Chapter 103 (1/2)

Chapter 103

Let's Hunt

Chu Shen didn’t stop researching there. He started looking into the specifics of how mages and warriors fight. What was the exact reason for the difference between them besides the mana network and mana rivers?

Chu Shen found out the reason quickly. Mages could fire long distance attacks but Warriors could only use melee or extremely close combat skills. It was confusing at first because there was no real reason given. However, Chu Shen remembered the soul.

The Major meridians, or mana river, was a channel that let the soul out. As a result the ability to control Qi at a long distance was given to mages. Warriors only had the Minor meridians which only let the soul out a tiny bit. This meant their ability to use Qi at a distance was severely limited.

So the differences between the two and reasons for it was found quickly by Chu Shen. Next, Chu Shen started finding out specific strategies Mages and Warriors used.

Warriors expanded their meridians allowing ma.s.sive surges of Qi without backlash. As a result, warriors could use up their entire Qi reserve in one or two shots, giving them ma.s.sive explosive strength but almost no stamina. It was especially true because they could not recover mana as fast as mages.

Mages however were different. Chu Shen learned earlier that Mages mixed their mana with the atmosphere and could only release small amounts of mana at once. Of course, it was because the mana rivers flowed against their own mana.

Mages had a specific system of spell casting. The spell casting system was put as this in one of Chu Shen’s books. It went in detail as to the specifics of spells since it was a very popular topic.

1>Beginning Success: Can cast spell using full chant with spellbook.

2>Small Success: Can chant from memory. (Spell Rank = Mage Rank)

3> Medium Success: Can use abbreviated chant. (Spell Rank = Mage Rank -1)

4> Large Success: Can cast using only spell name. (Spell Rank = Mage Rank -2)

5> Perfection: Can insta-cast using only mental image. (Spell Rank = Mage Rank -3)

Rank 6-7 spells only have first 4 stages. G.o.d rank (Rank 8-9) spells only have the first 3 stages.

The way it worked was pretty basic. There was a note that to successfully cast a spell using an abbreviated chant one needed to be one rank above the spell. Using the spell name needed two ranks above the spell and insta-cast needed to be three ranks above the spells rank.

An example would be this. A Rank 5 mage can cast a Beginning/Small success Rank 5 spell. However, they can only cast a Medium Success Rank 4 spell, Large Success Rank 3 spell, and a Perfection Rank 2 spell.

The reason behind this spell system was because a higher rank mage could a.s.similate more Qi with the atmosphere in a shorter amount of time. With that a mage could cast weaker spells almost instantly. Of course, Chu Shen realized this was correlated to the increase of the soul's power.

Looking at this, it was true that mages would be slow to use their most powerful attacks. Especially since each chant took 30 seconds. However, each rank spell was greater than an equal rank warrior by one. So a rank 2 spell equals a rank 3 warriors attack using 10% of his mana.

Chu Shen nodded. Using this as a basis, mages were good at spamming huge amounts of weak spells, a medium variety of average spells, or one large charge up attack.