When the sword cshed with the stone, brilliant sparks spread out rapidly like a spider web.

  A sudden sense of unease filled Bine's mind, but before he could react, everything in front of him was engulfed by the leaping firelight!

  Boom~

  The violent explosion echoed through the silent lower town. Lynn, who wasn't far away, was also blown to the ground by the shockwave of the explosion. At the same time, the brain's prompt tone sounded.

  [Energy depleted, overload mode ended...]

  "Cough, cough..." Lynn cmbered up from the ground in a sorry state, then immediately felt a void. The tinuous casting had drained his magic power dry.

  pared to Lynn, who was affected by the bst, Bine, who was in the ter of the explosion, looked muiserable...

  As the dust settled, Lynn couldn't help but take a sharp breath. Bi the ter of the explosion, looked inhuman. Half of his sword-wielding right arm was blown off, his exposed skin was bd red, his chest armor was shattered and cracked, and one could faintly see putrefied flesh and white bones inside...

  Even more terrifying, the intense explosion instantly draihe surrounding oxygen. Bine's shrill screams sted only a few seds before abruptly stopping.

  Lynn couldn't help but feel a pang of fear. He had heard of the power of methane explosions on TV news, but it was the first time he saw it firsthand, especially sihis time, he had created it himself.

  If Bine hadn't been too far away, and the trajectory of the "Fireball Teique" easy to predid avoid, he wouldn't have taken the risky approach, using the principle of a methane explosion to lure and kill his oppo.

  It was thanks to the wondrous magic power that allowed him to manipute the flow of air to some extent. Plus, the lower town wasn't g in "materials," so reag a tration suffit to cause an explosion wasn't an easy feat.

  Lynn picked up the long sword that had fallen to the ground and cautiously approached to check Bine's dition.

  Despite such severe injuries, Bine hadn't instantly died. The two eyeballs that were barely attached to their sockets stared at him, his mouth making a "clug" sound, indig that his vocal cords had also been damaged.

  "Let me send you off. o thank me!" Lynn said coldly. He couldn't help but hate Bine for barging into the house and f him into a desperate situation, but he had no iion of t him. In this state, he probably couldray information anyway.

  So death was the best end for him!

  Lynn raised the long sword and precisely thrust it into Bine's heart, watg as the tter's body trembled violently before once again falling silent.

  Perhaps it was the influence of hatred, or perhaps it was Carl's inal body's influence. In addition to the psychological disfort, Lynn didn't feel excessively unfortable after personally ending a life. In fact, the aftereffects of casting spells back to back made his brain throb with pain occasionally.

  firming that Bine was truly dead, Lynn's tightly wound expression finally rexed. His body swayed, and he used the long sword in his right hand as a crutch to keep from colpsing.

  "071..." Lynn called softly in his mind but received no response. Remembering the earlier prompt, he uood that the brain had likely shut dowo excessive energy ption.

  In response, Lynn had no solution but to wait for 071 to replenish its energy. At this moment, his mind was filled with fusion.

  What exactly was the magic power used by wizards, and why could it manipute chemical elements?

  And those strange ruhat appeared inexplicably in his mind just now...

  What left Lynn most perplexed was that, uhe overload mode of the brain, he could even directly vert magic power into hydrogen and oxygen.

  Did this mean that magic power could be verted into any other element?

  If so, the wonder of this thing would far exceed his expectations.

  [Follow me! I will reveal the truth of this world to you!]

  Recalling what his mentor Kro had said when they met half a year ago, Lynn couldn't help but tremble.

  Perhaps the old wizard wasn't just fooling him back then!

  It was no wonder Carl's inal body would give up a stable life of food and clothing to bee a Wizard Apprentice...

  Unfortunately, Carl's inal body had studied magic for too short a time. Plus, Kro had more than one apprentice, and teag time was limited, so Lynn hadn't had access to more secrets.

  The aftereffect of overing magic power left Lynn terrified. During the st spell cast, he almost thought his brain was going to explode, and his body felt as weak as if he had just suffered a severe illness, urgently wanting to lie down and sleep.

  But Lynhis wasn't the time to rest. Though he had dealt with two ehe otion from the battle in the slums would likely be reported to the local tribunal soon, which would surely send more people to capture him.

  The immediate priority was to quickly find a pce to hide and figure out a way to tact a wizard...

  Lynn gnced down at Bine's corpse, prodded it with the sword, and cut open the damaged pouch at his waist, causing a small pile of s to spill out.

  A Sears gold , seven silver s, and more than a dozen copper s.

  Seeing that these well-crafted s had not been damaged by the explosion, Lynn's mood improved slightly.

  As a noble's illegitimate child, Carl's inal body had never beehy. After running away from home for more than three months, occasionally funding his mentor's research, he could barely afford to eat...

  With this windfall, he wouldn't have to risk returning to that dipidated house, which was likely a dead end now.

  "Hmm?" Ly down to gather the s and uedly found a piece of part that had fallen out alongside them.

  Underh the scorg heat, most of the writing was pletely unreadable, leaving only faint characters like [Wuer Town], [Moonlit Day], [Johnny], and [Seventeen copper s].

  "Wuer Town?" Lynn muttered to himself, and out of caution, he didn't destroy it on the spot but instead kept the burned part.

  He needed someone who could answer his questions. Heading to Wuer Town to find other apprentices might be a good choice.

  At least it would be more reliable than him searg alone for those hidden wizards...

  As Lynn pondered, he grabbed Bine's ankle and dragged the body toward the foul-smelling Seep River not far away.

  In this medieval world of magid divis, even the dead couldn't be trusted. If the church of this world possessed the Resurre Teique, his information could be leaked.

  The safest method was to dispose of the body entirely!