Witch, Fireball and Steam Evil God

Chapter 230 The fish is hooked

A NB attack.

On the rest of the journey, Lin Dong's mind was filled with these words.

As a high-level elemental shaper, she was always curious about elemental spells she had never seen before. However, since this spell was too powerful and could cause irreversible consequences once released, Ethan repeatedly stated that it should only be used when necessary.

How powerful is it?

Can it destroy a city or even a country in an instant?
If it was the latter, then it was undoubtedly beyond everyone's cognition. Even looking at the history of elemental shapers, there was no record of any elemental shaper who could destroy a kingdom in an instant. When she released her magic power, she could only expand the attack range of the ice element magic to a city at most.

But Lin Dong quickly calmed down and thought that as long as he stayed with Ethan, he would see him sooner or later.

"Teacher, is there a saying about 'ancient elemental shaper'?"

Ethan's question interrupted Winter's thoughts. Along the way, he witnessed many destructive elemental shaping spells, fireballs falling from the sky, lightning storms covering the entire area, and underground spikes that tore through the earth and ran across the entire battlefield like ravines. Both the power and the attack range of the spells were much stronger than the "modern elemental shaping spells".

It is no wonder that the morale of Caesaros's subhuman army is so low. Under the attack of this spell that is comparable to a super weapon, the front-line soldiers were evaporated before they even saw the shadow of the enemy.

In the face of these elemental shaping spells, humans are as hopeless as if they were at war with nature.

"Ancient elemental shaper?"

Lin Dong thought for a moment and asked, "Is this another new profession you created?"

Ethan always creates many new professions that have never been heard of.

"According to the rules, adding the suffix 'Ancient' to the front of a general profession will make it several levels stronger."

This rule is very common and there are many cases to prove it.

For example, the "strongest in modern times" would be killed instantly by the "strongest in history" in a one-on-one duel. Another example is that the empire's current technology is far behind the ancient technology of the Golden Age.

Ethan guessed that the same might be true for elemental shapers.

Today's Imperial Elemental Shapers have experienced the destruction of the Demonic Web, and with many spells discontinued, it is understandable that they are declining.

"There has never been such a saying. Do you remember what I told you about the nature of magic in "Fireball and Ice Arrow Magic"?

Winter quickly entered the teacher's state and asked Ethan a question in class, "Question: What is the essence of magic? There will be punishment for wrong answers."

“Information, knowledge and wisdom.”

Ethan immediately gave the standard answer.

This made Lin Dong a little disappointed, "I didn't expect you still remembered."

Unlike the theory of elemental affinity, the part about magic is all knowledge in the academy textbooks. It has been like this since ancient times, and every powerful elemental shaper has come this way.

Ethan is a good student with a sharp mind, but he lacks a lot of fun in life.

If it were her, if she heard that there would be a penalty for wrong answers, she would definitely give a wrong answer to test the waters.

"That's right. It's about experience, knowledge, and wisdom. According to this theory, the level of elemental shapers should become stronger and stronger."

Looking at the lightning and thunder in the sky, Winter roughly guessed why Ethan asked this.

"This is called a linked spell. It is the application of elemental energy magic in warfare. The lethality of a single fireball is very limited, but if dozens of novices release fireballs together, the destructive power caused cannot be underestimated."

This is why elemental shapers are often considered glass cannons in warfare.

"There is actually a combination technique."

Ethan exclaimed.

Once again he gained knowledge.

However, this was probably because he had seen very few elemental shapers. If he thought about it carefully, there was only one such person, Winter. And according to Winter's theory, they were not on the same path as orthodox elemental shapers. They followed the school of affinity, which was no different from heretics in the eyes of those academicians.

"Combined?"

Winter's tone suddenly became louder. She looked around. They were walking in a lush forest, and they could hear insects chirping from time to time. "Where are we? How do we merge together?"

It’s winter below!

Ethan's eyelids twitched a few times. He always felt that Winter was becoming more and more... open in front of him, and even dared to do some embarrassing things in public.

This is not a good sign. A lot of yellow waste has suddenly mixed into the teacher's vast treasure trove of knowledge.

"I mean many people working together to cast magic."

"Oh, that's how it is."

Lin Dong lost interest all of a sudden. "What you are seeing now is just one of the uses of the magic net. I once saw some descriptions of the magic net in a book in the academy."

High-level elemental shapers can observe scenes thousands of meters away through the magic network. During the War of the Old Gods, they made use of this feature to launch ultra-long-range attacks without exposing themselves.

They were the main force in the War of the Old Gods and fought almost all of the frontal battles.

This is why people call the First Era the "Elemental Age" or the "Academy Age". Before the magic network was destroyed, the elemental shaper was undoubtedly the most powerful supernatural path.

"The elemental shaper who wrote this book was named Maccad-Derlin, and he later became the first dean of the academy."

This is the purpose of their trip.

Macad-Dellin is the master who knows the magic network best. The tactics of coordinated combat and ultra-long-range strikes were proposed by this great dean. In addition to his identity as an elemental shaper, he is also known as a strategist, a polymath, and an inventor, and he has countless reputations.

Applying Ethan's theory, he is a strong contender for "the strongest in history."

"According to the time estimation, MacArthur-Dellin should be a man in his forties, in the prime of his life."

He has thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his eyes always sparkle with wisdom.

This is the description of MacArthur Derlin in the book, but the college only has a portrait of an old man with white hair and a beard that almost reaches his chest. When he founded the college and served as the first dean, MacArthur Derlin was already 80 years old.

She is not omnipotent as a teacher.

After walking in the wilderness and forest for so long, they didn't see a single person. They finally passed a small town, but it was empty and there was chaos everywhere, with boxes and cabinets being rummaged through. It seemed that all the residents of the town had fled before the war broke out.

This was the most inconvenient thing before the First Era.

There are only a few city-states and most of them are scattered villages and towns. Transportation and communication are extremely backward. The red falcons trained by magicians are an important means for people to transmit intelligence.

In fact, she didn't know where to find MacAdrean, and she even suspected that the size of the elemental shapers led by him was more like the number of people in a club rather than the size of an army.

What's worse is that she has never been known for her physical strength. After walking for such a long time, her feet were so sore that she didn't want to move anymore.

Lin Dong looked around and saw a place with a lake. There were traces of people setting up camp on the open space beside the lake, as if someone had just repaired here not long ago.

"Just rest here tonight."

Winter manipulated the water flow to converge to the shore, and the water instantly condensed into ice, and a simple igloo was completed.

This is where they will stay tonight.

After arranging the furniture in the igloo, she created a harpoon using the ice element.

"Let's have grilled fish."

She had extensive experience in wilderness survival, but after joining the academy, the knowledge she had learned from following cats and monsters in the North was no longer useful - although the academy had gone through many ups and downs, it had never had any problems with funding, perhaps due to its strict admissions standards and elite education system.

In college, there is no concept of taking out loans to go to school.

First of all, students who have received an admission letter from the college do not have to pay any fees.

The library of the academy is open to all students. Students can look up knowledge other than banned books on their own in their spare time. In addition, the academy provides school uniforms for all seasons to every student. The academy's bathrooms have water magic cleaning services. Due to the tradition of magic duels, it is normal for magic robes to be burned by fire or flooded by water. Students can get new school uniforms at any time.

The school uniforms were made by tailors who specialized in serving the nobility.

The cost of spell materials is all borne by the academy. Even if there is a problem of misuse of magic materials, the student will only be criticized through a notice and will not be fined.

Food, washing, and entertainment are all of aristocratic standards.

Lin Dong had a comfortable life as a student. Perhaps it was because her life was too good that she had the leisure to compete with her mentors in the college.

She made a chair by the water, and she also made a simple hanging rod and stuffed it into Ethan's hand, "Here, try this."

Although they could easily get the fish in the lake using elemental magic, they still had a lot of time, so this was considered an entertainment program. "Let's see who can catch the bigger fish."

Ethan held the cold fishing rod in his hand and fell into deep thought.

This batch of candidates is definitely the most undisciplined one in history.

Their predecessors should be racking their brains to think of ways to destroy the magic network and win the war, but they found a scenic clearing in the woods and started fishing like retired employees.

Fishing is not Ethan's specialty.

As a modern man with a busy schedule, it is difficult for him to have such leisure time. The only fishing experience he has had is in games.

"Are you a newbie? I'll teach you."

Seeing Ethan's somewhat stiff movements, Winter performed steadily again.

As a teacher, she advocates hands-on teaching.

So she naturally stuck to Ethan, holding Ethan's wrist from behind and instructing him to use bait to attract fish. This posture naturally brought some side effects.

For example, Ethan felt the soft touch on his back, the smell of cherries lingered at his nose, and when Winter opened his mouth, hot air blew on his ears, which made him suspect that Winter did it on purpose.

"Well, that's it. It's easy to master."

"I understand everything."

Ethan looked at the ripples on the water. His mood at the moment was the same as the lake. He pointed out the main cause of all this. "But why did you bite my ear?"

"accidentally."

From behind came the chuckle of Winter, who had succeeded in playing a prank.

Ethan was skeptical.

Because he really couldn't figure out how he could accidentally bite someone's ear and lick it.

The lethality of this move was no less than that of electric magic. Caught off guard, he trembled, instinctively straightened his body, and the hairs on his body stood up.

"Don't you know? Dean MacArthur's biggest hobby is fishing. There is a fish pond on the back mountain of the college. The fish in it are all prepared for him. He often goes up the mountain alone with a fishing rod and stays there for a whole day."

Of course, to use some official terms, the dean was meditating.

"Maybe the happy atmosphere of us fishing here can attract him."

Ethan felt that Winter had completely learned to be a bad person. His words were exactly the same as when he tricked the banker Mr. Marshall into drinking the potion.

He remembered that winter was not like this before.

Powerful and knowledgeable, like a flower on the mountain top - this is the impression most people have of Winter. Winter used to not have so many low-level ideas and so many fancy moves.

Let me ask, who exactly taught his teacher badly?

"You do not believe?"

Winter kept rubbing the back of Ethan's hand under the pretext of teaching him.

Although she had already touched what she should have touched, the current situation brought her a new experience, especially since Ethan looked like a poor prey that was frightened by its natural enemy, his body stiff as if he was under stress.

She enjoyed this feeling.

In fact, Ethan was checking out an outrageous message.

Even his skill set is cooperating with Winter's actions. Not long ago, an outrageous skill appeared in his panel.

"Fishing (3/50), Proficiency: Lv1, a fishing expert taught you the relevant skills, but who is the real fish? "

You better say fishing!

Three years after coming to this world, Ethan questioned the skill proficiency panel for the first time.

First of all, he hadn't caught any fish yet, but his skill proficiency had strangely increased by three points. According to his observation, it was because of Winter's constant rubbing of the back of his hand that his skill proficiency increased.

There are even descriptions in the skill panel that are clearly irrelevant to this skill!

Just as he was about to ask a fierce question, he felt a wet touch on his earlobe again.

As expected, the proficiency level rose to 6/50.

Flirting increases one point of proficiency, and biting the ear increases 3 points.

And now, Ethan must stand up for the fish in the lake - your proficiency panel doesn't show even a little respect for the fish being caught!
"It doesn't matter if you don't believe me. When you go to the academy later, I can find the book and show it to you."

Lin Dong was confident. What she just said were really anecdotes from books, but her teaching method was unique.

However, she believes that this is a more advanced teaching concept, which not only allows students to increase their knowledge in class, but also allows them to relax and feel happy physically and mentally. The only problem is that this teaching concept is limited to one-on-one.

"What if that's what the book says?"

she asked Ethan defiantly.

This was a winning bet, and she was already thinking about what request she was going to make to Ethan.

However, even more outrageous things are yet to come.

The sound of footsteps approaching from afar interrupted the intimate behavior of the two people. Ethan looked in the direction of the sound and saw a man wearing a wizard's robe and carrying a full set of fishing tools. At first glance, he looked like a professional fisherman.

The man had thick eyebrows, big eyes, and thick black curly hair. When he looked at Ethan, his gaze was fiery, as if he regarded them as fellow enthusiasts.

McAdeling.

The man met almost all of Winter's descriptions of him.

Another fish is caught!

Although he was somewhat unwilling, Ethan felt that Winter was worthy of the title of fishing master. Her prey was no longer limited to the fish in the pond, but lay in the sea of ​​stars.

The bushy-haired man brought a stone to use as a chair and set up a base about ten meters away from them.

“I didn’t expect to meet someone like me here.”

The man swung the fishing rod gracefully, his movements smooth and seamless.

Ethan silently estimated the difference in strength between the two sides. This professional-level move fully demonstrated the man's level, which was completely different from a beginner like him.

You can tell at first glance that the man is an experienced fisherman.

"My name is Ethan."

Ethan took the initiative to speak.

"McCadrin, a fishing enthusiast."

The man responded in a friendly manner, "Since we all share the same interests, have you heard of a saying?"

"Ok?"

"When our eyes meet, the game begins."

McAdellin grinned, revealing his row of white teeth, and he could not hide his excitement.

Today, he used the magic net to spy on the battlefield as usual. The subhuman army in this area had been completely defeated. They fled in all directions, abandoning all the occupied villages and defense lines. Soon, he found two strange strangers.

They walked along the main routes with a swagger, seemingly not worried at all that their human identities would attract the subhumans to kill them.

Normally, he shouldn't spy on other people's lives, but this strange scene made McAdellin unable to look away.

And when the two set up camp by the lake and when the woman used elemental magic to create a fishing rod, Macadlin knew he had to go.

Yes, their time has come.

After the war, there will be a golden age for fishermen!

Since the outbreak of the war, he couldn't remember how long it had been since he had been able to sit down and enjoy the fun of fishing like he did now.

His comrades did not quite understand his interests and thought it was a waste of time and life. Now, he finally met someone who shared the same interests as him.

A young man found the ultimate pleasure in life at a young age.

McCarty was genuinely happy for Ethan.

but……

Ethan is still too young!

McCarty decided to use a fishing competition to set a lofty goal for Ethan. As a fishing enthusiast, no one knew better than him what could arouse the obsession of a fisherman.

That's when you go fishing with your friends, your friend catches a bucket full of fish, each one fatter than the other, while you end up with nothing.

This will be remembered by people for at least ten years, and will make them so depressed that they will wake up in the middle of the night out of anger.

Young beginner.

Every fishing expert has come this way.

McCarty's eyes narrowed, he was completely focused, the flow of time slowed down in his eyes, countless information poured into his brain in an instant, he felt the fluctuation of the water, the movement of the fish, the position of the bait, the position of the rod, all the victory or defeat was determined by every detail!
McCarty took action and swung the rod like a god.

He has practiced everything to perfection over the past few decades, and in addition to enjoying his interests, he also has a strong sense of responsibility in his heart.

He saw that Ethan was a novice, so as a senior, he had the obligation to show him what a perfect fisherman is!

MacAdrin's perception became sharper than ever.

So naturally he didn't miss the movement coming from next door.

Ethan's movements were stiff and could be described as full of loopholes.

But the fish took the bait.

The beginner stood up straight and hurriedly reeled in the line, while the girl behind him guided him by swaying in the direction the fish was swimming to consume the fish's energy.

Beginner's luck.

MacAdellin commented in his mind.

He always felt that there seemed to be some rules in the fishing world that could not be explained by common sense, and gradually the concept of "newbie halo" was born, as if the god of fishing was luring people into the trap.

However, a person’s life cannot always be smooth sailing, and the halo of a novice will soon disappear. Only then will the real challenge come.

McAdellin was in a calm mood.

He had long passed that stage.

Now he is as steady as a rock!
While admiring the ripples on the water, he paid attention to what was happening next door and silently evaluated Ethan, the newcomer, in his heart.

His movements were stiff and his panic was even a little funny.

The fish took the bait again.

It seems that this newbie has good luck.

Next, the third one.

Looking at the big fish flying out of the water and falling into the bucket, a crack appeared in his calm state of mind.

Is it because I haven’t fished for a long time that my hands are rusty?

Or is it just bad luck today?
It stands to reason that his technique is perfect and there shouldn't be any problems.

Just as McCarty was lost in reflection, the fourth fish was hooked. His eyes widened. Ethan's posture was still so clumsy, not elegant at all. It looked like he had rolled up his sleeves and was fighting desperately with the fish.

……

There are many more comments like this.

MacAdlin couldn't even remember how long he had been sitting here. He was gradually becoming numb. The reason he could keep observing Ethan's actions and commenting on him was that he hadn't caught a single fish.

Apart from the beauty of his movements and the grace of his manners, he was unable to achieve anything.

Today, he discovered a new fishing theory.

If one person catches all the fish in the lake, it will be difficult to catch other fish.

So, this shouldn't be his problem.

The sky was gradually getting dark and the evening breeze was becoming particularly cold.

But compared to the cold wind, there was a reality that was even more chilling to McAdelyn's bones - he saw Ethan, who had returned with a full load, carrying a bucket and walking towards him, uttering words that were like an unforgivable curse.

"It seems like we're lucky today. We caught so many fish. If you don't mind, come and have grilled fish with us."

You boy!
MacAdellin finally felt himself breaking apart.

Ethan,

You despicable little man,

Do you want me to be unable to sleep for a month?

(End of this chapter)