Chapter 201: Training in Twilight Forest part 20 (1/2)
Of course, Leo was the most ignorant about all of these things.
At this moment, Leo was on a horse while deciding whether to use the Fire Lotus or Earth Crystal first to improve his cultivation.
Well, he just discovered that using Magical resources was much more beneficial to his cultivation compare to using Mana stones.
This finally made him understand why, despite consuming many large Mana stones, his cultivation seems to only improve by a bit.
Teacher Marvin had taught to them before, that Mana stone can indeed improve Mage cultivation, really, but what the Mage really needed in their cultivation the most is not only more Mana Capacity but at most an improvement of Magic power.
Although the Mana stone still belongs in the list of Magical resources, they actually belong in the Pure Mana category, which is only for the improvement of Mana Capacity.
While on the other hand, Magical resources such as Fire Lotus and Earth Crystal belong to the Element Mana category, specifically the former belongs to Fire Element Mana and the latter in the Earth Element Mana. The Element Mana category is also more commonly known as the Magic Power category, since it focuses more on improving a Mage Magic Power rather than the Mage Mana Capacity.
And because a Mage has a different affinity to Element Mana, using Magical resources with Element Mana is much more beneficial to them, since they can use the specific Element Mana they needed the most for their cultivation. And naturally, since their affinity is for that specific Element Mana, they receive twice or more Magic Power when consuming such Element Magical resources compare to the other which also includes the Pure Mana as such kind of Mana is neutral.
Unfortunately for Leo, his affinity is all of the Element Mana, because of the Red Cube that can use all of the Elements.
Unexpectedly too, he can't actually just choose any random Magical resources just because he has the affinity of all the Element Mana. Because if he uses more Fire Element Mana, his Fire Elemental would improve more, and if he uses more Earth Element Mana, his Earth Elemental would improve more.
Although there seems to be not a problem with that, each Magical resource is actually specifically separated into different levels each, specifically Common, Uncommon, Rare, Holy, Legendary, and Mythical level.
And as his cultivation improves, the benefits from each different level would also decrease at the same time, until eventually, it would only have a little to no effect on him anymore, which would also mean the power of all of his Elementals would become different from one another.
Because of that, he needs to prioritize the Elemental that he needed the most, putting him into the situation whether to use the Fire Lotus, Uncommon Magical resources, or the Earth Crystal, another Uncommon Magical resource.
Although he can simply use both, he was actually already in the last push before finally becoming a 1 Star Mage after these past few days of continuous cultivation using the Magical resources they have stolen from the Twilight Bears, specifically he had consumed around less than 100 of Magical resources.
And the moment he becomes a 1 Star Mage, the effect of Uncommon Magical resources would decrease, hence causing the improvement to the not chosen Elemental when he still a No Star Mage to not be the same as before anymore.
A week has already passed, and these last seven days he hadn't done anything aside from cultivating.
Chief Lago had also said that his foundation is already perfect enough to improve his cultivation, so he didn't have any reason anymore to not improve his cultivation.
And because of that, not only did his cultivation improve in leaps and bounds, but he had understood a lot of things about the Red Cube.
The Red Cube actually not only allows him to summon Elementals and to convert the Mana in a Mana stone to something compatible to him, but it also offers a wide variety of other abilities, not for himself though, but for his Elementals.
His idea before that each elemental has their unique abilities aside from their Element Manipulation is actually correct. Like for example, the Earth Elemental can detect some solid base Magical resources or any Magical Beast with Earth Element, the same goes for the other Elementals in detecting Magical Beast with the same Element as them.