Chapter 328: And It Was Winter (4)
The first to detect Eslow’s appearance were the mages of the Green Tower, who had spread wide-area protective magic. Although the Green Tower failed to block Eslow’s approach itself, they instead activated group foundation magic in that brief interval.
Group foundation magic: simply put, it was a large-scale spell cast simultaneously by dozens of mages. The difficulty increased exponentially as the number of casters increased, but the power and range multiplied dozens of times as well.
The Green Tower’s mages were veterans. It showed that they had coordinated hundreds, thousands of times. Twenty mages moved as if they were a single organism, sharing the same thoughts and actions.
Rumble...!!!
The entire world shook. Normally, eight-circle spells and above were often called disaster magic, as a single spell could wipe out a major city. And that kind of magic was now being cast at one man: Eslow.
“Incredible. Even though I’m not the target, the pressure is overwhelming.”
Group foundation magic had a long activation time. However, what offset that weakness was the compression of mana that occurred the moment casting began. That alone made everyone unable to move. Even the Baen knights, who stood opposed to the Green Tower, acknowledged the superiority of the tower’s group foundation magic.
“Look there. Even the Lord of the South can’t move!”
Eslow stood still with his arms crossed. Henya prayed that it wasn’t composure born of confidence. At last, the group foundation magic was completed.
“Even time itself shall freeze—Absolute Zero!”
Absolute Zero, an eight-circle freezing-type spell.
Craaaaack!