183 The Undead Spirits Part 2 (2/2)

Luckily, the enemies were everywhere and as the giant fireball exploded, it destroyed over a dozen of the evil spirits’ bodies. The oncoming evil spirits were kicked away by Nailisi and waited to be revived.

Saleen shook his head at this scene. If he had been the one to release that scroll, he would have realized its problem even before he had opened it and would have made adjustments to it. At the very least, it would have been able to aim at its target. Even though Nailisi was able to open scrolls, she did not know any magic and could only release them haphazardly.

A spell that had not been learned that was released from a scroll could not be controlled, and most mages prepared scrolls with spells that they had learned. Otherwise, the offensive powers of the spell in the scroll would be greatly reduced. Hence, Saleen possessed a great number of mid-grade scrolls which he had not given to Nailisi.

Having Nailisi learn how to control magic by opening scrolls would require much more effort than it had when Saleen had learned it. Saleen was a mage and did not need to release a scroll to feel the details of the spell inside. However, in order for Nailisi to familiarize herself with a spell, releasing scrolls on her own would be the only way.

Nailisi released over three hundred scrolls before she managed to hold off the assault of the evil spirits.

”Nailisi, go rest. I’ll take over.” Saleen had not interrupted her since he had been calculating the speed of the evil spirits. He was contemplating which method would be the best for dealing fatal blows to them.

”Saleen, should I take over?” Daniel volunteered.

”I want to restrain an evil spirit but I don’t want to waste too much energy. What level of magic can you use to restrain them?” Saleen knew that he would not be able to succeed in one try and would need to experiment continuously. Hence, he needed to control the rate at which he used up his magic chords.

”I can use bone shackles, a level-1 death magic. I have always deemed it useless,” Daniel said in embarrassment.

”Alright, go prepare.” Saleen took a deep breath and looked inside of the purple flames in front of him. Many evil spirits were reviving. At least the evil spirits did not have any vision and were not under the direct control of the black deacon. Each time they were revived, they required some time to find Saleen and the others.

”Daniel, try to restrain as many as you can!” Saleen said as he started preparing a spell. A green light shone from his hand as an enormous ice bomb froze upon it. This ice bomb was much bigger than a pumpkin and had a cold metallic glow to it.

By this point, Saleen was incredibly confident that he would be able to deal a fatal blow using this level-1 spell.

The ice bomb began to evaporate and a mist surrounded it. The enormous ball began to expand and could not be controlled as it started breaking apart. Saleen had taken longer than a second to prepare the spell, and the ice bomb with the mist surrounding it was still on his hand. If it had been any other mage, they would have thrown the dangerous object away long ago.

The ice bomb became two, which became four, and then eight. When it finally reached sixty-four, Saleen felt that he could no longer control it and all the ice bombs were released. In midair, the mist separated and began to burn.

The sounds of the explosions were endless as the ice bombs shattered and flames shot out everywhere. The evil spirits instantly fell to the ground, and some of them burned to ashes.

Saleen was delighted. This experiment had gone incredibly well and had exceeded his expectations.

Sixty-four ice bombs meant sixty-four level-1 spells. If this had been the past, they would have used up one-third of Saleen’s magic chords right away.

This time, Saleen had experimented with alignment magic. However, the alignment magic of others was incredibly monotonous and was simple only when it was completed, not when it was used to counter other magic.

Saleen’s alignment magic had only made the magic more complex. The ice bomb had not been simplified and had instead taken on three different forms, with Saleen having involved the technique of elemental change.

Usually when a grade-4 mage did so, their magic chords would be completely wiped out and they would be in a weakened state for an extended period of time. Not only did Saleen not feel weak, but he had also calculated the amount of magic chords that had been depleted.

He had depleted the equivalent of seven and a half level-1 spells. This was to say that this attack had the power of sixty-four level-1 spells but had only used up an eighth of his magic chords.

This technique was not provided by the Figaro formula and it had been discovered while Saleen had been calculating the weak point of the evil spirits. Once the evil spirits had devoured the corpses and split into two evil spirits, they used up less energy. This was different from a mage’s understanding of magic, and Saleen had cleverly discovered it.

For something to transform into something else, the energy used could not be less than the total amount needed to transform the two objects. This was common knowledge in alchemy.

However, the release of magic was not alchemy and these evil spirits were not giving birth to each other. As the evil spirits split, in addition to devouring the corpses and souls, they were sucking in energy from the ice cold flames.

As Saleen had prepared his spell, he had absorbed the elemental energy within the surroundings. When the ice bomb had split into two, Saleen had only used up one and a half portions of his magic chords. When the ice bomb split again, he had kept the same ratio. Not until the sixth division did he feel that he could no longer control it and released the magic immediately.

If it had continued splitting and the spell had gone out of control, not only would have Saleen been unable to save anything from those sixty-four portions of magic chords, but he would have needed to pay a similar price. Saleen’s magic chords would have been wiped out completely and would have begun taking elements from his body, cancelling out the spell. It would have been the perfect example of counter magic.