I Build a Floating City in the Apocalypse – Chapter 52

Chapter 52

“This is the Novice Village?”

Countless question marks filled Fang Bai’s mind.

“This is at most a job-changing sculpture, right?”

Fang Bai had been thinking about coming to the Novice Village to replenish his arrows, but now it seemed…

“It’s a good thing I asked Bai Qing for three hundred arrows, otherwise I really would have run out of arrows.”

Fang Bai shook his head slightly, looking at the job attributes of the job-changing sculpture.

“Warrior, Shield Warrior, Archer, the job coefficients are only six.”

“The job change scrolls dropped by monsters should be superior to these job-changing sculptures, with a job coefficient of nine.”

“And once you change jobs, your profession should be unchangeable.”

Fang Bai looked at the gray job change button. He had the money and had reached level ten, but he still couldn’t change jobs. This could only mean that once you changed jobs, you couldn’t change them again.

“So, once you change jobs, your potential is limited by this job coefficient?”

Fang Bai frowned.

This made Fang Bai feel a little uncomfortable. If there were no other choices, Fang Bai might not have felt anything, but Fang Bai had other choices and had seen other choices.

Thinking of the Mage profession, Fang Bai sank his Mental Power into his mind, looking at the slowly rotating black notebook.

“Mage.”

Compared to using the Archer skills, whose principles he didn’t understand, Fang Bai suddenly wanted to study magic knowledge.

At least when changing jobs, the notebook provided knowledge of the principles of how to use and cast the spells.

Although Fang Bai could already cast spells, because he was not proficient, casting spells required a long time to prepare and was more troublesome.

In comparison, archery was much simpler, so Fang Bai had basically never used spells against enemies before.

Now Fang Bai suddenly felt that compared to the Archer profession with a job coefficient of nine, the Mage profession without a job coefficient was more worthy of attention and research!

“And I wanted to change jobs to a Mage from the beginning, didn’t I?”

“I didn’t have the time or energy before, I was always on the run.”

“Now that I’ve settled down, why not start learning magic?”

This thought immediately surfaced in Fang Bai’s mind and became stronger and stronger as he thought about it!

A fist-sized red fireball slowly condensed in Fang Bai’s palm. With a thought, the fireball shot out swiftly.

The fireball rapidly expanded during its flight, becoming the size of a basketball before exploding on the ground dozens of meters away.

Boom!

There was a loud bang like a howitzer explosion, and a huge crater appeared at the point of impact. The soil within a five-meter radius was flattened by the shock wave.

“It’s so powerful?”

Even Fang Bai was startled when he released this spell for the first time. Then, a smile appeared on Fang Bai’s face, and he became completely determined.

“Find a place to settle down and officially start learning magic.”

After taking one last look at the three job sculptures, Fang Bai turned around and left.

This Novice Village was of no use to Fang Bai. Perhaps the only gain was the Novice Village Token.

After the Novice Village was built, the Novice Village Token also underwent a slight change.

“Equipment: Novice Village Token （Blue）.”

“Effect: Mental Power +4.”

“Skill: Return to City.”

“Click to equip.”

“Bound.”

A piece of blue equipment that only increased Mental Power by a measly four points, even worse than a piece of green equipment.

If you only looked at this point, it was definitely the worst blue equipment, bar none.

But the moment Fang Bai saw this skill, he immediately admitted that he was being shallow.

“Return to City skill: After use, you can teleport back to the Novice Village. The time required to use it and the skill cooldown time are proportional to the teleportation distance.”

Spatial teleportation skill!

“Awesome!”

This was the only thought in Fang Bai’s mind. Without any hesitation, he immediately clicked to equip it.

His Mental Power increased by four points, reaching twenty-six points. The most important thing was that the Return to City skill was activated. Fang Bai could activate it with just a thought.

Fang Bai slightly sensed the skill, and the preparation time required for returning to the city naturally surfaced in his mind. In addition to the Return to City skill, it seemed that he could also sense the Novice Village through the Novice Village Token…

After pondering for a moment, Fang Bai still chose to leave the Novice Village. The Novice Village was of no help to him and would attract a constant stream of survivors, and he didn’t want to build a force so quickly for the time being.

Rather than dealing with a constant stream of survivors here, it was better to leave first and find a quiet and safe place to study magic. Anyway, the Novice Village was already bound to him, and others couldn’t take it away.

After thinking for a long time, Fang Bai left the Novice Village and started searching within Shen Shan Town.

Soon, Fang Bai found a vacant house in the town and moved in.

This house had a small fence, enclosing a small area of about ten square meters. Inside the yard, there was also a well and a water pump, which made it convenient to use water. This was also the reason why Fang Bai chose this place.

This house should have been unoccupied for many years, and it was covered in dust. After Fang Bai went in, he first cleaned the house a little before taking out the rice, seasonings, pots, bowls, ladles, and basins from his Spatial Pocket.

After a while, looking at the clean house, a smile appeared on Fang Bai’s face.

“This will do.”

At night, after dinner, Fang Bai sat at his desk, a candle illuminating the blank notebook in front of him.

On the black-covered notebook, Fang Bai held a pen and wrote down some magic-related knowledge from his mind onto the paper.

“Elemental Power: One of the basic particles that are ubiquitous between heaven and earth and make up all things. Perceive with Mental Power, empty your mind…”

As Fang Bai wrote, he straightened out his thoughts bit by bit, gradually immersing himself in it. At some point, the pen in Fang Bai’s hand slowly stopped, his eyes closed slightly, and his Mental Power unconsciously spread around his body.

Little by little…

Suddenly, a colorful world full of light spots was reflected in Fang Bai’s mind.

“Is this the element?”

The moment this thought surfaced in Fang Bai’s mind, his state of mind fluctuated slightly, and he immediately withdrew from this state.

Suddenly, Fang Bai opened his eyes, looked at his notes, and a joyful expression appeared on his face. He immediately put down his pen and relaxed his mind as much as possible, calming down. Time passed by, and at some point, Fang Bai once again saw the colorful and magnificent world.

The world of elements, everything looked completely different. There was no earth, no sky, no desk, no buildings, only elemental power of different colors and concentrations. Some were active, some were calm, some were violent, some were gentle, some moved with Fang Bai’s thoughts, and some didn’t change at all.

Fang Bai was immersed in this world, fascinated and intoxicated, freely experiencing the magic of elemental perception.

“Elements are the root of most spells!”

Fang Bai wrote this sentence in his notebook and then continued to write.

“Spell Trigger: The basis of all spell models, generally composed of three spell nodes, its role in the spell model is…”

Fang Bai digested the magic knowledge in his mind bit by bit.

Fang Bai felt that this magic knowledge was very profound. Although he could cast the Fireball spell, it was very difficult to figure out the principles behind it.

Magic was like a puzzle game that had already been installed in Fang Bai’s brain. To use it, he only needed to follow the steps like playing a game.

Researching its principles was like researching its code, trying to understand the meaning of each code and learn how to edit it.

However, although it was difficult, there were traces to follow. Because for some unknown reason, there were many basic concepts of magic in the spell models of the Fireball and Water Shield spells, which allowed Fang Bai to get started and immerse himself in it.

Fang Bai felt that this was much more interesting than the Archer’s skills.