Wizard: Starting With the Knights Breathing Method Chapter 2958: 601: Fused Seals, Chaos Mage!

The second supreme treasure proved unusable for Levi himself.

Evidently, the congress had crafted it exclusively for Master Fire Dragon; Gandaph commands the [Abyss Sky King Armor], whereas Ace bears the [Ice and Fire Realm Armor].

Equipped with these supreme treasures alongside their personal strengths, they could endure a sudden strike from a standard level-10 powerhouse without peril, guaranteeing their security amid the looming Nightmare War.

The [Ice and Fire Realm Armor] wasn't freshly forged by the congress; it served as a legacy from an ancient level-10 expert called the [Ice and Fire Saint], who had built a formidable civilization subsequently razed by the Earth Demon Lord, allowing the lord to seize it.

Once he vanquished the Earth Demon Lord, Edmund claimed ownership of this artifact. Given its dual attributes of Ice and Fire, the Wizard Council lacked any powerhouse capable of exploiting its complete potential.

Seizing the chance, he presented it to Levi.

The [Ice and Fire Realm Armor] had been constructed by the Saint employing cores from two immense worlds, merged with level-10 divine materials [Sun God Gold] and [Extreme Cold Divine Iron].

Today, it occupies the 29th spot in the Pan-Plane rankings; typically, defensive supreme treasures outrank offensive ones but fall short of civilization treasures.

This armor naturally falls short of the Blood Battle Armor and Abyss Sky King Armor, yet it serves adequately for the Holy Infant as a bridge to the legendary realm, after which he'll assuredly craft a more fitting piece on his own.

Levi's elevated standards account for this; to other level-10 powerhouses, a top-30 supreme treasure would be ample to unleash chaos across the Pan-Plane.

The capabilities of the [Ice and Fire Realm Armor] include the following:

Primarily, it delivers extraordinarily robust defense: partly through the armor's own shielding, and partly by unleashing a ten-thousand-mile-radius Ice and Fire Barrier that persists for a quarter-hour. This barrier's safeguarding matches the prowess of a Legendary Wizard's defensive incantations.

Secondly, the Ice and Fire Nova discharges every ounce of stored Ice and Fire elemental energy from the armor at once, producing an explosive Ice and Fire assault on par with Legendary spells. Post-congress enhancements, it accepts charging via Aether Stones, requiring 200 billion for a single deployment.

Thirdly, the Ice and Fire Jump enables the [Ice and Fire Realm Armor] to enact a daily evasion technique, forging an Ice and Fire conduit that teleports up to two hundred thousand miles distant.

Having studied it closely, Levi transferred this treasure to the Holy Infant.

In order to assess its defensive strength, Levi struck at the Holy Infant with his sword in a nonchalant fashion—though one no ordinary level-10 would confront directly.

The Holy Infant chose not to dodge.

Boom! The Sword Qi propelled the Holy Infant tens of thousands of miles away, hurling him into the ocean akin to a plummeting meteor. Afterward, a mesmerizing vista of Ice and Fire spread across ten thousand miles of sea, utterly captivating.

The Holy Infant's body fragmented into Fire and Ice Elemental Particles before reassembling, his complexion pallid yet brimming with exhilaration: "A supreme treasure indeed, without its protection, I would definitely not have been able to withstand that sword."

"Not bad, you may go back."

From his lofty position aloft, Levi directed his gaze toward Nora.

Wizards traversing nearby paid him homage as the "Ancestor of Warlocks."

"The path of the Warlock still has much to explore, truth knows no bounds, I’m just initiating it, the perfecting of this path requires efforts from generations. Chaos Mage is but a starting point, not the end."

...

Ten years later.

In Nora Calendar 1990, Blood Battle Year 1878.

During these years, Chaos Mage flourished throughout Nora, expanding at a velocity defying comprehension, while the might of the Chaos Seal gained universal acceptance.

Certain Child of Chaos Wizards, upon turning part-time magicians, pursued nothing beyond essential spell progressions, concentrating exclusively on the Chaos Seal.

A movement arose favoring the mastery of a single method to conquer all others.

The Ancestor of Warlocks, Levi, issued a rebuke:

"A wizard is a path of knowledge, knowledge is foundation, knowledge is power, do not discard the essentials, delaying normal wizard cultivation. Up to now, the magician is only a supplement to the path of the wizard, solely cultivating the Chaos Seal is undesirable."

Indeed, all adhered to the ancestor's counsel.

This fostered the balanced advancement of the Chaos Mage path.

...

The wheel of history advanced relentlessly.

The Pan-Plane and Nora dwelled in the eerie calm preceding the gale, the dread pressure emanating from the Nightmare World akin to brooding storm clouds enveloping the celestial vault, oppressive to the core.

Reports from frontline operatives revealed that the Nightmare World's level-10 powerhouses had swelled to 81 in number, their expansion pace now tapering off.

The Lord of the End, affiliated with the Nightmare Command Center, joined forces with other divination-proficient Legendary Wizards for collaborative forecasts, reaching an initial conclusion that the Nightmare incursion was drawing perilously close.

Yet, given the Nightmare Monarchs' typical adeptness in sensing and the strategic oversight by the Ignorant Monarch, the veracity of this information demands additional scrutiny.

The Nora Council then conscripted three level-10 mercenaries: the [Sky Light Empress], [Spiritual Venerable], and [Crying and Smiling God].

The initial recruit ruled as monarch over a women-only empire in the Pan-Plane, her authentic form deriving from the [Light Woman Clan], an unusual humanoid lineage that propagates via parthenogenesis, comprising exclusively females.

It echoes the ruler of a realm of daughters, with conception processes similarly distinctive, all tied to a world harboring a waterway dubbed the [Light Mother River].

For the Light Woman Clan, immersion in it post-maturity suffices to conceive and deliver a fresh member, restricted to a solitary lifetime opportunity.

The Sky Light Empress wields her own supreme treasure, the [Light Mother River], purportedly a civilization artifact shaped by the pioneering Empress.

Whispers suggest the inaugural Empress, tormented by amorous woes, vowed to spare her kin the taint of "stinky men," thus fabricating the Mother River artifact through whatever extremes required.

This birthed the contemporary Light Woman Clan.

The Empress attains mid-level-10 cultivation, securing a Pan-Plane rank beyond the twentieth.

The Spiritual Venerable heads the [Spirit Venerate Clan], innately commanding the termed "spiritual ability," likewise called the "Emperor of Spiritual Ability Siblings" and "Superpower Sovereign."

This lineage, as bodily frail as Humans, similarly nurtures spiritual force, employing it to manipulate psionic energies that spawn a dizzying variety of elaborate "superpowers."