Improved Spells

Lu Yang could not help clenching his fists. Of the three upgrade items needed to raise the Demon God's Heart from level 0 to level 1, the Demon God's Mark was the hardest to obtain. Now, as long as he acquired the other two items, the Demon God's Heart could reach level 1.

Only Lu Yang knew just how powerful the upgraded Demon God's Heart was. Its attributes would increase tenfold, and he would also be able to learn the sub-forbidden spell Meteor Fall.

Carefully storing the Demon God's Mark in his backpack, Lu Yang looked at the other items on the ground.

The Troll Shaman had dropped not only the Demon God's Mark, but also a skill book, a piece of equipment, and several instant Heal Potions.

Lu Yang picked up the skill book and examined it.

System Notification: You have obtained the skill book "Radiant Flame."

"It's actually this skill book," Lu Yang said.

If one had to name the most awkward skill book among all beginner skill books, mage players would immediately think of Radiant Flame. Its name sounded incredibly overbearing, but in reality, it merely sprayed flames three yards forward, dealing 64 damage.

The awkward thing about this spell was that it could strike three yards ahead, so it was not quite a single-target attack. Yet it only covered three yards, so it was not really an area spell either. In a party, Radiant Flame had no room to be used. With warriors standing in front, was the mage supposed to walk behind the warriors to cast it?

As a result, after its initial period of scarcity passed, this "area" spell sold for less than ten copper coins.

However, later on, as large numbers of players learned simplified incantations, they came to understand the principles behind spells through research and began improving certain incantations. Radiant Flame was among them.

Some fire mages discovered that Radiant Flame could be charged for up to ten seconds before releasing an extremely powerful flame directly ahead, fifteen yards long and three yards wide.

This flame dealt four times the damage of a normally cast Radiant Flame. Although it still could not be used for regular damage output, at certain critical moments, the charged Radiant Flame often produced unexpected results.

After learning Radiant Flame, Lu Yang gained an icon resembling a jet of fire in his skill bar.

He then looked at the equipment on the ground. It was a level 10 warrior breastplate, Silver-grade, and worth quite a bit of money.

After putting the equipment into his backpack, Lu Yang picked up the instant Heal Potions from the ground. There were three health potions and two mana potions.

After checking the surroundings and finding nothing else, Lu Yang took out a Return Scroll and prepared to head back to the city. At that moment, a sharp cry suddenly came from inside the Troll Shaman's house.

"Help! Help! I'm going to burn to death! Someone save me!"

Lu Yang was startled. It was the language of the goblins. Though Lu Yang was currently human and had not learned Goblin, he had played for ten years in his previous life. He could not write the goblin language, but ordinary conversation posed no problem.

Lu Yang looked at Wokins's house. During their battle just now, Wokins's Fireballs had struck the walls multiple times, and the house was now blazing fiercely.

"Strange. Why is there a goblin here?" Lu Yang muttered.

When Lu Yang came here in his previous life, he had already been over level 100. At that time, there had only been this one boss here. Still, since it was a goblin, Lu Yang decided he had to rescue him.

In Second World's racial setting, goblins were the embodiment of greed. They called themselves Trade Princes and conducted business across the entire world.

If players could become friends with goblins, the goblins would teach them Engineering. High-ranking goblins could also issue special quests, and players who completed them would receive extremely generous rewards.

In his previous life, the Azure Sky Guild, the third-largest guild on the Chinese server, had achieved that position because its leader had earned the friendship of a Goblin Prince. The high-end Firearms, siege engines, cannons, rocket boots, and other special equipment crafted through Goblin Engineering by the guild's players were countless.

However, becoming friends with goblins was extremely difficult. Goblins always believed others looked down on them, and the words constantly on their lips were, "The people here look down on me."

Goblins also loved playing tricks on others. In his previous life, a player had given a goblin one gold coin as a gift in order to become friends with him.

The goblin happily accepted the gift and immediately gave him one in return. But when he opened it, it was a bomb that blew him to death on the spot.

Not only did he lose one-tenth of his experience, but his equipment and the items in his backpack exploded all over the ground.

Lu Yang had always wanted to gain the friendship of goblins in his previous life, yet he had never found a way. Now that such a good opportunity had appeared, how could he possibly let it pass?

He quickly ran into Wokins's house. As soon as he entered, Lu Yang saw a goblin tied to a wooden stake in the center of the hall.

The goblin was only about one meter tall, naked, with green skin all over his body. From his appearance, he was still young.

At this moment, the goblin saw Lu Yang as well.

"Oh, sir, I beg you, please save me. If you save me, I'm willing to give you one gold coin." Tears streamed from the goblin's large eyes.

"There's no need for money. Saving you is no trouble at all." Lu Yang hurried to the goblin's side and began untying the ropes.

However, the ropes were thick and Wokins had tied them extremely tightly. Lu Yang had to use tremendous force just to loosen them a little.

"Oh, sir, time is money! Please hurry! The house is about to collapse!" the goblin cried in terror.

By then, the fire had reached the roof. The blinding flames and the roof belching black fire filled the goblin with fear.

Lu Yang wanted to hurry as well. At this moment, he could not help lamenting that it would have been better if he had chosen the warrior class. At least warriors had great strength and could pull apart ropes like these with ease.

Suddenly, Lu Yang thought of something. Warriors could use strength to pull apart the ropes, so why could he not use fire to destroy them?

He began chanting Pyroblast and fired it at the ropes.

Bang!

The ropes were blasted apart by the exploding flames. At that moment, the wooden beam supporting the house overhead came crashing down. The goblin was so frightened that he could not react at all. Just as he was about to be crushed to death, Lu Yang shoved him out of the danger zone, then performed a forward roll to dodge the heavy beam smashing into the ground.

"Don't just stand there stupidly! Run! Without that beam, the whole house is going to collapse!" After getting to his feet, Lu Yang grabbed the goblin and ran swiftly toward the entrance.

The goblin's legs had gone weak from fright. Only after hearing Lu Yang did he snap out of it and hurriedly ran out with him.

Just as the two reached the doorway, the entire roof lost its support and, combined with the fire, came crashing down completely.

With a boom, the house collapsed.