196 The Advantages of Mana Drain (1/2)
Homme Fatale and Scarlet Bauhinia were unaware that the enigma they discovered was because of Qin Ruo's newly gained skill Mana Drain.
After Qin Ruo cast Compressed Frost Bullet continuously till his MP almost depleted completely and began to meditate, only did he realize he had not tried using the newly gained skill that he had just learned today.
With a bold move, after freezing a Twin-headed Bee with Compressed Frost Bullet, he tried using it for the first time on the Twin-headed Bee which was flying toward him slowly.
Mana Drain was easy to use as it did not require charging and only needed one to focus on the target and chant ”Drain”. Subsequently, Qin Ruo was able to see a faint blue light from the Twin-headed Bee and a cool and refreshing sensation course through his body.
12 points of MP was recovered!
This skill could indeed be used on monsters also…
With this newfound knowledge, Qin Ruo was satisfied as he realized firsthand the effectiveness of the skill—using Mana Drain every six seconds was more than enough to cover the MP used to kill a Twin-headed Bee, furthermore the time needed to kill a Twin-headed Bee was achieved within six seconds.
The MP recovery speed by Mana Drain was faster than meditation. Thanks to that, Qin Ruo immediately made full use of the advantage from the MP recovered from Mana Drain. Every time after Compressed Frost Bullet was cast and the Twin-headed Bee was slowed, at that split second, Mana Drain would be cast on the Twin-headed Bee to recover his MP.
By doing this back and forth, his MP was regained bit by bit till it was full.
During this period of time, Qin Ruo thought, 'Mana Drain at Novice level is able to save so much time. If I raised it to Master level, I could regain tens of MP each time. Does that mean I would never need to meditate whenever I go leveling? Besides that…
'Whenever I want to raise the mastery level of spells such as Frostbarrier at the same time, by using Advanced level Mana Drain, I could maintain its activation indefinitely! The speed of the mastery level raised will be faster than double compared to pausing to meditate every now and then to regain my MP!'
After realizing this fact, Qin Ruo had made his decision to raise the mastery level of Mana Drain and Compressed Frost Bullet by using it against the Twin-headed Bees with Xiaoxiao. After forty minutes, Compressed Frost Bullet and Mana Drain's mastery level increased by 300 points.
Standing from afar, Homme Fatale and Scarlet Bauhinia were observing with a somber expression…
Although they were unable to notice the casting of Mana Drain, but from the fact that Qin Ruo was able to cast spells continuously without using MP potion or meditation and his peculiar charging time of Frost Bullet, they were able to figure out that Qin Ruo must have some kind of equipment which increases his MP regeneration greatly.
After Homme Fatale and Scarlet Bauhinia exchanged glances, he voiced his opinion, ”At the rate of casting he is going with, his Tier 4 Barrier will soon reach max level mastery…Are you sure that we shouldn't recruit him now?” The implication made was obvious—they had no right to regret if other clans made a move to recruit him before them.
Contrary to his expectations, Scarlet Bauhinia answered Homme Fatale with a troubled look, ” Do you really think I'm not interested in recruiting him? I am just worried about Slayer's Heart… He entered the Mythical Battlefield yesterday…”
”...”
Homme Fatale and Steel Dude who also heard it was shocked at news revealed by Scarlet Bauhinia.
”Really?”
”He finally made his move!?”
Scarlet Bauhinia shook his head and replied, ”It's exactly because I have no idea what is he planning to do that I didn't recruit Qin Ruo, maybe Slayer's Heart is planning something… I-I don't want to raise any unnecessary issues.”
Hearing about what was going on, Homme Fatale furrowed his brows for a moment and then he returned to his usual lackadaisical manner and shook his hand. ”What a mess, this is too complicated. Screw it, I don't want to be bothered by this anymore... Just do as you see fit.” While he was talking, lightning erupted from his palms and several sword-shaped lightning beams were fired, the violent lightning elements instantly killed several Killer Bees not far away from them!
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Only when it hit 6 o'clock in the evening did Scarlet Bauhini and his team of five men and one pet leave Killer Bee Valley.
At the same moment, Qin Ruo did not waste a second and routinely killed another Twin-headed Bee. Noticing it was almost 7 o'clock which was the time to log off and have his dinner, he summoned his skill interface to check the progress of Compressed Frost Bullet and Mana Drain.
Compressed Frost Bullet (Tier 3 skill, self-created):
Advanced 172/300
Magic Attack 30
Additional Special Effect: Freezing and slowed effect, able to reduce the target's speed by 20%
After striking the target, target's speed can be reduced up to 50%
After striking the target, the compressed Frost Bullet can be triggered to explode, dealing magic attack 30-35 of damage within a radius of 5 meters around the target, attack comes with laceration, 50 damage per second, duration 15 seconds
Cost: 8 MP
Cooldown Time: 5 seconds
Mana Drain (Tier 4):
Advanced 98/3000
Active Skill. During combat, 30-45 MP can be drained from the selected target.
Casting time: 2 seconds
Cost: 2 MP