[Fireball Skill (Tier One Perfection)] 0/10,000

Li Wei looked at the text that appeared before him.

He was lost in thought.

When a skill reached the Perfection Level, the progress requirement would become infinite.

This meant the skill had reached its limit and couldn’t be improved any further through normal practice.

Deduction was different.

There was no end to deducing a skill.

Deducing it further from Tier One Perfection would turn it into a Tier Two Spell.

If he had experience cultivating a Tier Two Fire Element Magic, he could speed through this deduction process.

It was just like when he had deduced the Tier Zero spell to Tier One.

By integrating his cultivation experience from the Tier One Fireball Technique, Li Wei had deduced the Tier Zero Small Fireball Technique into the Tier One Fireball Technique in a single night.

With a proper foundation, deducing the next stage of a spell was much easier.

Li Wei was already prepared for this.

[Bursting Fireball Technique (Tier Two Mastery)] 1,687/2,000

He had recently spent some time grinding the Bursting Fireball Technique.

As long as he could grind the Bursting Fireball Technique to the Small Success Level, he would gain some insight into its magical principles.

Then, he could use that insight to quickly deduce his Fireball Skill to Tier Two.

Deducing it directly would take as much time as creating a brand new Tier Two Spell from scratch.

Li Wei focused his mind and began grinding the Bursting Fireball Technique.

「A night passed.」

[Bursting Fireball Technique (Tier Two Mastery)] 1,945/2,000

During the day, Li Wei spent some time meditating to cultivate his Mana.

He never stopped cultivating his Mana for even a moment.

Even while smelting Mithril, he would find time to complete his daily Mana cultivation.

After all, Mana was the cornerstone of a Mage.

Without Mana, everything else was just a castle in the air.

At noon, the Bursting Fireball Technique leveled up.

[Bursting Fireball Technique (Tier Two Small Success)] 0/4,000.

A flood of information about the structural principles of the Bursting Fireball Technique’s Magic Model poured into Li Wei’s mind.

Things he couldn’t understand before now made perfect sense.

But seeing something and truly understanding it were two different things.

Only by cultivating it to the Great Success Level could Li Wei thoroughly master the Magic Model. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

And by reaching the Perfection Level, he would understand the spell even better than its creator.

However, his focus wasn’t on the Bursting Fireball Technique.

So, after cultivating the Bursting Fireball Technique to the Small Success Level, Li Wei stopped.

He integrated the insights from his cultivation into his Fireball Skill, quickly deducing the structure for the Tier Two Fireball Technique’s Magic Model.

He spent the afternoon completing the basic structure of the Tier Two Fireball Technique’s Magic Model.

Compared to the Tier One Fireball Technique, the Tier Two version was several times more powerful.

Its blast radius, flight speed, attack range, and stability were also greatly improved.

Li Wei had deduced the Tier One Fireball Technique to the Realm of Perfection.

Its Magic Model only had thirty-six Mana Circuits.

The initially deduced Tier Two Fireball Technique already had fifty-four Mana Circuits.

It might seem like only eighteen more Magic Circuits, but the Casting difficulty increased exponentially.

A Tier One spell with thirty-six Mana Circuits was already outrageous.

Most Tier One spells had fewer than twenty Mana Circuits.

Even the Bursting Fireball Technique only had forty-two Mana Circuits.

That night, Li Wei tested the power of the Tier Two Fireball Technique in his dreamscape.

Without charging it.

A Fireball condensed with a normal cast was the size of a washbasin.

It glowed orange-red.

Previously, only a Fireball that had been initially charged and compressed would turn orange-red.

Li Wei launched the Fireball.

The Fireball flew into the air, tracing an arc before landing more than two hundred meters away.

BOOM!

A loud explosion rang out. A few seconds later, a fierce gust of wind swept past, making Li Wei’s clothes flap violently.

When the dust settled, a large crater twenty meters in diameter had appeared in the ground.

Li Wei smiled.

He remembered how, long ago, Mage Aier’s Fire Snake Skill had blasted a crater several meters in diameter.

He had been deeply shocked by it back then.

Now, a casual Fireball from him was already far more powerful than the Fire Snake Skill.

In terms of raw power alone, the Tier Two Fireball Technique could already rival a Tier Three spell.

After all, Li Wei’s Fire Elemental Body, an Extraordinary Trait, increased the power of his Fire Element Magic by one tier.

In his hands, a Tier Two Fire Element spell could unleash the power of a Tier Three Fire Element spell.

Even an Entry Level Tier Three Fire Element spell was far more powerful than a Tier Two one.

The Tier Two Fireball Technique consumed three times as much Mana as the Tier One version.

With Li Wei’s current Mana, he could cast it four times at most.

But that was still much stronger than before his breakthrough.

In the past, he would have had to exhaust all his Mana to condense a Fireball of this power.

What’s more, this was an uncharged Tier Two Fireball Technique.

Li Wei tried charging it.

The Fireball in front of him expanded rapidly, its diameter exceeding three meters in the blink of an eye.

Raging flames burned, emitting an intensely hot light.

Just looking at the Fireball made Li Wei’s heart pound.

This Fireball had accumulated three times his own Mana capacity.

Li Wei tried to compress the Fireball’s volume, but could only shrink it down to one meter in diameter.

The Fireball’s color changed from orange to yellow.

A yellow Fireball.

A single glance brought the Sun in the sky to mind.

Li Wei launched the yellow Fireball.

After flying for more than a hundred meters, the Charged Fireball exploded in midair with a loud BANG.

The accumulated Power was excessive, reducing its controllability.

Its attack range was slightly shortened.

After the yellow Fireball detonated, a sphere of yellow flame rapidly expanded.

In the blink of an eye, its diameter surpassed fifty meters.

The flames engulfed everything within fifty meters.

From a distance, it looked as if a small, yellow Sun had appeared on the ground.

A moment later, the fiery light dissipated.

An immensely powerful shockwave spread out.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The dirt and sand on the ground were thrown into the air, like a sudden sandstorm.

Standing more than a hundred meters away, Li Wei could still feel a tremendous impact.

Caught off guard, he got a mouthful of sand.

The shockwave lasted for several seconds.

When the dust settled, Li Wei saw a huge blast circle on the ground.

The shockwave’s radius exceeded one hundred meters.

All the soil within a hundred meters had been upturned.

The dozens of meters at the epicenter of the explosion were scorched black.

Since the Fireball had exploded in midair, it hadn’t created a very large crater in the ground.

However, because it was an airburst, the shockwave’s area of effect was much larger.

"This could probably rival a Tier Four Spell!"

Li Wei muttered to himself.

Allen’s Tier Four Spell, Sandstorm Tornado, had a larger area of effect.

But that was because his Sandstorm Tornado was a persistent Tier Four Spell.

Its single-target damage might not have been this strong.

Li Wei’s brow furrowed in thought. ’Such a large blast radius means the power is too diffused. The damage might not be enough against a single target.’

He wanted the Fireball Skill’s power to be more concentrated.

Even if it meant sacrificing some of its area of effect.

The main issue was that the Charged Fireball’s area of effect was just too large now.

Even he, the caster, found it a bit overwhelming.

After all, the Charged Fireball’s attack range was only a little over a hundred meters.

If the blast radius were any larger, he’d get caught in it himself.

And that wasn’t impossible.

Right now, the Tier Two Fireball Technique had only just been deduced.

After further refinement, its power and blast radius would only increase.

[Fireball Technique (Tier Two Small Success)] 12/10,000