He activated the ability—the one he'd never used on a living being before. The technique required almost no mana to perform, practically nothing at all compared to his other skills.
A faint green hue appeared around Leon's hand where it touched the monster's bark-like chest.
The vitality, the very essence of life itself, began leaving the creature's body. It flowed into Leon like water through a broken dam, his ability drinking deeply from the monster's seemingly infinite reserves. He had no injuries that needed healing, but the slight strain he'd put on his body from using fifteen percent of his strength vanished in an instant, muscles relaxing as fresh energy flooded through them.
The absorbed life force converted automatically into mana. The rate at which his reserves refilled was staggering—far faster than the rate at which he was burning mana to maintain the spatial freeze. His depleted reserves filled like a cup under a waterfall.
