Frostbound

Chris

Oops, a bit too much.

Sending the same amount of mana into [Permafrost] and [Desolate Blizzard] as before caused the two skills to blossom out much further than anticipated. While it encompassed more enemies inside its radius, it also neared too closely to the wall.

My new Heart made funneling mana into the skills much easier. Before, it felt like I was forcing mana into the skills, while now it was like it wanted to be used.

I'd practiced with the meld to ensure everything was up to par, but this would be the first real stress test.

Austin, the bastard, was already off and had turned himself into a lightshow deeper in the wave, flitting about like nothing could touch him.

I should've known from how confident he proposed the bet something was up, but I didn't think anything of it. He always had pure speed over me, but I would always win in a battle of endurance.

With the cheeky bastard's new Anchor, he was killing things a lot faster than he usually could, racking up the numbers at an astounding rate.

If I didn't know any better, I'd say he was going all out from the gate to get an early lead I couldn't catch up to.

We'll see about that.

Thunderous booms fell as giant chunks of rock impacted the earth, spraying the area with loose dirt and sod, but I ignored them and marched on. I'd asked Brayden and Vincent nicely not to hit me, but they couldn't make any promises.

The teams on siege weapon duty were mostly a part of the construction crew. It didn't take any weapons skills or magic skills to work them and it was a good opportunity to get them some essence.