I Build a Floating City in the Apocalypse – Chapter 53

Chapter 53

“Fireball!”

Fang Bai meticulously sketched the Fireball spell model with his Mental Power, again and again.

Once the complete spell model framework was constructed, it would rapidly absorb fire elements, forming a fireball.

After the fireball formed, Fang Bai would wave his hand, dispersing it, and then start the condensation process anew.

Repetition after repetition, Fang Bai familiarized himself with the Fireball spell model as much as possible.

Initially, it took Fang Bai nearly ten seconds to cast Fireball. Through continuous practice, this time rapidly decreased.

Nine seconds, eight seconds, six seconds, five seconds…

However, when the time reached four seconds, Fang Bai’s practice hit a bottleneck.

Constructing the spell model took about three seconds. Any faster, and errors would creep in, potentially causing the spell model to collapse. Adding another second for absorbing fire elements, the entire spell casting process would take around four seconds.

After five or six consecutive spell model collapses, Fang Bai, holding his slightly aching head, sat cross-legged on the bed and slowly entered a meditative state.

Meditation: using Mental Power to perceive elemental power, adjusting one’s Mental Power frequency to match the frequency of the elements, making contact when resonating with them.

During this process, elemental power would intersect with Mental Power.

The scorching of fire elements, the heaviness of earth elements, the coldness of water elements, the sharpness of wind elements – the instant Fang Bai made contact, it was as if he was enduring torture.

The sensations of Mental Power were directly transmitted to his brain!

However, amidst the burning, pressure, freezing, and cutting, the power belonging to the elements was gradually absorbed by his Mental Power, strengthening and restoring it.

The night passed in meditation. The pain during meditation was only in the initial stages, as if Mental Power was adapting to elemental power. After adapting, although there was still some pain, it was bearable.

And the feeling of Mental Power recovery and growth during the pain was even more fascinating and intoxicating.

As the night passed, Fang Bai felt refreshed, without a trace of fatigue from staying up all night. His Mental Power was also in a full state, even stronger than before.

Fang Bai opened his Attribute Panel and looked directly at the Mental Power column.

“Mental Power: 18 （27）.”

“Mental Power increased by one point, reaching 27.”

Fang Bai smiled upon seeing this.

“Sleeping can restore Mental Power, and meditation can restore it even faster. Not only that, meditation can also strengthen Mental Power.

Then why sleep at all? Isn’t that a waste of time?”

Fang Bai sensed his current state, which was clearly better than his usual state after eight hours of sleep.

Apparently, a few hours of meditation could fully restore his energy, making it more efficient than sleep!

“This is like gaining a few extra hours for free. By saving the time spent sleeping, I can have several more hours in a day than others.

I can completely dedicate the daytime to learning spell knowledge and the nighttime to meditating and strengthening my Mental Power.

I can gain one point of Mental Power in one night. This growth rate definitely won’t lag too far behind the mainstream survivors.

Moreover, the meditation spell mentioned that directly relying on the elemental power in the environment for meditation has the lowest efficiency. If I could have higher quality, higher-level energy, then the meditation efficiency would increase significantly!”

The rather excited Fang Bai got out of bed to cook. After breakfast, he started practicing constructing spell models again.

Fang Bai had already made a rough schedule.

Morning: Spell practice and combat training. Afternoon: Studying spell knowledge. Evening: Meditation!

His entire day was fully planned!

It took Fang Bai about three seconds to complete the construction of the Fireball spell model. After the construction, it still took some time to absorb fire elemental power, so there was still some aftercast delay. The total duration was still close to four seconds.

After a period of no progress, Fang Bai shifted his focus to the Water Shield spell.

Water Shield was a defensive spell with decent defensive power. Fang Bai also valued it highly and practiced it frequently.

Under the high-frequency spell practice, Fang Bai’s Mental Power was also rapidly consumed.

However, when his Mental Power was almost exhausted, it usually only took about four hours of meditation to return to peak condition.

Of course, this was under the premise that Fang Bai reserved some Mental Power for meditation. If his Mental Power was completely depleted, or even overdrawn, then even Fang Bai could only rely on rest to recuperate, waiting for his Mental Power to recover naturally over time.

Therefore, Fang Bai slightly adjusted his plan, integrating meditation with spell practice. When his Mental Power was exhausted from practicing spells, he would meditate. When his state recovered, he would continue practicing spells.

Amidst meditation and practice, the morning passed quickly. Fang Bai used his lunch break to adjust his state to its best before entering a learning mode.

“Fireball has a total of 21 spell nodes, five spell structures, and three core nodes.

The five spell structures have different effects, and these different effects together constitute the One-Ring spell, Fireball.”

Fang Bai used the X, Y, and Z axes to depict a three-dimensional spell model on a piece of A3 paper.

Looking at the drawn spell model, Fang Bai visualized it in his mind while searching for the fastest path to its formation.

This was an idea that came to Fang Bai during his morning training.

The spell model was a three-dimensional structure, and constructing it with Mental Power was also a step-by-step process. If he could find the fastest and most convenient construction path, could he further accelerate the spell casting speed?

However, while analyzing the fastest path, a question popped up in Fang Bai’s mind.

“One-Ring spell? Is this the level of Fireball?”

This question flashed through Fang Bai’s mind, and he immediately continued his research.

Among the information transmitted by the laptop, Fang Bai also saw a concept.

“In Fireball, there is a phenomenon where a single node belongs to multiple spell structures.

This is equivalent to reducing one spell node in the spell model. Then, can we continue to increase such repeated nodes, increase the utilization rate of each node, and reduce the difficulty of casting Fireball?”

Fang Bai was immediately captivated when he saw this idea. But when he looked further down, he suddenly froze.

“Where’s the rest?”

“There’s nothing more?”

Fang Bai immersed his Mental Power into his mind, using it to flip through the black notebook.

Only the first page of the black notebook could be opened, revealing the first and second pages.

The content on it was precisely the knowledge Fang Bai had received. The idea about increasing node utilization was written at the very bottom of the second page, meaning that more ideas might be on the next page…

Fang Bai remained silent for a moment before looking at the side of this question. The owner of the notebook had proposed another possibility here.

“Early-stage mages have weak combat abilities. In the beginning, you can create some spell scrolls for self-defense to overcome the initial weak phase.”

Fang Bai’s eyes lit up upon seeing this.

Spell scrolls?!

But in the next moment, his heart skipped a beat.

This was also written at the very bottom of the second page. Could it be…

Fang Bai had a bad feeling and looked down…

There was nothing below!

Damn it!