Realms, dimensions, reality (3) - Experimenting with ice

With a sigh, Eldrian decided to brute force things. Since he couldn't reach the spear, he created steps of ice. Sadly, this proved much more difficult than he had expected. 

Naturally, he couldn't use earth magic. The ground was made of voidstone. Eldrian couldn't even seep his mana into the stone, not to mention deforming it. 

As for ice magic, the air wasn't humid at all. Requiring every piece of ice to be formed from mana. Luckily, the room was filled with mana. But it still meant it was going to take a while. 

Climbing until he reached twenty meters in height—which took about an hour. Eldrian felt like crying. He had already decided to let the stairs below melt to remove the mana drain they required to stay in existence.