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Chapter 57 Alchemy Upgrade, System's "Secret Door" (Two in One)

"Success!"

After seeing the message pop up in the system, a light flashed in Lucian's eyes.

He closed his eyes gently, quickly digesting the new knowledge that flooded into his mind.

When Carly saw Lucian nod slightly and remain silent, she felt a little nervous. At the same time, she also thought of her previous experience when she was studying witchcraft.

Could it be that... the level of my design has not yet met the expectations of Mentor Lucian?

Carly looked at Lucian nervously, her palms slightly sweaty.

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 and 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 nonchalant expression.

But more of it is confusion.

Naturally, Carly also knew that the hunting bow she designed under the guidance of Mentor Lucian had a lot of room for improvement in the enchantment level, but this was also what they had agreed on before. The difficulty of repairing it later needed to be taken into consideration, so when designing the engraved alchemical runes, she could only design the most basic alchemical runes.

If we don't consider enchanting other complex runes, Carly feels that the hunting bow she designed is already the limit.

Even if Lucian wants to make some changes, the most he can do is to modify details like the enchantment position, right?

"I feel like we can make some adjustments to the enchanted runes..." Lucian gave Carly some advice, referring to the upgraded alchemy drawings provided by the system.

Hearing this, Carly felt relieved, because what Lucian said was not only similar to what she had just thought of, but also exactly the same.

"Mentor Lucian is so mean. He comes to scare me again..." Carly thought to herself. When she saw Lucian's serious look, she even wanted to laugh.

“Mentor Lucian, how should we adjust it?” Carly looked at Lucian. “Do we need to add a few high-level alchemical runes…?”

“Of course not.” Lucian looked at Carly’s questioning and rebellious look, and reached out his hand unhappily, wanting to knock Carly on the head to wake her up.

However, Lucian quickly suppressed his impulse, and sat up slightly with an unfathomable expression.

“Who said that to improve the performance of this hunting bow, we must use higher-level alchemical runes?” Lucian looked at Carly and asked back.

Carly was stunned. Looking at Lucian's eyes at this moment, she felt inexplicably uneasy.

Could my guess be wrong?
Lucian ignored Carly's confused expression and picked up a feather pen to start drawing a hunting bow next to Carly's draft design. It was 70% similar in shape, but very different in many details.

"Come, take a look for yourself, and then compare them." Lucian took only ten minutes to draw the drawing. Then he put down the feather pen and threw the improved drawing directly to Carly.

Carly took the blueprint in a daze, but soon she felt unconvinced and wanted to see how big the gap was between herself and mentor Lucian.

If it was simply a competition of understanding of alchemy, Carly felt that she could never beat Mentor Lucian. But now the bows she and Mentor Lucian designed were the most basic styles. Could it be that Mentor Lucian could come up with something special?
This is like mathematics. Maybe a primary school student will lose in a competition with a college teacher on solving equations, let alone calculus. But if the two sides compete in single-digit addition and subtraction, it is not certain who will win or lose!

As Carly thought this, she opened the sketch drawn by Lucian.

"It seems to be similar to my design..." This thought just emerged in Carly's mind, but as she continued to read, she was suddenly confused.

Because in terms of the basic alchemical runes for enchantment, the version he designed only left space for three enchantment runes, but after a slight adjustment by Mentor Lucian, he left space for a full five enchantment runes in the same enchantment space!
You should know that the enchantment 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 alchemical equipment so that they can be successfully activated during use.

For example, on a hunting bow, the part of the bow where alchemical runes can be engraved is the part where you hold the hand.

However, it is not an easy task to design more key nodes within a limited space.

"Master Lucian, if you engrave so many runes in such a small area like this, won't they affect each other?" Carly raised her head.

Although she was not sure whether the enchantment structure designed by Mentor Lucian was feasible, the ingenious internal magic power channels designed by Mentor Lucian for these enchantment nodes alone made Carly amazed.

"Stupid, take a good look at what runes I'm going to engrave." Lucian looked at Carly's eyes, which were almost instantly clear, and smiled with satisfaction.

After Lucian's reminder, Carly hurriedly checked the basic runes that Lucian planned to engrave.

"Three accelerations... and toughness and energy storage?" Carly looked up at Lucian, as if she had thought of something but couldn't put it into words.

"Stupid. Acceleration, toughness and energy storage are not contradictory. Think about why you want to add an energy storage rune in the middle." Lucian looked at Carly's silly look at this time, and finally couldn't help but knocked Carly on the head.

Carly covered her head, but she figured out some of the secrets. She hurriedly flipped through the book and found a design structure similar to the one Lucian was using in an alchemy array.

"So it's the interaction of several alchemical runes that actually speeds up the bow's rapid-fire effect?" Carly looked at the detailed explanation of the alchemical array in the book, and then looked at the second-generation hunting bow designed by Lucian, with shock in her eyes. "Although there is no systematic alchemical array engraved on the bow, it achieves a similar effect through discrete runes..."

As Carly spoke, she lowered her head in embarrassment.

Just now, I seemed to be questioning Lucian. But now it seems that Lucian has really made a lot of use of the most basic alchemical runes.

[Your student Carly reveres you, reverence value +30]

"Hmm?" Lucian, who was looking at Carly with a smile at this time, seemed to feel something and was slightly stunned.

Then he opened his eyes and suddenly found that he seemed to have found a "secret door" of the system.

He had just obtained an upgraded version of the alchemy blueprint, but as the blueprint was instilled into his mind, some of the alchemy content involved in the design blueprint was also included.

He had mastered most of these contents, but there was also some knowledge that he had not yet learned. And regardless of whether he had learned the knowledge before, after the systematic indoctrination, his understanding of these module knowledge had reached a higher level.

If Lucian's initial level of mastery of the knowledge he learned by reading the alchemical codex was roughly between 45% and 70%, then after the systematic infusion of this knowledge, his level of mastery had reached at least 90%.

The reason why it did not reach 100% is that the knowledge instilled by the system was not particularly systematic and was somewhat scattered, and some relevant content that was not instilled affected the overall level of understanding.

But even so, Lucian felt that the knowledge he learned along the way through this systematic indoctrination saved him at least two or three months of self-study and exploration time!

"Hmm... maybe in the system's judgment, alchemy and a specific alchemy blueprint 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 teach Carly to master a piece of knowledge, she will automatically master the upgraded knowledge."

"So I taught Carly to design alchemy blueprints, but I didn't help me master the relevant knowledge of alchemy faster. If I continue to teach in this way, the time it takes me to master alchemy will undoubtedly be greatly shortened. More importantly, teaching Carly to master the blueprint of a certain magic tool is much easier and faster than learning alchemy by myself." Lucian's eyes lit up slightly. This ability came too timely.

You know, what Lucian lacks right now is magic tools. Not to mention handy magic tools, he doesn't even have a decent combat magic tool.

Even the broken lightning spear that was previously seized from Apollo had been lost in the battle with Noriaan.

You know, in the combat power of a third-level wizard apprentice, external objects such as wizard tools account for a large proportion.

For example, when Lucian was fighting with Noriaan before, if there was no Lightning Spear, it would be very difficult for Lucian's own witchcraft attack to break through the abomination's defense.

However, powerful magic tools suitable for third-level wizard apprentices are in great demand in the market. Like high-level potions such as "Moonlight Tribute", they are extremely valuable hard currency. Unless there is an extreme shortage of magic stones, basically no one is willing to take out this kind of magic tools for sale.

Most of the wizard tools sold in the alchemy house are relatively low-end ones. They may be useful for first and second level wizard apprentices, but they are not very useful for third level wizard apprentices. After all, the moves they can defend against or release are not powerful enough for third level wizard apprentices, and are not as practical as the witchcraft they cast casually.

This has resulted in Lucian being in a rather awkward "blank slate" period.

Originally, Lucian was thinking about whether he could make a few more [Moonlight Tribute] in the next two days to barter for a suitable magical tool.

But now Lucian has a new idea.

That is to quickly improve his alchemy level as soon as possible through this "secret door" he just discovered, so that he can not only take out the remaining items in Noriaan's broken storage pendant, but also customize a set of suitable witchcraft tools for himself.

This not only saves magic stones, but also allows you to obtain a set of magic tools that suits you best, and they will only be revealed at the critical moment, which can also have an unexpected effect.

Killing two birds with one stone, the only drawback is that it seems to be a bit useless for Carly.

Lucian turned his head and glanced at Carly who was studying the alchemy drawings carefully, then withdrew his gaze with a guilty conscience.

But when it comes to studying, it shouldn’t be too much for young people to work harder, right?
Lucian calmed down a little when he thought of this, and a different emotion appeared in his smile. At the same time, he tried to restrain himself from showing an expression similar to rubbing his hands like a fly in front of Carly.

"Mentor Lucian?" Carly seemed to be aware of Lucian's expression. She raised her head and looked at him with some confusion.

"It's okay. Take a look at this blueprint. If there is anything you don't understand, I can explain it to you again. But you have to hurry up, after all, our work is not finished yet." Lucian reminded.

Carly listened to Lucian's familiar words and came up with a bold guess in her mind.

Could it be that... the current version designed is just the limit of what Lucian thinks he can accept, rather than the limit of Lucian's ability?
Thinking of this, Carly couldn't help but feel a little unreal.

She raised her head somewhat unconfidently, and then met Lucian's eyes full of encouragement.

"Teacher Lucian..." Carly looked down at the hunting bow on the laboratory table and seemed to understand Lucian's good intentions.

Mentor Lucian did this all for me...that's why he guided me step by step, allowing me to participate in the repair of the hunting bow step by step, right?
Thinking of this, Carly closed her eyes gently, but her emotions were surging.

"Master Lucian, I will definitely work hard!" After a long while, Carly opened her eyes and said in a firm voice.

Mentor Lucian cares so much about her, so she can't hold him back.

[Your student Carly reveres you, reverence value +50]

When Lucian received this system message, he couldn't help but be silent for a moment, and a sense of guilt arose in his heart.

Of course, this feeling of guilt was fleeting, and soon Lucian and Carly were engaged in a new round of answering questions 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 had tried to be promoted to a formal wizard three times and failed every time, her spiritual sea had already become extremely fragile due to the backlash of failed promotions. If she were to force herself to be promoted again, her spiritual sea would collapse directly and her entire head would explode.

But Lilia was unwilling to accept this. Moreover, if she didn't advance, she would only have a dozen years left to live.

So even though she knew there was a trap in Bennett's words, she was still prepared to fight to the death.

If she succeeds, she will be reborn, if she fails, at worst she will die!
Lilia was thinking, but suddenly, she saw a black cat with two tails in front of her.

The black cat's pair of green vertical pupils were staring at her, and the pair of tails behind it were swinging leisurely and leisurely.

"Your Excellency." Lilia bowed her head, showing the humility due to a formal wizard.

"Please do me a favor." The black cat spoke in a clear childish voice.

Lilia bowed but did not respond.

"If you agree, after you return from your mission, I will give you a standard unit of [Crimson Rose]." The black cat looked at Lilia with his dark green eyes, and a sense of pressure emanated from his body. "But if you want to be promoted to a formal wizard, you need to make five unconditional moves."

Lilia's eyes suddenly lit up.

The bloody rose was a magic potion that could temporarily heal her broken spiritual sea and give her a chance to try to become a formal wizard!

"I do, sir." Lilia bowed almost ninety degrees, and then quickly signed the contract with the official wizard behind the black cat.

call--

The next moment, Lilia felt her whole body stiffen and her body trembled slightly uncontrollably.

A strand of silver hair was cut off by the invisible air blade and then floated towards the two-tailed black cat not far away.

During the flight, the strand of silver hair quickly deformed and squirmed, and eventually became a 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 fate would be extremely miserable.

Emm, it’s a long chapter of 4.6, and I feel it’s a bit hard to divide it into chapters, so I just put them together.

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