Chapter 600 - Baby Elemental Wyrm’s Food (2/2)

“The Elemental Wyrm is like an incarnation of the four magical elements. Although it can use the four magical elements without worrying about exhaustion, it still needs to transform the magic it absorbs into its own in order for it to grow. Like other prehistoric Wyrms, the Elemental Wyrm’s developmental process is very long compared to your pathetic human mortality.” Connoris was green with envy regarding Lin Li’s luck, and sounded rather sour upon thinking about his own unfortunate current state.

Hearing Connoris’ explanation, Lin Li fell into deep thought. No wonder Xiao Hua absorbed his mana frantically when it was born. It was because his mana was more delicious than the magical elements…

The baby Elemental Wyrm couldn’t hear Lin Li and Connoris’ conversation, and slowly stood up from the ground. Its eyes were filled with tears, and it sobbed.

Connoris continued, “Don’t feel reluctant, since you won’t be giving the Wyrm magical crystals for nothing. A baby Wyrm needs at least thousands of years to reach adulthood, but it’s not impossible for it to mature in a few hundred years if you give it enough magical crystals. If you are willing to give it Legendary-level magical crystals, it may reach adulthood in 100-200 years.” While he was jealous, he also knew that it was a good thing for him that Lin Li was getting stronger. At least he would be able to get out of this wretched old hammer earlier.

“Oh? There’s such a good thing?” Lin Li was motivated by Connoris’ words. It was easy to see how powerful an Elemental Wyrm would be given the abilities of that projected avatar. Although he hadn’t planned for Xiao Hua to be his helper in battles, he wouldn’t refuse to have a powerful a.s.sistant.

However, it was evidently not a matter of one or two magical crystals in order for the baby Elemental Wyrm to reach adulthood. Even if he were to feed it Legendary magical crystals, he needed a large number of those. The only good thing was that according to Connoris, the Elemental Wyrm wasn’t picky at all. No matter which level the magical crystal was, the Wyrm would be able to absorb all the mana inside it.

Although this good thing was simply said, only the Elemental Wyrm would really accomplish not wasting any mana in the magical crystals.

From the prehistoric times till now, it wasn’t the Elemental Wyrm’s specialty to increase power by consuming magical crystals. Many powerful magical beasts would swallow its prey’s magical crystal first after making a kill. Then, they would slowly absorb the mana inside the magical crystal. Though this absorption process was very slow, it was a relatively more efficient way to grow in power compared to converting magical elements into mana.

However, this method was extremely wasteful in the eyes of humans. This was because most magical beasts might not even be able to absorb 10% of the magical crystal’s mana, and wasted large amounts of mana. Even beasts that could use other’s magical crystals to improve their own power were considered rather powerful beasts already.

Compared to the magical beasts that had no other choice, humans and other intelligent beings could use the magical crystals in other ways that would maximize their gains. For example, mageweaths, Alchemy Arrays, and the embedding of magical crystals into magical equipments were all ways to do just that. Equipment with embedded crystals required the user to use double the mana. For example, a level-1 spell released from an embedded equipment required the user to use the mana equivalent to that of a level-2 spell.

On the other hand, no matter how high in level mageweaths and the Alchemy Array used were, they would inevitably damage the core mana of the magical crystal even though they sought to maximize the usage of mana from the magical crystals by using them as the energy core.

Moreover, the higher the level of the mageweaths and Alchemy Array was, the greater the amount of mana wasted would be since more complex magical patterns would result in a longer route that mana needed to flow through before coming into effect. Even though generations of masters had researched ways to reduce this wastage, their efforts were futile.

Other than the wastage of mana, mageweaths and the Alchemy Array were still inanimate objects, and wouldn’t control mana as sophisticatedly as true mages, even though they could help a mage release certain pre-programmed magical effects. For the same magic effect, a mage needed to use at least twice the amount of mana on the mageweath or Alchemy Array.

Lin Li had placed a Legendary magical crystal for the Tower of Dusk as the energy core for all kinds of mageweaths and the mageweath All-Kill Array. However, even this Legendary magical crystal couldn’t supply mana for using the All-Kill Array more than several times. Once the usage had reached the threshold, this rare and precious Legendary magical crystal would likely be completely destroyed. This wasn’t because the Legendary magical crystal was so fragile, but rather the additional wastage of mana was inevitable in the process of using it. Even a Guru of Inscription like Lin Li could do nothing about it.

However, the Elemental Wyrm was different. It innately possessed the four elements’ Rules, and had the ability to use all of the main four magical elements in the entire Anril. Back when the Dragon of Dream still existed, the four magical elements in Anril basically belonged to it—even those that it had missed out on. Thus, any magical crystals that formed from the four elements were just another form of the elements, like ice was with water.

Although Xiao Hua wasn’t the Dragon of Dream born in Chaos, and didn’t possess the Dragon of Dream’s ability to monopolize all the four elements, it wouldn’t waste any bit of mana in the magical crystals it consumed given its understanding of the four element’s Rules.