Gravity Prison

After their battle, Arnold and Ayed had become good friends. Ayed was not too disappointed about losing to Arnold; after all, Arnold was simply too freakish.

Afterward, Ayed would occasionally invite Arnold to fight outside the imperial capital, and both of them gained greatly from those battles.

For Arnold, fighting others gave him a deeper understanding of magic.

Later, Ayed even asked Arnold to make magic scrolls containing the Double Gravity Seal and Greater Gravity Spell so he could train. Arnold was not stingy either, casually producing a batch of magic scrolls for Ayed. Ayed did not let Arnold take a loss, directly paying him 50,000 gold coins.

After facing the Greater Gravity Spell many times, Ayed had come up with many ways to resist it. However, he was still completely unable to withstand the Double Greater Gravity Spell. He could only, as before, expend a massive amount of battle qi to eliminate the earth-element energy within the Gravity Space. But that consumed too much battle qi, leaving Ayed completely unable to withstand Arnold's subsequent attacks.

After repeatedly using the Greater Gravity Spell in battle, Arnold developed new ideas about gravity.

Arnold's improvements to the Gravity Spell had entirely followed the direction of increasing gravity. Although that was indeed the research direction of the Gravity Law branch of Earth Law, the Greater Gravity Spell was also easily countered. For example, an Advanced Warrior could expend a great deal of battle qi to fill the Gravity Space and directly disperse the earth-element energy.

If the enemy were an even stronger peak Ninth-level Warrior, or even a Saint Domain Warrior, their reserves of battle qi would be unimaginable. They probably would not even care about such expenditure.

Arnold wanted to create a more powerful Greater Gravity Spell, one capable of even restraining Saint Domain experts.

The Gravity Space created by Arnold's Greater Gravity Spell was actually formed by filling a limited area with a special type of earth-element energy, causing objects within the Gravity Space to experience astonishing gravity. In truth, other Earth Elements still existed within that area. If he could drive away all the other Earth Elements and leave only the special energy that produced gravity, its power could likely rise another level.

Furthermore, the space formed by Arnold's Greater Gravity Spell was too easy to escape. For example, those with strong physical strength could endure the gravity head-on and quickly leave; or mages could use the fluctuations of Earth Elements to offset part of the gravity and escape the Gravity Space.

If the outer perimeter of the Gravity Space were entirely formed from Earthquake Sacred Armor, anyone inside who wanted to get out would definitely have to attack the Gravity Space. Then, if the Earthquake Sacred Armor redirected part of the attack into the ground, it could greatly slow the enemy's escape.

Arnold named the ultimate move born from this concept Gravity Prison. Was it not a prison? Those of low strength could not break through the Gravity Prison in a short time. Even the strong would have to put in some effort to break it open. Moreover, Gravity Prison was exceptionally effective against groups. And if he could drive away all Earth Elements, enemies trapped within the Gravity Prison would be as good as blind.

The ultimate move had been conceived, and its effects would probably be excellent. But how was he supposed to cast such a Gravity Prison?

At the training grounds of Yale Estate, Arnold continuously cast small-area Greater Gravity Spells and the most basic Earthquake Sacred Armor, trying to fuse the two spells together.

At first, Arnold fixed the casting of a very small, human-height Gravity Space, then cast a Fifth-level Warrior Earthquake Sacred Armor. This sacred armor was not worn on his body, but cast outside the Gravity Space.

When Earthquake Sacred Armor was worn on a person, it could freely change shape, so naturally it could also be enlarged or shrunk.

A simplified version of Gravity Prison took shape, but it was completely inadequate. First, it was formed by casting two spells, so the casting time was too slow. Second, its power was not particularly impressive.

Previously, Arnold had not known that destroying Earthquake Sacred Armor from the inside was so easy. Earth Guardian Sacred Armor defended against external attacks, not internal ones.

Arnold further improved the Earthquake Sacred Armor spell, making its effect the same inside and out, both capable of resisting attacks.

However, this greatly increased the consumption of magical power. The original Earthquake Sacred Armor defended against external attacks. If he improved it to defend against internal attacks as well, he naturally had to use more magical power to draw in Earth Elements and form the armor.

As for how to create a spell that could both produce immense gravity and form armor with extraordinarily high defense, Arnold still could not figure it out. In truth, Arnold's idea already counted as an advanced application of Earth Law, something within the domain of Saint Domain or Deity-level experts. Arnold was thinking about it now, so naturally he had no clue where to begin.

Since he could not create it, he could only cast two spells and fuse them to achieve this effect. Even so, its power was formidable.

Arnold slowly adjusted the size of the Gravity Space and the Earth Guardian Sacred Armor, as well as the casting times of the two spells.

In the end, after casting one spell, Arnold could immediately, within a short time, place the space formed by the other spell inside or outside the first.

Gravity Prison was an ultimate move formed by combining Gravity Law, Earth Elements, and Earth Fluctuation. Could Arnold also incorporate the Earth Escape Art he had comprehended into it?

The Earthquake Sacred Armor Arnold had previously improved was based on Earth Guardian Sacred Armor, with a vibrating force added within it. Furthermore, when attacked, Earthquake Sacred Armor could transfer part of the force into the ground.

To incorporate the Earth Escape Art into Gravity Prison was, in fact, to incorporate the Earth Escape Art into Earthquake Sacred Armor.

The key to the Earth Escape Art was merging one's body with the earth—or, more precisely, merging into Earth Elements. Incorporating the Earth Escape Art into Earthquake Sacred Armor meant allowing the armor formed by Earthquake Sacred Armor to merge into Earth Elements in place of the caster, replenishing the consumed Earth Elements after it had been attacked.

The armor formed by Earthquake Sacred Armor was actually condensed from Earth Elements controlled by the caster through the magical power within their body.

Back then, Arnold had suddenly thought of incorporating the vibrations of Earth Elements into Earth Guardian Sacred Armor. He did not know how, but he had actually succeeded.

Now, however, Arnold's spiritual force had become many times stronger. He had enough confidence to raise the endurance of Earthquake Sacred Armor to another level.

In the blink of an eye, half a year passed, and it was already the spring of Yulan Calendar Year 1.

At the estate's training grounds, Arnold swiftly cast a Gravity Prison. This Gravity Prison had a very small range, merely a black space two meters tall. However, when used to trap people, its restraining force was no small matter.

Furthermore, after reaching the Eighth-level, Arnold's spiritual force had reached the upper Eighth-level over nearly two years. Arnold estimated that he would break through to the Ninth-level in one year, at most a year and a half. His physical strength could now fully display the power of a Sixth-level Warrior, while his battle qi had reached the peak of a Sixth-level Warrior. Perhaps tomorrow, the battle qi within Arnold's body would break through into liquefaction and reach the level of a Seventh-level Warrior.