Water Mage in the Flame Realm-Chapter 338 - 326: Outer Domain (Part 2)
In this mountain retreat, where no one else resided apart from Andrew and Catherine, light snow quietly began to fall.
Catherine’s face, her elegant and slender neck, and her exposed hands were covered with increasingly intricate mystical ice patterns.
These ice patterns were originally designed for those with royal bloodlines—those possessing both the ancient giant bloodline and human bloodline.
Catherine didn’t have the giant bloodline, so although she forcibly seized these ice patterns using the Fire of Extinguishing from the deceased king, she had never fully wielded the power of these patterns.
But now it’s different.
She could clearly feel that the ice patterns within her were optimizing and perfecting at an astonishing speed! They quickly reached a level infinitely close to the completeness and power of the deceased king’s ice patterns when he was alive!
This might sound good, but Catherine only felt resistance in her heart at this moment.
This was because—
The ice patterns on her body originally played a role akin to a "peacemaker."
Telling the "Formless Blade Fire" and "Fire of Extinguishing" battling within her not to fight anymore, or at least not so fiercely.
However, as this "peacemaker’s" power soared madly under Andrew’s urging,
the result was that the peacemaker actually joined the battle between the two Strange Fires!
"Damn it... you little brat!"
Catherine’s beautiful face twisted with intense pain, yet her eyes gleamed with a beast-like ferocity, "Do you think such little tricks can really stump me? What a joke! The Blood Refining Plan couldn’t kill me, I survived that hellish plan—not once, but twice! You really think these little ploys can make my body lose control and collapse? Dream on!"
Suddenly, she abandoned resistance, no longer trying to control the three wildly entangled forces within her, and once again lunged at Andrew.
Catherine thought swiftly: "This boy is breaking the original balance within me with Ice Power, but it doesn’t matter, as long as I use a stronger Power of Balance to suppress his power that breaks balance, it’s enough! Water, I still need this brat’s Water Power! While he disrupts, I plunder!"
A loud bang was heard!
Andrew felt his whole body hit with a great force, as if struck by an unknown terrifying beast from the depths of a snowy mountain, instantly knocked to the ground.
His back crashed heavily against an exposed rock in the snow, and before him was Catherine’s menacing face staring down from above.
"Damn, the gap in absolute strength between me and this monstrous woman is still too big," Andrew felt somewhat helpless in his heart.
He felt like a toy, manipulated at will by the other party.
Such a powerless feeling was naturally terrible, but Andrew forced every cell in his body to abandon futile resistance, instead gathering all his power to the extreme, and then Andrew did one thing—
He opened a corner of the "Ice Prison Gemstone" in the "Gate of Enlightenment" within him.
The ancient Cold Ice Power within the gemstone instantly howled through Andrew’s entire body.
Ice was originally water.
Water could freeze into ice.
At that moment, Andrew unexpectedly turned all the Water Power, originally belonging to the "Water Magic Lord," in his body from water into ice under the Ice Element power of the Ice Prison Gemstone! 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎
"...Hand over all your Water Power to me! Give it to me, all of it!!"
Catherine, gripping Andrew’s neck, growled.
She was racing against time, needing to seize Andrew’s Water Power before her own power completely lost control and collapsed.
However, her expression quickly stiffened, and she froze in place.
Her power successfully invaded Andrew’s body and rampaged wildly.
But she found no trace of Water Power, no matter where she looked within Andrew!
All she found was ice, and it was super hard ice that seemed ancient, impossible to melt into water with flame power in the short term!
"You... how did you..." Catherine stared blankly at Andrew’s face turning purple from her chokehold, suddenly realizing something, "The Ice Prison, it’s in your hands?"
Not long ago, at the royal court, when Andrew had just escaped from the Ice Prison, Catherine’s subordinates reported to her: not only had Andrew escaped, but the Ice Prison used to confine Andrew was also missing!
At that time, Catherine completely didn’t understand, but now she realized: the Ice Prison meant to confine Andrew had become his spoils of war, and now Andrew was using this victory to pronounce her death sentence.
Her grip on Andrew’s neck unconsciously loosened.
Catherine felt as if her body was going to be torn apart from the inside, yet she was powerless to do anything to Andrew.
She was like a traveler in the desert, yearning desperately for a drop of water, but only finding unmelting hard ice no matter how much she reached out.
Ice was originally water but in a different form.
Water could help Catherine regain the balance within her body and potentially even resolve her power conflict completely, perfecting her.
However, ice could do nothing to help.
"Am I, Catherine, really going to fall in the hands of a Tier Five brat in the end?" This thought flashed through Catherine’s mind.
Even when undergoing the trials of the Blood Refining Plan, she had never felt even a shred of frustration.
Staggering backward a few steps, Catherine finally lost her balance and fell miserably into the snow.
The battle within her body had reached a fever pitch, Catherine was in such pain that she couldn’t even scream, her body began to seize, twitch violently, no longer under her control.
This was the sign of imminent collapse!
If a third party were present to witness this scene, they’d likely be utterly shocked.
Not long ago, when President Beiru and others saw Andrew being captured by Catherine, they all believed Andrew was doomed; even those with utmost confidence in him only wondered: "Can he find a way to escape?"
No one would have thought: Andrew was actually going to counter-kill Catherine!
"Cough cough... cough cough cough!"
Andrew finally recovered slightly from the choking sensation, "Damn, this crazy woman was way too ruthless! Almost strangled me alive!" This unusual battle had pushed Andrew to his limits, his greatest potential and all his power unleashed in this brief encounter.
The tide of the battle had turned, but it was not over yet.
Ignoring the pain in his neck, Andrew staggered to his feet, moving toward Catherine.
Then... he grabbed Catherine’s neck in return! Injecting even more Ice Element power into her body.
The woman before him was a sister-killing, husband-slaughtering psycho, a lunatic who had willingly undergone and survived the Blood Refining Plan twice; until her death was completely confirmed, Andrew dared not relax for a moment.
"Remarkable... as expected of the Water God’s heir."
Catherine seemed to give up resistance, shaking her head, speaking with difficulty, "I was careless... shouldn’t have let you treat me! Otherwise, even with the Ice Prison in hand, you couldn’t have easily used Ice Element power to infiltrate my body and disrupt my power balance."
"Indeed, you were careless." Andrew didn’t deny, nodded, "Otherwise, no matter what, I couldn’t find an opportunity to threaten you." He continued injecting more Ice Element power into Catherine’s body.
Meanwhile, a thin layer of frost began to cover Andrew’s head, face, and body.
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