I Build a Floating City in the Apocalypse – Chapter 98

Chapter 98

At 10 PM, Bai Qing and Wang Xiong came to Fang Bai’s place together. They were slightly taken aback when they saw Wang Kai grinding something.

When Wang Kai saw them approaching, it was as if he had been relieved. He quickly let go of the steel roller and came to Fang Bai’s side.

“Are you all ready?”

Hearing Fang Bai’s words, Wang Kai and the other two immediately took their respective stances and held a horse stance. In this step, specific stances could also achieve similar effects, but it was just holding a horse stance, not something difficult. There was no need to specifically create a set of stances for this.

Although this process would be a bit tiring, if they couldn’t even persevere in holding a horse stance, or didn’t even want to persevere, then Fang Bai wouldn’t bother to train them.

After taking the Crystal Cores and guiding the three of them into a cultivation state, Fang Bai returned to the container house.

Fang Bai was experimenting with the Fireball spell model. He was testing the effects of each spell node or elemental channel by constantly changing them, figuring out their roles and influences one by one.

In the absence of other ways to learn the structural principles of the spell model, the exhaustive method, although clumsy and time-consuming, was indeed effective.

During this process, Fang Bai also pondered a question: would there be readily available relevant knowledge in the manuscript? Should he just wait for the knowledge in the later parts of the manuscript to appear and learn it? Would what he was doing now be a waste of time and effort?

But after thinking for a long time, Fang Bai ultimately decided to continue.

Because Fang Bai felt that this was like doing a math problem when studying. The same difficult problem, figuring out the solution method step by step and deriving the solution method from the answer seemed to have the same result, but in reality, there was a world of difference.

The former meant that Fang Bai truly mastered this type of problem, while the latter only meant that Fang Bai mastered this particular problem.

Perhaps this was the difference between scientific research ability and a “small-town test-taker.”

Fang Bai wanted to become a true Mage. He enjoyed the satisfaction and excitement of figuring out answers. He liked to explore the mysteries of the unknown.

So even if there were answers in the manuscript, Fang Bai was more willing to solve the problem first and then learn the answers in the manuscript, absorbing the essence of the methods in the manuscript.

Just like doing practice problems, wouldn’t buying a workbook come with answers?

Fang Bai repeatedly tried to construct the spell model.

Sometimes the spell model could still function normally, sometimes the spell model would suddenly collapse, sometimes the fireball would become heart-shaped, sometimes the fireball would lose its high pressure and high temperature, and sometimes…

“Holy crap!”

Fang Bai looked at the formed spell model, and before he could even rejoice, he discovered that the fireball formed by the convergence of fire elements was extremely unstable and prone to explosion. It seemed as if it would explode the next moment – no, it really did explode!

Fang Bai only had time to use the Blood-red Shield spell within his spell slot. The moment the crimson close-fitting barrier unfolded on Fang Bai’s body, the unstable fireball completely erupted.

Boom!

With a loud bang, Fang Bai’s container house was instantly shattered. The powerful shockwave spread out, sending Wang Kai, Bai Qing, and the others more than ten meters away. Fang Bai himself was directly blasted more than twenty meters away and fell to the ground, the Blood-red Shield on his body flickering unsteadily.

“Cough, cough.”

Fang Bai got up and looked at the messy scene. The huge commotion immediately attracted the Field Operations Team on duty. However, they were waved back by Fang Bai as soon as they arrived.

“It’s nothing, cough, the Fire Bull went berserk, it’s been stabilized now.”

Everyone was stunned. They looked at the Fire Bull standing by the willow tree, then at Fang Bai, and finally left.

“Moo?”

The Fire Bull, which had been lying on the ground and was awakened by the explosion, mooed at Fang Bai.

“It’s okay, it’s okay, go back to sleep.”

“Cough, cough, Village Chief, what happened?”

The three who had been blown away by the shockwave looked at the mess and asked blankly. If they hadn’t been more than ten meters away from the container, they would have all been finished.

At this moment, Fang Bai was also in shock. An experiment had almost killed him, almost wiped out all the top management of his Novice Village.

If others heard about this, they would probably laugh their teeth off.

“Isn’t this a game?

Speaking of which, why can’t my spells reduce the damage to myself? Playing like this, I feel like I’ll be blown up by myself sooner or later!”

Fang Bai was still shaken. Hearing Wang Kai’s question, he waved his hand.

“It’s nothing, just an experimental accident, normal, everything is normal.”

“Village Chief, are you sure everything is normal?”

Bai Qing pointed to the completely smashed container and the large crater on the ground, asking faintly. Fang Bai’s expression remained unchanged.

“Yes, normal. You can just get me another container tomorrow. Come on, come over, continue your cultivation.”

“Oh, okay.”

Wang Kai, Wang Xiong, and Bai Qing walked to Fang Bai’s side with some hesitation and entered the cultivation state under Fang Bai’s guidance.

After completing this step, Fang Bai turned to look at the messy area, a slight embarrassment on his face. However, when he saw the explosion range clearly, he suddenly froze.

“Huh? This range isn’t right.”

Fang Bai was slightly surprised, the embarrassment in his heart gone. He knew the explosion range of the Fireball very well, but the current explosion range was actually much larger than normal.

“Did the change in the spell model just now cause the Fireball to become unstable and increase its power at the same time?”

Fang Bai’s eyes lit up when he realized this. He immediately immersed himself in research again. After some measurements, Fang Bai was astonished to find that the power of the explosion just now was a full 20% greater than the power of a normal Fireball!

“Does this mean that I have increased the power of the Fireball by a full 20%?!”

Fang Bai was a little excited and immediately began searching for his notebook with the experimental records in the ruins. But after searching for a long time, he only found some scraps.

The experimental record book had been completely shattered in the explosion. Fang Bai’s eyes twitched slightly at this. Fortunately, the number of experiments was not large, and he still remembered the data.

Fang Bai had to find a new notebook and write down the experimental records. After writing them down, Fang Bai looked at the spell model that caused the explosion again, and couldn’t help but feel a little tempted. Just as Fang Bai was about to sit down and continue the experiment, he suddenly thought of something. He glanced at Wang Kai, Bai Qing, and the others, then walked to an open space where there was no one within a radius of tens of meters.

Fang Bai seemed to hear Bai Qing, Wang Kai, and Wang Xiong breathe a sigh of relief. When Fang Bai looked over, the three of them acted perfectly normal, without any reaction. So Fang Bai walked back.

He simply moved a stool and sat one meter in front of the three of them. With the three of them feeling apprehensive, Fang Bai’s projection walked to a place tens of meters away.

Only after completing this step did Fang Bai control the projection to start constructing the spell model again. At this time, Wang Kai and the others exchanged glances, communicating with their eyes.

“The Village Chief actually wanted to do the experiment next to us again just now! Also, what is that, a clone?”

“It’s probably a clone.”

“Ah, it’s good that there’s a clone. Otherwise, I’m really afraid that the Village Chief would blow himself up. It’s unbelievable.

When we’re outside, the safest place is next to the Village Chief. Inside the village, the most dangerous place is next to the Village Chief.”

“I’m leaving after I finish cultivating. This place is not suitable for staying long!”

“Me too.”

“Me too… Wait, it seems like I can’t leave.”

Bai Qing and Wang Xiong immediately showed expressions of mourning. Wang Kai immediately comforted him.

“It’s okay, it must have been an accident just now, it won’t…”

Boom!

Fang Bai’s projection was annihilated in the explosion. Wang Kai fell silent upon seeing this.