Magicians never make wishes

Chapter 88 Dual Casting

Looking at the familiar crystal ball, Ronan couldn't help but recall the times it had saved him.

Now that I have to use it, I'm really reluctant to part with it.

Concentrated element sphere.

It contains multiple conflicting elements, possessing powerful destructive force and a unique triggering mechanism.

This was the first solution that came to Ronan's mind when he learned about the existence of "anti-elemental shields".

While the "Anti-Elemental Shield" offers strong defense, it can only counter a single elemental attack.

It is completely ineffective against concentrated element spheres.

On the surface, the condensed element sphere appears to contain only raging fire energy. In reality, various conflicting elements are forcibly compressed within, making it extremely vulnerable to explosion.

Once triggered, numerous elements will undergo a violent elemental reaction instantly.

These elemental reactions can trigger violent explosions in a very short time, and occasionally even be accompanied by annihilation.

Not only was the explosion extremely powerful, but its impact also covered a very wide area.

Some wealthy adventurers often use Condensed Elemental Orbs to set traps, using them as the core of the traps and the main source of damage.

Of course, some people, like Ronan, don't usually show it, only using it to save their lives in critical moments.

When Ronan used this tactic before, it was always to threaten the enemy with mutual destruction.

It wasn't until he learned "Elemental Arrow" that he had a safe way to use the Concentrated Element Ball.

At this moment.

Ronan held the condensed element sphere in one hand, his expression serious, and remained silent.

"Elemental Arrows," another function he rarely uses, draws in elements and condenses them into an arrow shape, and he immediately activates it.

This function takes the element it absorbs as the main element and launches it in an arrow shape.

What he needs to absorb now is the entire concentrated element sphere!

The condensed element sphere in his hand was slowly deforming, being stretched and transformed into the shape of an arrow.

The process wasn't too fast; Ronan subconsciously tensed up, his temples throbbing with veins.

If something goes wrong during the deformation process and the crystal ball explodes, the consequences will be—

Ronan couldn't even bear to think about that scene.

Under his watchful, trembling gaze, the condensed element sphere slowly transformed, eventually condensing into a condensed element arrow.

This concentrated elemental arrow shimmered with iridescent light, and its tip was thinner and longer than arrows made of other single elements.

Ronan clearly felt a sense of control over the flying arrow.

He knew that with just a thought, the concentrated elemental arrow would instantly fly towards the enemy.

The enemy at this moment is Director Dick, who is hiding behind the "Anti-Element Shield".

With the aid of mental manipulation, Ronan targeted Director Dick with his arrow.

Then, he gave a soft command: "Launch."

Whoosh.

Ronan saw the afterimage left by the arrow as it flew out of his hand, like a narrow, fragmented galaxy.

Director Dick was too far away to see what Ronan had just done.

His mental energy couldn't reach that far; he could only vaguely see Ronan generating an arrow in the dim light.

Even if he felt disdain, he still cautiously chose to deal with the situation with all his might.

Just as he was about to activate the gem at the tip of his wand to enhance the defensive capabilities of the "Anti-Elemental Shield".

Suddenly, a tiny ribbon of color, shimmering with starlight, entered my field of vision.

The ribbon trailing starlight collided with the anti-elemental shield in an instant.

Boom!

A loud explosion rang out.

Before Director Dick could react, he and his shield were enveloped in a dazzling array of elemental reactions.

The violent reaction of multiple elements caused the explosion to instantly shatter the shield and engulf him as well.

Its location immediately emitted streams of pure, diamond-like energy.

This situation is very similar to the annihilation phenomenon described in the book of magical knowledge.

Immediately afterwards, black cracks appeared out of thin air at the location where the annihilation phenomenon occurred, constantly moving back and forth.

Ronan discovered that once his mental energy got close, it would be sucked into the crack and instantly lose contact.

He was so frightened that he quickly withdrew his mental coverage of the area.

The black rift can absorb not only mental energy, but even the kinetic energy of an explosion.

It was incredibly fortunate that such a terrifying explosion did not create a shockwave in the passageway.

Ronan suspected that the black cracks might be active spatial cracks that formed with a certain probability after annihilation.

These spatial rifts move randomly and frequently, exhibiting extremely strong active attraction.

Fortunately, the spatial rift gradually closed up after wandering around for a while, until it disappeared completely.

Ronan breathed a huge sigh of relief.

Faced with unknown dangers and lacking the necessary knowledge, he felt completely uncertain.

Just as I was about to catch my breath, a thin line of blood suddenly appeared from behind me.

With a clang, the bloodline collided with the "magic shield" that Ronan had cast in advance.

Blood Lord had already completed his regeneration in the shadows and returned to his original human form.

Ronan immediately fired another "scorching ray" at him.

However, disregarding the danger of being pierced himself, Blood Lord turned around and controlled a bloodline to attack Arabella on the ground.

"You're asking for it."

Ronan roared and immediately unleashed another "Burning Ray".

It not only shattered Blood Lord's body, but also extinguished the bloodline he was shooting at Arabella.

After the recent battle with Director Dick, Ronan's mental energy was greatly depleted.

Although Blood Lord has now been forced back into his blood form, as long as his regeneration count is not completely exhausted, the war of attrition between the two will inevitably resume.

This time, Ronan is no longer in a superior position, and may even be at a disadvantage.

While Blood Lord was regenerating, Ronan cautiously approached Arabella.

He had to prevent Arabella from becoming the first target after the Blood Lord's resurrection.

Ronan kept thinking of a solution. The Condensed Element Sphere had already been given to Director Dick, and there was no second one that could be used to deal with Blood Duke.

He tried to condense several more elemental ice arrows and shot them all into the blood, freezing it into blood ice.

This approach only addresses the symptoms, not the root cause. While it can slow down the regeneration of Blood Dukes, it offers no cost-effectiveness whatsoever.

Just then, Ronan suddenly had an idea.

Elemental Arrows, which deal no elemental damage, inflict mental damage.

How will a Blood Lord, whose physical body cannot be completely destroyed, deal with mental attacks?

Judging from the effects of the previous "psychological fear," Blood Lord does not have any effective means of defense against psychological threats.

The idea is feasible and worth a try.

Without hesitation, Ronan changed the elemental ice arrows to have no elemental attribute and shot them at the thickest spots of blood.

A miraculous scene unfolded.

Just as the blood was about to be hit by the attribute-less flying arrow, it miraculously began to flow, thus dodging the attack.

This is clearly an evasive maneuver orchestrated by Blood Lord, who manipulates the blood.

This shows that non-attribute flying arrows can indeed pose a threat to Blood Lord.

Otherwise, Blood Lord wouldn't have frantically controlled his blood to evade before he had even recovered.

The problem Ronan is facing now is that while the non-elemental arrows can threaten his blood, they cannot hit him directly.

After the attributes are changed, the original flying arrows will also disappear.

Although he can transform into ice-attribute arrows to freeze blood, he can then transform back into non-attribute arrows to attack.

But by changing attributes, condensing arrows, and launching them—

All that time combined was more than enough for the frozen blood ice to return to its original state.

Ronan couldn't help but think how wonderful it would be to unleash both elemental and ice-attribute arrows simultaneously.

Once this idea came to mind, the scene of Director Dick operating on two threads came to mind.

If we learn his technique, can we also turn the elemental arrows into dual-threaded ones?

At the same time, it releases elemental arrows of different attributes.

This sudden inspiration gave Ronan a much-needed boost.

Director Dick's method was not to directly modify the underlying structure of the magical configuration, but to cleverly use mental power to activate the magical configuration at the same time, creating two non-conflicting yet coexisting spells.

Simply put, it means splitting one stream of spiritual energy into two streams to achieve two different effects.

Ronan called this method of casting spells double casting.

Taking elemental arrows as an example, one can split one stream of spiritual energy into two streams and release one of the non-elemental arrows and the other of the ice arrow, allowing the two different types of arrows to coexist.

This theory seems feasible, and even if it fails, there will be no cost to bear.

Ronan acted decisively and immediately put it into action.

He repeatedly reviewed Director Dick's methods in his mind. He had almost grasped the essence of them before, and now, combined with his own direction for improvement, he finally came up with the most suitable method.

next second.

Ronan spread his hands out, with a semi-transparent, attribute-less arrow floating in his left palm and an ice-attribute flying arrow appearing in his right.

Two flying arrows with different attributes are generated and exist simultaneously.

They look like two spells, but they are actually two different effects of one spell.

Thus, Ronan's vision was finally realized; he transformed the elemental arrows into arrows capable of generating two different attributes simultaneously.

Upon seeing this scene, the blood in the surrounding area began to boil.

Although Ronan didn't know exactly how the Blood Lord was spying on him, it was clear that this blood was the Blood Lord's true form.

Now that Ronan has the means to kill him completely, Blood Lord is finally starting to panic.

He keenly noticed that the blood in several places that were originally thick was slowly becoming thinner.

Upon closer inspection, in this deep, dark passage, pools of blood were silently moving away from his location.

Only now do you realize you need to run?

Ronan smirked, raised his hands out to shoulder height, and then slowly drew an arc in the air.

As the arm slid, two rows of elemental arrows with different attributes connected in mid-air to form an array.

Immediately afterwards, with a thought, two rows of arrows of different attributes shot out one after the other.

The ice-attribute arrows were the first to strike, heading straight for the direction in which the bloodstains had fled.

The attribute-neutral flying arrows followed closely behind, like a shadow.

The moment the ice-attribute arrow froze the blood, the non-attribute arrow struck the frozen blood.