[Immaculate Body]-Ancient Giant Demon Form!
Facing Ronan's Unparalleled Ice Seal Sphere, a pinnacle technique in the field of ice magic, Clemens's pale blue eyes seemed to remain completely undisturbed.
A massive, Rotating Ice Ball, carrying an aura of terror, despair, and icy chill, hurtled toward them, freezing large swaths of air in its path and leaving trails of frost.
A cold wind gently ruffled Clemens' light chestnut hair. He did nothing but slowly take a step forward.
"Bang—"
An extremely powerful Extraordinary Magic Domain emanated from Clemens' body.
Countless free energy particles in the air converged and instantly condensed into a hemispherical cyan crystal barrier.
The enormous frozen sphere slammed into the cyan crystal barrier with a loud bang, unleashing a powerful energy shockwave.
Deep blue and cyan light emanated everywhere as two Extraordinary Magic Domain clashed and produced intense, ear-piercing sounds.
Clemens continued walking forward calmly, an invisible yet terrifying aura emanating from his body.
With each step he took, he became more dazzling, and the ice sphere that clashed with the cyan energy barrier shattered. He gradually became blinding, stubbornly pushing against Ronan's unparalleled ice sphere as he walked towards Ronan.
The terrifying, Extraordinary Magic Domain surrounding him crushed everything. When the ever-weakening frozen sphere was finally crushed and exploded under this power, turning into countless streams of blue and white energy that dissipated, Clemens became radiantly bright! Three suns!
Ronan saw three suns overlapping in Clemens!
That was the light emanating from three Spiritual Power Crystal belonging to a late-stage level two wizard.
Countless free-floating wind-elemental energy particles swirled around Clemens, spontaneously forming pale blue hurricanes around him, and countless tornadoes rose into the air. Ronan's Domain of Despair was riddled with holes, and its icy aura crumbled.
This is the kingdom of the wind, Clemens is the king who walks freely within it!
"A nearly hundredfold difference in mental strength meant that the unparalleled ice-sealing sphere formed by the superposition of the 'Four Law Domains' couldn't even break through a simple energy [Protection] barrier he casually summoned. The gap was simply too vast..."
Ronan's mind raced as he watched Clemens step by step. He took a deep breath, and a blazing white flame silently ignited on his body. An invisible heat wave spread out, distorting all the light around him and causing the air to collapse and cave in. [[Immaculate Body]], the all-powerful physical strength!
Ronan raised his twin swords, his billowing robes outlining his tall, perfect physique, his white hair dancing on his forehead, his azure eyes fixed firmly on Clemens... an even stronger fighting spirit was gradually ignited at this moment.
"Stop making these useless attempts."
Clemens' indifferent gaze swept easily over Ronan, and he calmly said, "You should know just how big the gap is between us."
I came here because of your One Segment Magic Domain Resonance skill.
I just want to see it.
"Yeah?"
The Nightmare Tungsten Steel transformed into two swords that fell into Ronan's hands, with the tips of the swords emitting a ghostly light of Spell Breaking Flame.
"Then let's follow my pace."
After saying that, Ronan's figure suddenly disappeared from the spot, leaving only a faint, almost invisible afterimage.
Clemens frowned, catching the suppressed, sharp sound of air being torn apart at high speed.
"Rip!—"
The gates to Clemens's wind kingdom were breached, and large swaths of hurricane tornadoes silently dissipated from the middle, as if they had been forcibly severed by something, leaving a straight vacuum trail along their path.
The trajectory extended to the energy [Protection] outside Clemens' body in the blink of an eye.
With a deafening roar, a large hole was torn open in the crystal-like energy shield, and a blurry, blazing white figure plunged into the solidified magic domain. Using its azure blade as a spearhead, it broke through the barriers of the magic domain and advanced straight in.
A glint of light flashed in Clemens' lapis lazuli eyes, and he made a gesture of raising his hand.
The Extraordinary Magic Domain in front of him condensed and instantly transformed into a crystal-clear, crescent-shaped deep blue Wind Blade, which shot out and just happened to hit the blurry figure that approached him like a white lightning bolt.
"Boom! Crack!"
The massive, deep blue Wind Blade shattered with a deafening roar, exploding into countless shimmering fragments.
However, the figure enveloped in the blazing white flames was also forced back a few steps.
Before he could even get his footing, a second, third, and fourth barrage of wind Wind Blade shot towards him at Clemens's command.
"[[Airflow Control]]!"
Clemens extended his right hand toward the figure that was gradually forced to reveal its full form by countless powerful Wind Blade, his five fingers spread.
Under the powerful mobilization of his mental energy, countless hurricane tornadoes in the sky became obedient, submitting to Clemens' control, and transformed into solid, twisted wind beams that coiled around the figure like giant blue pythons.
"Your strength is impressive, and your speed is quite fast..."
Clemens looked at the blurry figure who seemed to be in a "bitter struggle" and said calmly, "But no matter how fast you are, you can't outrun the speed at which wind forms, or the speed at which a late-stage level two wizard can capture it with his mental power. In close combat, you can bully ordinary wizards, but against a true powerhouse, you'll only become a joke."
"Boom!"
A terrifying heatwave erupted like a volcanic eruption, with flames of blazing white and eerie blue intertwining and rising in an instant. The entwined wind bundles and countless crystalline Wind Blade shattered under this sudden burst of power, dissipating into a whirlwind.
"Call--"
Having broken through the encirclement of countless wind spells, Ronan slowly lowered his twin swords, exhaled softly, and his azure gaze pierced through the vast distance, calmly meeting Clemens's eyes.
Clemens is right.
While the "[Immaculate Body]" is powerful, it is ultimately a purely physical force, a means of close combat, and has too many limitations.
Against wizards of average strength, he could overpower them with brute force, but against opponents like Clemens, who were far stronger than him, he was somewhat outmatched.
But ultimately...
Ronan's eyes flashed, "It's still because we're not strong enough."
If physical strength can only be effective when overwhelming the opponent, then one should maintain that overwhelming dominance indefinitely.
"[[Whispering Wind]]!"
Clemens' calm voice, mixed with powerful energy particle fluctuations, came from afar. Ronan's eyes flashed, and he raised his sword to close in. "Clemens has not used his full strength."
"The gap between them is too great, a whole major realm apart. Even if Ronan is an absolute magical prodigy, he simply cannot be a match for Clemens!"
"Why hasn't Ronan used One Segment Magic Domain Resonance' yet?"
"He was afraid that if he used his full power, the battle would end immediately. Opportunities to fight against a top genius like Clemens are rare."
The Arcane Circle watching the battle were engaged in lively discussions.
In their view, this was a contest whose outcome was predetermined from the start.
The duration of the entire battle depended largely on Clemens's composure and patience.
Once Clemens' patience runs out, the battle will be completely over.
Everyone, both on and off the field, understands this very well.
Clemens accepted Ronan's "challenge" not because he defeated Lanny. Even if the second-ranked genius of the Seventh Magic Ring were to challenge Clemens might not necessarily make a move.
The reason he accepted Ronan's challenge, who was only a level one late-stage wizard, was entirely because Ronan had comprehended One Segment Magic Domain Resonance. That was all.
"Perhaps Clemens is also very close to achieving One Segment Magic Domain Resonance, and hopes to gain inspiration through his battle with the prodigy Ronan to complete his final breakthrough."
Some speculated, and many others agreed.
But soon, the facts ruthlessly overturned this conjecture.
"Enough!"
Clemens' calm voice, tinged with a hint of coldness, rang out in the room.
All the wind stopped instantly.
However, they did not disappear; they hovered around Clemens' body, densely packed, like bows poised to be drawn.
"I came out of the tower... not to play these boring tricks with you."
Clemens' gaze locked onto a figure enveloped in a blazing white flame in the arena. He stretched out his right hand, and deep blue runes, like the veins of a plant, lit up from under his wide robes and quickly extended down his fair and smooth arm toward his palm.
"Since you refuse to use One Segment Magic Domain Resonance, then I'll help you."
As Clemens finished speaking, the runes that lit up on his right hand extended right up to the tip of his index finger.
Accompanied by a dense, deep cyan-green light flying out from the tip of Clemens' right index finger, streams of mysterious energy, more than ten times more concentrated and pure than before, surged forth from Clemens' fingertip like a flood.
In an instant, this space seemed to transform into a world of wind! Endless, ever-flowing air currents, a vast and boundless sea of wind-based free energy particles, condensed in the sky into a gigantic hand, radiant with light and covered with intricate patterns, as if crafted from the purest lapis lazuli.
The moment the palm appeared, all the Arcane Circle watching below felt a suffocating fear, as if they were about to be torn to shreds at any moment.
"One Segment Magic Domain Resonance!? This is the power of One Segment Magic Domain Resonance!"
Some of the spectators looked horrified, frantically retreating while shouting excitedly and incoherently.
"Clemens had already grasped One Segment Magic Domain Resonance. His acceptance of Ronan's challenge was just a game on a whim!"
Everyone was shaken to their core, yet they couldn't help but feel a deep sense of awe and reverence for Clemens, the giant hand in the battle group with a blue light above its head, surrounded by countless pale blue currents, as if he were the ruler of the sky.
The same effect of One Segment Magic Domain Resonance, when cast by Clemens, a late-stage level two wizard, was more than ten times more terrifying than the seven-colored energy river summoned by Ronan.
One Segment Magic Domain Resonance... the strength of the late stage of Level Two... This is the true brilliance of Clemens, the number one genius of their Seventh Magic Ring!
"One Segment Magic Domain Resonance. [The [Aionilo's Hand]]."
Clemens looked down at Ronan with an expressionless face and calmly said, "If you still refuse to use your own One Segment Magic Domain Resonance technique, then be prepared to be seriously injured."
No one can fool me.
After saying that, Clemens' eyes flashed with a genuine coldness. He locked his gaze on a figure not far away, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes. The giant, deep blue, flowing light hand above his head, which was wrapped in countless hurricane-like air currents, immediately reached out to grab the figure.
Aionilo is a legendary wind-eating monster with the power to tear apart everything in its path.
Under the oppressive weight of this giant hand, which resembled a legendary monster, the void in that area seemed to collapse directly, all light was compressed, and everything was dark. The constantly collapsing and compressed air was ten times heavier than the low pressure before a storm.
A strong sense of suffocation, the ever-dimming light, and the excruciating pain and sense of crisis as if a thousand tiny knives were cutting into his body at the same time. Ronan tilted his head back and squinted as he stared at the giant, luminous hand rapidly approaching overhead. His robes were being whipped around him by the raging winds, fluttering wildly like tattered flags.
"So this is the power of One Segment Magic Domain Resonance. Facing it directly as an opponent is truly terrifying."
Ronan murmured softly, but the light in his eyes seemed to grow stronger little by little.
"Perfect. Under such pressure, the plan I devised can truly be implemented."
After saying that, Ronan took a light breath.
He closed his eyes, no longer paying attention to the impending danger falling from above.
The blazing white flames surrounding it then completely subsided, as if it had chosen to give up all resistance at that moment.
Its slender, thin body, bathed in deep blue light, shrouded in gloom and raging winds, resembled a reed that could be uprooted and mercilessly crushed at any moment.
However, only Ronan himself knows the extent of his efforts right now—
Within his robust body, the enormous white sphere of light located in the center of his chest was being desperately compressed inward by Ronan using his mental power.
This is a special technique that Ronan figured out on his own after his brain was developed, for using the [[Immaculate Body]].
Compressing all life force to its limit and then releasing it all in an instant would unleash power that might exceed ten times, or even dozens of times, the normal activated state of the [[Immaculate Body]]! After completing this idea, Ronan only made a few simple attempts and has not yet fully tested it.
One reason is that each experiment would almost completely deplete the body's vitality, making the cost too high.
The second reason is that the external pressure is not enough. His late-stage level one mental strength is simply not enough to achieve the extreme compression he envisioned.
Right now, under the terrifying pressure of One Segment Magic Domain Resonance spell attack from Clemens, a level-two late-stage wizard, all the external conditions Ronan wanted have been perfectly fulfilled!
The process went exceptionally smoothly.
The enormous white sphere of light inside his chest quickly shrank from the size of a human head to the size of a fist, and then the color of a pigeon egg became increasingly intense, while its size decreased.
In the blink of an eye, a pure white sphere, only the size of a thumb, almost solidified, and teeming with countless lightning-like fragments of white light, finally took shape inside Ronan's body.
It can't be compressed any further; it has reached a certain limit.
Ronan could clearly feel the unprecedented and terrifying power contained within this pure white sphere, "a lake condensed in the palm of his hand"—it was the condensation of countless boundless vitality!
"After compressing to the extreme, the next step is to release it."
With a mix of inexplicable anticipation and trepidation, Ronan quietly withdrew his near-perfect late-stage level one spiritual power.
Without this pressure, the "pop" sound continued.
It was as if something inside Ronan had suddenly ruptured.
At this moment, the terrifying energy giant hand summoned by Clemens's One Segment Magic Domain Resonance was only a few meters away from him.
Ronan suddenly opened his eyes, and two beams of pure white light, as solid as a substance, shot out from his pair of azure pupils.
His handsome face was instantly filled with pain and contortion, countless veins bulging out, making him look incredibly ferocious.
"Click-clack-clack—"
A series of rapid sounds of flesh stretching and bones colliding emanated from Ronan's body.
His entire body swelled rapidly like an inflating balloon, his body tearing through his robes. Dense white light burst forth from every pore of his body, condensing and intertwining into the shape of lightning.
His once short, choppy white hair was also growing rapidly. "Boom!"
The moment Clemens summoned the [Aionilo's Hand] and slammed down, countless bursts of intense energy erupted.
More than one of the Arcane Circle wizards vaguely saw, in their almost blurred vision, an Ancient Giant Demon several meters long, ferocious and imposing, with white hair reaching its waist, letting out a silent roar towards the sky.