Chapter 115: Fireball

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

It was the ninth day after learning the fireball spell. Whilst lifting a finger in his right hand, Abel began drawing the spell pattern at an extremely slow pace. It took him two minutes to finish drawing, but he was sure that he could make his very first spell.

Finally, the pattern was finished, and Abel began to chant the spell. He spoke out in the noble tongue of the elves, O the passionate elf of fire; please lend me your strength! O the element of fire, under the command of the elf, you shall become an indestructible ball of flame!

The pattern began to glow. At this moment, a dark golden light flashed from the Horadric Cube and reflected on the fireball spell pattern. Just when he wanted to know what happened, the fireball spell pattern started burning towards its inside, and a fireball was slowly formed. Abel felt the hot temperature of the fireball, flung his hands quickly, and threw it to the ground not far from where he was standing.

Boom.

Abel didnt pay too much attention to the power of the fireball. He was more interested in what the Horadric Cubes response was. This cube was everything for him, so every little change mattered to him.

He pressed it over the illuminated shadow of the Horadric Cube. The Horadric Cube was enlarged in front of Abels eyes. The 12 spaces remained unchanged. Everything hes put inside was still there. The Tome of Town Portal was still inside and was taking up three slots of the cube. The portal bag was taking up one slot, and the private storage box was taking up four slots.

There was something else, though. Abel noticed that there was a small fireball logo next to the combine button. As he focused his power of the Will towards it, a message began to pop up:

[Fireball

Description: Create magical fire arrows

Mana cost: 2.5

Current skill level: 0

Fire damage: 2-5

Progress to level 1: 1/5000]

This was just like inside the game. Since Abel could release up to four fireball spells, his total mana capacity was only 10. And just what in the world was that last part of the message?

1/5000? Thats 4999 more fireballs before he could level up. How much time would he have to spend on that?

If Abel had ten mp (mana points) in total, he would have to mediate after every four fireballs. And for every 20 mediations hes had, he would have to take a rest before his head starts hurting. If it took 10 minutes for him to recharge his mana with meditation, it would take 3 hours for him to meditate 20 times. If he was to include the time he would need to take a break, he would have to spend 5 hours to practice fireball 80 times.

And if he was to scrape off his meditation training and not have any sleep at tall, he could do a total of 200 fireballs in a single day. Thats 25 days in total to shoot 5000 fireballs. No wonder Sam was practicing just one type of spell. His goal was to become an official wizard, and he didnt have much time to learn any other spells.

Abels math was actually right. There were still some things he hadnt taken into account, however. Because of how dense the mana was in the Rogues Encampment, it would only take 10 minutes for him to recover his mp fully. The same process would take up to 20 minutes inside the magic tower and would take longer after ranking up.

So, even the simplest spells would take a lot of time to practice. Thats why a lot of wizards didnt participate in quest and combat. Even if they werent taking part in either one of these activities, they would still spend most of their time inside laboratories than learning