Freeze the target for use [Freeze].
This guy is not the same color as the other skills.
The maximum number of targets is [3].
The display is currently [2/3].
Less impression than other skills.
Non-lethal.
No duplicate use with other skills.
The effect duration is 300 days.
Cancel is not allowed.
It can be described as a difficult skill to use.
I put a frozen bug on a flat stone.
"Eve, why don't you slap this guy with that gavel?
"What?"
"You're gonna crush the ice and you're gonna do it out of your mind."
"Thoughtful of this little ice pickled bug against you, huh?
"Yes."
"... ok"
I had Eve retrieve the Costello hammer earlier.
Eve shook up the hammer.
Lifting lightly.
I'd say that's just your arm strength.
Setting his aim, Eve waved down the hammer.
Bum!
Ouch!
"Huh!?
Confusion ran on Eve.
I guess I was uncomfortable with the affordability.
"Unusually, hard"
Eve roars.
"The momentum should have been impeccable...... the collision wasn't in a bad position either. But this hardness... I don't think it's just ice"
"Exactly. It's not just ice."
Pick up the ice at your fingertips.
"Granting it to a living opponent, after freezing, they refuse to destroy it this way. Ice becomes ridiculously hard."
I tried [Freeze] for the first time before.
It was the little bugs that I chose to experiment with.
The ice-covered worm could not crush whatever it did.
Broiled in fire, the ice did not melt.
Maybe this ice won't melt until 300 days have passed.
"Well, next time, I want you to slap this guy with that gavel"
Eve responds in a surprising way.
"Earlier, it looked like the same bug..."
Again on the stone I put ice.
Show ice with your hands.
"Try it"
"... ok. That's what happened. You must have some idea."
Eve waves down the hammer again.
…………
amazing accuracy even so.
I'm capturing that size of ice in about the same collision position as earlier.
Dimensions are irrelevant, you can say.
Pickie!
- Borough.
"Huh?"
Eve notices something.
"Sound and affordability are different from earlier..."
Eve slowly raising the hammer.
There was ice scattered in shatters.
There is no falsehood in the expression shattered.
It is precisely as fine as it seems to be powder.
"Is this...? What's so different from the ice earlier?
"What makes [freeze] different from other skills is that it can also be used for” objects ""
"But it was the same worm."
"Certainly the same type of bug. But there is a definitive difference between the two."
"The decisive difference?
"Oh, there's a difference between the living and the dead."
"Mm?"
"The first bug [froze] alive. And the second bug - put [freeze] on the carcass"
"Hmm, did that make such a difference..."
"Thank you. They say when you become a corpse, you are judged an" object ”. So without having any unusual hardness, it becomes" destroyable ”ice."
Carcasses are treated as "objects” in [Freeze].
I wrapped my fingers around the almost powdered ice.
"And when you destroy it, this is how you do a special splash different from normal ice - enough to disappear on the wind, to fineness"
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That was when I was staying at the Monroe Inn.
I've been trying some ideas for a long time.
Freezing status due to new skills [Freeze] cannot be lifted for 300 days.
Cancel is not allowed.
So what about ”destruction”...?
I tried the frozen bugs in the first experiment with a small hammer to try.
It was unusual hardness.
Obviously the hardness was different from the common ice.
Maybe it's close to the ice that the Spirit of Cellas creates.
I tried Allecore, but it seemed impossible to destroy the ice.
I sighed.
I felt my proposal go blank.
I stopped by the window and looked out.
To think about the future.
and a fallen piece of wood peeled out of the window frame went into my eyes.
Speaking of which, [freeze] does work on objects as well...
I haven't tried it on the object yet.
I decided to give this one a try.
The maximum number of subjects is [3].
Even if I use two frames with that bug and this piece of wood, one stays.
"Let's see if there's a difference..."
Freeze the wood pieces.
Next, I slapped him with a hammer.
Shattered and scattered.
Unparalleled brittleness with insects.
Plus, it smashed to pieces.
Fineness like flour.
"Normally, there seems to be a bigger or smaller difference in fragments...... I mean, is this crushing method specific to [freeze]?
I made a hypothesis.
Humans, animals, insects, etc. are determined to be ”living beings”.
Plants, soil, stones, etc. are determined to be ”objects”.
The living cannot be destroyed.
Objects can be destroyed.
"Status Open"
Review skill information.
The maximum number was back from [2/3] to [1/3].
"... when destroyed, will the maximum number return as well"
I felt the loosened one reconnected.
Maybe we can do this.
Go outside. I searched for the worm carcass.
It just so happens that we found the same type of worm carcass as we did on our first trial.
I froze the carcass and hammered it.
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"So, as a result..."
"I could destroy it, you mean"
"Oh."
"Uhm."
Eve roared reluctantly.
"I understand that the hardness changes due to the difference between the objects to be used... so what are you trying to do?
I've been trying to figure out how to handle a body.
Eve was hazy.
"In other words, freeze the body..."
"That's what I'm talking about"
This skill can be used to treat corpses without leaving them behind.
"But still, the question remains,"
Eve still had a face like a thing pinched in her teeth.
"What's the point of daring to handle a body with that skill? Shouldn't we just throw the body away like that?
"The question is best. But..."
I glanced at Muazi's body.
"Rolling here is the corpse of a group of magicians who killed the Five Dragon Warriors."
"Mmm... I still don't know what I was after..."
I thought I'd let them push the Pendragon Killer forever.
Asint's body shatters and disappears.
Asint, who died here, will not be found by anyone in the future.
Then the truth will be in darkness.
Are you sure the Pendragon Man died in Asynt's "spell”?
No mouth for the dead.
Nobody can take authentic confirmation from Asynt in the future.
Me and Sellas are the only survivors who have witnessed the death of the Pendragon Man.
No one else knows the truth.
"A group of magicians who were touching that they had killed the Pendragon... one day they disappear neglectfully"
The killer of the Pendragon Warrior.
The public will continue to think that Asynt ”may be".
”Possibly” will remain unless Asynt himself denies it.
All the more so if we don't find out who else did it.
An indeterminate state that lasts forever.
"He who wants to solve the mystery of Pendragon's death will continue to search for non-existent suspects..."
I didn't originally expect Asynt as Decoy to last.
One day the skin will peel off.
That's what I thought.
But if we carry it well, this could make them permanent decoys.
As the culprit of the Pendragon killer.
"Asynt, who disappeared, will continue to blind me."
There are two types of bodies left at the scene.
Private soldier of the Duke of Zuan.
Mercenaries hired.
This could also be done by Asint.
Did they join Eve Speed on the run?
Or did it even occur with an inner rub?
No one knows what happened.
I told Eve the idea.
"Nevertheless, I don't see why the Asints are turning back on Eve. It could be handled by some kind of inner roundabout rubbing or betrayal - then you might be able to distract yourself from Eve as well"
"Well... you didn't want to miss a single one of them in order to establish the plan."
"Oh."
"Indeed... if one witness escapes, it will be difficult to establish the measure"
"I thought if I let him get away with it, I would have no choice... To be honest, I thought it would be difficult to achieve this measure. But thanks to you, I really didn't miss a single one."
Even if we fail, if we crush the main power, we will then be able to reach the demonic belt without hindrance.
At the point of being caught up, which way, the main force was the calculation to be crushed.
"Eve, give me a minute."
I went to pick up the example array I asked Sellas for.
Long medium-sized hammer.
I didn't assume Costello's weapon was a hammer.
I was going to have Eve crush me with this hammer.
but I think I can help too.
I got a medium-sized hammer.
"Costello and other things made me two hammers for work. Let's split up and crush Asynt's body. To be honest, it's not a pleasant task... do you think you can do it?
It's not something that lets Cellas or Liz do.
It's not even something to show.
but I just wanted to rely on Eve's arm strength.
"Hmm."
Eve snorts.
"I've been tired of seeing brutal sights and other things on the blood battlefield. My hands are already smudged with countless pieces of blood... so no such consideration for me is necessary"
"That's a comforting word. Eve -"
I took the hammer loosely.
"If anywhere you perceive signs of anyone but the Sellas, let me know right away. I want to avoid being witnessed crushing ice. By the time you detect those signs, you'll have to stop the work and leave here... and there's no chance that the Fourth Regiment will come. Well, the only thing that can get rid of the body is the worst muzzles and central members."
The other Asints consulted with the Duke's private soldiers and mercenaries.
Even in a scenario like that.
For a poisoned and unwounded body, you can stab even the poison arrows and swords around it.
Eve nods.
"I understand."
We walk out with the hammer in our hands.
"Well, let's get to it."
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Is it because the place is far from the city or village?
Is it because it's late at night?
In the end, Eve's sensors never caught any sign of a disturber.
Having thus finished crushing Asint's body, we left the scene to rendezvous with the Sellas.
Organize the information obtained during the carcass crushing process.
The hardness of the body was not the same as when it was a piece of wood.
They vary in hardness depending on the subject.
When that happens, it may be difficult to destroy something that is originally hard.
Can't you freeze it and shatter everything?
…………
From earlier on, the clouds were gobbling.
Would the scattered ”powder" wash away beautifully if it still rained...?
On the way, I look back behind me.
There is no ”asint” over there anymore.
"No one can prove the non-existence of a curse"
According to Cellas, Muazi spoke so well.
"Right."
I shrugged.
"We can no longer prove your existence or anyone else's."