4 The Chede Named Trex 1
Just a few moments had passed, but his body at once reacted to the mana crystal. His ruptured right hand began to glow as it began to heal at speed visible to the naked eye.
This was the result of the body attempting to actually digest a pure mana crystal. It's much more efficient and faster when compared to absorbing the essence. Unfortunately, not even the strongest acid produced in a human body has enough potency to actually digest the mana crystal.
What the man fully realizes this, his last wish was to at least destroy the pack of wolves, endangering the lives of those who follow.
Brimming with confidence, glow lines began to form on his feet. A six-pointed star was created in a second, twice as fast as he did it before.
The man was pleasantly surprised. While directly ingesting mana crystal had occurred before, there was actually no one who lived to tell the tale. Depending on how strong the human body is, the utmost limit to what one could bear is up to a minute for a tier two arcanist. With a tier one body, he may not last more than ten seconds.
Being able to throw a spell every second. This was ultimately the most satisfying thing for an arcanist limited by his personal mana pool.
Engaging the seemingly endless mana source in his body, three red runes, two green runes, and a blue rune appeared. The moment the casting finished, the spell circle imploded itself, and a bright light shot out to the ground.
As if put into an industrial oven, parts of the floor started turning red because of heat.
Seeing this, the man created a square on his back with four green runes at the vertices. Casting a tier one level two spell didn't even take a tenth of a second for him to cast.
Feeling the sudden outburst of mana, every single wolf felt fear. They realized that their prey had suddenly turned into a predator.
As the square imploded, the man glowed white and began to float.
Without stopping, he resumed casting a spell.
The slowly heating ground turned to magma that quickly spread outwards. The already frightened wolves began to flee as they howl in horror.
Another six-pointed star with six brown runes was cast, and in a radius of twenty-five meters, the rocks formed a ten-meter wall. While its durability was far from desirable, it was enough to keep the wolves from escaping the man's planned barrage of spells.
Once the wall was formed, another spell with six cyan runes was cast, and a large chunk of ice began to form twenty meters high in the air. It grew exponentially until it reached at least 40 meters in diameter.
The already helpless wolves stopped moving as the sword of Damocles hung over their heads in the form of an iceberg.
Three cyan, one green, one black, and one brown were cast, and the forty-meter chunk of ice began to tremble violently. In a blink of an eye, the ice cracked as thousands of ice shards scattered around the walled area.
Four black, one blue, one cyan. The thousands of ice shards fell down. Cleanly murdering every single matter in existence within the walled area.
Pseudo tier two, level four spell 'Hailstorm.' A result of the combining three spells resulted in the complex magic that involved the creation, manipulation, and enhancement. The fusion of the three disciplines is what enabled the spell to have half the quality of a true tier two spell.
This was something that the man never hoped to achieve in his life as his mana is simply too miserable compared to the minimum required to cast three spell in perfect succession.
Perfectly satisfied, another six-pointed star appeared in his feet: five red runes, one green rune. From the imploded spell circle is a marble that quickly shot up in the sky. After a few moments, it exploded in a long trail that became an arrow pointing down. This was the arcanist's way of signaling to others about needing help. His using a tier one level four spell for the flare was to show what kind of level the danger was.
Seven seconds. In seven seconds, he cast six spells that would generally take seventeen him if cast in succession. In eight seconds, he managed to clear out a total of 52 wolves.
Still, he could feel the mana crystal within him bubbling.
Quickly realizing what was about to happen, he tried to cast another spell. He wanted to kill himself before the extreme pain sets in.
Unfortunately for him, just as the six-pointed star finished forming, every single blood vessel in his body began to glow. Like a floating human Christmas tree, various hues glowed within him, representing the different elements of the world.
Along with the shards of ice that littered the ground that made the place as if it were winter, the rushing lights, and its serene stillness. The view was incredibly gorgeous.
In contrast to the mystifying view, the pain coursing through his veins felt like every single pain receptor in his body had been an open wound showered in alcohol. The six-pointed star that he formed began to waver and disappear.
Five seconds later, as if nothing happened, every single cell in his body repaired itself. His vital signs stabilized. Every single injury had been healed without a single trace of scars left.
However, his still open eyes show a lifeless glint.
His brain, supposedly filled with memories, was now empty. Every experience he has encountered, every knowledge he has ever learned, every waking moment he has ever felt emotions, all gone.
Death of the soul. Also known as the true departure. This is also the reason why there have been no actual records on what might happen if one ingested a mana crystal. Memory scan wouldn't work without memory, nor a soul search would without a soul.
Unfortunately for this world, it had just lost a genius.
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