I Build a Floating City in the Apocalypse – Chapter 137

Chapter 137

“This is what a mage is!”

Fang Bai exclaimed, carefully comprehending this concept. In Fang Bai’s view, this was the same concept as him utilizing spells to research the electromagnetic cannon.

“This is the modern mage, not the stereotypical old mages in movies and novels who only know how to rigidly cast spells.

Spells are not important, knowledge is the key. With enough knowledge, even just utilizing a wind-attribute structure at the level of a Minor Spell can be used to cast Flight.

Flight, is there such a spell? Even if there is, what level is it? What’s the casting difficulty? What’s the threshold? Can it fly at 150 kilometers per hour? Can it fly to an altitude of 6,000 meters?”

Fang Bai really wanted an old mage to stand in front of him, so he could throw a bunch of questions at him.

Overjoyed, Fang Bai turned his head and looked in the direction of Stone City Library and Stone City University.

“The books in Stone City Library and Stone City University Library must be emptied!”

Fang Bai had already decided to build his own library. While the library would store existing knowledge, it would also establish a new section, one belonging to science, a new discipline derived from experimental verification and infinitely approaching the truth: Spells!

Spells, independent of other disciplines, yet inextricably linked to them.

Pulling back his thoughts, Fang Bai looked at the young man controlling the hang glider again. At this moment, Fang Bai felt a sense of closeness towards this young man who was toying with the Steel Giant with a hang glider, a closeness belonging to fellow travelers on the same path, and couldn’t help but feel emotional.

“There are really many geniuses in this world. However, it is precisely because of this that the world is so colorful, vibrant, and always worth looking forward to.

Even if they are all mages, they will not be uniform, but can be divided into thousands of different forms. Different people, different spells!”

The light of the Eagle Eye skill flickered in his eyes. Fang Bai deeply memorized the figure of the young man with the hang glider, then withdrew his gaze and moved quickly underground towards the Spatial Rift.

Fang Bai had just seen someone lurking in the direction of the Spatial Rift. As soon as the Steel Giant left, they were poking their heads out, clearly in cahoots with the hang glider guy. Luring away the Steel Giant was planned and premeditated. Fang Bai couldn’t miss such a good opportunity.

Casting Water Shield and going underground, Fang Bai took Wang Kai with him and headed straight for the Spatial Rift.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Fang Bai recalled the figures of the three people he had seen before, dodging and weaving as they approached the Spatial Rift, and pondered for a moment.

“Although I’m a bit further away, I might not be slower than them. But then again, it’s better to be a little slower than them and let them go in first.”

Fang Bai thought to himself.

Of course, Fang Bai didn’t have any malicious intentions. He just felt that these four people had worked hard to plan and painstakingly lure away the Steel Giant, so it was only natural for them to go in first.

If Fang Bai went in first, his conscience would be troubled.

Fang Bai touched his conscience—oh, he couldn’t find it. Forget it, he gave up.

“However, Wang Kai, do you think these four people are the four perverts they kept mentioning before?

Thinking about it this way, it’s possible. It’s four people again, and they’ve been active in the city center area, refusing to leave.

If they still refuse to leave in this situation, they must be planning something. Now it seems that it’s very normal for them to be planning around this Spatial Rift, this Mage Tower.

Apart from the endless Magical Beasts, I’m afraid the only things attractive enough in the city center are this Spatial Rift and this Mage Tower Temple.”

While pondering, Fang Bai took out a small booklet.

Each page of the booklet used pictures and text to record a Spell Model. In addition, there were some techniques handwritten by Fang Bai and some commonly used variations.

This was Fang Bai’s spellbook.

Just now, he was saying that Wang Kai’s memory wasn’t good. Although Fang Bai’s memory had improved a lot because of his Mental Power, it was still a human brain, not a computer. After a long time, it was prone to problems and could become blurry.

For a mage, forgetting a Spell Model, or having a blurry memory of a Spell Model, could be fatal. So, to prevent this problem, Fang Bai specially used a loose-leaf booklet to record all the Spell Models he knew and placed the spells he commonly used on the first few pages. This formed his spellbook.

Anyway, mages didn’t need their hands to cast spells, they could use Mental Power. Their hands were completely free to flip through the spellbook.

If he was worried about the issue of looking cool, Fang Bai had also specially prepared a pen. With a notebook and a pen, posing as a scholar taking notes while flipping through the book wouldn’t make him look uncool. On the contrary, Fang Bai felt that…

If others were running around sweating profusely, fighting back and forth, while he elegantly held a book and wrote and noted, and spells formed around him, blasting enemies into smithereens, and he walked past with a calm expression, not even turning his head…

The scene seemed unexpectedly okay?

Wasn’t this better than a crude warrior?

Fang Bai looked at Wang Kai, who was gripping his sword and shield beside him, and pondered, then focused on his spellbook. Wang Kai seemed to sense something and looked around.

“It’s just me and Village Chief, no one else. Why does it feel weird?”

Because they were moving in a straight line, Fang Bai didn’t pause much, so he quickly reached the Spatial Rift. At this time, the three people hadn’t arrived yet, but they were only a few meters away.

Fang Bai pondered for a moment, estimating that they would arrive about a minute after he went in. After thinking about it, he decided to wait a little longer.

“I calculated correctly. Although I’m a bit further away, going in a straight line is actually faster, because there are no Magical Beasts to interfere.”

Fang Bai glanced upwards, then immediately withdrew his gaze, his eyes returning to the spellbook, reinforcing the impression of each Spell Model and, based on existing spells and information, conducting a pre-emptive simulation of the battle that might occur next.

Among these three people, one was an archer, one wielded a sword, and one wielded a large hammer. Based on the scenes Fang Bai had seen before, although these three people seemed to be cooperating with each other, they were clearly also wary of each other, indicating a temporary alliance.

These were three individuals, not a whole.

Fang Bai conducted some simple deductions based on this point. Of course, considering that the three might also be acting to deceive others, Fang Bai also conducted a simple pre-emptive simulation of the three as a whole being enemies. It was always right to treat everyone except himself as a hypothetical enemy.

However, no matter what, the backpack on his back gave Fang Bai sufficient confidence. Another pity was that the current detection range of his Mental Power was still a bit short. Otherwise, he would have planned to use Projection to explore while his main body stayed at the entrance of the rift, safe and sound.

Fang Bai shook his head slightly and looked down at the spellbook. When he saw the three people, who were cooperating and wary of each other, arrive at the Spatial Rift and were about to surface, he heard a voice.

“Who! Come out!”

The archer suddenly let out a low shout and instantly drew his bow and nocked an arrow, entering a state of alert. The other two immediately became alert as well upon hearing this.

Fang Bai remained expressionless, even rolling his eyes. He hadn’t even extended his Mental Power, relying only on the sound of footsteps and passively receiving some fluctuations to perceive a blurry image. He didn’t believe he could be discovered like this.

They were most likely bluffing, old foxes!

Sure enough, after waiting for a minute or two, the archer walked into the Spatial Rift while chuckling.

“It’s okay, it’s okay, just a bluff. There should be no one.”

The other two’s expressions immediately relaxed upon hearing this, and after keeping a certain distance, they also walked directly into the Spatial Rift. They seemed to have some understanding of the Spatial Rift.

However, at this moment, just as the archer finished speaking, a voice suddenly sounded, making the three of them instantly break out in a cold sweat.

“Yes, there shouldn’t be anyone else.”