Chapter 265: Chapter 265: The Eternal Flame

"Whoa—Grand Magician Drinkwater is so generous!"

"Forget exploring! Let’s just start teaching!"

"Grand Magician Drinkwater’s doing the right thing. When you’re facing enemies like that, just take them out. I can’t believe at that point he was still thinking about making his enemies fight each other while he reaps the benefits. That kind of guy deserved to be destroyed."

"I want to learn Meteor Fall—that move was just too cool!"

"You’re talking like you’d actually be able to learn it even if he taught you."

In the livestream, people had been a bit annoyed that Grand Magician Drinkwater showed zero curiosity about the mysterious legendary powerhouse who suddenly appeared. But his words instantly washed away all that dissatisfaction.

Almost everyone shifted their attention to his promise to teach them knowledge.

Knowledge is priceless.

Especially magical knowledge.

Countless spells have been lost through the ages because they’re only passed down to a master’s most trusted disciples—sometimes even regular students don’t qualify to learn them. Against this backdrop, an unbelievable number of spells have already been lost to history.

Even the ones that survive are mostly black box magic—most people know how to use them but have no idea how they actually work.

But even black box magic isn’t something just anyone can get their hands on.

A legendary magician offering to teach magical knowledge online? How could that not attract people?

Even non-magicians, even people who weren’t mage apprentices and had no clue what being a magician was all about, desperately wanted this. They wanted to record it—what if someone in their family became a magician? What if they could learn it in the future?

This was knowledge from a legendary magician!

Watching the livestream’s changing mood, Grand Magician Drinkwater broke into a huge smile. "Here’s what we’ll do—let’s head back now. Those jerks demolished my magic tower, and even though I’ve taken back quite a bit of resources these past few days, it’ll still take some time to rebuild it... So we’ll go back to my family’s territory and do the teaching there!"

"Starting today, I’ll stream every day and teach you all some magic."

The moment those words came out, the livestream audience went wild.

Every single day! Teaching something new every day! Even if it was just one spell a day, for most people, that was an incredible gift!

It was like money falling from the sky!

Grand Magician Drinkwater’s flying speed didn’t disappoint the livestream audience. In just the short time it took them to rush over to Magic Space, chat groups, and other places to call their friends, he’d already made it back to his homeland.

He’d crossed half the continent again!

By this point, the livestream had hit a terrifying 2.4 million viewers!

"In this world, magic takes countless forms."

After taking a quick drink of water and greeting his family’s old steward, Grand Magician Drinkwater cut straight to the point. "Some are incredibly powerful, some are mysteriously unpredictable, some can massively improve quality of life, and some can even destroy heaven and earth..."

"Because of this, aside from the Goddess of Magic herself, probably no one else could ever learn every single spell. Me? I’ve wasted a few hundred years and only managed to master about 12,000 different spells, of which fewer than 800 are ones I created myself."

"And about 10,000 of those are fire, earth, and wind system spells. That’s exactly why I was able to fuse three elements together and create a forbidden spell like Meteor Fall."

Just those few sentences left the livestream audience completely speechless. To become an official magician, there’s only one requirement: during the mage apprentice stage, you need to be able to build one spell model.

Just one could help someone leap across social classes!

And Grand Magician Drinkwater had mastered a full 12,000 spells!

Most of them definitely weren’t black box magic—he understood the principles, otherwise there’d be no way he could create 800 new spells himself. Especially since Meteor Fall was created by combining three different elemental properties, which made it even more impressive.

Stunned!

Burning with excitement!

Desperate!

Expectant!

All kinds of emotions surged through every viewer’s heart.

Finally, after a long preliminary explanation, Grand Magician Drinkwater changed direction and said with a smile, "Everyone’s been so supportive of me lately, and I’m really moved by that. So I’ve decided that today I’m going to teach you all a very special spell I’ve mastered. This spell is called—Eternal Flame!"

Eternal Flame?!

That name was completely unfamiliar to most magicians. They’d never heard of it before, and it wasn’t any of the forbidden spells Grand Magician Drinkwater had recently used, which left quite a few people disappointed.

But any magician who had heard of this name—their eyes lit up with incredible intensity! Even some legendary magicians looked absolutely burning with desire!

My god! This guy Drinkwater can actually pull out such a terrifying spell!

Almost every Grand Magician paying attention to this wore a shocked expression on their face.

"Eternal Flame isn’t an attack spell. You can’t even really think of it as a normal spell. But for most magicians who want to specialize in fire magic, it’s just as valuable as a forbidden spell."

Grand Magician Drinkwater watched the changes in the livestream and, feeling he’d built up the tension enough, spoke directly and bluntly. "Don’t think I’m exaggerating. Once you hear about Eternal Flame’s properties, you’ll definitely feel the same way."

"Eternal Flame has only one function: support. Once you build the Eternal Flame spell model in your body, any fire magic you use from then on—or any multi-element magic that includes fire properties—will be enhanced by the Eternal Flame spell model. From that point forward, even if you just throw a simple Fireball, that fireball will turn into an Eternal Flame Ball."

"The special property of Eternal Flame is this: it’s persistent and inextinguishable. Once it touches something, it’s incredibly hard to get rid of unless you recall it yourself. Just imagine—you only threw a simple Fireball, but the fireball burns on your opponent for three whole days and nights. They try everything but can’t put out the fire. What happens then?"

"Of course, how long this persistence and inextinguishability actually lasts depends on your own abilities. If you’re a low-level magician, you might only maintain it for about half an hour. But if you’re a legendary magician, you can easily maintain it for ten or twenty days. In the middle of combat, the benefits this kind of magic brings—well, I don’t think I need to explain that too much, right?"

"Oh, and Eternal Flame has another feature. Once you’ve built the spell model in your body, it won’t consume any magic power. In other words, this is a passive skill. Once you build it, you’ve mastered it. You never have to think about it again—it automatically enhances your spells."

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The livestream completely exploded!

Madness!

Everyone went absolutely crazy.

What kind of godly spell was this?!

If they had to choose right now, even if you put ten forbidden spells in front of them, they’d still pick learning Eternal Flame!