The Lord Demon King is Unfathomable!

Chapter 1267 - 374: Talents Abound in the Academic State (Part 4)

Moreover, how to enhance the power of the Fireball Technique, Prince Colin had provided some thoughts on this during the science class, so this topic shouldn't be too difficult.

However, everything should have been like this.

But when they eagerly arrived at the experimental site to verify, they found things weren't as simple as they imagined.

"No, still not working..."

After another failed attempt, Ben dispersed the fire element he had gathered in his hand and complained with a frustrated expression.

"The combustion effect of wind elements on fire elements is limited. Once it exceeds a certain point, the power of the fireball doesn't just fail to increase, it actually weakens because of its unstable form... Where exactly is the problem, why can Prince Colin do it?"

"Could it be because his spiritual power is stronger than ours? So he can better fuse the wind elements and fire elements?" Hard analyzed with a troubled look, scratching his head, "If that's the case, we probably can't replicate the experiment of that prince no matter what."

The two obviously paid close attention during the science class, but clearly hadn't fully achieved the state of "knowing the how and the why."

Of course, this also had something to do with their master's knowledge being still shallowly taught in class, with many things just being an intro.

Considering the students' inability to comprehend, Luo Yan had yet to talk about the periodic table of elements and later oxygen, only generally mentioning that flames need air to burn, and humans need air to breathe. Therefore, miners on the Gana Continent usually carry a candle when going down the mines and judge their safety by the candlelight.

After a round of discussion, both fell silent, leaving only the sound of other apprentices practicing Wind Blade Technique whistling in the distance in the training field.

Hard unconsciously stared at the magic flame lamp used for lighting on the edge of the training field, watching the flickering flame, and his thoughts unconsciously returned to Prince Colin's class.

And at that moment, he suddenly realized something, his eyes widened as if struck by lightning.

"Wait... Ben, I think... I think we've been thinking about it all wrong! No, we got stuck in a dead end!"

Ben looked at him confusedly.

"What do you mean?"

Hard's breathing became rapid, his voice trembling slightly with excitement.

"We've always been thinking about how to 'burn' the enemy to death with fire...but do you remember? Master Colin mentioned in class that fire requires consuming something invisible to us in order to burn... called, 'air'? It's not just fire that needs it, our breathing does too!"

Upon hearing this, Ben immediately reacted, his eyes widening in surprise.

"You mean...we don't need to directly attack the enemy itself, but use fire to attack the air around the enemy?!"

"That's right! That's exactly what I mean!" Hard excitedly clenched his fist, speaking quickly in a lowered voice, "We can slightly modify the spell, appropriately reduce the temperature of the flame, and instead make the burning range wider! Like fireworks, with a bang, burn up all the air in the entire training ground! Guess what would happen to us and the other few apprentices in the training field?"

Following Hard's train of thought, Ben swallowed saliva, his voice trembling slightly with excitement.

"The people inside will suffocate to death..."

That's definitely not a pleasant way to die.

But it's absolutely efficient!

Hard nodded excitedly, indicating he thought the same.

"Correct!"

Their eyes met, and they saw the mixed light of excitement and fear in each other's eyes!

Although they were eager to verify their hypothesis immediately, unfortunately, the training field was too large, and with their magic power, it was absolutely impossible to complete such a scale of the spell, and other magic apprentices would certainly not cooperate with them.

However, that being said, they still had the conditions to verify their hypothesis on a smaller spatial scale.

For example, burning up the air in a five-meter deep well is more than sufficient with a Bronze Level Fire Element Magic. They just needed to overlap the chanting of two Fireball Techniques, then let the initially gathered fireball explode at a specific time.

The killing effect of the second fireball would be weakened, but it would quickly fill the narrow space and deplete the air within this space.

And if there happened to be a not-good-at-jumping Fine Steel Level Demon Beast in the well, it would undoubtedly be killed by them!

Based on this inference, they immediately made further assumptions — if in specific scenarios like the maze, by relying on the improved dual-explosion Blast Flame Bomb, they would have a chance to use the suffocation effect to kill a monster stronger than themselves with very low consumption!

And they could also avoid damaging the materials on the monster!

Although their hypotheses were full of unreliable inferences and didn't take into account the safety of the spellcasters themselves, after all, this was just a homework assignment, they didn't need to write every conclusion flawlessly like a thesis.

Prince Colin has always been lenient with students' assignments, basically writing something would get a pass, let alone they wrote it seriously.

Ben and Hard completed this whimsical assignment with great enthusiasm and solemnly handed it to Prince Colin's assistant.

At this moment, the two didn't know how against-the-sky their just-submitted assignment would seem in the eyes of players in another world —

These NPCs actually came up with a "thermobaric bomb"!

Even though this thing wasn't very effective against skeleton soldiers, all players couldn't help feeling a sense of urgency.

Urban Resident: "Wow, damn, is the dog planner intending to increase our difficulty level."

Emotionally Stable: "6666!"

Gou Shi: "Can I give these two a zero? This kind of talent must be suppressed. (funny)"

Died and No Longer Fears Ghosts: "Nonsense! Is talent to be suppressed? Shouldn't Lord Demon King lure them over! (funny)"

"..."

In the study of the staff dormitory, the fireplace flames burned fiercely, and a lazy young dragon was snoring comfortably under the desk.

As the players debated whether to give this brainstorm full marks or zero, a certain unprofessional Demon King also noticed this unusual assignment.

When he read the assignment from start to finish, a surprised expression appeared on his face.

"Geniuses indeed."

Even though these two brothers' assignments were roughly written, lacked theoretical basis, and were overly idealistic, the very brainstorm was worth over ninety points.

After all, they weren't standing on the shoulders of giants, at most they were just a little inspired by himself. To be able to think of so much by analogy was already very impressive.

Without the slightest hesitation, Luo Yan put the assignment into the drawer, planning to later hand it to his assistant, to help bring these two into his laboratory.

"Hehehe... Lord Demon King, congratulations on discovering another treasure! Oh no, two!" Youyou, floating beside, let out a sneaky laugh.

But not long after, it probably saw posts by players and became anxious again.

"But Lord Demon King, after all, they are apprentices of the Academic State, aren't you worried they'll use the knowledge you taught them against you?"

Luo Yan smiled faintly.

This was his least worry.

"Hell's major problem has never been the Imperial State, and the Imperial State's major problem has never been Hell. Open the perspective a bit, when the light of enlightenment shines on this snowfield, the ones who begin to worry will never be us."

Seeing the still-confused Youyou, Luo Yan succinctly said.

"If you really can't understand, just think of it as using other people's chicken to hatch our own eggs."

This sentence probably triggered some keywords, causing Taufu under the desk to tremble suddenly, and its tightly closed mouth moved, mumbling in its sleep.

"No, no more..."

"Can't do it anymore."

Luo Yan: "…?"