Chapter 1184: The Problem With Mana Resistance

There were bodies piled up as far as the eye could see in nearly every direction, and since the ghouls were creatures that existed between the world of the living and the dead, Jason had to hurry up to resurrect them so that their souls wouldn’t be claimed by the Grim Reaper first.

The second thing Jason learned was that the ghouls were far more resistant to magic than he initially thought. In fact, their resistance was so high that Jason was finding it hard to send his mana into their bodies to resurrect them! Usually, it wouldn’t take Jason more than a few seconds to resurrect hundreds of TITAN Ranks all at once. It was something Jason had done many times before, and Jason’s power and will were so great that no TITAN Rank could really withstand the pull of Jason’s magic. But with the ghouls, things were completely different! Not only were they unbelievably difficult to resurrect, but they were so resistant to mana that only the PRIMORDIAL Rank members of Jason’s Legion were capable of resurrecting them with a lot of effort.

The monsters that use Qi in Jason’s Legion were able to kill the ghouls easily, and the weaker mana-based subordinates acted as the shields and defenders to give the Qi-based subordinates enough freedom to kill the ghouls. But the strongest members of Jason’s Legion, like the Lightning Dragon and the Golden Dragon, had to go around to all the regions where the ghouls had been killed and spend several minutes resurrecting all of them.

Jason had used close to five minutes to resurrect the fifteen ghouls he killed in his starting colony, but once he was done with that, Jason joined his PRIMORDIAL subordinates to go around and begin resurrecting the rest of the ghouls. It was tiring, and it took a lot of time, but Jason knew that it was necessary. These ghouls were some of the most interesting creatures that Jason had ever gotten in his Legion. Their resistance to mana was unbelievable, and Jason realised that this resistance had also extended to their resurrected souls.

So right now, Jason was not only getting an army of TITAN Rank beasts that could fight for him, but Jason was also getting an army of mana-resistant TITANs who could withstand PRIMORDIAL Rank skills without any issues. They were walking, breathing tanks that couldn’t be stopped by anything less than a fucking nuke! It was the perfect breed of soldiers, and Jason wanted every single one of them.

"Resurrect!"

DOON!

Jason’s mana poured out from his body and covered the large region filled with more than fifty dead ghouls. Jason grit his teeth and narrowed his eyes as he felt his hold on the souls slipping, and Jason had to double his effort and send out even more mana to make sure the souls didn’t go anywhere. Jason stood there for more than three minutes, just concentrating on bringing the souls out of the bodies, and after a while, Jason’s efforts were finally rewarded as an inhuman roar echoed through the region.

ROARRRR!

The ghouls began to claw their way out of their bodies and into the world of the living, and Jason smiled as he saw all of them moving towards him like a pack of dogs gathering around their owner. The ghouls were massive creatures that stood at nearly nine feet tall. They had grey skin, and their bottomless, abyss-like eyes were imposing enough to scare anyone who looked into them. But Jason only smiled when one of the ghouls came up to him with its head lowered, and Jason patted the creature gently and watched it pant like a little puppy. Jason already knew that these beasts would be some of his most useful subordinates in the future.

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[Ghoul]

[Bishop Rank II]

[Hierarchy Level: 5 [0%]]

[Subordinate Count: 0/500]

[Upgrade Points: 0/1,000,000]

[Upgrade Limit: Queen Rank I]

[Independent Action: B Rank]

[MP: 5000]

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Jason glanced up at the system tab above the ghoul’s head, and Jason chuckled slightly to himself when he saw how messed up the creature’s stats were. This ghoul was only a Bishop Rank II in strength, but rather than needing 10,000 mana points for an upgrade like every other normal Bishop Rank II, it needed 1,000,000 points before you could upgrade it. And it wasn’t only that, but the mana points stat was also very messed up! A regular Bishop Rank II would have close to 500,000 mana points, but this ghoul only had five thousand, and from what Jason could see, it was going to be very difficult for him to use this ghoul to cast any skills.

But the sacrifices that the ghouls made in its mana capacity were more than worth it because there were two skills that the ghoul had that would be very useful in any fight. The first skill was called [Mana Resistance], and the second skill was [Qi Absorption]

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Mana Resistance: This skill grants the user a heightened resistance to all mana-related skills and attacks. Offensive and AOE attacks that are powered by mana will be significantly debuffed upon contact with the user, and the user will be capable of withstanding magic-based skill attacks from enemies that are much higher rated than him. While active, this skill will also reduce the effectiveness of all magic skills, runes, and artefacts possessed by the user.

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Qi Absorption: This skill allows the user to absorb Qi Essence from any living creature around them. While this skill is active, the user will have a heightened sensitivity to all Qi-based skills.

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These two skills were permanently active within all of the Ghouls that Jason resurrected, and Jason had also gained the skills from them, but Jason decided that he wouldn’t be using the skills since he didn’t need them. The mana resistance skill was useful, but Jason wasn’t really interested in losing his own magical abilities as well just to defend himself from attacks. Maybe if Jason was facing a beast that was so unbelievably stronger than him that he wouldn’t be able to keep up at all, then Jason might use it, but until then, Jason would keep the skill aside! The second skill, Qi Absorption, was something that Jason could already do since he was a spirit summoner, so there was no point in using that.

Jason turned to his left as he heard a commotion coming from there, and Jason saw a group of his resurrected Ghouls overpowering some of the living ghouls and killing them. At this point, Jason had resurrected more than five hundred of these ghouls, but there were still a lot of them coming from far in the distance, almost like someone was sending them towards Jason. Jason narrowed his eyes as this thought crossed his mind, and Jason sent a message to his subordinates and told them to continue their battles.

’All PRIMORDIALS focus on only resurrections. Everyone else, kill as many of these bastards as you can.’

The subordinates responded that they understood, and Jason floated off the ground calmly and began heading in the direction that the Ghouls were coming from. Jason knew that there was at least one PRIMORDIAL Rank beast on this world, and Jason had a feeling that the beast would be somewhere on the other side of the Ghoul forest. A vortex of air formed around Jason as he gathered energy, and in the next moment a sonic boom echoed through the air as Jason took off.

BOOM!