Witch, Fireball and Steam Evil God

Chapter 71 Prescription
Ethan found a place to stay in the small town.

He sat in a house that could vaguely be seen as a grocery store. Isean used a magic trick to light a lamp on the table. There was hard bread and a glass of water in front of her. She ate voraciously, as if she had not eaten for a long time.

Ethan silently memorized this scene in his mind. It looked like a ghost, but it had substance and could collide with objects. It seemed to still have some human instincts left.

Most of the wall paint in the grocery store had fallen off, and there were still cracks of varying sizes. The dark holes did not allow any light to pass through, and occasionally worm-like creatures could be seen moving around inside. The shelves were no longer filled with common supplies, but were instead filled with specimens of unknown creatures.

He also saw some familiar faces.

Three torches stood upright in the corner of the grocery store, trapping a creature made up of different human body parts randomly pieced together. The creature was very afraid of fire and shrank its body into a ball of flesh.

The left half of the face is Mrs. Judy, who runs a grocery store in Riverside Town. She came to Riverwood Town during the annual guild meeting and invited Ethan to visit Riverside Town when he is not busy. She will treat Ethan with her best cinnamon pie. The right half of the face is Mr. Brown, who is always serious but teaches the children of Riverside Town for free. As for the mouth, Ethan could not recognize it and could only vaguely see that it was a man's lips.

Three different faces were stitched together by the seams of wriggling tiny tentacles. The torso was made up of four or five arms and thighs, as well as some pieces of flesh that were not sure where they came from. In the manual, this monster was named Assembler.

If they are unfortunately caught by the assemblers, a slit will appear in their abdomen and they will swallow the prey into their stomach - that is where they actually use the organ for eating.

Ethan felt that this was unreasonable because he found Judy and Brown's names in the list of victims compiled by Captain Hagrid. Their bodies were cremated together, on the one hand to mourn the dead, and on the other hand to avoid the souls of the dead leaving a curse.

Their remains could not appear in the contaminated area, so the assembler before him should be the soul of those who died in the curse, and this might be the essence of the sacrificial ceremony.

If you listen carefully, you can seem to hear unconscious and painful groans.

Not only did the people of Riverside die, but their souls were trapped in the contaminated area.

It is not difficult to kill the assemblers. The manual mentions that they are vulnerable to physical attacks and their weak point is in the lower abdomen. As long as you try to strike them with a sword or a gun, they will turn into a pool of black mucus. For Ethan, an easier way is to cast a fireball at them.

Fireball has a significant restraining effect on dark creatures, but this is not the purpose of his trip. He wants to explore the areas above the full level of proficiency.

For the first time, Ethan no longer casts spells for proficiency or money.

Isean ate the whole piece of hard bread, then asked in a low voice, "Mr. Ethan... that monster, is it okay?"

"It's okay, I'm just sick."

The disease is that the souls have been twisted by the power of the evil god, and they have been put together haphazardly like toys.

Isean thought for a long time and then asked, "Can it be cured?"

"I'm trying now."

The first few treatments were not ideal. The destructive power of the fire element was too strong. Just by getting close to the assembler, it could burn its limbs. That seemed to cause it severe pain. After several experiments, Ethan could feel the assembler's deep fear of him. When he approached again, the assembler would no longer try to attack him, but would curl up more tightly and protect itself tightly with its limbs.

It seemed that in its eyes, Ethan was a mad scientist who was even more evil than the followers of the evil god.

Ethan fell into deep thought again, the gathered flames swaying in his palms. Compared with the initial condensed flames, the shape of this flame had changed significantly.

It became brighter and brighter, approaching gold. He was removing as much destruction and damage as possible. This process was not easy. Each refining would consume a large amount of his magic power. He was sweating profusely in the cold winter and drank two bottles of wakeners in a row, which could help him concentrate highly so that he could observe the changes of the fire element in detail.

Although his witch teacher had explained the theory of elemental upgrading in simple language, it was not a basic elemental spell after all, and cramming alone was doomed to fail to reach that realm. He had to go a step further in understanding, and only in this way could he create unique magic that belonged to him.

Ethan looked at the assembler in the corner again. Nearly ten minutes had passed since the last experiment. Its head poked out from the mass of limbs again, spying on him with its pair of incongruous eyes that were forcibly pieced together.

It is mentioned in "Fireball and Ice Arrow Magic Mechanics" that elemental magic is closely related to human emotions.

You have raised your Fireball proficiency to the maximum level.

All fire elements become your friends.

Your name is known to everyone among the fire elemental elves.

So, what do you want to do with this power?
Ethan looked into the twisted soul's eyes and got the answer.

He wants to take back all the sacrificed souls from the evil god Bazatos.

He eliminated the last distracting thoughts in his mind, and almost at the same time, the flame in his palm burst out with a dazzling golden light.

Ethan stood up and slowly walked towards the twisted soul. Its limbs instinctively resisted, but this time, it did not retract its head into its limbs. The same body made two completely different reactions at this moment - it stretched its neck and tried its best to get closer to the light that was getting closer and closer to it.

Then, it bathed in the light as it wished, and its hideous facial features that were pieced together briefly showed expression, the painful whispers stopped, and its cracked lips moved, as if trying hard to say something.

At the same time, the unnatural stitches on the limbs struggled desperately, and the tentacles were also bathed in the light, dissipating at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into dust that dissipated in the air. The limbs that had lost their stitches scattered, and their shapes also changed.

Three broken souls stopped in front of Ethan, and Ethan recognized the third person.

Mr. Will, the sheriff of the small town, always leaves a deep impression with his loud voice. A year ago, when the guilds of the two towns gathered together to deal with the large number of monsters that migrated here, the first one to rush in with a sword in hand was Will.

The three souls seemed to recognize Ethan and nodded to him.

Then, the light blue figure melted into the golden light.

Ethan glanced at the changed Fireball proficiency prompt.

"Fireball (Sun), proficiency: ∞, you have found your own path."

He did not indulge in the joy of the change in his skills, as there was more to do.

Before the three incomplete souls disappeared, they pointed to a place - a wardrobe with the door half-open in the grocery store. Like a hole in the wall, it was filled with deep darkness.

"Want to go in?"

Isean suddenly changed her attitude. She stared at the darkness in the crack of the door in a trance. "It's not too late to turn back now. There might be something bad in there."

(End of this chapter)