As the head of a town, he had the fighting skills bestowed by the city lord, but he had never reached the standard for training. After taking these two bottles of potion, he would be qualified to practice. Once he became a first-level warrior, he would be able to protect the village better.

After leaving Dolai's small courtyard, he quickly returned home, hid the potion, and prepared to drink it during his evening practice.

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With the iron plate-shaped magic weapon, Duolai was no longer afraid of being discovered when experimenting with the Burning Hand, and he felt more confident in refining the second-level mental power potion.

The iron plate is very easy to activate. Just put some magic crystal residue on it, and then activate it with mental power, and it will automatically absorb the energy in the residue. This kind of low-level magic weapon does not need to be worried about being tampered with. It is too low-level, and Bal has checked it and there is indeed nothing wrong.

He now feels that his greatest luck in life is not his talent, but having Bal.

Doing good things does pay off.

It took several days to refine a batch of ten bottles of second-level mental power potion, and then a batch of materials for burning hands. Duolai planned to practice this witchcraft first, and then consider the matter of wizard's hands.

The saying "one trick is enough to conquer the world" is true everywhere.

For more than ten days, Dolai stayed in the yard and rarely came out. As long as there was no one around, he would try to reconstruct the spell model of Burning Hands.

The spell model form of Burning Hands is fixed, but the node construction method is not fixed. Different construction methods accommodate different mental powers and mental attributes.

There are many kinds of spell nodes, the lowest level is spiral shape, tetrahedron shape, tetrahedron shape, and polyhedron shape. From low level to high level, the difficulty increases each time, but correspondingly, the power and controllability of the spell will also be greatly improved.

For the same spell, the effect after practicing it once or twice and practicing it ten thousand times will be completely different. It is just like swinging a sword. Swinging it hundreds of times and swinging it tens of thousands of times are two different concepts.

As a wizard, you have to choose what kind of spells to use and what kind of effects to create in different environments. These are all very worth studying.

For example, if you want to go to an underground passage, you need to use light-type magic. You obviously need a magic that lasts for a long time and has brighter light. But you insist on choosing a magic that is powerful but lasts for a short time. That is definitely not suitable. Not only is it a waste of materials, it is also inefficient.

In the following period of time, I began to study the spell model of Burning Hands.

At the beginning, in order to quickly condense the spell model, it was natural to condense the simplest spiral spell node. With the improvement of mental strength and control, after becoming familiar with it, I began to study other node methods, such as tetrahedral nodes.

The nodes of the tetrahedron are slightly stronger than the spiral nodes. The triangle represents stability in the model structure. Any side is the same. The same burning hand effect can be released by inputting mental power into it. When Dolai only has 70 copper coins, he can control the vortex, and when he has 100, all the spiral nodes can be replaced by tetrahedrons.

Sometimes, he also tried to mix spiral nodes and tetrahedral nodes. In the end, the experiment concluded that single-node state was more suitable. The spiral shape was easy to condense and fast, and could be completed in two seconds or even less than two seconds, but the burning time was short and the power was insufficient. The tetrahedron was stronger in all aspects, but the condensation speed was a bit slow, and the fastest required five seconds.

In five seconds, if the opponent was a long-range shooter, he would have died countless times.

However, for high-level wizard apprentices whose normal chanting takes eight seconds, Dolai is countless times stronger than them.

The number of nodes is fixed and cannot be increased or decreased, otherwise it will be another witchcraft and even the materials will not be suitable. If you want to change the nodes and create another witchcraft, that is the scope of wizards above level one. At least they do not need the casting materials of zero-level tricks to perform it. This way, large-scale experiments can be carried out. Unlike now, every time Dolai experiments, the casting materials will be wasted, and every time he releases it, he feels like he is bleeding.

Above the tetrahedron is the hexahedron, rectangular or square node structure. According to the book, the length, width and height will affect the performance of the Burning Hand. You can experiment multiple times to choose the form that suits you best.

Dolai tried many times, but his mental control was not enough, so he could only form a general hexahedron or half a tetrahedron at best, and the time it took to condense the spell model was as long as ten seconds.

Ten seconds, not worth it at all.

The biggest advantage of the hexahedron is that it can accommodate more mental power, and the power and duration of the Burning Hand can be controlled at will. It can also initially absorb some energy from the air to increase its power. This is what Dolai values ​​most.

The duration and temperature of burning determine its effect. Although it is a close-range spell and not as good as the higher-level fireball spell, it is also extremely powerful when combined with martial arts, at least in the apprentice stage.

After seeing that it was a problem of mental power, Duolai prepared to take a second-level mental power potion to improve it. He didn't dare to take it himself before because of money, but now that he is not short of money for the time being, he can improve it quickly.

After making the decision, he drank one bottle every five days for a whole month. At this time, his mental strength had increased to 130 copper coins.

This year's winter feels particularly long. Since the first snowfall, the snow on the ground has never melted. Except for the mines around the city of Dormond, everything is white and nothing can be seen.

This winter was also particularly difficult. In mid-December, he and the villagers of the town went into the city. At the city gate, he saw many soldiers pushing wooden carts, dragging dead bodies out of the slums and heading to the mass graves outside the city.

The dead bodies in winter did not have a bad smell. They were all dressed in rags, and their exposed skin was frozen and looked blue all over, which was chilling to the sight.

Without warm clothes and enough food, it is normal to starve to death, at least in the slums.

After passing the slums and entering the city, it seemed much more normal, and although not as lively, at least it looked much better.

After separating from the convoy, Dolai went to see Lao Mi in turn, traded primary mental power potions, purchased a batch of medicinal materials and equipment for refining medicinal materials, and then went to see Lily.

Compared to a month ago, Lily was calmer and her temperament had also changed slightly.

When she saw Dolai, the first thing she asked was if there was any purification potion.

Although Duolai was surprised, he shook his head. This thing had too low adaptability and was very complicated to refine, so it was completely useless.

Lily felt a little regretful.

"If you bring the primary purification potion next time, I'll give you one gold coin for each bottle."