The Necromancer in the Wizarding World

The next day, after completing the day's medicine preparation work, Matthews came to his laboratory and saw Nicole Bella lying on the table, writing and drawing something on her notebook.

He walked closer with curiosity and found that she was drawing various optical graphics analysis on the notebook - refraction, reflection and scattering, etc.

Seeing this scene, Matthews secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that he was not wrong about the person. This woman did have advanced knowledge of optics.

At this moment, he even wanted to directly ask the other party about the optical detection witchcraft equipment, but reason told him not to act too hastily.

So, he pretended to be relaxed and asked, "Nicole, have you found a new research direction?"

Nicole Bella shook her head: "I haven't fully understood these optical theories yet! But you were right yesterday, we should focus on more in-depth optical theoretical support."

Matthews nodded, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that this stubborn donkey finally got the point. Then, he said attentively: "In fact, the alchemy system I learned also includes a lot of knowledge about optics, so we can discuss it in depth together."

Nicole Bella's eyes were full of doubt. Optical knowledge was not basic alchemical knowledge, but a specific advanced knowledge area. However, judging from Matthews' performance since the experiment, he did not seem to have reached the level of learning advanced alchemical knowledge.

Seeing this questioning look, Matthews felt helpless. This woman obviously didn't trust him. It seemed that he needed to show some hard power.

So, he said confidently: "What you just drew is the principle diagram of reflection, refraction and scattering of light! I am quite familiar with this part."

Hearing this, Nicole Bella couldn't help but show surprise. Could it be that the person in front of her really knew about optics? In order to further verify it, she began to tentatively ask Matthews some optics-related questions.

Unexpectedly, the other party actually answered very well. Although his wording was not accurate, he was able to accurately grasp the key points of the problem. Not only that, even for some questions that she had not yet fully understood, Matthews gave reasonable explanations, which made Nicole Bella even more shocked.

Finally, she couldn't help asking, "Matthews, it seems that your theoretical knowledge of alchemical optics is very solid. So, how do you think we should apply this knowledge?"

Matthews responded with a firm gaze: "Our ultimate goal is to prevent glare, so we have to remove excess light, so light reflection and filtering are inevitable."

Hearing this, Nicole Bella opened her mouth in shock. What she had been thinking about for a long time was revealed by the other party in just one sentence. This was too magical!

She couldn't help but sigh: "So that's how it is..." But then she thought of something else and couldn't help but ask: "But, what should we do then?"

This problem stumped Matthews, because he only knew about "polarization", but he had no idea how to achieve it specifically!

However, he thought about it and immediately said, "This is also something I have never been able to figure out, so I proposed to cooperate with you in the experiment. After all, two people always have more ideas than one person."

Unexpectedly, Nicole Bella actually believed what he said, and even agreed: "You are right, but we must first improve the theoretical support for anti-glare lenses."

Then, the two began to further explore the problem of how to reflect glare. Nicole Bella actually started to talk about materials again, while Matthews was still thinking about the problem of "polarization".

The two seemed to be completely out of sync, as if they lived in different worlds. However, these are exactly the two indispensable parts of making witchcraft equipment: materials and principles.

"Nicole, alchemy is also a kind of witchcraft, and witchcraft is based on knowledge. Witchcraft without theoretical knowledge to support it is just dregs." Matthews said loudly.

He felt helpless towards Nicole Bella because this female apprentice always complicated simple things, lacked sufficient flexibility, and was unable to achieve the rational thinking that witchcraft should have.

Nicole Bella looked at Matthews in a daze, as if the other party had said something shocking.

Matthews decided to end the communication. He hoped that the other party would figure it out on his own rather than forcing him.

"Okay, let's stop here for today. Alchemy requires a calm and rational mind." After saying that, he turned and left, leaving Nicole Bella alone in deep thought.

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After more than ten days of potion making, the task was finally completed. At the same time, Matthews also successfully took the opportunity to transform his basic medicinal materials into finished potions.

"Very good. Our cooperation this time went very smoothly. Not only did we successfully complete the mission requirements, but we also got a lot more. Now each of you can get 20 basic potions as a reward."

After that, Matthews took out a portion of the excess potion and divided it equally among the four apprentices. This was both a recognition of their hard work and a reward for their help in handling his contraband.

Afterwards, Matthews came to the potion hall and found that the Connaught wizard had been waiting there. He hurried forward and respectfully handed the potion to the other party.

The Connaught wizard took the potion, checked it carefully, and after confirming that it was correct, he paid the corresponding reward according to the task agreement.

However, just as the Connaught wizard was about to leave, he was stopped by Matthews.

"Lord Connaught, please wait a moment, I have some questions to ask you!"

Matthews waved his hand to let the other apprentices leave first, intending to communicate with the Connaught wizard alone.