Chapter 513: Class Transfer

Chapter 513: Job Change

Following Gutherwie's explanation, Levi gained a rough understanding of the rebel army's composition.

The rebels were likely troublemakers who had originally been hiding within the City of Ice and Snow.

It was only due to the Ice Queen's near-omniscient awareness within the city that these people previously had no opportunity to cause chaos.

Until someone discovered that the Ice Queen had vanished.

After the Ice Jade Palace's control over the City of Volred declined drastically.

This hidden group of troublemakers finally could not help but emerge.

If it were merely this, Levi would not be too worried.

After all, the Ice Queen had been able to suppress them before, leaving them not even daring to show their heads.

With Gutherwie's strength, she could certainly suppress these people as well.

It was just a bit more troublesome.

After finishing his contemplation, Levi thought of another matter.

During his secluded cultivation, he had been pondering how to push the extraordinary trait of the Arcane Codex to its absolute limit.

At that time, many ideas had surfaced.

It just so happened that Gutherwie was by his side, and Levi wanted to verify some of the thoughts in his heart.

He looked at Gutherwie and said, "We can talk about eating later, I have a matter to trouble you with."

Gutherwie asked curiously, "What is it?"

"Please demonstrate all the spells you know for me to see," Levi said.

Hearing this, Gutherwie froze for a moment, deeply perplexed, not understanding what Levi wanted to do.

However, she unconditionally fulfilled Levi's request.

Gutherwie smiled and replied, "Alright."

Glancing around, she said, "It's not quite suitable here, how about we go to the back mountain? It's broader there, and some spells have an area-of-effect range, which cannot be deployed here."

Levi nodded, "No problem, let's go."

The City of Ice and Snow was built relying on a snow mountain, at the foot of which was the urban area where ordinary residents lived, and the populace of the City of Ice and Snow was also mainly concentrated there.

Walking upward, the buildings became incredibly scarce, fewer the higher one went, with the Ice Jade Palace at the very peak.

At the mountainside, basically only the barracks of the Valkyries and the Ice Guards remained, with no other buildings.

The city wall was also built around the base of the mountain peak in a circle.

Though said to be around a circle, it was actually only an arc of about two hundred and forty degrees.

Because behind the snow peak that the City of Ice and Snow relied upon was a sheer cliff.

The sheer cliff was covered in hard ice, incomparably smooth, and hundreds of meters high, no enemy could scale the sheer cliff from here to enter the City of Ice and Snow.

Therefore, there was no city wall on this side.

Levi and Gutherwie arrived upon the sheer cliff of the back mountain.

The so-called back mountain was just a piece of flat ground that could be considered level, its edge a broken cliff hundreds of meters high from the ground.

Gutherwie did not use the Frost Staff, casually releasing a few minor ice spells for Levi to see.

She also did not know exactly what Levi wanted to do.

"Is this alright?"

Gutherwie casually released an "Ice Spike Spell", and the moment the spell model took shape, dozens of ice spikes as thick as arms appeared in mid-air, shooting toward the snowfield not far away.

The Ice Spike Spell she casually released was far more powerful than the triple ice spike spell meticulously improved by Gu Ze.

Rank was one aspect, but it was more of a gap in talent.

In Gutherwie's hands, the Ice Spike Spell was just a zero-rank spell, merely receiving an amplification from her extraordinary trait, making its power slightly more formidable.

It was not like Levi, who deduced low-rank spells into high-rank spells.

This was an essential difference.

Levi nodded, feeling slightly emotional as he said, "Yes, truly impressive."

Seeing the Ice Spike Spell deployed by Gutherwie, Levi recalled the first time he had deployed the Ice Spike Spell.

At that time, he had exerted all his strength, yet could only release an ice spike the thickness of a chopstick.

Let alone comparing it with Gutherwie's Ice Spike Spell, even when compared to a normal Ice Spike Spell, his spell's power was pathetically weak.

Now, his spellcasting would no longer be restricted by "elemental affinity."

The root cause was that his mental power was strong enough.

When a mage's mental power was weak, they had to rely on "elemental affinity" to completely release elemental spells.

Elemental affinity represented the response speed of magic elements.

Different affinities meant different response speeds of magic elements, which was one of the most critical factors affecting the spellcasting speed of low-rank mages.

Now Levi's mental power was strong enough that he could already "forcefully" fill the spell model with elements.

When deploying large-scale spells, elemental affinity was equally important, but for minor spells, it was not that vital.

Forceful filling could satisfy the spellcasting requirements.

On the other hand, apart from mental power rising as a mage's strength enhanced, elemental affinity would also rise as a mage's rank enhanced.

Even if Levi had never enhanced his elemental affinity for wind elements, thunder elements, earth elements... by now, the affinity of these elements toward him was definitely far beyond that of his past weak period.

Hearing Levi's praise, Gutherwie chuckled softly, "It's nothing, you are much more formidable than me."

Levi laughed and said, "Then please demonstrate all the spells you know."

Gutherwie nodded, "Mhm, no problem... it's just, what exactly do you want to do?"

Levi extended his right hand, a patch of light appearing in his palm, and within the light, a book that seemed both illusory and real emerged.

This was the Arcane Codex.

Activating the Ice Spike Spell that the Arcane Codex had just recorded. Dozens of arm-long ice spikes emerged in front of Levi, shooting toward the distant snowfield.

It was completely identical to the spell Gutherwie had deployed just now.

Gutherwie revealed a shocked expression, she cried out in surprise, "Can all spells be copied? Or is it that only low-rank spells can be copied?"

Levi said, "It is related to my own rank, currently I can only copy spells below the sixth rank."

Gutherwie's eyes were filled with immense shock, this kind of ability was simply too terrifying.

Could this be the extraordinary power Levi obtained after breaking through to the sixth rank?

Gutherwie now understood Levi's meaning.

Knowing that he wanted to copy her spells, Gutherwie also held nothing back, doing her utmost to display her optimal state so that Levi could copy the strongest spells.

Gutherwie had already mastered the vast majority of ice spells from the zero rank to the sixth rank.

Icicle Art, Frost Rain Art, Frozen Cloud Art, Ice Track Art, Freezing Art, Ice Arrow Art, Resist Ice Ring Art, Blizzard Art... Ice-Sealed Crystal Coffin, Ice Age, Summon Ice Elemental Lord...

Li Wei recorded every spell that Gussie cast into the Arcane Codex.

After casting all the ice spells she knew, Gussie's magical power was nearly exhausted.

She felt somewhat surprised—she hadn't realized she had unconsciously mastered so many spells.

Gussie said regretfully, "It's a pity I haven't learned the Absolute Zero spell yet."

Li Wei looked through the ice spells recorded in the Arcane Codex and replied, "Isn't Absolute Zero a forbidden incantation? Even if you could cast it, I wouldn't be able to replicate it."

"That's true," Gussie admitted.

She leaned closer to Li Wei and asked, "How did it go? Did you get everything down?"

Li Wei nodded and said, "Yes, I've recorded them all—a total of forty-seven ice spells."

He looked up at Gussie with a smile and continued, "You're truly remarkable—you've actually mastered this many ice spells."

Gussie gave a modest laugh.

"It's nothing much. Compared to you, I still fall far short."

What Gussie referred to was raw strength.

However, now that Li Wei possessed the Arcane Codex, he might very well become the mage who has ever mastered the most spells in history.

The Arcane Codex could almost unlimitedly duplicate any spell—as long as his mental capacity could accommodate the stored magical models.

These spell constructs were solidified and etched within Li Wei’s mind.

With these ice spells now at his disposal, Li Wei could switch from being a fire-elemental mage to an ice-elemental one without anyone easily noticing anything amiss.

Putting away the Arcane Codex, Li Wei thought about the Forbidden Incantation of Absolute Zero mentioned by Gussie.

After some consideration, he believed it might be achievable using advanced flame principles.

Absolute Zero involved lowering temperatures to the point where all motion ceased, thereby freezing everything.

This touched upon the aspect of “temperature” within the rules governing flames.

Li Wei could raise the temperature in a given area to its extreme limit—or conversely, reduce the thermal energy therein to absolute minimal levels.

By extracting all heat energy, Absolute Zero could theoretically be achieved.

Just as Li Wei was preparing to attempt such a feat—

A sudden explosion echoed from behind him in the sky. Instinctively, he turned around.

Seeing the signal flare burst open across the heavens, Gussie’s expression changed dramatically.

It was a distress signal launched by a Valkyrie.

In an instant, Gussie thought of Monis, who had gone outside the city walls to suppress the rebel forces. Could it be that she was in danger?

Noticing her alarmed expression, Li Wei quickly asked, "What is that?"

"A rescue signal flare issued by the Valkyries. No—I must find out what's happening..."

Gussie spoke hastily.

Li Wei stopped her and said firmly, "Let me go. You’ve just drained too much magic power; going out recklessly may put you in peril. Stay here inside the Ice Jade Palace for now. If anything happens, I’ll inform you via my phantom projection."

Having spoken, he left behind a spectral duplicate for Gussie—an instrument for long-distance communication between them.

Then, with a leap, he soared swiftly toward the direction where the flare had exploded.

Watching Li Wei fly off, Gussie shouted after him, "Be careful!"

Li Wei raised two fingers to his brow in a farewell salute, signaling not to worry.

As he flew through the air, a whimsical idea struck him—he intended to conceal his identity as a fire-elemental mage during this battle and present himself instead as an ice-elementalist.

Ice Elf Wings!

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Behind Li Wei, streams of ice-blue elemental energy condensed into twin wings over three meters long, resembling those of mythical ice elves.

With a powerful flap, Li Wei felt the biting cold rush past his face as he sped rapidly toward his destination.

Once clear of the Snowflake City, he soon spotted the warring factions below.

On one side stood the Valkyrie troops clad uniformly in standard-issue armor; on the other, ragtag rebels whose equipment consisted mostly of mismatched armor pieces and beast hides stitched together.

Confusion crossed Li Wei’s features. Could such disorganized rebels really pose a threat to Snowflake City?

Moreover, the Valkyries weren’t weak fighters—they didn’t seem like they'd lose to opponents like these.

From high above, it appeared the Valkyrie unit held the upper hand, pressing hard against their poorly equipped adversaries.

So then—who fired the distress signal flare?

(End of Chapter)