Water Mage in the Flame Realm

"...Is that so? Have they set off? Okay, I understand. The president is still in retreat. I'll go notify the lady immediately."

Warm Fire City, "Heart Net" headquarters, a young man in a red magic robe was using his major in the "Heart Fire Series Magic" to communicate for the commerce association.

At the start of the Twin Fire War, the "Heart Net" was directly cut off by nearly fifty percent by the Magic Guild through some means. The commerce association dared not use the remaining half, as they weren't sure if the guild had intentionally left it for them to use and then monitored it.

Now, with the war temporarily over, both sides have pulled back, and the Heart Net has been mostly repaired.

However, why the Heart Net was cut off and what magical method the Magic Guild used to attack it remains an unsolved mystery.

Currently, the commerce association's countermeasure is to select a group of family members with the highest attainment in "Heart Fire Series Magic" to serve as messengers. They aim to reduce the chances of being monitored by "adding a human factor" to ensure the security of important family information.

The young man before them is an advanced messenger.

He had just received news that Falk and his party had set off.

After receiving the news, he planned to send it to the president's wife through the Heart Net, as he said himself, "The president is still in retreat, I'll go notify the lady immediately."

But strangely, besides sending the information to the lady, he seemed to intend to send the message elsewhere.

"Hmm?" The young man's expression changed suddenly, as he looked up to see not far away a female messenger with a slight baby face and a dimple on one cheek was seemingly unintentionally looking towards him.

Their gazes met in mid-air.

The female messenger smiled and said, "It's almost time to change shifts, right? How about grabbing breakfast together and then going back to sleep?" They were night shift messengers and could go back to sleep after the morning shift handover.

"Ah? Oh, oh, oh, sure, sure!"

The young man appropriately blushed and said somewhat "embarrassingly," "Then let me finish this bit of work first."

As he spoke, he continued to send out the message intended for the president's wife.

Yet he discreetly deleted the second message copy that was to be sent elsewhere.

Seeing this, especially the young man's blushing, embarrassed act, the female messenger couldn't help but have a flicker of doubt in her eyes.

Deep in her gaze, a trace of confusion flashed, as she thought to herself, "Am I overthinking it?"

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The Flame Realm is vast.

Only after truly leaving the "Inner Sea Desert" and seeing and touching the world beyond the desert with his own eyes did Andrew increasingly gain an intuitive understanding of just how large the Flame Realm is!

In comparison, the Inner Sea Desert, which once seemed vast to Andrew, is quite small in the grand scope of the Flame Realm. One might say the Inner Sea Desert is to the Flame Realm what the tiny Wildfire Town was to the Inner Sea Desert!

That day, it took only half a day to leave the Inner Sea Desert after departing from the eastern gate of Wildfire Territory.

In the following week, only half the journey to Warm Fire City was completed!

"So this... this is the true face of the Flame Realm?"

Along the way, Andrew passed through no fewer than twenty cities of various sizes.

The closer one gets to Warm Fire City, the larger and more prosperous the cities become.

Admittedly, many scars and traces from the Twin Fire War can still be seen.

But overall, the magical civilization of the Flame Realm is far more advanced than Andrew had imagined!

It's not like what he thought, where most non-mage and non-professional civilians live as if in medieval Europe of his world before crossing over; it wasn't like that at all!

On the contrary, the power of magic has permeated every aspect of life in this Flame Realm!

For instance, after leaving the Inner Sea Desert, the team immediately abandoned the use of "flame horses" in favor of vehicles powered by magic power. These vehicles are unsuitable in the Inner Sea Desert environment but are much more convenient and faster in most areas beyond the desert! Additionally, magic-powered lamps, various tools, and even airships... In short, the Flame Realm is nothing like the wild, backward land Andrew initially thought it was when he was in Wildfire Territory and the Inner Sea Desert.

Nevertheless, this Flame Realm has many issues.

After leaving the Inner Sea Desert, Andrew had thought the people outside the desert, at least in better living conditions, would have much better skin, right?

But that's not the case!

The skin of the people outside the desert is no better than that of the desert dwellers!

Andrew repeatedly heard, while resting in various cities, women chatting and complaining: "Ugh, another layer of skin peeled off my face recently; it's so annoying!" "Hey, hey, why does that woman's skin look so good?" "Good, my foot; it's all makeup! You should ask her husband what she really looks like after washing her face at night."

Hearing such conversations, Andrew couldn't help but be amazed at how certain issues remain the same no matter where you are. The women in this otherworld, the aunts, older sisters, and young ladies, seemed most concerned about their skin, and their various skincare methods were an eye-opener.

On the other hand, he thought: If I could use my Enchanting Finger and Water Magic to create a product that solves the skin issues faced by the women of this world, how much Fire Extinguishing Value could that achieve?!

The women of the Flame Realm complain about rough skin.

They also complain about the men's lack of physical ability.

Hmm, this... of course, it's also intelligence that Andrew overheard from the conversations of the aunties and big sisters of this Otherworld.

This Flame Realm, it lacks water.

What does water represent in the human body? Kidneys!

So simply put, the men of this Flame Realm generally have varying degrees of kidney water deficiency. It's no wonder their physical strength isn't great!

Andrew originally thought that only ordinary civilians would have such traits.

Later, he gradually discovered: professionals are the same!

That day, the team reached a major city named "Qi Lan," as usual, entered the city for rest after nightfall, and continued their journey the next morning. Andrew, as usual, took a small notebook after entering the city to observe, to record, to... eavesdrop.

What is the core key to business cooperation with the Warm Fire Commerce Association?

Isn't it the market demand of this Flame Realm!

In the eyes of the Warm Fire Commerce Association, there is the market demand that the association perceives. For example, the supply of drinking water, which is already a business of the association. Andrew, on the existing business, of course, must strive to do his part, to see what kind of help and change he can bring to the Warm Fire Commerce Association with his Water Magic.

Farmer's Spring is a great start.

But at the same time, Andrew also wants to see with his own eyes, to listen with his own ears, to personally investigate the market demand of this world.

That's right, investigate!

This is a market survey!

We must first know what this world needs in order to more specifically apply his Water Magic to meet these demands, right?

However, just as Andrew was holding a small notebook, ready to investigate, Leia stopped him: "Wait, wait a minute! Andrew, aren't you tired?"

"Not tired at all." Andrew laughed, "We are professionals, having only traveled a day, there's no reason to be tired—" The last bit of "right?" was left unsaid.

Then he saw the Crimson Knights in the team, each showing signs of fatigue.

Especially Havier, who could be said to be gasping for breath!

It seems that an entire day of travel fatigue is quite a consumption for professionals as well!

In the team, the only ones who showed no signs of fatigue were Andrew, Ivan, the Grand Mage-level Falk, and Barbara, who had once united water and fire with Andrew.

"This—" Andrew vaguely felt that he had grasped something.

He decided not to go out and investigate all over the city for now, but instead walked up to Havier and began to scrutinize from head to toe.

After scrutinizing for a while, he asked: "You tired? How tired? Very tired?"

Havier didn't answer, angrily stared at Andrew.

Although Andrew was purely out of an investigative and confirmatory purpose, in Havier's eyes, this was downright showing off and mockery!

In his mind, within the four types of Fire Element professionals, our Crimson Knight group is considered to have the best physical ability and endurance. Flame Warriors are next. Warm Fire Mages come after that. While Earth Fire Mages have extremely strong explosive power, their endurance is extremely poor.

In fact, the only ones whose physical ability surpasses Crimson Knights should be the "Frost Guards" of the Royal Court, and Ivan, a Desert Hunter like him.

Even Frost Guards, in terms of physical ability, aren't much stronger than Crimson Knights.

The only ones truly crushing other professionals in terms of physical ability are the Desert Hunters.

So Havier had no issue with Ivan's good physical ability!

He just understood less and less about this Andrew guy before him!

This kid, just like his aunt, is just a Warm Fire Mage, isn't he?

His physical ability should be superior to Earth Fire Mages, but there should still be a big gap with combat professionals.

But the problem is... the problem is why does this kid's physical ability seem endless?!

At the beginning of the journey, Havier thought Andrew was just showing off, pretending not to be tired. He believed Andrew wouldn't last a few days and would eventually reveal his true form.

Now he understands: this Andrew, his physical ability is damn exceptionally good to an absurd level!

The question is, could such physical ability and endurance really belong to a Warm Fire Mage?!

This completely defies common sense!!

Seeing Havier's furious face, Andrew nodded and said: "Hmm, thank you for answering."

Then he turned to seriously interview those Crimson Knights who had experienced the Twin Flames War, unlike Havier, who were just all show and no substance.

"If these knights also feel that the continuous journey is quite a physical exhaustion for them, then..." Andrew's eyes began to shimmer with a peculiar light.