Iron Powder and Spellcaster

So, what is the truth behind the fire dragon burning the city?

This question has always troubled Winters.

If according to the citizens of Guitu, the fire dragon burning the city was the work of a mysterious wizard;

According to religious people, it is a punishment for morally corrupt sinners.

In any case, people firmly believe in one thing: the fire dragon burning the city is definitely not a natural phenomenon.

On the one hand, Winters did not think that this incident had anything to do with magic, and that the spellcasters that night tried to reverse the wind out of good intentions; but on the other hand, he did not think that an ordinary fire would summon a fire tornado.

The man in front of him, wrapped in a robe and sitting on a stool shivering, claimed to have understood the truth about the fire dragon burning the city.

Winters was desperate for answers.

Axel was also curious.

Christian opened the drawer and began to rummage through it.

Winters and Axel looked at each other. The unsolved mystery was about to be revealed, and they were suddenly a little nervous.

Christian just turned out a pipe. Then he carefully filled the tobacco, lit it with magic, and took a beautiful puff.

Winters and Axel watched with wide eyes as the instructor completed the entire smoking process.

But Christian's expression was very intoxicated, as if he really just wanted to smoke.

"Teacher..." Winters couldn't help it anymore and was about to ask.

"Pfft." Christian puffed out a puff of cigarette smoke in Winters' face.

The acrid smoke was accidentally inhaled into Winters' trachea, choking him and causing him to cough and burst into tears. The small living room of Christian's house was suddenly filled with smoke.

Winters felt as if he had been teased, and he asked slightly dissatisfied: "What are you going to do..."

"Shh." Christian put his index finger to his lips to signal Winters to be quiet. He pointed to the top of his head and whispered one word: "Look."

Winters and Ike heard this and looked into the smoke.

Christian gently shook his finger, one circle, two circles, three circles... something wonderful happened:

Starting from a point in the center, the smoke that dispersed randomly began to spin in mid-air as if it suddenly had a soul. Follow the rhythm of Christian's fingers, one circle, two circles, three circles...

The smoke is like a whirlwind, spinning to form a ring-like structure. Instead, there is no smoke in the center, like the eye of a calm hurricane.

The ring of smoke spun faster and faster, until it finally exceeded the limit that Christian could control and suddenly collapsed.

Winters was stunned, but Axel was confused.

Ike pointed to the top of his head and asked confusedly: "Is this... magic?"

"Yes, it's magic." Christian took a puff of his pipe happily.

"Oh, it's quite interesting." Ike said with a silly smile: "So this is magic, doesn't it seem like nothing?"

"Be respectful!" Winters grabbed Ike's arm and swallowed involuntarily: "This is simply... unprecedented... this is magic I have never seen before. It's amazing, really amazing sharp."

A layman looks at the excitement, an expert looks at the door.

Obviously, Christian used kinetic magic. Changing the kinetic energy of an object is not difficult for a spellcaster.

Almost all kinetic spells do nothing more than speed something up, speed it up, and speed it up again.

Although it is simple and efficient, it is also brainless, crude and has no depth at all. So much so that some spellcasters who specialize in fire spells sourly refer to kinetic energy spells as "maul spells."

This means that kinetic energy spells are just like sticks. No matter how big a stick is, it is still a stick. There is no technical content at all.

Being able to precisely control the invisible smoke with just one arm and one finger is an amazing skill in itself. Winters had only seen the same level of spell skills in one person, and that person was named Moritz Van Nasu.

What's even more incredible is - rotation?

Spin?

There is no rotation effect among the existing kinetic energy spells. Kinetic energy spells are all straight forward.

Accelerating an object in one direction is enough to test your magic skills. As for rotation... it is not a blind, disorderly and random movement, but a controlled rotation. Winters has no idea how to achieve this effect.

Spin... fire tornado?

"Is this the spell that summons the fire tornado?" Winters asked excitedly: "Is this spell the cause of the fire dragon burning the city?"

Axel was also stunned, and followed Winters to look at the teacher.

"No." Christian blew out smoke. Strangely, he no longer shivered when he smoked: "This is the result of my research in the past few months. The fire dragon burning the city has nothing to do with this spell."

"Then what happened when the fire dragon burned the city?" Ike finally couldn't bear the teacher's confusing way of describing it and asked straight to the point.

"Oh, you want to know that?" Christian said calmly: "It's very simple. The reason why the fire dragon burned the city is very simple. I'll show it to you and you'll understand."

Christian put down his pipe and rummaged through the cabinets to find a thin-walled glass cylinder and a small candlestick.

Winters noticed that as soon as Instructor Christian took his hand off the pipe, his body began to tremble involuntarily. Winters was suspicious, but said nothing.

Christian placed the short-burnt candlestick on the table and covered it with a glass cylinder.

Only a short section of the candle was burned out, and the candlestick was only ten centimeters high. The glass cylinder is half a meter high and runs from top to bottom, covering the outside of the candlestick like a lampshade.

Christian lit the candle with a snap of his fingers and asked Winters: "Do you know windbending?"

"Yes." Of course Winters can use this most basic kinetic energy spell.

"Follow my movements and blow the air in." Christie sniffed wantonly and said listlessly: "Slowly apply force, don't blow out the candle."

Just as Winters was wondering how to supply air, Christian reached out and "opened" the glass cylinder.

Only then did Winters and Ike discover that the glass cylinder on the table was actually composed of two identical semi-cylinders, as if a very sharp sword had split the complete glass cylinder into two pieces vertically. .

Christian staggered the two halves of the cylinder, exposing two symmetrical gaps in the originally tightly fitted glass cylinder.

"Wind control, do it with me." Christian motioned to Winters with a spellcasting gesture.

Winters cooperated with the instructor and activated the wind control technique at the same time, each sending wind towards a gap. Winters tried his best to control the magic output, increasing the power bit by bit.

When the magic-driven wind gradually increased, a wonderful scene happened.

The candle began to burn violently, and the originally steady candle flame began to rotate and extend upward. Winters recalled Andre's description of "a serpent of fire rising toward the sky."

In the glass cylinder in front of him, a miniature flame snake rose into the air, and the flame tongue at the top even jumped out of the glass cylinder that was half a meter high.

Christian waved his hand lazily: "Okay, stop."

However, when Winters and Christian stopped casting spells, the fire snake did not disappear. There is still a thin red line visible to the naked eye in the glass cylinder until the candle is burned out at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Fire... fire dragon burning the city?" Axel was surprised and stuttered: "But is this too small?"

"Yes, this is the 'Fire Dragon', which is the same thing as the fire dragon that burned down the Victory Arsenal." Teacher Christian yawned, then picked up his pipe and started smoking.

"You mean... it's a natural phenomenon for the fire dragon to burn the city?" Winters raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, and no." Christian blew out a smoke ring: "If I have to say it, it is a man-made natural phenomenon. Alas, I will show you a picture and you will understand."

Before he finished speaking, Christian began to rummage through the boxes again, and finally pulled out a roll of dusty brown paper from the top of the bookshelf.

He spread the parchment on the desk. Winters and Axel came to the table and took a closer look, and immediately recognized what the parchment was.

It's a map, a map of Guitu City. To be precise, it is the map of the old Kuito Castle before the fire. The Victory Arsenal also occupies more than half of the port area, and the city is still a chaotic and unplanned onion structure.

"If the wind is directed at the fire source at a specific angle, a fire tornado will be formed. It is actually a whirlwind plus flames." Christian explained, wrapped in a floor-length robe and pointing to the map with his pipe. His eyes were blank, but his speech was extremely clear: "The buildings at the fire scene acted as wind ducts that day. The wind driven by our magic and the sea breeze from the sea intertwined and converged at the fire scene, and a fire tornado was formed."

Winters recalled the situation that day, and Axel suddenly realized.

But before Christian could finish speaking, he continued to murmur: "The fire tornado is a positive feedback system. The fire tornado will suck in air from the surroundings. The more air that comes into contact with the fire source, the more the fire will burn. The more the fire will burn. The stronger it is, the bigger the fire tornado will be. Finally, it will burn... and burn until everything that can be burned is burned."

"Isn't it just a coincidence that the fire dragon burned the city? It was a mistake that caused the fire tornado to appear. But the higher-ups regard you as a scapegoat... Why don't you write a letter to defend yourself?" Axel slapped his thigh indignantly. .

"Self-defense? What can I say to defend myself?" Christian's expression was very strange: "The fire dragon burning the city was caused by the spellcaster's reversal of the wind direction. Why should I defend myself?"

"So, the fire tornado is just a coincidence and cannot be repeated?" Winters suddenly felt a little regretful.

He had always thought that if he could unlock the secret of the fire dragon burning the city, there might be a "Fire Tornado" in the caster's spell book.

However, according to Christian, it was just a coincidence that the fire dragon burned the city, and the fire tornado technique seemed hopeless.

"Reappearance?" Teacher Christian sniffed again and said an astonishing statement calmly: "Of course."

With that said, Christian found another candle and lit it.

He held the spell-casting gesture without even looking at the candle. The flame of the candle actually rotated and rose again, like the miniature fire tornado in the glass cylinder just now.

"Well, this is it," Christian said lightly.

Winters was stunned.

"After understanding the fire dragon burning the city, I found that the movement of rotation is very interesting." Christian yawned again and asked Winters: "Student Montagne, what kind of acceleration do you think there are in acceleration magic?"

[Note: Christian has not come into contact with "Antoine Laurent's Notes" so far, so he still uses the old name and calls "kinetic energy spells" "acceleration spells\