.

What mattered most was what he thought about it. Alan looked at them all from above and thought to himself.

ʼNow how do I make it efficient and upgrade Glacial meteor with these?ʼ

How does he exactly do it? Alan sat down and began to use his artistic talent once more, this time using his finger, sparing the legendary spear from humiliation this time. It rested on the snow beside him.

He crossed out the symbols of Poison, Nature, Life, and Death. Although Azmakul did enlighten him about elements he didnʼt have an affinity to, Alan thought it would be appropriate to cross out elements he didnʼt have a good understanding of.

Death was something he had an affinity too, but it was ambiguous as the other three, and also out of his understanding. That left fire, water, earth, wind, shadow, darkness, ice, metal, magma, space, gravity.

He wanted to figure out how to enhance the spell [Glacial meteor] with the help of these elements. Using a bit of common sense, he crossed out fire and water.

Water wouldnʼt be so helpful, and come on, the name of the skill was ʼglacialʼ meteor! He couldnʼt use fire. It just didnʼt sit right with him to bastardize his own spell like that.

Firstly, instead of opening a portal in an asteroid belt and yanking an asteroid of ambiguous size and shape from there, he could manifest earth and create a desired shape he wanted.

ʼWhat would that leave efficiency at?ʼ

He thought for a while. Naturally, manifesting something out of nothing but pure mana was going to cost him a lot of mana! Though not particularly bothered by it, he would have loved if he actually had earth around him to use! To gain experience!

Unfortunately, all that was around him was snow, endless amounts of it.

For convenienceʼs sake, and for his own mental clarity, he decided to discard efficiency for now. He didnʼt have to worry about mana because of his nature, after all.

Manifesting earth out of pure mana may take a bit longer to do instead of just yanking it from an asteroid belt, but the benefit was he could make it any shape he wanted!

He could make it a perfect sphere, devoid of any blemish or imperfections. He could make it a titanic spear, and smite down his foes! Hell, he could even make a spaceship and hurl it towards his enemies, for added cinematic effect!

He could make it anything he imagined, so what was wrong with going a bit...wild?