Slamming the staff through the small centimeter deep pond of water then into its icy foundations. The cylinder-shaped metal stick pierced further then it should have based on the physical power put into the strike as if it was a red-hot knife through butter. Ice responding to my intent grew around the bottom of the staff climbing up to my hand. Resembling what looked like a mountain being thickest at the bottom and slimming out unit it reached its apex where I gripped the staff. encasing my hand up to my forearm coming from the staff itself reinforced my placement. Cracks on the wall that tanked the blast slowly at first then rapidly grew in size and shape with two menacing yellow spotlights being distorted by the ever-increasing breaks. All at once the wall burst open like a dam. What should have been freezing ocean water came rushing in, sweeping me off my feet. Still, the staff along with my ice encased hand refused to move, even with my feet being raised off the ground and flittering behind me due to the force of the torrent of water attempting to tackling me, the staff didn't give an inch to the pressure.
From above, a loud crack echoed amplified by the sound reverberating off the smoothed dome like walls, the ceiling of the glacier broke into multiple smaller fragments with large chunks crashing down splashing into the now chest high water flooding in. Large dense blocks of ice landed, sending large spider web fractures throughout the floor. As the chasms grew eventually water shot up from the ground itself like a geyser changing the environment from slowly filling the pocket of air to becoming fully submerged. Becoming protection less with no barrier separating me from my new conspiring foe. Staff still firmly planted into a much smaller ball of ice since the floor shattered apart. The six-meter ball had buoyance, taking me with it as we traveled towards the water's surface. Noticing heavier pieces of the previously massive glacier with either a surplus of gems or with heavy boulders embedded within them, descended into the watery abyss with plumes of white smoke trailing, the bright blue gems sent rocketing in every direction making it look like blue snow falling with the heavy white fragments.
Fully in the water with the dragon fifty meters beneath me and swimming in an aggressive slithering motion towards me like a pissed off giant sea snake, picking up speed with each pass of its meaty tail behind it. Blocks of ice with differing sizes bouncing off its gargantuan frame or shattered upon impact with its scales as it closed the distance. Light from the surface started to brighten the color of the waters from a black, to deep blue, to light blue as I approached the surface. As the dragon got to within ten meters it opened its maw the mouth itself big enough that one could vertically stand within it and barely be able to reach the roof of it. The small island of ice I was on, bobbed one time at the surface from being so much lighter than the water.
The dragons jaw breached the surface of the water from underneath me attempting to swallow me whole. meter long sword sized fangs were close enough for me to reach out and touch them. The flesh of it jaws flexed and tightened the teeth went to snap shut on trajectory to bisect me around mid-chest. As if teleported, a great sword appeared stabbing through the creature's lower jaw and holding its tongue, the jaws none the less tried closing. Luckily, the weapon remained stalwart holding the jaws just open enough. The force from the mass of the dragon's body carried past the surface like a sperm whale flying out of the water, sending my ball of ice flying into the air shattering in between its teeth with me holding on to my now freed staff white knuckles.
Flying thousands of meters high through the air, I saw a humanoid shadowed figure under the water moving impossibly fast, the dragon slowly landed back into the water with a deep roar presumably from the pain of the weapon embedded within its mouth as it seemingly levitated above the surface a second, shocked from the unobscured size of the monster became apparent with its breach of the waterline. Landing on its back with a deafening smack. Large waves were created just from the impact of the dragon's body, fanning out across the sides of its torso and gaining in size as the top-heavy white dragon's upper back reentered the teal-colored water. Climbing in elevation, inertia denied me any further ascent as gravitational equilibrium hit and for but a split second I hovered in the sky nearly at cloud level. Looking out into the vastness of open ocean I saw the Arctic Wasteland to the east. Then a shadow fell over me blocking the sun turning to the west a wave bigger than anything I had ever seen was approaching, quickly.
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I have had enough of falling for a lifetime.
spreading my good arm and legs out flat to not be spun around midair, using my intent my slinged arm was covered entirely in ice. Just before smacking into the surface of the water. The humanoid shadow leapt into the air grabbing me by the hood of my bear pelt jacket choking me with a yank and continued to move under the currents using their horizontal speed to nullify most of my downward momentum. Once back in the ocean we torpedoed at a slower yet sill insane speed, the sound of bubbles and water wooshing all around me I held on to the staff for dear life.
[special conditions met class offer notification pending]
The familiar usually cocky face of Agatha checking behind us with a worried, panicked expression while clearly using large amounts of magic to make the water help us move quicker. Since I was looking in front of us to see who my savior would be I saw the wall of ice before she did.
[class combination available]
BOOM
Crashing into the wall at literal breakneck speed she lost her grip on me, and I ricocheted like a saber meeting an angled shield spiraling into deeper water while she had landed with a more straight on impact. Once the water absorbed the remaining force of being suddenly sling shot, I gazed back towards the wall of ice Agatha was slowly getting her bearings. She was clearly still reeling from the harsh landing, when I felt what must be the worst thing imaginable. Like a mother watching a stroller slowly roll into a bad situation. Or seeing a mountain lion about to pounce on your friend while they were distracted but being unable to do anything. the massive form of the dragon smashed into the huge underside of the glacier pushing Agatha into the solid ice causing an immense cloud of white debris to fan out in every direction as the glacier slowly began to capsize. Hearing multiple loud sounds of metal hitting metal within the new glacier muted by the medium of water. A secondary explosion erupted from the other end of the now fully capsized glacier Agatha was expelled out at incredible speed leaving a trail of bubbles, a line of debris, and a thin trail of red liquid that was quickly dissolved into the water. Feeling the water begin to vibrate, slowly putting my index and middle fingers to my chest while using my other fingers and thumb to maintain grip on the staff. Heart beating fast with adrenaline pumping while knowing what was happening, more notifications swarmed my vision.
[special conditions met class offer available]
[multiclass combination available]
Focusing my intent, I saw the class options knowing this wasn't going to go well.
[ice necromancer->blizzard knight->frost monk->Draconic Knight-Frost-> Glacial Noble-world tier: class combination due to conditional class unlock Draconic Knight-Frost]
[Glacial Noble-> Moon Monarchs Paramore-> Royal of the Darkened Moon-???? tier: class combination due to ????]
Not having time to think and hoping a royal outranks a noble I focused my intent then quickly selected that class, at the same time the vibration stopped, and the waters grew brighter from an iridescent white light originating for the destroyed glacier. Not giving me time to realize,
I'm no longer classless.