Chapter 762: Fragment of Extraordinary Knowledge — Frozen World
“Quick! Abandon this operation! That guy Yang Yuelan really intervened in this matter!”
“But… just give up like this? What happens next? What about Aipuli?”
“You still care about her? She can’t even protect herself, do you understand? That guy Yang Yuelan even called her instructor! Do you want to know what she can do next?”
Accompanied by a series of helpless conversations, those with ulterior motives in the viewing area had already quietly left.
Earlier, they were thinking, “It’s just a teaching assistant, what can she interfere with?”
Winning or losing was not important for the two in the arena; if a scene were to really stir up trouble in the arena, even Yang Yuelan would be criticized. At least they had the confidence that their support group could create a fierce verbal battle on the academy’s online platform, benefiting them in the end.
But no one expected that the other side didn’t care about the outcome in the arena!
After this match, no one would care about winning or losing; they would only remember a teaching assistant engaging in an unrestricted confrontation with a lower-grade student, and then being taken away by her instructor, losing her identity as a teaching assistant.
Since they could no longer control the existing situation, there was no point in struggling in the mud with the other side. It was better to just withdraw and wait for the next opportunity.
This was their current thought.
And on the competition stage.
After a series of collisions of techniques and probing battles, both sides’ consumption was nearly at a critical point.
Tan Han had almost fully experienced Aipuli’s techniques, and Aipuli’s combat style, combined with the Excessive Consumption Spellbook’s combat method, had become familiar to Tan Han.
Although it was only her second time fighting against a teaching assistant, judging by the level, the battles she had experienced with higher-grade students were already nearly on par with those of the teaching assistant; those higher-grade students and teaching assistants differed only in status.
“Tan Han, don’t you still have that last move? Why aren’t you making your move! If you don’t act now… there won’t be any opportunity left!”
“Don’t you also have other techniques? The one who can’t hold back first is you, right?” Tan Han snapped back without showing any weakness.
While the current situation could not definitively say who had the upper hand, verbal sparring was still necessary.
After all, this was an unrestricted confrontation!
“Well then… let me show you this technique!” After a round of verbal exchanges, inexplicably, Aipuli chose to take the initiative and revealed her trump card first.
However, Aipuli’s trump card was not a second Excessive Consumption Spellbook, nor was it some powerful alchemical item.
She merely took out a creation resembling ice crystals, inside which seemed to have frozen icy blue runic patterns.
“Ice type? Are you sure you want to use this to contend with my Absolute Cold Wand?” When Tan Han saw the opponent’s “trump card,” she slightly relaxed; her Absolute Cold Wand was a fragment of [Extraordinary Knowledge], and there was nothing that could compare to it.
“Oh really? Then let me teach you a lesson… what matters in battle is never just the power of the techniques you wield!” Aipuli suddenly activated the crystal in her hand, an invisible force enveloped the entire arena.
It felt as if an intense cold was about to freeze the entire space, the buzzing of ice forming and the harsh cracking sounds of expanding ice blocks echoed in her ears.
Such an eerie technique made Tan Han’s casting hand instinctively slow by half a beat, but her body’s instincts informed her first that all of this was just an illusion; nothing was freezing, she could still move freely, and she remained the master of this icy world.
“Are you not going to dodge?”
Tan Han regrouped, her spell had already taken shape, but her opponent seemed to be dazed, only their gaze still locked onto hers.
Victory?
The opponent had no defenses, and her ice spells were about to completely penetrate their body. Even if the opponent had undying abilities, this attack would shatter and freeze their body in an instant. Even if it couldn’t k*ll the opponent, they wouldn’t be able to use their self-healing power to resist the freezing!
Swoosh!
As this seemingly winning ice spell pierced the opponent’s body, Tan Han’s smile vanished. The opponent’s body ignored the spell’s attack and passed through her like a ghost.
“How does it feel to be deceived by inertia of perception?”
Aipuli no longer wasted her advantage, ignoring the approaching ice spell, and quickly adjusted her position.
“Ice spell immunity? No… space spell?”
“Do you think I’d tell you?”
“Space spell…” Tan Han quickly made a judgment.
Although she couldn’t perceive the influence of space, wherever her eyes could reach, she could see the entire arena covered by a vision of ice.
This situation had surpassed her understanding; perhaps this was a kind of overlapping frozen space, or some other means…
“Even if I can’t attack you, the moment you try to attack me is your flaw!”
“What does it matter? The initiative is still in my hands!” Aipuli said disdainfully.
Although she was surprised that her opponent had quickly deduced what kind of power it was and knew that they could attack her weakness, the crushing of the situation had already formed, and her opponent would need to pay a greater price to reach her.
Even the timing of when her opponent could launch an attack was in her control!
And after Tan Han was shocked and accepted reality, she wouldn’t just sit back and wait.
Space… such power seemed quite unsolvable, but that was due to an ignorance of space that caused a kind of self-panic.
Tan Han had seen descriptions about space, and ever since she obtained the Great Knowledge Seed, she had enjoyed constantly supplementing her knowledge for reserves.
Space… was a very fragile attribute.
Any kind of extraordinary energy, as long as it reached a certain energy level, could interfere with space; even the extraordinary could tear apart space with bare hands.
At least according to the book, the description of the “material space” within the world was like this.
Did she have any means to influence space?
Yes, there was naturally.
The Absolute Cold Wand.
When this Absolute Cold Wand was still that crown of absolute zero, it could emit a chill even when stored in storage equipment.
This absolute zero, which exceeded the material space and non-extraordinary physical laws, seemed capable of interfering with space.
So, without any hesitation, Tan Han decided.
“Have you finally unlocked the ultimate means on that wand of yours? Looks like you’re truly at the end of your rope! What’s the point of this if you can’t hit me?”
“Try it to see if I can hit you!” Tan Han held the wand with both hands, treating it like a melee weapon.
As the absolute zero was unsealed, Tan Han had to add protection spells for herself, after all, this move wasn’t her power, so the residuals of absolute zero wouldn’t spare her either.
Although the wand was designed with the holder’s blind spots in mind, the activated state of absolute zero was far more than what could be ignored by blind spots!
The power had no blind spots in theory; the cold was everywhere.
As Tan Han swung the wand, the space sliced through seemed to bring forth ripples of shattering ice crystals.
The clear sound of broken ice exploded continuously in the arena.
Even Aipuli found herself instinctively dodging at this attack from Tan Han.
“You’re not sure if you’ll get hurt… right?” Tan Han pointed out her opponent’s lack of confidence.
“So what!” Aipuli snorted coldly and directly used a summoning spell, which she wasn’t particularly skilled at, and slowly shaped an earth golem.
“Want to test it on the spot? Then I’ll give you the opportunity!” Tan Han charged toward this earth golem. The sluggish movements and the foolish control of the spellcaster clearly indicated that Aipuli was not adept at combat coordination involving summoning spells.
With a strike of absolute zero, the earth golem was instantly frozen, and with a mighty strike of the Absolute Cold Wand, the earth golem shattered into pieces, this freezing effect even activated the core of the summoning spell’s effect, showcasing the terrifying power of this attack.
“Looks like your means are of no use!” Tan Han exclaimed excitedly.
The Absolute Cold Wand could transcend the realm of this space spell to directly inflict damage on the opponent!
This was the attitude Tan Han was displaying to Aipuli.
However, after that blow, Tan Han discovered a deeper effect, but she didn’t show it.
The Absolute Cold Wand could attack the existence of another frozen space; through what means?
It was an attack caused by slicing through the boundary between material space and frozen space. This attack was not merely a damage that crossed spatial layers.
Just now… her blow of “physical damage” shattered the ice crystals of the summoning, which explained a lot.
She could cross from material space to reach frozen space and inflict damage on Aipuli!
This was a clever information gap, but… only one chance to launch a sneak attack.
Once the opponent realized this point, they would be on guard.
Moreover, the fact that the opponent needed to use their unfamiliar summoning spell to test whether they would be harmed proved that the opponent did not understand this technique well enough.
So Tan Han judged that this method was deliberately targeted by someone to use against her.
It was precisely because the opponent lacked understanding of her techniques that Tan Han estimated this sneak attack method would be effective.
And now… Tan Han needed to deepen the opponent’s inherent impression that “their spells” couldn’t hurt her.
Didn’t she just mention cognitive inertia deception? Then let her experience what it’s like to be deceived!
“Coming again?”
Seeing Tan Han unleash spells at her once more, Aipuli instinctively dodged. If the opponent’s wand could directly harm the summoning creature in the frozen world, then she could also be harmed!
So she had to create distance.
As the opponent tried to cast spells again… Aipuli judged that her opponent was attempting to see if they could apply the lethal power that crossed space onto the spells.
But… could it be possible?
Her understanding of spells was far deeper than Tan Han’s!
No power to augment could cross space to affect the spell’s effect.
Unless the spell’s power being fired was inherently a part of that wand, or if this attack’s intensity reached a level capable of breaking through space, otherwise any amplification would merely be in the same space, and couldn’t harm her in the frozen world.
So she also had to guard against the opponent using the wand as a throwing attack… it only took a moment, and Aipuli had already made her judgment and preventive measures.
In Aipuli’s view, the opponent’s overwhelming low-consumption spells under the wand’s enhancement still could not harm her.
This battle remained her home field!
In an instant, the wind direction in the arena shifted; Tan Han was being continuously suppressed, and Aipuli’s mastered technique was simply unsolvable.
In the stands.
“Sister Chris, what is this technique?” I pointed at the frozen space Aipuli was using below.
“I’m not sure… but seeing Aipuli use it so awkwardly, it doesn’t seem like it’s her own thing,” Sister Chris waved her hand in frustration, also indicating that it wasn’t her own.
“Oh…” I opened the Earth Vein Identification Technique to assess that object.
“How is it? Xiao Han, do you have results?” Chris asked expectantly from the side.
“There’s a result… it’s called Frozen World. It’s neither a spellbook nor an alchemical item…” I looked at the thing, the fortune it bore further verifying its identity, “The Frozen World, that’s its name… similar to absolute zero, it belongs to a fragment of [Extraordinary Knowledge].”
“Interesting~ Where did Aipuli get this thing?” Chris said with interest as she watched Aipuli in the arena.
“The Wizard Academy… she seems to have interactions with the Wizard Academy… wait… is her family from the area radiating from the Wizard Academy? So… she was kidnapped to the Witch Academy?”
“Exactly, she was kidnapped to the Witch Academy. When she initially chose to become a teaching assistant, I thought she wasn’t from a family here at the Witch Academy could let go and fly higher… but I didn’t expect she was still trapped in her family’s ideals… sigh, what a pity…”
“……”
I didn’t respond because this issue was simply too strange. If Aipuli obtained the Frozen World from the Wizard Academy… but why?
This was a fragment of [Extraordinary Knowledge]!
Very precious, why give it away?
Moreover… I also saw the shadow of the Wizard Academy’s “Illusionary World Space Great Spell” in this “Frozen World.”
I remember this great spell was rumored to also be a byproduct of researching [Extraordinary Knowledge]… it couldn’t possibly be this piece of “Frozen World,” right?
At this moment in the arena.
Aipuli’s pressure had nearly pushed Tan Han to the brink, and the advantage brought about by constantly switching between material space and frozen space was only increasing.
And Tan Han could only cast the lowest consumption Blizzard spell to cover the entire arena.
As long as the opponent appeared in the material space, she could use the blizzard phenomenon to immediately retaliate.
Although it caused some trouble for Aipuli, it was still insignificant.
“Aipuli! Do you think that you’ve won like this?” At this moment, Tan Han could no longer maintain her previous posture; even shouting now seemed somewhat difficult.
That roar, symbolizing her last resistance, seemed to Aipuli nothing more than a futile struggle.
“Can’t you hold on any longer? Your spells have no effect on me!”
“d*e!” Tan Han seized the opportunity to get close again with the Absolute Cold Wand.
“Do you think I would give you a chance to get close?” Aipuli had long since built up power and blinked away to create distance.
And Tan Han was waiting for this kind of opportunity.
Humans purely believe that “increasing distance = safety.”
This was the equivalent concept Tan Han hoped Aipuli would think, and it would be the culprit that cost her life.
“d*mn! How do you still have the energy to blink…” Tan Han seemed to go mad due to the failure of that attack, roaring in frustration, but the ice crystal-shattering ripples drawn by the swung Absolute Cold Wand went unnoticed.
At this moment, Tan Han charged up and activated her strongest spell.
“Extreme Cold Light!”
Terrifying magic power infused into the spell, a beam of cold light crystallized and formed a dazzling spot enveloping Tan Han’s form. No one noticed that the blizzard covering the arena at this moment also passed unobstructed through Tan Han’s body.
She had already crossed from material space to the frozen world through the path opened by the Absolute Cold Wand, and she was doing this to deliver the deadliest blow to the coward hiding here!
The next moment…
“Extreme Cold… Eruption!”
The energy beam, charged for a long time, suddenly erupted!
Powered by the Absolute Cold Wand, it shattered the ice crystals within the Frozen World, engulfing Aipuli at a speed from which she could absolutely not escape.
And Aipuli couldn’t consecutively use blink in a short time; the outcome was already sealed!
The extreme cold beam instantly enveloped Aipuli’s form.
Only the terrifying sounds of ice crystals shattering echoed in the arena.
At this moment, it was as if a pause button had been pressed in the arena.
And in the next moment, the entire arena was cheering for Tan Han’s impending victory!
