Reincarnated as a World

Ch.316 Law Aspects

Misali, the Supreme Dragon of Water, grinned wildly as she revelled in the excitement of impending combat, the water-like aura surrounding her body bubbled vigorously and threateningly, belying her emotions.

To be honest, this behaviour was in contrast to her past behaviour where she was always suppressing her emotions in order to enhance her affinity with the Laws of Water.

It was rare for Dragons to be patient enough to comprehend the nature of water and she was the greatest practitioner of them all. But even with her talent, she had always struggled to find a balance between her savage instincts and the calm nature of her element, which led to her attempts to stamp out the former. In fact, up until recently, because of how much she had suppressed herself no one knew that the violent tendencies of the Dragon race actually plagued her more than most.

That was how dedicated she was to the Water Element that she loved so much.

It was only around 5 years ago that she obtained an epiphany that changed everything.

She had a friend called Insalang. Insalang was also a Dragon that had control over the water element and she was almost as talented as herself. As such, it was common for them to discuss the profundities of the water laws from time to time in order to gain some enlightenment, even if it was mostly Misali enlightening Insalang and rarely the other way around.

However, one day, Insalang shocked her greatly when she appeared one day with the ability to turn water ice! It was Ice Magic!

Before that moment, she and everyone else had always been of the belief that Ice and Water were unrelated. After all, they had never seen it appear naturally so they had never seen its various transformations. There was no cold region on Fortissimum Continent apart from Dodo’s territory and the Continent itself was warm all year round, there was even a desert in the South so how could ice easily appear here?

The reason she even knew that it was possible for the ambient temperature to drop so low that ice would form was because of her recent contact with foreign continents.

Before then, she had never seen Ice unless it was the result of Magic, and as for the very rare hailstorms, she didn’t even know that it was actually ice until this recent storm that allowed her to connect the dots with her recent knowledge. Every time hailstorms appeared, tragedies were rampant, so how could the previous her find the time to study it?

As for her encounters with Ice Magic users, they had been very few. Ice magic was very rare and the amount of people with such magic that had the gall to fight her was even less (It was a bad idea to antagonise any Dragon, talk less of a Supreme one). So even in the few occasions that she witnessed it, it was either being used to create interesting structures and statues for entertainment, or the user was fighting someone else, which usually resulted in a win.

There were only 2 times where she saw Ice Magic users suffer a loss. One was against a Golden Monkey that just shattered everything in his way and the other was against a Solus Panda who had hot enough fire magic to melt the ice.

That was the only time she had seen ice melt, and back then, she still did not know that it was water. There were many things that looked like water that weren’t actually water. For example: Slime, Venom, Tree Sap, Honey, Blood, etc. And some of them even carried traces or properties of actual water, like tree sap and blood, so she just thought that it was just ‘melted ice’ and not true water.

Foolish, she knew that now, but in her defence, it wouldn’t have been the first time that fire melted something and made it resemble liquid. Even though the speed at which the ice melted had raised her attention, it was just that.

It was only thanks to Insalang’s future achievement that she figured out what ice really was, and it was this discovery that allowed her to comprehend her first Aspect of the Water Laws. The Law Aspect of Ice.

Law Aspects were aspects of an overarching Law that had the ability to change the state of the Law itself. Ice on its own wasn’t fully a Law, it was an Aspect of the overarching Water Laws that could change its state into a solid. Another example that she had always known about thanks to its popularity was the Smoke Aspect of the Fire Laws.

An important fact to note about Aspects was that you can even have an affinity for them that was separate from your original affinity for the main Law. On someone’s status it might show 67% Affinity with Water and a separate 12% with Ice. But technically, they were very much tied. It was still confusing to her even now. 

In any case, finding out about the Ice Aspect had obviously greatly enhanced her understanding of the Water Laws, but her discovery of the true nature of ice was not her epiphany.

Ice Magic was very suitable for Insalang because whilst Misali had to constantly suppress her emotions, Insalang was the real deal. Ever since the female was born her personality had always been calm and stoic. Misali chose Water Magic out of sheer admiration for it along with a valley-load of talent that allowed her to do whatever she wanted regardless of efficiency, Insalang on the other hand did it because it was either that or Earth Magic and the girl liked Water more.

It would only be much later that they would learn that Insalang had been more suitable for Earth Magic at the time (thanks to how stoic she was), but now that she had discovered Ice Magic thanks to that decision, things were actually better. Insalang later even went on to form an Ice Affinity, which allowed her to directly create ice with her mana instead of having to conjure regular water and subsequently freeze it.

But all of that was largely useless to Misali. Her true personality already had some disagreements with the mellow nature of water, so how could she possibly decide to dabble in the even more stringent Ice Laws?

Even if it wasn’t impossible to achieve, she herself was very unwilling, and that effectively made it impossible.

Thankfully, there was no need to make such a decision. Because after delving deeper into the Laws of Water and experimenting with temperature, she discovered something else. Something better.