Fireball

To be precise, Eldrin learned the spell of Fireball, and he learned it at level one.

Fireball is a legendary third-level magic. Among the first three levels of magic, its status is like Isabella in Deepblue , both are unique. There are many legends and proverbs about Fireball. The most common one is that a wizard who can only cast fireballs is not a good wizard. However, no matter from which angle this proverb is understood, it actually acknowledges the specialness and uniqueness of Fireball.

The background of this statement is that Fireball is too important for low-level magicians. It is precisely because of Fireball that low-level magicians below level 6 have a place in the war and are no longer completely ignored. When every magician is promoted to level 5 and can study level 3 magic, he will basically choose Fireball as the first spell to study. Fireball has a relatively short casting time of three seconds, a basic range of 30 meters, a killing range of 10 meters in diameter, and a damage range that can slightly injure lucky warriors, seriously injure ordinary warriors, and kill unlucky warriors. All of these make it superior to all magic of the same level. The warrior here refers to a warrior of level 5 or below like the magician. This makes the magician with Fireball have a weapon for group killing when facing low-level warriors , while at this stage the warrior can only choose to stab the magician with a sword one by one, which is not only time-consuming and dangerous, but also often does not end well.

It was because the fireball technique was so powerful that at a certain time, low-level magicians were so eager to learn the technique that this proverb was created. The pinnacle of the development of the fireball technique was a magic note published by an eighth-level magician: "On the possibility of killing a magician with five fireballs."

This is a note that changed history. It has all the elements to be widely circulated, including a sensational title, sound logic, and a surprising conclusion. In fact, the original title of this note was "A Preliminary Study on the Superposition Effect of Fireball in a Closed Space". The conclusion is that when twelve fireballs are cast at the same time, even an 18th-level magician will find it difficult to resist the superposition damage. Under the most extreme conditions, for example, if this 18th-level magician is unlucky enough to have each fireball produce a critical hit effect, and happens to be in a closed space with a special shape and is standing at the focus of the reflected energy, theoretically only five fireballs are enough.

This magic notebook was unknown at first, but after a busybody changed the title to "Five Fireballs Kill the Mage!", it immediately became popular.

What made the magicians angry was that, apart from the ulterior motive title, the premise of this magic notebook was clear, the logic was rigorous, and the calculations were accurate. In other words, its conclusion was correct, although this conclusion had almost no practical significance. Which magician would stay in a closed space that had been carefully calculated and allowed five fireball mages to bombard him? Moreover, the magician's own strong mental power and control of magic power would make it almost impossible for low-level spells such as fireballs to have critical hits and extreme effects. Only the most extreme conditions plus a series of coincidences would produce the five fireball effects. But low-level mages and more people who have only a superficial understanding of magic would not care about these things. In their eyes, there was only the sentence of five fireballs bombarding the magician .

This is infuriating, but helpless. If a magician were to debate the logic of the five fireballs with low-level wizards, it would be stupid in itself.

The singleness of magic research is indeed harmful to the prosperity of magic itself. Therefore, a certain Archmage led dozens of mages and hundreds of apprentices to conduct a lot of investigation and research for nearly three years, and finally came up with a report, which concluded that after excessive research on the Fireball Technique, a certain proportion of mages will encounter additional difficulties in their future promotions, and in serious cases, it will even affect the magic heights that mages can eventually reach!

As soon as this article came out, the fireball mages were in an uproar. Countless doubts were directed at the statistics in the report.

The problem is that although these statistics are full of errors and illogical, low-level fireball mages can't find any other data for reference, let alone have enough resources to collect original data. So both supporters and opponents have to cite the statistics in the report to support their own conclusions. The more they are cited, the more these statistics become true. If reality is contrary to these data, then reality must be wrong .

No matter how angry the Fireball Mages were, they had to accept the reality in the end. Besides being angry, they were also really afraid that it would affect their own advancement. The Archmage himself was not very reliable, but he represented the consensus of the high-level mages, and this class actually determined the future of the Fireball Mages. So the situation in the Fireball Sea was finally changing slowly. For the development of magic civilization itself, this was actually a good thing.

However, the whole process ultimately proved another thing, that is, the number of mages is not important, the level is everything.

However, the reason why Fireball is Fireball is that no matter how people treat it, objectively or radically, it is always special. Even if a level 20 Archmage goes to the battlefield and faces thousands of ordinary soldiers, his first reaction is probably to throw a fireball . After years of repeated research, all super magic skills , including magic enhancement, magic extreme effect, magic fast, magic instant, magic silent, spell elevation, precise control, extended duration... all have special research on Fireball. This is not only the first three levels of magic, but also none of the first five levels of magic can compare with Fireball.

When the controversy surrounding Fireball gradually died down, the low-level mage who caused the controversy was later called 'Five Fireball Mage', and his real name was gradually forgotten.

Thanks to the rich collection of books in Deepblue , when Eldrin learned the Fireball spell, he also understood the complicated history behind this spell.

Among the various courses in the whole month, the only ones directly related to magic were magic classification, introduction to low-level magic, and meditation, which only lasted for three days. The professor of introduction to low-level magic was also a magician , and the content of the course was more about theories such as elemental balance . He completely passed by spells, gestures, and the casting of various low-level magics, and just let the students learn on their own in the magic books distributed. After nearly a month of study, Eldrin has discovered that the magicians taught by Deepblue have a common characteristic, that is, they talk a lot about theory. The more purely theoretical something is, the more they talk about it. As for the actual magic casting techniques, they are completely dismissive and are too lazy to explain them. Most of them require students to practice and comprehend on their own.

If it were somewhere else, a magician who taught like this would definitely be considered a liar, or at least a low-level magician who only knows how to talk nonsense. But in Deepblue , theory is placed in a very high position, and doing a good job in theoretical research is a shortcut to please Isabella. In addition to the old magician who teaches history, the instructor is at least a fourteenth-level great magician, which is high enough to block all doubts.

Eldrin learned the Fireball spell from the magic book that was handed to him. In fact, the casting and control of the Fireball spell is not complicated. The main reason why it is listed as a third-level spell is that it requires a high level of basic magic power.

After class every day, in addition to the necessary meditation, Eldrin practiced magic. It took him fifteen days to master all six level 0 general magics, and then he continued to practice. While mastering level 0 magic, Eldrin also read through all the content of level 1 to 3 magic, so that he could have a systematic understanding of low-level magic and choose his first level 1 magic. The wisdom talent was in play all the time. Eldrin found that he understood low-level magic quickly and thoroughly. Basically, he would have the most basic understanding after reading it a few times. It was during this process that Eldrin unexpectedly discovered that the fireball spell, as a level 3 magic, was extremely simple, even simpler than some level 1 magic.

There is a reason for this. After nearly a thousand years of refinement and countless people's research, the Fireball Technique has been nearly perfected. The simplicity of the casting method is precisely because it is effective.

Eldrin was still a young boy with a strong curiosity. When he used the knowledge he had just learned to calculate that the magic power he already possessed just reached the minimum standard for casting fireball, his heart beat faster uncontrollably.