Chrysalis

Each of my three brains screeched with pain as I condensed more mana into the gravity bomb. The spell was already dense to the point it had turned dark and now it rotated ominously as it drew more and more mana into itself.

I grit my mandibles tight and tried to focus. Much like exercising a muscle until it burned, straining my minds to this point hurt. Having one headache is bad enough, having three separate headaches at the same time is so much worse!

I wouldn't have to hold on for long though…

After a few more seconds of pushing mana into the spell, just before my control began to slip, I leapt up from my hiding place and let it rip.

HOOOOOOOOOOOWL!

The mournful cry of the gravity bomb rang out as the sphere of condensed gravity mana blasted forth and began to exert its terrible pull on the air around it. The monsters of the horde had grown accustomed to this sound lately and they scrambled to move away from the inevitable death that would soon find them.

Except it wasn't inevitable any more.

No sooner had I unleashed the spell into the pre-dawn air than I leapt to one side and began to scramble left and right. Good thing I did to, as a fireball impacted the hill not two metres behind by commercial zone, causing me to curse.

Those buggers are getting quicker!

the Kaarmodo wore long, pale robes with hoods that concealed their faces and I hadn't

to perform the magic I was here to see. We'd been doing this little dance repeatedly throughout the night and this bit right here was something I desperately wanted

condensed gravity bomb after all. Despite their desperate flight to escape, quite a few monsters on the edge of the horde were still likely to get

on then you lizard lovers, let's see if you

I continued to dodge frantically, my mana sense active and my aching minds sharpened to their

at once. First, they raised a magical barrier between themselves and the bomb, but I was

POW! POW! POW!

the acid, the

the bomb crashed into the barrier, the magical shield bent to absorb the pressure, as if it were a giant elastic sheet being pressed into by giants finger. The acid impacted not

by the barrier for precious seconds, no less than four of the mage attendants had been hard at work. With my mana sense active I'd been able to

my gravity bomb. But this time something was different. This was a condensed gravity bomb,

that this was the most potent

oomph left, far more than the mages were anticipating. I could only imagine the look of shock on their faces as the spell flew forward, ready to impact in their midst, since their faces

BOOM!

This appeared to be a coordinated technique that they used to break down spells. I must master this application of

half of a condensed gravity bomb is

their bodies felt strange, perhaps it was magical in some