Chapter 673 - v4c55 Spells of the Ice Fairies (1/2)
The Heart of Frost was not an equipment, neither was it an Enhancement Crystal or any type of material or a decorative gem. It was just a consumable item whose only use was to increase the user’s wind and water element pool by 5%, but it could only be used once in a user’s life.
Something like this was, undoubtedly, the type of loot that Brendel needed right now.
In fact, it could be the most critical part of his path as a Planeswalker, something that Tuman didn’t imagine — equipment, special items, consumable things that could help users level up, or enhancement crystals. Warndt had many equipment and enhancers like the Heart of Frost or Star of Flames that could expand an element pool — of course, in order to balance things out, with the exception of a few divine artifacts or ancient relics, any of the similar magical items or fantasy items wouldn’t raise the element pool by much.
But don’t forget, Brendel himself was special.
Because he had two element pools, the effect of these items on him was doubled. For example, though the Heart of Frost expanded wind and water element pools by 5%, the effect for him would actually be an 10% increase.
Twice the increase was enough to s.h.i.+ft the original balance.
Brendel even thought that Marsha was exceptionally good to him. Since the Stained Frost Forest Labyrinth was the most well known side quest in Aouine centered around frost beings, Brendel had been fairly certain even before starting the quest that he’d pick up something to expand his wind and water element pools. Still, he hadn’t expected the surprise to come this quickly.
The Heart of Frost only had a dropping rate of 0.003% in the game. That meant the region produced, on average, a single Heart of Frost every one to two months. But this time they only vanquished 20-30 frost demons and got one. According to the rules of the game, this could be considered unnaturally lucky.
More importantly, Maynild was the one who had gotten it. In Brendel’s heart, he considered Maynild to be just as unlucky as Bai Jia had been.
After enjoying the sense of extreme happiness, Brendel immediately used the Heart of Frost. The two element pool’s wind and water stats immediately showed:
[Wind… wind… water… water…]
Brendel knew that the algorithm for expanding element pools in game calculated equipment, enhancement crystals, and levelling up independently. In addition to directly increasing the basic stats, everything else would be modified by a multiplier. Therefore, he wasn’t that concerned about the order of application.
But due to the element pool expanding, the system signaled that his card pool also increased to… something that was a welcome surprise.
Because this indirectly proved his hypothesis —
The Planeswalker path he planned for himself had been formed on the basis of using eight or more Planeswalker creatures to quickly build up an advantage on the battlefield. Every one of them would be a Planeswalker; in other words, a channel to drawing and playing more cards. Every round, he could draw 10 cards and play 10 cards. At the very start, he could have 80 cards. What would that look like?
Even a newly minted Planeswalker apprentice would surely understand how terrifying that would be.
But the only drawback to his card pool was the limit placed upon his deck and the size of his element pools. Kelsie’s hypothesis had its weaknesses too. Planeswalker creatures themselves couldn’t provide an element pool and card deck pool. This meant that at least eight Planeswalkers would need to draw power from his element pool and share just two card decks.
A regular Planeswalker’s element pool and card deck might not be able to sustain repeated use, which meant that it could result in it being exhausted immediately.
What’s more, Brendel wasn’t interested in creating a loop in the traditional sense. If he wanted a loop, then why would he go to the trouble of making this current deck? It’s not that he hadn’t considered these problems, but he only knew how to solve the problem.
His solution was actually pretty simple. Using the natural advantage that came with being a high level player, he would go after equipment that expanded his element pool and then use a large number of those items to support a huge element pool. In return, the huge element pool would bring about a huge card deck.
He could use this trick to get around the so-called ‘bottleneck’ issue of his Planeswalker deck.
Of course, this plan may look simple but was, in fact, near impossible for anyone else except for Brendel. Warndt’s world was so huge and a limited number of ruins and underground cities were scattered throughout its vast land. The process of trying to find equipment that matched his desired attributes from the millions and tens of millions of magical equipment would, undoubtedly, take a lifetime.
Naturally you could also make your own, but those skills came from when the power of magic had been at its peak in the ancient times. Ever since Ebabel Fort fell, those skills had been lost. Most of the highest ranking equipment in Warndt were gifts from the past.
How could the skills of the Black Dwarves possibly surpa.s.s those of the gold and platinum bloodlines, which had been blessed?
This was to say nothing of the divine artifacts, which belonged to the G.o.ds, that were now lost to history. Those were not things that could be created in the time of mortals.
But these problems weren’t really problems for Brendel because these were the things he was good at. What equipment came from which side quest, what treasure box hid what he wanted… finding this information was as easy for him as eating or drinking.
The only unfortunate thing was he had been a warrior in his past life, so he knew very little about the top equipment for mages.
Though unexpectedly, this problem was halfway to being solved right now.
— because Bai Jia had been a mage, an elemental mage.
The Heart of Frost vanished from his hands once it had been used, as if it was being eroded. Brendel looked at the newly opened up card pool and drew out a card from his back-up card pool — Pristine Archangel — and put it within Pahimila’s belief deck.
The silver flames immediately ignited on the surface of the card. After the flames extinguished, the Pristine Archangel immediately looked differently:
Avenging Angel
Faith Belief III
Light: 15
[Spells]