Bloodlines Online
Chapter 69: Proper Mage

It had only taken a few seconds but it felt like an eternity.

He watched as the skill improvement scroll forcefully shattered his solid mana core and then using all of the mana in his body as well as the mana from outside of his body began to shape the shards of his mana core into something different.

A mana core is shaped like a sphere, they tend to be blue in color based on what he had heard from his allies when they sold monster carcasses.

Apparently there are even different shades of blue that the players had begun to use to refer to the core's quality.

He was watching as his core was reformed into this a gem, it was a strange crystalline thing that had no real color which made it possible to see the elemental mana that his core had been infused with before.

Black and red mana swirled within the core like an angry cloud.

When the process was done he decided to check was his core could now do.

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Mana Core lv10 (L) -> Mana Gem lv1 (S)

Mana Gem lv1 (S)

Quality: Diamond

Increase base mana capacity by 150%.

Mana regeneration by 5% every 5 seconds. (passive)

Increase mana regeneration to 10% every 5 seconds. (active)

Increase spell damage by 50%

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'Whoa.... thats a huge bonus.'

After the process was complete the demoness approached him.

"So you got your mana gem? What quality is it. Lets hope you got at least silver, if you got gold it would be amazing but even silver is great for a shadow mage."

He hesitated before saying the quality he had obtained, he knew that with her reaction a diamond quality mana gem must be unexpected or at least incredibly rare so he would use it as insurance.

"First I want some assurances because its a good one. I want you to promise that the Infernal Kingdom will protect Raylock even after I leave. It's my fault they're being attacked."

She scowled and began to approach.

"A little male thinks he can bargain with the Queens Guard? You must be feeling pretty cocky because of your mana gem boy, fine lets see if the deal is worth it... show me your status."

He nodded and showed off his status for the first time to another person.

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Belial

Void Mage lv114. (Supreme)

Lesser Tri-Elemental Archdevil

Affinity: 100% Shadowfire 100% Life

Mana Core: 100% Shadowfire

Strength: 20 (+60)

Vitality: 440 -> (+510)

Agility: 580 -> (+80 +20%)

Wisdom: 1100 -> (+80 +20%)

Intelligence: 2000 -> (+70 +20%)

Free stats: 4

Bloodline: child of the void.

Titles: Dungeon Conqueror, Tutor, Protector of Raylock, Spell Crafter

Skills: Mana Control lv9 (L), Mana Sense lv8 (L), Mana Gem lv1 (S), Spell Mastery (E), Mana Condenser (E), Full Body Mana Veins lv5 (M), Mana Burn (S), Void Conversion lv1 (L), Void Consumption (L)

Defenses: Fire Resistance lv8 (E), Shadow Resistance lv9 (A)

Spells:

Mana Bolt lv8 (E)

Mana Burst lv8 (A)

Fire Nova lv10 (M)

Fire Arrow lv10 (M)

Fire Spear lv6 (M)

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Shadow Spear lv10 (M)

Shadow Cluster lv10 (E)

Shadow Arrow lv10 (M)

Shadowfire Orb lv10 (A)

Shadowfire Spear lv10 (L)

Shadowfire Nova lv10 (L)

Shadowfire Nova Needle lv4 (S)

Shadowfire Mirv lv1 (S)

Frenzy wing lv1 (L)

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She was examining his status screen and using her own system interface to study his skills, when she checked the mana gem skill she sucked in a breath so sharply it almost whistled.

"You cocky little shit you got a diamond mana gem!"

She began laughing loudly and slapped him on the back.

'Damn I think she just bruied a wing..'

"Fine you have your deal boy, now we need to check some of these skills you got."

"I already know about mana burn, honestly surprised you got to Lesser Archdevil so quick, tell me about your unique gear first though."

He began to explain.

"Well the gear is apparently made from something called a void beast, the bloodline awakening scroll I got from a unique reward also gave me the Lesser Voidbeast bloodline."

"Hmm if its from a scroll then that means it unlocked another bloodline of a similar grade to what you already had, a Lesser Voidbeast is on the same level as a Child of the Abyss?"

He described what each item he had did, his gloves that were immune to damage from the shadow element which after experimenting had shown to extend to the void.

His wand/dagger thing, the Fang, that could be used as a weapon or used to summon powerful projectiles with his mana.

He also describes his new robe.

It was a robe that boosted his agility as well as giving the item skill that let him extend a shield of mana across his body.

"Show me what the mana shield does, I want to check its durability."

He activated the skill and created the mana shield across his chest and arms, she swung her fist out suddenly and slapped him away making him crash into a tree.

"Ow you crazy bitch!"

"Impressive, your arms aren't broken and your chest doesn't seem to be injured at all.... your wings look broken though."

"You think?! I wonder why?!"

He had to take time to heal his wings with his life mana while she watched.

"Tell me about the set bonus, there must be more than bonus stats."

He was grumbling angrily before he showed her how he could control shadow and void mana like it was second nature.

"Each piece of my unique set gives me more natural control over the shadow element and I guess the void element is connected somehow because they do the same thing for it."

She nodded and looked at something else.

"That spell, what is it? Its named... is that how you obtained the spell crafter title?"

He nodded in response and she started to laugh hysterically.

"Oh those poor bastards, they dont even know that the title was up for grabs again and now we have the holder."

She had a giant smile on her face before she motioned to him.

"Cast the spell I want to see it, use it on me so I can gauge the quality of your creation."

She went off to somewhere to stand as a target and he cast Frenzy Wing.

The needles began to appear in a wave and he started to strike with them in large, sweeping motions of his wings.

The needles seared into her body as she kept a defensive posture but when she left her guard down to watch for the next set she was riddled with small bursts of mana from within her body that made her stumble back.

"Jeez kid you actually made something huh?"

She wiped the blood off of her arms and chest before looking at the wings still coated in shadowy needles.

"Can you fire them all at once?"

"Yeah, it's what I actually made the spell for but I wanted to be able to use the needles for more versatility too."

She nodded and laughed a bit.

"You do have potential after all, the two of you will take turns leveling up in that dungeon on nightmare and when one is inside i will be training the other, understood?"

He and Layla nodded.

"Good, now who wants to go level up first? I've been training your little mate here all this time so it should be your turn."

'There's that damn word again, why are they all acting like that? She's probably dating Shade if anything.'

He agreed that Layla should level up first while he trained.

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While Layla was gone this psycho trainer was forcing him to try to properly train his mana shielding.

"You can turn it into a skill but you have to get better at using it, you have to make the shield instantly and use it to completely nullify a strike to be recognized as a skill."

She had not even taken her weapon off her back and was using her claws to strike him.

He was getting faster with his mana shields though.

He could counter her stikes even if they pushed him back but he couldn't make the shields instantly yet.

At one point she even tried to backstab him and he learned something amazing.

When protected by the mana shield of his unique gear his wings were incredibly durable.

That was the tipping point for him.

When he realized how easy it was to block using his wings while they were guarded hy the armor he could actually be more aggressive with his counterattacks.

He would activate the mana shield of his gear and he would use his own mana shields to add additional protection when she struck him.

The first time he did so successfully was when he finally learned the skill.

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Skill Aquired: Mana Guard lv1 (M)

Increase damage resistance of physical and magical damage by 10%

Perfect Counter- when perfectly blocking a strike with minimal mana useage the damage will be nullified.

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As soon as the skill was successfully made she made him practice it even more.

He was forced to stand still while she would rapidly strike him with her claws, each strike would get faster and faster after he blocked it and she would only stop when he was able to successfully block her at half speed.

'She might be a psycho but she's a good teacher.'