Darius turned to the two remaining wraiths with a smile on his face. If undead were still capable of still experiencing feelings like fear, he was sure that these two would have long booked it.
Rather, they seed hesitant at best, but soon overca that with a screech. They both rushed at Darius together, intending to take him at the sa ti.
Darius smiled and perford an experint he had been curious about. Undead were technically beings categorized under the Death elent, though they naturally also had so affiliation with the Dark elent, so light-based spells like Purify had a strong effect on them.
However, on the scale of elents, it was not the Light elent that was diatrically opposite to the Death elent, but the Life elent. Currently, the only Life elent spell in his repertoire was Heal, and he wondered what kind of effect it would have on these undead.
Darius cast a Heal on one of the wraiths and what happened next shocked him silly. The wraith suddenly stopped and clutched its body, screeching so loudly that even Gunner stopped brutalizing the wights. Even those sa wights forgot to fight back as they observed the wraith with fearful expressions.
The wraith itself began to glow from the inside as cracks appeared on its form. It continued to shriek endlessly and the pitch rose as more light erged from its core, eventually shattering its body like glass in an explosion of light.
The battlefield remained silent for a second as the various combatants took in this sight with various emotions. Darius and Gunner were flabbergasted while the undead were terrified.
The very next second, Darius watched the final wraith turn tail and run, an action which blew his mind. According to his extensive research of undead and the Plains of Death, their race was known for never running away from enemies, no matter the reason.
Although this fact had been widely accepted, reality painted an entirely different picture right before his eyes. Darius sobered up and cast Heal on the fleeing undead, which shrieked as it faced the sa end as its predecessor.
Darius glanced at Gunner's side and saw that he had the wights under control, so he quickly went into his Database to check the damage calculation.
Knowledge was indeed power, so if Darius could find out what happened, he could shorten the length of his battles by choosing the right attacks that dealt the most damage.
The damage calculation was a bit vague at first, but from the looks of it, the modifier for Life elent damage against Death appeared to be x6! Not to ntion there was an extra x3 modifier, which was likely critical damage!
However, Darius was confused. His Heal spell was described as: [Channel mana into the body of any living being to bring replenishnt to their lifeforce. This restores 25% of a target's total HP.]
In essence, it sent his mana into the body of a target and increased their lifeforce. That explained why the wraith was in so much pain and had imploded. Purify was also a spell that had no 'animation', only targeting. This basically ant that, in the absence of any specific defense to that end, it would always hit his target.
Similar to Adjust, all he had to do was ntally select his targets and they would be struck with Purify as if the spell teleported from his fingers and onto the targets, unlike Sparks or Ember which sprayed their attacks and - following that logic - could miss.
In other words, Purify struck its exterior, while the Heal spell sent the mana within. What baffled Darius though, was how the specific base damage was calculated.
According to the spell description, it increased lifeforce by 25% of a target's total HP, which was 1/4 of their life. So technically, this should remove 25% of an undead's HP pre-modifier.
With the modifiers on top, it should be a 1-hit kill. Rather, it worked like Sparks or Ember, taking 25% of his Intellect and putting it through the modifiers as damage.
But why was the damage listed as 225 points instead of 112.5, or 113 if the system rounded it up? It would seem that the modifier ended up to x18, instead of x9, but Darius had trouble believing it could be so high.
It made more sense for the elental bonus damage to be twice that of the Light elent at x6 and for the rest to co through x3 critical damage.
That created a problem where the maths did not make sense, but Darius traced the spell's activation and had a strange idea.
Could it be that the elental bonus and critical damage were calculated after the previous equation was completed instead of a single equation? If so, then yes, it would account for the current number, but why was it different in this case?
This was what created Darius's weird idea. Since the spell started out as mana that increased lifeforce, the calculation started with the elental bonus damage.
However, looking at how that wraith slowly acclimated damage instead of blowing up at once or experiencing the damage for s short ti, like with Purify or Sparks, Darius believed that the intrusive nature of the spell was what accounted for the critical because it struck the internals.
But that didn't answer why the equation was done sequentially. Confused, he summoned Mikey and Joneson, who appeared before him through a very malevolent portal.
"Sup boss, you good?" Joneson greeted cheerily.
Darius nodded with a smile. "Physically yes, but ntally I'm confused about sothing."
"Well, what's got your panties in a twist, boss?" Joneson inquired with surprise.
"How is the Heal basic spell calculated as damage on the undead?" Draco questioned with a frown.
The duo of undead were silent for a long while, before they shared an uncertain look, then simultaneously asked: "What?"
Darius repeated his question and Mikey and Joneson were about to shake their heads before their hoods cocked a little to the side. With wide eyes, Mikey began speaking.
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