Chapter 677: Arriving at the Profound Heaven Realm
--
’That fight was mildly disappointing,’ Cedric told himself.
The dude spent the whole fight trying to impress a lady who doesn’t want to have anything to do with him.
Despite his great potential, Pyroblast was a lovesick fool; that’s why Winter played him so easily. It wasn’t even close, to be honest. She never treated him seriously from start to finish.
Leaving the spectating area, Cedric muttered to himself, "He never realized that he was under an illusion since he was swallowed underwater. Winter turned all the liquid into Mirage Waters, which can cause hallucinations. It made him think that she was using a greater form of concept laws on him when, in truth, she’s just playing with him."
"That, and his insistence on evaporating the entire pond he was in, took him too long—so long that Winter had enough time to build herself a sky castle."
"It was really embarrassing for Pyroblast. Poor guy, this was worse than any form of rejection."
Shaking his head, Cedric decided to detach himself from the second-hand embarrassment.
He did learn something from that match, which was nice. He learned Winter’s neat trick of switching from Ice Laws to Water Laws, one that was better than what he was doing. The better part is that this trick could be applied to pretty much any law with the condition that both laws were mutually synergetic or harmonious.
Cedric learned nothing from Pyroblast. Honestly, his way of wielding the power of fire was embarrassing. Cedric didn’t understand why he was so fixated with ordinary flames, lava, and magma when there were loads of other fire forms out there he could’ve used better in that match. Also, his heat generation and control were painfully slow.
If Cedric was in his place, even if Winter truly summoned an entire sea to swallow him whole, Cedric would’ve evaporated that entire thing within seconds. Hell, he might even turn it against her if the idea struck him at that time.
There were so many ways Pyroblast could’ve done better in that fight to, at the very least, save himself from the embarrassment. It’s either he doesn’t have the ability to do so, or he deliberately didn’t use them because all he wanted was to impress the lady.