Chapter 697: [Ritual of Immortality]
Skeletons of black flames pile onto Jornes, pressing down onto her. Her stone body burns and cracks.
I hold tight onto her foreleg with my teeth, and claw at her head. Her lower jaw chips off, scattering fragments of stone.
I’m near my limit thanks to [Hellgate]. I can’t afford to let her get away.
Jornes points her free foreleg towards me, a suspicious white glowing from her claws.
『[Empath].』
Burning pain shoots through me. Her aim must be to create an opening to escape through the shock from returning the damage with [Empath]. But, I hold firm and glare back at her.
『Too bad, Jornes.』
[Hellgate] consumes both my HP and MP. [Empath] won’t do as much against an opponent that has already lost HP.
For normal magic skills, the amount of damage dealt and the MP cost are proportional. But, as [Hellgate] uses HP as a cost, the damage it can deal far outstrips its MP cost. Under normal circumstances, that isn’t much of an advantage, but against Jornes, the HP cost is useful.