St Chaos Healer

Ch 52 - Duhurl Alcazarl

"Duhurl Alcazar, Celestial Spirit Possession" muttered the new buff-looking Sigurd.

Suddenly a glowing light came out of Sigurd's body and flew over the top of his head.

It looked like your typical mana orb at the start but soon it started to get bigger and brighter. In mere seconds it was so bright that even after covering my eyes I could still see the light coming through my closed pupils. It was as if the mana orb had turned into a mini sun.

"What the-"

"Get back!"

"I am scared! *sobs*, mom!"

"Hey, close your eyes!"

Both the 2nd tier and 1st tier candidates were all shocked seeing Sigurd suddenly using a spell of such a large scale. I could hear the uproar of everyone's surprised yell, the 1st tier candidates were making quite the ruckus. I couldn't see anything but my ears could make a clear picture of the current situation of the candidates.

I was a bit puzzled. Why was the old fart suddenly using such a powerful skill right off the bat?

I quickly covered my eyes to shield them from the blinding lights.

Spirit Possession is one of the superior abilities that allow mages to infuse their soul with their contracted spirit. This technique requires immense skill and power to utilize it. It also gives mages a temporary buff almost to the state of enlightenment as the divine spirit takes over the host's body. They also receive huge powers, the arsenal skills of the divine spirit, and even a high state of mind and body.

Spirit Possession could only be done by 'True Mages'.

The Mages are divided into two major categories- Mages and True Mages.

First, you must understand the basics of mage tier ranking to learn the difference between the two categories. Let me give a brief summary of how the mages are segregated to let you get a basic understanding of how the mage ranking tier works.

There are about 6 tiers in the basic 'Mage category'

There are the '0 tier' candidates who were able to clear the trials assigned by the ceremony organization but weren't able to manifest mana orbs. Such people are no different from the commoners who failed the trials and were never meant to be a mage. Most of these people who managed to clear the trial will just live an ordinary life like the rest of the commoners.

Then there are the '1st tier' mages, who can create simple mana orbs by using just pure condensed mana. Mana orbs creations are basics to start learning the use of mana arts. These pure mana orbs are only useful for training, generally, these orbs are useless most of the time other than passing free mana to your comrades so they can replenish their mana reserves.

The mana orbs are generally glowing floating fluff balls without a definitive shape. The pure mana creations are generally useless in a combat situation against other fellow mages. If you were to just use pure mana creations in a fight, the opposing mage would be unscathed. Instead of getting hurt, he/she would just assimilate your pure mana creations within their own mana reserves. Rather than defeating your enemy, you are just giving them free mana.

Pure mana creations are not used most of the time except in some situations.

Some skilled mages, like myself, can really concentrate their creation to form sharp objects like knives and blades. It takes a lot of skill to create such things, although blades made of mana can be useful to cut little things like ropes or branches at best. They are still useless against your average mage as they can still absorb your pure mana blades. Not to mention pure mana creation uses much more of your mana reserves compared to your normal mana arts.