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Chapter 66: Chapter 66: Power Beyond Imagination
Lide waved his hand, and the optimized magic model was activated instantly.
Swish~
In the eyes of all the apprentices, a fist-sized fireball appeared.
Everyone’s expression was dumbfounded. Small Fireball Skill?
Could the Small Fireball Skill also transform?
Before they could react, a second fireball, a third, and a fourth… appeared in front of Lide.
What is shock? If these mage apprentices knew their expressions at that moment, they would definitely laugh at themselves.
Over twenty mage apprentices opened their mouths wide and stared dumbfounded as dozens of fireballs emerged from Lide’s hands in just a few seconds.
By the Magic Goddess above, were they hallucinating?
Since when could the Small Fireball Skill release dozens of fireballs in a matter of seconds?
Lide felt his reaction speed decrease when he controlled 40 fireballs, knowing that his limit for maintaining perfect control was 40.
Without hesitation, the fireballs, guided by his spiritual power, flew towards the antimagic stone.
The queue of small fireballs, like bullets shot from a barrel, banged and created scorching streaks through the air.
Their speed reached the extreme, covering the small room in the blink of an eye at 120 blades per second.
Zap~
The first fireball that hit the antimagic stone left a black scorch mark on the stone surface, its high resistance against magic rendered the weak Small Fireball Skill completely ineffective.
But, this was just the beginning.
Bang bang bang~ bang bang bang~
Dozens of Small Fireball Skills hit the antimagic stone in just a few seconds, but this was not the limit. Lide’s eyes remained calm as magic furiously poured into the magic model in his mind.
0.2 seconds per Small Fireball, capable of casting five times a second.
The rapid casting made Lide look as if he was wielding a Gatling gun, showering shots, leaving the stunned apprentices to simply watch the scene, bereft of any thoughts.
The terrifying small fireballs flew towards the antimagic stone at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye, their passage heating the air in the room to the point of distortion.
The room temperature rose by more than ten degrees in a short period of time.
This scene lasted for more than 40 seconds.
Until Lide had drained all 657 points of his magic value from his body.
Exhilarating, it was his first time to completely deplete all his magic.
With his vast magic reserve, unless he was frequently using Three Circle Magic, it would indeed take some time to exhaust it completely.
But in front of the improved Small Fireball Skill, his considerable magic had been depleted in just about 40 seconds.
The room fell into a brief silence, and at that moment, a group of mage apprentices looked at Lide with eyes that regarded him as divine.
Filled with fervent adoration.
So cool, unbelievably cool. In less than a minute, to cast hundreds of small fireballs, it was nothing short of a miracle.
Among them, Carlo, who had become an official mage, had the sharpest eyes. He suddenly seemed to have discovered something, pointing at the antimagic stone with wide eyes, stammering in disbelief.
“You, you guys look!! The antimagic stone, it actually, actually…”
Hearing this, everyone turned their heads in unison to look at the antimagic stone that had endured the assault of hundreds of small fireballs in a short time.
Originally pitch-black, the surface of the antimagic stone was now covered with large and small black marks, and what stunned them the most was the center of the antimagic stone, which had turned glowing red, even appearing to have melted into magma due to the high temperature.
Droplets of fiery red magma, resembling tear stains, flowed from the center to the lower part, leaving trails all the way down until they dripped onto the stone floor below.
Zi la~
The sharp sound of the magma rapidly solidifying upon cooling was especially thunderous at this moment.
Carlo, shocked beyond belief, lost the authenticity in his voice, “The teacher actually used Small Fireball to melt the magic-immune gemstone that resists Four Circle Magic!!!”
“Goddess above, Lord Lide must have been favored by the Magic Goddess, praise the Goddess, praise Lord Lide!!”
Whoo~
It was only then that this group of youngsters managed to come back to their senses, yet the shock in their eyes couldn’t be suppressed.
“Lord Lide is too great, that’s a magic-immune gemstone after all!!”
“Why can Small Fireball Skill be cast so swiftly? It truly is a miracle sent by the Divine!”
“It’s hard to imagine what Lord Lide has come up with in these past few days.”
Vina’s eyes sparkled like tiny stars, her sapphire-like pupils misting over with emotion.
“Lord Lide, have you improved the Small Fireball Skill? Just like Mage’s Hand? You’re truly amazing, the entire Mage Association of Green City will cheer for you.”
Upon hearing Vina’s words, all the Mage Apprentices ceased their chattering, their unabashedly admiring gazes fixated on Lide.
Bang bang bang~
The knocking on the door interrupted Lide’s thoughts, though the impact of his first glimpse into the Otherworld had not yet faded.
Vina dragged lunch into the room, and after a greeting, she adeptly placed the meal on the Blue Heart Parasol Tree round wooden table nearby.
“Lord Lide, please enjoy your meal.”
“Thank you.”
Lide sat down and, as if he remembered something, asked the girl who was about to leave, “Has anything special happened in the city recently?”
Upon hearing Lide’s question, Vina felt a twinge of joy. Although she was a maid, Lide rarely spoke to her.
“Lord Lide, I heard that the Mage Association plans to hold a magic seminar in November, and three Great Mages will attend.”
“Anything else?” Lide adjusted the dinner plate. He wasn’t very interested in meetings at the moment.
Thinking of the scene he saw through the window just now, he continued to ask, “Are there always this many beggars on the streets?”
Vina shook her head hastily, “No, Lord Lide. Recently, the Beastmen in the southern Far Mountain Range have started a war, so there are more refugees.”
She quickly added, “If you don’t like it, I can have someone drive away the beggars near the Mage Tower right away.”
Most mages have rather peculiar tempers, thought Vina, though she was reluctant to expel those pitiful beggars.
But if the beggars angered Lide, their very lives would be at stake.
Lide shook his head. From the scenes on the street just now, he could roughly judge the political, economic, and living conditions of the Nolan Empire or Green City.
The lofty nobles, the reputable slave owners, the cautious civilians, the ruthless mercenaries, the pitiful beggars, the somewhat kind but cautious shopkeepers.
It was not a stable world, indeed.
“No need. If there’s extra bread, you can give some to those in need, but not too much. You may go now.”
Hearing Lide’s words, Vina understood immediately that while her master was kind-hearted, he was also pragmatic.
If the beggars received too much, they would gather in large numbers, making it harder to manage.
Their Mage Tower wasn’t the City Lord’s mansion and had no obligation to rescue beggars.
“Yes, Lord Lide.”
Seeing that Lide said nothing more, Vina pursed her lips and left with a slight sense of dejection.
Lide was fully aware of the maid’s little thoughts but said nothing.
Giving a little food to the beggars was fine, but widespread aid was impossible.
His current identity was too dangerous. A mage showing occasional kindness by giving some food was understandable, but doing it often would be seen as strange.
This was something the City Lord should handle, not a mage.
Sitting at the table, he began to eat.
For the Bloodline, human blood was true sustenance, but this human food couldn’t provide enough nutrients… though it wouldn’t harm him to eat it.
The Blood Clan Ancestor ate regularly to conceal his identity.
But deep down, Lide wasn’t Bloodline, so he naturally had an appreciation for gourmet food. Thus, what was a task for the Blood Clan Ancestor became a pleasure for him.
Lunch was quite sumptuous, with a glass of milk, a large piece of magic power-rich roast meat, two large pieces of bread, two small plates of vegetables, and a dessert.
The most remarkable item was the roast meat, for only the meat of Demon Beasts had such rich magic power.
In Green City, this piece of Demon Beast meat would sell for at least fifty silver pucks.
A normal worker’s monthly salary was just ten silver pucks.
His lunch’s meat alone could feed a family of three for a year.
In “Glory,” the currency was divided into copper pucks, silver pucks, and gold pucks, with the exchange rate being 100 copper pucks = 1 silver puck, 100 silver pucks = 1 gold puck.
Copper pucks were the basic currency unit. One copper puck could buy a black bread on the street, roughly equivalent to 1 RMB.
But since it was a different world, this wasn’t a straightforward comparison. Though “Glory” was a transcendent magical world, it was set in a medieval Western background where productivity was low, so purchasing power differed somewhat.
As an elite member of the Green City Mage Association and a baron of the Nolan Empire, Lide received a stipend of 20 gold pucks monthly.
Additionally, the area around the Crimson Mage Tower fell under his protection, yielding about 10 gold pucks monthly in protection fees.
Friendly nobles also provided a monthly fee as protection, amounting to another 20 gold pucks.
So Lide’s monthly income was around 50 gold pucks. The operation of the Crimson Mage Tower cost 20 gold pucks a month, leaving him with about 30 gold pucks in surplus.
Therefore, eating what seemed to regular folk as an extravagantly expensive piece of Demon Beast roast meat was of little consequence to him.
The magic power-rich roast meat melted in his mouth, and the dense magic infused his body, invigorating every cell like a massage bath.
His whole body rejoiced.
“This truly is the Grand Sword.”
Lide felt utterly content, no wonder Demon Beast meat was so highly prized.
Once having savored Demon Beast roast meat, other foods became bland in comparison. He swiftly finished the meal.
After resting a while, Lide felt an eager urge when looking at the spell skills on the attribute panel.
As an Earthling, his curiosity for these transcendent powers was undeniable.
Especially after soul transmigrating here, his curiosity grew stronger.
Magic—these two words were more attractive than gold.
Even a material as highly resistant to Magic as this gemstone couldn’t withstand such high temperatures, and after enduring beyond its threshold, the center was melted by the intense heat.
In other words, the gemstone had melted due to the continuous exposure to high heat.
Indeed, the improved Small Fireball Skill resembled modern rapid-firing weapons.
If one bullet couldn’t kill you, then a few hundred or thousand would saturate and strike; hence, even a tank resistant to shellfire couldn’t withstand prolonged exposure to intense gunfire from a Gatling gun—that was the principle.
Although it took all his Magic Power to create this effect, Lide was certain that, without saturation attacks, even if he used ten or twenty Bursting Fireball spells of Three Circle Magic, he couldn’t damage the magic-immune gemstone.
No wonder the system had rewarded him with 1500 Experience points for his innovation, rating it as exceptional.
Violent, direct, and with enough destructive power to melt a stone that resisted Four Circle Magic.
This strategy was not in vain; the ten days had not been wasted.
Of course, this also had to do with him possessing Magic Power far beyond that of an ordinary Advanced Mage; he was sure that a usual Advanced Mage definitely wouldn’t achieve this effect, perhaps barely managing to heat up the gemstone a bit.
“Indeed, this is my latest improvement to the Small Fireball Skill, which I will place in the third-floor study and will be available for you to learn.
However, since this skill is very precious, anyone wishing to learn it must pay ten points.”
Lide was in a good mood. For this group of apprentices, he wasn’t stingy, but he knew that what comes too easily isn’t treasured, so he prepared to introduce a key element in the Mage Tower— a reward system.
As more people would populate the Crimson Mage Tower, extensive management was no longer suitable, and the reward system was something he had prepared earlier.
Not just in the Crimson Mage Tower, Dawn City would also implement the reward system.
This system would be an unbeatable trump card in Lide’s hands, especially in Dawn City, where he could foresee countless citizens working fervently for him just for some points.
Lide “The King of Schemes” Kachar was about to come online.