Chapter 78: Magma and Ice
Although I have decided to use time magic to deal with it, it is not the right time yet. Before that, I still have to use fire magic to weaken the opponent's ice.
The violent collision between ice and fire produced a large amount of water vapor, which gradually blurred the vision of both sides.
Suddenly! Dozens of sharp arrows pierced through the hazy veil from different directions at the same time!
"Fire Arrow"
Use fire to form a large-scale arrow attack, with additional attributes such as burning, speed, destruction, and high-lethality magic. The purpose is not to cause much damage, but to accurately lock the opponent's position in such an environment!
But it is obvious that the opponent is not an idiot. In this situation, any magician with a little combat experience would know to use area attacks, let alone a cunning demon?
The ground of the ice room was filled with water due to Kira's fire magic just now. Now, under the control of the ice demon Ace, it was frozen into thorns again, filling the ground of the entire ice room!
It's this move again! It's similar to Bingqianquan's move, it's really a one-trick pony that can do anything! But it's useful for sneak attacks. If it were me, I might do the same.
The flaming arrows that fell from the sky collided with the ice that rose from the ground again in the air, making a sizzling sound. The flames with great destructive power continued to melt the ice, but also disappeared completely under the freezing of the ice.
The two attempts were evenly matched, but Kira was not in a hurry, because from the current point of view, his fire magic could still be effective, so he might as well hide it for the time being.
There is a certain difference between Kira's fire magic and Natsu's fire.
Natsu's Fire Dragon Slayer Magic is a burning magic. He can use his soul, emotions, etc. as fuel to burn everything. This magic even has an effect on magic itself.
To put it simply, it is a bit idealistic. To put it more bluntly, you don't need to consider the rationality of cheating.
The flame that Kira created with the Word Magic is a magic that directly uses the "True Name of Fire". It is pure flame and extreme heat!
Comparing the two, perhaps in actual combat, Kira's magic is relatively less used, but it is much more popular, which is the so-called, lose in applicability, win in popularity!
This situation is similar to Gray and General Winter of the Twelve Shields, one is an ice shape and the other is pure ice magic.
According to the setting, General Winter's ice "can freeze everything", but Gray's method of defeating him is to "use the shape of ice to create ice of the same nature", which is totally cheating.
But as we all know, in the world of Fairy Tail, once a slayer has consumed magic of another attribute, it can permanently acquire the state of that attribute, such as Natsu's later Thunder Dragon mode and Gajeel's Iron Shadow Dragon mode. So it is not so difficult to accept that Gray used the Ice Demon Slayer to consume General Winter's ice and then create ice of the same attribute.
Back to the present, although the large-scale magic attacks canceled each other out, they allowed both sides to sense the opponent's position. The next move would be a more powerful single attack.
“Pillar of Fire”
"Ice Explosion"
boom!!!
Two powerful explosions of different properties instantly penetrated the solid mountain. The powerful destructive force directly blew up the ceiling of the ice room, revealing the ice and snow outside.
Fortunately, there was no snow and wind at this time, otherwise Kira's battle would be more difficult.
Winter on the side was already dumbfounded. She had thought that these two people would be very strong, but she didn't expect them to be this strong.
When the two began to fight, she accepted the soul of the water demon Water without hesitation and transformed herself into a half-demon.
In the two subsequent battles between ice and fire, she only managed to cast a water curtain barrier on herself and could not intervene at all. Fortunately, with the blessing of the water demon, she could barely transform into an element, so although the water barrier was not strong enough, she was basically not injured.
"I just said that I wouldn't be a burden. It seems I was too confident."
Could she help? Ten minutes ago, she would have said yes, but now, Winter was not sure.
After all, although she wanted to end the responsibility of the Ashisnew clan, she also knew that she couldn't rush in at this time. Being unable to help was the least of her problems. If Kira was distracted and lost the battle, it would be a big problem.
The pillars of fire and ice explosions did not play their due role. Bringing the battlefield outside might be the unspoken understanding between the two.
In the ice room, neither fire nor ice can play a sufficient role.
Because fire consumes oxygen, although Kira can create it with word magic, he will have to distract himself and use it to cast another magic, which is very disadvantageous in a battle like this.
For the ice demon Ace, his ice magic simply cannot be used freely indoors.
Due to the limited space, Kira was able to gather the flames in one place, and the closed environment would not cause a waste of magic power, and it also increased the temperature, which could easily melt his ice;
When he was outside, he could take advantage of the cold climate, which greatly enhanced his magic. The wider range of spells meant that the fire had to deal with a larger area.
And from a purely magical point of view, controlling a tangible substance like ice is much easier than controlling an intangible substance like fire.
At the beginning, they competed in casting speed and tested magic attributes, then used group attacks to test combat awareness and lock positions, and then used single-target bursts to test magic strength and magic control. After three tentative attacks, the man and the demon stopped. They both needed some time to think about the next battle strategy.
What are you doing at this time? Chatting and wasting time!
"As expected of a demon who has lived for nearly a hundred years, his strength is indeed powerful!"
Kira gave a direct compliment, but Ice Demon Ace could hear the implicit message.
Judging from his appearance, Ice Demon Ace is just a 40-50 year old uncle. Only his companions know his real age! This means that the person in front of him must have obtained some information from Klaue!
Ice Demon Ace pretended to be calm: "What did you know?"
What he is worried about now is that his plan will be exposed.
"What do you think?" Kira smiled and looked at the huge ice sculpture not far away, "Sea Devil..."
Hearing this name, Ace knew that his opponent already knew his plan, and his face darkened: "Damn it! Did that Klaue guy... betray me?"
Hehehe...you are anxious...your plan succeeded!
"Yeah, it's easy to ask. I never thought your plan was so crude! I also never thought that you, with such strength, would be so ignorant as to follow a legendary tyrant!"
“You… shut up!!”
Seeing that the other party was distracted, Kira seized the opportunity and directly sent an "energy shock" to the huge ice sculpture.
Although this was an ineffective attack, Ace was distracted and had no time to think about it. Seeing the Sea Devil being attacked, he simply waved his hand to freeze the snow into a shield, blocking this seemingly powerful but actually empty attack.
"Is it a feint?! Oh no!" Ace finally reacted, but he lost the initiative. In desperation, he could only transform into an element immediately, trying to use his ice-like body to resist the opponent's fire attack.
Until now, he still thought Kira was a fire wizard, because the temperature of Kira's flames was so high that it could match his even in such a place.
However, intelligence plays a very important role on the battlefield. The image of the fire wizard that Kira forged with the magic of words was firmly remembered by Ace after three consecutive attempts, but this time, he changed the way of fighting!
The magma wrapped in flames fell like a meteor volcano after an eruption, smashing the ice body into water!
Anyone who has watched Naruto knows that fire overcomes wind, earth overcomes water, and fire and earth combine to form molten blood, while wind and water combine to form ice blood. So it makes sense that magma can overcome ice. Didn't Akainu defeat Aokiji?
"What's going on?! Isn't this guy a fire wizard? How can he use such powerful lava magic?!"
Ace's body was smashed into small pieces of ice and water under strong doubts. In his understanding, every magician only majored in one kind of magic. Even if they could use other magics, they should not have such a strong effect!
Countless magmas fell, dotting the vast battlefield with red, and then turned into charred stones under the freezing of the snow.
Its temperature may not be as high as the flame just now, but it is more effective against ice.
Although such an attack was not enough to cause fatal damage, it would take some time to recover, which gave Kira more time to cast spells.
