Chapter 188
Alice started scanning through the list of Perks for [Legendary Organic Mage], and was pleasantly surprised.
She hadn’t been entirely sure what difference it would make that the class was ‘legendary’ compared to normal, but the Perks the class offered were pretty good. They weren’t anything revolutionary for her current level… but then again, this was a level 5 Perk, and her best class was currently approaching level 90. At this point, most level 5 Perks she got were totally irrelevant, but the options here still offered her some utility. For a level 5 Perk, this could already be considered impressive.
The first Perk had something rather unusual as part of its description.
Legendary Efficiency
Requirements: Legendary Organic Mage level 5 or higher, Intelligence 150 or higher, Magic 150 or higher, have a Class at least partially related to combat at level 50 or higher.
When using Organic Magic for any purpose (including feeding it to Perks that transform mana into other effects), gain a 10% mana cost reduction (multiplicative with any other cost reduction effects). Any attempt to mobilize and manipulate Organic Magic also becomes 10% faster. Any internal injuries or problems that would result from healing people with organic magic are mildly reduced in size and severity. (This effect will not occur if you are deliberately trying to harm someone with organic magic).
The second and last parts of the Perk weren’t that unusual. Perks that made it easier to heal people were pretty normal, and Perks that made it faster and easier to manipulate organic mana also weren’t that uncommon. If the Perk had only consisted of those two things, Alice wouldn’t have found [Legendary Efficiency] to be a very interesting Perk.
However, in addition to those two effects, the perk also had a mana cost reduction. This was an effect Alice had never seen before. There were plenty of Perks that made Alice use mana more efficiently, but they never actually reduced the cost of an action outright. They were just helping her make better use of any mana spent in the process of doing something. This didn’t seem like it was improving her efficiency. It just… made her capable of doing the same thing, but with lower costs.
At first glance, this might not seem that impressive, but when one actually thought about how energy conservation was supposed to work, it was obvious that this Perk was bizarre in a way that was hard to put into words. What if she got, say, twenty of these kinds of Perks? Even if all of them were multiplicative and not additive, that still meant that she might be paying something like 12% of the mana cost to do the same thing. By that time, she would be outright breaking people’s understanding of how much one Marium of mana could accomplish. That was an incredible effect.