Chapter 571 - Reasons (2/2)
Should she help Roland, or should she try to catch him along with her teachers and cla.s.smates?
Thinking for a moment, Maromatha decided that it would be best if she simply stayed out of this.
Whoever she sided with, she would feel sorry for the other. She sighed gloomily, closed the door, and took a rest.
Roland sensed it when Mages flew high above.
The magic waves caused by flying spells were very powerful. But it wasn’t really beyond his expectation, or he wouldn’t have been hiding in the sand. Very soon, Marilyn woke up. She ate some food and asked, “Master, how much longer will we stay here?”
“Until midnight.”
Mages were generally not nocturnal, so it was less likely for them to discover Roland if he acted at night. Besides, a lot of things could be veiled by darkness.
It was already late afternoon, and it wouldn’t be hard to wait until night.
Roland could browse on the forum. It was very easy to kill time just chatting with the hilarious netizens and watching them bicker.
The catgirl was even more skilled at killing time. For catgirls, it was rather enjoyable just to play with their own tails if they really had nothing to do, as long as there was enough food in their stomachs.
Just like that, Roland and the catgirl patiently waited for nightfall beneath the sand and simply let the Mages overhead fly back and forth.
When night fell, the searching Mages, who were exhausted after a day of flying, mostly chose to take a break. At this moment, Roland and Marilyn got out of the sand and continued their nighttime trek. After walking for another three hours, Roland felt that he was far away enough from the Spatial Magic Tower, so he painted a multiple teleportation array with magic materials. Marilyn, on the other hand, squatted and looked around, on high alert. Although she was too weak to really spot any danger, it at least showed her att.i.tude, which was much more important than one’s capabilities.
After drawing the teleportation array, Roland gestured for Marilyn to come over. When both of them were standing in the magic array, Roland activated the teleportation without hesitation.
Multiple teleportation was much more complicated than single teleportation, so it would take a few seconds to activate it.
It was also the reason why Roland didn’t start the teleportation until after walking for three hours. Knowing a lot about spatial magic, he was quite aware of what the Spatial Mages were capable of. The one-time magic array on the ground emanated blue light which grew brighter and brighter until the two of them were consumed. We’ve successfully escaped. Roland heaved a sigh of relief. However, the moment the array was fully activated, a brownish hand extended out of the void and laid on Roland’s shoulder. Also, strange spatial waves spread and collided with Roland’s multiple teleportation, resulting in what appeared to be spatial fractures. Such fractures could even be seen by the naked eye. Dense ripples appeared on Roland and Marilyn… almost as if they were reflections in a lake distorted by a gentle breeze. Fortunately, it was only a “phenomenon” caused by the twisting of s.p.a.ce, and they weren’t really greatly hurt. Of course, it was inevitable that they were nauseated.
Disrupted by the waves, Roland’s multiple teleportation teetered on falling apart.
At the same time, another hand extended out of the void toward Marilyn’s shoulder.
“Gotcha!”
A devilish whisper echoed. Marilyn’s pupils were quickly shrinking in fear. She wanted to run, but she was stuck in the spatial bubble of multiple teleportation and couldn’t move at all. Catgirls were a curious yet timid group of creatures. Marilyn almost cried when a hand from the void reached for her shoulder. Her body was even trembling fearfully. Right when the hand was about to touch her, Roland took action. He seized the hand that was reaching for Marilyn with his right hand, and grabbed the hand that was on his own shoulder with his left, before he tried to push them back. Then, he fully spread out his mental power and established a huge energy wall that blocked most of the enemy’s spatial waves. The multiple teleportation that was soon to be ended was running again. Then, Marilyn disappeared, but Roland stayed where he was. He had already tried his best to teleport Marilyn away safely during the collision of spatial bubbles.
Of course, Roland had paid a price for that. Two streams of blood flowed out of his nostrils half a second later.
He felt that his head was spinning, but it didn’t matter. The worst he could expect was a level drop after death. Anything was fine if Marilyn was teleported back safely. He couldn’t help but heave a sigh of relief at the thought of that. At this moment, the person who was holding Roland’s shoulder fully teleported here. He was an old man wearing yellow pajamas. Although Roland was clutching both of his hands, he was still smiling creepily. “Young man, you should be sleeping instead of messing things up. This is no good!” Narrowing his eyes, Roland unleashed his magic power. White frost and snow spread out quickly with him as the center.
The sand within a fifty-meter radius was covered by a thin layer of ice. The temperature plummeted, and crystallized water formed two seconds later, floating in the air. The cold, caused entirely by magic power, had changed the environment instantly. If there was a thermometer here, it would show that the air temperature around Roland was about minus eighty degrees. Yet, the old man in the yellow pajama was completely unaffected. He even smiled. “Lad, you’re not weak, but this can’t really pose a problem to me. You should be a good boy and come back with me. You’re more valuable if you’re alive than if you’re dead.”
Hearing that, Roland smiled too. Then, his body quickly transformed into one of ice in no more than a second.
He had turned into water elements!
Water was liquid at regular temperature. Roland had made the environment extremely cold exactly because he wanted to become a man of ice. Before the transformation, the yellow-pajamaed old man wasn’t bothered even though Roland was holding his hands. However, now that Roland turned into ice, the skin Roland was touching turned burningly
hot.
Under normal circ.u.mstances, coldness and high temperatures felt different. However, if one touched something that was extremely dry and cold, one might have the same feeling as when they were burned. One would feel as if a boiling object were stuck to them, and the skin which was touched would develop blisters similar to those caused by burns. It was exactly how the yellow-pajamaed old man felt. He was slightly infuriated when his arms burned in Roland’s hands. Then, transparent spatial membranes appeared on his arms and minced Roland’s hands.
The old man took the chance to step back, and Roland was forced to retreat too.
After regaining balance, Roland chuckled at the fractures on his arms. Then, two new hands of ice generated in the next second.
That was exactly the benefit of elementization. He could infinitely regenerate body parts as long as he had enough magic power. Meantime, as Roland turned into ice, the air got more and more freezing. The coldness further nourished Roland’s elementized body and condensed it, forming a cycle. Of course, such a cycle wasn’t really unlimited but was capped mostly by the elementized person’s mental power.
For a Master Mage who had full intelligence growth and high mental strength, the best he could do was transform the area within a five-kilometer radius into an arctic environment.
Of course, the transformation couldn’t be completed very quickly. It might take months if not a whole year. It was also the reason why the places that high-level Elemental Lords frequented usually had regional environmental anomalies.
Looking at Roland, the old man seemed rather cautious. “Impressive. As expected of an elite from the Red Magic Tower. You can do elementization, which even Alfred isn’t capable of. But don’t be thrilled just yet. My partners will be here any moment…”
Roland snapped his fingers, and the area within a hundred-meter radius was covered by Dimensional Anchors.
Transparent chains stabbed out of the void.
“How can an elemental creature use spells from other schools?” There was fright in the old man’s eyes. “That’s impossible!” “It’s true that elemental creatures cannot use spells of other attributes. I cannot use fire, wind, thunder, natural magic, or light and dark theurgy.” Roland’s icy face could barely show any expression, but his voice was as lighthearted as before. “But s.p.a.ce has no attributes. s.p.a.ce is everywhere. We’re standing in a ‘s.p.a.ce’ right now. As a Mage who specializes in spatial magic, you don’t understand that?”