Chapter 110: A Successful Attempt

Chapter 110: A Successful Attempt

Improving magic required a certain suitability… Without sufficient conditions, making changes rashly, even if the structural modifications were perfect, as long as it deviated from the original magical structure and lacked a matching personal mana flow pattern, the danger of using such magic was no less than eating a bomb…

Of course, if one’s personal mana flow pattern could match this ‘outsourced modification’ magic, the result would be different, but that situation was even rarer than winning the lottery jackpot!

So, when she talked about improving this magic before, Dan Marina was just saying it. If she didn’t want to be tainted by someone’s mana flow pattern characteristics, she had to use this outsourced modification method. Otherwise, making changes to the Magic Rune Array in the Mind Sea that didn’t match her own mana flow pattern would only cause incompatibility, leading to the collapse of the Magic Rune Array and damage to Mental Energy and the Mind Sea.

Therefore, things like magic improvement… the ones that could achieve the best effect were all unique.

It was only after confirming that Zheng Yichen could actually ignore this personal mana flow pattern and fully bring out the improved magic’s effect that Dan Marina truly began to work on improving the Light Tide magic. As for learning and mastering it, she didn’t have such a thought. High-Level Magic, even if learning it wouldn’t take her too long, improving it after learning would take too much time.

It would waste energy, and she wouldn’t use it much in the future anyway, so one Fireball Spell was enough. As for outsourcing the improvement, it was naturally much easier. This improvement could be said to be irresponsible. She didn’t learn many spells, but her experience was sufficient. Moreover, as a Witch, even the least likable one, her abilities meant many Witches had connections with Dan Marina.

After all, no one could be sure when they might need her.

So, she simply contacted a Witch who was extremely skilled in magic control and outsourced the improvement task to her. Zheng Yichen’s requirement was to change the release method of Light Tide into a beam shape. There were no requirements regarding the effect—just a change in shaping. Shaping happened to be one of the difficulties in improving magic. If there was no need, the modifier generally wouldn’t touch it!

Because changing the released form of the magic meant the power would also be affected by the form. For example, water ball and water arrow—the nature of the two spells was the same, the rank was the same, but just the shaping Magical Structure was different, resulting in completely different power!

The improvement… that Witch completed it in just a few days… Don’t think a few days was long! For others, a skilled practitioner couldn’t achieve sufficient improvement in less than half a year. Of course, she could finish so quickly surely because she had studied this magic before.

“You better be prepared for the backlash when using it.” Following Zheng Yichen to the shooting range, Dan Marina watched him extend his hand and begin drawing the Magic Rune Array with Mana Threads. She gently placed her hand on Petty’s shoulder and pulled her back two steps.

“It’s fine. It’s just one Alchemical Body and Projection scrapped. I have many spares.” The Magic Rune Array for Light Tide was extremely complex. Drawing it on paper took him nearly ten minutes, and that paper was a large-sized one. In fact, the Magic Rune Array drawn with Mana Threads was even more complex because it required additional interweaving and interlacing, which couldn’t be fully represented by just drawing.

In the Magical Grimoire, such difficult-to-draw parts were annotated with notes.

Zheng Yichen took nearly fifteen minutes to weave this Magic Rune Array. After that, it was gathering mana. His abundant mana, which he had never felt lacking before, was rapidly consumed. He used up nearly half of his mana before finally releasing Light Tide. Dazzling Light Elemental Power gathered before Zheng Yichen’s hand.

This light wasn’t gentle; it looked extremely harsh. Maintaining it without releasing also consumed a significant amount of mana. Doing it one more time, even his main body over there couldn’t withstand it… He simply released that cluster of light elements. Instantly, Zheng Yichen’s front was covered by a blinding Light Ribbon, making it impossible to see the scenery ahead. But the power unleashed by this magic made him hurriedly press down his palm.

A timely crack sound then reached his ears!

“Oh~ the Alchemical Body can’t take it.” Dan Marina said with a smile. After the beam of light that enveloped the entire shooting range disappeared, what Petty saw was an Alchemical Body standing motionless.

“Connor?” Seeing Zheng Yichen didn’t respond, she hesitated for a moment, walked over, and gently touched his shoulder. As a result, this Alchemical Body suddenly crumbled into dust before her, causing the young girl to sneeze!

“Even Enchanted Material couldn’t withstand such a massive mana flow, so this Alchemical Body was directly scrapped.” Dan Marina said, her tone carrying a hint of pity. What couldn’t bear the mana flow of releasing Light Tide wasn’t just the Alchemical Body, but also the Projection Zheng Yichen used to control the Alchemical Puppet.

“Is this the power of High-Level Magic?” Petty stared in astonishment at the pitch-black hole ahead in the shooting range, which appeared dark due to lack of lighting. The hole was about four meters in diameter. Zheng Yichen had deliberately adjusted his attack angle, so it slanted downward. She couldn’t see its depth at all without a light source!

“No need to be too surprised. For having such power, you should marvel at the person who improved it, not the caster.” Dan Marina said. Originally, Light Tide was an attack that gathered a large amount of light elements into a wave. Now, with the improvement of the magical structure, under unchanged mana consumption and overall power, releasing it as a beam was equivalent to sacrificing range and concentrating all the power that would have been spread over that area.

It would be strange if the penetrating power didn’t increase!

Of course… the width range of the normal version of Light Tide was more than thirty times the diameter of this current hole, and this was the standard version without additional mana strengthening for release. The width range was very broad, but the length… the normal version of Light Tide couldn’t compare to this at all. Beam-shaped release greatly reduced attenuation while extending the attack range.

“Depth exceeds two kilometers… Tsk, such power is really immense.” Zheng Yichen activated a spare body and checked the hole. He was quite satisfied with the power and range, though the beam of Light Tide spread more severely the deeper the hole went. Near the tail end of the hole, the diameter had expanded to nearly one and a half times.

After the inspection, he finally let out a long sigh of relief, his main body completely slumping down. The Mental Energy and mana consumed when releasing this magic were unexpectedly high. Consuming about half of his mana in one go was something he couldn’t handle. He needed to quickly find a way to inscribe this magic into Magic Arms. Then, releasing it would only consume mana and a little Mental Energy. The Magic Arms contained his Mental Energy; using that part of Mental Energy to inscribe the magic should work. He just needed to treat this part of the Magic Arms as a Mind Sea—it could also bear the Magic Rune Array.

“Consumed half of your own mana? Then your current Mana Capacity is probably about half that of a High-Rank Ranked Practitioner.”

“Wow? There really are level divisions?” Dan Marina’s words made Zheng Yichen puzzled. So far, he hadn’t learned about any specific level divisions in this world…