A few miles away from the Dark Being Army, which was now in disarray and currently going through a deep search, Jacob sat on a wilted, dry tree while he looked at the Infinity Pendant.
The Cursed Path Glory Gem was the same. However, the word 'Common' within was changed into another word, 'Rare,' three days ago.
This was the result of the effort of ten days he had been putting in killing the Rare Rank Dark Beings like crazy.
Although the Magic Capacity of the pendant hasn't been increased after the gem was ranked up, however, Jacob Hex Mana was now much more potent than before, which seemed to have increased the Hex Spell effects.
Furthermore, the moment the Cursed Path Glory Gem achieved Rare Rank, another set of memories entered his mind. It was another innate spell like the Slumber Hex, which by the way, can now be used on Extraordinary Rank as well.
Jacob was experimenting with this Hex Spell of his, and to his surprise, it even worked on Dark Beings!
This was nothing but good news for him, and this only made the Cursed Path Glory Gem even more precious in Jacob's eyes and a top priority to upgrade it further.
The name of the new hex spell was 'No Agility Hex.' As the same suggests, this Hex Spell can slow down any target below Epic Rank by 50%, and this was a truly powerful spell under someone as fast as Jacob's hand!
After experimenting with the Rare Rank Hex Magic Core for two days, Jacob found an unexpected limit.
It was related to the Hex Mana used during the casting of these Hexes. It was like this, whether he cast the hexes on Common, Rare, or even Extraordinary Rank, it won't increase or decrease.
Meaning the amount of mana he would use will remain the same, as it doesn't matter if he cast it on someone stronger or weaker. Although, it was a good thing considering he won't have to waste extra mana on the higher-tier beings. But the same amount of mana used on the lower-level beings seemed a bit wasteful.
Because right now, Jacob can cast either Slumber Hex or No Agility Hex with 25 cubic meter worth of Hex Mana on 100 Common Rank Dark Beings, 50 Rare Dark Beings, and 10 Extraordinary Rank Dark Beings (Any Tier).
The amount of 100 Common Rank Dark Beings and 50 Rare Rank Dark Beings was the same amount he could cast the Slumber Hex on when the Hex Magic Core was still a Common Rank Magic Core.
Moreover, while still being a common rank magic core, if he tried casting the Slumber Hex on the Extraordinary Dark Being, it would always end up doing nothing but waiting for the Hex Mana worth of a Rare Rank Dark Being.
But in front of what he could do with those two hexes, this limitation seemed quite ordinary and not obstructive at all, especially when he thought about what he could do when he reached higher ranks.
Slumber Hex only lasted for an hour when his magic core was still a common rank. But when its rank increases, so does the potency of the Hex Mana, and the slumber hex also gained another hour in its duration.
Right now, he can put his target into Slumber or decrease their Agility for 2 hours straight, and there is no escaping or overcoming these two hexes' effects.
The Slumber Hex, unless there is a way to break the hex, even if the hexed target was killed or their limbs chopped off while under the effect of the hex, they won't awake from the slumber.
While during the No Agility Hex, even if they ate, or drank some medicine, or even used some sort of spell or ability, the increased agility will again be halved by the hex.
As of right now, only Jacob seemed to have the power to break the Hexes. As long as he thought of breaking it while imagining the target's profile, it will be broken instantly.
Furthermore, he can use the hexes on multiple targets as long as they are in his vision and he considers the other party his target. If he has enough mana and can see the entire Dark Being Army, he can put them all into deadly slumber or make them slow like turtles, which was truly terrifying.
That's why this sort of limitation was not until Jacob was still weak because once he became more powerful, his enemies would dread to even appear in front of him, much less face him.
The other limit, which was the most annoying one, was naturally the requirement to upgrade the rank of the Hex Magic Core. At first, he didn't think much about it, but after starting to kill the Dark Beings, he discovered just how cumbersome this task was.
Now he needed to kill 100,000 Extraordinary Tier Dark Beings or 10,000 Epic Tier Dark Beings, and so on.
Not only he needs to kill those dark being personally, but he needed to be within their 1-meter distance while killing them so the Dead Flames could be absorbed by the pendant.
Just this requirement rendered his long-range weapons useless and turned this into a huge headache for Jacob. If not for the gray disc stealth ability, he might never complete the killing of 100,000 Rare Rank Dark Beings so quickly.
Speaking of the gray disc, after using it for ten days straight, Jacob still has yet to experience any mental attack. He even tried the bronze disc and still has not experienced any mental attack.
He didn't think Autarch was lying to him, so he mused this might have something to do with his special magic, or his mind was simply that terrifying.
Whichever the case was, Jacob was quite content with this development.
But he didn't keep using the Bronze Disc because he could only ride it while using its stealth function for 10 minutes and 30 minutes if not use it. At the same time, the timing got doubled when he used the gray disc.
Yet this was just the during when he was using it with Common Rank Hex Magic Core. Right now, he can continue to use the gray disc for 3 hours straight while in stealth only for 1 hour.
However, with two 100 cubic meters worth of storage rings filled with dark beings' magic cores and his pendant's almost instant mana recovery speed, as long as he fed the gem the magic core, he went on for days without carrying about running out of mana.
This was probably the biggest advantage of the Hex Magic Core.
'I wonder if that Lich King would personally start to patrol the army after I started to kill his top commanders, the Extraordinary Dark Beings, or he will just run away. Well, I don't think he'll just ditch them and run away. After all, he's someone with the title Mad Lich King…'
Jacob chuckled coldly as a devious smile rose on his lips before he hid the pendant inside his shirt.
He stood up and was about to head toward the Dark Being Army to start the killing spree again when he was stopped by an unexpected call.
Upon seeing the caller's identity, his eyes shimmered with uncertainty because it was none other than the Hallberg!
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