CH180 Conditional Spell
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A wry smile tugged at Alex's lips.
A cursory internal check confirmed his suspicion—his Mana Heart had completely shut down, and his mana pathways throbbed with dull pain.
'I won't be able to use mana for a few days,' he concluded.
Honestly, he'd been expecting worse. Paying a price for unleashing that kind of power was inevitable.
There was simply no way an Early Intermediate-ranked mage, even one as uniquely built as he was, could kill a Mid-Class 3 Earth Drake—a true Dragonkin—without suffering serious backlash.
Losing access to mana for just a few days? That was a blessing.
If not for his meticulous planning and flawless execution, the outcome would have been far more tragic. Maybe even fatal.
Yes, the Earth Drake had a weakness to magical attacks, but that was only when compared to its drake kin. At the end of the day, it still carried a sliver of dragon blood—one of the purest and most blessed lineages in the known world.