I regressed and became the Sword Ice King

"Aura Field Of Vision." His voice was like a halo of ambient snow and ice. His gaze exuded a cold semblance, and his sword exuded a cold chill in the form of smoke. Jang had heard this statement, and his heart began to thump in overdrive.

'What now? How can he use this already?' Questions reeled in, and yet they could not be replied to.

At least he wasn't the only one surprised; his father had quite a complicated expression on his face. His teeth were clenched hard, and his brows furrowed deeply. Everyone knew about the Jun's Aura Field of Vision—the exhibition of their trait in the strongest form—but in order to reach this stage, one must become a Master.

Raph became a Master only a few days ago; how could he possibly exhibit something like this now? This was beyond his expectations, and he couldn't help but wonder what more this child had hidden under his sleeves.

'Michealo, that bastard, has raised yet another prodigy…but this one seems like the cream of the top…'.

His gaze never left the Arena for even a second, even when his assistant, the head of the lesser clan, gripped the stone chair so hard that it shattered. "What nonsense is this!" The man cried out in a stifled yell. He was known as Ran Mon Lin, a vassal of the Kang Lin household and head of the Lesser Clans.

He also served as the assistant and head of all Financial Services within the Kang Lin household.

"Ease your anger, Ran; we must never show weakness". His statement was a stern warning, and the black and gray-haired elderly man with a bushy mustache and well-kept beard nodded in response. He was in a similar attire as Jang, a clothing of the Murim world.
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All they could do was watch. In the household of the Jun family, though, they seemed to have their own complicated worries. "Has he even trained that yet?" Gloria spoke up, her body tensed with worry.

The Aura Field of Vision was an area-of-effect ability that depended mostly on your mental resilience and imagery. It takes time to imagine how you want your perfect vision to be, so how could he possibly use it now?

"Raph has always done things like this…he'll be fine" Morganna said with a sigh, waving her hand at her elder sister. And they all had to admit it, it was true.

"...That boy really" Rachael sighed, their attention fixed on Raph as his Aura Field of Vision came into play.

BOOM.

The Arena was clouded in a smoke of cold ice as glacial spires and snow pillars emerged from the ground in a swift motion. Their sharp edges extended throughout the Arena, reaching the walls and cornering Jang before he could even retaliate.

"Tch!" Jang cursed, a cold breath exuding from his lips as a cold chill crept into his body. 'Never!'. His body charged with yang ki and shot out, his blood boiling, and a fiery wave of energy exuded out of it.

"5th step of the Imperial Mystic Kang Arts! Reversal Law!". Fire and Energy combined in so much harmony that a wave of it erupted from his body and melted the ice that attempted to corner him. He stretched out his hands, and the tall pillars and sharp glaciers began to break out of the ground into the air. Here's the text with corrections and suggestions for improvement:

Then, he pulled his hands down when they had not even floated an inch into the air, causing the whole diameter of the Arena to sink. Ice broke, and snow fell as it crashed into the ground in a single motion. 'I shall not let him get the better of me'. He thought, coursing out the magnitude of his ki throughout his body. It began to emit from his orifices and fists like a steam of white energy.

His pupils constricted as it turned to the left, when a cold energy had appeared before him.

"Finally taking this seriously, Jang!" His sword coursed through the air, but Jang's fist was not slowed down. The fiery yang energy melted the ice that had begun to creep up his body until there were none left. Nothing held him back now, and with a supersonic wave, fist and sword collided once again. BOOM.

The explosion rose into the air as ice shards flared above Raph, forming pristine ice swords and shot down at Jang.

Jang cursed, deflecting Raph's sword and grabbed his hand, pulling him forward and thrusting his right leg up towards his abdomen.

Raph chuckled and raised his body into the air, pulling his head backwards as Jang's knee collided with his abdomen. A thrust of air exuded from Raph's back, and what should have followed next would have been Raph flying away, but at that moment, Raph dropped his blade and grabbed Jang instead.

Jang's brow raised into an arch when Raph's head suddenly collided with his in a forceful headbutt. His body shook, and his eyes nearly went backwards due to the force.

He could have sworn he was seeing little flying Raph's mocking him, but he was smart enough to realize that the headbutt had nearly knocked him unconscious. Blood dribbled down both of their foreheads as Jang fell to his knee.

'Shit'. That was all he could say before a rain of ice shards descended upon him.

Silence filled the Stadium as their gazes fell on Jang, his once strong and powerful presence overshadowed by the sight of a kneeling boy pierced by a few hundred shards.

Raph had retreated with his sword at the last second, his body free of any injuries other than the blood that dribbled down his forehead and the pain on his abdomen.

"His hits are as hard as always" He muttered, spitting out blood and assisting himself with his sword. He panted lightly, his gaze fixed on Jang.

'He's gone past my expectations a little… who could have thought he had a way to offset my ice' Raph's Aura Field of Vision was a rather simple one, to say the least.

It caused a certain diameter of land or water to turn to ice while snow pillars, glacier spires, and icebergs extended from the ground with a simple goal of consuming.

It smashed into anything and anyone and further extended his freezing capabilities, causing anything and anyone that touches it to turn to ice.

It was an AOE attack with a constant effect that didn't stop until the caster had died.

Cold chills exuded from his lips, causing bits of his lips to freeze. He grunted slightly.

'I'm going to be out of it for a while after this'.

Traits came with their pros and cons. Most of those cons stay for life, but a few of those disperse as the Jun increases the mastery of the sword, stars, and their traits as well.

Raph was a master now, and compared to five or three years ago, his trait tended to put him in a vegetal state for at least two weeks. He was expecting something similar this time as well, but unbeknownst to him, his breakthrough to the Master Stage had offset most of it, so instead of being vegetal, he would be conscious…but bedridden for at least three days.

Then there was Resonance that depended on meditation and understanding the relation between aura and mana and how best to use it at the same time without causing him too much pain.

He was in the process of mastering it to say the least, but he wasn't there yet.

He would probably have to rely on his circles to absorb mana if he expends his star and mana reserves...but hopefully, he doesn't.

Jang seemed to have gone unconcious from an Audience perspective but it was quite different from that.

Raph could tell and all other Partriatchs could tell as well, in fact, this boy was actually meditating in that awkward position.

'Martial Artists are crazy I tell you'. Raph thought, watching the scene unfold quietly.

He may as well just end it now, but honestly, it would be a little bit disappointing to end it this way.

Though, if Jang were to go through a breakthrough, now that would be a problem.

He had made up his mind to charge when the air around Jang intensified.

'Well damn'. Raph thought, taking a step back. 'I hope I didn't fuck up too much'.

There was always one thing that bothered him in his past life, and it was Jang. His feet in the battle was well known but the tendencies of him finding a fortuitous encounter.

For example at this moment, this guy might actually make a breakthrough, not that Raph was worried though.

The air around Jang began to pulsate like the beating of a heart, and his muscles gripped and clenched, forcing out the shards that had penetrated his body.

The holes exuded a steam of white ki that closed it up immediately, and his body ascended into the air.

Jang's body erupted with a white ki and his eyes darted open with white steam, as he fixed his gaze on Raph.

His hair began to float in the air, as he raised his hand in the air.

"Shall we begin round two?".

Raph raised a brow at the sight. and a wild grin crept on his face.

"No we shall not".