41: Chapter 41 Effects, Limitations, and Mental Loss of Control

While the Water Lily Magic Plant's own mana remained abundant, as long as it stored a portion of mana within its body,

under Ross's command, the magic plant could nearly achieve the effect of launching two "Mana Missiles".

As for this type of attack by the "Mana Missile", because it concentrated the magic plant's mana and condensed a large amount of wood-attribute mana, it achieved a certain breakthrough in quality.

It surpassed the strength of the vines cast by the Water Lily Magic Plant itself under the operation of "Hand of Vines".

The inherent strength of the "Mana Missile" could reach the level of 0.7 rings.

This was also an experience Ross discovered after learning multiple Level 0 tricks, as not all Spell Models had the same level of difficulty and effect.

In fact, different Level 0 Spell Models had quite a significant gap between them depending on their complexity.

Not to mention that different types, such as offensive Spell Models, were much stronger in attack power than auxiliary Spell Models.

However, some auxiliary Spell Models, although inferior in attack strength to some offensive wizard models, had much stronger auxiliary functions.

Therefore, it was more important to rationally arrange the Spell Models one learned based on the wizard's own ability system.

Although below the Level 1 Spell Models that only Official Wizards could learn, these different types of Spell Models were all counted as Level 0 tricks.

However, even among Level 0 tricks, there were huge differences.

Some Spell Models, such as "Illumination", not only had extremely low mental power requirements for the corresponding apprentice when constructing the Spell Model, but also did not occupy much mental pressure.

It's just that for Wizard Apprentices, such humble Spell Models—

aside from learning one more Level 0 trick, would not provide any enhancement to their own mental power.

The original "Hand of Vines" was a core spell of the Magical Botany school during the Wizard Apprentice stage.

It was also a prerequisite spell decomposed from the Level 1 Spell Model "Demon Vine Curse".

Its strength might not be outstanding, but as a core spell of the Magical Botany school, its characteristics could be glimpsed even at the apprentice stage.

Different effects would be produced depending on the target magic plant of the spell, and after Ross chose the "Water Lily Magic Plant",

it could turn a spell that was originally only used for assisting in containment, identifying traps, and cultivating magic plants into a spell that could assist Ross in attacking.

"The effect of trying to have the magic plant release the "Mana Missile" was quite stunning. If casting the "Magic Flame" oneself could melt boulders, then the effect of this "Mana Missile" was stronger penetration."

"Although it couldn't shatter boulders, ordinary magical beasts could still be killed with a single blow if their key parts were pierced by the "Mana Missile"."

Of course, the effect of the "Mana Missile" that the "Water Lily Magic Plant" could achieve under the casting of "Hand of Vines" could not compare to the power and speed of a true "Mana Missile".

The "Mana Missile", or called the "Magic Missile", was an offensive Spell Model.

The difficulty of casting it was much more complex compared to some ordinary wizard models.

It could almost be considered one of the hardest Level 0 tricks below Level 1 spells.

Of course, the actual effect of the "Magic Missile" was also exceptionally outstanding.

As a mandatory attack Spell Model during the Wizard Apprentice stage, one basically needed mental power to reach 1000.

That meant only after being promoted to a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice would he have the opportunity to learn and construct this Spell Model.

This was also the reason why Ross felt surprised when he discovered that under the casting of "Hand of Vines", the "Water Lily Magic Plant" could actually achieve some effects of the "Magic Missile".

After all, although Ross's mental power was improving very fast and had steadily improved during this period,

ordinary Wizard Apprentices who barely possessed Wizard Aptitude, or those apprentices with mediocre talents—

after being promoted to a Level 3 Wizard Apprentice, probably even with Meditation Methods, the mental power increased every day was very limited.

It would probably take half a month to increase by 2 or 3 points, but Ross's talent was extremely excellent.

With the help of the Void Body, a special wizard constitution of this kind, Ross could still increase his mental power by 3 to 5 points almost every day.

It was just that the effect would decrease as the mental power increased.

During this period, relying on Meditation Methods, learning Spell Models, water lily lotus seeds, and the 'tea leaves' obtained from the Goblin Supervisor, Ross obtained a lot of improvement through various means.

Ross's mental power also increased from over 500 previously to over 600, and was even approaching the threshold of 700 mental power.

From the 1000 mental power threshold of a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice, there was only a gap of 300 mental power.

Ross's mental power improvement could be considered extremely rapid.

But for Ross, being able to obtain in advance a Spell Model similar to the "Magic Missile" that only Level 2 Wizard Apprentices could learn was still a joyful matter.

"No wizard would ever dislike having too many methods, and only a wizard with rich methods can cope with more complex battles and research."

Ross silently thought of the words taught by the Official Wizards in class.

Although it was only a degraded imitation of the "Magic Missile" and couldn't reach the effect of a real "Magic Missile",

as a supplementary attack method, it could already be considered acquiring in advance a spell that only Level 2 Wizard Apprentices possessed.

"Relying on the mana reserve of the 'Water Lily Magic Plant' itself, without considering continuing to maintain the spell effect of "Hand of Vines", the magic plant can cast the "Mana Missile" a limit of 2 times. If my own mana is transmitted, it can be cast stably."

"The normal Spell Model of the 'Magic Missile' can cast 5 to 8 missiles, and the consumption for a Wizard Apprentice is also very large."

"Although this is not a complete spell effect, it also consumes nearly 100 mana to produce less than 10 missiles."

"Compared to this, if the "Void Magic Flame" is cast with full force, the consumption is much smaller."

"Currently, the Magic Flame can consume one-third of one's own mental power and mana, which is also one's limit casting."

The effect of the "Magic Flame" was directly proportional to the mental power and mana used, and one-third was also for the stability of Ross's own mana.

Although a Wizard Apprentice could theoretically exhaust their own mental power and mana, under that circumstance, the Wizard Apprentice themselves would be extremely fragile.

They would neither be able to display effective means to protect themselves, and when the apprentice's mental power dropped to 60%, uncalmable mental fluctuations would also appear.

Under this circumstance, the recovery of the Wizard Apprentice's mana became a problem.

If the mental power dropped to 30%, mana riots would even occur.