Chapter 14: Spells and Mana Pool (1/2)

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STATUS

NAME: Shingi Maki

PROFESSION: Scholar Master

CLASS: None

RACE: Blessed Human

HP: 50/50

SP: 10/20

MP: 32/32

STR: 10

AGI: 10

END: 10

INT: 16

CHA: 4

Mana Pool: Earth and Light Element

Skills: VISUALIZATION (Low Rank), MANA MANIPULATION (Base Rank), MANA SENSE (Base Rank), PERCEPTION (Master Rank), STEALTH (Base Rank), IMPROVISED THROW WEAPON (Unranked)

Spells: MANA HAND (Low Grade)

Blessings: Blessing of ??????, Blessing of Dlog

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'A double element Mana Pool? It seems like I lucked out.' [Shingi]

Every Mana Pool belongs to one of the six elements of Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Dark, Light, or in some cases, a combination of them like Shingi's.

Of course, having a Mana Pool of two elements means that you have more possible fitting sources to strengthen it as long as it is not an unfit combination. But, since the user has to strengthen two elements, it is gonna need more mana at the same time to do it if comparing to a single element one. But of course, the power of someone with double elements is greater cause he has access to cast two elements of magic.

Some spells don't need a specific element of mana. Still, some and most likely the most powerful ones are common to be limited with a certain element. For example, a water element Mana Pool owner is impossible for him to cast the Fireball spell unless he can manipulate outside Fire Mana, which isn't something a lot can do, especially for a Base Grade spell like that.

Of course, Mana Pools can only store mana of their own element.

Seeing the MANA HAND spell, he remembered their difference between Skills and Spells. Even if skill were using the same names of Low, Base, Master, and Grandmaster for their rank, a spell's grade couldn't be upgraded like a skill's rank. Still, lower graded spells can be used as a foundation for creating higher graded ones. Also, there existed Divine Graded spells, which is a grade over Grandmaster. Still, only high-level NPCs have been seen using them, and players didn't know how to get access to them.

Shingi was almost sure that this was still the case; otherwise, Varic would most likely have told him.

So now he could store and have access to Earth element and Light Element mana.

Earth element is rumored for its spells to increase someone's defense and had some heavy hitters spells but with slow casting or easy to avoid by one with good reflexes. In contrast, the Light element is rumored for its different healing and buff spells.

Of course, even if he now had access to this type of mana didn't mean he would cast the spells of those elements right away cause first he had to learn them. To do that, he had to research its different components or find a tutor.

He was lucky that he knew the somatic one for MANA HAND. One of the spells that don't need anything other than a free arm and some mana since he had seen many people, or more specifically NPCs, practicing on it.