Roland's unfailing law of luck stated that when two unlucky individuals were together, a third unlucky individual would soon appear.
In order to not become the third unlucky individual, I chose the wisest way to deal with this situation.
"… I've left the potion here. You guys can decide who needs it. I'm going out for a stroll."
That's right, I ran away. I had never run away before, but this time, I was truly afraid. I ran away, not only because I was afraid of the Fire Elementalists and the increasingly exaggerated rumors, but also because of my own personal law of luck. If I got too close, the unluckiest person would most likely be me. And if I got too unlucky this time … I would actually be quite happy to watch Kolos and Victoria have some fun, but it would be a tragedy if I personally did it. As for Princess Peach, Renée would continue to be the scapegoat.
"If I run away, at least the potion won't splash on me. If anyone else gets unlucky … Tsk, it's fine as long as I'm not the unlucky one. I'll even be able to laugh at them. "
It seemed that we had come to a mutual understanding. No matter how things developed, Victoria and Kolos would have an incredibly low chance of succeeding.
I unhesitatingly stepped into the Fire Elemental Plane. I wouldn't be so unlucky if I went to another plane. I also needed time to polish up my combat techniques so that I could break through as soon as possible.
"Separation Blade."
I reached out with my hands and took a deep breath. What I blew out were countless shards of ice blades.
Endless ice blades devoured everything before me. Any creature that walked too slowly, no matter if it was a lava giant or a fire elemental, would be sliced into pieces by these ice blades.
Meanwhile, the fire lizards suddenly crawled out of the sea of lava in front of me. Due to their militarized society, the fire lizards were either armed with spears or shields. There were more than thirty of them in an ambush formation waiting for their prey. This was actually a small army.
"Double Tornado!"
With a sudden wave of my hand, the spell model that I had prepared beforehand was activated. With me as the core, two ice tornadoes collided with each other and tore at each other. Every living creature within a thirty-meter radius of the tornado was struck and frozen by the ice tornadoes.
The extreme cold of the snowstorm instantly turned the fire lizards into lizard ice. The flames on their heads and backs were extinguished, which meant that these half-elemental, half-physical creatures had died. There were still a few high-level Fire King Lizards that were struggling at death's door in the cold.
Phissh!
Before they could scream for reinforcements, ice arrows pierced through their foreheads, taking away the last of their lives.
With a wave of my hand, the ice bow and arrow vanished into thin air. Now, there was nothing left around me.
I had already cleared out the small fries, but the magma pool in front of me was still bubbling and giving off a fiery aura. That was probably the Fire Elemental Plane. This spatial node was still summoning fire creatures.
It would take a lot of time and effort to dispel the spatial node of such an elemental plane using conventional spatial magic. However, I knew that there was another way to dispel the elemental door other than using the key.
"Judgement of the Glacier."
Above my head was a battle hammer of ice. It kept growing larger and larger, and when it finally completely covered my head, I directly let it descend.
The huge glacier collided with the lava, and boiling steam was everywhere. The elements of ice and fire collided with each other. When everything calmed down, the lava pool had also become a pond.
The surrounding temperature began to rapidly decrease. This Fire Elemental Plane node had already been sealed off. No matter how it functioned, it was definitely supported by the fire element. In that case, all I had to do was use the ice element, which countered the fire element.
Of course, the extinguishing of the fire element here wouldn't have any substantial effect. The entire Fire Elemental Plane was already connected to the mortal plane, and there were hundreds and thousands of other nodes still in operation.
Ever since I started to clear out this elemental node, I had been using ice magic from the very beginning. The final solution was also a standard mage's way of thinking. From a certain standpoint, Harloys's "force-feeding" method of teaching had indeed been effective.
Her functional classification was indeed to my liking. With her help, my ice magic was finally standardized and systematic. It was just that …
"The Blade of Separation is tossing ice blades, and the Judgement of the Glacier is creating a ball of ice to smash down. Do I really have to say these names? It's so chuunibyou and so embarrassing. "
"Of course. Spell names aren't just a self-suggestion from the spellcaster to increase the modularity of the spellcasting effect. They're also the symbol of your systematic spellcasting ability. If your spell list is filled with all sorts of 'nameless spells', how are you supposed to combine them and create a major spell … Don't even mention that messy Ice Aeon spell. That's not magic at all.
With Harloys' help, my ice magic improved by leaps and bounds. However, the biggest change was still the change in my combat style.
The division between ice magic and snow magic allowed me to understand my own power system. From the very start, since I was an expert in martial arts, I should have walked down the path of ice magic, which was more suitable for magical martial arts. The core idea of ice magic was to create all sorts of ice weapons that could be used to kill enemies.
Ice spears, ice arrows, ice swords, ice shields, ice hammers, and so on. I was also used to using these "weapons" in battle to kill enemies. My ice swords, which were several dozen meters long, were indeed much more comfortable to use than my "toothpicks". The only part that I was still unable to get used to was the rather embarrassing names that Harloys had given me.
Compared to ordinary ice mages, their ice magic spell models were rigid and lacked flexibility. They were far less flexible than me. When I used them, it was as if there was a giant behind me brandishing an ice weapon to show off his martial arts. Meanwhile, the ice mages were simply tossing out simple and crude spell models. It didn't seem like much of a difference, but on the battlefield, the difference was quite obvious. It was like the difference between a veteran professional and a newbie commoner.
And compared to my past self … Forget it, let's not talk about it. Back then, I couldn't even compare to ordinary ice mages.
As for the environmental type of ice magic that mainly used low temperatures to kill enemies, I had only mastered the spell models for "Ice Tornado", "Avalanche", "Hailstorm", and other common ice and snow calamities. Part of this was to increase my combat strength, but more importantly, it was for the sake of making preparations for leveling up.
Perhaps this was the difference between those who were trained in magic and those who didn't. The difference didn't seem that great, but the further one progressed, the greater the difference in performance on the battlefield.
Over the past few days, although there hadn't been any foundational difference in my magic power, the current me was confident that I could defeat ten of the past me if I only looked at ice magic. In the past, my ability to use magic had been far too crude. My method of gathering magic elements and then tossing them out naturally caused more than half of my magic power to be wasted. My crude attack method made it even more difficult for these ice swords to directly attack.
Now that I had a solid foundation, leveling up didn't seem so far-fetched anymore.
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