MMORPG: The Elementalist

Chapter 196: The Advantages of Mana Drain

Homme Fatale and Scarlet Bauhinia were unaware that the enigma they discovered was because of Qin Ruo’s newly gained skill Mana Drain.

After Qin Ruo cast Compressed Frost Bullet continuously till his MP almost depleted completely and began to meditate, only did he realize he had not tried using the newly gained skill that he had just learned today.

With a bold move, after freezing a Twin-headed Bee with Compressed Frost Bullet, he tried using it for the first time on the Twin-headed Bee which was flying toward him slowly.

Mana Drain was easy to use as it did not require charging and only needed one to focus on the target and chant “Drain”. Subsequently, Qin Ruo was able to see a faint blue light from the Twin-headed Bee and a cool and refreshing sensation course through his body.

12 points of MP was recovered!

This skill could indeed be used on monsters also…

With this newfound knowledge, Qin Ruo was satisfied as he realized firsthand the effectiveness of the skill—using Mana Drain every six seconds was more than enough to cover the MP used to kill a Twin-headed Bee, furthermore the time needed to kill a Twin-headed Bee was achieved within six seconds.

The MP recovery speed by Mana Drain was faster than meditation. Thanks to that, Qin Ruo immediately made full use of the advantage from the MP recovered from Mana Drain. Every time after Compressed Frost Bullet was cast and the Twin-headed Bee was slowed, at that split second, Mana Drain would be cast on the Twin-headed Bee to recover his MP.

By doing this back and forth, his MP was regained bit by bit till it was full.

During this period of time, Qin Ruo thought,* ‘Mana Drain at Novice level is able to save so much time. If I raised it to Master level, I could regain tens of MP each time. Does that mean I would never need to meditate whenever I go leveling? Besides that…*

‘Whenever I want to raise the mastery level of spells such as Frostbarrier at the same time, by using Advanced level Mana Drain, I could maintain its activation indefinitely! The speed of the mastery level raised will be faster than double compared to pausing to meditate every now and then to regain my MP!’

After realizing this fact, Qin Ruo had made his decision to raise the mastery level of Mana Drain and Compressed Frost Bullet by using it against the Twin-headed Bees with Xiaoxiao. After forty minutes, Compressed Frost Bullet and Mana Drain’s mastery level increased by 300 points.

Standing from afar, Homme Fatale and Scarlet Bauhinia were observing with a somber expression…

Although they were unable to notice the casting of Mana Drain, but from the fact that Qin Ruo was able to cast spells continuously without using MP potion or meditation and his peculiar charging time of Frost Bullet, they were able to figure out that Qin Ruo must have some kind of equipment which increases his MP regeneration greatly.

After Homme Fatale and Scarlet Bauhinia exchanged glances, he voiced his opinion, “At the rate of casting he is going with, his Tier 4 Barrier will soon reach max level mastery…Are you sure that we shouldn’t recruit him now?” The implication made was obvious—they had no right to regret if other clans made a move to recruit him before them.

Contrary to his expectations, Scarlet Bauhinia answered Homme Fatale with a troubled look, ” Do you really think I’m not interested in recruiting him? I am just worried about Slayer’s Heart… He entered the Mythical Battlefield yesterday…”

“…”

Homme Fatale and Steel Dude who also heard it was shocked at news revealed by Scarlet Bauhinia.

“Really?”

“He finally made his move!?”

Scarlet Bauhinia shook his head and replied, “It’s exactly because I have no idea what is he planning to do that I didn’t recruit Qin Ruo, maybe Slayer’s Heart is planning something… I-I don’t want to raise any unnecessary issues.”

Hearing about what was going on, Homme Fatale furrowed his brows for a moment and then he returned to his usual lackadaisical manner and shook his hand. “What a mess, this is too complicated. Screw it, I don’t want to be bothered by this anymore… Just do as you see fit.” While he was talking, lightning erupted from his palms and several sword-shaped lightning beams were fired, the violent lightning elements instantly killed several Killer Bees not far away from them!

***

Only when it hit 6 o’clock in the evening did Scarlet Bauhini and his team of five men and one pet leave Killer Bee Valley.

At the same moment, Qin Ruo did not waste a second and routinely killed another Twin-headed Bee. Noticing it was almost 7 o’clock which was the time to log off and have his dinner, he summoned his skill interface to check the progress of Compressed Frost Bullet and Mana Drain.

Compressed Frost Bullet (Tier 3 skill, self-created):

Advanced 172/300

Magic Attack 30

Additional Special Effect: Freezing and slowed effect, able to reduce the target’s speed by 20%

After striking the target, target’s speed can be reduced up to 50%

After striking the target, the compressed Frost Bullet can be triggered to explode, dealing magic attack 30-35 of damage within a radius of 5 meters around the target, attack comes with laceration, 50 damage per second, duration 15 seconds

Cost: 8 MP

Cooldown Time: 5 seconds

Mana Drain (Tier 4):

Advanced 98/3000

Active Skill. During combat, 30-45 MP can be drained from the selected target.

Casting time: 2 seconds

Cost: 2 MP

Cooldown time: 6 seconds

With the help of Mana Drain, both skills complemented each other to drastically raise their mastery to advanced level. Compressed Frost Bullet now possessed damage comparable to two Intermediate Darkfrost Stings—the results were evident.

Mana Drain spoke for itself—if it were not because Qin Ruo wanted to raise it to Master level, using it once was able to recover sufficient MP to kill six or seven Twin-headed Bees.

“Almost six hours have passed. Xiaoxiao, let’s log off and have dinner. Oh yeah! I almost forgot. Tonight I will be entering the Mythical Battlefield so I won’t be able to accompany you. You could go leveling by yourself or do you need Little Kitten to accompany you? If the opportunity arises, I will bring you back a Pet Egg.”

“Okay!”

Xiaoxiao nodded and replied instantly, her results for this whole evening was satisfactory, not only did was her level raised from 31 to 33, her other Tier 3 water element spell had reached Advanced level. However the thing which pleased her the most was being able to spend such a long time together with Qin Ruo alone and uninterrupted for the first time.

After they both promised to meet again tomorrow evening, they both return to the city and logged off to have dinner.

***

At 7 p.m., ten people were gathered at the entrance of Savis Town.

Compared to yesterday, Qin Ruo was able to sense that gazes from everywhere increased a lot— Each person of today’s ten-man party was mostly equipped with Gold Equipment; an elite party with considerable strength formed was apparent.

However, one person was unlike the rest, and that was Brother Da…

Qin Ruo’s eyebrows knitted as he asked the sleazy Brother Da fully equipped with only Violet Grade Equipment in bewilderment, ” Come on Brother Da, don’t tell me you sold all the equipment that you got yesterday?”

“Huh? Oh, it’s in the vault.”

After realizing his predicament, Brother Da embarrassingly chuckled and scratched his head.

“Why is it the vault? It’s not like you can’t equip it…”

Qin Ruo felt even more curious as Slayer’s Heart and the rest of the party looked at Brother Da.

Brother Da bowed his head apologetically and explained, “I was just worried, what if the guys from Twelve Zodiacs comes to Silentdeath Jungle to seek revenge against us and take our equipment?”

“Ah touch wood, you jinx.”

Qin Ruo could only roll his eyes and point his middle finger at him! Even if he was worried he did not have to behave like this, not to mention Slayer’s Heart and Violet Orchid possessed Dark Gold Equipment, while Qin Ruo himself was equipped with two Gold Accessories…

“You have better equipment but you don’t want to use it. I’m speechless. *Sigh* Fine, you just keep it in your vault and be happy.” Dinosaurcerer finally realized why Brother Da was still an average player despite playing for so long. He kept his better equipment in the vault instead of using it!

Brother Da while looking towards Slayer’s Heart, Little Apple and Qin Ruo hesitatingly asked, “So, should I go retrieve it now?”

“Wait a minute.”

Slayer’s Heart stopped him and informed through the party chat, “The equipment I sold yesterday gained a total of 960,000 gold coins. I still have some equipment not sold yet so everyone should take some of it as backup.”

“Also, today we can’t go Silentdeath Jungle anymore—the odds of encountering a party from the Demon Faction would be high. So everyone should get more potions. Qin Ruo and Burning Rose, you have half an hour to create more Magic Scrolls as it will be useful later. Everyone should also discuss where our destination today would be.”

As he was speaking, Slayer’s Heart sent a trade request to transfer 100,000 gold coins to Qin Ruo, Brother Da, Gold Digger Babe, Violetmoon Devilite, and Dinosaurcerer.

For Gold Digger Babe, Violetmoon Devilite and the rest of the guys who were just average players, 100, 000 gold coins was a lot of money.

At that moment, everyone was baffled and unsure if they should confirm the trade.

Finally after Qin Ruo convinced them it was alright to receive it, they felt relieved and excitedly confirmed the trade.

Soon after, Slayer’s Heart abruptly sent another trade request to Qin Ruo alone.

Qin Ruo was startled. After accepting it, a trade column appeared before him, within it several bunches of Herbs with overflowing aura were listed. He was able to recognize two of the Herbs listed.

Violetjade Fruit!

Dreamy Blue Ice Chrysanthemum!

All of them were Grade 4 Herbs!

Good grief…

“Why are there so many?” Realizing the fact that Slayer’s Heart had just transferred seven Grade 4 Herbs at once to him, Qin Ruo was ecstatic. Qin Ruo reckoned that if Black Market Trader saw so many stunning Grade 4 Herbs at once, he would go down on his knees begging him to let him have them to make potions.

Tsk. These Grade 4 Herbs would definitely let Black Market Trader raise his Potion Crafting mastery greatly! It could even be possible to reach Advanced…

“If you still have Attribute Potion leftovers, bring them along too, because the trip today will be extremely dangerous!” said by Slayer’s Heart with a serious tone toward Qin Ruo.