Beauxbatons, Side Hall
While enjoying an exquisite French al, Lucien pulled up the interface to check the loan details for the Earth Elental Rune.
[Loan: Advanced Earth Elental Rune]
[Repaynt Period: 30 Days]
[Loan Content: Grants the Host an Advanced Earth Elental Rune. Increases affinity with earth elents, accelerates the learning speed of earth magic, and increases the power of earth magic by 50%.]
[Loan Task: Improve the Fountain of Beauty at Beauxbatons.]
Lucien ntally communicated with the System.
"Are there any specific specs or standards for the improvent?"
[None. The design is entirely up to the Host's preference. The System will be responsible for judging whether the final effect ets the requirents of the loan.]
Hearing the System's reply, Lucien imdiately felt a bad on.
Great. So the System has basically beco the Client.
And not just any client—the worst kind. The kind that refuses to give you a clear brief.
Earth Elental Rune... fitting, I guess. Why do I feel like I'm turning into a civil engineer or a general contractor?
He could already see it happening: he'd submit a blueprint, and the Client (the System) would say they weren't "feeling it." He'd have to tear it down and start over, only for them to eventually realize the first draft was the best one all along...
On top of that, while the repaynt period was technically thirty days, Lucien was only staying at Beauxbatons for two weeks. That cut his working ti in half.
Still, once I take this loan, I'll have Advanced Runes for both Water and Earth. That boosts my affinity for two foundational elents, which should make Alchemy significantly smoother.
I can also write to my teacher, Nicolas, and ask him directly about the core principles of the Fountain. That should save a lot of legwork.
Combine that with my SS Alchemy talent, and I should be fine.
Lucien decided to ask the System one last thing.
"System, old buddy... we've been together for years. You wouldn't go out of your way to reject my blueprints just to ss with , right?"
[Hehe ( ͡° 3 ͡°)]
"..."
[This System aims to help the Host learn more knowledge. Please do not worry about the System playing pranks (๑•́ ω •̀๑)]
I certainly hope so, Lucien thought, and proceeded to apply for the loan.
[Ding! Loan application successful!]
[Evaluation: By improving the Fountain of Beauty, many girls will be very grateful to you.]
Seeing another one of the System's occasionally unserious evaluations, the corner of Lucien's mouth twitched slightly.
It did remind him, however, of the requests he'd received from several female classmates before leaving Hogwarts. They had all asked him to bring back so water from the Fountain. Their excuses varied wildly, but the true intent was obvious—everyone wants to be beautiful.
Lucien figured he could use this opportunity to research so skincare potions and alchemical beauty products while he was modifying the fountain.
Well, I promised quite a few people I'd bring water back. But since I'm going to be reverse-engineering the Fountain's structure and principles anyway... maybe I should just build a replica back at Hogwarts later...
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After lunch.
Mada Maxi announced that during their two-week exchange, Lucien, Riemann, and the others were free to attend Beauxbatons' regular classes.
Lucien was naturally quite happy about this; he was genuinely curious about the teaching standards at other magic schools.
However, he imdiately realized a problem: Beauxbatons introduced Alchemy classes much earlier than Hogwarts, starting in the third year.
I might need to talk to Mada Maxi about sitting in on the upper-year classes.
Unsurprisingly, out of all the subjects at Beauxbatons, Lucien was most interested in their Alchemy curriculum.
Normally, students participating in an alchemy exchange like this would be fifth or sixth years at minimum. Lucien, being a second year, was definitely an "accident."
Since I need to ask Mada Maxi for permission to modify the Fountain of Beauty anyway, I might as well ask about the classes at the sa ti.
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