201 Mana Drain VS Darkshadow Archdemon (1/2)

Since they had the experience from their first trip, the ten-man party's pace and speed of clearing the monsters in Silentdeath Jungle had increased drastically! Moreover, Qin Ruo had changed his previous defensive way of fighting, activating Frostbarrier continuously as he fought, using his newly learned skill Compressed Frost Bullet from Xiaoxiao, swiftly slowing the movement speed of the Malevolent Archdemon drastically and dealing 50 HP per second damage from the laceration effect inflicted on them…

With this method, not only was the teamwork assistance needed from the party reduced, but the monster-killing speed also increased greatly at the same time.

Qin Ruo aggroed three Malevolent Archdemon from the beginning, while Slayer's Heart and Burning Rose each took one, instantly forming a controlled situation where they could each fight one with ease.

With the Magic Penetration effect of Slayer's Heart's Pazuzu's Warhammer, it was more than enough to deal with one of them that assistance from other party members was not even needed.

Finally after Burning Rose, iLittle Arrow, and Dinosaurcerer went against one of them, Brother Da, Little Apple, and Gold Digger Babe which were left out helped Qin Ruo deal with the last Malevolent Archdemon before him.

Brother Da grasped every moment there was for every time he could go against the Malevolent Archdemon was an opportunity to improve himself. However to do so, Qin Ruo was forced to switch from attacking aggressively to supporting…

Luckily Qin Ruo's Mana Drain had yet to reach Advanced Level. By letting Brother Da attract its attention, a timely opportunity to raise his Mana Drain mastery was created.

While raising Mana Drain's mastery, he could simultaneously use the 30-45 MP gained by Mana Drain from the Malevolent Archdemon to maintain his Frostbarrier's activation, allowing the mastery level of this defensive spell which was stuck at below twenty Beginner points to be finally raised bit by bit at a fast pace.

'Phew!

'Each time Mana Drain is used, around 40 MP could be gained which is sufficient to maintain the Frostbarrier's activation for thirty seconds. Mana Drain has a cooldown time of six seconds which is sufficient to support Frostbarrier's activation.

'It seems it won't be long that Frostbarrier will finally reach Intermediate.'

Qin Ruo was overjoyed!

After constantly using Mana Drain awhile later, Qin Ruo discovered another combat purpose for this skill—discovered by him when they were fighting the Malevolent Archdemon.

When the Malevolent Archdemon was suppressed greatly by Slayer's Heart, Qin Ruo had a sudden thought—while casting attack spells continuously at the Malevolent Archdemon, Mana Drain was used at them every six seconds.

Within a minute, Mana Drain was cast ten times and more than 400 MP was drained from the Malevolent Archdemon!

After that, the Malevolent Archdemon oddly broke free from Slayer's Heart's hold and charged toward Qin Ruo. What made everyone even more shocked was the Malevolent Archdemon behaving as if it has lost its magic abilities and stopped casting spells. It could only furiously swing its staff against Qin Ruo's Frostbarrier relentlessly and hopelessly as it raged and roared pitifully.

Everyone was stunned and could not fathom the scene before them.

A Level 47 magic-type Elite Miniboss gave up on using its magical attack and use its staff instead as a weapon to attack a player—something like this was unheard of! When this scene unfolded before them, Slayer's Heart and Qin Ruo who received insignificant damage, and everyone else were stumped for the rest of the day. Brother Da and Gold Digger Babe even took the chance to record the whole incident, and jokingly said they were definitely going to post it online for others to watch.

Although the Malevolent Archdemon had regained its magical attack ability Qin Ruo was hit with realization after that. After experimenting several times on the Darkshadow Archdemon and Malevolent Archdemon, he finally discovered the reason for this abnormality.

Monsters had limited MP!

As long as Mana Drain was used enough times, even Boss monsters would be left Silenced and resort to the state of only being able to helplessly swing their staff furiously.

After that, Qin Ruo began to engage without holding back by casting Mana Drain repeatedly to support Slayer's Heart combo attacks, easily taking down the furious but helpless Darkshadow Archdemons one after another. Everyone in the party laughed at the scene whenever the pitiful Darkshadow Archdemons resorted to swinging their staves like madmen.

Not long after, a Bandit's presence slowly crept within Qin Ruo's Elemental Perception. He was aware that tonight's peacefulness had just reached its end.

'The Bandit from the Angel Faction traced the path we took. It seems he closed in us by following by the sound of our battles. He appeared so suddenly that while the battle with the Darkshadow Archdemon was still ongoing, he had already stopped moving behind a tree forty meters away.'

With the help of Elemental Perception, Qin Ruo could see the look of excitement on his face when he found their location…

After briefly mumbling a few words, the Bandit began to lurk behind the tree. Qin Ruo guessed that he was probably informing their current location to the people from the Demon Faction.

'Hmph!

'What a funny guy. He hasn't realized that he is already lying at death's door. Did he really think he could hide his presence behind a tree and remain unnoticed?'