Chapter 212: Elental Annihilation
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“The previous ti at the Shadowglen, it was because of my, Mason’s, brilliance that I brought the two of them out safely. Let tell you, Mage Kevin, it’s not that I am boasting. I single-handedly...” When Lin Li entered the door, he could hear Mason shalessly boasting.
“No wonder Orrin went to sleep so early...” Lin Li mumbled at the door. But whoever knew what happened would not be able to carry on listening.
“I single-handedly... Uh... Felic, you’re back?” Mason was boasting while beaming with joy, but he saw Lin Li had entered the room. His expression imdiately froze.
“Yes, I just ca back.” Lin Li did not expose Mason, he only asked Kevin with uncertainty, “Kevin, they did not arrange a room for you?”
“I’m staying next door.”
“That’s not too bad...” Lin Li only then nodded his head and showed a satisfied smile. It seed like Macklin had already taken Lin Li’s and Kevin’s relationship into consideration when arranging the latter’s accommodations, thus arranging for him to stay beside Lin Li. Not bad, not bad. It seed like this old man did not lose his mind after the failure.
“How about we go take a look?”
“Okay.”
The layout of the two houses was the sa. It was three bedrooms and one living room. The living room had a tea table and a few other desks. It looked simple yet elegant. Looking out from the window opposite of the living room, one could clearly see the whole Guild of Magic, the spacious guild hall, the skyscraping Omniscient Tower and the mysterious magic research center.
“Let’s hear it—the reason behind your asking to co over,” Lin Li asked directly as he pulled out a rattan chair and sat on it. He did not believe that Kevin asked him to co over simply to chill together. He could tell just by looking at Kevin’s expression. If there wasn’t anything on, would he ask Lin Li to co over at such a late hour?
“Felic, you... do you have any way to help a person whose mana had collapsed recover?” The expression on Kevin’s face seed to be rather restrained.
“Help a person whose mana had collapsed recover?” Lin Li was stunned. Mana collapse was not a small matter. For a mage, it was the sa as receiving a death sentence.
Back at Jarrosus, Lin Li saw it happen once with his own eyes.
Cromwell had the power of a level-14 Magic Shooter back then. Even if Lin Li had Elent Surge and broke down his staff, Lin Li would have had to use a lot of effort to defeat if it hadn’t been for his mana collapsing at the last mont.
As to why his mana collapsed, it was due to that level-18 spell.
With Cromwell’s power back then, forcing out a level-18 spell was the sa as courting death. It was especially so after Lin Li’s gold rod had touched him and disintegrated that weird magical crystal. That level-18 spell instantly beca a death knell. The amount of mana required for a level-18 spell was a terrifying number. Even the current Lin Li would not dare to think about it, not to ntion Cromwell from back then.
Mana collapse was just like that. It was due to the forced usage of imnse power and the fact that ntal strength could not handle the pressure, resulting in the loss of control of imnse mana. That then resulted in the bite of mana.
“Who would be so unlucky?” That was why Lin Li felt it weird. Other than Cromwell, which other mage would do sothing so stupid?
To exaggerate a little, it was the sa suicide.
“A friend...” Kevin was rather soft.
“Do I know him?”
“No, no, no, you don’t know him.”
“Oh...” Lin Li nodded his head; for so unknown reason, he felt that Kevin looked rather flustered. However, after thinking about it, with Kevin’s honest character, he would not have lied to Lin Li. In that mont, he did not care too much about it. He looked rather awkward as he said, “This issue is more complicated, let think of a way.”
“Ok.” In fact, even if Lin Li did not say it, Kevin also knew that this issue was very complicated. He was a mage himself—although his level was not high, he had also received at least ten years of magic education. How would he not know the implications of Mana Collapse?
However, this ti the person that had mana collapse was sobody that needed to be rescued. He had to grab onto every shred of hope. In fact, when Lin Li said “think of a way” instead of imdiately saying “I can’t do it”, it had already made him overjoyed...
“Wait for a while...” Lin Li rubbed the area in between his eyebrows as he was having a headache.
Lin Li knew of a way to recover from mana collapse...
But this thod was the sa as not knowing it. It was too difficult to carry out.
Among the guru level of pharmaceutics recipes, there was a potion called the Elental Arche.
Elental Arche used a stalk of Black Lotus as the main ingredient and then it used rare herbs such as Heart of Corrosion and Leaf of the Origin Tree. Once concocted, it could fuse all of the mana together in an instant and go through a purification that was like filtration. During purification, the mana that was in disorder could then return under the control of ntal strength.
This was the real recipe of the guru level. Once it had been made, it could allow a Magic Shooter break through to the Archmage realm. Even if the user was a powerhouse that stepped into the Archmage realm, it could also help him raise his mana by several folds.
The problem was...
This potion was not sothing sobody normal could concoct.
There was no need to ntion the Heart Of Corrosion. One had to enter the Demon Abyss because there was no other place that produced it. If the hamr, Mr. Connoris, was willing to cooperate, then there would be a slight chance. As for this Leaf of the Origin Tree, it could be considered impossible. Lin Li had never heard of anyone obtaining this herb during his ti at the Endless World—so much so that nobody knew where it grew. The only thing Lin Li knew about it was that several guru level potions required it...
Even if Lin Li’s Ring of Endless Storm had everything, it only had the Black Lotus—just one of those ingredients. The other things could not even be found.
In conclusion, it was rather troubleso...
Lin Li shook his head and placed this issue aside. Sotis when it ca to herbs, it was not sothing you could have imdiately.
“Oh, yes. Kevin...” Just as he was about to return to his room, Lin Li suddenly rembered sothing. “During the battle with Shadow’s Nest, did you manage to get so magical equipnt?”
“I guess so...” Kevin’s face seed to be uncertain. He did not understand why would Lin Li suddenly ntion this.
“Did you bring it over?”
“No, it’s all at Jarrosus...”
“...”
Speaking to Argus in the alley in the evening made Lin Li realize sothing imdiately. Wasn’t the Marathon Family conforming to external forces with imnse wealth and backing? Furthermore, Argus also said that the Marathon smithy had coincidentally shipped out a large batch of magical equipnt in the last ten days.
Where had this shipnt gone? Lin Li was fifty percent sure that half of this shipnt had gone to Shadow’s Nest.
It was only the Marathon Family that could produce hundreds of pieces of magical equipnt effortlessly, and it was only them that could order a force like Shadow’s Nest around. The dots were connecting.
As to why he’d asked Kevin about that batch of equipnt, it was because Lin Li wanted to see if he could discern who exactly was it that made it through the characteristics of the forging handicraft.
Unfortunately, Kevin had not brought them.
It would not do to let Kevin describe it. Other than a true blacksmith, an average person would see the sa things in an equipnt. It could be either a sword, a knife, or an armor. At the very most, they had so magical attributes. Only a true master blacksmith could see who made them through the traces of craftsmanship on the equipnt.
It seed like he would have to wait for Argus’ reply...
“Oh, yes!” Yet it was at this mont when Kevin smacked his forehead and took sothing out from his pocket. “This. I found this on a bandit from Shadow’s Nest!”
“What is this?” Lin Li frowned and stretched out one hand to take the item for a look. This thing looked like an incomplete dagger. The handle had been destroyed by fire magic, leaving behind only the blade made from refined iron. Lin Li tested it out on the rattan chair and found it much sharper than he’d expected.
“I’ve obtained this dagger from a bandit.” When Kevin said this, his expression seed to have so sort of lingering fear. “At that ti, I was entangled with a level-8 warrior. This bandit took that chance to sneak behind and backstabbed with this dagger. I thought I was dead then. The dagger easily pierced through the Frost Shield and stabbed in the back... If it wasn’t because of Uncle Gerian’s tily actions, I’m afraid I would not have the chance to co to Alanna...”
“Elent Annihilation!” When Lin Li heard this, he imdiately realized that Elent Annihilation attribute must have been added to this dagger. With the usage of equipnt with such handicraft, it would easily pierce through Frost Shield and injure a mage.
“Kevin, do you know how much such equipnt does Shadow’s Nest have?”
“There should be fifty or so...” Kevin’s face was rather ghastly. “This ti, we’ve lost a total of 40-odd mages. At least ten were stabbed in the back and killed when the Frost Shield was split apart. Based on these numbers, Shadow’s Nest should have at least fifty or more of weapons like this...”
Lin Li nodded, and did not question further, but was calculating sothing quickly in his mind. Now, he was ninety percent sure that this incident had been orchestrated by the Marathon Family. Elent Annihilation was a handicraft that only high-level blacksmiths could master. Furthermore, the forging process was rather complicated. It required a lot of ti. Other than the Marathon Family, Lin Li could not think of any other forces that could supply that much equipnt with the Elent Annihilation attribute.
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