Chapter 673 - v4c55 Spells of the Ice Fairies (2/2)

Spend 50 EP and put the Avenging Angel (the same level as Priest Himilude) into the field. He will perform an attack on every enemy that has done damage to the summoner.

Redemption: When the Avenging Angel enters the field, select the top three cards from the graveyard and reshuffle them into their respective card decks.

Maintain: The Avenging Angel can be maintained till it successfully attacks once.

“– the music of ma.s.s sounds as if from above the clouds; the holy light descends from the heavens and those who have pa.s.sed shall be revived”

Brendel jumped when he saw the card. Even though since becoming an official Planeswalker, every card that joined the deck made from his law would level up, this was the first time he had seen such levelling up to this extent.

He couldn’t help but stare at it in a daze, momentarily uncertain about what the key to all of this was. But just then, the sound of footsteps came from the forest behind him. Maynild was clearly on her way back. He hurriedly put away the card and turned around to see the female knight’s hand wrapped in bandage.

“Are you alright?” He asked with some concern.

“No need to concern yourself, it’s just a small wound,” Maynild answered calmly. The female knight came to stand next to Brendel by the sh.o.r.es of the s.h.i.+ning lake. He looked at the huge island in the center of the lake. On the lake was a forest of broadleaves that was different from elsewhere.

Those trees seemed to be deciduous trees like oaks or mangroves, but their trunks and leaves were a silvery gray like they were carved from ice. The frosted forest stood on the opposite bank of the lake and, from a distance, it looked like a snow white castle.

“The Crystal Stag is within that forest,” Maynid explained. “Do you plan on crossing over directly?”

Brendel looked at the surface of the lake, still as a mirror, and shook his head. “I’m afraid it’s not that simple. The forest across the lake should be the Foggy Ice Bloom Forest. I hear the Crystal Stags live in symbiosis with some ice fairies and those fairies normally reside near the sh.o.r.es of the lake. I don’t think they’ll let us get through that easily.”

“From the sound of it, you came prepared?” Maynild turned around to look at him.

Brendel nodded. Though his naturally sharp instincts as a player have regressed quite a bit, he wouldn’t forget some of the basics. For example, doing a thorough investigation and preparation before undertaking any mission. That was something he absolutely would not forget.

Even if he couldn’t find the River of Magic, he had prepared some subst.i.tute props before Maynild came along. Some magical items like the White Deer Statue could mimic probing the darkness, but its effect wasn’t as good as someone with experience.

“But we can try it first,” he answered after a brief moment of contemplation.

Maynild drew out her sword and asked, “You or me first?”

“I’ll do it,” Brendel answered. Ice fairies were level 32 creatures and though they were a little bit weaker than Maynild, they clearly wouldn’t be by themselves. Furthermore, their home turf was near the lake.

With those words, he lifted Harlan Gaia and slowly waded into the lake. Just as Maynild said, the lake waters were shallow; in most cases the water barely reached his knees. The lake was a decent size, but it seemed like it was just a thin layer of water.

In real life, this kind of scenario could only be seen near swamps or wetlands. But Warndt itself was a world governed by Law, so Brendel didn’t find such a scene remarkable at all.

If you’ve seen things like a river made of burning flames, then you wouldn’t be surprised merely by a shallow lake.

But Brendel had only walked about 20 to 30 meters and was still two-thirds of the way away from the other sh.o.r.e when he suddenly realized that something wasn’t right.

He looked down and saw the surface of the water around him rippling even though there was no breeze.

“Such a warm way to welcome guests,” Brendel couldn’t help but mutter. He immediately recognized this as a prelude to the spell — summoning water elementals. The facts proved him right when the riples started moving violently and, in a blink of the eye, a watery hill jutted out from the surface of the water.

Then, with a booming crash, the gathered lake water seemed to collapse. A humongous giant, purely made of lake water, rose up from the surface of the lake. That creature seemed to have inherited none of the gentleness of water and was violent and easily agitated. It immediately threw a water ball at Brendel.

Brendel took one look at the diameter of the water and cursed in his mind.

That water ball was at least 30 meters in diameter.

Of course, that thing wouldn’t do any damage to him. But Brendel knew all too well what the d.a.m.ned ice fairies will do next. As soon as he gets. .h.i.t by the water ball, the enemy will definitely use their ice magic and freeze him inside it.

It would be akin to a fly being frozen in amber.

Brendel had seen this kind of shameless tactic in the game with his own eyes.

What happened next made him even more frustrated. The originally calm surface of the lake rose and fell, and multiple water element beasts rose up from underneath the surface. Looking around, Brendel counted over a hundred of them.

“Dammit!” Brendel knew with absolute certainty that at least half of the d.a.m.ned water elementals were mirror images since that was also a cla.s.sic water spell. But right now he didn’t have the time to distinguish the real from the fake because he had no desire to be turned into a slab of frozen pork meat.

He took one last glance at the lake and forgot all about his desire to cross. Marsha above, who knew how many ice fairies were gathered on the island. A spell spread out over such a large area was not something that just a couple hundred of ice fairies could accomplish.

Brendel didn’t think twice. He turned his head around and yelled at Maynild, “Run!”

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