Fire was a flexible element in the world of magic. Its use went far above how hot the fire could get, so it was especially flexible for a mage who knew what to do with it!

  As a level five mage within the Adept Arcana realm of mana, and with an MQ of five hundred points, the things that Timothy could create was nothing short of fascinating! He was far smarter than most mages of his level, and this intelligence that he had, came with countless perks.

  For example, while mages of his level struggled to tinker with ten or so mana channels, he could play with tens of them, and create powers with them, powers that rivaled that of Expert Mages! Other than his high MQ, his CQ also contributed to him creating interesting powers! He was creative.

  “I need to make it invisible…” He plotted.

  The concept of invisible fire was interesting, as it could burn his enemies without them realizing what burned them! It was a brutal way of fighting reserved for the best mages, and considering the current, dark influences that were in his pool, he was enthralled to push the threshold of brutality even further!

  Timothy wanted his fire to be invisible, because he wanted to expand it to something scolding hot, and widespread! He wanted to create clouds of fire, green fire even, which was about thirty percent hotter than his current, red & yellow fireballs!

  “If I keep the clouds under a hundred meter radius, it should take less time to charge them up.” He spoke, frantically.

  Most of his words sounded gibberish, but he was simply expanding on his ideas. He wanted to summon these big, light-green clouds of fire that could wipe out an entire platoon of enemies within a minute! He had boundless aspirations to achieve this.

  Timothy based this idea on the kind of fire Guard Master Zedim had summoned, moments before he put Iron Claw the Wicked down for good. Zedim had summoned a large net of white fire back then, which was the second hottest type of fire he knew of, and it had even been hot enough to shave the scales of the toughest dragon they faced!

  White fire was beyond powerful, but as much as he craved to get his hands on such an ability, he simply wasn't powerful enough to do so. Whatever realm of mana Zedim was on, it was obvious that he had been far more capable in all matters of magic in comparison to Timothy, or at the very least, he had attained his abilities throughout very useful books regarding fire-based powers!

  Whatever the reason was, Timothy didn’t have such advantages at his disposal. He was just smart, and was a beginner in the Adept category of Arcane powers, and these two were the main advantages that he had.

  The system explained that there were various types of colors which signified how hot the fire was. Red-yellow fire was the basic color of a fireball which every mage could claim, green fireballs were next in line, then there was blue, violet, purple, white, and invisible fire being the absolute hottest of all types of fire!

  To a certain point, Timothy hadn't even been aware that invisible fire existed, he assumed that white fire was the hottest, so he felt short-sighted now as the system tried to keep him well informed. He was dumbfounded.

  Furthermore, he was far from being able to summon invisible fire, so he just had to make due with what he was capable of. Green fire was hot enough to fulfill his ideas, and he wanted to create a new ability featuring such a color of fire! Unlike the common fireball, he wanted to make this ability hotter, and widespread, much like that white net of Zedim's was!

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  With little effort, he started working on creating a new ability. He summoned a bulb of pale, mana-less essence, and started running fresh mana channels across it!

  The inner mana channels of fire were simple, but they also seemed a bit disgusting, because Timothy imagined human guts when he worked with them. The channels looked as if four pairs of human guts were tied to one another, with massive gaps of spaces free-floating between the channels!

  It was gross when put into a certain perspective, but the channels were simple enough to craft. To make these channels help emit a hotter kind of fire, he just had to tie the existing mana channels together, so as the channels seem less loppy, or saggy. He had studied the channels of fire enough to know what to improve, but of course, the degree of improvements that he could make was very limited.

  After twenty minutes, he hit the bracket of how much he could tamper with the channels that represented the temperature of the fire, so he stopped pushing it. He couldn’t do anything more to make the fire hotter.

  With that considered, he had to work on different aspects of this ability that he wanted to create. He had to make sure that the fire would be invisible for a certain period of time!

  Creating legitimate, invisible fire was absolutely impossible for him right now, as it would be too hot to handle, so he had to create fake, invisible fire instead. To do this, he had to hollow out a quarter of the mana channels that he already created!

  Hollowing them out had the sort of negative effect that he wanted. Hollowed fire wasn't as hot, it was barely even room temperature because it was considered ‘ghostly fire’ in a sense, or phantom fire, almost non-existent even while in a gaseous form, but this was exactly what he needed to make his new ability work properly!

  The hollowed version of the mana channels would keep the fire lukewarm, perhaps up to forty seconds, giving Timothy enough time to spread the invisible fire across a field, for example. After the forty-second time mark met its end, the phantom fire would turn into very real, green fire, thus being able to wipe out tens of enemies only seconds after its green shade expanded across the battlefield!

  That was about it, the prior example was how he created fake, invisible fire! He considered it to be very clever, and he stole the idea out of the Amplified Soul Eater ability that was under his possession, as this was an ability that was entirely made out of hollowed mana channels! The latter aspect almost made the green fire enter the pre-necromantic category, but he evaded that category specifically by hollowing out only a quarter of the mana channels within the new ability! He didn't need the influence of dark mana in his pool to increase.

  After that point, other than some minor tinkering over the new power that he was creating, the rest of the work would be done upon free use. Phantom-like fire moved slowly, it was sluggish, so it would simply spread across a field by itself, no matter how slowly, as long as Timothy poured it out of his palms continuously. The fire would be invisible, until it wasn’t!

  Timothy finished making it, absorbed the new power in his body, and decided to try it out immediately after! He couldn’t see the fire even after he summoned it, which was the greatest indicator that his plan worked! However, he could smell it.

  The fire had a scent equal to that of a lit cigarette, as it was slowly burning the grass in front of him, but most creatures would not notice this smell. The fire was completely invisible!

  Forty seconds later, the invisible fire became instantly apparent, because it exploded like flammable gas! It scorched a portion of the field to the very last grass root, and the clouds of green fire remained across the field, with the clouds signifying the sloppy movements of its prior form! His idea worked!

  “I can't wait to try this out on a bunch of unsuspecting bastards, haha!” He grinned.

  Timothy decided to name his new creation The Green Plague, because the fire was green, and it could also wipe out a platoon of people, just like the plague would. Similarly, there also was a certain symbolism to this name, related to the green pools of psidium mana that plagued this reef before! He thought about the name a lot even before he created this new ability.

  Mana-wise, the system cited that this ability would cost him twenty-five thousand mana points a second, at most, on the count that this new ability had not been amplified yet. If he spent some mana points to amplify it, it would naturally be cheaper to use it, and he didn't mind spending some points, because after all, he got this ability for free, and didn't buy it off of the system! He had some points to spare.

  Overall, the dwindling flames of the fire in front of him were a grand indicator that he was happy with the results! He created a lethal, destructive ability through his pure brain-power alone!