Moon Witch, embark on the journey!

"The core of alchemy lies in the meticulous control of mental power and elements, as well as the accumulation of knowledge. Next, we will conduct the most basic explanations and experiments..."

The only thing that makes this kind of advanced course worthwhile is that it will have some practical courses and you don’t need to prepare materials yourself. Of course, considering that they are all apprentice-level basic materials, the value itself is not high.

"The alchemy array here is much worse than the one at the instructor's place."

Senna on the side was fiddling with the material in her hand, which was a black stone that looked like a big lump of iron.

"It's just for teaching apprentices. Compared with the facilities for formal wizards..."

Luna tried to concentrate on processing the black ore, placing it on the alchemy array on the table, roasting it with witchcraft flames, and extracting useful ingredients from it.

"The first step is to raise the temperature to around 362 degrees. Tsk, the mental output is too low."

Luna discovered an important problem. Although her elemental perception ability was strong, her lack of mental strength forced her to take a break after operating the magic circle for a while. Her progress was the slowest in the entire class.

"I don't know when I can make the alchemical items. I can't wait!"

She tilted her head to look at Senna next to her. This person who looked a little careless was actually faster than her. It seemed that one's own strength had a great influence on these skills.

For wizards, strength always comes first. Strong mental and magical powers will make everything much easier.

"We still have to break through to the intermediate apprentice level as soon as possible."

In the blink of an eye, nearly half a month had passed. Nothing special happened during this period. Luna took the basic courses of wizard knowledge and the advanced courses of alchemy step by step.

In order to speed up the progress, Luna also purchased materials on her own, and practiced with the alchemy equipment of Instructor Enissa when she was not using it.

It has to be said that the alchemy workshops of official wizards are much more luxurious than those used by apprentices, and Enissa herself looks like a master alchemist, and her equipment is better than that of most official wizards.

"Teacher, I'm here to borrow your equipment again."

The silver-haired girl wore a brown floral dress, revealing her slender arms and calves. Her skin was as white as milk, and she had a youthful and attractive aura full of vitality. She seemed a little out of place in the lifeless castle of Enissa.

"Well, go by yourself."

After glancing greedily at Luna a few times, Anessa lowered her eyes and nodded slightly.

Luna had already grasped some of the mentor's tendencies. If she was dressed nicely, she would unconsciously become more friendly. If she was just wearing wizard robes, she would be a little cold.

She also loves being complimented on her looks.

"Teacher, you have changed your image again. This time you look very cute."

Today, Anissa is a slender girl with long dark blue hair, a reserved and youthful figure, and slightly immature facial features. Judging from her appearance, she is about the same age as Luna, or maybe even younger.

Luna had no idea what her original form looked like. At least the figure she had seen at first was impossible to fit into her current body.

The blue-haired girl smiled slightly, looked down at her new body, and said with some complacency:

"This is an elder of the Heart of Water Elemental Organization, who is hostile to us. Her name is Evelyn. Although she looks very young, she is actually nearly 40 years old. However, she became a formal wizard very early, so her appearance has not changed much."

This was the first time that Enissa had clearly stated the origin of her "leather case". Luna's heart couldn't help but twitch a little, she didn't want her body to be introduced to others like this in the future.

"The vitality of an apprentice hasn't changed much, but a formal wizard, not counting witchcraft transformation and potions, can basically live to over 150 years old. Little Luna, you have to grow up as soon as possible and don't slack off."

When she said this, coupled with Anessa's cute appearance at the moment, she seemed like a really good teacher who cared about her students.

Seeing her eyes looking her up and down, Luna felt a little uneasy, but she still smiled as sweetly as possible:

"Yes, teacher, I will hurry up."

The alchemy array in Enissa's laboratory was much more accurate. Even for a beginner like Luna, it was much easier to handle the materials, and the success rate was much higher.

Perhaps because she was in a better mood today, Enissa, who had usually ignored her, came to the laboratory. She looked at the materials in Luna's hand:

"Is this the Alchemical Bomb - Thunder and Fire Type 1?"

Luna turned around in surprise and saw the petite blue-haired girl behind her. She nodded and said:

"Yes, I'm still a beginner, so I want to try an easier type first."

This is a one-time simple alchemical creation, much easier than those real alchemical items that solidify a certain ability. Its power is equivalent to an apprentice-level fireball, but it can only be thrown or placed by hand, and its flexibility is much worse than that of sorcery that can simply control the direction.

Generally, high-level apprentices would not use it, as it was more convenient for them to cast spells themselves. However, it was quite popular among beginner and intermediate apprentices, after all, most of them did not have much spare mental energy.

In addition to the fact that disposable items are easier to make, another reason for choosing alchemical bombs is that the instructor's laboratory is better protected and not afraid of explosions...

Luna is currently just simply processing the materials, and she plans to wait until she becomes a mid-level apprentice before starting the subsequent production.

"When you become a mid-level apprentice, I will give you a blueprint for making a real alchemical item."

34. Intermediate

Hearing what Enissa said, Luna immediately showed a surprised smile:

"Thank you, instructor!"

She calculated in her mind that a real alchemical item, even one of the lowest apprentice-level alchemical items, would cost at least one hundred magic stones to make!

After all, a perfect blueprint needs to be improved many times, and it takes countless failed attempts to be perfect. Luna's alchemy class only uses some common semi-finished products to explain, and the main thing she learns is the techniques.

In fact, the same goes for witchcraft. The basic wizard course does not contain complete and usable witchcraft templates. To learn real witchcraft, you need to purchase templates from an organization, and private dissemination is strictly prohibited.

Luna has several apprentice-level witchcraft templates in her hands, which were given to her by Claire when she was in the Helit family.

"You should be promoted as soon as possible. If you are not an intermediate apprentice, you are not even qualified to help me."

Anessa walked up to her, looked at the materials, and said:

"This piece of phosphorite was processed too roughly, and there are still many impurities. Don't be afraid of wasting it, because the failure rate of production will increase and the quality of the finished product will deteriorate..."

Generally, Enissa doesn't even look at such low-level materials. Her guidance is undoubtedly just for teaching Luna.

As Luna listened and looked at Enissa's girlish face, she couldn't help but think:

What did the instructor think of her? At the beginning, she signed a strange contract, but now he is giving her serious guidance.

"Don't be distracted!"

"Yeah, sorry."

Luna quickly gathered her thoughts and listened attentively.

......

The progress of meditation was slower than expected. The growth of mental power stagnated when it reached the bottleneck of the intermediate stage. It took several more days to gradually loosen up.

That evening, Luna made a rare trip to the apprentices' market, did some shopping, and spent almost all of her remaining magic stones.

After returning to her dormitory, she first meditated for a while, and then reviewed the witchcraft she had mastered.

Fire bomb, shield, acceleration.

These are the three most common and practical apprentice-level witchcrafts that she currently possesses. She has also mostly analyzed the fourth, the Invisible Hand, which is already quite excellent by the standards of a beginner apprentice.

The problem is that she can only release two mental powers at most as a beginner apprentice, which is undoubtedly a hindrance. However, it will only end today.

Although in terms of speed, Luna's progress from a beginner to the peak of the junior apprentice was frighteningly short, but she actually did not use any potions or other means. She reached her current level purely through meditation, so her foundation was quite solid.

"Well, use this first."

Luna held a bottle of potion in her hand and drank it. The cold liquid flowed down her throat, as if her whole body was in ice, and she suddenly became energetic.

This is the 'Tranquility Potion', which is worth five magic stones. It has the effect of allowing the user to concentrate their mental power and stabilize their mentality. I heard that many formal wizards drink it like a beverage, and the effect is already very low for them.

However, for Luna who was using it for the first time, the effect was quite significant.

She controlled the mental power in her sea of ​​consciousness, like waves, calmly launching rounds of sprints toward the periphery. According to the content of the basic meditation method, she continued to condense and impact.

Finally, with a loud bang, the sea of ​​consciousness shook. Luna controlled it with an extremely indifferent attitude to restore stability. Soon, the boundary of the sea of ​​consciousness expanded a lot, and the mental power in it also stabilized.

It became.

Swish!

At the same time, the moonlight shining down from the sky above the sea of ​​consciousness condensed into a beam, and the mysterious silver-white light was fixed on the second basic rune of the wizard apprentice, which stood for "guidance" and represented the ability to control the elements.

Under the silvery moonlight, the entire rune composed of mental power underwent a mutation, and its structure became more complex, completely different from its previous appearance.

Soon, all these changes stopped, and Luna recovered from her meditation.

There was still some fascinating mental power remaining in her blue eyes. Ordinary people might feel dizzy if they looked into her eyes, but this was not surprising in a wizarding organization.

"Sure enough, there have been changes again."

The mutation of the first rune in her sea of ​​consciousness gave Luna the observation ability comparable to that of a formal wizard, but it was just observation. Many times, even though she could see the principles of some witchcraft, she was unable to use them herself.

But now——

Whoosh!

A fist-sized fireball appeared at the fingertips of the silver-haired girl. If she used witchcraft in the dormitory and caused damage, she would be fined, but she was absolutely confident at this time.

Swish!

The fireball slowly floated in her hand, suddenly flew towards the corner, and suddenly stopped abruptly. After returning to Luna's hand, it began to jump up and down, left and right, drawing all kinds of strange trajectories.

Then, the fireball slowly shrank and quickly went out.

"This control..."

Luna had seen many apprentices before, and she knew that the apprentices did not have this level of control. Instead, it was the formal wizard instructors who used their huge mental power to control the "magic" in class and could reach this level.

This level of control over mental power and elements is undoubtedly beyond the scope of an apprentice.

"Can this kind of control be applied to alchemy?"

Luna, who had already studied for a while, quickly came to the answer in her mind: yes, it was possible. In other words, she would be able to use alchemy at a level similar to that of a formal wizard in the future.

The drawback is that the total amount of mental power is still not enough, and her level of knowledge is not up to par.

"There is also a change in the total amount of mental power."

As soon as she broke through, Luna's mental power reached a level that could release about four apprentice-level witchcrafts, and then her mental power would have a period of rapid growth until it approached that of a high-level apprentice, when it would slow down again and continue to grow only after breaking through the bottleneck again.

High-level apprentices are already the elite among apprentices, and are the reserve of formal wizards. They are superior to mid-level apprentices in all aspects.

It was not uncommon to find mid-level apprentices aged 14 or 15, but there were very few high-level apprentices under the age of 20. Even many civilian apprentices remained at the mid-level level for their entire lives. They could never become high-level apprentices, let alone formal wizards, until they died.

"After all, I have just made a breakthrough, so I should set a small goal first and become a high-level apprentice within two years."

Luna stretched, changed her clothes and prepared to go find her tutor.

As a result, as soon as I opened the door, I bumped into a young girl.

The other person hugged her tightly and passionately, and their soft and plump bodies collided with each other, and their long black hair fell on Luna's shoulders.

"Claire?"

"Luna! Long time no see! Listen to me... Wait, who are you going to meet dressed like this?"

Claire let her go immediately, and her excited expression turned a little ugly.

35. Signs

Looking at the beautifully dressed silver-haired girl, Claire felt inexplicably unhappy.

This good friend didn't care much about her appearance at first, and even made do with her family's maid outfit. Later, after much persuasion, she was finally allowed to wear custom-made clothes.

As a result, when we met today, I saw her wearing the clothes I gave her, as if she was going out.

Claire managed to suppress her unhappy feeling and forced a smile on her face:

"Luna, who are you going to meet? Is it your boyfriend? As a good friend, please let me examine it carefully..."

Luna always felt that there was a hint of darkness in Claire's expression. She pulled the young lady into the room and sat down, saying helplessly:

"What are you thinking? Actually, I'm going to see my mentor. My mentor has some strange habits..."

She gave a brief explanation and also took the opportunity to listen to the opinions of this elite apprentice who had a deeper understanding of the Dark Ring.

"The Faceless Witch Enissa... I never thought you would become her disciple. She probably hasn't accepted any apprentices in a few years, but from some rumors, she does seem to be very fond of you. What a coincidence that you have met her."

After learning that she had not found a boyfriend, Claire looked much more relaxed. She leaned against the bed in Luna's dormitory and thought carefully for a while, playing with her black hair with her fingers in white silk gloves:

"From my personal opinion, it shouldn't be a big problem."