It took them 1 hour and 47 minutes to clear the first section of the power lines. 1 hour and 23 minutes to clear the second section.
They were on their third section now after a brief rest, after getting used to fighting the swarms of hornets, all of the had quickly adapted. Learning better ways to kill them. Clearing them faster and more efficiently.
'Frost blast!'
Raymond's spell emptied out another hundred or so hornets. He had already run out of his time-attuned mana and was already tapping into his dimensional-attuned mana. But that would run out soon.
Even with his much purer mana and his ability to absorb mana passively as a perfect human, he was using up more mana then he was replenishing it.
It also didn't help that all his spells were much more mana hungry then a usual spell at his level—mainly because he modified them to be more powerful at the cost of needing more mana.
