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Chapter 333 Blackfire Staff

The hardest part of sealing a rune was handling the metal solution . If Abel was too slow, the solution would cool down and solidify, which meant that he would no longer be able to draw with it . Also, if he made a mistake in the middle of the drawing process, then all the material he used would’ve gone to waste in an instance .

Since Abel was drawing with the light golden solution, he had to boost his concentration with both his mana and his power of the Will . To add a new attribute to the magic staff, he had to transform the metal stick into something that could allow mana to be transferred . It was the key to making a magic staff .

As he began his first stroke, a silver-white line appeared on where the pen laid on the magic staff . He was fast . Because of his experience with drawing runes, he didn’t hesitate to keep moving his pen . Soon, more and more rune patterns started forming, and the magic staff became fully drawn from top to bottom .

When Abel finished his last stroke, a golden light flashed across where the pen left . Thankfully, it didn’t start vanishing immediately, because that would mean that the drawing process was a failure .

Abel drank a lot of soul potions to do this . He wasn’t just trying to draw the rune patterns correctly . By entering into the mental stimulation mode that the soul potion could help him get into, he could combine his knowledge with some of the new discoveries he’d made .

A good example would be the stand on the tip of his magic staff . It was his new invention, meant to increase the total mana capacity of the staff . If he followed the original instructions he read from “An Introduction to Crafting Magic Staff,” he could only use the magic staff three times a day . Now that there was an extra spot to place an extra gemstone, he could use the same spell for many, many more times .

It was time to add an energy source to the sealed magic rune . To do that, Abel decided to use a fine red gemstone from his portal bag . Red gemstones were mainly for fire element spells . The blackrock python belonged to both fire and poison class, but since it was more leaned towards being a fire element spiritual, he decided to go with the safe option .

When the red gemstone was in the slot, Abel saw that the slot wasn’t quite tight enough . He had to push a little hard to make the gemstone fit, which was not exactly the best way to treat a precious gemstone . He knew that, of course . There were many other ways to make the gemstone fit, but he didn’t want the fragments of his synthesized gemstones to be picked up by someone else .

Unlike most soul-trapping magic staffs, this one actually looked like it was powered with a crystal core . Yes, with a gemstone that big and shiny, anyone would’ve thought that it was powered with a crystal core .

Now, then . All that remained was the final step, and that was to place the soul of a spiritual beast inside this staff . Abel took out the crystal bottle that contained the blackrock python’s spirit . Unlike the souls of hell creatures, Abel couldn’t see the python’s spirit with his eyes . He had to sense its presence with his power of the Will .

When the crystal bottle was opened, Abel grabbed onto the blackrock’s python . He then placed it inside the magic rune pattern that was drawn . The magic rune started shining when this happened . It started absorbing the blackrock python’s soul, and eventually, the two became one .

At the same time, Abel was chanting out some ancient dwarven spells . By doing so, he could effectively keep the blackrock python’s soul inside the staff . It was like a safeguarding device, which kept the blackrock python inside despite how desperately it screamed . Its physical body was dead, yes, but its soul lamented the idea of being enslaved by the one who slain it .

Abel had to be careful when he activated this sealing rune . If he was putting in too much force, he would weaken the blackrock python’s soul, thus reducing the power of the magic staff . On the other hand, if he didn’t tame the blackrock python, the whole crafting process would result in failure . The balance must be right . Despite how many challenges he had to face to make it, one more step still remained .

Just now, Abel had an idea . To check on the blackrock python, he decided to activate his soulspeaker ability from switching to his druid spirit . When he did so, he began to have an idea of how well he was trapping the blackrock python .

Eventually, the blackrock python started resisting less . It started giving in . It even started to feel comfortable being trapped . It was Abel’s first time doing something like . In fact, he’s never thought that he could use his druid ability like this .

When the last bit of the python’s ferociousness disappeared, Abel decided to stop with the trapping . It was already settled down with being part of the staff, so there was no further reason to force anything upon it . As evidence of this, the magic staff was already starting to flash in white light .

Abel should be happy, but honestly, this was the part where he got anxious . Now that the python’s soul was bound with the staff, it was no longer up to him to decide what the resulting craft would be . It was like shooting an arrow . You could practice and prepare, but in the end, the arrow had to fly on its own .

After expanding for a bit, the white light started shrinking back . Abel’s even heard the sound of a snake’s loud hissing . Soon, he started seeing the python’s image on the magic staff .

It was a success . The magic staff was viable . Now, then . It was time to write his own name on it .

Blackfire staff (made by Abel)

Description: Can activate level 12 inferno flame 10 times a day–gas a +50% damage bonus against undead creatures .

The attribute description of the staff was quite different from the abilities of a blackrock python . Abel had a better understanding of what staff-making was like . Unlike the blackrock python, this magic staff did not contain any poison-related attributes . Besides, if it wasn’t for his extra-fine gemstone, he could only use the staff three times a day . It was more of a secret weapon, something that could only be used when things went really bad .

In other words, this “Blackfire staff” was rather useless to Abel . If he was going to use it in the dark world, he would only be able to use it in a boss fight . It was a 10-times-a-day use item, after all . Also, he would have to use 14 points per second worth of mana to use it, which was a lot even for him . Hmmm . Maybe it was better if he was using it on the Holy Continent, which was a lot more peaceful than the dark world .

Abel’s never learned the “inferno flame” spell before . If he did, he would only have to spend 7 instead of 14 mana points to activate the staff . Worse yet, the “inferno flame” was not a one-time activation spell, meaning that he had to keep supplying his own mana once he activated it .

That was 14 mana points per second . Abel had a total of 600 mana points . That was actually a lot, but there was no way that he could use the spell while holding on for too long . On a positive note, a level 12 inferno flame could deal fire damage of 118-132 points . A level 13 “fireball” could only deal 23-31 fire damage, so it was possible to see how such an expensive spell would be worth casting

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