Chapter 226: The Ancient Ice Transformation Technique Resists the Two Academies
“You!”
After hearing the clone declare a definitive result, Tan Han couldn’t help but want to say something, but in the end, she didn’t know what to say.
“Heh, what are you all chatting about over there?”
At this moment, the Wizard Academy wasn’t going to allow the Witch Academy to continue their whispered conversation.
This was a serious battleground, a confrontation of three powerful factions; such behavior was downright childish.
Moreover, they had been here for a while, and progress was still in the talking stage, so their patience was limited.
Especially the Wizard Academy, which was already restless. This time they had brought five people, including students specifically trained to operate the Wizard Tower and capable wizard apprentices to support them. Now that the powerful academies were almost all here, they naturally weren’t afraid of surprises.
“Let’s try my Triune Thunder Resonance Grand Spell.” The leader didn’t waste words and took out three spherical wizard tools from his storage equipment.
“The name is a bit long, but is that its extent?” Tan Han could say she had experienced the Wizard Academy’s tricks a long time ago, especially the incredible power of this wizard leader’s thunder spells.
“Tan Han, if you withdraw the ceremony, we won’t have to get to this point.”
At this moment, the Holy Angel Academy also took action. After all, the Wizard Academy initiated things, and they couldn’t just stand by. Since the Wizard Academy was willing to buy them time to perform their divine techniques, they would have to respond to that effort.
“Is this starting now?” Tan Han faced the Wizard Academy directly, but their methods were somewhat tricky; it was difficult to disrupt the divine techniques prepared by the Holy Angel Academy. Did they really have to go all out from the start?
“Tan Han, just hold on. I can’t help much.” The clone retreated behind her to avoid exposure.
But the others from the Witch Academy wouldn’t just sit by.
“Sister Tan Han, we’re here to help you.”
“Be careful, don’t mess things up! Protect the tea party!” Tan Han, having to face everyone from the Wizard Academy by herself, couldn’t stop them and could only say this. After all, she was alone against all the wizards here, and her methods were somewhat limited.
“What about that Yang Yuelan? Why isn’t she making a move? Didn’t she just call out excitedly?”
“Hahaha, Tan Han, why are you the only one fighting? Is the Witch Academy really that weak? Just one person holding the fort? No wonder you can’t even rank with top academies; I don’t understand why you are leading in the exchange competition!”
“Because your brains are not working! What else could it be!” Tan Han didn’t hold back either. Now that the fighting had begun, neither side was willing to back down, so there was no more to say.
Only through battle could they determine who would have the last laugh.
“Holy Judgment Angel, Holy Light Judgment!”
At this moment, the Holy Angels had completed their divine spell prayer, and the terrifying power of holy light turned into the materials for their divine technique, providing them with protection.
Now they were truly in battle mode, with wings of holy light gathered and light armor of judgment enhancing their bodies. The holy light was no longer just a flashy effect; it was an extraordinary weapon they could wield at will.
The Holy Light Judgment, formed by the four angels of the Holy Angel Academy, concentrated into a giant spear of light.
At this moment, Tan Han felt an overwhelming sense of crisis as she was locked onto by the opponent’s divine technique.
“Tan Han, this will be the last chance!”
“What are you bird people dawdling for? We’re not stalling this woman to show you mercy! Even if Tan Han abandons the ceremony, she will d*e here today!”
“Who’s going to d*e is still uncertain!”
Tan Han seized the opportunity and struck, sending the wizard apprentice from the Wizard Academy flying, then directly faced the judgment spear that could penetrate her completely, without hesitation, she downed a recovery potion.
“Quick! d*mn it, didn’t you see she’s taking medicine?”
“If you choose to fight to the d*ath, then… Judgment!”
As their voices resonated, the highly concentrated spear of light began to distort the vision with its dispersing holy light, and the next moment it shot straight towards Tan Han.
But at that instant, everyone felt the temperature around them drop dramatically.
The spear of light pierced through a layer of ice, but even so, the terrifying spear still shattered the ice and continued forward.
The ice that appeared for that brief moment startled the students of the Holy Angel Academy; it had blocked their judgment spear. Even for just a moment, that was too terrifying for a piece of ice.
This terrifying attack created a cloud of dust and shattered ice shards upon hitting its target, and as the dust settled, the humid air enveloped the area where Tan Han was.
Whether that strike took Tan Han out, no one knew, but they could feel the surrounding temperature drop once again, and the moisture in the air began to condense into snowflakes falling from above.
A chilling sound of ice crystals forming echoed.
Then, a giant hand first appeared before everyone’s eyes, covered in a layer of ice crystals as armor, firmly grasping the solidified spear of light.
“Is this the extent of your judgment’s power?”
With a hollow voice carrying a sense of awakening, a massive figure stood up. As that figure rose, countless snowflakes seemed to rush down in celebration of the ice queen’s arrival.
“This… is Tan Han?”
At this moment, people from the Holy Angel Academy and the Wizard Academy looked at the suddenly appearing giant ice golem and felt a sense of tangible oppression.
“It’s the Ancient Ice Transformation Technique! Everyone, don’t be afraid; her weakness is in her chest!” The Wizard Academy quickly responded, stabilizing the situation in an instant.
And soon organized a counter-attack.
“Heh! Did you really think that just because you transformed into a giant that we would be afraid? It’s something that could be shattered by a Fireball Spell!”
“Your arrogance will cost you dearly!” Tan Han retorted without hesitation because she knew that her weakness was not in her chest; strictly speaking, the transformation spell did not have a definitive ‘weakness.’
Tan Han understood that the reason Xiao Han could shatter her transformation spell was due to disrupting the spell ceremony, not by attacking her chest.
At this moment, in front of these wizard apprentices, Tan Han began to step out from the nearly insurmountable threshold of the Ancient Ice Transformation Technique.
Facing the wizards’ attacks, she didn’t shy away. No matter how much they damaged this body, the Ancient Ice could always restore and be reborn!
“Let us replicate your previous failure once again!”
“Hmph! Dream on!” Tan Han, leveraging her current advantage, directly took out the easiest target, a wizard, but the opponent activated a spell, and even after falling, the damaged body didn’t declare d*ath.
“d*e! Hahaha… what… how is this possible! Healing? No way! You weren’t like this back then! It must be fire; it has to be the fire element!”
In conjunction with the apprentice’s support from the side, the confident leading wizard finally landed a blow on Tan Han’s body. His smile slowly froze.
Finally transforming into disbelief, he quickly realized the possible issue.
“Even if it’s the fire element, it won’t work, because you are not Xiao Han! Rest in peace!” At this moment, Tan Han naturally wouldn’t miss the opportunity to deliver a heavy blow.
Even she had not anticipated that this wizard would be so difficult to k*ll, but she quickly figured it out; it was likely the so-called witch curse insect.
A magical method nurtured within one’s body through ritual could prevent a wizard from dying, even drawing on life force to help them heal.
Though this method was astonishing, the nurturing process was rather painful. Depending on the preferences of each wizard apprentice, the witch curse could vary, sometimes even needing to be nourished with their own flesh and bl**d, and there were even more demanding conditions.
“Bird person! If you don’t make your move soon…”
“We understand.”
The Holy Angel Academy certainly wouldn’t let Tan Han eliminate the troublesome creatures of the Wizard Academy right now, as they couldn’t guarantee victory facing such a Tan Han.
“Ice and Snow! Freeze them.”
At this moment, although Tan Han had transformed into Ancient Ice, she was not invincible. Due to their racial characteristics, Ancient Ice beings had large bodies and somewhat slow movements, but they were born spellcasters who could wield the power of ice and snow.
Of course, the Ancient Ice could also be transformed into weapons for battles at the same level.
Just like these battle angels that had now transformed.
Their divine technique power was indeed terrifying and could significantly impact her body.
While it couldn’t deal lethal damage, a battle of attrition would be catastrophic.
Due to the Wizard Academy’s overly confident self-destructive behaviors just now, the tide had suddenly shifted in favor of the Witch Academy.
Boom!
With an unexpected loud noise emerging from the side, the people of the Wizard Academy were stunned, and the Holy Angel Academy’s side, including Tan Han, was also taken aback because it was concentrated around Tan Han.
“You filthy witch! Destroying our War Fortress so you’ll taste our strength!”
“Hahaha! So you didn’t manage to suppress the dwarfs! I thought you were so powerful!”
At this moment, the people from the Wizard Academy quickly used emergency healing spells, exhausting themselves to move again, unable to suppress their sarcasm.
“Hmph! It doesn’t hurt or itch.”
The place where Tan Han had been struck quickly healed, and she almost forgot there was still the troublesome dwarfs. They had never truly subdued the dwarfs, and if Xiao Han had been here, there wouldn’t have been so much trouble.
But there were no “ifs.”
“Big-mouthed! Let’s see how you, Tan Han, deal with a three-way siege!”
At this moment, Tan Han’s gaze swept to the enormous fortress. Such a terrifying war weapon had a significant advantage over her massive figure, requiring no further aiming.
But how could Tan Han comply with their wishes?
Then a giant block of ice went towards the fortress, and soon large gusts of snow and hail buried the fortress.
However, not even ice and snow could stop their frenzied attacks; it only deprived them of their precision striking ability.
Those attacks, coming in waves, posed quite a headache for Tan Han, as she couldn’t perfectly evade the fast artillery fire with her control over the Ancient Ice Transformation Technique.
At this moment, Tan Han had entered into a heated battle, highlighting the downside of the transformation technique; its offensive methods depended on the transformed race. While the Ancient Ice could easily overpower weaker foes, the opponent’s strength, methods, and coordination were robust enough to drag her into a protracted fight.
Is the Ancient Ice strong?
Of course, but offensive measures must also hit; otherwise, the opponent wouldn’t be dead or severely wounded, and landing a hit was challenging. The wide-reaching blizzards proved insufficient to deal substantial damage to them.
At this moment, after suffering setbacks at the Wizard Academy, they were determined to wage a war of attrition.
The ceremony was still ongoing; it was Tan Han who should be anxious. They had plenty of time to waste.
Tan Han’s magic power was not infinite; even with recovery potions, there would come a time when they ran out.
“This won’t do…” Tan Han had still underestimated the difficulty of the combined forces of the Holy Angel Academy and the Wizard Academy. Her understanding of the Ancient Ice Transformation Technique was still too shallow.
Even at this moment, she realized the severity of the issue. Tan Han had fought exhilaratingly with the Ancient Ice Transformation Technique, and her comprehension and application of this transformation technique had improved, but it was still not enough.
“It won’t do? Then it’s my turn to step in.”
The remaining illusionary clone also knew it was time to unleash its last reserves.
“Hey~ Hehe~ Everyone, you’ve been having a great time battling Tan Han; have you forgotten about me?”
“You! The Witch Academy’s person, are you finally going to join the battle?”
At this moment, with the clone’s voice, both the Wizard Academy and the Holy Angel Academy tensed up.
An entity capable of fighting Tan Han wouldn’t be much weaker than her.
While they didn’t know why she had only just intervened, they could distinguish between one hassle and two hassles.
If the Witch Academy pulled some tricks, and given that the opponent possessed such terrifying spellbooks, their current position would be broken.
The terrifying anomaly that had appeared at the Aphhemia World Tree was vividly recalled by everyone; it was indeed due to this witch’s means.
“I heard you control techniques similar to Tan Han’s, right? The spell book? Let’s see it!” At this moment, the wizards provocatively said.
After all, the opposing side had spoken, it meant things had become uncontrollable; it wouldn’t hurt to play rough.
“I indeed have such methods, but I don’t intend to use them here.”
“I think you don’t dare to use them! You almost had us fooled; Ancient Ice, and that one is clearly fire-based; if you both used them together, wouldn’t you just have an internal conflict? Hahaha!”
At this moment, Tan Han couldn’t help but admire how the Wizard Academy lived up to being a truth-focused institution, reacting so quickly. She had worried about this aspect too, but it was evident she didn’t have to be concerned now.
Because Xiao Han was no longer here.
“Oh dear, you figured it out, but it doesn’t matter; I truly don’t intend to use it here!” At this moment, the illusionary clone took out a broomstick, “This broomstick is the latest model from the Witch Academy; I don’t even know its name, but it’s fast enough!”
“You! What do you mean?” At that moment, the Wizard Academy instantly understood, but they still suppressed their emotions and asked in a low voice, for everyone had a little bit of hope in their hearts.
“With all you elites from the Holy Angel Academy and the Wizard Academy, how’s your home holding up? If I fly away on this broom, would your bird wings and the makeshift wizard tools you concocted keep up with our alchemy achievements from the Witch Academy?”
“You dare!”
“Do you think I wouldn’t dare? I just want to ask if I flew out just like that, would you stop me! If just a few come after me, I could get rid of them halfway. If any academy tries to chase me, I’ll head to their academy and ask if you’re willing to guard your temporary allies!”
At this moment, my words stunned them; who wouldn’t feel confused after hearing this? Who wouldn’t have a flicker of doubt in their heart?
“You want us to hold the ceremony? Then it’s no problem for Tan Han to keep you busy while I sneak into your place! I wonder how you’d feel if you lost your floating island or the Wizard Tower?”
“Exaggerating! Do you really think you can break through our Wizard Tower’s defenses? Tan Han brought so many people and we still couldn’t defend it; what are you?”
“You’ll lose your ceremony, oh what a joke; I’ll just go and steal from the Holy Angels! That unnamed guy, I’ll enjoy your wife first!”
“You! You shameless hussy!”
At this moment, even Tan Han was somewhat surprised her clone would say such things, but at this moment, the clone was based on the collective subconscious of all the present practitioners, perhaps in some Holy Angel’s mind, that is how they thought the witch would act.
“This is how witches are, didn’t you know? I’ll threaten like this! Regardless, we profit either way; either one of your academies is completely eliminated, or the Witch Academy scores three points! The advantage is on my side; how will you choose? As long as there’s still green in the mountains, there’s no fear of running out of firewood!”
At this moment, the situation had reached a deadlock, with only the dwarfs’ cannons still firing.
Everyone was hesitating, each with their own ulterior motives.
This was a gamble; even if they were confident their home wouldn’t be robbed.
They could disrupt the ceremony, but they had to take on the risk.
If they broke the ceremony now, it was inevitable that there would be consequences for the Witch side.
“Heh! We bet you can’t push down our Wizard Tower! Yang Yuelan! I remember your name!”
“I don’t care why you didn’t help Tan Han before, but you must have a reason for not joining in! What are you calculating?”
“To attack me? Do you know the consequences of attacking me? That kind of price you can’t bear!”
“This is an exchange competition! I don’t believe there’s any price we can’t afford!”
“No, are you really going to attack? I thought you wizards were absolute rational madmen!”
“Since we are called madmen, let’s show you what madness looks like!”
“Wait, Tan Han!”
At this moment, the illusionary clone shouted loudly.
Though Tan Han knew the illusionary clone wouldn’t d*e or be harmed, she still symbolically tried to block for time.
“Hahaha! I was right! Yang Yuelan! You’re just a pretender, and with such a little effort, you’ve already exposed yourself! Where’s your strength! Tan Han! Don’t hide her!”
“You don’t need to worry about our Witch Academy business!” At this moment, Tan Han fell back into combat, but the Wizard Academy and the Holy Angel Academy had learned to be clever, not confronting Tan Han directly.
They naturally noticed Yang Yuelan’s oddities, but they didn’t think in terms of illusions. This was the brilliance of the illusionary clone’s method; it was not easy to detect, just like one wouldn’t believe they could be deceived themselves—those who were overly confident were often the easiest to trick.
But the price for this was that it was “slightly” uncontrollable.
