Arrival at the Destination

Three days later.

Beside a vast lake.

The moisture in the air had condensed into tiny ice crystals and slowly drifted down under gravity.

Dago, dressed in a gray-silver wizard's robe, stood by the lake and watched silently as the Great Ice Serpent's enormous body gradually sank beneath the water.

As its body descended, the power of extreme-cold laws began to erode the thermodynamic balance of this body of water.

A thin layer of ice gradually formed across the lake's surface, while the corpses of frozen aquatic creatures constantly floated up.

Those fish and shrimp had not even had time to struggle before the fluid inside their cells crystallized in an instant, rupturing their cell walls and turning them into translucent specimens.

Dago frowned slightly. He wanted to say something, but for now, it seemed he had no better option than this.

He was now very close to the Fairy Ancient City, with perhaps only a few days of travel remaining.

The concentration of free elemental particles in the air was rising exponentially, while all kinds of mixed spiritual radiation intertwined through the void to form a vast net.

The closer Dago got to the Fairy Ancient City, the more he could feel an invisible tide converging ahead. There were simply too many powerful wizards, forcing him to change his original plan and abandon the idea of bringing the Great Ice Serpent along.

No matter how confident Dago was in his own strength, he could not guarantee that he would be able to protect the Great Ice Serpent in a place where countless powerful wizard prodigies from across the entire south had gathered.

For any wizard who cultivated elemental magic, this ancient serpent species, with fragments of ancient frost laws embedded within its genetic sequence, was an irresistible temptation.

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