As a mage, what was the most efficient way to completely clear out a Goblin Cave?
To a certain extent, this was not a question worth discussing.
After all, even the lowest-level magic apprentice still held the status of a Spellcaster.
The lowest-level cantrips they had mastered, including "Blade Ward," "Friends," and "Mending," were enough to make these mage apprentices welcome adventuring companions across most regions of this continent, second only in popularity to Priest-type professions.
Any squad with a fixed Spellcaster member basically no longer made a living by hunting low-level Monsters like Goblinoids.
With the high cost of supplies, if they took a Goblin Nest as the final objective of a mission, they might even end up losing a dozen or so Gold Coins after a single trip.
Therefore, unless there were special circumstances, those professional mages with comprehensive spell lists had neither the interest nor the time to spend their energy wiping out Goblinoid communities like those low-level Adventurers.
At most, they would casually throw in a Fireball, or stuff in a cloud of stench that spewed Corrosive Toxin, and nothing living could possibly remain inside the cave.
And for Vior, this was likewise not a problem.
Perhaps because of her own purpose, she could not crudely turn the Goblinoids into ash or pus as mentioned above.
But as a former Transcendent-level academy Spellcaster, the complete spell list engraved into her soul's memory over her long academic career
allowed her, even if she could only cast first- and second-ring spells under normal conditions, to still possess countless methods to turn these filthy, short, ugly Monsters into cold corpses while preserving the condition of the site as much as possible.
Whoosh—a highly condensed point of light was like a shooting star falling from the night sky.
Wrapped in