Suddenly inspired, Lin Feng began to strike poses in his messy room, mimicking the signature moves of Sister Furong, Sister Feng, Brother Chun, Brother Zeng, and Edison Chen. Just as he was having fun, there was a sudden noise from the window, and a shadow seemed to flash by. A thief?! Without thinking, Lin Feng dashed towards the window. However, with just a light tap of his foot on the floor, he shot out like an arrow towards the window. Damn! Wind magic elements… Unable to stop, Lin Feng flew out of the window and plummeted towards the ground.
Lin Feng’s family lived on the 8th floor in an old tube-shaped apartment building with no anti-theft nets on the windows. It was summer, and the windows were wide open at night. Seeing a shadow pass by the window, thinking it was a thief, he instinctively rushed to catch the thief, not expecting that a simple step would make him soar through the air. Only when he was soundlessly out the window and saw the night sky did he realize what had happened. He thought, “It’s over. It must be the residual effect of the wind spell ‘Wind Slash’ I tried earlier.” In the game, there was no backlash from failed spell casting, but could it be that in the real world, the remaining magic elements still have effects after temporarily canceling a spell? Damn… full of wind magic elements? With the wind howling in his ears, falling from the 8th floor would surely leave him either dead or crippled. What could he do?
What’s the most tragic thing in life? It’s when a person dies, but their equipment remains intact and unused! Lin Feng humorously pondered whether, if he died from the fall, his game equipment would drop and be picked up by someone else.
“Lin Lin! Open the door, what’s wrong with you…” In his fall, Lin Feng suddenly heard his mother’s clear voice and the loud banging on the door. Could his mom have sensed something unusual? She wasn’t usually like this. The nagging that usually annoyed him now sounded so dear. The person who cared about him the most in the world was his beloved mother! Mom, I’m sorry! Lin Feng felt his nose tingle, tears about to fall. Was this really the end?
Damn! How stupid I am! A flash of inspiration crossed Lin Feng’s mind. If ‘Wind Slash’ could be cast in the real world, then other spells could too. Why would I give up so easily? It would be such a waste not to use such a good thing! His thoughts racing, the interface for storing magic cards flashed in his mind. ‘Wind Slash’, ‘Wind Slash’, ‘Wind Slash’… every card was the same, but after searching through the inventory, there wasn’t even a single ‘Levitation’ card, the most basic one. I want to fly, I need the levitation spell, I want to fly…
It was only at this moment that Lin Feng noticed something odd about the magic cards in his storage. In the game ‘Fantasy Realm’, he had accidentally discovered that if you attacked the final boss in a dungeon with basic wind spells at a specific time and place, the boss wouldn’t retaliate, and its health would drop quickly. So, he had equipped himself only with basic wind element gear, not including any other types of cards. As for how the items in his game character’s storage space ended up in this gift from the system, while the high-level gear on his character was not brought out, that was beyond his understanding.
A Refinery? What’s that? In his urgency, unable to find a suitable spell card, Lin Feng’s mind quickly scanned through the cards. By chance, several cards overlapped, and a ‘Refinery’ prompt appeared. There was a line of small text below the prompt, but Lin Feng had no time to read it. Subconsciously, he confirmed, and the prompt disappeared, replaced by a task progress bar at the bottom. In the game, there isn’t a “Forge” feature, so what’s going on? Lin Feng’s heart was filled with the desire to soar into the sky, not to crash to the ground… The progress bar was moving fast, soon reaching full, and at the same time, a new magic card depicting an old-fashioned pair of soft-soled boots appeared in the empty slot of the inventory. “Congratulations to player ‘Merciless Ghost Hand’ for successfully forging a pair of ‘Swift Boots’. Would you like to equip them?” Swift Boots: Low-tier wind element game gear, agile, speed-boosting! This isn’t how you play, why not a levitation spell card, why not a flying spell card? Even a simple levitation technique would do! Here I am about to crash to my death, and you give me agility and speed? Can agility dodge the universal gravitational pull of Mother Earth? Or does increasing the descent speed to enhance the impact with Earth help me push it away? What I need is the ability to fly… Well, let’s treat a dead horse as if it were alive. He chose to use them.
As soon as Lin Feng confirmed the use of the Swift Boots, there was a sudden flash of light, and the newly forged magic card grew with the wind, instantly transforming into a pair of ugly soft-soled boots which appeared under his feet. At the same moment, it felt as if two powerful streams of energy surged from his feet! Just as Lin Feng was about to hit the ground, he suddenly jolted all over under the influence of those two forces. It felt like jet engines were attached to his feet, suddenly generating two massive counterforces. Then, Lin Feng, looking like Astro Boy from the cartoons, halted his fall and hovered for a moment about a meter above the ground before suddenly shooting upwards into the sky. Was he… really… flying?!
Lin Feng, who had never seen such a scene, was scared out of his wits, his head tilted back, his feet askew, and his body instantly lost balance. He then began to dart around the courtyard of the residential complex like a headless fly. The wind element magic flowing within him neutralized the two opposing forces generated by the Swift Boots, making Lin Feng like a human missile wrapped in air currents, crashing into everything in his path, unstoppable.
The commotion he caused was not small; bike sheds were knocked over, car alarms in the complex went off, and neighbors’ window curtains were blown away. Everything within reach was knocked down or overturned… The huge noise tore through the night’s silence! Most of the residents upstairs were awakened, and soon, angry shouts, roars, screams of fear, and other noises that sounded like death knells assaulted Lin Feng’s nerves. Lin Feng wanted to stop, but the more anxious he got, the less he could find a way to control the magic output, so he had to keep flying around the corridors.
Seeing more and more people getting alerted upstairs, some had already taken out flashlights to look for the source of the trouble from their windows, and others had opened their doors to rush downstairs. If not for his swift speed, he might have been identified by the neighbors on the spot. Damn! I’m really flying here, if caught, I’d be in big trouble, might even end up in some research lab being dissected as a lab rat. Mom, this damn thing, how do I control it?
Suddenly, a familiar call came through clearly: “Lin Lin, open the door! Lin Lin, open the door quickly! What’s wrong with you, did something happen?!”
Bang, bang, bang… Was mom banging on the door?! For some reason, in the midst of all the chaos, Lin Feng suddenly caught his mother’s voice with crystal clarity. One could imagine she must have sensed something unusual, or else why would she, at her age, suddenly go mad and start banging on his bedroom door? He definitely couldn’t let his mom worry! Thinking of his pitiful old mother, Lin Feng’s heart suddenly calmed, his mind now filled with only one thought – to hurry back.
