Deep Freeze

Deep Freeze is the Administrator's command: the targeted unit turns into a stone statue. It no longer moves, no longer strikes — but the stone also protects it, and every hit lands at only half strength. A control art, not an execution.

The incantation

System Call. Generate Cryogenic Element. Generate Cryogenic Element. Generate Cryogenic Element. Deep Freeze.

• It needs System Control Authority 50 (see System and Object Control Authority).
• You must hold at least 3 elements, of any kind: they pay for the command and are consumed.
• The command fires at once, with no closing word, and closes the incantation.

The target

The unit traced earlier in the incantation, at any distance in the dimension; otherwise the creature you are looking at, in line of sight, 24 blocks away at most (a cone of about 12°). Players and creatures, never yourself.

What the statue suffers

• Pinned in place: it is pulled back every instant to the spot where it was petrified; walking, jumping or knockback cannot move it.
• Powerless: Slowness, Mining Fatigue and Weakness at level XI while the spell lasts — it can no longer dig, and its blows barely land.
• Protected: all damage it receives is halved, whatever the source.
• The stone sets in under half a second; at the end, it crumbles with the sound of breaking rock.

Duration by held elements

Cores (Merge Element) count: every fused element is worth one held element.

Early end

• The statue dies.
• You die: the stone falls apart at once.

Tactics

See also: System spells.