The Witcher: Elemental Lords

As the chief of a town, he had a Battle Qi cultivation method bestowed upon him by the city lord, but he hadn't met the training standards. With these two bottles of potion, he would be qualified to cultivate. Once he became a level one warrior, he could better protect the village.

Leaving Dorre's small courtyard, he quickly returned home, hid the potions, and prepared to drink them during his evening cultivation.

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With the iron牌-shaped magical device, Dorre was no longer afraid of being discovered while experimenting with Burning Hand, and he could refine level two mental strength potions with confidence and boldness.

The iron牌 was easy to activate. Just put some magic crystal residue on it, and then activate it with mental strength. It would automatically absorb the energy from the residue. There was almost no need to worry about people tampering with this kind of low-level magical device. It was too low-level, and Baer had checked it and confirmed that there was nothing wrong with it.

He now felt that the greatest luck in his life was not having any talent, but having Baer.

Doing good deeds really pays off.

After spending a few days, he refined a batch of ten bottles of level two mental strength potions, and then refined a batch of materials for Burning Hand. Dorre planned to first master this witchcraft, and then consider the matter of Wizard's Hand.

A single trick, used well, can take you anywhere. This saying is true everywhere.

For more than ten days, Dorre stayed in the courtyard and didn't come out much. As long as there was no one around, he would try to reconstruct the Burning Hand spell model.

The Burning Hand spell model's form was fixed; what was not fixed was the construction method of the nodes. Different construction methods accommodated different amounts of mental strength and different mental attributes.

There were many kinds of spell nodes: the lowest-level vortex shape, tetrahedral shape, tetrahedral shape, polyhedral shape. From low to high level, the difficulty also increased exponentially, but correspondingly, the spell's power and controllability would also greatly increase.

The effect of cultivating a spell once or twice is completely different from cultivating it ten thousand times, just like swinging a sword a few hundred times versus swinging it tens of thousands of times. These are two different concepts.

As a wizard, one must choose what is suitable for oneself. In different environments, what kind of spell to use and what kind of effect to create are all very valuable for research.

For example, if you are going to an underground passage and need to use a light-type spell, and you clearly need a spell with a long duration and bright light, it would definitely be inappropriate to choose one with great power but a short duration. Not to mention wasting materials, it would also be inefficient.

In the following time, he began to study the Burning Hand spell model.

At first, in order to quickly condense the spell model, he naturally condensed the simplest vortex-shaped spell nodes. As his mental strength and control increased, he began to study other node methods, such as tetrahedral nodes.

Tetrahedral nodes were slightly stronger than vortex-shaped nodes. A triangle represents stability in the model structure, and each side is the same. How much mental strength you input, you can release the equivalent Burning Hand effect. When Dorre only had seventy copper coins, he could control vortex shapes, but when he had one hundred, he could replace all the vortex-shaped nodes with tetrahedrons.

Sometimes, he also tried to mix vortex-shaped nodes and tetrahedral nodes. The final experiment concluded that the single-node state was more suitable. Vortex shapes were easy to condense and fast, taking only two seconds or even less to complete, but the burning time was short and the power was insufficient. Tetrahedrons were stronger in all aspects, but the condensation speed was a bit slow, taking at least five seconds.

Five seconds. If the opponent was a ranged shooter, he would have died countless times.

However, compared to advanced wizard apprentices who needed eight seconds to chant, Dorre was many times stronger than them.

The number of nodes was fixed; it could not be increased or decreased, otherwise it would be another witchcraft, and even the materials would not be suitable. If you wanted to change the nodes and create another witchcraft, that was the domain of level one or higher wizards. At least they could cast spells without the spellcasting materials of zero-level cantrips, so they could experiment on a large scale, unlike now, where Dorre wasted spellcasting materials every time he experimented. Every time he released it, he felt like he was bleeding.

Above the tetrahedron was the hexahedron, a rectangular or square node structure. According to the book, the length, width, and height would all affect the performance of Burning Hand. You can experiment multiple times to choose the shape that suits you best.

Dorre experimented many times, but his mental control was insufficient. At most, he could do half hexahedron and half tetrahedron, and the speed of condensing the spell model was as long as ten seconds.

Ten seconds was not worth it at all.

The biggest advantage of the hexahedron was that it could accommodate more mental strength, and it could freely control the power and duration of Burning Hand, and it could also initially absorb some energy from the air to increase its power. This was what Dorre valued most.

The duration and burning temperature of the burning determined what effect it could have. Although it was a close-range spell, not as good as the higher-level Fireball, it was still powerful when combined with martial skills, at least at the apprentice stage.

After seeing that it was due to the problem of mental strength, Dorre prepared to take level two mental strength potions to improve. In the past, he didn't dare to take them himself because of money, but now that he was not short of money, he could quickly improve.

After making the decision, he drank one bottle every five days for more than a month, and by this time, his mental strength had increased to one hundred and thirty copper coins.

This year's winter felt particularly long. After the first snowfall, the snow on the ground never melted. Except for the mines around Domon City, everything was white and hazy, and nothing could be seen.

This winter was also particularly difficult. In mid-December, he and the villagers in the town went to the city together. At the city gate, he saw many soldiers pushing wooden carts, dragging the corpses from the slums out and heading to the mass graves outside the city.

The corpses in winter did not smell bad. Each one was dressed in rags, and the exposed skin was frozen, making them look iron-blue all over, which made people feel cold.

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Without clothes to keep warm and without enough food, it was normal to starve to death, at least in the slums it was normal.

After passing through the slums and entering the city, it seemed much more normal. Although it was not so lively, at least it looked much better.

After separating from the convoy, Dorre went to see Old Mi in turn, traded the primary mental strength potions, bought a batch of medicinal materials and devices for extracting medicinal materials, and then went to see Lily.

Compared to a month ago, Lily was more calm and steady, and the temperament on her body had also undergone subtle changes.

When she saw Dorre, the first thing she asked was whether he had purification potions.

Although Dorre was surprised, he shook his head. This thing had too low adaptability and was very complicated to refine, so it was useless.

Lily felt a little regretful.

"If you bring primary purification potions next time, I will pay one gold coin per bottle."