18 Almost Cast a Fireball There

After he instructed Dylan to get the hexbats ready, Reed did not leave with the former.

It was still noon, and even if he was not afraid of the sun, it was still not the time to immediately return to Grimm.

Now, all he wanted to do was...

To go back to Earth.

The ratio of time in the world of Glory to Earth was three to one. One day would pass back on Earth for every three days in Glory.

While there was no danger back on Earth, it was still where he came from.

After Reed passed some instructions to his guards, he lay on the big soft bed in the manor's master bedroom.

With a thought, he was back on Earth.

Modu, an ordinary township away from the city center.

Reed suddenly opened his eyes, and the sunlight that shone through the window dazed him.

His legs were sore due to long periods of inactivity, so he used his hands to support himself while he got up. He turned around to look at the room's familiar layout as he slowly relaxed.

He was back.

He breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, nothing went wrong.

Reed reached out for his cell phone that was still charging on the headboard. It was October 11th, 2050, and it was nine in the morning.

He felt very strange and remembered that he had entered the game on the afternoon of the 10th.

Two days had passed in the game, but only ten-plus hours had passed in reality, which was amazing.

After he returned back to Earth, Reed immediately calmed down and felt at ease when he sat on the bed.

Although he was a Progenitor Vampire and also a powerful high mage in Glory, with over two hundred vampires under his wing, there was always a sense of crisis that pushed him to work hard at various things.

However, it was different when he was back on Earth. Even if he lazed around all day long, nothing would change except for his wallet gradually becoming thinner. At the very least, he would not be killed just for being mistaken as a vampire.

The place Reed lived in was not particularly large. It was a unit with two bedrooms and a living room that was about 70 square meters in size. His parents had left the place to him before they passed away.

In a first-tier city like Modu, a house alone was enough for most people to toil for a lifetime.

"It's really amazing."

When Reed returned to his senses, he slapped himself in the face. Even if he had only lived in the world of Glory for two days, it still felt incredible.

That world just fascinated him, and experiencing life in a foreign land was far more exciting than chasing a drama series online.

After he moved his body a little, he saw a glass of water on the computer desk in the room, and his mouth suddenly felt dry, making him thirsty.

He subconsciously held his hand out and snapped his fingers.

Snap.

Reed's eyes abruptly opened as if he had been electrocuted. There was a sharp pain in his head.

He clutched his head with both hands as he desperately held it down to relieve the searing pain.

It took a full ten minutes for the pain to subside.

Reed lay in bed and stared at the ceiling blankly. The shock in his heart was many times stronger than the pain in his head.

He had just subconsciously cast the First Circle Spell, Mage's Hand.

What shocked him was that he had almost succeeded, but the magic model collapsed due to insufficient mana, resulting in a strong magic backlash.

But, what the hell was that?

The scene earlier caused him great doubts.

Could he use magic on Earth as well?

Just as he raised his hand, he immediately dismissed the idea the second he thought of experimenting. That kind of horrible backlash was a lot more unbearable than torture.

He was not a high mage on Earth; he was not even a mage apprentice.

He took a deep breath and suppressed the shock in his heart.

It was simply amazing.

He initially thought that he had just gone into the game ahead of time, and there was not much use when his physical body could not go through. So, he had quickly tossed the idea to the back of his mind.

Yet, he had almost cast a fireball there.

"Not much use", my foot.

This was groundbreaking!

As he looked out of the bright window, his mind was full of thoughts for a good while.

The unexpected occurrence made him rethink a lot of his plans: the development of the vampires, the research of magic, the arrival of the players, etc.

The chaotic thoughts muddled his mind for a while.

Suddenly, as if he remembered something, Reed stood up in a hurry and went to the computer desk. He turned on the computer and visited the official website of Glory like he used to.

He wanted to see if he could find any clues on the Internet.

It stood to reason that it was impossible for Glory to be 100% authentic, and the release of the game was far too bizarre.

It was as if it had popped up overnight when China's five major game developers announced a new epoch-making virtual online game out of nowhere. They then set the release date for a year later.

He had not noticed it before, but now, Reed realized that what the developers had done made no sense at all.

He shook his head and did not dwell on it any further.

After he logged on to the official website, the familiar homepage, which Reed had seen dozens of times, appeared.

Since the servers had yet to be opened, there were not many pieces of valuable information on the official website.

Most were background information and class information, and at that stage, players still did not know how things worked.

It had been the same for Reed before. While he had gone and read it several times, he never quite took it seriously.

After he experienced that magnificent but existent world, his original indifference immediately disappeared.

The result was a seriousness he previously never had.

He went through the homepage of the official website without missing a word.

First was the world's background, which was not much different from the memories he attained.

Glory was a world of magic with dozens of races coexisting in it.

Even so, humans were still the masters of that world.

All of the races lived within the same realm that the humans called, the world of Glory... identical to the game's name.

Gods were not illusory existences in Glory. Those powerful existences, who were separated from the main realm, had built their own divine kingdoms in the stars and possessed incredible powers.

Every city would have churches dedicated to gods, and there were often instances of miracles. The human nations were extremely reverent to the gods.

The Norland Empire, where Reed lived, was located in the southernmost part of the realm, and it was considered to be of medium-strength among the twelve human empires. Her people numbered in the billions, while her powerful elites were innumerable.

There were several races in Glory that were still powerful, though, and they could even rival the most powerful human kingdoms.

The orcs of the far south in the barren wastelands had landmasses no lesser than the Norland Empire. They had extremely powerful individual combatants and were natural fighters.

Amongst the warlike races, werewolves, tigerkin, minotaurs, and centaurs were races that once terrified humans. They fought against the Norland Empire all year round.

In the middle of the continent, the most unique highborn race, the elves resided deep within the forests.

The long-lived species were natural born artists and powerful spellcasters, but they were most famous for their beauty.

At the edge of the main realm, the eastern Sea of Storms was the territory of the deepkin. The races that lived underwater were as many as the leaves on the Tree of Life.

Also within the Sea of Storms was the powerful golden race, the dragons.

Dragons were always the apex predator regardless of which world it was. If it had not been for their low fertility rate, the world would have been dominated by the dragons.

The official website also briefly introduced the underground dark elves and medusae, as well as other powerful races, that could not be ignored such as the vampires, the dwarfs, goblins, demons, and so on.

Reed read everything seriously but he could not find the information he wanted. Why could he cast spells in reality... Even though it was a failure, he was sure that he was not mistaken, and he even had a hunch that given time...

He would sooner or later be able to cast Fireball.