Wizard Gloom-Bright stood in place, his gaze sweeping over the circular tiered seating. “The essence of a composite elemental spell is to forcibly fuse energy particles of two or more attributes together, forming a new energy structure that possesses the characteristics of multiple attributes simultaneously.”
He raised his right hand and drew a half-circle in front of him with his index finger. A pale gold halo of energy emerged out of air, and inside it, two clumps of energy particles of different colors condensed at the same time. One was crimson, representing the fire attribute, while the other was deep blue, representing the water attribute.
“Water and fire—everyone knows they are opposing attributes. Under normal circumstances, placing them together will cause them to cancel each other out, annihilate, and generate a violent energy backlash.”
The two clumps of energy particles slowly drew closer inside the halo.
When the distance shrank to one centimeter, the halo began to vibrate violently. The crimson and deep blue energy particles eroded each other at the boundaries, producing faint crackling sounds.
“But if we adjust their rotation frequencies to turn their energy fluctuations from confrontation into synchronization, what will happen?”
Wizard Gloom-Bright gently tapped the surface of the halo with his index finger.
The rotation frequencies of the two clumps of energy particles began to change.
The vibration speed of the crimson fire-attribute particles gradually accelerated, while the vibration speed of the deep blue water-attribute particles gradually slowed down.
The two different frequencies suddenly overlapped at a certain node.
The energy backlash inside the halo ceased.
Crimson and deep blue intertwined, coiled, and fused in the center of the halo.
The two colors began to permeate each other. Deep blue patterns emerged within the crimson, and crimson motes of light surfaced within the deep blue.
The permeation spread from the edges to the center and diffused from the center to the edges, ultimately forming a brand-new energy structure that possessed the characteristics of both water and fire attributes.
Wizard Gloom-Bright stretched out his left hand, spreading his fingers.
The water-fire fusion sphere hovering in the center of the halo slowly drifted over to float above his palm.
Crimson and deep blue flowed and intertwined inside the sphere, permeating each other yet remaining distinctly demarcated, like a bisected two-colored gem.
“This is the most basic binary fusion. Fire and water are opposing attributes, and the difficulty of fusing them ranks in the top three among all binary combinations.”
He gently traced a line across the surface of the sphere with his right index finger.
The internal structure of the fusion sphere was instantly displayed before everyone.
It was not a simple mixture, but a nested spiral structure, layer upon layer.
The crimson fire-attribute energy particles and the deep blue water-attribute energy particles each orbited along spiral tracks. Extremely fine threads of energy connected the tracks, with each thread vibrating at an incredibly high frequency.
The entire circular building became so quiet that a pin drop could be heard.
The gazes of sixty to seventy thousand wizards were all pinned onto that palm-sized energy ball.
Wizard Gloom-Bright lightly clenched his left hand.
The fusion sphere silently dissolved.
The crimson and deep blue energy particles separated from their fused state, turning back into two independent energy clumps hovering on either side of his palm.
“Binary fusion is the foundation of all composite elemental spells.” Wizard Gloom-Bright lowered his left hand, his gaze sweeping over the circular tiers. “But basic does not mean simple. Many of you here have probably attempted water-fire fusion. And what was the result?”
No one answered.
Wizard Gloom-Bright's mouth twitched. The expression could hardly be called a smile; it was more like an understanding of “as expected.”
“Failure is completely normal. The key to water-fire fusion is not whether your mental power is strong enough, but whether you can find the resonance frequency between the two types of particles. This frequency is not fixed; it changes with the density of the energy particles, environmental temperature, spatial energy concentration, and even tiny fluctuations in your own mental power. You might find it today, but change the environment tomorrow, and the frequency changes.”
He raised his right hand, spreading his fingers.
Above his palm, four clumps of energy particles of different colors condensed simultaneously.
Crimson fire, deep blue water, greenish-gray wind, and dark yellow earth.
“Therefore, the true difficulty of high-level composite elemental spells does not lie in the fusion itself, but in establishing a dynamic fusion model that can self-adapt to environmental changes.”
The four clumps of energy particles began to draw closer.
Someone in the circular tiered seating gasped.
Four attributes.
Fusing simultaneously.
Ethan's pupils constricted slightly.
In his mental power perception, the way those four clumps of energy particles orbited was completely different from what he had expected.
Wizard Gloom-Bright did not have them fuse in pairs first and then merge; instead, he directly established a quadrupole resonance structure.
With the opposing attributes of fire and water as the vertical axis and the opposing attributes of wind and earth as the horizontal axis, the two sets of opposing attributes resonated at the exact same frequency within the same spatial coordinate.
This was no longer just technique.
This was art.
The four clumps of energy particles fused in Wizard Gloom-Bright's palm into a fist-sized sphere.
Four colors of light patterns flowed across the surface of the sphere: crimson, deep blue, greenish-gray, and dark yellow. The four colors intertwined, flowed, and permeated each other on the sphere's surface, forming a constantly shifting pattern.
Within the sphere, a four-sided pyramid-shaped energy structure could be vaguely seen rotating slowly, with each facet corresponding to one attribute.
“A quaternary fusion model. The difficulty of binary fusion multiplied by four, and the difficulty of stability control multiplied by sixteen.” Wizard Gloom-Bright lifted the four-colored sphere into midair, letting it hover and rotate slowly above the lecture platform. “A fusion model of this level can already support the energy circulation of a Third-Tier spell.”
He waved his hand to disperse the four-colored sphere.
The four types of energy particles separated once more, each dissipating into the air.
“That is all for the theoretical portion.” Wizard Gloom-Bright patted the non-existent dust off his hands. “Next is the practical demonstration. I need a volunteer to come up and cooperate. The requirement is a First-Tier Wizard whose single-attribute affinity exceeds eighty percent.”
The circular venue of seventy to eighty thousand people fell quiet for about three seconds, and then whispers surged up like a tide.
“A First-Tier Wizard with over eighty percent single-attribute affinity? That is quite a high requirement.”
“With over eighty percent, they would be a core target for cultivation in any academy. Who would be willing to go up on stage to be used as a demonstration prop?”
“Wizard Gloom-Bright personally guiding composite elements—such an opportunity cannot be traded for anything.”
“You wish you could go up, but your fire attribute affinity is only in the sixties. Are you even qualified?”
“I'm just musing. But then again, there are at least a few hundred First-Tier Wizards with over eighty percent single-attribute affinity present. It just depends on who steps forward first.”
Ethan's brow twitched.
His wood attribute affinity was over ninety percent, which perfectly met Wizard Gloom-Bright's requirements.
He had already purchased a bunch of knowledge scrolls on the basic theory of composite elemental spells, but theoretical knowledge was one thing, and watching a Fourth-Tier Wizard specializing in composite elements demonstrate it in person was quite another.
Just as he was about to stand up, Wizard Gloom-Bright spoke again.
“The demonstration will involve constructing a fusion model of three or more attributes. I need a First-Tier Wizard with at least eighty percent single-attribute affinity—the higher, the better. The higher the affinity, the more obvious the demonstration's effect, and the greater the help to everyone present.”
Wizard Gloom-Bright's gaze swept over the circular tiered seating. “I will not let whoever volunteers to come up on stage help for nothing. After the demonstration, I will personally answer one of their questions regarding composite elements—any question at all.”
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