043, A Song of Ice and Fire

At the moment of life and death, Amon didn't care whether to expose the identity of the magician, and it was important to save his life first. The protective effect of the ice shield condensed by the water element is not good, and it is not even a defensive magic technique, but it is the earliest magic that Amon learned, and it is also the fastest and most convenient to launch, he is in the middle of the Youngdi River, and the easiest thing to summon is the power of the water element.

Amon's vigilance was a little late, and he launched the fastest magic technique, forming an ice shield in the air to block it first, and then casting the best earth elemental protection with the best frontal resistance effect to block it again. However, the snake's tail was too huge, and its weight and speed alone could shatter these two barriers, but it bought Amon time to perform the Spatial Solidification Technique, and fixed the huge snake's tail in the air for a moment.

Before anyone else could react, Amon was heard shouting again, and the bow of the ship suddenly sank, and he had already leapt into the sky with his staff. The branch-like staff emitted a faint layer of light, and it was silently whipped on the snake's tail in the air, and a tremor of shock spread along the long body of the giant snake, and many snake scales were cracked and flew down.

Amon is only a fourth-level warrior in terms of strength, and he has not yet had time to cultivate his theoretical fifth-level physical skills. But when the staff hit the snake's body, a pale blue flame spread rapidly along the snake's body with the shockwave-like tremors, as if the staff was using a staff to ignite the huge snake's tail.

Not to mention the monsters in the river, even the battle-hardened warriors on the continent have never seen Amun's style of play, using the staff as an iron rod and directly casting divine arts, and it is also a fire sea technique that is very difficult for a mid-level divine magician to use, and even the flames are the hottest light blue.

It is impossible to describe the power of this blow, if the snake's tail were carved from a giant wooden barrel the size of a bucket, it would be reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye. But the monster's body was so strong that it had only been knocked off a few scales, and a pungent smell of burnt paste filled the air. A dull roar came from the depths of the river, and the snake's tail was struck out by Amun's staff and quickly retracted into the water. The flames made a swishing sound when they came into contact with the water, and a white smoke-like mist rose from the Yudi River.

With a bang, the bow of the ship sank again, and Amon took off his staff to knock the snake's tail back into the water, and he fell down again.

The people on the boat reacted from the shock and let out a cry of exclamation, because of the shaking of the hull of the ship, some people had fallen to the ground, and the cattle were also frightened and screamed, and some boatmen were shouting in horror: "Oh my God, it's a strange snake, a descendant of the river god Humbaba! Why did it appear in the daytime?"

Someone else knelt down at Amon at the bow of the boat and cried, "Great magician, please save us!" and then more people began to cry to Amun, as if they had grasped a life-saving straw in the drowning, they had just seen Amon fighting with the strange snake.

The first time Amon performed his magic in public, he was called the "Great Magician", after all, his actions were not only protecting himself but also protecting the entire boat. The cries of the people were drowned out by a thunderous roar from the bottom of the water, and suddenly a huge whirlpool appeared on one side of the ship, and the surface of the water sank, and then a huge wave rose and tossed the ship high into the air.

Strangely, the whirlpool did not tilt the ferry, nor did the waves tip it, and the boat remained in a steady position, "slipping" down the hill-like waves as the swells rose, drifting far upstream of the river. Amon stood at the bow of the ship with a staff flat on his face, his expression extremely solemn, as if the staff in his hand was controlling the entire hull.

Two of the samurai had drawn their swords and walked up to the bow of the ship, one on the left and one on the right. They were originally a merchant's bodyguards, and now they can see whether they can escape the monster's poisonous hands today, and it all depends on whether this magician can protect the ferry. If the boat capsized and everyone fell into the water, no one would be spared, and their swords would not be able to attack the monsters in the water, so they took the initiative to stand up and protect Amon to perform their magic skills.

The ferry drifted and slipped from the crest of the waves, avoiding the end of capsizing, and the strange roar of muffled thunder under the water continued, and the surface of the water became muddy and surging like a boil. The two wave walls immediately rose again, one left and one right towards the ferry, and a huge dark green snake body could be faintly seen in the waves, which appeared on the left and right sides of the boat at the same time, the length of this snake was really terrifying!

The strange snake may have been hurt by the fire technique of Amon hitting the long tail, but it hid under the water and did not come out, using the great power of its terrifying body to make waves, as long as the boat was overturned, the magician would be slaughtered as soon as he fell into the water.

Amon swung his staff forward, and the water in front of him seemed to be smoothed by an invisible giant hand, and the two huge waves on the left and right instantly solidified into dynamic ice sculptures. A panicked boatman stood unsteadily and fell into the water, but fortunately, his companion next to him fished it out with the penny in time, and the boatman who fell into the water grabbed the penny and climbed up again. No one dared to stand on the side of the boat anymore, and naturally there was no one to support the boat, and the ferry lost power.

The surge was frozen by the Freeze Technique, and the snake's body twisted under the huge wave, and the ice sculpture shattered again. At this moment, Amun's staff pointed forward, and the ship was pulled by an invisible force and rushed forward at a rapid pace, leaving the waters. Amon didn't want to get tangled with an aquatic monster in the wide Youngbottom River, so he wanted to escape, so it was wise to get to the other side quickly.

The speed of the ferry boat drifting on the water was extremely fast, and Amon had the experience of controlling the invisible ship made of bones to control it so easily. He could use the power of the air element and the water elemental magic to escape quickly, but it was difficult for him to use this power to attack the monsters that lived in the water.

If an experienced magician sees this scene, I am afraid that Amon is a great magician, although he casts both middle-level and low-level magic, but there is no condensation at all when he launches continuously, and the ingenious and smooth power control is almost to the extreme, which is by no means something that ordinary middle-level magicians can do, and the "staff" in his hand does not seem to even have a divine stone.

Amon barely managed to do this with the magic of his staff, continuously casting extremely powerful magic spells, he felt dizzy at the moment, but with his strong body, he still gritted his teeth and stood firmly on the bow of the ship. If he hadn't been a mid-level samurai, he might have fallen to the ground with a weak body.

The boat was moving forward at a rapid pace, but suddenly a line of water appeared on the surface of the river downstream, shooting forward like an arrow, drawing a huge arc in the river, and the body of the giant snake finally surfaced, blocking Amon's way. The serpent was more than a hundred feet long, and it stopped at the front of the boat and raised its head to reveal its true face, its bloody mouth open in mid-air, large enough to swallow a cow, and its long letter was like a giant rope with blood, and its eyes were large with a fierce light.

Ordinary snakes don't bark, but when this strange snake lifted its ugly and terrifying head, the air stirred in its throat and the sound of a cow roared far away in the young bottom river. Seeing the strange snake showing its terrible true face to block the way ahead, under its snake kiss, the people on the boat seemed so small and weak, and many of them let out desperate screams.

Amun's heart was also worried, he knew the power of this giant snake, and just now he tried his best to barely keep the ferry, but the snake was faster in the water than the boat he controlled, and still stopped in front, obviously enraged. If you are standing on the bank of the river, you can still give it a go, even if you can't win, you can run, but in this river, you are not sure at all.

But no matter what, he could only fight desperately at the moment, Amon had no other distractions in his mind, he clenched his staff and pointed ahead, using all his strength to prepare for a thunderous blow. It is impossible for him to think about the three things reminded by the old madman now, what else to talk about using the least amount of strength in this case, but he is afraid that his strength is not strong enough, and he will lose his surname if he has the slightest flaw.

The hands of the two warriors beside him holding the sword were trembling, and their faces also showed a look of despair, they could already see that the powerful magician beside them had done his best just now, and he was probably not the opponent of the monster.

In the midst of a frightened cry, Amon suddenly heard Yin Nanna's voice ringing in his ears: "Amon, scroll!"

That's right, why did you forget that there are five scrolls in your leather pocket? Yin Nanna reminded it at the right time! Amon seemed to be calm but was actually extremely nervous, he had never had any experience in using scrolls, and he couldn't even breathe when he used his magic skills one after another just now, and he didn't expect it for a while.

Before Yin Nanna's words fell, Amon took out a handful of things from his leather pocket and lifted them forward, what he had not done was inexperienced, no magician would use scrolls like him, he threw all five scrolls out. The staff in his hand trembled and activated the scrolls one after another, and the scrolls could only be expanded in turn, and as a result, Amon only activated three of them.

The scroll itself condenses the mana consumed by the maker, and does not need to be performed by the user himself, but the user must also be able to control the magic emitted by the scroll. These three are all the best of the mid-level divine magic scrolls, and the requirements for control are also quite high, Amon was activated in a very short period of time, and continuous control of these three divine arts is already the limit, and the other two can no longer be unfolded.

The first scroll is "Space Confinement", and there is no scene of power explosion, the body of the giant snake floating on the water wants to writhe and struggle, and the water surface is also surging violently, but for a while it can't break free in that space. It was enough to have such a short time to control it, and there were two more reels that unfolded one after the other.

The second one that was activated was also not an offensive scroll, called "Detection and Closure". The light and shadow around the serpent distorted into chaos, and it couldn't see the river and its banks, as if it was suddenly in a strange place, and it didn't know where Amon and the boat were. In fact, the serpent is still in place, but it has been temporarily cut off from the outside world.

These two scrolls emit auxiliary surname magic spells, and they can't really damage and attack, but they are very powerful, and they are used to cooperate with other attack surname magic methods. Amon picked up a total of eight scrolls, five of which were marked with instructions, and the other three unmarked scrolls were obtained next to Nero's staff.

In fact, the makers of these eight scrolls were all Nero, and there was such a master scroll maker in the team chasing Bell back then, how could he not prepare scrolls for other magicians. These mid-tier scrolls didn't do much to deal with Bell, they weren't used at first, but now they are enough to deal with the Youngbottom River monsters.

"Spatial Confinement" and "Detection and Forbidden" are both standard scrolls, and according to the records of the Divine Arts, it is the same no matter who makes it. But the third scroll inspired by Amon was originally created by Nero and was called "A Song of Ice and Fire".

Unable to see the surroundings, the huge body of the strange snake temporarily imprisoned in the invisible space was suddenly surrounded by a piece of turquoise ice rising from the water. The speed at which the ice formed on the surface of the river was particularly fast, adding to the power of the divine arts. If this scroll is activated in the dry desert, it will not have the same effect, and the power of the magic will depend on the environment.

The assistance of "spatial confinement" made the ice stronger, but this solid ice did not directly wrap around the snake's body, like a huge thick ice shell, and there was still a wide space inside. A dark blue flame instantly ignited in this space, and the direction of the scorching flame was all towards the huge snake body in the center of the ice shell, but it did not melt the surrounding ice at all.

A cloud of scorching heat enveloped in a deep cold, and the giant snake in the ice shell had nowhere to hide, letting out a painful roar and writhing wildly. As soon as the blue flame appeared, it quickly contracted and became smaller, and it was absorbed on the snake's body and turned into a faint layer of fire, and it seemed that the heat of the flame should have all penetrated into the body of the strange snake.

Of course, the monster snake's frantic body hit the ice shell, making a burst of shattering sounds, but at the same time as the flames contracted, the ice layer also spread rapidly inward, and the ice filled the space inside, tightly wrapping the giant snake's body.

The body of the giant snake more than 100 feet long instantly rose from head to tail A cloud of scorching smoke rose in an instant, and in the scorching heat, it was suddenly invaded by the bone-piercing cold, and a series of popping sounds came from the ice, which was the sudden evaporation of water vapor was compressed in a narrow space to expand and explode. The huge ice shell was blown into countless pieces, and the behemoth that was frozen in the ice was also blown apart and turned into charred pieces.

The colossal snake is dead!

Amon shook and felt dizzy again, so he almost couldn't stand still, and he gasped when he saw this scene. The power of the "Song of Ice and Fire" was so powerful, if he was accidentally surrounded by the magic unfolded by this scroll and couldn't get out immediately at the first moment, he would probably end up dead.

Nero, the great magician he had never met, was worthy of being a top scroll maker, and this scroll combined two ordinary but powerful mid-level magic techniques, namely the "Ice" and "Sea of Fire" that Amon had just cast, but it could stimulate the sea of fire in the ice, exerting incredible damage power in the alternation of heat and cold. Although it is only an intermediate Divine Scroll, it is no less than an ordinary Advanced Divine Scroll.

The terrifying, seemingly invincible colossal serpent was wiped out, scattered in pieces and scattered in the river. While Amon threw out the scroll, the big boat under his feet was still moving forward, and with a wave of his staff, a gust of wind rolled up the other two scrolls that fell from the sky, and caught them and stuffed them back into his leather pocket.

Although Amon was very happy to kill the monster, he felt extremely shocked and surprised, and even had a trace of regret. He didn't really have experience with the scroll, and it was obviously a waste just now. If you only want to kill the serpent, it is enough to use both "Spatial Confinement" and "A Song of Ice and Fire". If you just want to bypass the giant snake's obstruction and escape to the other side, and use "Spatial Confinement" and "Detection Confinement" at the same time, there is enough time.

In any case, he had wasted one precious scroll, and if it weren't for the fact that his mana was not enough to control and activate five mid-tier scrolls in a row, the other two would have been wasted as well. But Amon didn't think it was too much of a pity, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to exert his greatest strength in the situation just now, and he could only talk about anything else by saving his life and the surname of the whole boat, otherwise what was the use of keeping the scroll and losing his life?

The river was calm again, and five of the boatman's six pennies had just fallen into the water, and they could no longer hold the boat, but Amon still used his magic to push the big ship to the other side. Ahead of him, through a murky water, there were patches of broken ice floating on the water, some of which contained small pieces of the body of strange snakes.

Amon suddenly discovered something, and with a pick of the staff in his hand, something about seven feet long flew out of the water, golden and translucent, very fine, and rolled into a small ball when it fell into his hand. Amon twisted it with his hand, and found that this thing was unusually tough, as if it was a piece of snake tendon, and the body of the strange snake that was more than a hundred feet long had long been annihilated, but this seven-foot-long piece of snake tendon was completely preserved under the power of the "Song of Ice and Fire", it must not be an ordinary thing, and he also stuffed it into his leather pocket.

After this thrilling struggle, the ferry became silent. Amon turned around strangely as he put away his snake tendons, only to find that almost everyone in the cabin had fallen to his knees towards him. Even the two samurai who were guarding him just now put down their swords and took a few steps back, kneeling on the board of the boat and saluting, and only Yin Nanna was still standing in the boat.

There was still a faint smell of scratching in the cabin, and it turned out that several people had been scared of and urine just now.

"What are you all doing on your knees, you don't have to bow to me like this. It's all right, let's get up and see if anyone is hurt. Amon waved his staff and spoke to the crowd, a hint of tiredness in his voice.

As soon as he opened his mouth, everyone shouted in unison: "Great magician, your power is amazing, thank you for saving everyone!", "Great god Marduk! Great heroic magician! You saved us!", "Thank you, thank you, God!"

The owner of the ferry got up and walked to the front, knelt down again and said, "Great magician, please forgive me for my rudeness, I didn't know that your honor was on my ferry. ...... But why are you dressed like this?"

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(To be continued)