The Tale of Hero Alice's Social Death (Pantsu Hero Alice) Chapter 317 - I Can't Breathe

Generally speaking, while psychic power had a broad range of uses, because it involved the magician's spirit, psychic power was vastly different from mana. So, in the eyes of the average psychic magician, the action of replacing mana with psychic power to activate a spell was infeasible.

However, Alice's psychic power was different. Her incomparably psychic power could theoretically penetrate the world's laws. So, it was naturally capable of accomplishing feats outside the imaginations of psychic magicians like Mador.

If one were to describe spirit and mana as two types of powder, then the average magician's psychic power was the product of mixing these two types of powder with water. Although the combined product could still be considered psychic power, it would be crude and nowhere near as fine as powder.

Alice's psychic power, on the other hand, was created using a special method that combined the two types of powder without the use of water. This method would not only lead to the mixing of the two types of powder, but it would also allow the two types of powder to retain their exquisiteness. Because of this, the resulting psychic power could be used in place of mana to activate spells. In addition, doing so would cause the activated spell to take on the properties of psychic power.

Of course, Alice naturally didn't activate Dragon's Shadow with psychic power because she had nothing better to do. She had done so because Mador had run too quickly. Moreover, she guessed that Mador had used some kind of spell to boost her speed. By the time she reacted to the situation, Mador was already close to reaching the vent ahead.

Had Alice activated Dragon's Shadow using mana, the process would require her to release her mana out of her body, transform it into a dragon, and have the Dragon's Shadow fly after Mador. If she did that, Mador would have long since disappeared into the vent before her Dragon's Shadow could reach the demoness. Hence, Alice decided to use psychic power to construct her Dragon's Shadow. After all, p

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