"Instant-cast wand?"
Ethan directly took out the newly obtained reward from his backpack.
This wand looked very ancient and very simple, so simple that it even gave people the illusion that it was just an ordinary tree branch.
After all, judging from its appearance, forget about whether it was valuable or not, it basically looked no different from the big chopsticks used to fry dough sticks, even the color was almost the same.
If there was… anything about this wand that made people feel it was extraordinary, it was probably the feeling when holding it.
Although nothing special could be seen from its appearance, the moment the wand entered his hand, Ethan could feel the surrounding elements, wood, earth, and water, all becoming lively and cheerful.
It felt like… he could awaken them with ease.
"Great Fireball Technique, split!"
The instant this thought flashed through Ethan's mind, the instant-cast wand in his hand immediately reacted.
The next moment, it condensed a fireball.
So fast that Ethan didn't even have time to react.
He hurriedly flicked his hand.
Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!
The Great Fireball, which could originally only split into two, actually split into four smaller fireballs in that instant.
Then the four fireballs shot off rapidly in four different directions, eventually striking the trunks of three dead trees to the east, west, and north.
BOOM!
BANG! BANG! BANG!
A series of explosions rang out, directly blasting several dead trees into the air.
Seeing the power of the Great Fireball, Ethan instantly stared with his eyes wide open.
'What the hell, is this still a level-two Great Fireball Technique?'
It actually blew apart four trees, each over a meter thick, snapping them clean in half in one go.
It wasn't like he hadn't used a level-two Great Fireball to blow up trees before.
But, Ethan glanced at the craters left on the trees from when he had missed a few shots while fighting monsters earlier.
Although the power was strong, it had only blasted out fist-sized holes at most. There was absolutely nothing like this kind of terrifying force that could send entire trees flying in one strike.
"This is… because of the wand's power?"
Ethan looked down at the wand in his hand. Then he put it away, recited a short chant, and once again cast a level-two Great Fireball at a tree.
Pop!
Sure enough, it only split into two fireballs.
There was no change from before, and when it hit the trunk, it only blew out a hole.
Although the depth and width were slightly greater than the craters from his earlier missed shots, there was no way it could break the entire trunk.
"As expected, anything that comes from admiration value is good stuff."
Ethan took the wand out again and couldn't help but sigh. This wand was ridiculously useful.
He could finally use his other two powerful spells freely.
Soft and Hard.
These two spells were indeed very useful, but their chants were insanely long. If an enemy attacked, he'd probably get bitten to death before he even finished chanting!
But now, with instant casting, it was completely different.
"Soft!"
Without hesitation, Ethan cast the Soft spell at a dead tree.
The next second, the entire dead tree turned soft like a piece of stiff cardboard soaked in water, then slumped down onto the ground.
Seeing this bizarre scene, Ethan suddenly became curious, 'What will I get if I collected such a tree?'
"Collect!"
[Pulp +10]
'Huh?'
That was actually quite scientific.
After turning the tree into a slurry, it became raw material for papermaking, pulp.
Using the Soft spell on a dead tree was essentially changing the internal molecular arrangement, directly turning it into pulp.
'Interesting. Then if I use Hard on a softened tree, will it revert back?'
With this curiosity, Ethan casually cast Soft on another tree. The dead tree once again softened and collapsed limply onto the ground.
"Hard!"
Immediately after, Ethan swung the wand again and cast the Hard spell.
But the softened tree didn't straighten back up as he had imagined. It remained lying on the ground, only becoming rigid. It looked as if the tree had always grown slanted like this, strangely unnatural.
Ethan stepped forward and touched the trunk.
He discovered, the originally wooden tree had turned into a material as hard as stone.
"Collect!"
[Stone +1]
"Huh?"
'A tree that has been hardened actually turned into stone?'
'Could it be… because the tree had become a fossil?'
Ethan was somewhat shocked.
'Then if the stone turns soft again, will it…'
"Soft… Hard… Soft!"
Ethan cast the spells three times in succession on another tree.
First softening it, then hardening it, and finally softening it again. The reason he did this was to verify his conjecture.
Sure enough, the moment the final Soft spell was cast, the tree in front of Ethan directly turned into a pile of mud.
"Collect!"
[Mud +1]
"As expected."
Ethan was somewhat astonished.
Magic could not only change the shape of objects, but also alter their internal structure.
In the future, if he encountered particularly tough monsters, perhaps after several transformations, he wouldn't even need to do anything else, he could just turn them directly into some kind of raw material.
'Awesome!'
"Hiss!"
The scarecrow jumped over to Ethan, sucking in a breath of cold air, ["Ethan, what are you doing?"]
No one had paid attention to it along the way, and it had been bored out of its mind.
After finally arriving at the Land of the Living Dead, just when it was about to speak, Nostradamus waved his hand and flung it onto a tree, forcing it to hold it in for over an hour again.
It was seriously about to suffocate from holding it in.
"Just testing how this new weapon works," Ethan smiled, "Didn't expect the results to be this good."
["More than good, it's downright terrifying,"] The scarecrow glanced at Ethan's lower body and swallowed hard, ["So what now? Where are we going next?"]
"Home!"
Ethan answered without hesitation.
The scarecrow was instantly dumbfounded, "Home already? Didn't you just come out? Why are you heading back so soon?"
"This trip was just to confirm whether those sun worms could really withstand it. Since there's no problem, it's time to go back and distribute the bugs so the residents can go out to work," Ethan said, "With how this game operates, if it can already cut down players like this during the beginner phase, do you really think there won't be other crises after this polar night?"
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