My Bugged System Made Me Too OP!
Chapter 156: A domain spell?
Noah chuckled, the low, melodic sound vibrating beneath the static molding of his matte-black cat mask with a terrifyingly casual amusement.
"Aren’t you going to attack anymore...?" Noah asked, the question hanging in the freezing air like an absolute, mocking challenge.
The sound of his voice alone sent shivers down the demon’s spine, the deep, resonant frequency carrying a localized, high-density arch magus pressure that completely bypassed the supervisor’s mutated sensory arrays and struck directly at his primal instincts.
His skin prickled with a sudden, icy wave of defensive panic, and he subconsciously stepped back before he even realized it, his foot skidding frantically against the blood-stained masonry.
The realization of his own involuntary retreat filled his mouth with a bitter, humiliating taste; his body was actively betraying his mind, executing a defensive flight response against an entity who hadn’t even unfolded his arms from beneath his traveling cloak.
Noah scoffed, a faint, derogatory sound of total dismissal slipping from beneath his facepiece as his golden eyes narrowed into tight, focused slits, tracking the demon’s unstable, trembling stance against the fractured wall.
"Well, if you won’t... I will," Noah said, his tone shifting into a flat, emotionless declaration of absolute finality.
The moment the last syllable left his lips, ice rapidly spread from where he was standing, spreading across the whole room within a second.
It was a catastrophic, geometric explosion of frost that raced across the floor blocks with a violent, glass-like screech.
The deep, glacial blue sheet devoured the carpets of shattered human bones, encased the pools of organic decay, and climbed halfway up the blood-splattered walls, instantly turning the sweltering, putrid slaughterhouse into a pristine, freezing cavern of absolute death.
The demon’s eyes widened to near-comical proportions, his dull white, pupilless spheres expanding as the sudden, intense drop in atmospheric temperature caused his breath to freeze into thick plumes of white vapor.
He glanced back, his three jagged horns twitching erratically as he sought to calculate a safe destination to reset his footing, only to find the floor around him covered in ice.
The thick, unyielding layer of glacial blue frost had already climbed up his pale ankles, cementing his position against the base of the damaged wall and completely cutting off his physical mobility.
The semi-fluid cloak of living shadow that had previously pooled around his feet was entirely frozen solid, its edges trapped beneath the crystalline sheet and unable to emit a single wisp of dark smoke.
Noah maintained his motionless, imposing silhouette at the epicenter of the freezing maelstrom, his traveling cloak trailing gracefully over the newly formed sheet of ice like a wake of liquid darkness.
"I’ll show you the true power of an arch magus..." Noah said, his voice echoing clearly through the vertical conduit he had blasted into the ceiling, carrying a heavy, world-altering dominance that redefined the meaning of the word magic.
The moment the declaration echoed through the chamber, the underlying physics of the spell underwent a violent, evolutionary escalation that completely shattered the supervisor’s remaining analytical frameworks.
The floor which was now covered in ice trembled, a deep, rhythmic seismic vibration rattling the stone foundations as the system’s raw processing power forced a completely new structural matrix into existence.
Blue flowers rapidly sprouted all across the room, crackling with violent blue lightning.
Thousands of beautifully intricate, crystalline blossoms tore through the surface of the glacial blue ice, their translucent petals forged from hyper-dense frost while their stems and stamen vibrated with the blinding, high-frequency currents of his lightning affinity.
The dual-element manifestation was staggering; each individual flower acted as a miniature lightning rod, casting long, jagged arcs of electricity that hopped across the room, illuminating every dark corner of the repository with a blinding, flickering radiance that completely erased the final remnants of the organization’s shadow shroud.
The demon was shocked, his mind freezing completely as his internal mana channels buckled under the immense, panoramic pressure radiating from the blooming garden of death.
He stared at the beautiful, crackling landscape with a sense of unmitigated, defensive terror, thinking to himself, his thoughts spinning into a chaotic frenzy: ’What... kind of spell is this?’
He had spent centuries studying the magical theory of the current era, parsing the operational parameters of every high-tier spell matrix used by the kingdom’s elite forces.
Yet, he had never encountered an architecture that allowed a caster to fuse two diametrically opposed elements—freezing ice and volatile, high-frequency lightning—into a single, harmonious biological construct that behaved with such fluid, organic precision.
The sheer scale of the environmental transformation struck at the very core of his survival instincts, forcing a sudden, terrifying realization through his panic.
’A... domain spell...?’ he thought, gnashing his teeth in terror.
A few of the blue flowers sprouted close to him, their crystalline petals opening with a soft, glass-like hum just inches from his pale, trembling knees, their stamen crackling with jagged arcs of violet electricity that hissed against his dry skin.
The proximity of the blossoms triggered an immediate, defensive panic through his system, and he tried his best to stay as far away from them as possible. He pressed his back heavily into the fractured masonry behind him, sliding his upper torso along the stone wall in a desperate, uncoordinated attempt to maximize the physical distance between his flesh and the glowing blue structures.
He simply didn’t know what those weird flowers were capable of; he couldn’t calculate if they would detonate upon contact, unleash a localized wave of freezing energy, or channel a high-voltage current straight through his three horns to scramble his core layout.
The complete lack of diagnostic data from his own senses made the blossoms more terrifying than any standard fireball or lightning bolt, so he knew he had to be wary of them.
He stood frozen, a cornered beast trapped inside a pristine, crackling garden of divine destruction, waiting with wide, milky eyes for the legendary Mr. White to deliver the final stroke of his arch magus wrath.