Chapter 3: Furnace Spells

Before he knew it, Russell found that the time he spent at Delphinch's house was starting to get longer.

Two weeks ago, Russell had worked overtime with Uncle Herman to prepare a birthday present for the next day.

Russell, who didn't sleep all night, in order to ensure that there would be no problems during the prosthetic surgery the next day, also gave himself an injection of "overtime music".

That's the colleagues in the cyber security department, sometimes working more than 24 hours of overtime to give themselves a shot to refresh themselves. It can effectively regulate blood pressure, protect the heart, and prevent sudden death on the premise of keeping the mind calm and not trembling.

As the head office of Happy Island, Tianen Group has the priority right to admit talents on the whole island.

That's the best talent pool among more than 40 million people, and it can be called a large number of talents...... Because of this, Tianen Group usually only needs to improve the welfare of the head office, and can easily poach people from other companies and let them work for themselves sincerely.

The method is simple – the more other companies like to work overtime and not pay them, the more they have to pay more without overtime – they are monopolies anyway, and they own more than two-thirds of the small companies on the island.

As long as Tianen Group slightly raises the performance requirements for small companies, those small companies have to let employees work overtime to complete the indicators, and the more outstanding the talent, the heavier and more tiring the task...... And the top management of those small companies may not have the brains to distinguish who is the core talent, let alone the consciousness to please them. Maybe under office politics, the best people will be sidelined.

And when they leave their jobs, they will naturally go to Tianen Group, which has high benefits and no overtime, or other head offices.

This is the righteous and bright yang scheme.

But even so, colleagues in the cyber security department often have to work overtime.

Because the business under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Cyber Security is relatively complex. In addition to the surveillance cameras in various places, the location of the perpetrator's chip, the shallow data collection and analysis of suspected demons, and the manual contact when the execution department is dispatched, it is also responsible for managing online public opinion, deleting fraudulent information on the network, maintaining the company's firewall, and defending or actively attacking those psionic hackers.

Therefore, the Cybersecurity Department not only works overtime, but even schedules special night shifts...... But sometimes when I get busy, the day shift will also work overtime to the night shift, and the night shift will also work overtime to the day shift. Three to five times the gradual increase in overtime hourly wages is naturally a clever way to reassure people's hearts, but the medicine commonly known as "overtime music" imported from ampoule biomedical is a powerful weapon that can prevent sudden death and improve work efficiency.

When Russell was in school, he heard that some small companies on the island of Holy Blood were trying to imitate the drug. As the head office of the Holy Blood Island, Ampoule Biomedical not only did not stop them, but quietly watched them operate.

Until now, four or five years later, I haven't heard of anyone succeeding. I have to say that the level of ampoule biology in pharmaceutical technology is almost disconnected.

After Russell's injection, the operation went very smoothly...... But the duration of this injection can only be about six or seven o'clock in the evening. Although Ampoule Bio claims that it can be injected three to four times in a row, it will not cause significant damage to the body. However, Russell believes that any medicine has side effects...... So he didn't refill the stitch, but ran away directly after fitting the new prosthetic for Delphinium.

He didn't even eat much dinner that night, and when he got home, he drank a bowl of instant noodles casually and fell asleep.

Russell slept for twelve hours that day and woke up refreshed and without a headache or fatigue. He also had to sigh that this medicine was indeed a bit of a statement.

And when he came to Delfinium's house last weekend, he had to stay for a meal at night because he was in too much of a hurry last Sunday. Counting the trip on Saturday night, he ate four meals and slept at Delphinium's house......

This week, because Russell asked Miss Bingshui in advance, she was off on Saturday...... So Russell and Delphinium came back at noon on Saturday.

This time, after Russell ate on Sunday night, he was left by his uncle and aunt to sleep again.

He even found that he already had his own toiletries in the Delphinium's house.

…… What's going on with this feeling?

Although he hasn't confessed yet, the people around him seem to be acquiescing to the two dating......

But it's not bad.

Anyway, it's okay for him to go back.

Russell has been in the Furnace of Pain for the past month, learning the use of the Crucible School of spells from Mr. Jungo.

The strangulation didn't accompany the godfather...... After sending the godfather over, he left within a few days.

Because I heard that this month, some more wild mages have been born...... Although the era of the "White Lion Group" is over, even if it is just because of his wariness of ale and contempt for other mages, he can't let those mages recruit on a large scale.

So Strangulation went to the original wasteland again, preparing to get a few new apprentices back and expand the power of his faction.

Exploring in the dream realm is not in a hurry if you are alone.

It's like a game you bought, which may last intermittently for months when you have the time and energy. But if it's a game that can be played online, the brothers can't wait to have fun every night - occasionally someone slacks off for a day, and a few other brothers will go to the game together.

Because of this, when Strangulation dragged Russell to explore the dream world together, Russell's time was occupied every night.

But after the strangulation was gone, Russell didn't know the way again...... He was also a little worried, if he didn't lead the way by strangulation, he might not be able to come back if he was too far away from the Pain Furnace, so he simply didn't go out inside. Anyway, as long as he stays in the Pain Furnace, even if he falls to the next area because he hasn't moved for a long time, he just needs to come back.

It's a pity that Mr. Jungo is a relatively silent type, and he can't make a fart with three sticks - Russell often surrounds Jungo to ask for some common sense in the dream world. But Russell asked ten questions, and in nine of them, the teacher would answer them in silence in a sound of iron, and most of the remaining ones who were willing to answer two sentences would reply in a riddle-like way that was briefly summarized in one sentence.

If you ask too much, you will easily be caught by the end of the country and hit a hammer on the chopping board. Russell's brain buzzed.

But on the other hand, it's also fortunate that the end of the country is a relatively silent kind of teacher.

Russell didn't come to the dream world occasionally, and he didn't even ask him what he was going to do...... Of course, even if Russell was in the dream world, he might not be able to teach anything.

It is said that the other mad mages are either extremely controlling and require their apprentices to learn spells "every night"; Either they like to send apprentices to a designated area to complete tasks, and come back to hand in the "certification" they have obtained in exchange for school spells; Some even eat students, or will make students part of their own power; Others have students hunt elves or angels, or make sacrifices for them in reality.

For example, the other day...... On Friday night, Russell went to Dream Realm to ask for leave from his hometown.

As soon as Russell opened his eyes, he heard the end of the country striking iron in front of him. When it is said to be iron, it is actually to remove a part of one's body and beat it.

So Russell leaned over and asked, "Teacher, what are you studying tonight?" ”

Then he was silent for half an hour, ignoring him.

Russell knew what he meant, which was that there was no class tonight.

Russell asked again: "Teacher Zhong, can you tell us about the Lunar Optics School you mentioned last time?" ”

That day, the end of the country may have been in a better mood, so there was a sentence of "a madman who tried to enter the painting in vain".

There was no movement again.

Later, Russell asked again, and was arrested and beaten by Zhongxiang. After beating him, his "thinking impurities" were removed, and it was Russell's curiosity that was hammered out that day.

So Russell took two days off from his hometown—he probably guessed at the time that he might not be able to return on Sunday night.

Zhongxiang didn't ask why or what to do, but continued to strike iron in silence.

Russell understood that this was a teacher's approval.

- Such a complex way of communication, that is, Russell was able to read the thoughts of others.

He was actually quite curious about how the strangled lion who had no brains at all usually communicated with his hometown...... But it's a pity that Russell saw the strangulation for three consecutive nights and was "rolled" and flew out.

But Russell did see one thing, and that was that he didn't like to take students — like the kind of graduate tutor who focused on research.

I didn't plan to teach hard at all, and the main purpose of the graduate students I accepted was to do miscellaneous ......

And it's the same with the end of the country.

It's like he's squatting in this place and concentrating on leveling, and then someone rushes over and says, "Teach me, big guy." And the reaction of the end of the country is "brain shielding".

According to the speed of his reaction, he can definitely hear it, and he is not "so engrossed that he can't react" at all. It's just that you don't want to pay attention to people.

From this point of view, the Crucible School really has no future......

Regarding this, Russell also tentatively asked Zhongxiang that day - somewhat surprisingly, Zhongxiang did not mind the students changing jobs, and could even be said to be encouraging.

Mr. Jungo finally spoke.

He said he knew from the beginning that Russell was not a good fit for the Furnace.

He also said that strangulation had completely deviated from the way of the furnace. Strangler didn't dare to stay here because he had lost the power of the Crucible School and feared that he would be discovered by the end of his country—but he already knew.

If the strangulation continues to deviate from the path of wrath, even the way of wrath will withdraw its power from him...... The power of the fire of rage.

And Russell asked his hometown, what path is he suitable for?

So the teacher stopped talking again.

Like an old man wearing a hearing aid, sometimes he can hear and sometimes he can't, but Russell can't be sure if he really can't hear or pretend to can't......

But at least one thing can be known, and that is to wait for Russell to learn to "melt the furnace incarnation...... That is, Russell has been greedy for a long time, and after strangling the cool spell that can turn him into a ball of flame and move at high speed, Jungoku doesn't plan to teach himself anything else.

At present, Russell has learned the three spells of "Furnace Grip", "Flame Talisman", and "Flame Energy" from Mr. Jungo.

The first is the one commonly used in the Hanging, which can evoke the flames of the Furnace of Pain by touching it, and burn others to ashes.

That flame was able to burn through steel and prosthetics in an instant, not because of how hot it was...... It's because these flames from the "source of rage" are actually strange creatures.

Yes, biological...... The burst of dark red flames, the crimson river of lava, but in fact, it is a spirit creature similar to a bacterium, and it is essentially an existence similar to a "demon". But there is no advanced intelligence that belongs to demons, just like ants and humans are carbon-based creatures.

They are able to burst into a disintegrating force and rapidly replicate themselves by devouring the emotion of "anger", and the flames and lava are only cosmetic manifestations, which are essentially a reductive reaction...... So after the "lover" was burned off by Russell's arm at that time, her body temperature was not greatly raised. And the prosthetic man who was strangled and burned to death was left with only a small puddle, and there was no ultra-high temperature that could burn the onlookers, but it was more like it had been "corroded".

Because of this, these "flames of anger" can ignore "combustible" and "non-combustible" and burn directly regardless of the ignition point. Neither gold nor tungsten could resist the incineration of such flames.

And the process of learning spells is to pass the certification of the Pain Furnace and introduce a little bit of the flame that has been "tamed" by the end of the country into one's own mental body, that is, the "self" in the dream world, as an introduction. When you tame the "fire" in your body, you can make them react simply...... For example, it bursts out of one's own body, blocks attacks or pushes back others, or temporarily injects bullets and blades.

In reality, the strong emotions that constantly feedback back to the heart will inevitably and unstoppably tend to the path of "anger", which is why the power of other paths is needed to suppress it.

But fortunately, Russell usually does not have to switch to the identity of the godfather. Therefore, the subtle negative impact of learning this spell on him will be much smaller.

After mastering this spell, Russell was able to absorb the power of fire from the Way of Wrath, and instead of being an ordinary flame of rage, it was a more concentrated and active "rage" drawn from the Furnace of Pain, or the river of anger, and it could be easily manipulated.

- This is the secret of the Crucible's unique "series of spells".

After learning about this principle, Russell suddenly realized something......

His decapitation of the saint also increases toughness, cutting power and length through the strength of "determination". And as soon as the resolve wears off, its length also decreases and fades.

And the "sharpness" that seems to be able to cut through everything will burst out like a chainsaw when cutting...... It seems that the flame of the Crucible School is essentially the same.

…… From this point of view, psionic armament may be essentially the same as these "school spells".

The nature of psionic and sorcery may be the same.