Chapter 268: First Class-Washing Complete, Tenth-Tier Magic Heating

Up until now, whether it was the blood of the Sun Angler or the blood of the Fire Dragon, it seems that because their levels are too high—

Tang Zheng has consistently been unable to craft them into potions like he did with Troll blood.

Before the dragon blood is thoroughly researched, the few Frost Dragons living deep in the Angelisia Mountains will be left to survive for now.

The blood of the Sun Angler is far inferior to that of the Fire Dragon, though the enhancement effects are similar; this point was already verified using the Evil Hound.

However, the Fire Dragon's blood contains a curse effect, while the Sun Angler's blood contains a certain amount of toxins.

Before Enfierea can research better results, Tang Zheng does not intend to have Imina and Leinas consume them for the time being.

"A reminder: there are certain toxins in here, though it should be a minor issue for you." Tang Zheng stared at the Naga and then waved his hand: "First, summon 1,000 Goblins here."

The Naga withdrew his gaze from the crimson potion bottle, subconsciously nodded respectfully, and left quickly; not long after, 1,000 Goblins were brought over.

"Wawa!"

"Wa, ya!"

"Awa!"

"..."

As soon as the thousand Goblins appeared, they let out chaotic, noisy sounds.

Looking at this group of green fellows, he needed to first verify how much experience 1,000 Goblins would grant him.

With so many Goblins, killing them one by one is too troublesome.

Tang Zheng only has two true area-of-effect spells in his arsenal; one is "Sand Domain," which has a limited range, and it is not worth using a spell of that level to deal with Goblins.

The other is the skill "Scorching Sonic Wave" from "Body Armament," which is a large-scale attack spell; this skill has a wider area of effect and would cause relatively severe damage to the site.

Given the strength of these Goblins, they would turn to ash if hit by such an attack, and Tang Zheng intends to keep their corpses to use as food for the next wave of Goblins.

"Magic Arrow!"

Tang Zheng pondered for a moment and chanted in a low voice.

Hum—hum—

Ten magic arrows lined up and hovered in front of him.

Snap!

A finger-snapping sound.

The non-elemental magic arrows transformed into wind-element arrows, and sharp edges appeared on their surfaces.

"This feeling of being able to use them like an extension of my own arm—the ability to control magic feels stronger. Is this because of 【Magic Overlord】?"

Tang Zheng raised his finger and pointed toward the Goblins ahead; all the magic arrows shot out, their speed increasing several times over with the blessing of wind elements.

In an instant!

The ten arrows had already pierced through a row of Goblins, and then, under his control, these arrows returned; it took only a few breaths.

All thousand Goblins had been pierced and killed by the magic arrows; there was no situation where they could resist the magic arrows at all.

【Obtained 21 experience points】

【............】

【Obtained 19 experience points】

【Experience Bar: 368,923/410,000】

Tang Zheng looked at the changes in the experience value on the panel; excluding the experience gained from slaying Blue Maggots and other races in the hilly region, he had gained a total of about 20,000 experience points from killing these Goblins.

On average, each Goblin provided about 20 points.

"Not bad."

Tang Zheng nodded with satisfaction, then directed the Naga, who had been waiting on the side in shock and uncertainty, to have the Trolls and monsters pile up the corpses of these Goblins.

To store the Goblin corpses, Tang Zheng specifically learned the second-tier "Preservation" spell; like potions that have a degradation phenomenon, they can be preserved for as long as a year.

【Skill Points: 63→62】

Some nobles and merchant caravans even specifically hire casters who have mastered this spell to preserve precious ingredients.

After casting this spell several times in succession, all these Goblin corpses were transported to the cave originally inhabited by the Troll Gu for storage.

Now, with passive buffs, whether it is a first-tier, second-tier, or third-tier spell, casting only requires 1 MP.

Next.

Tang Zheng began to increase the number of Goblins, and the experience value quickly met the requirements for the next level; for this, he even specifically kept his experience at the exact level-up threshold.

【Experience Bar: 410,077/410,000】

"Ninja class level up." Tang Zheng.

【Overall Level: 47→48lv】

【Ninja 1→2lv】

【Experience Bar: 77/460,000】

Looking at the values on the panel.

Tang Zheng stared at the numerous Goblins before him and continued to use the first-tier "Magic Arrow." This time, he did not use MP to cast, but used "Experience Point Casting."

【Overall Level: 48→47lv】

【Shaman Mentor 1lv→0】

【Experience Bar: 1/410,000】

(PS: The depth of the experience bar changes according to the level; the difference in experience between two levels does not need to be considered too much, as it is deducted according to the depth of the experience bar after the level drops.)

Next, continue with this operation.

【Overall Level: 47lv】

【Ninja 2→3→4→5lv】

【Sword Saint: 10→9→8→7lv】

【Skill Points: 74】

Repeating this 4 times in a row, he completed the class-washing with a consumption of only 1.64 million experience points.

With no change in the overall level, 【Ninja】 was raised to max level, 【Sword Saint】 dropped to level 7, and the 【Shaman Mentor】 class disappeared completely.

During this process, Tang Zheng kept an eye on the situation of 【Magic Swordsman】; seeing that the Sword Saint class dropping levels did not affect it, he finally felt at ease.

Soon!

100,000 Goblins were completely slaughtered, and their corpses filled the entire cave; the excess had to be buried in pits for preservation.

【Experience Bar: 351,023/410,000】

Out of a total of about 2 million experience points, only 350,000 remained now.

"Back to a state where there are no classes to level up."

Tang Zheng looked at the classes on his attribute sheet, feeling excited while sighing once more.

The level 7 Sword Saint class still needs to be washed away, but among his classes, there are no more that can be upgraded.

"The 【Immortal】 on Fluder and the 【Elementalist (Earth)】 on the Elf King are both high-tier classes; I have no leads on other high-tier classes."

Tang Zheng mused: "The Elf King is very strong, and I don't have absolute certainty at the moment, so there is no rush to acquire these two classes."

"The special class 【Calamity Apostle】 that I originally deduced cannot be implemented because there is too little information and it requires a mid-tier class to enter; now that I have the ability to wash classes, I can continue the deduction." "Uh... why are they all spellcasting classes?"

Tang Zheng came back to his senses, shook his head slightly, and then looked at the Naga, who was trembling slightly on the side:

"I specifically left 1,000 Goblins; given their powerful reproductive ability, I should be able to cultivate the current number again by around May, right?"

"Ye-yes, my lord."

The Naga hurriedly lowered his head to respond, fear appearing in his eyes.

He had always been puzzled and curious as to why the human before him wanted to farm Goblins; he had had various guesses, but never expected that the other party was simply doing it for the sake of slaughter.

Could it be that he has a grudge against Goblins?

This thought couldn't help but surface in the Naga's mind, and at the same time, he felt that this human before him must never be provoked.

"Then I'll leave it to you, Lord Forest Ruler." Tang Zheng said gently.

The Naga nodded in terror; after a long while, when he looked up again at the position where Tang Zheng had been, he found that the other party had already disappeared.

"I always feel that every time we meet, the other party becomes more terrifying and mysterious." The Naga was stunned for a moment and muttered to himself softly.

…………

!

It was still the unchanging scorching lava zone.

Ever since mastering this area.

Tang Zheng had treated this place as one of his bases; the high-temperature magic power radiating from the magma sea could effectively mask the fluctuations of his magic power.

Having obtained a large number of skill points through class-washing, Tang Zheng was no longer stingy with skill points and began to upgrade the tier magic he had previously mastered.

First was "Heating"!

Through the magic ritual of "Magic Ascension," combined with the class skill of 【Mad Mage】, he raised the fourth-tier Heating to the sixth tier.

……

Skill: Heating (Sixth Tier)

Consumption: 30 MP

Effect: Within 1 minute, heats the object in contact to 4800°C, instantly heating it to 1200°C.

……

"The temperature of the fourth tier is 1200 degrees; it actually doubled." Tang Zheng's eyebrows raised high; if it continues to increase by doubling like this, it is simply unimaginable.

"The strength of tier magic shouldn't be able to surpass super-tier magic, right?"

He remembered that the super-high-temperature heat source generated by the super-tier magic "Fallen Down" released by Ainz did not exceed his imagination by much in terms of performance.

He continued to use magic materials to set up the magic ritual.

He also wanted to see what level this magic would reach when raised to the 10th Tier, and perhaps he could infer the growth limit of the 0th Tier magic created by the humans of this other world.

……

Skill: Heat (8th Tier)

Cost: 40 MP

Effect: Within 1 minute, heat the temperature within a ten-meter radius centered on the user to 6000°C, with an instantaneous heating to 3000°C.

……

Boom—

A dazzling white light flashed instantly, the air distorted under the high temperature, and heat waves visible to the naked eye formed with Tang Zheng as the center.

It rippled and spread rapidly like water waves; it looked slow and heavy in rhythm, but in reality, it spread out in an instant, and the intense feeling of suffocation seemed enough to make one forget to breathe.

Under that intense white light and high temperature, an ordinary person would likely be reduced to ashes and vanish in an instant!

The rocky ground within the area under Tang Zheng's feet, which was extremely resistant to high temperatures, caved in, and granular, charred high-temperature crystals appeared.

"No, why is it only six thousand degrees, and why is there an added range?"

Tang Zheng looked at the surroundings, where the air seemed to be distorted and blurred under the influence of the high temperature, and astonishment appeared in his eyes.

After the scorching high temperature completely dissipated and returned to calm.

Tang Zheng looked at the skill description again; according to the previous doubling, it should have reached 19,200 degrees at the 8th Tier.

Now, the change stopped after reaching only 6000 degrees, and a range-based value had been added.

"There is indeed a limit to temperature changes." Tang Zheng stood up, strode to the cliff, and jumped directly into the magma.

The disturbance in the area was already a bit too large; it was no longer suitable to cast it on the ground.

Tang Zheng swam in one breath to the very bottom of the magma sea. Since it was not suitable to set up a magic ritual in the magma sea, he simply used the normal "Magic Ascension" to raise the tier; it was nothing more than wasting an extra skill point.

It took about a moment.

The surging magma sea suddenly became calm.

In the center of the boiling red magma sea, the floating magma suddenly sank, affecting a radius of several hundred meters, as if the magma in this area had vanished into thin air.

The surrounding magma followed by backflowing, constantly emitting roars like muffled thunder!

Whoosh!

Tang Zheng's figure shot up from the magma sea and flew back onto the cliff.

……

Skill: Heat (10th Tier)

Cost: 50 MP

Effect: Instantly heat the temperature within a fifty-meter radius to 6000°C.

……

The entire magic had completely finished changing.

"Just now, deep in the magma sea, with the obstruction of the magma, the affected range reached nearly 300 meters; if it were on open ground, the range it could directly affect should reach about one kilometer."

Tang Zheng's breathing was rapid, and he was somewhat excited: "Beyond a distance of one kilometer, the temperature will probably decay rapidly, but even so, it can be called a city-destroying level of magic."

"In terms of pure power, it should be inferior to a 10th Tier magic of pure magic intensity, but in terms of the range of influence, it should far exceed normal 10th Tier magic."

This was the first 10th Tier magic in his hands; not only was its power astonishing, but most importantly, it was a 0th Tier magic unique to this other world.

"It seems there is indeed an upper limit to the power and intensity of skills." Tang Zheng calmed down and had a more accurate judgment and understanding of the intensity of the skills.

According to the settings in "Yggdrasil," they are ranked not by the magnitude of power, but purely by intensity.

World-class Item > Ace Move of Special Profession > Super-tier Magic (Special Skill) > Tier Magic (Normal Skill)

"This should be the division of intensity."

This information flashed through Tang Zheng's mind; when he obtained 【Magic Transcender】, he had vaguely sensed this point.

The "Word of Elemental Collapse" in the Transcender profession possesses the power to ignore four-attribute elemental resistances, which all goes to show that there is also a limit to resistance.

This made Tang Zheng think of the introductory abilities of the legendary World Bosses in the "Yggdrasil" game.

Abilities like the "Five Decays of Heaven and Man" of 【Five-Colored Tathagata】 and the "Seven Deadly Sins" ability of the 【Seven Deadly Sins Demon King】 can all easily break through the various nullification resistances and immunities possessed by professions like the Undead.

After finishing the upgrade of "Heat."

Tang Zheng upgraded another magic, "Papermaking," again.

……

Skill: Papermaking (10th Tier)

Cost: 50 MP

Effect: Create 2 sheets of paper containing powerful magic.

……

Compared to the "Heat" magic, which continuously strengthened as the tier increased, "Papermaking" was exactly the opposite; not only did the number of sheets not increase, but as the tier level increased, the number of sheets actually became fewer and fewer.

"At the 10th Tier, it can actually only create two sheets."

"To normally produce one magic scroll, it requires 20 sheets of magic paper of the same level, so this consumption is somewhat astonishing." Tang Zheng's eyelid twitched; there was no need to calculate.

To manufacture one 10th Tier magic scroll, just in terms of magic consumption, one would have to use the 10th Tier "Papermaking" magic 10 times.

(End of chapter)