The Arcadia System

[Terror Lizard(Lv.60)]

At that moment, the lizard's red scales burned brighter than the sun. Reve remembered the last time he had seen the creature.

He was chased to the death by the lizard and that was just the lizard when it wasn't at its prime level-wise.

'What is this situation?' wryly smiled Reve.

He distanced himself from the two red figures. As a magician, he had to fight with his spells and not his body. Moreover, Reve was a failure when it came to physical strength. The earlier encounter was proof of that.

Reve had reacted quite fast but he couldn't protect himself from the impact.

As soon as he distanced himself, he began to analyze the battle, 'It is not weird that I happened to encounter it. This location is part of its domain. Damn, it is angry and isn't willing to toy with me, unlike last time. What do I do?'

After the silence had prolonged too much, the lizard, or rather, lizards, made the first move.

It crawled speedily at him, lunging first with a [Flameball]. Reve swiftly danced around it before shooting a basic mana blast at it. It was a skill not included in his skill repertoire because it was too basic.

This was Reve's way of controlling the battle. Rather than wasting time using excessive attacks, he would conserve as many mana points as possible. Also, due to his training, his mana blasts were far destructive than other basic attacks, even rivaling intermediate projectile spells.

Reve jumped back again after his attack and watched its effect. He squeezed his face immediately, 'Damn, Mana Immunity. Those scales are annoying.'

A red blur blitzed past him and attempted to hit him but Reve reacted fast by sending it away.

He was suddenly locked in by the other lizard clone and tail whipped.

*Boom!*

As he stood back up, Reve spat out blood, "This tag team is really effective. Damn, Xoris' bottom!"

The lizards were on the move. One of them appeared before Reve, but before it could move further, a plant whip grabbed its leg.

Reve pointed his hands at its head and a large concentrated mana blast shot out like a waning star.

It blasted the lizard away which gave Reve more time to focus on the other incoming lizard!

White plants rose from the ground and attempted to trap the lizard but it burned everything with a flame blast.

*Roar!*

A red beam escaped its mouth. It headed towards Reve's location at an alarming speed.

'[Force Barrier]'

*Boom!*

The barriers broke in a few seconds but it already served its purpose, giving Reve the time he needed to cast his spell.

The moment the lizard's jaws clamped on Reve, he exploded in multiple ice shards. The shards seemed to have done some damage but it was later revealed that was not the case.

From his hiding position, Reve cursed, "Bloody magic immunity!"

He was starting to get annoyed by the lizard's toughness.

'Crap!'

A lizard appeared behind him with beaming red eyes. It shot a fiery blast Reve couldn't ignore.

He could only offset it with another mana blast but it seemed to be what the lizard wanted.

Another lizard, this time, the real lizard, sent its signature tail whip at Reve right when he was about to shoot his mana blast.

*Phew!*

He sent Reve flying a few feet away. When Reve rearranged himself, he wasn't giving any time to rest as he spotted more than five lizard clones surrounding him!

They burned intensely, later combusting into flame pillars, leaving a trail of flame that connected each other. It all seemed familiar to Reve.

'Damn, this was its endgame. Making me believe there was only one clone while positioning the other clones for a final attack. Smart, but I won't go down like these!'

Ever since that day, he had prepared himself for a way out of skills like this.

With a single thought, two magic circles appeared in front of him. They rose us to the sky, challenging the sun until they became the frozen moon that hung over only him!

Since he was working against time, he sped things up a bit.

The magic circles revolving around each other. In the center of this revolution, a blue light was being born.

It intruded into the physical world becoming an orb that was protected by the magic circle. The orb later broke and a beautiful frost plant emerged out of it.

The flower on top of the plant blossomed and.......hell was unleashed!

Suddenly, the plant began to spit out lots of complex ice structures. The ice structures that resembled tiny spears operated on the same principles as the [Frozen Gate]. They both spread forth a parasitic ice upon contact.

Instantly, the flame pillars became frozen by the ice spears. The frost plant suddenly focused on the lizard clones. It froze everything until only the real terror lizard was left.

Despite its barrage of attacks on the lizard, nothing seemed to be happened except for the expected physical impact damage.

Watching this, Reve calmed himself. He tried to think of a way to deal sufficient attacks at the lizard.

All of a sudden, the lizard roared and unleashed its special skill. The one that terrified Reve, the [Flame Arrows].

The two top-tier skills began to face each other. Reve's [Ice Fantasy] got the advantage in speed and magic effect, but the brutality of the [Flame Arrows] took the cake.

They burned as deeply as the sun, melting the ice spears before they come nearer.

The lizard took the chance to send a clone at Reve while under the cover of magic spells.

Seeing this, Reve rapidly thought of ways to get out of this perilous situation, 'I can't move. [Ice Fantasy] requires the caster to be dormant. I also can't use any spell. This spell alone requires all my concentration.'

[Ice Fantasy] was Reve's most complex spell. The ice spears, itself, was more complex than any of Reve's other spell. It had different sections built for various effects; speed, freezing potential, piercing...

Hence, once he became a single bit distracted, everything might fall and explode on him in an ironic fashion.

'I can't let it explode. The backlash would basically conclude the battle. I have to take the hit and quietly de-activate the spell.'

Reve began his suicidal task by enchanting his body first then slowly lessening the power of [Ice Fantasy].

Only a few seconds had occurred before Reve went into speed thinking. It was time for the lizard clone to reach him.

*Boom!*

The lizard exploded upon contact and blasted Reve away in a similar fashion that Reve did to the previous lizard clone.