Li De waved his hand, and the optimized magic model was instantly activated.

Whoosh~

In the eyes of all the apprentices, a fist-sized fireball appeared.

Everyone’s expressions froze. Small Fireball?

Could the Small Fireball also be modified?

Before they could react, a second fireball, a third fireball, a fourth fireball appeared in front of Li De.

What was shock? If these mage apprentices knew their current expressions, they would surely mock themselves.

More than twenty mage apprentices stood with their mouths agape, eyes wide, dumbfounded as dozens of fireballs surged from Li De’s hands in just a few seconds.

By the Goddess of Magic, were they hallucinating?

Since when could the Small Fireball release dozens of projectiles in just a few seconds?

Li De felt his responsiveness decline when controlling 40 fireballs and realized his perfect control limit was 40.

Without hesitation, the fireballs, under the control of his mental strength, flew toward the Anti-magic Stone.

The line of Small Fireballs shot out like bullets from a barrel, bang bang bang~ leaving scorching trails in the air.

At an extreme speed of 120 blades per second, the fireballs zipped across the small room in the blink of an eye.

Sizzle~

The first Small Fireball to hit the Anti-magic Stone left a pitch-black burn mark. The stone's high resistance to magic rendered the less powerful Small Fireball completely ineffective.

But this was only the beginning.

Bang bang bang~ Bang bang bang~

Dozens of Small Fireballs struck the Anti-magic Stone in a matter of seconds, and this wasn’t even the limit. Li De’s eyes remained calm as the mana in his mind poured frantically into the magic model.

One Small Fireball every 0.2 seconds, five casts per second.

The rapid casting made Li De look like he was wielding a Gatling gun, spraying fire. The shocked apprentices could only gawk at the scene, their minds blank.

The terrifying Small Fireballs flew toward the Anti-magic Stone at speeds undetectable to the naked eye. The heat they carried distorted the air in the room.

The temperature in the room rose by more than ten degrees in a short time.

This scene lasted for over 40 seconds.

Until Li De had completely drained his 657 points of mana.

It was exhilarating; this was the first time he had completely depleted all his mana.

With his vast mana pool, unless he was frequently using Tier 3 spells, it would take some time to fully deplete his mana.

But with the improved Small Fireball spell, it took just over 40 seconds to empty his considerable mana reserves.

The room fell into a brief silence. At this moment, the group of mage apprentices looked at Li De with eyes that regarded him as a deity.

Filled with fervent admiration.

Too cool, simply too cool. In less than a minute, he could cast hundreds of Small Fireballs. Even miracles couldn’t surpass this.

Among them, Karu, who had become a formal mage, had the sharpest eyes. He suddenly seemed to notice something, pointing at the Anti-magic Stone with wide eyes, stammering in disbelief,

"You, you see!! The Anti-magic Stone, it actually, actually..."

Upon hearing this, everyone turned their heads simultaneously, looking at the Anti-magic Stone that had endured the assault of hundreds of Small Fireballs in a short time.

The originally pitch-black Anti-magic Stone was covered with large and small black circular marks. What astonished them most was that the center of the Anti-magic Stone had turned red-hot, even melting into magma due to the high temperature.

Traces resembling tear streaks of molten, fiery-red lava dripped downward, even leaving trails on the floor until they dropped onto the stone slabs below.

Sizzle~

The sound of the molten lava rapidly cooling at this moment was particularly deafening.

Karu’s voice, shaken by shock, came out distorted, "Master used the Small Fireball to melt an Anti-magic Stone immune to Tier 4 spells!!!

Goddess above, Master Li De must have received the favor of the Goddess of Magic. Praise the Goddess, praise Master Li De!!"

Whoosh~

Only at this moment did these youngsters come back to their senses, but the shock in their eyes couldn’t be suppressed.

"Master Li De is too great. That’s Anti-magic Stone!!!"

"Why can the Small Fireball be cast so quickly? This must be a miracle bestowed by the gods."

"Unbelievable, what exactly has Master Li De researched these past few days?"

Vina’s eyes sparkled with admiration, her sapphire-like pupils shimmering with mist.

"Teacher Li De, did you improve the Small Fireball spell? Just like the Mage Hand?

You are truly amazing. The entire Green City Mage Guild will cheer for you."

Hearing Vina’s words, all the mage apprentices stopped their discussions, their unreservedly admiring gazes fixed intently on Li De.

Li De smiled slightly. He hadn’t expected that continuous Small Fireballs could melt the center of an Anti-magic Stone immune to Tier 4 spells.

After pondering for a moment, he arrived at a rough answer.

Although the Anti-magic Stone had very high magical immunity, it was relative, always having a saturation threshold.

With his vast mana pool, converting all of it into Small Fireballs in an extremely short period of time was a terrifying force.

Though a single Small Fireball lacked sufficient attack power, his continuous attacks gave the Anti-magic Stone no time to adapt. The relentless barrage of fireballs was akin to baking the center of the Anti-magic Stone with thousands of degrees of high temperature.

Even materials with high magic resistance like Anti-magic Stone couldn’t withstand such high temperatures. After exceeding its threshold, the center melted due to the intense heat.

In other words, the Anti-magic Stone was melted by continuous high temperatures.

In fact, the improved Small Fireball spell was very similar to many modern rapid-fire weapons.

If one bullet can’t take you down, then use hundreds or thousands for saturation attacks. Even tanks, which can withstand cannon blasts, would be blown up under prolonged high-rate attacks from a Gatling gun—this was the principle.

Though it cost him all his mana to achieve this effect, Li De could guarantee that without saturation attacks, even ten or twenty Tier 3 Explosive Fireballs wouldn’t harm an Anti-magic Stone immune to Tier 4 spells.

No wonder the system awarded him 1500 experience points for his improvement, rating this modification as outstanding.

Brutal, direct, and with killing power strong enough to melt an Anti-magic Stone immune to Tier 4 spells.

This was worth it; these ten days were not wasted at all.

Of course, it was also related to his mana far exceeding that of mages at the same level. If it were an ordinary High Mage, he was certain they absolutely couldn’t achieve this level. Perhaps making the Anti-magic Stone slightly red would be considered good.

"Hmm, not bad. This is my latest improved Small Fireball spell. It will be placed in the study on the third floor and will be open for you to learn.

However, because this spell is precious, you need to pay ten points to learn it."

Li De was in a good mood. He wouldn’t be stingy with these apprentices who belonged to him, but things obtained too easily were often not cherished. Therefore, he planned to introduce the ultimate trump card in the mage tower—the point system.

In the future, there would be more and more people in the Crimson Mage Tower. Coarse management was no longer suitable, and the point system was something he had prepared long ago.

Not only the Crimson Mage Tower, but Dawn City would also implement the point system.

This system would be Li De’s invincible trump card. Especially in Dawn City, he could foresee countless civilians working tirelessly for him for just a few points.

Li De, King of Schemes, Kachar was about to go online.

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