Chapter 91

91 Preparing New Spells (1)

Drawing a set of new runes that he had never used before, Blake was currently testing and figuring out the new spell that he wanted to create after the fight with the wolves and also with the humanoid demons.

In those two fights, Blake really found that his usual way of fighting and spell casting, which was a combination of his marking spell and then the follow-up spell that went with the marking spell was lacking in something.

The use of the marking spell itself was so that he didn’t have to aim his other spells and it enabled him to cast spells that were basically homing onto his targets.

It was clearly a superior way of casting spells compared to the original spells that needed him to manually direct and place the spells so that they wouldn’t miss their targets.

However, Blake’s current fighting method also had a glaring weakness and that was it needed his targets to have his marking spell attached to them.

The marking spell itself was not a complicated spell that took no longer than a second to complete.

However, the current marking spell was designed similarly to the darkness bullet spell.

And since the marking spell didn’t have a concentration of darkness element as dense as the darkness bullet spell, it flew slower than the darkness bullet spell.

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Which resulted in some cases his targets being able to dodge his marking spell if Blake didn’t use the correct opportunity to cast them and mark his enemies.

And that was only its first weakness.

The second weakness that the current marking spell had was that it could only target one target at a time.

In a casual fight with the not-so-strong demonic beasts, it was not really a problem for him since Blake could just take his time and mark every beast one by one, or even just use Vera’s original spell to finish them without using his marking spells at all.

But in a fight where his enemies were considerably strong and he needed his marking spell to fight them, Blake would find it difficult to target each individually strong enemy without waiting for the right moment.

And the real example of that was when he fought the humanoid demons.

Blake was only able to put the marking spell on the physical type humanoid demons, the skeletal wing demon, the long claw demon, and the insect wing demon after they were either caught off guard by something or when their attention was diverted elsewhere.

And Blake had to do one of them at a time, which resulted in his current fighting style.

Hiding and running away, waiting for the gap or the perfect moment to strike.

Blake had a very strong armor that would break if only his enemy’s attack hit like a literal truck, and simply not using the armor capabilities was a waste in his mind.

Just like when he fought the wolves, Blake had to rely on Robus to be the tank while he marked or incapacitate the other wolves.

When he saw how those wolves gang up on Robus and circled him from all sides, an idea came to Blake’s mind about how he would be able to improve his fighting style a lot with one new spell.

The spell that he had in mind was a spell that was capable of marking everything around him without him having to individually target them.

Blake thought that if he were the one that was circled by the wolves and he had that spell.

Then Blake could just cast the spell to mark all the wolves that dared to gang up on him before he could simply cast the myriad of darkness tendril spells to finish the wolves off.

And while doing all that, the dark earth armor would be his insurance, making sure that his body was unscathed if the wolves decided to attack him.

If that were the case, then the fight would end in literal seconds compared to back then where he had to see Robus being paralyzed and him only standing still in place without doing anything.

So when he finally finished drawing the new sets of runes, instead of Blake aiming them toward the trees in front of him or any kind of targets like his usual marking spell, Blake slammed his hand to the ground below him instead.

And when his palm stamped the rune onto the ground, a wave of darkness elements spread out from beneath his palm and went to his surroundings.

The wave of visible darkness element traveled from his palm and continued going into the space in front of him, his back, to his sides, even up to the sky, and down to the ground.

It basically covers all sides of Blake’s body.

But the visible wave of darkness element only traveled up to more or less 6 or 7 meters away before the wave thinned out and disappeared into the environment.

And despite the wave crashing onto a tree, the darkness element wave seemingly ignored the tree as if it wasn’t there and continued to travel past it without leaving a mark there.

How the spell worked was a new improved version of Blake’s original marking spell combined with Vera’s detection spell that could automatically detect a target’s position.

Blake’s original marking spell could be said as a simple spell that basically marks everything that it touches.

Be it a creature or a tree or even a rock, whatever it touches, the marking spell would mark it.

While Vera’s original spell was a smarter version of it where it could automatically detect a creature in his vicinity. And it won’t suddenly register a huge tree or a rock as its target.

And being Vera’s one and only student, Blake was of course, given access to the explanation of how she created the rune.

So what Blake did with that information was to create a spell that was able to both mark his targets so that he could use his homing spell on them and only targets the creatures around him, not rocks or trees.

It was almost a perfect spell for him.

Rather, it was basically the ideal spell that he wanted to create.

But there was a weakness to it and that was it had limited range compared to the marking spell that could be used to mark targets from dozens of meters away.

When the visible wave of darkness became invisible, that was the maximum range that the spell could mark his targets. Further than that, there was not enough concentration of darkness element to mark his target and his target wouldn’t be marked.

But Blake was more than happy with the current spell that he had been developing for two whole days without going out hunting or going anywhere, he just stayed in the forest near the isolated space and created his spells.

Of course, he told Robus beforehand that he wanted to focus on creating new spells and told him to just go out hunting on his own if his fist was itching for a fight.

And the reason for Blake not even going out hunting and finishing his spell as soon as possible was because of how Vera acted when she came back from checking the humanoid demons.

“Blake, unless there’s something really urgent don’t bother me in the basement. That includes food, I won’t be eating anything until I get out of the basement.”