85: Chapter 85: This arrow grants a 14-point boost to your willpower; can you withstand it?

Chapter 85: Can You Block This Arrow Enhanced by 14 Points of wish power?

Ronan had a look of surprise on his face.

This was the first time he had found the freezing effect of his Ice Arrow to be ineffective.

If it were Polluters, those three Ice Arrows just now would have frozen at least a dozen or twenty of them to death.

The inability to freeze them was likely because the Blood Fiends possessed a certain degree of magic resistance.

This was what had neutralized the freezing effect of the Elemental Ice Arrows.

However, magic resistance primarily resisted magic damage; its limiting effect on special status effects was merely secondary.

As long as the power of the magic increased, this secondary limiting effect would weaken accordingly until it disappeared completely.

Ronan stopped overthinking. With a thought, his entire being appeared within the Temple Space.

He looked at the panel; his current wish power reserves stood at 15 points.

Following his usual practice of keeping 1 point of wish power as a baseline, he used the remaining 14 points to strengthen his soul.

Feeling the pleasure brought by the filling of his soul, the unease and anxiety in his heart also eased somewhat.

By his own calculations, after this 14-point enhancement, his total Spiritual Power intensity had skyrocketed from 25 to 45—a significant increase.

This nearly double increase in Spiritual Power made him tremble slightly. The magic constructs in his mind appeared to him like sets of loose building blocks that he could disassemble and reorganize at any time.

At the same time, his control over the Temple Space increased once again, allowing him to alter parts of the temple's architecture with a single thought.

With his strength greatly increased, Ronan immediately returned to reality.

Without the slightest pause, he raised his hand and generated three more Elemental Ice Arrows.

Ronan felt that these Ice Arrows were different from the ones he had condensed before.

Not only had their volume increased slightly, but their texture was also more transparent.

As the Hyena Blood Fiends charged again, the three Elemental Ice Arrows followed the same trajectory, shooting straight for the center of their brows.

Ronan saw a trace of disdain appear in the crimson eyes of the Blood Fiend in the lead.

He was surprised; these Blood Fiends seemed to possess a certain level of intelligence.

Without any surprises, the three Elemental Ice Arrows pierced through the heads of the three Hyena Blood Fiends.

But this time, the blood around the holes didn't even move.

As long as the power of the magic was increased, the magic resistance would be weakened, and the limitation on special effects would basically cease to work.

Can you block this arrow enhanced by 14 points of wish power?

The answer was clearly no.

Forget filling the holes; the entire bodies of the Blood Fiends turned into large chunks of ice in an instant.

Due to the momentum of their pounce, the three chunks of ice slammed into the shield and immediately shattered into three exploding bursts of ice flowers.

Having taken out the three Blood Fiends with three arrows, Ronan immediately leaned over to continue stabilizing Arabella's injuries, pouring a steady stream of life energy from the Healing Spell into her.

He began to multitask, casting magic while simultaneously starting to attempt the enhancement plan for the Healing Spell.

Simply increasing the casting speed wouldn't be of much help right now.

He chose the enhancement plan that strengthened the healing effect.

Meanwhile, to prevent the process from being easily interrupted, he cast a brand-new Magic Shield to protect them both.

With his Spiritual Power increased, the spells Ronan cast now were generally strengthened by more than just a little bit.

Despite this, he had no time to counterattack the Blood Duke.

Every second counted right now; the most important thing was to stabilize Arabella's condition and save her life first.

To use other magic, he would have to stop the Healing Spell; it was one or the other.

This made Ronan wish he could cast two different spells at the same time—

Seeing the Blood Fiends he summoned being easily taken out by Ronan, a flicker of alarm flashed in the Blood Duke's eyes.

But seeing Ronan's current state, it was obvious he was desperate to save someone and had no time to fight back.

He gave a sinister smile and slammed his hands onto the ground.

In an instant, with him as the center, ripples of blood-colored light pulsed outward, spreading to the surroundings.

Next, sizzling blood bubbles gradually emerged from the floor, walls, and ceiling of the entire passage.

After casting the skill, the Blood Duke's face was even paler than before.

However, his expression grew even more gloomy, and killing intent boiled in his eyes, showing he didn't care about his own consumption at all.

He only thought about tearing these two culprits, who had caused him to lose face in the tutor circles, into ten thousand pieces.

"Let you taste the flavor of 'Blood Plague'."

The Blood Duke laughed maniacally, completely ignoring the same blood bubbles appearing on his own body.

After discovering that Ronan's shield was difficult to break, he actually changed his strategy and began to interfere with Ronan's rescue efforts.

Ronan felt a strange ripple sweep across his body. His entire skin suddenly began to itch, and small blood bubbles started to rise on his exposed skin.

These small blood bubbles, which looked like blisters from a burn, didn't transmit any pain, but the flesh beneath them felt as if it were about to detach from his body.

Ronan hastily cast a Healing Spell on himself, barely suppressing this terrifying trend.

He looked at Arabella; her skin was also breaking out in small blood bubbles.

Anxious, Ronan immediately set about trying the enhancement plan for the Healing Spell.

The one for increasing casting speed had already been realized, and the one for improving the healing effect was about to be completed.

But these two undoubtedly couldn't provide a radical cure for the current Blood Plague.

He turned his gaze to the twenty-four enhancement plans for the Healing Spell in the book of magical knowledge.

Casting speed, healing amount, remote casting, limb restoration—

With all sorts of enhancement directions, he couldn't help but wonder where this entire set of enhancement knowledge came from, considering the original owner didn't even know the Healing Spell.

He guessed it might be related to the Senluo Fire Tongue of the Elemental Academy, since the original owner was a reserve apprentice of that academy.

Browsing through the various enhancement plans, Ronan actually found a plan that could solve the current predicament:

Purifying Healing.

In the Healing Spell, Purifying Healing focuses on strengthening purification capabilities, allowing it to dispel the influence and residues of various impure energies.

With a suitable plan, Ronan immediately concentrated his mind on the magic construct of the Healing Spell in his head.

The modifications and enhancements already completed were: increasing casting speed and improving healing effect.

The modification currently in progress was Purifying Healing.

Ronan's mind was immersed in his head, focused on modifying the magic construct.

The Blood Duke outside didn't stop either.

After casting Blood Plague, he began to constantly use 'Blood Piercing Threads' for all-around remote harassment.

His goal was to disrupt Ronan's casting rhythm.

Under the influence of the Blood Plague, small blood bubbles had also appeared all over his own body, but his physical form showed no signs of collapsing.

The Blood Duke's Blood Piercing Threads were attacking from various angles, attempting to find a defensive loophole in the shield.

Although these tiny blood lines couldn't break the defense, the noise and impact they caused forced Ronan to interrupt his modification of the magic construct several times.

Annoyed by the constant harassment, Ronan suddenly looked up at the Blood Duke.

His eyes were full of contempt as he shouted at the Blood Duke, "Fuck off, you cuck!"

Although the Blood Duke didn't fully understand his meaning, it was clearly nothing good.

He glared fiercely at Ronan, and two more Blood Piercing Threads appeared in his hands, attacking Ronan frantically from different angles.

3, 2, 1.

Three seconds of malicious eye contact, condition met.

Spiritual Fear suddenly activated!

In an instant.

The Blood Duke suddenly felt as if he were in a boundless abyss, with a terrifying monster before his eyes ready to devour him.

Losing all reason, he frantically slammed into the surrounding walls in an attempt to escape as quickly as possible.

Taking advantage of this gap, Ronan silently accelerated the modification speed of the magic construct.

Before being strengthened by 14 points of wish power, he had to follow the enhancement plan step-by-step when modifying a magic construct, not daring to deviate in the slightest, which took a long time.

But after the wish power enhancement, with his soul strengthened, the originally complex construct became extremely simple in his eyes.

Modifying it was no longer like the first time; it didn't require a large amount of time.

Ronan continued casting while modifying the magic construct.

It should be noted here that the modification process of a magic construct does not affect a mage's ability to use it as usual.

This is because the modification process is not a direct modification of the construct itself.

Instead, Spiritual Power is used to preset a 1:1 simulated construct.

This simulated construct does not have the ability to cast spells; it is merely a structural model.

The so-called magic modification process is actually about adjusting and optimizing the structure through this simulated construct, and after verifying its feasibility, overlaying the simulated construct onto the real construct.

At this point, the real construct will use the structure of the simulated construct as a basis and undergo self-adjustment until it matches the simulated construct.

Ronan had read about this strange phenomenon in the book of magical knowledge.

There was once a maddened mage who, targeting this phenomenon of 'simulation determining reality', developed a forbidden spell called 'Construct Collapse'.

This spell would directly invade a mage's mind and rapidly generate numerous structureless simulated constructs.

When these simulated constructs came into contact with the magic constructs in the victim's mind, according to the principle of simulation determining reality, the real magic constructs would be directly assimilated, instantly causing a Construct Collapse.

Once a large number of magic constructs collapsed, it would trigger a series of chain-reaction backlashes in the mind.

At best, it would generate various shockwaves against the soul, turning a wise mage directly into an idiot.

At worst, it would trigger a 'brainstorm', directly exploding the head and leaving even the most brilliant mage completely bewildered.

This forbidden spell appeared for a period in history and then completely vanished.

Ronan couldn't help but marvel; this magic was practically a 'Mage Killer'. Fortunately, no one was making such terrifying things now.

He pulled back his thoughts.

In his mind, the simulated construct he was constantly modifying—an enhanced version of the Healing Spell that included the three plans of increased casting speed, improved healing effect, and Purifying Healing—was finally complete.

A massive amount of Spiritual Power poured in, and the enhanced version of the Healing Spell was activated.

Ronan raised an index finger, and a white ball of light slowly emerged from his fingertip.

The ball of light was small, but it contained extremely dense life energy and purification power.

He flicked his finger, and the white ball of light sank into Arabella's body.