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Chapter 206 - 176: No Passage Allowed Here_2

Chapter 206: Chapter 176: No Passage Allowed Here_2

This black-robed man had over 10,000 units of magic power, which was indeed terrifying. Any average person would not dare to think about challenging him.

However, Mu You was different. His intelligence points had reached a whopping 78, and he held 7,800 units of magic power. His magic power was not significantly different from that of the black-robed man, and on top of that, he also had the massive natural magic power provided by six crystals. All said and done, his total magic power was probably several times more than that of the black-robed man, thereby giving him a distinct advantage in terms of depletion.

Once he confirmed his tactics, Mu You again rolled back time, teleported to evade a few oncoming attacks, and quickly gathered a layer of frost armor in front of himself.

This was a low-level black magic spell from Virgo. Despite being low-level, the effect was not weak - it could exempt up to 50% of magic damage during its duration. It needed a large amount of natural magic power to activate and required to consume natural magic power at a rate of 10 points per second to maintain.

This did consume a lot, but under the premise that nearly all the opponent’s attack methods were magic-based, it could help Mu You to withstand a large amount of damage and virtually force the opponent to use twice as much magic power.

In addition, there was another core spell - Mana Drain, which was also promptly added to the black-robed man by Mu You.

The effect of this black magic spell was that whenever the person under the spell loses life, they would lose an equivalent amount of magic power. It lasts for a full ten minutes and cannot be dispelled.

The existence of these two secret techniques was also the fundamental reason for Mu You’s decision to adopt the depletion tactic: He aimed to deplete the opponent into a blue-less mage in the shortest possible time, after which he could safely counterattack.

The black-robed man noticing the sudden negative status on him, slightly frowned. But, he did not care much about it, as it was now him chasing the opponent for the kill and the opponent appeared to have no power to retaliate.

Mu You ignored his thoughts, dodged while continuously releasing various summoning spells when he had time, Battle Eagle, Netherworld Demon Child, Fire Giant, and even caused a man-eating flower and bindweed seeds to germinate. He even summoned a wooden clone of himself in the process.

A large number of summoned creatures ran around in the sandy field, surrounding the black-robed man from all sides.

However, the black-robed man was clear-cut; he decisively used several high-level spells in a row and brutally cleared all the summoned creatures in the field before they could attack.

Mu You was not bothered about it; the summoned creatures were meant to be killed by him. This was a quick means to deplete the opponent’s magic power.

"How long do you plan to struggle?"

Seeing Mu You still running around the field, unable to kill him, the black-robed man grew impatient and accelerated a wave of spell bursts.

Far away, Mu You used Libra’s crystal, Lin Xue’s crystal, and his own crystal’s ’Tenacious Light’ respectively to invalidate the three spells with the highest damage. He dodged the rest as much as he could. However, facing such unprincipled carpet bombing, his HP was instantly cleared.

However, Mu You did not die immediately, because in the end, he gave himself an Unceasing Trick and survived tenaciously with 1 HP left.

Although he was immediately harvested by an additional spell from the opponent, it did waste some of his magic power after all.

[You have been resurrected, HP fully recovered, lifespan -1, XP -20.]

Mu You looked around immediately after reviving at another place.

As expected, after a continuous burst, the black-robed man had already depleted a quarter of his magic power.

At this point, the black-robed man seemed to realize that Mu You was intentionally depleting his magic power. He chuckled as if he had heard something funny. "Could it be that you’re hoping for me to exhaust my magic power? Hahaha...

Laughing heartily, the tip of the black-robed man’s wand swirled deep blue, and a surging energy flowed into his body. Mu You immediately noticed that his magic power had jumped from 8,000 to over 10,000 in the blink of an eye, instantly gaining 2,000 magic points!

Mu You had heard about this spell, Great Gospel, a high-level spell that instantly restores a significant amount of magic power.

However, Mu You did not panic because such a powerful spell always had a very long cooldown time. It could essentially only be used once in a fight.

"Pretentious!"

Seeing that Mu You did not show the expected despair, the black-robed man was somewhat displeased, mocking while raising his wand to continue casting spells, "Go on, run. I’m curious to see how many times you can teleport."

The black-robed man was actually right in his thinking. Phantom Shifting itself was a magic power-consuming spell, and Mu You’s continuous evasion drained nearly as much as the black-robed man’s depletion.

In the black-robed man’s view, Mu You’s magic power could not possibly exceed his own. If even he exhausted his magic power, the opponent could only use up his magic power faster. Therefore, the black-robed man was not at all worried and kept launching normal output attacks at Mu You.

However, this time, Mu You had slightly changed his technique - he was no longer only running away, occasionally finding time to counterattack within his evasions. Whenever an opportunity arose, he would throw out magic attacks, fireballs, rings of fire, snowballs - a variety of magic designed to inflict damage.

In response, the black-robed man erected a magic shield to block damage, and simultaneously launched a rapid barrage of spells.

During the ensuing magic duel, Mu You died quickly, but the black-robed man was also in a bind. He was losing HP from various attacks and a significant portion of his magic power had been consumed to maintain the magic shield. Furthermore, due to mana drain, his magic points drastically plummeted in tandem with HP loss.

At the end of this exchange, it is as if Mu You had been using his HP to deplete the man’s magic power. Judging from the numbers, the latter seemed to be at a slight disadvantage.

Frowning, the black-robed man soon relaxed his features again. While continuing to attack the resurrected Mu You, he sneered, "I must admit, it’s a good strategy. But how many times can you afford to die?"

Mu You knew exactly what he meant.

Continuous death resulted in exponential penalties, he had already died thrice and the penalty had stacked up to 40 points. Another death would be 80 points, then 160, 320, 640...

Four times!

Mu You quickly calculated sprang to a conclusion, that after four more deaths, a fifth one would return him back to level 10, all his experience points reset, and he ’d revert to his Notion state, facing not one tier of suppression but two.

But this only held true from the black-robed man’s perspective. In reality, Mu You didn’t plan to let his magic power run so low.

Without revealing his intentions, Mu You continued to tangle with the black-robed man, recklessly launching all varieties of magic, aware that to force the man into high-intensity consumption of magic, he had to maintain a high level of combat power.

In the next ten minutes, Mu You died twice more, but the black-robed man had only increased in his consumption.

At that point, the black-robed man finally began to sense danger: Even with his remaining magic points just over a thousand, how was the man still bursting with vitality?

Nearly out of time, the black-robed man needed to draw a magic potion from his sleeve, intending to gulp it down.

However, just as he pulled out the potion, a ’PA!’ sounded and his potion bottle was shattered by a flying arrow, its precious contents spilled onto the ground.

"You-!"

The black-robed man glared at the figure in the distance.

"Are you finally running out of magic power?"

Far away, with a smile on his face, Mu You pocketed his longbow.

The black-robed man looked at Mu You, full of uncertainty.

Only now did he confirm that Mu You indeed intended to exhaust his magic power, and from the looks of it, it was not a futile hope. It seemed Mu You genuinely had that ability!

This man, something is off about him...

The black-robed man couldn’t understand how a man below level eleven could possess such great amounts of magic power. At this point, he truly began to fear.

This dimensional bottle, although great for entrapping others, also trapped him. Continuing this way, he may really lose right here today...

Shaken by this thought, the black-robed man no longer wanted to fight, and quickly waved his wand, casting multiple spells to push Mu You back. He then teleported several times in quick succession, reappearing at the neck of the bottle, planning to escape first before anything else.

However, Mu You seemed to have predicted this move and teleported over the same second. With lightning speed, his Vampire Claws pierced through the black-robed man’s chest.

The black-robed man had low HP to start with and was hit by the defence-ignoring Vampire Claws, resulting in a rapid fall of his HP and magic points, which both eventually depleted completely.

A few seconds later, the Black-robed man was resurrected at the other side of the bottle, looking at Mu You in sheer disbelief: "Who on earth are you?"

Mu You, now standing at the entrance of the bottle, effectively blocking the way out, said, "It doesn’t matter who I am. What’s important is that this place is now off-limits."