[Battle Mage] job’s [Flow of Combat] skill has been changed as follows.
Before Change.
[Flow of Combat]
Recovers 3% of magic power every time your health decreases by 1%.
↓
After Change.
[Flow of Combat]
When in combat, increases natural magic recovery rate by 20% for every 1% health lost.
※Natural magic recovery rate cannot exceed 350%.
[True Blood] race’s dedicated skill [Blood Magic] has been changed from toggle style to active buff skill.
Before Change.
[Blood Magic]
Instead of consuming magic power required for ‘magic’ skills, you can consume health.
※Cost of magic skills doubles when consuming health.
↓
After Change.
[Blood Magic]
You can consume health instead of magic power required for ‘magic’ skills for 30 seconds.
※Cooldown 25 seconds.
It was an announcement that came up after the emergency maintenance was done.
This urgent patch was clearly a targeted patch aimed at the build created by the Snow Mage.
First, the Blood Magic skill was changed to an active buff format.
Considering the duration and maintenance time, the buff effect of Blood Magic itself can always be maintained, but it has become impossible to use while maintaining the continuous magic skill [Elemental Cannon].
Next was the Battle Mage skill [Flow of Combat].
It was the core skill of the build created by the Snow Mage, but it too could not escape the nerf.
Current time: 10 PM.
I logged back in after the maintenance, but it was a bit late to start a raid.
I told every party member that we would be taking a break today, so I planned to do some farming during the remaining time.
In the mailbox, there was a [Rank Reset Ticket] as a patch reward.
Cutting off the arms and legs of this build, it was likely Deron’s intention for me to switch to another class.
I waited for the Snow Mage to log in at the plaza in the center of the Capital City.
After about 5 minutes had passed.
By the time the passing users had secretly glanced at me about five hundred times, the Snow Mage logged in.
Princess Yeo – [Snow, I’ve been waiting for you.]
Snow Mage – [Huh, were you waiting for me?]
Princess Yeo – [Yes, so hurry and let me know.]
I sent a message and waited for the Snow Mage to arrive.
The ice mage, adorned in a blue robe, emanated a chill just by approaching.
I turned my gaze, watching the cold settle onto my skin.
It was the Snow Mage.
“Blood Demon King!”
Despite the death of her own build, the Snow Mage wore a bright smile.
“Did you check the changes?”
“Yes.”
“What do you think? Can you apply them to the second build you conceived?”
“Yes. It’s fine.”
The Snow Mage sat down next to me, saying that.
A rush of cold air swept in.
“You received the Rank Reset Ticket, right?”
“Yes.”
I answered the Snow Mage’s question and pulled out the Rank Reset Ticket item from my inventory.
It was an item sent by Deron, and it was the only item that could save the current Princess Yeo.
“Shall we use it right away?”
“What? Right now?”
“Yes. I’ll tell you the jobs next to you so choose quickly.”
“Is it certain? I really need to get a fire build wizard…”
“Don’t worry. It’ll be stronger than that build.”
With a worried expression, I nodded and used the Rank Reset Ticket.
At that moment, a small light flashed and engulfed my body, causing all jobs I possessed to disappear.
“I used it.”
“Then choose like this.”
The job tree the Snow Mage called out was as follows:
Ice Caster x2
Magical Scholar x2
Rune Caster x2
Chronomancer x2
I tilted my head while selecting the builds.
All the chosen jobs were support types that lacked powerful dealing capabilities.
Are they really asking me to play as a supporter?
As I thought that, I gave a puzzled look, and the Snow Mage lightly laughed and continued speaking.
“I think I know what you’re thinking. But don’t worry. This will be very powerful too.”
“Hmm…”
I nodded, looking over my jobs.
Well, there was no need to be gloomy beforehand.
After all, I wouldn’t know how good that glass cannon build was until I used it.
“The key essential job is the Magical Scholar.”
Listening to the Snow Mage’s explanation, I checked the job skills of the Magical Scholar.
[Surprise Box Creation]
Consumes magic power to create a one-time use magical engineering tool.
No one can predict what will appear during this process.
[Essence of Magical Engineering]
Increases damage of skills tagged with magical engineering by 50%.
[Magical Engineering Mine!]
Installs a non-elemental damage magical engineering mine at a designated spot.
The mine automatically explodes after a set time, dealing damage to the surrounding area.
※Duration: 1 minute
[Magical Engineering Bomb!]
Creates a non-elemental damage magical engineering bomb and throws it forward.
If there are magical engineering tagged skill objects nearby, [Chain Explosion] will activate.
[Mastery of Magical Scholar’s Armor]
When wearing heaven-graded equipment, increases maximum magic power by 10%.
[Bomb Expert!]
Adds 500 fixed magic damage for each object that explodes during [Chain Explosion].
“This looks like just a PVP job.”
“To be fair, it does look that way just based on the job itself. But if you have the equipment crafted via magical engineering, the story changes.”
“Magical engineering items?”
“Yes, exactly this.”
The Snow Mage said so and took out a small bracelet from her belongings.
[Magical Engineering Toy Generator]
Worn in limitation: Magical engineering level 10
Bound upon wearing
Bracelet
[Magical Engineering Toy Creation] skill available.
[Magical Engineering Toy Creation]
Consumes magic power to create fun magical engineering toys.
※Duration of summoned toys: 3 minutes.
“This is a toy item…”
“Yes, that’s right. It’s a toy item. However, the toys summoned by this item are considered magical engineering objects.”
I wore the small bracelet handed to me by the Snow Mage.
It was a plain brass-colored bracelet, not stylish at all, but somehow it seemed to shine while I was wearing it.
Surely a perfect beautiful girl looks good in anything.
I smiled contentedly as I looked at the bracelet.
“Go ahead and generate it.”
“Um…”
[Magical Engineering Toy Creation]
Following the Snow Mage’s instructions, I used the magical engineering toy skill.
Paaah!
Then, with a burst of light, a small duck-shaped toy fell down.
[Duck Toy]
A toy infused with the essence of magical engineering.
It can move until all the springs on its back unwind.
So cute.
Quack! Quack!
“How is it? Cute, right?”
“It is cute… but equipping this will lower my overall ether level…”
“The ether grade doesn’t matter. In the end, this build will deal fixed damage. Shall we experiment to see how the build works?”
“Sure-”
Indeed-
I felt the need to see with my own eyes how this build would operate.
I moved with the Snow Mage.
Of course, I didn’t forget to summon a healer to help with this experiment.
“Is this just toy play for today?”
The one called forth was Chloe.
She sighed at the duck toy waddling around on the floor.
I crossed my arms and shook my head at that sight.
“It’s not just a play. This is an experiment.”
“An experiment?”
“Blood Demon King. It’ll be faster to show than to explain.”
That certainly would be easier to understand.
According to the Snow Mage, it would take a bit of preparation time for this build to function.
Before the battle started, I would use all my magic power to summon the duck toy.
Immediately after that, I would drink a mana potion and summon the duck toy again.
After repeating that process, I would use Blood Magic to keep summoning the duck toys.
Naturally, my lacking health would be replenished by the healer.
The duration of the duck toys was 3 minutes.
Up until just before that, I managed to summon an impressive 200 toys.
Quackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquack
Quackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquackquack
“Huh…”
The duck toys started to whirl around me, quacking like crazy.
The sound from just one toy wasn’t loud, but with so many, it became incredibly noisy.
“Now, Blood Demon King. Give orders to that army of ducks.”
“Orders?”
“Summoned objects can receive simple commands from their owner. Oh, and don’t forget to use the [Time Acceleration] buff on the ducks.”
I nodded at the Snow Mage’s words and reached my hand out.
“Go, my ducks!”
Quack!
The Snow Mage was right.
The 200 ducks that received my command began to waddle off.
I used the wide-area buff skill [Time Acceleration] above them.
Wooosh-!
In an instant, time accelerated.
The waddling ducks charged toward the hunting ground at an astonishing speed.
Thus, scattered around were 200 ducks.
I used the [Magical Engineering Bomb] skill and spread it among them.
“Take this!”
Whoosh-!
The swiftly flying magical engineering bomb hit behind the duck army and exploded.
Bang- Kaboom!
A flash of light spread in an instant.
The massive explosion effects engulfed the entire hunting ground.
As the gigantic effects began to fade, I could finally see the hunting ground again.
The 200 ducks didn’t simply vanish.
All the respawned monsters inside were obliterated, and all the objects in the hunting ground had been destroyed, rolling around on the floor.
“Huh…”
“How is it? Are you satisfied?”
This wasn’t just a quirky build.
I looked up at the Snow Mage, my mouth agape in awe.
What kind of imagination does she have in her daily life that allows her to concoct such builds so effortlessly?
“Thank you so much!”
I beamed and hugged the Snow Mage tightly.
If it weren’t for the Snow Mage, I would’ve surely returned to being a fire wizard and been teased by the Hwarang.
This would definitely work.
It was a build that could be used sufficiently in raids.
“Um, Blood Demon King?”
“Yes?”
“Can I… can I pet your head?”
I looked up from the Snow Mage’s embrace and viewed her face.
She awkwardly smiled, as if a bit embarrassed, while nervously hovering her hand above my head.
I smiled brightly at the Snow Mage.
She was the one who created such an amazing build for me.
If it was the Snow Mage, it was perfectly fine for her to pet my head.
“Go ahead and pet it.”
I lowered the cone hat I was wearing and closed my eyes.
“Um, really? Are you really going to let me do it?”
“Yes, of course.”
Swish swish-
I felt a refreshing chill from the Snow Mage’s hand as she gently ran her fingers through my hair.
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