For some reason it felt like he and Diret had grown distant.
Ihan called out to his senior once more.
“Senior?”
“I didn’t expect you’d be practicing Bone Explosion….”
Black mages who specialized in the bone element showed tenacious power in many-to-many fights.
Not only could they strengthen all kinds of undead, but they could also attack and defend directly.
Once they reached Bone Explosion, they became the kind of black mage enemies wanted to take out first.
When it detonated properly, its destructive force was truly terrifying.
But every advantage had its downside.
Even leaving aside the huge mana cost, Bone Explosion was not an easy spell to use.
If miscast at close range, the black mage could be felled by it; if you tried to cast it from the farthest possible distance, the difficulty skyrocketed.
A mage’s ability to interfere declined with distance.
The best situation was to detonate bone explosions against summoned minions in the undead quadrant, but those summons didn’t like self-destructing either.
This junior had solved those constraints with ancient necromancy and massive reserves of mana.
Protecting his body with a water shield while ruthlessly blowing up undead—such a scene would be hard for even seasoned black mages to imitate….
But why go this far in first year???
“Oh. Professor Mortum told me to practice Bone Explosion.”