Chapter 196. The Experint Begins
“Mage Philip, may I go out and buy so materials?” Fulan asked Philip, the person overseeing the project.
By rights, people like them who had co to “help” should have remained here for the entire day, since they were here to “help.”
But there were absolutely no materials here that Fulan could use to modify the device, so she had to go out and buy them.
Philip agreed imdiately and without the slightest hesitation.
“Sure, go ahead.”
Seeing how excited Fulan was, he knew at once that she was completely absorbed in researching this device.
He did not stop her. Inwardly, he thought that as long as these mages did not interfere with his own research, they could fool around however they pleased.
He knew perfectly well what these mages had really co here for. They were here to learn how a researcher ought to conduct research.
For today, he would let them do as they liked. Once everything was over, he could simply teach them a few things.
He did not believe for a second that these mages could actually accomplish anything aningful. Even if they were here to help him, at most they were just assistants.
Only one of these mages belonged to the Alchemy School. As for the rest, none of them even knew how to operate this kind of device properly.
In his view, aside from that one mage from the Alchemy School, who could extract about two grams of White Star Sand from three hundred grams of raw material—
if the other mages could refine roughly one gram of White Star Sand out of those sa three hundred grams of raw material, he would already consider them impressive.
Without proper alchemical training, these people would never understand how a true alchemical device was ant to be used.
It was not just a matter of following the steps in the manual with absolute precision. It also required a certain intuitive feel for alchemy itself, an understanding of what sort of ntal Power drive thod suited oneself best.
Only then could one fully utilize an alchemical device and bring out its true performance.
Fulan went downstairs, then ca hurrying back less than ten minutes later with a dark tal ingot in her hand.
Standing beside her, Nora watched as Fulan took out the tal, utterly unable to understand what she was trying to do.
In Nora’s view, if Fulan had gone to buy materials, she had probably intended to repair the cracks in the device and see whether fixing them might increase the final output.
But even then, she should have bought a tal similar to the shell of the device. Why had she bought a completely unrelated tal instead?
Nora looked at the pale gray device, then at the dark tal block Fulan had brought back. Even with ntal Power alone, she could tell that the structures of the two tals were completely different.
She looked at Fulan, wanting to speak but holding herself back in the end. This was soone else’s idea, after all. Better to wait until the experint was over before discussing it.
So Nora’s expression returned to calm as she watched what Fulan would do next.
Fulan made no attempt to hide anything. Right in front of all the mages, she used Telekinetic Hand to lift the black tal into the air, and then flas sprang up.
Drawn by the commotion, Leo looked over and saw the tal suspended in midair by Telekinetic Hand gradually beginning to give off a silvery sheen. For a mont, he found himself completely speechless.
At that instant, there was only one thought in his mind:
What in the world is she doing?
Watching the tal gradually turn silver under the intense heat, Fulan recognized it for what it was: Spirit-Repelling Copper, a very cheap material used specifically against spirit forms.
So long as this tal was applied to a weapon, it could harm spirit forms. It was extrely useful.
And now, Fulan intended to use this tal to verify her theory. She ignored the astonished looks of everyone around her and increased the heat of the flas even further.
anwhile, Nora, standing nearby, had begun to see what was really going on.
When Fulan summoned the fire elent, Nora had not reacted much.
After all, even before coming to the Northern Society, she had already known that practically everyone here could cast Fireball. Using fire to heat tal was nothing unusual.
But she could clearly sense that the fire elent Fulan had summoned was not normal. The flas were burning far too quickly, and the tal was heating up with unnatural efficiency as well.
That imdiately made Nora think of a technique used by the Fla School, a branch that had split off from the Elental School. It was a specialization that enhanced the combustion of the fire elent.
Could she be a mage from the Fla School...?
No, absolutely not. Mages from the Fla School would never use fire for sothing like heating tal. They would consider that a desecration of fla.
Nora instantly dismissed that guess, and at the sa ti, another, even bolder speculation arose in her mind.
A fire dragon?
That’s right—dragonkind...
Through the flas, Nora could faintly make out a magical fluctuation belonging to dragonkind.
The way she looked at Fulan imdiately beca burning hot with interest. At that mont, she wanted more than ever to bring Fulan into the Elental School.
If she joins the Elental School, then I’ll have a force of my own to gather around there, she thought.
Even though she was already within the Joberna Society and was all but guaranteed to beco part of the school’s core in the future—
within the core, there was still another core. If she did not have other high-ranking mages at her side, she would probably remain only at the margins of that inner core.
And it was not just her. Many other mages of her generation within the Joberna Society were also troubled by the fact that they had no one to recruit to their side.
Most of the existing high-ranking mages were utterly devoted to their research and would not spare people like them even a glance, much less respond to their attempts at recruitnt.
That was why so many people, hoping to secure a strong voice for themselves in the future, were also trying to recruit Elental School mages who had not joined the Joberna Society, in the hope that those mages would one day grow into high-ranking mages.
And now, she had found a mage with trendous potential. Nora’s gaze locked onto Fulan.
Fulan possessed wind elental affinity, and on top of that, she had fire-elent spells empowered by dragonkind.
A mage like that had an extrely high chance of reaching the Third Tier, and in the future, she could provide Nora with considerable support within the Elental School.
Fulan had no idea that Nora, standing beside her, was already thinking about how to lure her into the Elental School. She was still wholly focused on processing the Spirit-Repelling Copper.
After lting the Spirit-Repelling Copper into liquid, she coated the magical device used to refine White Star Sand with it.
She moved quickly, and her hands were deft. The instant the liquid Spirit-Repelling Copper adhered to the magical device, she used the techniques of a Magical Craftsman to shape it, fitting it perfectly over the entire device.
She even deliberately filled in the wide gaps. Now, from the outside, the magical device no longer showed a single opening.
She set the magical device down. Its surface still retained so heat, and touching it would produce a stinging, scorched sensation.
After checking it over once with her ntal Power, Fulan nodded in satisfaction. Her heart itched with anticipation, and she hurriedly took another thirty grams of Gray Nether Iron and put it inside.
After watching Fulan’s skilled handiwork with astonishnt, even Leo had to admit that her techniques as a Magical Craftsman were far beyond the ordinary.
But he still could not understand why all she had done was apply a layer of tal over the magical device. He had no idea what the point of that action was.
Only when he recognized that dark layer of tal as Spirit-Repelling Copper—a material he, as a mage of the Necromancy School, often used—did a contemptuous smile appear on his face once more.
User Comments
0 comments from readers