Chapter 57 Alchemy upgrade, the system’s “secret door” (two-in-one)
"Success!"
After seeing the information that popped up from the system, Lucian's eyes flashed with light.
He closed his eyes gently and quickly digested the new knowledge pouring into his mind.
And Carly couldn't help but feel a little nervous when she saw Lucian nodding slightly and "said nothing". At the same time, she also thought of her previous "encounters" when she was studying witchcraft.
Could it be... In fact, the level I designed has not reached the expectations of Teacher Lucian?
Carly looked at Lucian nervously, her palms sweating slightly.
At this moment, Lucian also opened his eyes. He looked at Carly, then picked up the manuscript paper designed by Carly and looked at it again.
Then, Lucian put down the manuscript and looked at Carly with a smile on his face, "The design is good, but there is still a lot of room for improvement."
Carly's eyes widened slightly as she looked at Lucian's calm demeanor.
But more than anything, I'm still confused.
Carly naturally also knows that the hunting bow she designed under the guidance of Lucian's mentor has a lot of room for improvement in terms of enchantment level, but this is what they said before, and they need to take into account the difficulty of subsequent repairs, so in the design When carving alchemical runes, you can only design the most basic alchemical runes.
And if you don't consider enchanting other complex runes, Carly feels that the hunting bow she designed is already at its limit.
Even if Teacher Lucian wants to make changes, the most he can do is change details such as the location of enchantments, right?
"I feel like we can make some adjustments to the enchanted runes..." Lucian referred to the upgraded alchemy drawings provided by the system and gave Carly suggestions.
Hearing this, Carly felt relieved. Because what Lucian said at this time was similar to what she had just thought of, so it could only be said that it was exactly the same.
"Teacher Lucian is really so bad, he's here to scare me again..." Carly thought to herself, and when she saw Lucian's serious look, she even wanted to laugh.
"Teacher Lucian, how should we adjust it?" Carly looked at Lucian, "Should we add a few high-level alchemy runes..."
"Of course not." Lucian looked at Carly's questioning and rebellious look, and reached out his hand angrily, wanting to hit Carly on the head to wake her up.
However, Lucian quickly resisted his impulse and sat up slightly, showing an unpredictable expression.
"Who said that to improve the performance of this hunting bow, you must use higher-level alchemical runes?" Lucian looked at Carly and asked rhetorically.
Carly was stunned, looking at Lucian's eyes at this moment, she felt inexplicably flustered.
Could my guess be wrong?
Lucian ignored Carly's confused expression. Instead, he picked up a quill and began to draw a seven-point shape next to Carly's first draft, but with great differences in many details. Different hunting bow drawings.
"Come, take a look for yourself, and then compare and contrast." Lucian's drawing process lasted only ten minutes. Then he put down the quill and threw the improved drawing directly to Carly.
Carly took the drawing in a daze, but soon she had an unconvinced thought in her heart and wanted to see how big the gap between herself and Teacher Lucian was.
If it were a pure competition in terms of understanding of alchemy, Carly felt that she was definitely unable to compete with Teacher Lucian. But now the bows and arrows designed by her and Teacher Lucian are all the most basic styles. Is it possible that Teacher Lucian can still play tricks?
This is like mathematics. Maybe a primary school student will lose in a competition with a college teacher to solve equations, and even more so in calculus. But if the two sides compete in single-digit addition and subtraction, then it is not necessarily the case who will lose and who will win. Woolen cloth!
Carly thought so, but opened the sketch drawn by Lucian.
"It seems to be similar to my design..." This thought just appeared in Carly's mind, but as she continued to read, she suddenly became confused.
Because in terms of the basic alchemical runes for enchantment, the version I designed only left three positions for enchantment runes. However, after only slight adjustments, Tutor Lucian left enough space within the same enchantment space. There are five locations where enchanting runes can be carved!
You must know that the enchanting space of these alchemical equipment is limited, and not every position on the alchemical equipment can be used to enchant alchemical runes.
These alchemical runes also need to be engraved on some "key nodes" of the alchemical equipment so that they can be activated smoothly during use.
For example, a hunting bow can be engraved with alchemical runes on the part of the bow that holds hands.
It is not an easy task to design more key nodes in a limited space.
"Lu...Teacher Lucian, if you are carving so many runes in such a small area, won't they affect each other?" Carly raised her head.
Although she was not sure whether the enchantment structure designed by Lucian was feasible, Carly was amazed by the ingenious internal witchcraft pathways designed by Lucian for these enchantment nodes.
"Stupid, you first take a good look at what runes I plan to carve." Lucian looked at Carly's eyes that became clear almost instantly, and showed a satisfied smile.
After being reminded by Lucian, Carly quickly checked the basic runes that Lucian planned to carve.
"Three accelerations...and tenacity and energy storage?" Carly looked up at Lucian, seeming to have thought of something, but she couldn't say it.
"Stupid. There is no conflict between acceleration, tenacity and energy storage. Then think about why you want to add an energy storage rune in the middle." Lucian looked at Carly's stupid look at this time, and finally gave up. He held back and hit Carly on the head.
Carly covered her head, but she figured out some of the mysteries. She quickly flipped through the book and found a similar design structure to Lucian's in an alchemy witch formation.
"It turns out that the interaction of several alchemical runes is used to achieve a rapid-fire effect of accelerating the drawing of the bow?" Carly looked at the detailed explanation of the alchemy witch formation in the book, and then looked at the second-generation hunting bow designed by Lucian , with shock in his eyes. "Although there is no systematic alchemy witchcraft formation engraved on the bow, a similar effect is achieved through discrete runes..."
As Carly spoke, she lowered her head in embarrassment.
Just now, I seemed to be questioning Teacher Lucian. But now it seems that Teacher Lucian has really made some tricks out of the most basic alchemy runes.
[Your student Carly respects you, her reverence value +30]
"Huh?" Lucian, who was looking at Carly with a smile, seemed to feel something and couldn't help but be slightly startled.
Then, he opened his eyes and suddenly found that he seemed to have found a systematic "secret door".
He had just received an upgraded version of the alchemy blueprints, but as the blueprints were implanted into his mind, there were also some alchemical contents involved in the design blueprints.
He has mastered most of these contents, but there is also some knowledge that he has not learned yet. And regardless of whether he has learned the knowledge before, after systematic indoctrination, his understanding of these module knowledge has reached a high level.
If Lucian's mastery of the knowledge he learned by himself by reading the alchemy manuscripts at the beginning was probably between 45% and 70%, then after systematically instilling this knowledge, his mastery has reached at least 90%.
The reason why it does not reach 100% is because the knowledge instilled in the system is not particularly systematic and is somewhat scattered. Some of the relevant content that is not instilled affects the overall understanding.
But even so, Lucian feels that the knowledge he learned incidentally through this systematic infusion has at least saved him two or three months of self-study and exploration time!
"Well... maybe in the system's judgment, alchemy and a specific alchemy drawing do not belong to the same type of knowledge, but there is a very close connection between the two. And according to the system's judgment, when I After teaching Carly to master a piece of knowledge, she will automatically master the upgraded knowledge.”
"So I taught Carly to design the alchemy blueprints, but I had no intention of helping me speed up my mastery of alchemy-related knowledge. And if I continue to teach according to this method, the time it takes me to master alchemy will undoubtedly be greatly shortened. And more importantly, Yes, it is much easier and faster to teach Carly the blueprints of a certain witchcraft than for me to learn alchemy myself." Lucian's eyes shone slightly. This capability couldn’t come at a worse time.
You know, what Lucian lacks now is witchcraft tools. Not to mention the witchcraft tools he had in hand, he didn't even have a decent combat witchcraft tool now.
Even the Thunderbolt Broken Spear previously captured from Apollo had been lost in the battle with Norian.
You must know that foreign objects such as witchcraft tools account for a large proportion of the combat effectiveness of third-level wizard apprentices.
For example, during the previous battle between Lucian and Norian, without the lightning-breaking spear, it would have been very difficult for Lucian's own witchcraft attacks to break through the abomination's defense.
However, powerful witchcraft tools suitable for third-level wizard apprentices are a hot commodity in the market. Like high-end potions such as "Moonlight Praise", they are both hard currencies that maintain their value. Unless there is an extreme shortage of magic stones, basically no one would be willing to take out such witchcraft tools and sell them.
Most of the witchcraft tools sold in the alchemy house are relatively low-end witchcraft tools. They may be of some use to first- and second-level wizard apprentices, but they are not of much use to third-level wizard apprentices. After all, The moves they can resist or release are too powerful for third-level wizard apprentices, and are not as practical as the witchcraft they can perform casually.
This has resulted in Lucian currently being in a rather awkward "blank slate" period.
Lucian originally wanted to see if he could prepare a few more [Moonlight Praises] in the past two days and barter them to see if he could get himself a handy witchcraft tool.
But now Lucian has a new idea.
That is to quickly improve your alchemy level as quickly as possible through the "secret door" you just discovered. This way you can not only take out the remaining items in Norian's damaged storage pendant, but also customize a suitable set of witchcraft for yourself. Tool.
This not only saves magic stones, but also allows you to obtain a set of witchcraft tools that are most suitable for you, and only exposes them at critical moments, which can also have an unexpected effect.
He achieves multiple things with one stone. The only drawback is that Carly seems to be a bit useless.
Lucian turned his head, quietly glanced at Carly, who was studying the alchemy drawings carefully at this time, and withdrew his gaze with some guilt.
But when it comes to learning, it shouldn’t be too much for young people to work hard, right?
Thinking of this, Lu Xian calmed down a little, and there was a hint of a different emotion in the smile on his face. At the same time, he also tried hard to restrain himself and not show an expression similar to that of a fly rubbing his hands in front of Carly.
"Teacher Lucian?" Carly seemed to be aware of Lucian's expression. She raised her head and looked at Lucian with some confusion.
"It's okay. Take a look at this drawing. If you don't quite understand something, I can explain it to you again, but you have to hurry up. After all, our work is not finished yet." Lucian warned.
Listening to Lucian's familiar words, Carly had a somewhat bold guess in her mind.
Could it be that... the version currently designed is just the limit that Teacher Lucian thinks he can accept, rather than the limit of Teacher Lucian's ability?
Thinking of this, Carly couldn't help but feel a bit unreal.
She raised her head somewhat unconfidently, and then saw Lucian's encouraging eyes.
"Teacher Lucian..." Carly looked down at the hunting bow on the experimental table, seeming to understand Lucian's good intentions.
Instructor Lucian did this all for himself... so he guided himself step by step so that he could participate in the repair of the hunting bow step by step, right?
Carly thought of this and closed her eyes gently, but her emotions were surging.
"Teacher Lucian, I will definitely work hard!" After a while, Carly opened her eyes with a sonorous tone.
Teacher Lucian is so considerate of herself, so she can’t hold him back.
[Your student Carly respects you, her reverence value +50]
When Lucian received this system message, he couldn't help but be silent for a moment, and he felt a sense of guilt in his heart.
Of course this feeling of guilt was fleeting. Soon Lucian and Carly were involved in a new round of Q&A and teaching.
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"This is also my last chance..." Lilia walked out of the library holding a book with determination in her eyes.
As a third-level wizard apprentice who has tried three times to be promoted to a formal wizard and failed each time, her spiritual sea has already become extremely fragile due to the backlash of her failed promotion. If she is forcibly promoted again, her spiritual sea will be damaged. It will collapse directly, and the whole head will explode directly.
But Lilia was unwilling to give in. What's more, if she doesn't get promoted, she will only have more than ten years left to live.
So although she knew there was a trap in Bennett's words, she was still prepared to fight.
If she succeeds, she will be reborn in Nirvana. If she fails, she will die!
Lilia was thinking, but suddenly, she saw a two-tailed black cat in front of her.
The black cat's green vertical pupils were staring at her, and the tails on its back were swinging leisurely.
"Sir." Lilia lowered her head, showing the humility that a formal wizard should have.
"Do something for me." Black Cat spoke in a clear childish voice.
Lilia bowed but did not respond.
"If you agree, I will give you a standard unit of [Blood Rose] after you return from the mission." The black cat's green eyes looked at Lilia, but he exuded a sense of pressure. "But if you can be promoted to an official wizard, you need to take five unconditional shots."
Lilia's eyes suddenly lit up.
Bloody Rose, this is the magic potion that can temporarily heal her riddled spiritual sea and give her a chance to try to become an official wizard!
"I do, sir." Lilia bowed almost ninety degrees, and then quickly completed the signing of the contract with the official wizard behind the black cat.
call--
The next moment, Lilia felt her whole body stiffen and her body was shaking slightly uncontrollably.
A strand of silver hair was cut down by the invisible air blade, and then floated towards the two-tailed black cat not far away.
But during the flight, this strand of silver hair quickly deformed and squirmed, and finally turned into a rough rag doll that was 50% to 60% similar to Lilia.
Lilia raised her head and looked at the doll with complicated eyes.
She knew that from the moment she signed the contract, if she could not fulfill the master's instructions, her future fate would be extremely miserable.
Emmm, it’s 4.6 big chapters. I feel like it’s not easy to divide them into chapters, so I just put them together.
(End of this chapter)