Chapter 182 Sleeping Trickle of the Resting Stream
The woman opposite closed her eyes and remained motionless, seemingly unaffected. But Angel opened his eyes and listened attentively. He could hear the sound of rushing water around from the woman’s position at the centre of the arena.
Trickle of the Resting Stream.
This is the first woman Angel had met in the Sky Tower Arena and one whom Angel felt was the strangest.
The announcement screen has not yet started the match or turned on the arena’s forbidden magic array, but this woman was already displaying bizarre habits.
Water, Angel felt he was not facing a person, but a pool of water.
[Milk Baron Vs Trickle of the Resting Stream] The countdown to zero was imminent for the start of battle!
The woman on the other side looked ordinary, with short curly blue hair and heavy dark circles under her eyes. She kept her eyes closed and seemed to be sleeping near the end of the countdown. It was not until the countdown was over that she opened her eyes and revealed her dark eyes.
Trickle of the Resting Stream stretched out her finger, pointed to the floor and drew a horizontal line. Then in front of her appeared a flowing stream.
“Instant magic!” Angel is also paying attention to his opponent’s actions while building up his defensive spells.
All of this happened in just a flash. The strangest thing is this water-woven streamline is not near the floor but circling around Trickle of the Resting Stream. Just like a garment belt.
“Shackle.” Trickle of the Resting Stream voice sounded like a stream of water across a piece of porcelain, as her voice rang softly.
The belt woven by the stream rushed towards Angel with a splashing sound, but Angel also completed his first line of defence, Ice Wall.
The stream belt was dodged by Angel in a way that substituted the wall for himself. Angel then used his familiar mature scoundrelly fighting method and fired golden arrows towards Trickle of the Resting Stream’s position like a shower of light.
“Shield.” Trickle of the Resting Stream whispers again.
Suddenly, the stream belt was lifted from the ice wall and turned into a complicated water shield attempting to guard against the golden arrow shower.
Can a water shield defend against strong penetrating golden arrows? Angel didn’t believe so, but it happened. The shield, which came out from the misty stream belt really possessed the nature of a metal shield. The stream belt was made of water, but the sound when the golden arrow struck against were like clangs of metal.
The golden arrows bounced off the water shield.
Angel continued shooting the small golden arrows and even expanded the range of attacks, but to Angel’s frustration, the water shield also expanded.
He thought it was impossible to cover every direction. When the water shield area is so large, the thickness of the water shield will naturally decrease. With this in mind, Angel rained the golden arrows down at a single point.
But after nearly half of his golden arrows were shot out, the water shield on the opposite side was not even cracked.
Most importantly, Angel doesn’t even feel any signs of magic power consumption from Trickle of the Resting Stream. Can she maintain the water shield without even consuming her magic power? If this war of attrition continues, Angel will certainly lose.
Angel’s plan of continuing to shoot through the gaps in her shield was captured by Trickle of the Resting Stream. She then whispered, “Knife.”
The stream belt was turned into a water knife and chopped at Angel’s line of defence he first set up. The ice wall was unexpectedly split in half.
“This technique of changing water to all objects is too powerful. I don’t even have time to breathe.” Angel thought to himself. “With this deep level of manipulation for bringing extreme changes to water. Isn’t the woman opposite of me really from Song of the Deep Sea and not from the Savage Grottoes?”
Elemental manipulation is a very high-ended technical means of the Elemental Branch. Angel has read some books on elemental manipulation. So, he was fully aware of the weakness in elemental manipulation.
The essence of manipulation is still water!
As long as it is water, he just has to find the corresponding countering element to break this manipulation technique.
Fire and water repel each other. Fire can evaporate water, but water can also extinguish fire. So Angel did not choose to use fire to deal with her water manipulation but instead used magic that was not recorded in the entire Savage Grottoes.
Angel used the Holographic Tablet to calculate the combinations and arrangements of several level 0 magic, and then freely converted them into magic models with magic energy formulas.
One of them is the derivation of dust removal.
Dust removal is often used in conjunction with level 0 magic cleansing. In essence, it is the adaptation of wind and soil elements. At this moment, Angel intends on using a derivation of dust removal.
He named it Dust.
The new combination of wind and soil elements fills the sky with dust. This is the essence of magic.
In fact, it is a bit like the sand and dust technique, but it’s far from displaying the power of the sand and dust technique. At most, it raises some fine dust particles which are slightly larger than pollen. Long-term contact cannot cause harm to the human body, because nasal hairs can filter these fine dusts particles. This is basically a useless spell, so Angel directly names it [Dust].
But at this time, the name is very appropriate. Relying on Dust to absorb the water elements, he can ignore the manipulation effects of the water.
Angel fired his golden arrows excitedly while his opponent is blocking the attacks. As this is happening, he silently began building the Dust magic model in his mind.
Dust, this magic is not even at level 0 magic, so it was built very quickly. Even if Angel did not specifically memorize the magic, it would still only take about three or four seconds to construct it.
Dust was used by Angel and made the air look as if it was filled with white clouds of dust.
When the dust came into contact with the stream belt, the water became stained with a little dust. It seemed like the water was losing its power rapidly. Angel felt his victory in sight, but Trickle of the Resting Stream suddenly uttered another word: “Oil.”
“Oil?” Angel was a little confused. Did he hear wrongly? Why did she say oil?
When the voice of Trickle of the Resting Stream falls. The stream belt in mid-air changes its nature from transparent water to semi-turbid black and yellow oil visibility to the naked eye.
“This is oil?” Angel was surprised.
Trickle of the Resting Stream did not answer but directed the new “oil belt” towards Angel’s location. At the same time, Trickle of the Resting Stream called out Fire.
Fire helps ignite the oil.
The stream of oil exploded beside Angel, and he was bombed back by the force of the recoil.
After several tumbles in a row, Angel finally stopped at the edge of the battle arena.
“Is that really oil? How is that possible? Water and oil have nothing to do with each other and even the nature of the water has changed. How can elemental manipulation reach this point?!” Angel yelled in doubt.
Instead of answering Angel, Trickle of the Resting Stream raised her eyebrows and rubbed her temples wearily.
Angel is sure she is not tired from the fight, looking at the thick dark circles under her eyes… She wouldn’t happen to be sleepy, right?
Trickle of the Resting Stream expressed her mood with action. She lay down and began snoring.
“How long has she not rested?” Angel was tempted and cast a binding on Trickle of the Resting Stream.
The next second, Trickle of the Resting Stream was easily tied up.
Angel: “…” It seems that she is really asleep.
At the same time, words appeared on the transparent sign in the air: Milk Baron’s Victory.
Angel walked off the battle arena feeling s strange violation and deep doubts… The Sky Tower’s medical staff went up to the platform. Put Trickle of the Resting Stream on the stretcher and chatted freely while passing through the contestant’s channel.
Angel clearly heard a medical worker whispering, “Why did this little girl fall asleep on the stage again?”
“Again?” Did Trickle of the Resting Stream doze off during a battle more than once?
The contestant area on the third floor of Sky Tower is still very lively. Angel’s victory and return did not attract much attention from the other contestants. On the contrary, some people cast envious gazes at Angel.
“He really won the lottery this time by getting to fight against Trickle of the Resting Stream…” Someone whispered.
Angel looked on while unaware and found a corner to rest. Instead of going into meditation, Angel recalled something about Trickle of the Resting Stream. Angel didn’t care too much when she was sleeping on the battle arena. At best, he thought she was a weirdo. What he cared more about is how her stream belt become an oil belt? Although they are both liquids, they are different in nature. How can she transform the water?
This doubt made Angel think long and hard to try and understand this puzzle.
Throughout the morning, Angel fought four battles. With the exception of the confusing battle against Trickle of the Resting Stream, the other three battles were easy wins.
In the afternoon, Angel planned to fight four more battles. But after the second battle, he saw Nausica in the drawing area.
Instead of continuing to battle. He thought he would go and see one of Nausica’s battles as an audience member.
Nausica’s opponent is an ordinary Elemental Branch Wizard Apprentice. In Angel’s view, the opponent has neither learned a special spell nor had much outstanding ability. He can easily put his opponent down with his Wrist-Mounted Crossbow.
But during the fight between Nausica and her opponent, she was not as relaxed as Angel. Nausica is an apprentice in the Blood Branch. At present, there is no integration of a bloodline, and the magic set she learned is also very common. Her ability to fight in close quarters combat is outstanding. The opposite Wizard Apprentice stood up and cast defensive magic against her, but Nausica did not lose ground in the battle.
Angel was slightly confused.
Why not use the Single Butterfly?
If Nausica had fought with the Single Butterfly in close proximity, the battle would have ended long ago. But Nausica didn’t do so. She didn’t even pull out her short sword from her waist.
In the end, Nausica won, but it wasn’t an easy win. She only fought once and left the Sky Tower in a hurry Soon after.
Angel, on the other hand, went on to fight another battle and had won a victory before returning home during the twilight hours.
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When Angel returned home, he immediately took out the Holographic Tablet to search for books about elemental manipulation.
Angel was puzzled by several elemental manipulation books, which described manipulation as he imagined. Meaning it could not change the nature of elements.
So how can Trickle of the Resting Stream change the nature of water?
Moreover, Angel has some doubts. Trickle of the Resting Stream’s water shield is too strong as well, not like water at all, but more like metal. Is it true she is not using a water shield, but a metal one? But he clearly saw Trickle of the Resting Stream manipulate the stream belt to form a shield.
While Angel was meditating, suddenly there was a knock at his front gate outside his courtyard.
“Master Pat.”
Goode’s voice came from the gate of the courtyard.
Angel was startled and quickly closed the Holographic Tablet. He quickly hid it in his pocket watch and calmed his breathing down a little before he came to the courtyard to open the front gate for Goode.
“Master Pat, the Lord requests your presence.”