Water Mage in the Flame Realm-Chapter 301 - 291: Ice Is But Water

Before and after the transition, being two generations of people, Andrew had been called by various names and imagined more than once being called dad one day, but he really never thought: that he would be called mom someday.

Startled for a moment, he suddenly realized: "She's not calling me. Is she calling the existence that left the 'Water God Mark' to me? This powerful ice element existence hidden deep underground in the Snow Mountain is the owner of that pleasant female voice's... daughter?"

Thinking of this, Andrew couldn't help but hold his breath.

Yet the pleasant female voice did not sound, there was no response.

"That's your daughter, isn't it?" Andrew couldn't help but quietly say in his heart, "I know you're always there, right? I don't know why you've never come out to talk to me, but your daughter is calling you!"

Andrew didn't know that the owner of the pleasant female voice had appeared once when he and Barbara were practicing "Water and Fire United." But Andrew vaguely sensed: the other party hadn't really disappeared, but was temporarily hidden for some reason.

Just avoiding me is one thing, but not even responding to your daughter's call? Andrew knew that given his position, he didn't really have the right to comment on this matter, but he still couldn't help but feel saddened and disappointed for the owner of the ice power.

And that pleasant female voice still did not emerge.

Fortunately, the powerful ice power that had flooded into his body was no longer calling.

Instead, it naturally intertwined with Andrew's own water power.

The daughter didn't get her mother's response, but still used her own power to closely fit the power with her mother's attribute characteristics.

It was like a gentle embrace across endless years.

Andrew's heart surged with an extremely strange feeling: "Back then, after Ivan's battle with the Wildfire Town Mayor who chopped down the Water Tower Tree, I always believed: ice restrains water.

After coming to the Royal Court, facing this ice-element Warrior Chief, my impression of 'ice restraining water' became even more pronounced.

But... this ice power from the depths of the Snow Mountain, clearly stronger and colder than that Warrior Chief's ice power, doesn't make me feel uncomfortable at all! Instead, it feels very cool, very refreshing!"

This made Andrew unable to help overturn his previous stereotypes.

Because if you think about it carefully, the forces of water and fire, two completely opposing powers, can both restrain and complement each other, and ice, being essentially water, does not have any reason to only restrain water instead of harmoniously coexisting.

"Ice is water, ice... is water!" Andrew murmured repeatedly in his heart.

Then gradually a layer of understanding emerged: the so-called "ice restrains water" certainly exists, but it's by no means inevitable.

Previously, considering ice and water as two different elemental attributes was fundamentally wrong.

Ice Element could very well be a branch of the Water Element.

The ice existence in the depths of the Snow Mountain is an Ice Mage and also a Water Mage. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Otherwise, how to explain the intense summons feeling between oneself and the other party?

"I subconsciously believed after inheriting the 'Water God Mark': since there is no Ice Magic included in the 'Water God Mark', then ice is certainly not part of the Water Element. This is actually a result of the arrogance in my heart."

Andrew thought, "The Water God Mark indeed includes countless Water Magic, but it doesn't mean the Water God Mark encompasses all Water Magic.

In fact, the so-called Water Magic may be a broader, more open definition, including the Water God Mark as well as Ice Magic, and even, perhaps, water magic in gaseous states, such as 'Steam Magic' and the like?"

After realizing this, Andrew felt himself becoming more transparent.

If before when the ice power poured into Andrew's body, it temporarily replaced Andrew's control over his body and power to some extent,

Andrew felt more like a medium for the power, a pure bystander, watching as the ice power shook the Warrior Chief's hand to pieces—well, through his own neck.

But now, Andrew discovered that he was no longer a pure bystander, but naturally participated as well.

Participating in the further counterattack against the Royal Court Warrior Chief.

"Did you say... I'm dead? Haha, hahaha!"

After the Warrior Chief's hand was shattered by ice, failing to contact the outside world, he then faced Andrew's ultimatum-style "you're dead," shocked, and couldn't help but also become angry, "I don't know who you truly are, but aren't you underestimating people too much?"

The Warrior Chief wasn't really one to be underestimated, but by now, he understood: there's no way out. If he wants to survive, he can no longer retreat but must fight!

"Hah!" With a shout, the Warrior Chief's "Ice Pattern Oil Paint" moved again on his body, quickly all peeling off his skin, transforming into an ice net aimed at Andrew.

After all, he was a Tier Eight peak strongman, ranking with Susan, if they truly fought, relying on professional restraint, he might even suppress Susan.

Susan specialized in footwork and speed, while the Warrior Chief maximized the "Deceleration" and "Control the Scene" characteristics of Frost Guard.

He had already lost one hand, and now actively abandoned all "Ice Pattern Oil Paint," only to temporarily confine Andrew's actions.

As long as he could control Andrew for even an instant, the Warrior Chief felt quite confident he could turn defeat into victory!

It must be said that the Royal Court Warrior Chief's skill is indeed very impressive.

The master of the ice power within Andrew's body, however, seems to still be in some kind of stupor, not fully awake, only drawn and inspired by the intense water aura Andrew exuded after "dissipating the formless."

If Andrew's body were solely dominated by that ice power, there might have been a chance for the Warrior Chief to exploit an opening.

But now, Andrew is actually participating in the battle!

The ice web made of the Warrior Chief's "Ice Pattern Oil Paint" seems complicated to the extreme.

Andrew, however, simplifies the complexity, piercing from below through the layered ice web with a single finger.

The force contained in that finger is naturally primarily the power from the ice entity.

But the timing and positioning of the finger strike are entirely Andrew's own counterattack technique.

The Warrior Chief saw Andrew's eyes suddenly clear, no longer looking like someone possessed, and couldn't help but feel pleased, thinking that this kid borrowed someone else's power to crush one of my hands, yet he truly thinks he's qualified to battle me?

Sure enough, the layers of the ice web wrapped around Andrew's finger like a spider web ensnaring prey.

Andrew, however, remembered the principle that "ice is water" and didn't entirely resist the opponent's ice power, but instead tried to incorporate the opponent's force into his own attack.

The result was that the massive ice entity's power, Andrew's own power, and the Warrior Chief's power, the threefold forces, suddenly twisted into one at Andrew's finger, each independent yet forming a harmonious whole.

With a pop, it struck a spot between the Warrior Chief's chest and abdomen.

The Warrior Chief, thinking he had momentarily trapped Andrew, was about to punch downwards.

At that moment, he was suddenly frozen in a striking pose. The fist was less than half a palm's width from Andrew's temple, yet that tiny distance could not be further bridged!

"What... is this?" The Warrior Chief stared blankly at Andrew and muttered.

Then his entire body, from inside to out, froze into ice.

Andrew retracted his finger.

The Warrior Chief's body, now genuinely turned into an ice sculpture, collapsed with Andrew's retracting gesture, not into shards, but into water.

Different from individuals like Dean Charlie or Yorkshire, whose elemental attributes are not purely singular, the Royal Court Warrior Chief's power attribute was an extraordinarily pure ice element, with no mixture of other elements, especially not fire.

Strangely, after the Warrior Chief died, the water his body turned into manifested a fire extinguishing value!

"Since this matter involves the female assassin, and the female assassin is of the fire element, it still satisfies the Fire Extinguishing Upgrade Method?" Andrew thought.

He felt that the fire extinguishing value naturally materialized, then split into two, one part as usual merging into the "Water God Mark," while the other submerged into the ground of the "Extreme Cold Ice Prison," then continued deep underground.

Simultaneously, the immense ice power within him also left alongside that fire extinguishing value, sinking into the earth.

Andrew, with a thought, did not hesitate and immediately attached a strand of his consciousness to the ice power and fire extinguishing value that were sinking underground.

He didn't know how long it descended when suddenly a glimmer of light was perceived by that strand of consciousness, "seeing" a scene —

In the extremely deep and dark underground of the snow mountain, there lay a transparent, water-blue ice coffin.

Inside the coffin lay a middle-aged woman wearing an ice-blue, ancient style magic robe.

Looking at the woman in the ice coffin, Andrew was finally one hundred percent certain that the one summoning him was her. She, indeed, was the true source of the summoning sensation that he had occasionally felt since coming to the Royal Court.

She slumbers deep beneath the snow mountains, probably deeper than the Lake of the Ocean beneath the Wildfire Territory.

Yet she still maintains an immense influence over the surface.

The entire northern snow mountain range of the Royal Court exists precisely because of this woman's presence.

Each time a chaotic fire element cloud hits the Royal Court's array and shatters, it is this woman's power that naturally responds, causing snow to fall in the Royal Court!

This is no longer achievable by someone of the War God level, or even by the president Beiru of the Magic Guide Realm or the Earth Fire scholars, who, despite being in almost eternal slumber, cannot hold such power and might.

The woman in the ice coffin may be an existence even higher than the Magic Guide Realm.

Yet such an existence lies motionless underground, inside that ice coffin, and although her nostrils occasionally flutter, indicating she retains a spark of life, she also seems as though she will never truly awaken again.

Because her chest is actually sunken in.

Imprinted with a huge, dark red dragon claw mark.