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Chapter 207: Chapter 206: The Completed Free Method

The cold wind howled.

Flakes of snow, mixed with the bone-chilling cold wind, blew across the icy plains before them. Countless Undead groaned lowly as they advanced at a slow pace. And behind them stood a colossal, pitch black citadel. Towering spires, like the fangs of a fierce beast, stretched upwards from both sides of the walls piercing the cloudy skies, as if all things in the world were enveloped and frozen by it.

“Roar——!”

A Skeleton Dragon spread its massive wings, soaring through the sky before ‘thump’ landing on a nearby cliff. Opening its mouth, it let out a deafening roar, seemingly shaking the very air and causing even the surrounding ice mountains to collapse thunderously.

“Phew… success at last.”

Fang Zheng lowered his hand, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, then lifted his head, looking satisfied at the scene before him.

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Obviously, Fang Zheng wasn’t in a twenty-five-person raid in some game. In fact, this was his “Sealing.” Using the hidden information within the Soulstone and the power of the Power of Existence, Fang Zheng had successfully extracted the information from the Soulstone of the Lich King Arthas and applied it to his own Sealing, ultimately creating such a powerful battlefield.

For Fang Zheng, this wasn’t a particularly difficult task.

It was like in a game, where making a model look strong was meaningless because a model was just that, a 3D model. If you want it to have various attributes or attack damage, you must add command modules or write code. And that was exactly Fang Zheng’s job.

Luckily, Arthas’s Soulstone stored the “code” for all the units of the Scourge Legion. Fang Zheng’s task was to use the Power of Existence to create these Scourge Legion “3D models” and then input the information from the Soulstone into them. Since the nature of the Power of Existence is to “exist,” as soon as Fang Zheng input the information, the Power of Existence would automatically “run the data” and produce effects.

Now, the last battle unit in Fang Zheng’s Sealing, Sindagosa, had been dealt with as well.

As for the Lich King himself, Fang Zheng had no plans to bring him forth because after a thorough analysis of the Soulstone through the Power of Existence, he discovered that the Lich King Arthas was the core of the Soulstone. The “information text” it contained was also vast, which meant that if Fang Zheng tried to extract it, the consumption of the Power of Existence would be too great. Moreover, it was the core of the Soulstone. It was fine to dabble with something like the Scourge Legion as a side dish; if anything went wrong, it was easy to fix. But if something went wrong with the core of the Soulstone, Fang Zheng wouldn’t even know how to repair it and could end up destroying a Soulstone outright, which would be a significant loss for him.

What’s more, most importantly, through the Sealing, Fang Zheng discovered a “shortcut” for using Soulstones!

When equipping a Soulstone, Fang Zheng could only obtain the inherent special effects of the Soulstone, and if he wanted to use other effects, he had to activate the Soulstone. This meant that, for Fang Zheng, the essence of a Soulstone was like using an ultimate skill.

But often, using an ultimate was too wasteful, besides, the use of Soulstones was limited in the number of times.

However, Sealing was different.

After some experiments, Fang Zheng found that although the Sealing consumed a Soulstone just like his own design, it would not be consumed in a single use like before. Instead, according to Fang Zheng’s calculations, in his current situation, opening a Sealing would consume about one percent of the power of activating a Soulstone once.

This meant that Fang Zheng just needed to charge a little into an Energy Stone to replenish the consumed power without fully activating the entire Soulstone.

In this way, not only could Fang Zheng gain the auxiliary enhancement of the Soulstone, but he also avoided using his Soulstone too many times. Furthermore, he could pull the enemy into a small world to fight through the Sealing, which was killing several birds with one stone and couldn’t be better.

But beyond that…….

“The consumption of the Power of Existence is still a bit much.”

Because unlike other Sealing that merely isolates space, his Sealing created a small world. So the Power of Existence that Fang Zheng’s Sealing consumed was not a small figure. More importantly, it wasn’t just a matter of letting it out and being done; maintenance was needed as well. And maintenance also consumed the Power of Existence. Based on Fang Zheng’s calculations, the Power of Existence he possessed was only enough to maintain this Sealing for one hour, which is the time it took for Fang Zheng to summon all the Scourge Legion and the BOSS and attack full on. Of course, if he didn’t use the Power of Existence to create these Phosphorus, the time would be even longer.

Not being able to isolate as long as one wants like other Sealing was a flaw, perhaps.

But on second thought, if an enemy couldn’t be taken down in an hour, possibly there was no point in continuing?

Let’s leave it at that for now… what remains is… the Backup Energy system.

Glancing at the Zero Hour Resurgence in his hand, Fang Zheng nodded. At this moment, the Zero Hour Resurgence was wrapped layer upon layer with the Free Method. Surrounding the Zero Hour Resurgence, at its core, were what looked like flower petals of Free Style.

This was a combination of Free Style by Fang Zheng and Tilia, where Fang Zheng’s Free Style was responsible for storage, and Tilia’s Free Style handled the transmission. As a Follower of the Crimson Realm, Tilia’s nature was “sacrifice,” so her Free Style also had the properties of transmission and sacrifice, able to transmit the Power of Existence to the fullest extent.

If one were to make an analogy, if Fang Zheng’s Free Style was like a high-capacity hard drive, then Tilia’s Free Style would be a high-quality data cable, connecting the “Zero Hour Resurgence” and the “hard drive.”

For this reason, the Free Style in Fang Zheng’s hands now resembled a golden lotus with a white core, albeit a lot more pleasant to look at.

Fang Zheng’s Free Style in his hand was divided into three layers, the outermost of which was designed specifically for providing and consuming the Power of Existence. The second layer was the Backup Energy system designed by Fang Zheng himself for unforeseen needs. As for the innermost part, it was his final trump card and commandments.

With that, one of Fang Zheng’s Seals, “Icecrown Citadel,” was now fully complete.

The reason it was only one of them was because his next target was Malthael—indeed, employing High-Tier Heaven to show off was quite a good choice. If Fang Zheng could create a High-Tier Heaven within the Seal, then the folks from the Sanctuary wouldn’t have the guts to come bothering him anymore, or so he should hope.

Let’s hope for that.

But before that… it was necessary to test the combat strength of “Icecrown Citadel.”

Ah, it’s really a pity that woman was given to Shana before.

Withdrawing the Seal, Fang Zheng shook his head. Since that battle, the woman called Marjorine had completely lost her aggressiveness, showing no signs of life, and spending her days drinking sullenly in the home of a host—which incidentally was also the home of a student from Fang Zheng’s class—this left Fang Zheng quite speechless.

Could it be that those two who never listen in class are the protagonists of this world? That’s a bit too far-fetched.

However, since she was content being a drunkard, Fang Zheng naturally had no interest in knocking on her door, so he simply had to wait for the next enemy who didn’t know any better to show up… Well, according to Aralastor, several Follower of the Crimson Realm and Fire Mist Warriors like “Hunter,” “Corpse Collector,” and “Eulogy Reciter” have appeared here one after another, indicating this place might well have turned into a vortex of struggle. It’s likely that new Followers of the Crimson Realm or Fire Mist Warriors would come here later on.

Let’s deal with it when the time comes.

After making up his mind, Fang Zheng turned around and headed home.

“Welcome back, Elder Brother.”

When Fang Zheng returned to his room, the first to greet him was Tilia, who, as always, wore a smile. Like a sister who respects her elder brother, or a wife who is gentle and wise, she came to Fang Zheng’s side and reached out to take his coat.

“I’m back.”

While nodding to Tilia, Fang Zheng glanced at the entrance and then noticed another pair of shoes.

“Shana’s here too?”

“Hmph!”

Hearing Fang Zheng’s question, a cold snort came from the direction of the living room. Meanwhile, Tilia chuckled lightly, placed Fang Zheng’s coat properly, and turned to walk towards the kitchen.

“Then please wait a moment, Elder Brother, dinner will be ready shortly.”

“Alright.”

Looking at the soft yet cunning smile on Tilia’s face, Fang Zheng could only helplessly shrug his shoulders. Since that day, Shana and Tilia hadn’t really clashed, but Tilia was clearly not going to let this Fire Mist Warrior off the hook; practically every day she would fawn and show affection to Fang Zheng indiscriminately, always choosing tasks that Shana simply wouldn’t or couldn’t do due to her pride.

Such as welcoming him home, taking his coat, and the like… These were things Shana was unwilling and also unable to do. So, whenever Tilia clung to Fang Zheng, Shana would sit with a dark expression on her face, as if she wanted to pick up a knife and strike.

As for Tilia, she seemed to relish in that feeling of “I just love that you can’t stand me but can’t do anything about it.”

With this in mind, Fang Zheng shook his head helplessly. He certainly didn’t plan to get involved in the squabble between two little girls; it wasn’t a serious matter, just some childish tempers. Thus, he wasn’t concerned and just walked straight into the living room to greet the young girl in front of him.

“Yo, Shana.”

“Hmph!”

Seeing Fang Zheng walk in, Shana snorted coldly and turned her head away.

Looks like the provocation is really quite significant.

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