Chapter 25: Berserker vs Shielder

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After their relaxing hot spring bath, Blaze & Khiry then dried off, got dressed & head to the Southeast Blaze is in her Phoenix form as they are now passing the spot where she & the group were attacked.

Blaze: This is the spot where we were attacked.

Khiry: Then we might be getting close. Try & head to those mountains.

Blaze: Ok.

Blaze then flies fast towards the mountain. As they got a bit closer, Khiry started to breathe in poison.

Khiry: Poison...

Blaze then hovers higher over the dead carcass of the dragon.

Blaze: Master, I can lower you without getting hurt from the poison fog.

Khiry: Ok. Just be careful.

Blaze then carefully lowers them to the ground. Khiry then got off as he then looked at the zombie dragon. Blaze then transformed back into her human form.

Blaze: Now, how do we get rid of this dragon?

Khiry: We revive it. But, first...

Khiry then brought out Jealous Fang & absorbed the poison around the mountain. He then switched from his daggers to his gloves. He then put the revival material & put it in one of two sockets as he then aims his hand at the Zombie dragon.

Khiry: "Arise!"

The material then started to glow as the zombie dragon is starting to get his color back. The dragon then rose as the material then broke. Khiry & Blaze then looked at the material.

Blaze: Your material... It's broke.

Khiry: Must have overloaded. 

Khiry then looked at the dragon, who is fully revived. The dragon is now looking at Khiry as he then thinking about how to communicate with him.

Khiry(Mind): How can I communicate with him? I know I have played Skyrim, but I don't understand the Dragonborn language?

???: Daddy!

Khiry & Blaze then see a little demi-human girl with dog ears & tail running to the dragon as the dragon then lowered its head & she then hugged it. The dragon is somehow communicating with the girl.

Wyndia: Hello, sir. My name is Wyndia. The dragon you have revived is my father.

Khiry(Mind): So adoptive father, then.

Wyndia: He wants to know two things.

Blaze: What would those be?

Wyndia: The first is how did you revive him.

Khiry: Healing magic. Your welcome.

Wyndia: He is very grateful.

The dragon then went to Wyndia, giving her the understanding as she then felt some sympathy.

Wyndia: Papa...

The dragon then nodded. Wyndia then looked at Khiry, then back at the dragon & nodded.

Wyndia: I will repeat then. He said, "My name is Gaelion. I have a big brother named Levi. He is the leviathan that attacked you & your group. He is only keeping me & my treasure protected from other adventurers. While my brother was out doing his duties, another adventurer with a sword powerful enough to defeat me. While my body decayed, it did kill & poisoned the people who still trying to take my gold. I want you to take everything before they do."

Khiry then has a vision where the village has the gold & sold Wyndia to a slave trader. He is now back.

Khiry: Ok.

Blaze then looked at him. Khiry went toward Wyndia as he then kneel to her level.

Khiry: Don't worry. I will keep you safe from others, okay?

Wyndia then nodded. She then takes him to Gaelion's lair and he then sees gold coins. He then brings out Spring Envy & manipulates the ground around the gold as he then brought out a boat made from the ground under it. 

Wyndia: He also wants you to take his core.

Khiry: His core? Isn't it the source of his life?

Wyndia then nodded. Khiry is then reminded of his father as he then looked at Gaelion, who has no regrets. Khiry's eyes started to water as he then nodded. Gaelion then lowers his head to the ground & opens his mouth. He then went in there as Khiry then activated his light vision & look around as he see the dragon core. He then changed his light vision to Night vision. He then carefully walked towards the core as he grab it. He hesitated before taking a deep breath & hank it, terminating and killing Gaelion. He then walked back as he then opens Gaelion's mouth & exit there while feeling remorse about that. Khiry then felt Wyndia holding his left leg. He then petted Wyndia on her head. She then let go as Khiry then made some vines to make a basket handle for Blaze to carry. Khiry then put Wyndia in the basket.

Khiry: Blaze.

Blaze then nodded, transforming into her Phoenix form as she then grabs the basket handle.

Wyndia: Mister.

Khiry then looked at Wyndia, who is holding an ice-shaped egg.

Wyndia: Here.

Khiry then grabbed it.

Khiry: Thank you. Blaze will explain the situation to my team. They are nice people.

Wyndia: Thank you, mister.

Blaze then started to lift the earth basket off the ground as both Khiry & Wyndia waved goodbye. Blaze then fly in the direction of the log cabin as Khiry then looked at the ice egg. He then brought out his dagger, then put it on the black gem, causing it to be a new dagger.

Name: Pale Smile

Element: Ice

Capabilities: Users can create, shape, and manipulate ice, and water frozen into a solid-state. As an elemental power, cryokinesis has a nigh-limitless number of uses, only limited by the user's imagination and their natural limits. Fundamentally, users would be able to generate ice through various means, such as lowering the temperature of the surrounding air until solid ice forms or by freezing nearby water sources. They could release and channel this ice in the form of ice beams that freeze whatever it comes into contact with, or extremely rigid and durable ice walls and domes that can be used offensively and defensively. There's also the capacity to use ice to freeze one's opponents to death by trapping them in ice that slowly kills their cells, or shattering them to pieces once frozen.

The next most common application is the ability to shape and control ice, such as turning ice chunks into icicles to pierce the opponent or icy wind to render it difficult for them to breathe. The user can also shape ice into weapons to use for combat, such as spears, swords, or scythes. They would also be able to move ice with their mind, raining a barrage of freezing ice shards on their enemies or using it to move large amounts of ice with ease. Increased mobility and speed can also be achieved through gliding on ice, which not only allows one to preserve stamina but can also potentially be able to reach places that would be extremely difficult to reach under normal circumstances. Users might also be capable of creating clones (which could be sentient in some cases) out of ice or increasing one's size through the use of ice.

Ice appears naturally in the forms of snow, slush, hail, icicles, ice spikes and candles, glaciers, pack ice, frost, and polar ice caps, thus allowing users to gain control over multiple varied structures and environments. However, places with the absence of water or locations with extremely high temperatures might pose a threat to the user. If at a high enough level, the user would be able to circumvent this issue through sheer power by rapidly cooling the surroundings or manifest ice that can be used out of nothing (which usually involves magic in one form or another). Summoning blizzards and ice-related disasters would also be possible in some cases. Ice manipulation could also extend to manipulating the cold by reducing the kinetic energy of atoms through the use of ice, which makes inducing sub-zero or even absolute zero temperatures entirely possible. Some ice manipulators have unique attributes, which can potentially be used to perceive through the ice or turn one's body into the ice itself.

At an extremely advanced level, users would possess nigh-absolute control over all forms of icy matter, allowing them to shape ice however they see fit, such as creating anything that they can imagine, such as an entire city or ecosystem. Users would also be capable of creating ice so cold that they cause cellular destruction for those that inhale it or ice that would be able to instantly kill someone as their bodies are simply unable to withstand such low temperatures. Through the precise manipulation of ice, a high-level ice manipulator can control ice on a molecular to the subatomic level, potentially allowing them to stop blood flow to the brain by freezing the bloodstream, halt chemical reactions by using ice to interfere, or cause matter to break down and collapse on itself if at a low enough temperature. Inversely, users would be able to plunge the entire planet into an ice age by exponentially lowering the Earth's temperature or simulate time stopping by lowering the surrounding temperature to the point everything is at a complete standstill.

Limitation: Cold Immunity

Ice Absorption

Ice Negation

As the temperature of ice is severely below that of a human's, excessive use of the ability may cause detrimental issues like frostbite.

Distance, mass, precision, etc. depend upon the knowledge, skill, and strength of the user and their power's natural limits.

May be unable to create ice, being limited to manipulating only from already existing sources.

The creation of ice may depend on the amount of moisture available; dry areas could make this difficult or impossible.

Ice is affected by everything that normal ice would be, although the user is perfectly able to use their power to return the ice to its original shape and/or control it even under these forces:

Melt under extreme heat (Fire Manipulation, Heat Manipulation, Magma Manipulation, etc.).

Vibrations are difficult (if not impossible) to freeze, as they cause the ice to shatter, making sound-based abilities a perfect counter.

Khiry then decided to seal off the lair. However, he is feeling different. The same feeling he felt when he was staring at Ren & Itsuki. When he started to feel that, he then snap out of it. He then brought out Pale Smile & generated ice to turn into a big block as he lift it & throw him into the ocean. He then brings out a magic material to see if he can bring the adventurers back from the dead.

Khiry: Okay. "Arise!" 

The material then revived the adventurers. They started to wake up as they looked around to see that they are near the dragon's lair. As they then finished the climb, they are stunned that they see the lair seal up.  

Adventurer #1: The lair! 

Adventurer #2: It's been sealed!

Adventurer #3: But the Sword Hero just killed the dragon! Why would he do that?!

???: He didn't.

The adventurers then see someone land in from of them. It is a tall, beautiful, and slender woman with long, light blue hair and blue eyes. She wore a General's apparel with long sleeves with buttons on the upper arms, a blue scarf on her neck, and high-heeled boots. She also has a tattoo on her chest, which is the sign of her Teigu.

Khiry(???): I did. 

Khiry(???) then show his(her) immersive aura as a light blue glowing eye stares at the adventurers getting scared.

Timeskip brought to you by Chibi Esdeath

Khiry(Esdeath) POV

After some time as Esdeath, I am sitting on my ice throne, have only one of them on chains while the rest of them are broken, first emotionally, then physically. They have died. I then yawn as I look at the one who is broken emotionally & mentally as he was panted like a dog. It does remind me of Mac, even though he is human.

Me(Esdeath)(Mind): I missed Mac so much, even if I didn't see him, literally. I have been in form for 9 hours & 50 minutes. 

I then kicked him hard enough to kill him.

Me(Esdeath): So weak. 

I then stand up from my throne & sighed.

Me(Esdeath): Maybe the leader of Mirso Village will have some truthful answer.

There was a shade over me as I then look up to see something heading towards me. I jumped back to see Fio in her fiolial form looking mad.

Me(Esdeath)(Mind): Fio?

I then see Naofumi & Raphtalia. They all looked mad as well.

Me(Esdeath)(Mind): I see. They saw me kill that guy. I need to explain my action.

Fio then gets ready so I then place my hand on the ground.

Me(Esdeath): Very well, those who stand in my way...

Fio then dashed toward me.

Me(Esdeath): Shall freeze.

I quickly freeze the ground, causing them to slip & fall. I create a wall of ice, to hear Fio crash, but she used her talons to hooked on the wall & launched herself in the air, but I jumped higher than her. When Fio then look up at me, I then delivered an ax kick to her head, knocking her back behind Naofumi & Raphtalia. I then snapped my fingers to create a giant ice boulder from behind me as I move out of the way.

Me(Esdeath): Hagelsprung(Hail Pounce)!

Naofumi: Shield prison!

I then push the giant ice boulder close, but it was stopped as the boulder then started to break. I then went to the ground to see that he was already inside the Shield prison. The boulder then broke into pieces as the Shield Prison deactivated Naofumi & Raphtalia then saw me, only for Naofumi to see looked in fear. I think I know, but when I heard Fio running, I then a bunch of ice shards.

Naofumi: Fio, get back!

Fio then turns her attention to Naofumi.

Me(Esdeath): Weiss schnabel(White mouth)!

The ice shards then push back Fio to the wall, but she then coughs up blood when a shard struck close to her right side. I then check her health to see if it was the same after that kick. I sighed with relief, then looked at Naofumi & Raphtalia.

Me(Esdeath)(Mind): Naofumi is showing fear? But Fio isn't dead.

I then carefully look at Naofumi as his shield and then change into a new shield.

Me(Esdeath): Shield of Rage...? Don't tell me...

Naofumi then show his face full of rage with red emissive eyes, which accidentally made me blush.

Me(Esdeath)(Mind): My heart... is pounding faster. 

I then felt a smile creep up on my face. 

Me(Esdeath): Very nice.

Naofumi then unleashed a stream of flames, but I created ice armor & ice shield on myself. However, the flame through my armor & shield. I covered my face with my arms, but I am taken

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