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.

    Lide smiled faintly; in fact, he hadn’t expected that continuous usage of the Small Fireball Skill would cause the center of the magic-immune gemstone to melt.

    He thought for a moment and then had a rough idea.

    Although the gemstone had a very high resistance to Magic, it was relative; there was always a saturation threshold.

    He possessed immense Magic Power, and converting it all into rapid-fire Small Fireball attacks in an extremely short period of time was a formidable force.

    Though individual Small Fireball attacks weren’t powerful, his unremitting assault left no time for the gemstone to adapt, and the continuous Fireball techniques were akin to roasting the center of the gemstone with extreme temperatures of thousands of degrees.

    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.