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Chapter 318
chapter 272 part 2
Does he hold a grudge against goblins?
The thought surfaced uncontrollably in the Demon Snake Naga's mind. At the same time, it felt that this human before it must never be provoked.
"Then I'll be troubling you, Your Excellency, Dominator of the Forest," Tang Zheng said gently.
The Demon Snake Naga nodded in terror. After a long moment, when it raised its head again to look where Tang Zheng had been, it found he had already vanished.
"I feel like he becomes more terrifying and mysterious every time we meet," the Demon Snake Naga murmured to itself, stunned.
...
It was still the unchanging Fiery Lava Zone.
Ever since he took control of this area, Tang Zheng had made it one of his bases. The high-temperature magic power emanating from the Magma Sea could effectively conceal fluctuations in his own magic power.
Having gained a large number of skill points through class respecs, Tang Zheng no longer held back and began to upgrade the tier magic he had previously mastered.
First up was "Heating"!
Through a "Magic Ascension" ritual, combined with the job skills of his [Mad Mage] class, he raised the fourth-tier "Heating" to the sixth tier.
...
Skill: Heating (Sixth Tier)
Cost: 30 MP
Effect: Heats a touched object to 4800°C over one minute, or instantaneously to 1200°C.
...
"The fourth tier's temperature was 1200 degrees. It really doubled." Tang Zheng's eyebrows shot up. If it continued to double like this, the result would be unimaginable.
"The strength of tier magic shouldn't be able to surpass super-tier magic, right?"
He remembered that the extreme heat generated by the Bone King's super-tier spell, "Fallen Down," hadn't seemed *that* overwhelmingly powerful in its visual display.
He continued to use magical materials to set up the magic ritual. He also wanted to see what level this spell would reach at the tenth tier. Perhaps he could deduce the growth limit of zero-tier magic created by the humans of this Otherworld.
...
Skill: Heating (Eighth Tier)
Cost: 40 MP
Effect: Heats the area within a ten-meter radius of the user to 6000°C over one minute, or instantaneously to 3000°C.
...
BOOM—
A dazzling white light flashed for an instant. The air distorted under the intense heat, and a visible heatwave formed with Tang Zheng at its center. It spread out with rapid, wave-like undulations. Though its rhythm seemed slow and heavy, it actually expanded in a split second, creating an intense sense of suffocation that could make one forget to breathe.
Under that intense white light and extreme heat, an ordinary person would likely be reduced to ash in an instant!
The extremely heat-resistant rock beneath Tang Zheng's feet caved in, and granular, scorched-black, high-temperature crystals appeared.
"A temperature of six thousand degrees... that's close to the surface of the sun, isn't it? No, wait, why is it only six thousand degrees? And it gained an area of effect."
Tang Zheng stared at the surrounding air, which seemed to distort and turn illusory under the heat's influence, a look of astonishment in his eyes.
After the searing heat completely dissipated and everything returned to calm, Tang Zheng looked at the skill's description again. Based on the previous doubling, it should have reached 19,200 degrees at the eighth tier. Now, the increase had stopped at 6,000 degrees, and it had gained an area-of-effect stat.
"So there really is a limit to the temperature change." Tang Zheng stood up, strode to the edge of the cliff, and jumped directly into the magma.
The area-of-effect disturbance was getting a bit large; it was no longer suitable to cast it on the ground.
Tang Zheng swam down to the very bottom of the Magma Sea. Since it was unsuitable for setting up a magic ritual within the sea, he decided to use the normal "Magic Ascension" to raise the tier, which would just waste an extra skill point.
After a short while, the turbulent Magma Sea suddenly became calm. In the center of the scorching crimson sea, the floating magma suddenly sank, affecting an area several hundred meters in radius, as if the magma in this region had vanished into thin air. The surrounding magma immediately rushed in to fill the void, creating a continuous, thunder-like roar!
Whoosh!
Tang Zheng's figure shot up from the Magma Sea, flying back to the cliff.
...
Skill: Heating (Tenth-tier)
Cost: 50 MP
Effect: Instantaneously heats the temperature within a fifty-meter radius to 6000°C.
...
The spell had now completely transformed.
"Just now in the depths of the Magma Sea, even with the magma's obstruction, the affected area reached nearly 300 meters. If I were on open ground, the directly affected range should reach about one kilometer."
Tang Zheng's breathing grew rapid, somewhat exhilarated. "Beyond one kilometer, the temperature will probably decay rapidly, but even so, this could be called a city-destroying level of magic."
"In terms of sheer destructive power, it's likely inferior to a tier-ten spell focused on pure magical might, but its area of effect should far exceed that of a normal tier-ten spell."
This was the first tenth-tier spell in his hands. Not only was its power astonishing, but most importantly, it was a zero-tier spell originally created in this Otherworld.
"The issue of a skill's power and strength... it seems there really is an upper limit." Tang Zheng calmed down, gaining a more accurate understanding of skill strength.
According to the settings in YGGDRASIL, rankings weren't based on destructive power, but purely on strength.
World Item > Trump Card of a Special Job Class > Super-Tier Magic (Special-type Skill) > Tier Magic (Normal Skill)
"This must be the classification of strength."
This information flashed through Tang Zheng's mind. He had faintly sensed this when he acquired [Magic Transcender]. The "Word of Elemental Collapse" from the Transcender class possessed the power to ignore the four elemental resistances, which all but proved that resistances also had a limit.
This reminded Tang Zheng of the described abilities of the legendary World Bosses in the game YGGDRASIL. Abilities like the "Five Decays of Devas" of the Five-Colored Tathagata and the "Seven Deadly Sins" of the Seven Deadly Sins Demon Lord could easily break through the various nullification resistances and immunities possessed by jobs like the Undead.
After upgrading "Heating," Tang Zheng upgraded another spell, "Papermaking."
...
Skill: Papermaking (Tenth-tier)
Cost: 50 MP
Effect: Creates two sheets of paper imbued with powerful magic power.
...
Compared to the "Heating" spell, which grew stronger with each tier, "Papermaking" was the complete opposite. Not only did the number of sheets not increase, but as the tier level rose, the quantity of paper actually decreased.
"At the tenth tier, it can only create two sheets."
"To create a single magic scroll normally, you need twenty sheets of magical paper of the same level. The cost is staggering." Tang Zheng's eye twitched; he didn't even need to do the math. To create a single tenth-tier magic scroll, the magic power cost alone would require casting the tenth-tier "Papermaking" spell ten times.
(end of chapter)
Does he hold a grudge against goblins?
The thought surfaced uncontrollably in the Demon Snake Naga's mind. At the same time, it felt that this human before it must never be provoked.
"Then I'll be troubling you, Your Excellency, Dominator of the Forest," Tang Zheng said gently.
The Demon Snake Naga nodded in terror. After a long moment, when it raised its head again to look where Tang Zheng had been, it found he had already vanished.
"I feel like he becomes more terrifying and mysterious every time we meet," the Demon Snake Naga murmured to itself, stunned.
...
It was still the unchanging Fiery Lava Zone.
Ever since he took control of this area, Tang Zheng had made it one of his bases. The high-temperature magic power emanating from the Magma Sea could effectively conceal fluctuations in his own magic power.
Having gained a large number of skill points through class respecs, Tang Zheng no longer held back and began to upgrade the tier magic he had previously mastered.
First up was "Heating"!
Through a "Magic Ascension" ritual, combined with the job skills of his [Mad Mage] class, he raised the fourth-tier "Heating" to the sixth tier.
...
Skill: Heating (Sixth Tier)
Cost: 30 MP
Effect: Heats a touched object to 4800°C over one minute, or instantaneously to 1200°C.
...
"The fourth tier's temperature was 1200 degrees. It really doubled." Tang Zheng's eyebrows shot up. If it continued to double like this, the result would be unimaginable.
"The strength of tier magic shouldn't be able to surpass super-tier magic, right?"
He remembered that the extreme heat generated by the Bone King's super-tier spell, "Fallen Down," hadn't seemed *that* overwhelmingly powerful in its visual display.
He continued to use magical materials to set up the magic ritual. He also wanted to see what level this spell would reach at the tenth tier. Perhaps he could deduce the growth limit of zero-tier magic created by the humans of this Otherworld.
...
Skill: Heating (Eighth Tier)
Cost: 40 MP
Effect: Heats the area within a ten-meter radius of the user to 6000°C over one minute, or instantaneously to 3000°C.
...
BOOM—
A dazzling white light flashed for an instant. The air distorted under the intense heat, and a visible heatwave formed with Tang Zheng at its center. It spread out with rapid, wave-like undulations. Though its rhythm seemed slow and heavy, it actually expanded in a split second, creating an intense sense of suffocation that could make one forget to breathe.
Under that intense white light and extreme heat, an ordinary person would likely be reduced to ash in an instant!
The extremely heat-resistant rock beneath Tang Zheng's feet caved in, and granular, scorched-black, high-temperature crystals appeared.
"A temperature of six thousand degrees... that's close to the surface of the sun, isn't it? No, wait, why is it only six thousand degrees? And it gained an area of effect."
Tang Zheng stared at the surrounding air, which seemed to distort and turn illusory under the heat's influence, a look of astonishment in his eyes.
After the searing heat completely dissipated and everything returned to calm, Tang Zheng looked at the skill's description again. Based on the previous doubling, it should have reached 19,200 degrees at the eighth tier. Now, the increase had stopped at 6,000 degrees, and it had gained an area-of-effect stat.
"So there really is a limit to the temperature change." Tang Zheng stood up, strode to the edge of the cliff, and jumped directly into the magma.
The area-of-effect disturbance was getting a bit large; it was no longer suitable to cast it on the ground.
Tang Zheng swam down to the very bottom of the Magma Sea. Since it was unsuitable for setting up a magic ritual within the sea, he decided to use the normal "Magic Ascension" to raise the tier, which would just waste an extra skill point.
After a short while, the turbulent Magma Sea suddenly became calm. In the center of the scorching crimson sea, the floating magma suddenly sank, affecting an area several hundred meters in radius, as if the magma in this region had vanished into thin air. The surrounding magma immediately rushed in to fill the void, creating a continuous, thunder-like roar!
Whoosh!
Tang Zheng's figure shot up from the Magma Sea, flying back to the cliff.
...
Skill: Heating (Tenth-tier)
Cost: 50 MP
Effect: Instantaneously heats the temperature within a fifty-meter radius to 6000°C.
...
The spell had now completely transformed.
"Just now in the depths of the Magma Sea, even with the magma's obstruction, the affected area reached nearly 300 meters. If I were on open ground, the directly affected range should reach about one kilometer."
Tang Zheng's breathing grew rapid, somewhat exhilarated. "Beyond one kilometer, the temperature will probably decay rapidly, but even so, this could be called a city-destroying level of magic."
"In terms of sheer destructive power, it's likely inferior to a tier-ten spell focused on pure magical might, but its area of effect should far exceed that of a normal tier-ten spell."
This was the first tenth-tier spell in his hands. Not only was its power astonishing, but most importantly, it was a zero-tier spell originally created in this Otherworld.
"The issue of a skill's power and strength... it seems there really is an upper limit." Tang Zheng calmed down, gaining a more accurate understanding of skill strength.
According to the settings in YGGDRASIL, rankings weren't based on destructive power, but purely on strength.
World Item > Trump Card of a Special Job Class > Super-Tier Magic (Special-type Skill) > Tier Magic (Normal Skill)
"This must be the classification of strength."
This information flashed through Tang Zheng's mind. He had faintly sensed this when he acquired [Magic Transcender]. The "Word of Elemental Collapse" from the Transcender class possessed the power to ignore the four elemental resistances, which all but proved that resistances also had a limit.
This reminded Tang Zheng of the described abilities of the legendary World Bosses in the game YGGDRASIL. Abilities like the "Five Decays of Devas" of the Five-Colored Tathagata and the "Seven Deadly Sins" of the Seven Deadly Sins Demon Lord could easily break through the various nullification resistances and immunities possessed by jobs like the Undead.
After upgrading "Heating," Tang Zheng upgraded another spell, "Papermaking."
...
Skill: Papermaking (Tenth-tier)
Cost: 50 MP
Effect: Creates two sheets of paper imbued with powerful magic power.
...
Compared to the "Heating" spell, which grew stronger with each tier, "Papermaking" was the complete opposite. Not only did the number of sheets not increase, but as the tier level rose, the quantity of paper actually decreased.
"At the tenth tier, it can only create two sheets."
"To create a single magic scroll normally, you need twenty sheets of magical paper of the same level. The cost is staggering." Tang Zheng's eye twitched; he didn't even need to do the math. To create a single tenth-tier magic scroll, the magic power cost alone would require casting the tenth-tier "Papermaking" spell ten times.
(end of chapter)
