Saint Laurent Prison Warden

Chapter 74 Forest Fire
Standing in the forest, Richard frowned in thought.

As we all know, if wizards want to comprehend magic, they need to observe natural phenomena. The more drastic the natural phenomena that affect the environment, the more powerful the magic that wizards can comprehend.

Among all the wizard's level 1 fire magic, the one with the most powerful burst and the largest range is [Wildfire].

If you want to comprehend [Wildfire], you need to witness the entire process of a raging fire burning an entire mountain forest into charcoal.

Friends who often live in the Yasha world know that wood and ore are daily essential resources in the Yasha world and are as important as gold.

In the past, when the timber resources in the entire Yasha world were relatively abundant, it was not too much for hundreds or thousands of wizards to form a group and burn a mountain to witness it and comprehend some magic.

But later, there were too many wizards and the mountains and forests were no longer enough.

This behavior is also prohibited by law.

Therefore, there were slogans such as "Set fire to the mountain and spend life in jail."

Wizards are specifically advised not to do crazy things that destroy resources for the sake of temporary gains or losses.

Richard licked his lips.

In the city of travel, I certainly won’t have the chance to burn the mountains.

The wood resources in the Travel City are extremely scarce, and a large amount of wood needs to be imported every month. The few remaining hills with some broken trees are protected like tourist attractions, so there is no place for me to burn them.

I want to comprehend the most powerful level 1 sorcery, [Wildfire], and I can only try it in the trial.

It would be best if you can take it out, but if you can’t, it’s also good to experience the effect of this magic.

Richard's mind moved, and several streams of magic flowed from the disintegration staff through his body, and finally gathered in his soul. It turned into a magic light spot and dissipated into the air.

The fire element in the air sensed the presence of magic power and quickly rushed over like a lively child, spinning and jumping around the fire element.

The fire element called its friends over, and more and more fire elements gathered together, forming a glowing and hot flame in the air that was visible to the naked eye.

Richard originally wanted to control the flames to burn the surrounding trees.

However, before the flames he controlled reached the trees, they produced an elemental reaction with the unknown substances in the air, igniting the air prematurely.

The flames streaked through the air, leaving a long line of fire.

Richard was slightly confused, then quickly activated the elemental vision to perceive.

In his eyes, many tiny, oil-like gases were floating in the air.

The thick fog surrounding the forest is the product of the large-scale aggregation of this gas.

"Oh? Could it be that these gases are the strange gases that leaked out after the stupid wizard's experiment failed that the voice in my head told me about?
It was these gases that caused the corpses in the cemetery to mutate, leading to a crisis in the village."

Li Changdu sensed it carefully and felt that these gases were actually a mixture of three elements: air element, earth element and fire element. The earth element was the main element as a whole, and there was not much fire element contained.

Coincidentally, the few fire elements in these gases are distributed in the outer layer of the gas, just like a fire element shell that wraps the gas.

So, when the fireballs created by the [Ignite] magic passed through them, the fire elements burned on their own and ignited the earth elements as well!
Finally, the ignition magic released by Richard fell on Songmu, and at that moment, the flames suddenly burned fiercely!
Richard saw that the strange gas on the pine tree was connected to another pine tree like a chain.

This caused the flames on the first pine tree to follow the line of fire to another pine tree and spread in a similar manner.

Richard's eyes widened.

During the Battle of Red Cliffs, Cao Cao connected all the warships together with iron chains. As a result, if one ship caught fire, the entire army suffered and the 100,000-strong army was defeated.

At this time, the situation in the forest was not much different from the Battle of Red Cliffs. The healthy and strong pine trees were burning under the influence of the flames, and soon they became a large area.

The raging flames set the forest on fire, illuminating the entire sky. Even the lights in the next village were dimmed by the flames.

Richard stood in the cemetery. The barren cemetery now became an excellent isolation zone, and the flames from the forest could not get through at all.

A breeze swirled gently around Richard, blowing away all the thick fog near him. He just stood there calmly, witnessing the process of the forest gradually burning.

"Ouch!"

In the burning forest, the howling of wild beasts and the strange sound of wood cracking could be heard.

Boom, suddenly, a loud noise came from the distance.

Richard stretched his head and looked, and saw some strange trees in the thick smoke, which were completely on fire and twisting their bodies in the flames as if they were dancing.

They were very large, and each of these strange tree men was nearly 5 meters tall. When they danced in the flames, they looked particularly creepy.

This...couldn't be a powerful tree spirit?

Dryads are extremely rare creatures in the human world. Any adult dryad has the strength of five rings and possesses the terrifying entanglement skill. Once entangled by the roots of a dryad, even a dragon cannot leave.

Richard couldn't help but be shocked. Fortunately, he was smart and didn't rush into the forest to fight these guys, otherwise he would not know how he died.

The fire burned for a while, but Richard was embarrassed to find that he did not comprehend the magic.

broken!

Richard's heart skipped a beat.

Such a large-scale forest fire, even if it has not yet met the conditions for the emergence of [Wildfire] magic, should have allowed me to comprehend many fire-related witchcrafts that are relatively easy to comprehend.

But I can't feel any trace of witchcraft at all.

In my mind, only various magical theories that I have studied and researched kept popping up.

……

The principle of combustion is a complex reaction that covers both elemental reactions and physical phenomena. It mainly includes a rapid exothermic and luminous reaction between combustible elements and fire elements, which usually appears in the form of flames. The process is accompanied by the release of energy, mainly manifested as light and heat. This process is affected by many factors, including the pressure state of the combustible elements, the concentration of the fire element, pressure, and the presence of catalysts.

The combustion process is also accompanied by the emission of various forms of magical energy, such as visible light, waves of fire elemental magic, and in some cases, high-energy rays. The specific type of these radiations depends on the elemental composition of the burning substance and its intermediate products. For example, the formation of soot can produce the familiar orange-red flame.

……

Hiss! Oops!

Richard covered his forehead.

Magic comes from the ingenuity of wisdom. Witchcraft comes from the mystery of the unknown. But I know too much.

There is no unknown in this wildfire to me, and naturally there is no mystery.

I do not worship the unknown rules of the world, so naturally I cannot receive the favor of the world rules. This has nothing to do with whether the world rules favor me or not.

Richard had a bad feeling in his heart.

I'm afraid that even if I watched the wildfire in its entirety, I would not be able to comprehend the [Wildfire] witchcraft.

I'm afraid I can only discover magic by seeking out natural phenomena whose principles I don't understand.

However, if even I don’t understand the principles of those natural phenomena, they must be extremely rare, and even if I do understand them, they would be advanced magic that I cannot use at all.

So how can I comprehend the low-level witchcraft that I can use now? Forget it, this problem will definitely not be solved in a short time, it is more important to complete the trial first.

Richard sighed and shook his head. He turned his back to the inexplicable howling in the forest and strode towards the village, looking free and easy.

The forest was burned in vain.

Forget it, just burn it. Who hasn't done a few stupid things when they were young? It's just a forest. There are plenty of them in this trial. It's not a pity.

boom! Crackling!

Behind Richard, a huge tree spirit was broken in half by the flames and fell down with a loud noise.

Richard put his hands in his pockets and ran towards the village at a brisk pace without even looking back.

A real man never looks back to see the explosion.

……

……

"Erin, Erin..."

Irene woke up from her nap when she heard her grandmother's weak cries on the bed.

Only then did she realize that she had fallen asleep on the table without knowing when.

"Grandma!" Irene ran to the bedside, held her grandmother's hand, and asked nervously, "Grandma, what's wrong with you? Do you want to drink some water? Or go to the toilet?"

Grandmother Irene, who had difficulty moving, struggled to open her cloudy eyes, but she had long lost her vision and could not see anything.

She gasped and said with difficulty: "Something is burning."

"Ah?" Irene sniffed when she heard this and was immediately shocked. There seemed to be a real burnt smell in the air.

"Maybe the fireplace is on fire."

Irene was horrified and ran from the bedroom to the living room. Fortunately, the fireplace was very clean and there was not even a piece of charcoal in it.

She breathed a sigh of relief. She sniffed the air carefully, walked to the window and opened it.

In the distance, in the direction of the cemetery, a faint red light dyed the sky dazzling red.

"Oh~ this direction!

That should be a forest fire. That doesn't matter, the wizard's magic tower is in the forest.

He'll take care of the flames, as he always does."

Irene felt relieved, closed the window, walked slowly to her grandmother's bedside, and said in a relaxed tone:
"Grandma, it's okay, the forest is burning, so there's some smoke coming in.

Once the wizard notices the situation in the forest, he will put out the fire soon."

"Hehe!" Irene's grandmother gasped in pain from her throat. She shook her head stubbornly and said to Irene:

"No, that's not right! It's not in the forest! It's at home. Something is burning at home. Go and look for it."

"At home?" Irene was confused. I've checked the living room and nothing was burning.

"Right in the room. Right in the room."

"Room?" Irene looked around. The room was peaceful. Not to mention a fire, there was not even a cigarette to light.

She immediately realized that her grandmother must be overly nervous.

Ever since my grandmother fell seriously ill and lost her ability to move for unknown reasons some time ago, she has often been like this.

"Don't worry, Grandma. Nothing is burning. It's just the forest."

"No! Huh! It must not be!" Grandmother Irene struggled and twisted on the bed, very emotional.

Her dry and thin hands grabbed Irene's hand tightly, like a pair of pliers, squeezing Irene's wrist painfully.

“Help me find it. Irene, please help me find it. Don’t let it continue to burn, otherwise the whole village will burn down.”

Irene was startled and quickly comforted her:
"Grandma, grandma, don't be afraid, I'll go find her right away.

Ah!
I remembered, under the bed, I haven't looked under the bed yet, maybe there's a fire under the bed."

Irene broke free from her grandmother's grasp and crawled under the bed.

There was darkness and silence under the bed, nothing there.

She stood up and said deceitfully with a smile: "Grandma, I checked and saw two pieces of paper burning under the bed. I have put them out. Now you can sleep peacefully."

"No, look for it again, look for it again." My grandmother twisted her body relentlessly. She was so emotional that the blood vessels in her neck were popping out.

"Something else must be burning."

"Where else is there?"

Grandma was sick again. Irene was helpless. She wanted to hold her grandmother's hand and calm her down, just like usual.

But at the moment when Irene touched his grandmother, his seriously ill grandmother suddenly jumped up from the bed!
"Oh, it's so hot. It's so hot!"

"Hmm!" Irene tilted her head in confusion. She realized that the burnt smell at the tip of her nose had completely disappeared, but she could hear a crackling sound similar to burning firewood.

Irene raised her hands. Her skin was as black as charcoal, dry and dehydrated. From time to time, blazing flames would light up on her skin and then slowly disappear.

Not only her hands, but her entire body had turned as black as charcoal, except for her eyes, which were completely red.

"Ah, it turns out that I am the one who has the fever."

After realizing this, Irene's mouth suddenly curled up into a big smile. As soon as she opened her mouth, a ball of sparks came out of her mouth.

"No! Irene! No, help me. Why did my granddaughter become like this? Someone please save my granddaughter."

Grandmother Irene was lying on the bed, screaming in fear, tears welling up in her eyes.

She couldn't see it, but she could feel the pain in Erin's soul.

To her, the pain in her granddaughter's soul was even more important than the threat of her own impending death.

At this moment, Irene looked at her grandmother lying on the bed with red eyes and laughed sinisterly:
"Hahaha, grandma, you look so tender and delicious. I'm going to roast you."

boom!
At this moment, the wall next to Irene's grandmother suddenly broke, and Richard rushed in with a staff in his hand. He kicked Irene in the stomach with a bang, causing Irene to lose her balance!

Irene staggered several steps, bumped into the wall, and slowly slid down, leaving only a charred shadow on the wall.

　Sorry everyone, I am not in good condition, my work and rest schedule is too messy, and I always want to sleep while typing. I will adjust myself. There is only one update today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)