Green Monster Epic

Chapter 1015: War of Attrition

Facing the icy world before him, Allen's eyes held nothing but a trace of coldness.

When he chose to challenge a Saint-level mage, he had already anticipated the opponent's power and difficulty.

Now that the expected situation had become a reality, even if this Saint was even more formidable, it didn't seem to make much difference to Allen.

The power of faith continuously surged from his body, merging with his anger and mental strength to create new divine power.

However, after the fierce battle, Allen suddenly realized that the speed at which his vast mental strength was generated couldn't keep up with the rate at which he was consuming it.

This meant that Allen would probably need to re-plan his fighting style in the upcoming battle so that he could sustain the fight.

Although it seemed that the battle between him and Sidney had only lasted for a little over a day, compared to the previous battle against the Bloodthirsty Saint, Allen's constant bursts to break through the opponent's spell freezes and seals, and the use of powerful combat skills, consumed more divine power in a short period than the total amount he used in several days of fighting Sterling.

However, Allen was not anxious.

His great consumption also meant that the other party's consumption was also considerable.

Whether it was summoning that demigod-level dwarf companion, or those terrifying and astonishing spells with powerful additional effects, they all required a huge amount of mental strength and magic power.

No matter how unfathomable a human Saint-level mage's mental strength and magic power were, they still had their limits.

Compared to the body's continuous recovery of physical strength and power, energy like magic power and mental strength would not recover out of thin air.

It required a quiet and peaceful environment, and means such as meditation and sleep to accelerate its recovery.

Although this mental strength and magic power could slowly recover over time, the difference between the two and the self-recovery speed of physical strength was extremely large.

Now that Sidney had used such a powerful magic that didn't look simple, it meant that he had once again consumed a lot of magic power and mental strength.

Even for a Saint, such powerful magic with miraculous effects must be a considerable burden for him.

As long as he persisted long enough, the opponent's strength would weaken.

When he dragged the opponent to the point of exhaustion, with no more magic power or mental strength to cast powerful magic, it would be his time to launch a counterattack.

Thinking of this, Allen felt more confident.

He raised the Bone Cleaver in his hand and stepped on the void, his figure plunging into the icy world without hesitation.

Sidney, who was in the ice and snow world, saw Allen rashly rushing into his ice and snow world.

A fierce look flashed across his eyes, and then Sidney waved his hand, and countless snowmen and ice creations appeared on Allen's path, launching a fierce attack directly at Allen.

At some point, Sidney had two more crystal bottles in his hands.

The bottles contained two liquids of completely different colors.

While constantly depicting magic patterns, Sidney first opened the cork of the bottle, and then he tilted his head and poured the two bottles of potion into his mouth.

Immediately, a soothing and reassuring feeling came from the tense and empty mental world, and strands of mental strength and magic power were quietly generated from the sea of consciousness.

Although these wisps of mental strength and magic power seemed like a drop in the bucket compared to his consumption of each magic, if the timeline was extended, the mental strength and magic power it recovered would be very considerable.

Clang!

Clang clang!

Clang…

Allen roused all his strength, and the Supercritical Strike and Devastating Critical Strike ordinary feats, which had already been integrated into each of his ordinary attacks, brought great destructive power to Allen even without the blessing of divine power.

In addition, with the gravity spell characteristics of the heavy sword Bone Cleaver itself, under the effect of pure anger stimulation, Allen could generate hundreds of thousands of pounds of impact force just by relying on physical strength and a little anger to stimulate the gravity spell.

The ice creations encountered head-on turned into dust like a rotten branch in front of his attack, or were split into a ball of ice crystals, falling back into the world of ice and snow, and re-incubating new creations.

The ice river that had not yet disappeared in the distance slowly floated over under Sidney's control, and then merged into the ice and snow world, increasing the power of the ice and snow world, and also bringing composite effects to the ice and snow world.

Sidney, as a great ice-shaping mage, naturally knew the principle that what is rigid is easily broken, so with the addition of the ice river, the ice and snow world also had a bit of the nature of soft water.

Whenever Allen's tyrannical power smashed into the ice and snow world, the highly plastic and pressure-resistant water flow would extend a large amount of impact from point to surface until the power in Allen's sword momentum was exhausted.

Ice magic is actually an extension of water magic.

The elements between the two are one, but the effects produced are quite different, which is why Sidney chose this magic as his major at the beginning.

After adding the powerful plasticity special effect of water elements, the ice and snow world created now was Sidney's most powerful magic.

The short distance of several kilometers between him and Allen was like a natural moat, making it impossible for Allen to touch his opponent at all.

Batch after batch of ice creations were evolved from this world, and then beheaded and destroyed by Allen one sword after another.

After returning to this world again, they would re-condense into strange shapes from other directions and pop up again, continuing to kill tirelessly.

One day, two days, three days…

The two Saints had been fighting in this world for a full twenty days.

Even the dozens of strong men on both sides watching from afar felt a little dull and tasteless, but the two of them had to continue to persevere.

Allen was like a tireless beast, charging left and right in this icy world, chasing the figure of the human Saint Great Mage Sidney.

The various ice creations in front of him, existences below the Legendary level, often turned into dust between his every move, blooming into clusters of snow-white flowers.

A few creations above the Legendary level only had to withstand a few more attacks from Allen, or a fierce blow from a combat skill.

From time to time, Allen would also take the time to release coldness, throwing out a few flying axes or a few ranged attacks from a distance, just to prevent Sidney from being peaceful and not giving the opponent a chance to meditate and recover his spirit and magic power.

In this long stalemate, Allen also discovered a very important flaw in the opponent's seemingly powerful and invincible domain, that is, the breath between this domain and the human Saint was closely connected, like an extension of his body.

This was the secret to how, no matter how many times he chased Sidney down and hacked his body into the finest ice crystals with powerful combat skills, the latter could calmly reappear elsewhere in the domain.

However, this overly tight connection also allowed Allen to discover, after once again casting a Dimensional Anchor scroll to further disrupt Sidney's spatial teleportation, that even if Sidney's main body dodged the Dimensional Anchor's rays, the stray rays hitting the icy world still restricted Sidney's ability to cast teleportation magic.

Otherwise, in these twenty-odd days of entanglement, Sidney would have had plenty of opportunities to proactively retract the ice and snow domain, reducing self-consumption and switching to a more rational and effective combat method.

With this discovery, and such a large target, Allen felt at ease engaging in a war of attrition, no longer worrying about Sidney using other methods or combat styles.

Sidney's face was as white as the icy space he was in; his gradually depleting sea of consciousness made his once-wise brain feel like a bowl of paste, and each moment of squeezing magic and mental power from some unknown place in his body brought waves of stinging pain.

Tilting his head back, he downed another bottle of potent magic recovery potion and mental recovery potion; the brief physical relief brought by the potions allowed Sidney to squeeze out a bit more magic and mental power, summoning a legendary-level ice and snow beast to intercept Allen, who was approaching within five hundred meters.

He had no idea how many bottles of potions he had drunk, and in these twenty-odd days, he had even thrown out hundreds of high-power scrolls, partly to provide a continuous ice and snow elemental power for the ice and snow domain, and partly to buy himself time to gather strength.

However, such frequent use of potions not only damaged his body but also led to drug resistance, thereby greatly reducing the potion's effectiveness.

Sidney never imagined that he would be forced to this point by a hillbilly goblin from a remote and neglected area; the initial confidence at the start of the battle gradually eroded away in the face of that tireless fellow wielding a heavy war sword.

Deep down in Sidney's heart, a negative emotion of wanting to give up and escape was growing; after all, if he continued to fight like this, he really had no chance of winning.

It was also his fault for being too careless at the beginning of the fight, immediately using several powerful spells and summoning his demigod partner from another dimension to help; although it did bring heavy damage to the hillbilly goblin, he almost succeeded in severely injuring the hillbilly goblin.

Powerful spells often meant high consumption; on the first day, he had lost more than 50% of the energy accumulated in his body, and when he realized that he couldn't establish his dominance immediately, he wanted to change his fighting style, but he was accidentally tricked by the other side, and for a time, he fell into a disadvantage.

Only now did Sidney finally understand why this hillbilly goblin was so eager to challenge him without giving each other time to buffer.

If he had had more time to prepare and think, he wouldn't have judged based on the information at the time and made a plan to severely injure the hillbilly goblin who had just gone through a fierce battle in one go, which instead put him in the current predicament.

This was how a contest between two experts of similar strength was like; once one side had a fatal flaw and was caught by the other side, it would be very difficult to reverse the situation.

If he had known that he would summon the Frost Giant partner later and let him cooperate with his fully deployed ice and snow domain, he would not have fallen into the current predicament.

Of course, at this moment, Sidney was only facing a predicament rather than a desperate situation; at this moment, calculatingly squeezing and using the energy in his body was also based on the plan to contend with the tireless beast for a longer time.

According to the current energy usage, it would take at least ten more days to completely exhaust his energy unless he was in a desperate situation.

However, looking at the plans of this hillbilly goblin who had fallen into his domain, he was probably not in a hurry, and at this moment, this opponent had even withdrawn his own combat domain, only relying on his powerful physical strength to fight against the ice and snow creations in the domain.

It seemed that the energy accumulated in the opponent's body at this moment was definitely much more abundant than his own, just waiting for the time of the final battle to come.

But Sidney couldn't wait until the moment he completely ran out of energy; he didn't want to be the next unlucky ghost to be beheaded by this hillbilly goblin.

A flying axe whistled towards him; the hillbilly goblin hundreds of meters away saw him close his eyes to think, thinking that he was meditating to recover, and while slashing away the legendary ice and snow beast with a sword, he didn't forget to cause him some trouble.

His right hand was raised in the void, and an ice wall rose from the ground under his feet, just blocking the flying axe; the heavy axe smashed a crack on the ice wall, and then the newly formed ice wall collapsed with a bang, falling back into the rugged ice and snow.

Sidney also returned the favor, with two more scrolls in his empty left hand; his retracting right hand reached the edge of the scroll and directly tore it, and exuberant magic rippled from the scroll, falling towards Allen in the distance as the scroll fluttered in the air.

"Roar!!!!!"

Summon Ice Elemental!

An ice elemental, almost at the legendary level, with its head fused with its body, appeared in front of Allen; two thick ice cones formed its arms, and it burrowed straight into Allen's arms.

Whoosh~~~~

Ice Storm!!

Also a legendary-level spell, stirring up a biting cold wind, as well as ice crystals and snowflakes that were never lacking in the icy world, enveloping Allen and all the ice and snow creations in a white fog.

Allen remained calm; although the black dragon scale armor he was wearing and the exposed skin were covered with frost, and the blood was flowing slowly in this icy breath, he was not prepared to use the divine power in his body, purely relying on his physical body and will to resist this endless cold.

However, the opponent's sudden action aroused Allen's vigilance, or rather, he had been waiting for the opponent to start changing his moves.

Just when his eyes were temporarily lost because of the flying snow and ice crystals that enveloped his eyes and surroundings, Allen was no longer stingy with the energy in his body, and directly deployed the combat domain to overlap with the opponent's ice and snow domain, monitoring the opponent's possible actions.

Sidney's original behavior of preparing to act also stopped because of Allen's sudden deployment of the domain.

After Allen spent a lot of money to kill the ice elemental summoned creature that was like a fish in water in the ice and snow domain, and then drilled out of the ice and snow world to regain his vision, he then withdrew the combat domain.

The two patiently probed each other, one with almost endless stamina, and the other with a rich family fortune and seemingly endless scrolls, magic props, and potions, and so several days passed.