Chapter 549: Shield
After reading the skill description, Su Xiao's eyes filled with joy.
Mana deflagration has disappeared, becoming a passive skill. Now, each of his attacks, in addition to directly burning mana and dealing additional damage for each unit of mana burned, also dealt additional damage as a percentage of the amount of mana the enemy lacked. This passive ability was much stronger than deflagration, which only triggered once and had an extremely long cooldown time of 48 hours.
At the same time, Qing Gang Yin's skill could now consume 50 mana points per minute..
Su Xiao currently had 1,488 mana points, and now he could hold this skill at full power for about 30 minutes.
Qing Gang Yin's energy became much more powerful.
In addition to the new very strong feature, Qing Gang Yin's energy could now switch to a different mode to form an energy shield. The shape of this energy shield was formed according to Su Xiao's requests.
The strength of the energy shield could be adjusted. Su Xiao could spend anywhere from 50 to 300 mana points on it. The more mana he spent on it, the stronger it became.
Although Su Xiao could launch powerful attacks, his defense was always his weak point. In most battles, he relied on the skill of a pendant or scabbard to defend against the opponent's powerful attacks. If the opponent's attacks weren't that powerful, he could only rely on his body's stamina.
Both of his defensive skills had a long cooldown time and could only be used once in a battle.
But now that he had gained the ability to create these energy shields, things would be very different. These energy shields could be created almost without any buts — as long as Su Xiao had enough mana, he could constantly create these energy shields, which gave him very good defense when facing any enemy.
The shape, size, thickness, and even location of the energy shield was determined by Su Xiao. He could instantly create an energy shield anywhere within a one meter radius of himself.
Su Xiao's hand moved slightly to the side, and a rectangular energy shield appeared out of thin air on his palm. Because of its settings, this shield was very small, only the size of a palm.
This shield was mostly light blue, but its color faded to blue at the edges, but it was quite transparent and could not block the view. There were fine lines on the surface of this shield, but they could only be seen with a very close inspection.
This energy shield could float motionlessly in the air. Su Xiao could control this energy shield with just his thoughts. This shield was an object created by activating Qing Gang Yin's energy. He could manipulate it with both his thoughts and his gestures, and either method had no apparent problems.
But Su Xiao could only control this energy shield within one meter of his body. It wasn't that he couldn't control it at all beyond that one meter — to control it beyond that distance, he needed to expend a lot of mana. If the shield was at least two meters away from his body, he would have to spend about a hundred mana points to control it, and that obviously wasn't worth it.
As long as the shield was a meter or less away from Su Xiao's body, he didn't spend much mana to control the shield.
Placing the shield on his palm, Su Xiao clenched his fist.
*Crackle~*
The corners of Su Xiao's mouth twitched. It wasn't that the energy shield was too flimsy, but that it was too strong. It wasn't the shield that made that crack, but his knuckles...
He opened his hand and looked at the shield. He created it with just 50 mana, but he couldn't even scratch it with brute force alone, but he felt like he could cut it without any problems with his sword.
And he felt that if he created an energy shield for 80 mana, it would be quite difficult to cut it.
As for the 100 mana shield, based on his senses, he would need to make 3-4 sword strikes with all his strength.
As for the 150 mana shield, he didn't even want to think about it. Su Xiao will be happy if he can cut it in 10 of his strongest normal sword attacks.
Starting at 200 mana, it would be too difficult for him to break through such a shield. According to his most conservative estimate, he would need to use Azure Spikes or any other of his strongest techniques at least once.
As for the 300 mana shield, Su Xiao doubted that it would be able to break through a shield of this level.
After the energy shield was formed from mana, it would only last for a limited amount of time. If it is not broken by the opponent immediately, the energy shield will last for ten minutes without any buts. After ten minutes, the energy shield will start to show signs of decomposition, and after half an hour, it will completely disappear.
As for whether it was possible to move such a shield, there was no need to even worry about that. These shields would remain in place until Su Xiao gave him some sort of order.
Even if the opponent's attack could send Su Xiao himself flying, the shield wouldn't move a millimeter unless it was simply destroyed by the attack. If it is not destroyed by this attack, it will remain hovering in its place until it receives the order to move..
After studying the features of this shield, Su Xiao nodded in satisfaction.
For 50-300 mana points, he could create the right energy shield. The speed of creating such shields was extremely fast, and their durability was amazing.
But there was one problem — Su Xiao's mana might not be enough in the end.
Su Xiao's 300 mana shield will be able to form at most 4 times when counted, as long as he doesn't spend mana on any of his other skills.
The banal activation of Qing Gang Yin energy to perform more painful attacks consumed 50 mana points every minute. We couldn't forget that.
After quickly calculating the various situations in his head, Su Xiao felt that his 1488 mana points were not enough. If he fought someone who was his equal, he might very well end up with all of his mana gone before his opponent died.
Su Xiao finally understood why his talent was so well suited for this legacy, this talent was even better suited for this legacy than becoming some powerful mage. Without such a talent, he wouldn't have been able to make full use of this legacy.
Su Xiao had an innate ability that allowed him to increase his maximum amount of mana by killing strong enemies, and he had a fairly high intelligence score.
However, he still felt that his current amount of mana wasn't enough.
«This time, after returning to Paradise, I will need to find some things to increase the maximum amount of mana».
Su Xiao had previously thought that his mana was quite sufficient, but now it turned out that it wasn't. If the battle was too intense, he would use up all of his mana for the first ten minutes.
But even though his mana cost had increased a lot, it didn't make him any weaker. On the contrary, he was stronger than ever now.
Leaving aside the dramatically increased true damage, his energy shields alone now covered one of his major weaknesses.
The eggshell shields that magicians usually used on themselves were not suitable for Su Xiao. Such shields would only hinder him. He needed shields that could be freely controlled at any given time.
Right now, he could summon highly elastic energy shields. In the future, he will develop other ways to use them.
Su Xiao looked at the last form that wasn't opened and was confused. Not to mention its features, he didn't even know what this form did.
— Since I can't open you... Su Xiao decided to ignore this form for now. Even if he wanted to, he couldn't do anything to her. The Azure Shadow Ruler's form, according to the hint, will only open when he fully awakens his legacy. As for this very "full awakening", then he will not be able to achieve something like this very soon. Given this, it was obvious that this form was something very powerful.
Su Xiao could now create shields, and although they were strong, he still didn't have the 'extremely powerful end move', but this yet-to-be-unlocked form was obviously this most ultimate move.
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