Chapter 1452 – Bomb vs Bomb

This is outrageous! How dare you, snake! This is my secret, personal technique! Have you been peeking at my notes, stealing my private writings and copying my homework? This can’t be allowed!

Gandalf! Intervene in this situation immediately.

My gravity bomb screams and howls as always, but even through that din, I can still hear the spell unleashed by the snake monster hiss and spit as it shoots forward. My mana sense is screaming about the dense, potent mana contained within, some form of venomous mana.

It doesn’t feel the same as the fifth’s native energy; this is something different entirely, though likely just as deadly.

The two energies collide and I belatedly leap into my hidey-hole, digging in my claws and sticking my head out over the edge to watch what happens.

The gravity bomb expands, turning into a whirling vortex of inescapable doom. Just the sort of thing I wanted to see.

Your bomb is a cheap imitation, snake! How dare you try and copy my technique?!

However, even though I know my spell is overpowering the other, I can still see it. I don’t even need my mana sense to tell what’s happening, I can see it with my own eyes. The black hole I’ve created is flecked through with that potent venom. Every now and again, it splashes out in bursts and arcs like coronal ejections from the sun.

That lousy venom is eating my gravity mana!

The two energies are busy cancelling each other out, but the gravity bomb is stronger, much stronger. Despite its own spell, the den of the snake is far from unaffected by the magic. Slime is getting ripped into the air, stones are crumbling, the walls of the tunnel shaft are cracking, chunks breaking off and falling into the void.

But the venomous properties of that slimy-toothpick’s mana are eating away more of the bomb than I’d like, weakening it quickly.

When the black hole finally sputters out and fades away, the snake remains, unhurt, glaring up at me.

I glare right back.

You think you have the right to feel upset just because I launched a devastating and deadly spell at you out of the blue with no warning? Nonsense! I’m the one who has a legitimate grievance!

Well… honestly, now that I think about it more closely… the gravity bomb technique isn’t all that secret.

You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.

I learned super early on that it was possible to compress mana… and I killed a monster by shooting a ball of plain, unchanged mana at it. Not long after, I got access to gravity mana and naturally used that to perform the technique from that point forward, since gravity mana works super, super well with it.

But… you could make a bomb out of any type of mana, and it’s not like it’s complex to do it, you just take a massive amount of mana and cram it into as small a ball as you can, then launch it.

Honestly, I wonder why more people don’t use it?

A wave of all of my near-death experiences caused by the gravity bomb flashes through my head in an instant.