paranoianovel Chapter 11 You call this a fireball spell?
Chapter 11 You call this a fireball spell?
The fireball wasn't particularly fast, but because it didn't leak any magic and wasn't dazzling, it was completely silent.
Even the keen-eyed direwolf failed to notice the fireball attacking from behind.
The moment the fireball made contact with the direwolf, sound and light suddenly erupted.
"boom---!!!!"
The extremely high temperature compressed inside the fireball spell was released outwards without reservation.
The massive blast wave, mixed with scorching flames, instantly turned half of the snowfield red.
Before Jack could react, he was thrown over again by the blast wave, his face covered in snow and warm liquid.
When he gasped for breath, trembling as he wiped the dirt from his face, and reopened his eyes, the world before him seemed to stand still.
The level 2 magical beast, the Winter Ice Wolf, which even the Wind Blade couldn't harm... was still standing in front of him.
However, half of it has already disappeared.
Its massive upper body and head were completely blown apart.
The remaining lower half of his body was also charred black, yet he still maintained a standing posture.
The body swayed and fell to the ground with a "plop," splashing water everywhere.
The snow within a radius of several meters was instantly melted, and steam rose all around.
Jack turned his head blankly to look at Rom, who was still holding his hand up.
Suddenly, another identical, quietly burning orange fireball appeared out of thin air in the apprentice's hand.
"..."
"You...you're lying!...You're not an apprentice at all?"
Jack sat in the snow, littered with pieces of flesh and blood, his teeth chattering uncontrollably.
"That was... a high-level fire-based [Exploding Flame] spell?!"
Seeing that the Ice Wolf was completely dead and there was no need to finish it off, Rom quickly flicked his wrist, dispelling the fireball in his hand.
He patted the remaining embers off his hands and said calmly:
"No, this is just the basic fireball spell."
"You're talking nonsense! I don't believe you!"
Jack screamed so hard his voice cracked, sounding like a clown in a castle.
"That's a basic fireball spell?! You call something that can blast a second-tier magical beast to smithereens a basic spell?!"
"I've seen fireball spells in the academy before! Whose fireball spell is like this?! What kind of hellish, evil magic is this?!"
Jack cursed under his breath, but after several attempts, he still couldn't stand up, and his legs were trembling.
Actually, Luo Mu was also somewhat surprised to see the pieces of flesh scattered all over the ground.
Last night, he only tested the shape and color of the improved fireball spell in the stone house; he hasn't actually tested it in combat yet.
He never expected that after optimizing all the redundant code for "glowing" and "sound effects," all the magic power would be 100% converted into fire elemental potential energy, and the power of the fireball spell would be so terrifying.
"Looks like I'll have to be more careful with this tactic in the future, or I might be mistaken for a terrorist," Luo Mu thought to himself.
Looking at Jack sitting on the ground, Romulus walked up to him, extended his hand looking down at him, and smiled:
"If you hadn't attracted its attention and prevented it from dodging, I really wouldn't have been confident that this fireball spell would have hit the beast."
"Anyway, we've had a pleasant collaboration, Mage Jack."
Jack paused for a moment, looking at the somewhat thin hand in front of him, then at the half-charred corpse of a second-tier magical beast beside him. He swallowed hard, and tremblingly extended his right hand to grasp it.
Rom pulled hard, dragging Jack up from the muddy ground.
"Th-thank you."
Jack kept his head down and spoke very softly.
He was now genuinely afraid of Rom, fearing that if he displeased Rom, Rom might retaliate with a bomb or fireball attack.
However, Rom did not intend to harm him, nor was it out of mercy.
However, firstly, he was new to the area, and killing a second-tier mage registered with the guild would cause too much trouble later on.
Moreover... it seems the other party doesn't have anything good left, otherwise they wouldn't be so angry about losing a few potions and a scroll.
Secondly, when Jack was facing a life-or-death attack from the monsters, although he was in a sorry state, he did not choose to abandon Rom as bait in the moment of escape. Instead, he gave Rom a [Windwalk] spell so that he could run away with him.
Based on this single subconscious action, Romé understood:
Although Jack was greedy for credit and somewhat arrogant and rude, he still had his principles and wasn't a bad person at heart.
People with obvious flaws, who are afraid of death but also eager to rise in rank, are often the easiest to figure out.
Seeing that Jack still looked a little scared, Rom couldn't help but tease him:
"By the way, Mage Jack, what did you just say to me?"
"Oh! I remember now, you challenged me to a duel. Shall we continue our duel?"
Jack's legs went weak, and he waved his hands repeatedly:
"No! No!! You win, I was wrong! I'll leave right now! I'll never come to Blackrock Town again!"
"Alright, I didn't tell you to get lost."
Seeing this, Rom laughed and patted Jack's blood-stained white robe. "Although you have a foul mouth, your Windwalk spell came just in time. We're even."
Upon hearing the words "we're even," Jack felt as if he had been granted a pardon. The heart that had been in his throat finally settled back into his stomach, and he nodded repeatedly in agreement.
At this moment, Rom's joy was far greater than the shock of killing the monster.
Because Jack had just accidentally fixed a "bug" for him.
Just now, when Jack waved his staff and shouted the incantation "Wind Walk," Rom noticed a few details in the pronunciation.
The intonation of this incantation was noticeably different from the pronunciation of the scroll when Teacher Hamelin read it aloud that morning.
Luo Mu then realized what was going on.
"No wonder my Wind Walk spell gave me an error on the first compile and run after I modified the code!"
Hamelin was, after all, an old man who had devoted his entire life to fire magic. He might know some wind spells, but his pronunciation was completely incorrect.
The syllables the old man mispronounced caused the underlying language code compiled by the system to be completely wrong, so no matter how much you simplify the code logic, it will still show an error message.
And Jack, a mage who graduated from a proper wind-element academy, delivered his original, perfectly enunciated spells, which were practically a "fix patch" delivered to our doorstep.
Just as Rom was reflecting, the system panel flashed again:
[New execution protocol sample detected...]
Comparing local library files...
[13 errors found. Illegal variable names have been locked.]
[Hot update in progress, overwriting the underlying code dictionary...]
[Update complete!]
...
Optimized version of [Wind Walk]:
Target = caster's legs;
Action = Reduce air resistance;
Execute = Inject wind element thrust;
[Code syntax validation passed. Estimated computation time consumption: 2 points. Compile and run?]
Sure enough, the code was fixed.
"run."
Rom pressed the Enter key again and immediately began the field test.
call out!
In an instant, a fierce wind arose from the flat ground!
In the area centered on Romú, the snow on the ground was instantly swept away by the airflow, revealing the brown permafrost beneath.
Jack, who was standing to the side, was caught off guard and was blown off his feet by the sudden gust of wind. Snowflakes covered his face and he almost fell.
"Where did this wind come from!...Pah!"
Jack spat out the snowflakes from his mouth as he looked up.
His pupils constricted sharply, as if he had suddenly realized something. Pointing at the surging blue energy beneath Luo Mu's feet, he exclaimed in shock:
"You...you're using wind magic?!"
Rom stood at the center of an invisible airflow, his cloak billowing in the wind.
He smoothed his disheveled hair and smiled faintly:
"Yes, it's the same one you used just now, only the most basic [Wind Walk] spell."