Chapter 629: Chapter 178: Pulling Chestnuts out of the Fire_1
The rules, objectives, and requirements are not complicated.
Under the premise of not using large magic tools, delve deep into the Lava World’s underground to rescue a Fire Elemental Spirit, who has lost its ability to move due to injury, unscathed.
But not complicated doesn’t mean simple.
The Lava World, as the name suggests, is home to hardly anything besides flames and lava.
Forget there being water, food, and oxygen needed for human survival. The high temperatures alone make it impossible for humans to live normally.
Even a powerful wizard is no exception.
Once your spiritual power and magic power are used up in an environment like the Lava World, they’re gone.
Where could one possibly replenish them?
There’s nowhere to replenish them!
Want to meditate in the extreme environment of the Lava World to recover your spiritual power?
That’s easier said than done.
Want to recover your magic power while meditating?
Where would wizards find that much free magic and elements to absorb?
Therefore, once a wizard has exhausted their spiritual and magic power, it’s impossible for them to survive in a high-temperature, high-pressure environment devoid of water, food, and magic stones.
Even wizards who have a single affinity for the Fire system are not exempt.
Look at the rules, objectives, and requirements summarized in just a sentence or two on the parchment.
Rule: No use of large magic tools.
This means Link cannot create a suitable environment or platform for himself.
In other words, there’s no logistical support, zero margin for error, success must be obtained on the first try.
Otherwise, once your spiritual power and magic power are exhausted, you’ll be completely incapacitated.
This extracurricular practice session would be declared a failure.
Your scores would be deducted, leaving a black mark on your record.
Objective: Delve deep into the earth to rescue the trapped Fire Elemental Spirit.
This means Link will have to endure a hostile environment of extreme heat and pressure to ensure his own survival, and make his way towards an even higher temperatures, greater pressure, and more dangers.
On top of that, one must find a way to rescue the injured Fire Elemental Spirit, who, according to standards in Link’s previous life, could reach a core temperature of 5000℃.
Under the rules, he can’t use large magic tools. How is he supposed to hold the Fire Elemental Spirit?
Use his own hands?
Even hands of steel would melt!
Requirement: Unscathed.
This is a fucking trap!
The Fire Elemental Spirit lost its ability to move because it was injured. How is “unscathed” supposed to be achieved?
This essentially means Link is to heal the Fire Elemental Spirit’s injuries, with no lasting ill effects, a complete cure.
Otherwise, how could he meet the “unscathed” requirement?
Although the Extraordinary Medic system knowledge and witchcraft taught by the academy is not only for humans/wizards, it also includes various treatment methods for all kinds of extraordinary species/professions in all heavens and realms.
However, healing any Elemental Spirit is a topic Link has not yet encountered!
This requirement is beyond scope!
Based on the injuries suffered by the Fire Elemental, Link has to integrate his knowledge of Extraordinary Medic, develop a treatment plan on the spot, and treat it.
The person who designed this requirement probably wanted to test the flexible application of knowledge, I guess?
“Damn it!”
Thinking of this, Link couldn’t help cursing again.
“Why don’t you try standing in this heat that can bake a person alive and see how flexible you can be?”
Easy for you to say, huh?
What a bloody bollocks!
Even when wearing Defense Mode Battle Armor, which shields me from high temperatures and pressure, I still feel the heat.
If I don’t consciously control it, I would break into a sweat and would soon be soaked in it.
As soon as Link stepped out of the Inter-Dimensional Teleportation Portal and came to the Lava World, he began cursing constantly.
The heat was simply unbearable!
Suppressing his mood, Link switched his Destiny Witchcraft “Battle Armor” from Defense Mode to Extreme Survival Mode.
He also significantly enhanced resistances against high temperatures, high pressure, corrosion, and burning.
This was done to isolate the harmful effects of the harsh environment of the Lava World as much as possible.
The price to pay was a significant decrease in attack ability and defensive strength.
With no other choice to preempt potential dangers, Link had to ask Franda to remain vigilant and prepare to reverse summon him into the Fairy World at any time.
Having done all this, Link used the coordinates given on the parchment, searched for a while to find his direction.
Then he leaped like a fish, diving headfirst into the magma.
Link took a straight path, heading rapidly towards the location where the Fire Elemental Spirit was trapped.
Any obstacles encountered on the way, whether they were rocks, whirlpools, or more intense fires, were all smashed through.
He moved with furious momentum.
Since he couldn’t think of a more sophisticated approach, he decided to cut to the chase and make a brute force push!
After all, the rules, objectives, and requirements don’t restrict any of this.
Moreover, Link is not an ordinary Level 2 wizard.
For other Level 2 wizards or a recuperating Link, the seemingly perverse rules, objectives, and requirements are just a minor inconvenience to Link who is in a “ferocious state”, unwilling to hold back, and only wants to quickly finish this extracurricular practice activity.
Although these annoy him, they are far from leaving Link completely helpless.
He was originally intending to participate in this extracurricular activity as an ordinary Level 2 wizard.
He even spent over a week conducting various complex simulation rescue trainings.
In the end, the various methods learned were inferior to brute force pushing in terms of being direct and efficient!