The woman remained still with her eyes closed. She did not look like she was going to fight at all. However, when he closed his eyes and listened carefully, he could hear the sound of water flowing from the woman's position.
It was Dripping River.
This was the first woman Angor met in the arena of Sky Tower, and also the one who gave him the strangest feeling.
The announcement screen did not indicate the start of the match yet, and there were still anti-magic arrays in the arena, but the woman was already acting strangely.
Water. Angor felt he was not facing a person, but a puddle of water.
The countdown for "Baron Milk VS Dripping River" reached zero. The battle was about to begin.
The woman in front of him looked ordinary. Her hair was curly and there were dark circles under her eyes. Before the countdown ended, she kept her eyes closed as if she was taking a nap. She only opened her eyes when the countdown ended, revealing her dark pupils.
Dripping River drew a line on the floor with her finger, and a flowing stream appeared in front of her.
"Instant cantrip!" Angor was also paying attention to his opponent's movements while creating a defensive barrier.
It was fine if it was instantaneous, but the most peculiar thing was that this belt made of water was not stuck to the floor, but circled around the Dripping Stream, just like a real belt.
"Bind." Dripping River's voice sounded like water flowing over a piece of porcelain.
Following the voice, the ribbons made of water rushed at Angor. However, Angor had already set up his first defense — an ice wall.
Angor dodged the attack by swapping one for another. Next, he unleashed his familiar "Rogue" tactic. Golden arrows rained down on Dripping River's formation like a shower of glittering light.
"Shield." Dripping River chanted again.
The stream suddenly separated from the ice wall and turned into a complicated water shield, trying to stop the golden arrows.
Could the water shield defend against the highly penetrative golden arrows? Angor did not believe it, but it did happen. The water shield created by the stream now looked like a real shield. However, when the golden arrows hit it, they sounded like metal hitting metal.
The golden arrows bounced off the water shield.
Angor kept firing and even expanded the range of his arrows. But to his disappointment, the water shield expanded as well.
It was impossible to cover everything. If the surface area of the water shield was large, its thickness would naturally decrease. With this thought in mind, he began to attack another spot.
However, after shooting almost half of the small golden arrow, there was not even a scratch on the water shield.
More importantly, Dripping River did not seem to be using any mana at all. Did she not need mana to maintain her water shield at all? Angor would definitely lose if they kept fighting a war of attrition.
Dripping River took advantage of Angor's opening. She said in a low voice, "Knife."
The stream turned into a water blade and cleaved the first line of defense, the ice wall, in half.
"Water Transforms All Things. Isn't this handmade simulation technique too powerful? It doesn't even give me time to breathe." Angor pondered in his mind. "She's really from Brute Cavern. Is she really from Brute Cavern? Not from Song of the Deep? "
Elemental Simulation was a very advanced elemental technique. Angor had read a book about it before. He knew the weakness of elemental simulation.
No matter how much it looked like an object, it was still water.
As long as he could find an element that countered water, he would be able to break it.
Water and fire were incompatible. Fire could evaporate water, but water could also extinguish fire. Instead of using fire to deal with the water elemental simulation, Angor decided to use a cantrip that had never been recorded in Brute Cavern.
Angor used his hologram tablet to calculate the combinations of several level-0 cantrips. When he had time, he would turn them into cantrip models using magic formulas.
One of them was a modified version of Dust Removal.
Dust Removal was a level-0 cantrip that was often used together with Cleanse. It was basically a combination of wind and earth elements. Angor was planning to use a modified version of Dust Removal. [Zero ↑ Nine △ Little ↑ Say △ Net]
He named it "Dust".
The new combination of wind and earth would raise a cloud of dust in the air. This was the essence of the cantrip.
It was similar to Sand Dust, but it was not as powerful as Sand Dust. At most, the cantrip would only raise some fine dust that was slightly larger than a haze. It would not do any harm to the human body if exposed to it for a long time. Since Angor's nose hair could filter the fine dust, he named it "Dust".
However, it was perfect for this situation. Absorbing water elements from Dust Removal would allow him to ignore the simulation effect.
Angor excitedly fired his arrows to block the enemy's attacks while he quietly constructed the model of Dust Removal in his mind.
Dust Removal was not even a level-0 cantrip. It took Angor a lot of time to construct it. Even if Angor did not memorize it, it only took him three or four seconds to construct it.
He used Dust Removal and aimed it at the white stream in the air.
When Dust Removal came into contact with the stream, it seemed that the stream was losing water quickly. Just as Angor was about to win, Dripping River suddenly uttered another word, "Oil."
"Oil?" Angor was confused. Did he hear it wrong? Why did she say "oil"?
Following Dripping River's words, the stream in the air changed its nature at a speed visible to the naked eye. It turned from transparent water into a half-murky, blackish-yellow oil.
"That's oil?" Angor was surprised.
Dripping River did not answer. Instead, she directed the "oil" to charge at Angor. At the same time, Dripping River summoned a small flame.
The flame helped the oil, and the oil was ignited by the flame.
The "flame belt" exploded beside Angor, and he was sent flying by the recoil.
After several tumbles, Angor finally managed to stop himself at the edge of the arena.
"It's really oil? How is this possible? Water and oil have nothing to do with each other. Even their nature changed. How can Elemental Simulation do this? "Angor was confused.
Dripping River did not answer Angor's question. Instead, she lifted an eyebrow and rubbed her temples tiredly.
Angor was sure that she was not tired because of the battle. Looking at those dark circles … she was not sleepy, was she?
Dripping River used her actions to express her style. She actually started snoring while standing.
"How long has it been since she last rested?" Angor tried to cast a Bind spell on Dripping River.
In the next second, Dripping Stream was easily tied up.
Angor was speechless. She really did fall asleep.
At the same time, a notice board appeared in the air: "Baron Milk Won".
Angor walked down the arena with a strange feeling in his mind. The medics of the Sky Tower walked to the arena, placed Dripping River on a stretcher, and walked past the contestants' passage while chatting.
Angor clearly heard one of the medics whispering, "Why did the little girl fall asleep on the stage again?"
"Again?" Could it be that Dripping River had dozed off more than once in the arena?
The contestants' area on the third level was still lively. Angor's return did not attract much attention. Instead, some people were looking at him with envy.
"He really hit the jackpot when he got Dripping River as his opponent," someone commented.
Angor found a corner to rest with a puzzled look. He did not meditate. Instead, he tried to recall something about Dripping River. Angor did not care too much about her sleeping on the stage. At most, he thought she was a weirdo. What he was curious about was why Dripping River turned into oil. They were both liquids, but their properties were different. How could they change?
He could not figure it out no matter how hard he tried.
He fought four matches in the morning. Apart from the one against Dripping River, which gave him some trouble, he won the other three matches with ease.
In the afternoon, he planned to fight all four matches. However, when he finished his second match, he saw Nausica in the contestants' area.
He considered for a moment and decided not to join the match. Instead, he went to watch one of Nausica's matches from the audience seats.
Nausica's opponent was an ordinary Elementalist apprentice who did not know any special spells or special abilities. Angor could easily take him down with his Trigger Crossbow.
However, Nausica did not seem to have it easy when fighting against Angor. Nausica was a Bloodline apprentice. She had not fused a bloodline yet. Her cantrip set was ordinary, and she was only good at melee combat. Her opponent, on the other hand, had a defensive cantrip and did not lose to Nausica at all.
Angor was confused.
Why didn't she use Single Butterfly?
If Nausica used Single Butterfly in a melee fight, the fight would have ended long ago. But Nausica did not do that. She did not even remove her flexible sword.
In the end, she won, but it wasn't an easy victory. She left the Sky Tower in a hurry after one match.
Angor fought another match and won. Then, he returned home under the twilight of dusk.
…
Angor took out his hologram tablet and searched for books on Element Mimicry.
After reading several books on Element Mimicry, Angor was puzzled. The books were just as he imagined. Mimicry was just a mimicry. It could not change the nature of an element.
Then how did Dripping River change the nature of the element?
Also, Angor was puzzled. Dripping River's water shield was too strong. It did not look like water at all. It looked more like metal. Maybe she was not using a water shield but a metal armor? But he saw Dripping River changing the shape of the water to form the shield.
As Angor pondered, someone knocked on his door.
"Mister Padt."
Goode's voice came from the yard.
Angor was startled. He quickly turned off his hologram tablet and hid it in his pocket watch. After calming his breath, he went to the yard and opened the door for Goode.
"Mister Padt, the master is asking for you."
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