East Meet West

116- Flame Wisp and Fire Control

‘ding’

‘Congratulations, the host has learned a new skill: Mana manipulation’

Mana manipulation:

The host is able to extract and gather MP freely and does not need to give commands to the system. This will increase the efficiency.

This is an active skill and does not need to be activated separately.

If I am not wrong, then the new skill will allow me to gather MP more freely and efficiently.

It took me at least 1-2 dozen seconds to gather the MP in my palm. And the system took at least a couple of seconds, to execute the same command. But now, I wonder how much time will it take for me to gather MP after this new skill is available?

So, to try this out, I once again focused on extracting the MP, but surprisingly, just from a single thought a good amount of MP or ‘Voilet gas’ was formed in the palm of my hand.

It just took only a fraction of a second for the MP to gather.

I was super content with this.

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Now, moving on to the next step of the Flame wisp [Fire control].

Second step:

After the MP is gathered, try to imagine that the gathered MP is a type of fuel and it is flammable. And after that imagine the MP can burn and produce a flame. After the flame is produced, try to maintain the MP supply, or else the flame will be exhausted.

So, I followed the step and gathered the MP in my palm. Tried to think that the ‘Violet gas’ is a flammable gas that can combust.

A few moments later, I felt that the ‘violet gas’ was getting hot... then hotter... finally,

‘woosh’

A fist sized flame was formed in the center of my palm and the system notification rang,

‘ding’

‘Host has successfully learned the [Flame wisp and Fire control]’

‘Now the host will be able to instantly produce flame wisp.’

‘Host’s ability to control [Fire] is at the beginner level.’

I have been supplying little bit a of MP to keep the fire from being exhausted, but when I cut off the supply, the fire was exhausted.

This time I just flicked my pointing finger and with just a thought, a small wisp of flame was ignited on the top of my finger.

“I hate to admit it but it's fun to use magic and it feels so awesome. Sigh, maybe this why some people cultivate? Just to play with elements and stand at the top of the world overlooking with a sense of superiority?”

I thought inwardly.

Well, whatever. After that, I wanted to buy the ‘Fire ball’ magic, but it seems that it has a requirement, that is ‘Wind Control’.

So, I bought the ‘Wind Control’ book which cost me 1500 Sikka.

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‘ding’

‘Host has successfully learned the [Wind control]’

‘Host’s ability to control [Wind] is at the beginner level.’

From the ‘Wind control’ book, I learned how to control wind and air in my surroundings and I was able to produce a gust of wind that could travel up to few meters.

Then, I bought the ‘Fire Ball’ magic book.

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‘ding’

‘Host has successfully learned the [Fire ball] magic.’

The whole concept of the ‘Fire ball’ magic is to shape the extracted MP into sphere form. Then it is ignited and the [Wind control] magic is used to shoot the ‘Fire ball’ up to few meters.

Of course, the ‘Fire ball’ can also be thrown if the ‘Wind control’ magic is not used.

But since I am experimenting and don’t want to attract any attention, I have used only 3 MP for making the ‘Fire ball’ and used 2 Mp for [Wind control]. The ‘Fire ball’ which was formed was equal to the size of an eyeball and with the force of [Wind control] magic, it traveled up to 2 meters only. And my target was a stone whose size was equal to an adult’s head.

After the ‘Fire ball’ hit the stone, the impact did not damage the stone, but just barely managed to budge it and the area the ‘Fire ball’ hit the stone, caught fire. Just like how, if petrol is poured on a stone and then someone lights up a fire, then it will start burning.

It must be the flammable property that is added to the MP when the fireball was created.

It burned for few seconds and maybe due to lack of fuel, the fire was exhausted.

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I thought of another experiment, that is to compress the MP sphere and then shoot the ‘Fire ball’.

So, once again I used 3 MP to make a ‘Violet gas’ sphere and compressed its size from the size of an ‘Eye ball’ to the size of ‘small marble’. Then I shot the ‘Fire ball’ with the [Wind control] magic.

‘bang’

As soon as the compressed ‘Fire ball’ hit the stone, it was pushed back a few inches and there was an impact sound.

After that, I performed few more experiments.

And what I learned is, the MP sphere can only be compressed up to 60% of its original size and if tried to further compress it, then it will explode in the owner’s hands. The compressed ‘Fire ball’ will do more damage and can travel longer distances and cause greater damage upon impact.

The ‘Fire ball’ sphere can also be expanded but the damage it does upon impact will be low but it has a bigger area of impact, so the burning damage from the fire will be more.

Learning all this, made me feel extremely satisfied.

Wait? Will I become a crazy scientist, if I continue to perform these kinds of experiments?

Well, whatever.

Who cares?

I need to mind my own business.

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So, by the end of the day, I was able to learn only a few magics like Flame wisp, Fire ball, Flame Arrow, Wind Control, Air bullet, Wind Blade, Water control, Water ball, Earth control, Earth spikes.

And all this cost me about 240,000 Sikka.

I was experiencing serious pain after looking at the money spent but maybe the number of magic and the experiment that I did with them, soothed some of the pain.

Done with learning all the magic, I decided to call the day and head back to my room.

I have already spent 7-8 hours experimenting. And after reaching my room, I can further look into other options that I saw in the shop window.

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Author's Announcement:

Sorry, there was a small delay.

So, here is the mass release.

Another thing, I am glad that we were almost able to reach the goal of 250 power stones. This means that the number of readers is increasing and I am happy with that.

Let's make a few goals.

Mass Release on Monday:

250 Power stones = 3 Chapters

300 Power stones = 4 Chapters

400 Power stones = 5 Chapters

(Only if I reach this goal, will I be Mass releasing the chapters. Because If I could see your support through this, I can reassure myself that ‘Yeah, I can still work on this novel and can also start new works’ for my readers. And I am a graduate who is required to find a job; hence your support can give encouragement. I hope you people understand and continue your support.)