"A large fireball looks quite intimidating, but it seems a bit too conspicuous and clumsy. If I shrink it a bit and increase its density, the explosive power will definitely be higher."
**[You felt the fireball was too large and clumsy, so you decided to shrink it and increase its power. You began to deduce. Flames themselves are very loose, their elemental density close to a gaseous state. You decided to use magic circles for compression.]**
At this moment, magnificent flame magic circles appeared in six directions—up, down, left, right, front, and back—around the fireball in Lu Li's palm. Under the pressure of these six magic circles, the fireball began to shrink continuously.
In the blink of an eye, the fireball, which was over ten meters in diameter, was compressed to about three meters in diameter.
"Still a bit big."
It was decent now, but Lu Li felt there was room for more compression.
**[You felt the fireball was still a bit large, so you initiated double magic circle compression.]**
*Buzz———!*
Another six magic circles opened up, and the fireball began to compress rapidly again. In an instant, it was compressed to about one meter.
Meanwhile, inside the Fairy Tail guild.
"Strange! Does anyone else feel like the temperature in the guild is a bit hot?"
"I feel it too. It started getting hot just now, and suddenly the temperature spiked again. I feel like the guild has turned into a furnace."
"The heat seems to be coming from behind the guild."
Makarov was also sweltering. Hearing this, he froze: "Behind?"
Wasn't Lu Li behind the guild right now? Makarov suddenly had a bad feeling.
"Let's go take a look."
At this moment, Lu Li felt a bit strained, but his eyes became incredibly fervent as he felt the explosive power within the fireball.
Lu Li gritted his teeth and said: "Smaller!"
**[You felt the fireball was still large, so you initiated triple magic circle compression.]**
*Buzz————!!*
Another six magic circles opened up. A total of eighteen magic circles acted on the fireball, compressing it.
A moment later, a fireball the size of a basketball hovered above Lu Li's index and middle fingers. This fireball didn't look like a fireball anymore; it looked like magma, close to a solid-liquid state of flame.
Liquid flames moved slowly on the surface of the fireball. At this moment, it was emitting terrifying heat, seemingly distorting the space around it, like a miniature sun.
The earth beneath Lu Li's feet began to dry and crack. The moisture in the surrounding flowers, plants, and trees evaporated rapidly, and they withered and died in the blink of an eye.
At this time, the Fairy Tail members who had just opened the back door of the guild also felt an incomparably terrifying heatwave.
"Ah! It's so hot! So hot!"
"I'm dying of heat! I'm going to melt!"
The clothes on everyone in the guild began to melt rapidly.
Natsu's eyes lit up when he saw the fireball in Lu Li's hand. Even from this distance, he could feel how delicious those flames were, but he also sensed the terrifying heat contained within that fireball. Eating it might cause indigestion.
"Eek! My clothes!"
Many female Mages screamed, while the male Mages' eyes lit up.
Makarov also watched, entranced for a moment, but the scorching temperature made him react immediately.
He shouted at Lu Li with a look of horror: "Lu Li! Throw that thing away immediately!!"
Hearing Makarov's shout, Lu Li also noticed the surrounding situation.
He immediately launched the magic in his hand towards the lake.
The miniature sun flew rapidly towards the lake and finally landed in the water.
*Boom——————!!!!*
A terrifying explosion soared into the sky. A powerful shockwave spread outwards, snapping trees in half.
"Aaaaaah!"
"Oooooohhhh!!" ...
Everyone hurriedly lay flat on the ground to avoid the shockwave.
It took quite a while for the shockwave to subside.
Everyone looked towards the lake surface, eyes wide and mouths agape, faces full of disbelief.
"The lake water... the lake water has been evaporated dry!!!!"
Everyone shouted in horror.
The originally boundless lake water was now completely dried up, with cracks everywhere.
Where Lu Li's magic had landed, there was a massive, bottomless pit.
Lu Li was also frightened by the power of this magic.
"Lu Li? What was that just now?"
"I... I was practicing Fireball."
"You call that Fireball?!"
Fireball? That's the most basic magic. With a Mage's physique, taking a hit from a Fireball might not even hurt or itch. Any Mage with a bit of ambition wouldn't deign to learn such low-level magic.
But what was that Lu Li just released? It evaporated a lake and blasted a bottomless hole in the earth.
And that was in a lake; evaporating the water took away a large amount of heat. If it had landed in a city, the entire city might have been reduced to ashes.
And you call this Fireball?
Macao complained: "That's no fireball, that's practically a sun!"
Macao was a Mage who used Fire Magic, so he had more authority on Fire Magic than other Mages.
"Uh... I was studying Fireball, and I felt its power wasn't enough, so I created a Big Fireball. But then I felt the Big Fireball was too conspicuous and clumsy, and the power still wasn't enough, so I compressed it, and thus created that fireball just now."
"..."
Lu Li's words left everyone speechless. Although they knew Lu Li's magical talent was terrifying, this was just too terrifying.
To actually create a magic with such terrifying power.
Makarov said with a serious face: "Lu Li, unless absolutely necessary, do not use this magic in normal times."
The power of this magic was too terrifying. If it landed in the center of a city, the scene would be unimaginable.
Although Mages' magic generally wouldn't harm the caster, when the power reached this level, the shockwave generated by the explosion could be lethal, something no one could avoid.
Lu Li nodded: "I understand."
Suddenly, Lu Li felt a wave of weakness, and his body swayed uncontrollably.
Finally, *thud*! He fell to the ground and passed out.