Being Afraid of Death Is Nothing to Be Ashamed Of

In the Menethil Family's magical laboratory, research into Magic Power sources was currently focused on two main areas: one was creating more powerful Philosopher's Stones, and the other was strengthening Ice Cores. As for combining the two? There was simply no need for that!

Indeed, fusing an ordinary Ice Core with a Philosopher's Stone was a laborious and unrewarding endeavor. At least for now, it was completely unnecessary.

But the Ice Core in Bell's hand was anything but ordinary!

It had been quite some time since he acquired the Elemental Lord's Ice Core. During that time, including when his injuries had yet to heal, Bell had been secretly studying the Elemental Lord's Ice Core—Lord Ice Core for short.

Just as Bell had roughly sensed at the beginning, although the Lord Ice Core's surface radiated endless chill, its interior was as scorching hot as a planet's core.

As for why this was the case, Bell honestly had no idea. Perhaps the Elemental Lord itself had been some kind of mutant freak? Or perhaps Shanna's blaze back then had caused some unknown changes to the Elemental Lord?

In any case, the methods that could be used to strengthen ordinary Ice Cores were completely unsuitable for the Lord Ice Core.

And even if they were suitable, Bell did not think Wizards possessed the ability to pull it off yet.

Thus, only one path remained before Bell: fusion.

What? You said the Lord Ice Core was already powerful enough and had no need to be strengthened further?

You... you were right...

Thinking back to the Elemental Lord's terrifying power, if Bell could successfully control the Lord Ice Core's Magic Power, which surpassed that of the Philosopher's Stone, then setting aside everything else, he would at least be able to swagger across Earth.

But!

Bell