Chapter 174 - Attacking Means Ending (2/2)
However, the attribute of this buff skill was to lower the temperature caused by Roy’s frost magic power and force it to – 200°C!
After Roy promoted to high-rank demon, he had once taken a moment to create a thermometer to test the temperature of his frost magic power. He found that even if he continuously increased the output of his magic power, his frost power would hover at most around -150°C. Although this temperature was terrifyingly low—and compared to when he was a middle-rank demon, it was a substantial improvement from -100°C— Roy still felt unsatisfied.
Where was the powerful place of frost? It was not those fancy ultimate moves, but lower, lower, and lower temperatures!
Roy had thought about where the limit of frost-type demons was before. It was nothing other than absolute zero, which was the extreme temperature that froze everything and stopped everything from functioning!
However, absolute zero was very difficult to achieve, and Roy did not know how many souls he would need to consume to achieve this goal.
It would definitely not work if he wanted to succeed overnight, so after thinking about it over and over, Roy decided to take a step-by-step approach to realize it. Thus, he created the buff skill, Cryogenic Fate.
Cryogenic Fate: At the cost of the additional consumption of magic power, forcefully reduces the temperature of the frost power to -200°C. This state can continue until the amount of magic power drops to zero.
Reality proved that Roy’s idea was right. The creation of the Cryogenic Fate skill did not consume too many of Roy’s souls. After spending over 100,000 souls to create the Cold Winter Armor, he later obtained more than 4,500 souls. In the end, he only spent 4,000 souls and 5 fallen and noble souls to obtain this Cryogenic Fate skill.
Of course, this was also because Roy’s frost power had a certain foundation, causing the consumption to be relatively low. Had his magic power been only able to create a low temperature of less than -10°C, then the consumption of souls would have definitely been way beyond that if he wanted to reduce it forcefully to less than -200°C.
In addition, it was not that Roy did not want to lower the temperature further. But he found that if the temperature continued to decrease after reaching -200°C, the consumption of souls would begin to increase dramatically. Roy tested it and discovered that he needed ten thousand souls to create a temperature of -201°C. In order to create a temperature of -202°C, the consumption of souls was eighteen thousand. The higher he went, the more it cost. From this point, each quarter degree increase cost two thousand more souls than the previous level.
Roy was not very good at math, so he did not calculate how many souls he needed to reach absolute zero. But in any case, the immense consumption of souls left him with no choice but to back down. In the end, he chose the most cost-effective – 200°C.
Although it did not reach absolute zero, making the obsessive-compulsive patient very unhappy, the effects caused by the temperature of -200°C were very shocking…
Because at this temperature, the oxygen and nitrogen in the air directly liquefied!
The tiny colorless water droplets that Ulthane saw just now were liquified oxygen and nitrogen. This was the reason he felt it was difficult to breathe. Fortunately, the place where the two of them were fighting was not a sealed space. Otherwise, even if Ulthane had not frozen, he would have quickly died of suffocation!
Once oxygen and nitrogen liquefied, their volume naturally decreased, and the nearby gas would fill in. This was the reason the airflows formed in the subway passage. As these airflows filled in, more oxygen and nitrogen liquefied again, finally forming rain droplets that dripped down.
The liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen were extremely terrifying. When they dripped down and came into contact with objects with higher temperatures, they would immediately undergo super-cold boiling. If there were enough liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen, you could even see a scene like boiling water. During this process, the process of heat transmission would accelerate to a very short period!
In particular, Roy’s fight with Ulthane was in a relatively narrow space, which even more so displayed the effectiveness of his frost power to the pinnacle.
In the past, Roy’s frost power’s temperature was not too low. Even if he wanted to freeze his target, it would take at least three seconds. But now that it had reached – 200°C, the freezing time shortened to about two seconds.
Don’t underestimate this difference of one second. In fact, one second could almost determine whether the target could react or not and whether they could use magic power to protect themselves! The difference in this was massive.
Not even giving time to react meant that it was over…