Ancient Wizards: A Little Progress Every Day

"Chaplin!"

Dago watched the approaching figure, whose features gradually became clearer in his vision. At this moment, the fighting spirit that had been brewing within him to an extreme erupted completely.

"Absolute Freeze!"

Dago slowly raised his hand, and the ice puck he was standing on, which was frozen over Karl Paul, immediately flew up. Then, countless icy energies in this space turned into deep blue cold currents and flowed towards the ice puck.

The ice puck began to spin, and its already enormous size visibly grew rapidly, eventually transforming into a super-sized spinning ice puck that was almost half the size of the arena.

Dago soared into the air, his enormous and terrifying spinning ice ball almost stealing the attention of all the wizards present, leaving them horrified. He held it in one hand and suspended it above the field, like a planet formed of ice and snow!

"That's clearly against the rules!"

Abbotchard's voice descended from the sky.

Dago looked up at it, then at the unmoved, three-ring wizard, whose eyes remained closed. A slight smile played on his lips as he spoke softly to Abochild.

"My rules are my rules!"

The giant spider Abochild's expression froze instantly, utterly speechless.

Dago had already turned his head, his gaze and mental energy firmly locked onto the tall figure in the distance. His eyes shone with a star-like brilliance, and his entire body was enveloped in an invisible aura, his robes fluttering without wind.

"Absolutely Frozen Ball!"

It embodies all the icy chill and fighting spirit that Dago has accumulated during his "long" wait; this is his pinnacle skill as an ice wizard to date!

The enormous, spinning sphere of ice released a terrifying aura, howling as it left a deep white trail in the air before hurtling straight toward the tall figure approaching from afar!

Dago's robes fluttered, the Ice Sword Dance of Fine Snow was automatically generated, and the Absolute Frost Domain illuminated by the Soul Seal [Winter Star] remained. He was like a twisted source of icy coldness, closely following the trajectory of the ice ball, directly breaking through the shackles of the arena's spatial rune array, and rushing away.

Selection process, arena, rules—all of that was cast aside by Dago at this moment. He only wanted to fight; he only wanted his opponent to die!

The tense and oppressive atmosphere in the arena was shattered the moment Dago rushed out of the arena's magic circle. A commotion erupted in the arena, and many magic circle wizards began to follow in the direction Dago had rushed out. The originally orderly selection process suddenly turned into chaos.

The giant spider Abochild stared in astonishment at the bustling crowd below, its mouth slightly open, frantically spinning around on its silver web in the air, looking completely helpless.

It subconsciously glanced at the old third-ring wizard who was pretending to sleep with his eyes closed, and seeing that the latter was still calm and indifferent, it could only shake its head helplessly.

"Another troublemaker!"

After saying that, it spat out silver threads in the air and quickly followed the shifting battlefield.

Soon, the crowd in the huge fighting square dispersed, leaving only a lone figure in a corner.

Pale-skinned, with black diamond earrings adorning his ears, Jareden, shrouded in a deep sense of gloom and dejection, stared blankly in the direction the crowd had gone, at that flamboyant and dazzling figure surrounded by countless snowflakes. He murmured in a dreamlike voice, "So, this is how you challenge the top ten?"

The figure speeding through the sky stopped above the central square, gathering energy particles with its mental power in preparation for releasing a spell.

Dago ignored it, his eyes shining, and continued pushing the Absolute Frozen Sphere forward. Soon, he sensed the rapid flow of energy particles in the air.

Chaplin's mental energy was rapidly sinking, and below it, an even more vast and magnificent ocean of energy was slowly rising—an immeasurable mass of earth elemental energy!

"Boom! Boom!"

Dago saw the ground in the distance begin to shake, and the earth rapidly cracked, as if a tightly closed fissure had been opened, and a brown mudstone spiral column shot into the sky like a fountain.

Chaplin faced him, raised his right arm, and manipulated the mental field in the air to erupt like a volcano. The pillar of mud and rocks swirled rapidly toward him like a giant earth dragon, forming a huge vortex.

As Dago arrived with the Absolute Freeze Sphere, a massive brown earthen shield materialized, blocking his path.

"boom!"

The spinning ice ball, radiating boundless icy chill, collided violently with the brown earthen shield, instantly unleashing countless torrents of deep blue and brown energy, along with a few stray bursts of intense heat. Terrified screams erupted from the center of the explosion, and a figure stumbled out, fleeing swiftly into the distance.

The terrifying aftershocks of energy created a massive shockwave, and a gale-force wind carrying mud, rocks, and ice shards crashed and fell wildly across the plaza, causing a group of magic-wielding wizards who had come to watch the battle to stop in their tracks.

In the instant the spells clashed, Dago flashed into the fray. His ice sword, imbued with azure ice flames, sliced ​​through the chaotic energy currents. His mental energy locked onto a blazing, glowing humanoid figure of mental energy, and a sharp light shone in his eyes.

Propelled by terrifying physical strength, it left a long trail of blue lightning in the air, slashing straight towards the humanoid figure.

"Bang!"

Dago felt as if he had struck something hard. A cloud of dirt exploded in front of him, and then more hard objects approached from all sides. Dago slashed around, instantly shattering them all, but his body was also slowed down. Looking up, he saw that the blazing spiritual energy humanoid he sensed had taken the opportunity to distance itself from him.

His eyes flickered slightly, and he simply lowered his ice sword, remaining motionless in the air. Only then did the aftershocks of the collision between the Absolute Ice Sphere and the Earth Dragon Shield completely subside.

As the icy dust and mud dissipated, Chaplin, the opponent, finally came into full view of Dago. He was a tall and robust young man wearing an exquisite silver short coat with rune fluctuations emanating from within. He also wore a thorny armband on his right arm.

However, a long scar ran diagonally across his otherwise masculine face, which only made Dago seem more ferocious! He was like a fierce tiger, his limbs gripping the ground firmly, his body slightly lowered, calm, heavy, yet sinister and dangerous.

The two stood facing each other suspended in mid-air, with large and small broken boulders scattered across the plaza below, as if they were in a desolate desert or on ruins, with little trace of frost on the ground.

This is the advantage of earth-elemental wizards. With other elemental spells, the summoned elemental particles will quickly escape after the spell is cast, but earth elements can exist for a long time, like an army that can be reassigned at any time.