Everyone unanimously agreed to freeze Renko.
Nausicaa nodded and took out a magic rune scroll from her pocket.
On the back of the scroll was a sketch of a frozen coffin, drawn by the seller, indicating that the scroll belonged to the Ice Coffin category.
Magic Rune Scrolls of the Ice Coffin category are generally used when the body collapses or for emergency freezing to save or self-rescue.
The highest class is the ’Time-Stop Ice Coffin’. Although this ice coffin does not have healing effects, it freezes not only physically but freezes time at the moment the ice coffin appears. Your body remains in a nearly time-locked state; virtually any injury, even non-physical ones, can be instantly frozen, stopping time in its tracks and waiting for the resurrection opportunity.
Below that is the ’Rebirth Ice Coffin’, which, unless the injury is irreparable, allows you to restore as time goes by.
Then there are various healing ice coffins with different names and effects. Angel used the ’Healing Ice Coffin’ to freeze Jon back then, which belongs to this category.
However, the magic rune scroll that Nausicaa had was none of the above because she couldn’t afford them.
The ice coffin she held was a discounted scroll obtained from David, named: Sealing Ice Coffin. It belongs to the lowest class in the Ice Coffin category, simply freezing the body for emergency use regarding physical injuries.
The effect is rather thin, but to Nausicaa, since Renko was just an ordinary person, using this to freeze him to delay time for a year or two shouldn’t be an issue.
It gave her and the doctors there a year or two, during which they might find a way to save Renko.
With this thought, Nausicaa ripped the magic rune scroll of the Sealing Ice Coffin in half and placed it on Renko’s forehead. Tearing the magic rune scroll is also a way to activate it, but many wizards find this behavior inelegant and prefer using magic power to activate it. Only when it’s a one-time scroll or when magic power is depleted would they choose to tear it apart. Nausicaa was of the latter; her magic power had been exhausted, and the Sealing Ice Coffin was a one-time scroll, so tearing it apart wouldn’t waste it.
As the magic rune scroll was torn, a chilling breeze seemed to sweep through the spacious medical room. Everyone could feel the surrounding temperature starting to noticeably drop.
The thinly dressed Flea even shivered.
The source of the temperature drop was precisely where Renko lay, as one could see a pale blue light enveloping him. White frost spread over Renko’s skin, and as the blue light glided across, the frost expanded into ice.
In an instant, Renko was frozen inside a fitting ice coffin.
Through the transparent ice coffin, one could see Renko’s skin texture clearly, his eyes closed tightly, his cheeks slightly flushed, looking as if he were asleep.
"Is this okay now?" Flea asked softly.
Nausicaa nodded, stepping back wearily to lean against the wall, constantly adjusting her breath, trying to alleviate the discomfort of her depleted spiritual power and magic power.
On the other side, the white-coated doctors’ eyes gleamed brightly, whispering among themselves.
Such a miraculous transcendent phenomenon appeared right before them, making it hard for anyone to remain calm. Moreover, this was used as a ’medical technique’ to help treat Renko.
Different people had different perceptions of the ice coffin, but to these doctors, it was a transcendent medical technique.
They looked at the ice coffin with eyes filled with joy, exclaiming in awe as if seeing their first love, crazy and passionate.
They even attempted to study the structure of the ice coffin.
However, this did not last long.
About half an hour later, Flea, who had been studying the ice coffin, suddenly noticed something unusual.
"Renko’s lip color seems a bit more ashen than before? His cheeks are turning pale as well."
As those words left Flea’s mouth, Nausicaa, leaning against the wall, quickly opened her eyes and walked briskly to the ice coffin with a frown.
Her gaze focused on the ice coffin.
Upon closer inspection, Renko hadn’t shown much change at first glance, but a detailed examination and a comparison with his state before entering the ice coffin revealed his face was indeed paler, and his lip color had grown lighter and more ashen.
This result left Nausicaa somewhat incredulous. Although the Sealing Ice Coffin didn’t achieve the time-freezing effect like the Time-Stop Ice Coffin, its freezing also arrested the body’s vitality. For transcendents, it might be passable, but for an ordinary person like Renko, Nausicaa thought it would suffice.
Yet, the reality was different; although Renko was successfully frozen, his injuries continued to deteriorate. The rate had slowed, but it didn’t reach the expected one or two years of delay.
"Madam, about Renko’s injuries..."
"An unexpected situation has occurred," Nausicaa replied, her face not looking well. She thought it was a sure thing, but reality had dealt her a hard blow.
"Can Renko’s injuries still be delayed?"
Nausicaa was silent for a moment, not responding directly, but instead said, "I’ll check first."
After resting for half an hour, the magical core’s magic power recovered slightly, and her spiritual power barely managed control. She attempted to convert her spiritual power into tentacles, slowly probing into the ice coffin, and then transformed magic power into ’eyes’, injecting them into Renko’s body through spiritual power.
After a while, Nausicaa retracted the spirit tentacle, her expression somewhat gloomy.
It took her quite a while before she spoke: "The side effects of the toxic side effect are even greater than I thought. Moreover, it has formed a vicious cycle with the original poison that infected Renko, multiplying its potency."
In simple terms, they initially thought the Sealing Ice Coffin could halt two noxious effects. However, unexpectedly, the two deleterious effects joined forces and broke through the freezing power.
"Then... what now?" Everyone’s faces darkened, a repercussion of shattered hope.
"Even with the ice coffin, it can only delay for two days at most," Nausicaa’s eyes dimmed, troubled as well. She had decided to find a way to save Renko, but the outcome was...
With those words, the air in the medical room turned dense and silent.
This silence persisted for a very long time.
Until the whirlpool of sadness also blended into the atmosphere, compelling Nausicaa to speak first: "At least there are two days left to try and brainstorm other solutions."
Flea tightened his lips as if he had resolved something, taking a deep breath: "Don’t lose heart, a solution must exist. I, I... I’ll head to Dock No.1."
"What are you going to do?"
"I’m going to study the poison that infected Renko. If I can figure it out, perhaps we can break the initial poison. Destroying one malignant factor might enable the freezing to work?"
Flea didn’t care whether others believed it or not; it mattered that he believed it. Because he couldn’t bear this atmosphere of despair, he had to do something, anything, for Renko.
Without a care, Flea dashed out the door.