Chapter 1186 - 1189: Combination Magic (4)

One way or another, Arnold and Stephen managed to survive from Ruben's unreasonable AOE attack.

The two people looked at Ruben, who had already sat down in exhaustion with tired expression.

"You b*stard! This is just a spar and you used that farm dark world's magic spell. Do you want to kill us?" Arnold couldn't help but hit Ruben's head in annoyance.

He almost turned into ashes!

At this moment Arnold was only think that he should never ever agree to Ruben's proposal to have a spar again in the future!

He'll only end up being almost killed.

Just thinking about his miserable condition, Arnold wanted to vomit blood.

"Hahaha." Ruben was laughing and then winced. He flopped back to the ground without any image and looked at the sky above. "The ground is clearer now."

Even though they picked a place further away from the place filled with so many rotten corpses, it was not that far. There were still many rotten corpses on the ground and they couldn't really do anything about it.

No one would come here to clean it up.

And they knew very well that this 'dead zone' will only become worse as time passed.

"If you're using that magic spell to clean up the corpses, you did very well." Stephen was bandaging his arm right now.

The dark spear has corrosion side effect, which was also the characteristic of Ruben's dark element.

Thankfully, Stephen has water and wood element.

With these two elements, he could wash out the corrosion and treated himself.

The pain was inevitable, though.

"You speak as if you're a cleaner." Arnold rolled his eyes and sat down. "What's that move you used with the dark spear? I noticed that you seem to be drawing runes or formation."

Most of them were able to identify other people's magic spells and elements easily because it was quite obvious from the first glance.

But Ruben's formation and runes were different.

Unless they were proficient in the matter of formation and runes, they were destined to never know what Ruben used unless he told them himself.

This has the advantage of surprise element.

But at the same time, most people would definitely try their best to stop a rune master from finishing their formation.

Only in this way would it be possible for them to prevent these rune masters from unleashing their powerful attack.

Besides…

They knew that Ruben had hold back in their spar just now.

Otherwise, Ruben could easily use various resources from his space storage in order to make his formation instead of using his own mana. Formation was extremely mana consuming and even Riya would use the mana from the external source to aid her in making formation from time to time.

A real rune master's battle has always been a battle of resources.

In other words: they were burning money in real time.

"It's enhancement and duplication formation," Ruben replied without hesitation. Even if they were to know the formation he used, it was not like he couldn't use other formation for the next battle.

Besides, it would be better to spread out the knowledge of rune masters to the entire world.

Only in this way could Ruben ensure that rune masters would not lose in the river of time.

Rune master was a very difficult profession to practice.

Without enough talent, they couldn't even get started and might end up confused or only following rote memorization. While this method could work in the early stage, without enough understanding, creativity, and sensitivity to the mana movement, they would never be able to truly become a powerful rune masters.

"Duplication… no wonder there are so many dark spears." Stephen felt painful when he thought of that.

"Your magic chants is still not fast enough." Arnold glanced at Stephen.

The surprise attack from Ruben still hit Stephen while Arnold managed to block it completely.

This clearly shown the difference between a magician and magic warrior clearly. In a real battle, a magician's magic spell required too much time to cast, making them vulnerable to attack during that period of time.

"I know." Stephen sighed.

Did they think he didn't want to increase his chanting speed?

He wanted to.

The problem is that his speaking speed was already very fast and his mana was stimulated at the fastest speed too, yet he still failed to block the attack in time. It just showed how fast Ruben's attack is.

"It can only get better with practice or using instant magic spell." Ruben had recovered slightly and sat up. He sighed and felt that the sensation of mana exhaustion was truly uncomfortable.

If it was unnecessary, he should not exhaust his mana again in the near future.

"Instant magic spell for magic above rank 5? That's not happening." Stephen shook his head.

If he wanted to use higher ranked magic spell instantly, he would have to consume too much mana. Even if magician's mana reserve was higher than that of a magic warrior by large amount, but they didn't exactly have that much advantage.

Their spells are more powerful.

But it came at other costs.

And wasting mana is definitely a big no in a battle.

"You need to learn combination magic, like the one I used before." Ruben smirked. "The three dark element magic spell that Riya taught me is really good. As long as I used them in conjunction, I can buy enough time to use other magic spells and even set up formation."

The other two people looked at Ruben speechlessly.

"You're really lucky to have Riya teaching you so clearly." Arnold sighed.

It was not like Samuel was not that good, but his teaching method was to teach them the very basic and then leave them to practice on his own.

Arnold had to build his own combat ability on his own.

Stephen also sighed.

Ruben just smiled.

"You two are more unlikely to follow the same paths as me and have others point out all of your future paths."