Frostbound

The rest of the dungeon was a bit of a wash. Gabriel got to fight on the lower levels and he did pretty well in my opinion. He could fight up quite a few levels and only got stumped on the fifth floor. HIs Law helped him fight up a few levels but he didn't really have anything else going for him. He was still working on his Anchor and he had yet to make a decision on his Body Technique. He still hoped to review more options.

He had a good fight against the fourth-floor guardian which was a level 50 E-ranked ape-like creature but stalled out not long after.

The roving monsters of the fifth floor that grouped together were too hard for him to take down alone. Singular monsters that high level were fine for him but the groups were too much.

When he focused on controlling and killing one monster, the others charged at him and disrupted his flow. I had the feeling he could have won with a few injuries but it wasn't worth it to let it go that far.

We still had an hours-long ride to catch up to the caravan after this and doing it injured would make things harder.

I stepped in to play the front liner for him and held back significantly so he could participate in the fight. This was for him to get back into fighting shape, not for me to pummel the monsters into oblivion.

Fighting with my brother was an odd thing. We were both so used to fighting alone that it caused some major mishaps we had to work through at the start.

If I didn't have the Fortitude I did, multiple wounds would have arisen because of our miscommunication.

Gabriel had fought with other mages before, most of the time with our mother, but fighting with me was different as we both tried to control the same thing, let alone me standing in his way.

For months, my fighting style was to sling Ice around in arcs around me while using [Shatter(Un)] occasionally. [Sweeping Snow(Un)] now took the place of my revolving snowflakes and I still turned the area into the Arctic with [Permafrost(Un)] and [Desolate Blizzard(R)].

I could do it even better now with my upgraded affinity as well.

The problems arose when I tried to have pieces of ice go one way and Gabriel tried to pull them in the other. Our coordination wasn't great and us fighting over the ice caused it to go where neither of us wanted.