Witch, Fireball and Steam Evil God

Chapter 60: Fireball and Ice Arrow Magic (Part )

Before daybreak, Ethan returned home.

As usual, he pushed open the door of Miss Chloe's side bedroom a crack and looked at the little hen curled up on the bed, sleeping soundly with her head buried in her wings. There was an open parchment book on alchemy next to her pillow. This warm scene made him feel much more at ease.

However, when he returned to the master bedroom, the scene inside made his heart hang in his throat again.

Zhaocai was still awake, sitting at the head of the bed, staring at him.

For some reason, Ethan almost immediately felt like he had been caught fooling around.

The cat stared at him for a while without saying anything, then turned around, walked to the pillow, and patted the soft pillow with its paws.

Zhaocai is becoming more and more clingy, to the point where he can't fall asleep without being hugged and coaxed. This is not a good thing. Having said that, Ethan is not sleepy at all.

After hearing Xiangwei's words, he realized that he had to change his idea of ​​the future. In his original plan, he would work as a public official until retirement, then go to a city with a slower pace, buy a house, and live a leisurely retirement life.

He finally got to know the daughter of a noble family in the imperial capital and was promised a letter of recommendation from the General Administration, but now someone told him that the empire was about to go to war.

What will be the future of Lao Sen?

After washing up and lying on the bed covered with a quilt, he couldn't help but worry about his future. Before he traveled through time, he lived in a peaceful era, and all his knowledge of war was based on film and television works and passages in history books, but even so, he still knew the cruelty of war.

The furry white ball came in, curled up in his arms and looked up at him, as if it was ready to listen.

Come to think of it, when he first came to this world, if he encountered any troubles, he would always complain to Zhaocai. She was a good listener, so he didn't have to worry about her spreading trivial matters in the guild.

Sure enough, people often let down their guard in front of small, harmless animals.

Ethan said a lot that night.

Starting from the public servant and retirement plan he had drawn up for himself, and then to the news he had heard from Hearth Bay tonight, as the king's health deteriorated, the power struggle in the imperial capital was much more serious than he had imagined, and the Holy See had made its choice - even at the risk of plunging the entire country into war, it had to hold power in its own hands.

The Lofik Group, on the other hand, is only afraid of chaos in the world and wants to make a fortune from the war.

Under such circumstances, the outbreak of war has become inevitable.

"Perhaps the Seventh is the last king of the empire."

Ethan said that according to his understanding, the Pope who would eventually monopolize power would support a puppet king, and the Knights of the Temple of Netheril would be further marginalized until they completely faded out of people's sight. The new regime would last for a few years and then completely collapse under internal and external troubles.

Countless last dynasties in history have followed the same path.

He knew that this was a little difficult for a little kitten to understand, but that was why he could say it. In front of the wheel of history, all he could do was to improve his skill proficiency as quickly as possible and try his best to avoid being crushed by the wheel.

The cat remained silent as always, staring at him as always.

It’s just that this time the distance is closer than two years ago.

So the cat just raised its paw and easily touched Ethan's cheek, with the soft pad of paw resting on his face. This seemed to be a cat's unique way of comforting people.

"Oh, I really don't want to fight."

Ethan felt the cool touch on his cheek and yawned. "But there's nothing we can do about it... Zhaocai, if there really is a war one day, you should find a way to sneak onto a steamship and run to the Western Continent. It is said that there is prosperity there." "Meow~"

……

Ethan slept until the evening. He calmed down and looked around, but Zhaocai was nowhere to be seen.

In the living room, Miss Chloe was curled up on the sofa flipping through a parchment book. When she saw him leave, she squinted her eyes and cooed at him a few times to greet him.

He felt the urgency of time and decided to devote all his limited time to study. After all, once the war broke out, he might not have much time to sit in his apartment and read books peacefully.

After preparing dinner for Miss Chloe and leaving out the portion for fortune, Ethan locked himself in the study and spread out the book "Fireball and Ice Arrow Magic" on the table. He was glad that he bought the book "Guide to Making Magic Scrolls". Elemental mapping gave him a deeper understanding of elemental magic itself.

He recently suddenly realized that the proficiency in elemental magic could be understood as a favorability system.

The Fireball spell with full proficiency becomes the best reference.

The entry stage represents the first acquaintance with the elemental spirits. Before becoming friends, the elemental shaper and the elemental spirits can only have the simplest interactions, represented by the most basic elemental spells.

At the initial stage, his relationship with the elemental spirits has progressed to that of good friends. Therefore, based on spells, he can transform the elements into different forms. The transformation of ice and water is the best embodiment of this stage.

Intermediate proficiency unlocks the casting distance. Ethan has no way of estimating the limit of his casting distance, but the elemental elves are very well-informed. According to Ethan's observation, they can transcend the concept of space in a very short time and communicate almost losslessly.

Knowing the location or coordinates, he could easily be in Creekwood Town and cause a hailstorm in Gear City or even further away.

Having sorted out this, Ethan's thoughts were interrupted.

If proficiency is regarded as a favorability system, then at the intermediate stage his favorability with the elemental elves has already approached the maximum value. He and the ice element have become close friends, and he can no longer think of how to further improve his favorability.

In fact, when the proficiency reaches the intermediate level, the growth rate will drop sharply. Almost most of the more than 10,000 Fireball spells were consumed here.

He stared at the flame in his palm in a trance. He thought that the fifth-level proficiency would unlock the range of elemental magic, but the third-level ice arrow overturned his guess - in fact, this could be achieved at the second level, but the destructive power of the fire element was too strong, and he had never dared to release the fire element with full strength near the town in the past.

However, the more profound parts were not mentioned in "Fireball and Ice Magic". He had read these relatively simple interpretations hundreds of times and could even recite the punctuation marks clearly.

Ethan was very distressed because he had already mastered the fireball technique to the maximum level but still had only a vague understanding of it.

At this moment, he wished that Mr. Anonymous was right beside him to answer all his questions.

"Meow~"

The cat's meow behind him made him extinguish the fire in his palm almost reflexively. He looked in the direction of the sound and was surprised to find Zhaocai scratching the glass. She lowered her head in the moonlight and picked up a pitch-black parchment book.

This scene seemed familiar, and Ethan almost immediately stood up excitedly and opened the window for Zhaocai.

The cat jumped into the study nimbly and landed on the windowsill.

She opened her mouth and placed the parchment book beside her. With the light of the gas lamp, Ethan could see the words on the title page clearly, and his heart skipped a beat.

——"Fireball and Ice Arrow Magic (Part 2)".

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