The snow didn't show any signs of stopping. However, these two top-level ice magic mages met the most troublesome opponent they had ever met in their lives. Both of them discovered to their astonishment that the attack methods they were so proud of were completely ineffective. Their opponent seemed to be completely immune to their attacks.
War's incarnation of a giant was currently whipping the ground. His gigantic fists were as fast as lightning. He instantly pierced through Zero, but it was as if he had pierced through a mirage of the moon in the water. Everything in front of him trembled, and then he saw nothing. Not far away, another Zero appeared.
"Immune to physical attacks …"
The ice balls I tossed in midair exploded, and ice magic awls scattered everywhere. Some transformed into ice birds, some transformed into ice bridges, and there was even a reindeer pulling a sled, a white-bearded old man, and a naughty child chasing after me for presents … My foundational magic allowed me to freely release my imagination in midair. It was impossible for these living creatures to dodge my Ice Haste spells … But the result was the same as before. They directly pierced through without feeling like they hit anything at all.
"Immune to ice magic. No, judging from how my Holy Light balls have no effect either, she's immune to an even higher level of energy attacks …"
An ancient ghost dodged the ice dragons in midair. It seemed that Frigid Maw's unique soul attack was still effective against her. However, the tremendous difference in power level made it impossible for Irene Béla to catch up.
But on the other hand, Zero could only watch as the bone giant on the ground did whatever it wanted on the battlefield. Zero's personal guards, which she had worked so hard to gather, had either turned into ice sculptures or were as slow as turtles. They could only serve as nourishment for the newborn undead.
She shuttled through the air like a meteor, passing through circles of low temperature zones. A large amount of ice and snow turned into a surging tidal wave of attacks, but it still couldn't break the thin ice armor.
"In such a nearly invincible state, she only has one method of attacking by changing her temperature …"
I was observing my opponent, and my opponent was also observing me. What Zero couldn't understand the most was that not only was her low-temperature magic ineffective against me, it was also ineffective against my summoned creatures.
The duel between high-level spellcasters was just that boring and uninteresting. They would attack first, probe, defend, record, attack again, and probe again. They would gradually figure out the opponent's trump card, understand the composition and characteristics of the opponent's abilities, and search for the opponent's weakness. When all preparations were complete and they were certain that they would win, they would then attack and deal a fatal blow.
Of course, such a situation would only occur between powerhouses of similar strength. Otherwise, once one figured out the other party's level, they could just use high-level magic to crush them.
From this situation, I had more or less an idea.
It was a known fact that the Undead Emperors had been exiled from the mortal plane. In such a situation, it was impossible for her to use her full power. In that case, she was currently an incarnation of some sort. Combining the fact that she seemed to exist and not exist, I came to a conclusion.
"This is a projection. According to the plane's confirmation, she's not even here. No one can attack someone who doesn't exist, so she can obtain near-invincible abilities. But as a price, the non-existent naturally can't launch targeted attacks. She can only use her special heat plunder to create a low temperature and change the environment around the projection, but she can't attack!"
"… Roland, you're being underestimated."
I was unable to counter Harloys' words. She wanted to defeat me with a mere projection? It was obvious that she was underestimating me. But, looking at it from another angle, perhaps she was only here to collect information on me. Not only did her projection lack attack methods, her invincible abilities were also quite annoying. It was as if she was undefeatable from the very start.
"Ha, how could there possibly be true invincibility in this world? Allow me to tell my senior that times have changed. It's best not to use such outdated tricks."
"What should I do?"
"Wait."
"Wait? She'll self-destruct if I wait? "
"Yes."
"Ha, do you really think that an Undead Emperor would self-destruct so easily? Or … "
Harloys was unable to finish her sentence, because Zero's projection in the sky suddenly trembled and fell down. Although she soon regained her balance, judging from her astonished and confused expression, she still didn't know why she had been attacked. Yet, that invisible attack had indeed existed, which confused her greatly.
"How did you do it?"
"Ha, I have my own brilliant plan … Forget it, I won't explain anymore. You won't understand even if I tell you."
"Impossible! I'm an omniscient existence! How could there be magic that I can't understand!? Just what did you do? "
"Have you received any high school education? Do you know about the law of conservation of energy? Do you have a high school diploma? An omniscient existence? I think you're an illiterate archmage … Don't bite me! Have you ever seen a sword that bites? Fine, fine, I'll explain everything to you later. You should go work hard for now. Go, I'll choose you, Harloys! "
Pokeball … Harloys' magic sword tore through the sky. However, its target wasn't the ghosts in the sky. Instead, it was the Myth-ranked Winter Demons that were struggling bitterly in War's hands. Existences of this level were capable of serving as an Undead Emperor's personal guards, so they definitely wouldn't be easy to obtain. Not even an Undead Emperor would be willing to sacrifice them for such a long time in such a desperate situation.
As expected, Zero elegantly arced through the sky, creating a series of cold zones and countless icicles. Among the icicles, there were also various snowballs, snowy mountains, and other large ice blocks.
It seemed that she discovered that low temperatures were ineffective, so she began using physical attacks? In order to increase her damage and make dodging more difficult, she even made these ice blocks into all sorts of strange shapes, but …
"F * ck, this suddenly reminds me of a very old game …"
"… Whack-a-Mole?"
This situation caused Harloys to have some bad associations, but it was evident that her guess was incorrect.
"Tetris!"
Alright then, since they were both smashing things from above, one depended on speed and reaction speed, while the other depended on how they were arranged. From the angle at which they were smashed, there wasn't much of a difference …
"Circle, triangle, and cube? How are you supposed to put them together? Are you intending to force someone with OCD to death?"
[That's enough! Nobody forced you to put them together. Even if you put them together, they won't disappear! System Notification: Isn't my service very good? I'll deduct 5 comment points from you.]
"Nobody wants you to comment!"
Even though it was quite difficult for me to dodge these heavy objects, I still revealed a victorious smile. That was because I noticed that Zero's expression was becoming worse and worse. It seemed that her backlash was becoming more and more severe.
Backlash? Yep, I had already set up a trap for her the moment that I discovered that she was a heat energy thief. After such a long battle, it seemed that this trap had finally been triggered.
"Energy theft? Then where did the heat energy she stole go? That's so illogical! "
To be honest, I had never been able to understand where the heat energy thieves went. But sometimes, energy wouldn't be conserved, and the heat energy would mysteriously disappear.
Obviously, this other world where magic existed was just that illogical. Perhaps I should say that it wasn't magic anymore, especially when it came to the various species' natural talents. Not even magical theories could explain them.
"In that case, at least in my world, let's make it more scientific."
The Frigidwinter Earth was my world. Its natural laws were my understanding of the structure of the world. Here, I was able to create the coldest ice that was obviously not magic in the outside world. Naturally, I was also able to make something that wasn't magic become scientific.
The conservation of energy was a basic concept that I could understand. Since Zero had entered this world, she would have to obey its basic laws.
From the moment that I used "Frigidwinter Earth" to envelop her Soul World of Ice, she had already fallen into my trap. Based on this world's natural laws, she could still steal heat energy. However, it was impossible for heat energy to vanish into thin air. Based on the law of causality that Titan Titan had mentioned, the karma that was planted would eventually be traced back to the cause. All heat energy would return to Zero's main body!
"How much heat energy you steal, how much you lower the temperature of the entire environment, you'll experience an equal amount of energy that's forced to a high temperature!"
This was the power of a Concept. Perhaps it seemed incredibly weak, or even dangerous, to the point where it didn't differentiate between friend and foe, but once it touched the bottom line of the natural laws, it would give even the strongest of individuals a headache.
The greatest problem with power at the level of natural laws was that they were unreasonable. Their priority was far greater than any other power derived from natural laws. However, their greatest threat was that they were reasonable. Everything would be fine as long as it didn't go against their logic, but as long as it didn't, it would be forcefully harmonized.
As the only creator of this world, I was the only one who knew all the "logic" of this world. This was also why the two Creator Goddesses of Order and Chaos were basically undefeatable in the world of Aichy. Apart from their individual power levels being able to easily suppress their juniors, their ridiculously high administrator authority and administrator knowledge was also the reason why it felt like they were undefeatable.
And right now, I was the master of my world. Zero had already created countless icebergs and low-temperature environments. She kept creating large amounts of frost and snow. Who knew how many low-temperature zones she had created and how much heat she stole?
It would have been fine if she had used normal ice and snow magic. After all, elemental composition was a fundamental law of this world. However, she used her natural talent of stealing low temperature. In that case, the heat she stole wouldn't suddenly vanish like it would in the outside world. She would enjoy the backlash of her own energy.
That was why I wouldn't stop her Soul World from becoming low-temperature from the very start. In fact, I would even add fuel to the fire, allowing her unscientific natural talent ability to develop to the extreme. Perhaps her projection would seem fine since nobody would be able to harm nonexistent matter. However, it was highly likely that her main body had already been ignited by the feedback of the heat without her even realizing it.
And if the concept of karma was calculated, it would count as self-harm. How could self-harm be avoided? That was why her ability to not exist seemed to have finally lost its effectiveness. I didn't need to completely analyze how she was able to not exist. All I needed to do was use the power of dimensional laws to take advantage of her current state and make her suffer the consequences of her actions.
"… Just what did you do!?"
Zero's translucent ghost body actually began to melt. Her ancient dress showed signs of being burned. At the very least, at this moment, she received the strongest fear she had ever felt in her entire life. Her main body was actually attacked in the Ice Elemental Plane. Not only that, she was the most afraid of high-temperature attacks. Not only that, even she was unable to resist such a high-temperature attack.
I nodded and chuckled as I observed this situation.
"Ha, you want to know how I managed to attack your main body?"
"…"
Although she didn't reply, it was obvious that she was still confused and wanted me to explain from her expectant gaze.
"Ha, I'm not going to tell you … Don't look at me like that. It's not like I'm some villain who dies from talking too much. How could I possibly explain my trump cards? But I can tell you that if you don't want your main body to self-destruct, don't do anything else. "
Of course, I wasn't telling the truth, but I wasn't lying either. Actually, as long as she didn't use her ability to lower her temperature, she naturally wouldn't suffer any backlash. And now that I said something like that, no matter whether she believed me or not, it had already become a mental shackle that restricted her actions.
Zero glared at me one last time, but her body became fainter and fainter. It seemed that she understood the situation and intended to dispel this projection so that her soul could return to her main body.
But when she became transparent to a certain degree, she suddenly transformed back into a nearly physical ghost body. This time, there was a mysterious fear in her expression as she looked at me. It seemed that she had discovered that she was unable to leave. At the very least, this projection was unable to leave.
* Clap. *
I imitated Zero and clapped my hands, causing the snowstorm to suddenly disperse. Sunlight shone down from the clouds, revealing the true appearance of this frozen land.
This was no longer a completely empty ice plain. In the icy ocean at the edge of my vision, I could see gigantic demon whales spitting out water pillars that were several dozen meters tall. Icebergs floated in the ocean, and not far away from us were endless mountain ranges. I could even faintly hear the roars of beasts.
At the foot of the mountains, there was a forest made of ice crystals. I could even faintly see buildings at the edge of my vision. This place was becoming more and more like a real world.
"You want to know why you can't leave?"
"…"
"Ha, I'm not going to tell you. Leave this clone behind and then go wonder about it yourself! Right, leave behind your essence — I mean, leave behind your knowledge! Otherwise, I'm going to use your projection clone to shoot XX videos and sell them to the fairies' merchant company! I love it when my master's wife is pitiful … Ah, silly cat, don't bite me! You're not my master's wife, you're my master! Silly cat, you won't be able to sell without pitiful things! "
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