20demayo Chapter 430 : Glacier Plane
Chapter 430 : Glacier Plane
“Found it.”After flying for nearly forty minutes, Janna finally found a slumbering Frost Guardian near a small iceberg.
“Just from appearance alone, the Frost Guardian looked far stronger than the Flame Guardian.”
Unlike the Flame Guardian, whose form resembled oversized pants, the Frost Guardian’s overall image leaned more toward that of a human female.
Its entire body was composed of deep-blue ice crystals. The upper half of its body took the shape of an adult woman.
From the back of its neck down its spine to its lower body, sharp ice spikes extended, looking extremely dangerous.
“Clack—”
With a light flutter of butterfly wings, aided by the witch tool 【Hidden Nook】, Janna silently landed only about five meters away from the Frost Guardian.
“Soul Chain—”
Seeing that the Frost Guardian was still completely unaware, she wasted no time. While it remained asleep, Janna, in her spirit form, immediately cast her witchcraft.
“Crashhh—”
As she finished reciting the incantation for the witchcraft 【Soul Chain】, more than ten pitch-black chains—half-real, half-illusory—suddenly shot out from the void. Like venomous snakes flicking their tongues, they tightly bound the defenseless Frost Guardian.
“Ah!!”
As the chains tightened, the Frost Guardian awoke instantly, letting out a sharp cry from its mouth.
“La-la—la-la-la—”
Prepared for this, Janna cast the 【Soundproof Barrier】 at the very moment it awoke, enclosing them both.
Then, a gentle song slipped from her lips. With the bewitching power of the witchcraft 【Siren Chanting】, the Frost Guardian gradually quieted down and sank back into slumber.
“As expected, low-intelligence beings like Elemental Spirits rarely resist mental-control witchcraft…”
Looking at the Frost Guardian sinking into sleep again, Janna couldn’t help but marvel at the smoothness of this “journey.”
Back in the 【Flame Plane】, when she had faced the Flame Guardian, the fiery environment had empowered it, allowing it to break free of 【Siren Chanting】’s charm almost instantly.
But this time, bolstered by the power of the 【Fragment of the Law of Beauty】, her 【Siren Chanting】 hardly required effort before the Frost Guardian was firmly restrained.
“With my will, I command you—obey my contract—”
“Ah!!”
Just as Janna began chanting the contract spell, another scream suddenly came from behind her. At once, dozens of ice spikes the size of fists, carrying an incomparable chill, shot toward her.
“Clang-clang-clang—”
The crisp clash of metal rang out across the shield formed by 【Flourishing Guard】. Forced to interrupt the contract incantation, Janna endured the painful magical backlash from halting the spell and quickly recited another incantation.
“With my will, I command you—Summon—Hundred-Eyed Specter!”
A flash of silver-white light gleamed. From the 【Mirror Layer Domain】, the Hundred-Eyed Specter was summoned. Almost instantly, it understood Janna’s order. Within moments, it conjured an illusory mirror world that enveloped Janna and the “attacker.”
“Another Frost Guardian?”
With the illusion formed, Janna finally saw the attacker’s true form.
Just like the Frost Guardian under 【Siren Chanting】, this intruder too was a Frost Guardian.
But unlike the one Janna had bound, which had the image of an adult woman, this one bore the upper body of an adult man.
“Could it be… they are actually a pair?”
Watching the male Frost Guardian gnashing its teeth inside the illusion, Janna’s eyes flickered with surprise.
If she remembered correctly, most elemental beings had no gender. Especially low-intelligence beings like Elemental Guardians—lifeless and featureless—were not supposed to have gender, much less emotions.
“Interesting.”
At her command, the Hundred-Eyed Specter simulated the form of a female Elemental Guardian within the illusion.
As expected, upon seeing the female illusion, the male Frost Guardian’s rage softened into joy. He rushed forward with concern, muttering words in a language Janna could not understand.
“With my will, I command you—obey my contract, submit to me—”
After trapping the male Frost Guardian, Janna resumed chanting the contract incantation toward the still-slumbering female Frost Guardian.
As the incantation ended, a complex Contract Array rapidly formed between them. Moments later, a frosty contract medium appeared on Janna’s Witch Tree.
“Awaken, Ines—”
At the moment of the contract’s binding, Janna also learned the true contract name of the Frost Guardian: 【Ines】.
When the Frost Guardian—Ines—awoke, Janna handed her the top-grade Frost Elemental Essence, of which only half remained.
“Eat. Think of it as my gift for our first meeting—”
With that, a long whip condensed in her hand. With a sharp crack through the air, the silver-white whip formed by 【Soul Lash】 viciously struck the male Frost Guardian within the illusion—payback for the magical backlash she had just endured.
“And consider this my gift for your companion.”
Because the Mirror Illusion concealed it, and the 【Soundproof Barrier】 blocked all sound, the tortured screams of the male Frost Guardian never reached Ines’ ears.
So, when Janna eventually dissolved both the Soundproof Barrier and the Mirror Illusion, all Ines saw was her companion kneeling awkwardly on the ground. Nothing else seemed amiss.
Soul weight lifted, willpower returned. As Janna’s spirit body reentered the Primary Material World, the silver-faced round mirror that had been floating in the air fell to the ground, shattering.
The Sea Beast Hide engraved with the Contract Array cracked and was rendered useless as the Spirit Contract Ritual ended.
“Return to where you belong—”
After several hours of planar travel, Janna, still fatigued in her spirit state, quickly cast the 【Cleaning Spell】 to clear away the discarded ritual materials. Then she sat back on her bed and began rubbing her temples.
“This contract ritual, overall, went rather smoothly—”