Chapter 146: Frozen Armor
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
It worked. The Akara’s tent was connected with Abel’s power of the Will. And along with that, Abel managed to learn how to control the canvas itself. He tapped on one of the support points of the tent, and it quickly contracted itself like an umbrella. It was too big for him to pack it up before, but now he could hold it in his own hands.
Abel wanted to wrap up the tent with his power of the Will. He tried to put it inside the Kong Kong spiritual beast bag, but the bag didn’t show any reaction. He tried the private storage box instead, and the tent quickly went in.
Abel got a little surprised. He didn’t expect the Akara’s tent to be packed up so easily. Not only was it big, but it also contained a lot of various items. Since he couldn’t go inside the Kong Kong spiritual beast bag, he didn’t know how big that was. Yet, he did spend a lot of time inside the Akara’s tent himself, so he knew how s.p.a.cious it was.
Just to be sure, Abel took out the Akara’s tent again and activated it with his mana. Soon, the tent slowly opened itself up. As he went in, he noticed that everything was the same as before. The private storage box had nothing to do with what happens inside the tent.
Instead of closing up the tent again, Abel decided to walk towards the rest spot that he built. While sitting on the chair that was made of ambergris timber, he took out his sheep parchment scroll and started reading about the “frozen armor” spell.
Since he had a similar experience with the “fireball” spell, Abel managed to figure out how to draw the runes for “frozen armor” in just eight days. While the initial activation time for fireball was two minutes, it was three minutes for the frozen armor spell. This was because the frozen armor spell was more complicated than the fireball spell.
After finis.h.i.+ng with the rune drawing, Abel began to chant out in the n.o.ble tongue of the elves, “O the Ice elf! Use your divine power to weave a pure white armor around me!”
As he spoke, the rune pattern he drew started glowing in white. The Horadric Cube on his right arm started reflecting a dark gold light, which somehow made the rune pattern larger than it originally was. Eventually, an armor glowing in frost appeared around Abel’s body.
Watching as the Horadric Cube glowed in dark gold light, Abel felt like his effort was worth it. The frozen armor rune pattern he drew was recognized by the Horadric Cube. After spending eight days on it, his work finally paid off.
Skill: Frozen armor
Description: Increase your defense while freezing your enemies when they hit you
Mana cost: 7
Defense bonus: 25%
Spell Duration: 108 seconds
Freeze duration: 1.1 seconds
Current skill level: 0
Progress till the next level: 1/5000
After Abel finished reading the skill description, the frozen armor on him exploded and vanished in the air.
Abel tried to draw a frozen armor pattern again. As he lifted his finger in the air, the skill tree in his Horadric Cube was being activated. Suddenly, a voice came to ask him inside his head, “Do you want to activate your “frozen armor” spell with your skill tree?”
“Yes,” Abel thought, and a complete rune pattern suddenly appeared in his right hand. Without even doing the enchantments, the rune pattern started sucking mana out of him on its own, and soon, a set of frozen armor appeared around his body.
Abel felt safe as the chilling sensation of the “frozen armor” surrounded him. He’s finally got a defensive spell of his own. While it was only effective in close-range combat, he didn’t think that long-range attacks would do a lot of damage to him. He was an intermediate knight, after all. Besides, he could use golden combat qi. Sure, even if regular long-range attacks would be a threat to him, he could always take out his magic s.h.i.+eld from his portal bag.
There was a downturn in using the frozen armor, however. Its mana cost was way too high, at about seven points in less than two minutes. If Akara could be resurrected after all these years, he would love her to make some blue-quality mana potions for him to use.
If only the h.e.l.l creatures outside had their own potions. That’d be so nice, Abel thought. As long as he could loot enough potions from the fallen, he could practice his spells as much as he liked to. As dangerous as that might be, it sounded like a much better choice than to study alone inside his lab.
From his calculation, Abel could tell that he had two more days left. Because of how fast his body was growing due to p.u.b.erty, he could no longer fit inside his blue armor.
Abel stayed at Rogue’s Encampment every night. While his body would revert back to its original state when he left the dark world, the strain his body received during training would stay. As a result, not only was he starting to get a bigger appet.i.te every single day, but he was also starting to grow at a much faster rate.
The blue armor was originally 1.7 to 1.8 meters tall. Since Abel was about 1.9 meters tall now, he became oversized for it. That being said, it was good to have the “frozen armor” spell instead of making new armor according to his new body size. The next time he was making his own armor, so he thought he would have to wait for his body to stop getting taller first.
So far, the only equipment Abel could use as a s.h.i.+eld, an ice magic sword, and a knight’s lance that could b.u.mp his enemies away. As he realized that he had no way to launch a long-range attack, he took out his Harry Bow.
Ever since Abel became a knight, he had hardly used the Harry bow at all. Although it was strong enough to kill both beginner and intermediate knights instantaneously, he was already strong enough to take on advanced knights in a one-on-one fight. While the Harry Bow did kill about a hundred or so worgens before, it was not a very useful tool now. Apart from drawing his enemies to him, there really wasn’t any use for it.
As a knight, having a good sword, a s.h.i.+eld, a knight lance, and a good bow were important. Yet, even as a master blacksmith, Abel was afraid that he couldn’t find a suitable bow for himself. For someone as strong him, he would need a super st.u.r.dy bow–one that could satisfy his 4,000-pound strength.
As he contemplated to himself, Abel walked into the Bloor Moor once more. This time, he decided that he wouldn’t wear any armor. To stop the quill rats from ambus.h.i.+ng him, he had to detect them first with his power of the Will, which, at his current level, had a range as far as 16 meters in radius. If the enemies were outside the 16-meter radius, he would have to depend on his fight instinct as an intermediate knight.
Abel really wanted to become an advanced knight now. After fighting some elite knights himself, he knew how much keener their sense of danger as compared to intermediate knights. If he managed to become an advanced knight himself, he would have a much higher survival rate inside the Bloor Moor that he was in now.
Noo! As he concentrated on his power of the Will, Abel could tell that a thorn was shot towards him. He quickly picked up his magic s.h.i.+eld, which made the flying thorn bounced off it. He stuck his ice magic sword in the ground, lifted his finger, and launched a fireball towards a quill rat that was about twenty meters away from him.
The mouse gave a terrible shriek when it was. .h.i.t. Yet, in Abel’s view, the wound was not very serious. In fact, as the quill rat was just about to be burnt to its death, a blue light flashed across it and quickly extinguished the flames.