Strange Worlds
Chapter 112: Shadow Mimicry

Chapter 112: Shadow Mimicry

Chanting magic is actually not a necessity. At least, for many magic warriors, they would not chant magic when they were in the midst of an important battle unless they were trying to use magic above their rank. Because chanting magic takes time, time that was enough for their opponent to kill them.

Many magic warriors opted to use the magic directly without chanting.

But this required a lot of practice and process.

Because unlike the lower ranked magic spells that were indeed relatively easy to master, higher ranked magic were more complicated and required delicate mana control.

Without it, it could be said that they were quite useless to a certain degree.

Aya herself can use many magic spells without chanting.

But the use of chanting was also to minimize the mana consumption during casting their magic, allowing them to use their magic more effectively.

"This..." Evan looked at the shadow in front of him. "What is this, Senior Patrick?"

"This is your shadow. It can essentially show strength at the same rank as yourself, know your weakness and advantage and be able to use it against you. You just have to try beating it," Patrick said leisurely.

"What?"

"This..." Yun looked at her shadow in front of her, feeling a bit distressed. She’s a pure support mage and now she has to fight?

She felt that she really shouldn’t have come here today.

On the other hand, Leon looked very interested in the shadow in front of him. This is the first time his granduncle used this magic in front of him and what Leon wanted was nothing more than challenging himself and getting the best result possible.

"It’s interesting." Aside from Leon, Dean was also very interested in this shadow magic in front of him. If it was not because it was impolite, he would have long pounced forward and challenged it directly.

Aya was also looking at this shadow in front of her.

But...

’Shadow mimicry is useless when used against a person of the same rank.’

Because the limit of the shadow mimicry’s strength was only rank 5.

It could be said that this was the type of magic that was more suitable to be used against magic warriors weaker than them. When the Black Family made this magic, it was actually in order for them to break through their own realm.

Because by fighting against themselves, they could get more benefits.

The biggest one was naturally knowing their strengths and weaknesses better.

But later on, the Black Family realized another use of this magic.

It was to spy on the enemy’s strength.

This magic was useless against the magic warriors who have fully developed, but it could be used to test the younger generation and get a grasp of their current strength. In this way, the Black Family’s scouting capabilities increased by leaps and bounds once more.

Aya looked at the shadow in front of her and the corner of her lips curled up. Aside from her physical strength that was at rank 6, her mana was very little.

And it was impossible for Patrick to know their strength.

These shadows were basically moving in accordance to how they moved at first as the caster familiarized himself with their strength.

It was useless against Aya.

But...

She’s willing to play along.

Swish!

Aya suddenly dashed forward and punched towards the shadow in front of her. As if responding, the shadow also punched forward and the strength of the punch was similar, at normal rank 5 physical strength.

"Good!" Aya laughed and then followed with kicks and more punches.

Seeing that Aya had already started, Dean also punched forward.

bang! Bang! Bang!

Series of punches and kicks filled the courtyard. At the beginning, the shadows used the same moves as them but after a while, it would start to block and counterattack using their own moves.

This kind of fight was really thrilling.

Patrick smiled when he saw this and looked at the others. "Don’t you want to start too?"

"Damn it! I’ll defeat this shadow!" Leon roared and started attacking, using his magic and then followed with physical attack.

Bang!

The shadow used the same moves and remained unscathed.

Only Evan was still looking at the shadow in front of him and furrowed his eyebrows. He looked at the others making a move while his was still standing just like what he was doing and guessed that this shadow could only mimic their moves at the beginning.

But he still didn’t attack.

Because Evan didn’t want to show his strength.

Moreover...

"Can this shadow mimic inheritance magic?" Evan asked as he pointed at the shadow in front of him.

"Huh?" Patrick heard this question and arched his eyebrows. He then shook his head. "This shadow can only use dark element magic."

This was another weakness of shadow mimicry. While it could replicate their moves and magic spells, but the element would change to dark type. Because the shadow mimicry itself was a dark elemental spell that was realized with the help of the Black Family’s inheritance magic.

So even if they wanted to, this shadow magic could not use other elements.

To be honest, if Patrick had more than one element, then it was possible.

"Oh." Evan nodded.

If this thing can imitate inheritance magic, then Evan might need to report this to his father after he comes back. Actually, even if it couldn’t, this was still a relatively powerful magic and Evan couldn’t possibly not tell his father about this.

"Um, I’m a support mage." Yun raised her hand weakly. "I have no offensive magic."

Patrick: "..."

Well, this was another problem for this magic.

Since it basically replicated their attack and counterattack after adapting to their methods and strength, it was usually only useful for the attack type magic warrior. Even the control type or the defensive type were still somewhat useful because some of their moves were still about attacking.

Though, the variety alone was quite annoying.

But supporting mage...

It was a bit difficult.

"Are you not afraid of being attacked, Young Lady?" Patrick asked helplessly.

"No." Yun shook her head and showed a faint smile. "I believe my teammate will protect me when I’m in danger."

And if things come to the worst, she would stay in the hospital like many other Green Family’s members instead of going to the battlefield. What was so good about going to the battlefield anyway when she could also help from the backline.