Birth of the Demonic Chapter 397 - 397. Layers

'Ghostly claws spell, power up to the fifth rank, limited to the darkness element. The caster launches several ethereal claws that can pass through any kind of matter and inflict a limited amount of damage.'

The description of the spell ran through Noah's mind as he saw the lines of blood ing out of the inscribed cultivator's mouth.

Noah's new spell wasn't spectacularly powerful but it was extremely troublesome to deal with.

First of all, the claws were ethereal, they could pass through any kind of defense or material, specific methods were needed to defend against them but they were hard to find and consumed a large amount of mental energy.

His Mental tremor spell was the same, both the mental shockwave and the ethereal claws were mainly made of mental energy, it was obvious that only a defensive method mainly posed of mental energy could block them.

Also, the claws didn't necessarily have a straight trajectory, Noah could control them at wish and avoid eventual defenses that his enemies deployed.

In that situation, the Ghostly claws were only slightly affected by the ice layer and maintained most of their power when they hit the internal organs of the cultivator.

'This spell is a proper long-range attack that I've always lacked. Its consumption is even quite low considering that it is a spell of the darkness element.'

Noah quickly evaluated the effects that his new spell had in an actual battle.

Spells of the darkness element usually had explosive effects capable of great might, the Demonic form and the Mental tremor spells were a perfect example of that.

Yet, the consumption of "Breath" and mental energy for the activation of such spells was extremely high, a sort of balance was enforced by the fairness of Heaven and Earth after all.

The Ghostly claws, instead, lacked the usual power of the spells of the darkness element but they expended far less energy to be created.

Also, their ethereal form made up for that lack of power, Noah could just focus on the sensible areas of his enemy when he attacked.

That was exactly what had happened in the battle.

Noah had launched his new spell which passed through Heilong and the ice layer, crashing on the internal organs of the inscribed man and inflicting some damage.

'Being able to attack while defending is nice but my opponent has deeper reserves of energy since he is in the liquid stage, the dimension made a perfectly lifelike copy of him, it's safe to assume that even his dantian contains the proper amount of "Breath".'

The inscribed man's battle style was quite straightforward: He would create the ice layer when attacked and use that moment to launch ice spears.

Also, the ice shards that acc.u.mulated on the battlefield could be used to empower his spells which, coupled with his deeper reserves of "Breath