206 The Tree (1/2)
There seemed to only be a five level difference between a level 25 mana crystal and a level 30 mana crystal, but to Lin Yun, this gap was too large. One was an ordinary mana crystal, while the other was a spirit mana crystal. This alone was enough to make the gap between the two mana crystals more than ten times bigger!
'Forget it, a level 25 mana crystal is still something…” Lin Yun soon put this disappointment to the back of his mind. This was only an unexpected harvest, after all, he didn't have reason to be picky.
He only hoped that this level 25 mana crystal contained enough mana. In that case, it could be used to feed Shawn.
As he thought of this, Lin Yun extracted a wisp of mana from the mana crystal. But he frowned as he absorbed it, and focused on it once again...
No, it wasn't because it contained enough mana. In fact, the level 25 mana crystal only had the mana of a level 20 mana crystal at most.
But Lin Yun detected a few spell matrices from the wisp of mana.
None of them surpassed the 2nd Tier, just things like Fire Arrow, Wind Blade, and so on… But this discovery was enough to make Lin Yun forget his dissatisfaction. What if the level was too low? What if the mana was lacking? In front of these spell matrices, all that was meaningless. It could be said that solely based on these few spell matrices, the value of that mana crystal could be comparable to a spirit mana crystal.
And the existence of these spell matrices meant that this was a mana crystal with the ability to cast spells.
Lin Yun could even guess that the Watcher's ability to cast spells was likely linked to the mana crystal.
After personally fighting a Watcher, Lin Yun knew more than anyone else how frightening this ability was, bursting out with several hundred Lesser Spells in an instant. Even if the Lesser Spells didn't exceed the 2nd Tier, that kind of power wasn't something a High Mage could withstand. Let alone an ordinary High Mage, even Solomon's Runic Shield might break under the onslaught.
Even though it had looked like an easy victory for Lin Yun, using thirty Ice Walls and thirty Flame Bursts before finishing with a Flame Spear, in reality, Lin Yun had used the 8th character of the Book of Death, making him enter the unlimited state.
Otherwise, how could he cast those sixty spells? Only Heaven Mages that had grasped the Extraordinary Realm could completely ignore mana cooling and elemental exhaustion.
It could be seen from Lin Yun's current appearance...
All the mana he had stored before had been exhausted, and he could only tightly hold his Spiritual Magic Tool and continuously extract the mana from within the Elemental Amber to recover.
This was the power of a Watcher...
If that mana crystal could reproduce the power of the Watcher, then it might not need anything else to rival a peak Spiritual Magic Tool. He would have the power to do one all-out attack with the strength of an Archmage!
”Looks like your harvest was good…” Solomon had already walked over. Seeing Lin Yun's smile, he knew that the value of the mana crystal was definitely not insignificant.
'This young Great Mage's luck is shocking. We played thieves before the gathering of the Magic Hand and he managed to subdue a Flame Spirit there. From the power the Flame Spirit showed when turning the Shadow Wolf into charcoal, his strength should be equivalent to that of a peak High Mage…
'And now, here, he casually killed a Watcher and obtained that monster's mana crystal. From his smile, it's definitely valuable.'
As he thought of that, Solomon felt a bit disappointed. 'If I had known earlier, I would have rushed over to deal with it.' His eyes were fixed on the mana crystal in Lin Yun's hands for a long time before he finally managed to look away from it.
”It's only an ordinary mana crystal…” Hearing Solomon's sour tone, how could Lin Yun not know what that 9th Rank High Mage was thinking? Thus, he unceremoniously put the mana crystal into his pocket as he smiled. ”Don't think too much about it, I have a damaged Magic Tool, and I need many mana crystals to restore it. I have far too few, far too few…”
”Oh right, Merlin, this is already the center of the forest. What about the force driving the beast tide? Where could it be?” Solomon was also straightforward. Seeing that Lin Yun didn't plan on talking about it, he no longer mentioned the mana crystal and went back to the important mission at hand.
”It shouldn't be too far from here.” After saying that, Lin Yun roused his Magic Arrays and cast several Mage Eyes one by one, letting them fly in different directions.
”How do you know?” Solomon was a bit lost.
”Because that mana crystal is only level 25.”
”Ah?” Solomon froze in bemusement. 'What does a level 25 mana crystal have to do with the beast tide?'
But Solomon soon understood. As he thought about it, he felt that it truly had a lot to do with it.
The power used by the Watcher showed that it was probably around level 30. That all-out attack at the end was truly on par with an Archmage's attack. Yet that kind of existence only had a level 25 mana crystal...
In other words, that Watcher was just like the Shadow Wolf. It had been affected by some force, making it possess a power close to level 30 despite only being level 25. That was a gap of five full levels. It could be said that it was the greatest increase in strength among all the magic beasts they had seen.