Self-Summon [Demon Summoning/Evolution litRPG] Chapter 45: [1.45] Frostbite (Part 2)

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Focus. Angelica raised her hand once more. “Are you praying to Vissiem?” Her master couldn’t help but comment on her actions. “Or I suppose it’d be your Demon Lord. Hoping for a miracle?” “Will you just-” Gelic cut herself off, but still shot him a dirty look, one she was unsure would properly translate in her cutesy rotund form. Focus! If it didn’t work this time, she’d give up and concede, since she was getting nowhere otherwise. [Frost Touch Lv.3] [Might and Creativity increased] [Glacial Attunement increased] Not now, DGS. Okay, think about what you want to create. You’re an artist, so make a clear mental picture. She first thought of the trash poker, what she had the most experience stabbing with. But that was no good. Too short, probably too fragile. So a spear then. That was getting somewhere. No, still too short. She needed an absurd amount of reach, a ridiculous amount, so she needed a ridiculous weapon, something no one would actually use. Yes, she had just the thing in mind, thinking back to the old days of jousting. [Active Skill: Manifest Ice Lv.1 unlocked] [Might and Creativity increased] [Glacial Attunement increased] [Glacial Attunement has improved from Aware to Touched] An icy hilt appeared in the palm of her hand. From there, the weapon grew, like the longest icicle in the world, towering so tall that it immediately toppled over, landing on the ground with a thud. But even though it was made of ice, it didn’t shatter, strong enough to keep its form. And she wasn’t done there. Toxic Imbuement! [Combo Skill: Frostbite Lv.1 unlocked. Manifest new ice creations and imbue them with the max Stacks of Toxic. Speed of imbuement is increased and MP consumption is decreased with Pestilence and Glacial Attunement.] [Might, Creativity, Malice increased] [Pestilence, Glacial Attunement increased] Heck yeah! So she’d be able to charge up an ice weapon faster than a normal one, and less MP was always a plus. Gelic surveyed her newly created weapon. [Ice Lance | Imbued with 10 Stacks of Toxic] It was so big, so deadly, so magnificent. She couldn’t even lift it properly, but she didn’t need to. “Stab!” As her battle cry roared, the heavy weapon shot across the ground, its tip slamming into the Malignant. The clash made her lance and her whole body recoil, bouncing backward from the colliding forces. Half of the lance was cracked and shattered, so she mended it with Ice Manifest, which didn’t even lower the Toxic Stack count. [Malignant Lv.23 | Health: 53% | Poisoned: Toxic - 10 Stacks] [Malignant Lv.23 | Health: 48% | Poisoned: Toxic - 6 Stacks] Huh?! That math didn’t add up. Her poison was only doing half as much while it was depleting four times as fast. In this tantrum mode, did it have higher resistance somehow? Grr, curse you, stupid rock egg! But no matter. She had the winning formula, so all she had to do was keep up the assault. Stab, Stab, Stab! With the last attack, her lance shattered completely, so she remade it from scratch with Frostbite. “Looks like it’s working, Gelic, keep it up!” “Well you can do more than cheer me on,” she complained to her master who was really just standing around doing nothing now, watching her work. “Here, I’ll make you one too!” She manifested a second ice lance and used as much strength as she could to chuck it in Rastille’s direction. Only for him to do the most surprising thing yet: yelp and skip backward like a scared schoolgirl who just saw a creepy bug. “Are you crazy?!” he chastised her with genuine ire. “Imbuements aren’t like Runes. They’ll afflict their status on anyone who touches the object except for the person who imbues it. You would have poisoned me just now!” “Ah, oops, sorry.” Well, that explained why she hadn’t been poisoned yet by holding the things. All she was getting was a bit of numbing in her hands from the cold. Thank you Cold Resistance, I wouldn’t be able to hold these things for this long without you. The circumstance did also raise another interesting que