Main Text Volume Chapter 172 Junior Alchemy Apprentice

For alchemists, enchantment only needs to do two things: stabilize the magic power when engraving, and draw the magic pattern accurately.

Angle can do it by stabilizing the magic power when engraving, just like the hot melting method, building a stable magic channel through the universal axis.

It is more difficult for wizard apprentices to draw the magic pattern accurately on the alchemical product. But Angle can find another way-

"Enchantment Encyclopedia--Introduction", this book was recorded by Angle from the Nightmare Realm, with more than 700 pages. If it is replaced by a paper book, it is about the thickness of a dictionary.

Each page has a complete magic pattern.

The magic pattern on the opening page is called: Sharp Magic Pattern. The effect is to double the sharpness of the alchemical equipment.

This magic pattern looks very simple. If you draw it with one stroke, you need more than 50 strokes to draw it.

Angle took out a pen and paper and tried to slowly draw the sharp magic pattern.

Undoubtedly, the ending is failure.

After seven or eight more attempts, the result was still the same as the beginning. Most of the time, they paused halfway through the drawing to think about the next stroke. A pause would lead to unstable magic output.

Even if the sharp magic pattern was completely drawn, it would fail in the end due to different spacing and deviations in direction and angle.

Angel had foreseen such a situation. He sighed slightly: It seems that I can only use cheating methods...

Angel cut the sharp magic pattern into pictures separately, and then used the holographic tablet to directly project it onto paper.

Angel took out a pen and paper and directly outlined it through holographic projection.

All in one go!

When the magic pattern was flawlessly drawn on the white paper by Angel, Angel silently gave a thumbs up to the holographic tablet in his heart.

Projecting the magic pattern through the holographic tablet is the confidence of Angel's enchantment.

In fact, Angel's cheating method was thought of by someone among the alchemists a long time ago. They carved a complete magic pattern through a hollowed-out wooden board, and then hung it on a chandelier, depicting it through projected light and shadow. The general principle is similar to Angell's projection, but the magic pattern projected in this way will cause problems with the spacing due to objective conditions. Because they projected shadows, the light will mislead the human eye, so this cheating method is basically useless.

However, Angell does not need to worry about the projection of the holographic tablet. Because it is a true holographic simulation, the size and spacing are exactly the same as the original.

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The cheating experiment was successful, and Angell decided to test it for real. This time, he would use magic to depict the sharp magic pattern.

Ordinary white paper could not withstand the power of Fan, so he went to the underground market to buy a few parchment rolls, and then controlled the magic output through the projection of the holographic tablet, and drew the sharp magic pattern on the parchment roll at a ratio of 1:2.

When the last stroke was drawn, a flash of light flashed on the parchment roll. Then, a cold breath like a sharp blade emanated from the parchment roll.

"That's it? Sharp Magic Pattern Scroll?"

Angel suddenly felt that he might not need alchemical weapons, but could reach the top of the Sky Tower simply by drawing magic pattern scrolls.

Just when Angel was feeling proud, the sharp magic pattern scroll suddenly exploded, breaking into countless pieces, and scattered all over the floor.

"What's going on? Why did it explode suddenly?" Angel was puzzled and reread the "Enchanting Encyclopedia - Getting Started".

When he read the middle half, Angel got the answer from the author's comments.

It turned out that the magic patterns drawn by alchemists were different from the real magic pattern learning. Alchemists did not make magic pattern scrolls, because the magic patterns they drew were used on alchemical tools, and most of them were passive magic patterns.

For example: sharp magic patterns, armor-breaking magic patterns, etc. Drawing them will increase the sharpness and armor-breaking ability of alchemical items. These are all passive effects.

Passive magic patterns are high-end technologies in magic pattern learning, and only wizards who are determined to learn magic arrays will dabble in them.

Passive magic patterns can achieve long-term "enchantment" by combining with suitable alchemical materials and a source of energy. Most ordinary magic pattern scrolls can only be used a few times, and can only be used for a long time after being transformed into magic arrays.

Active enchantments are not absent, but they are all composite... The so-called composite type is actually no longer an enchantment in magic pattern learning, but an enchantment of magic arrays.

That is, multiple magic patterns are superimposed, and a magic array is constructed through certain rules, and then it is enchanted on alchemical items, and then active enchantments will appear.

For example, the combination of sharp magic patterns, ejection magic patterns, and alchemy magic patterns will construct a magic array with a "knife rain" effect.

Enchanting to alchemical items made of suitable materials can give the alchemical items the effect of "knife rain".

However, the difficulty of enchanting the magic array is too high. Even if it is studied, its power is much worse than "blending". Therefore, alchemists usually only memorize some low-level magic patterns when learning enchantment, and when their strength is similar, they directly switch to "blending".

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After reading this, Angel understood why the sharp magic pattern leather scroll was broken, because the passive effect of the magic pattern is not something that ordinary leather scrolls can withstand. It belongs to the high-end knowledge of magic pattern learning and is the basis of the magic array.

However, Angel still felt happy.

Because at least it can be seen that he has successfully drawn the magic pattern. It means that he can draw magic patterns. In the future, if he buys a real book on magic patterns and some leather scrolls, he may be able to reach the top of the Sky Tower by smashing the magic pattern leather scrolls.

In the next week, Angel took the "Enchanting Encyclopedia--Introduction" and became proficient one by one.

With the cheating of holographic projection, Angel drew more and more smoothly, and because of the holographic projection, he always drew the most standard magic patterns. The more he drew, the more he became proficient. For some magic patterns that he drew repeatedly, he could even draw them by himself and achieve perfection without the help of holographic projection.

When the Flowery Month passed, the early Spring Festival Month quietly arrived.

On this day, Angel took out some materials, including Star Cold Gold, Ice Glue, Earth Demon Blood Copper, Iron Wood... and made them into accessories one by one through the hot melting method.

When the Earth Demon Blood Copper was melted, Angel shaped it into a half-moon blade. After the initial shape was determined, Angell immediately used the holographic flat panel projection to engrave the sharp magic pattern, and then used the condensation method while taking out the utility knife to draw fine wave patterns on the half-moon blade at a very fast speed.

He originally wanted to engrave the viper carving on the 3D map on the crescent blade, but the time of the hot melting method was limited, and his magic power was somewhat exhausted, so he could only draw some waves at random as an artistic processing.

When the crescent blade was successfully placed on the experimental table, it flashed with unimaginable sharpness.

When Angell wanted to take out several other accessories for assembly, he carefully held the blade surface, but he was directly cut by the sharp air, and blood flowed out.

The bright red blood passed over the crescent blade, without any stain, and fell directly to the ground. There was no blood stain after the blood flowed, and it was as smooth as a mirror.

"It's not the edge of the blade, but the flat blade surface alone, which has a sharp effect. After assembling it, it should be able to reach the level of ordinary alchemical weapons, right?" Angel thought to himself.

The assembly process was quickly completed. When the finished product was held in Angel's palm, it could be clearly seen that this was actually a sickle used by farmers to cut grass.

The maximum distance of the crescent blade is 31.2 cm, the maximum width is 13.7 cm, and the ironwood handle is 65.1 cm. Overall, this sickle is not big, and the weight is suitable for holding it in one hand.

The artistry is average. Although there are lines on the blade surface, it is very simple. The handle has been smoothed and waxed, but it is also sparse and ordinary.

As for the effect...

Angel took the sickle, walked out of the laboratory, and then crossed the river to the forest.

Angel swung the sickle and chopped down at an adult maple tree. The trunk, which was about the waist circumference of an adult, was easily chopped into two.

The sharpness almost reached the extreme.

At this time, Angel swung the knife again, but this time he injected magic power into the sickle. With the injection of magic power, a faint light flashed on the crescent blade, and Angel aimed at a maple tree again.

The maple tree still broke with a sound, but the strange thing was that the broken cross-section was not as flat as cutting tofu, but was full of various barbed cracks. Angel estimated that this was the effect of the sharp magic pattern.

Angel swung it a few more times, and once he even just swung it in the air, and it broke with a sound before it touched the branch.

"Sure enough, it has reached the ordinary level." Angel showed a satisfied smile on his face.

It can simply let the sharp air permeate the blade, and even cut it off in the air without touching the real object. This is the effect of the sharp magic pattern!

Refining an ordinary weapon means that Angel has officially entered the threshold of a junior alchemy apprentice.

And it took him less than a month.

If other alchemists knew Angel's achievements, they would probably be ashamed.

For most people who learn alchemy, it takes years from entry to promotion to junior apprentice. Every step of alchemy is extremely difficult, and often it takes years to get stuck.

People like Angell can only be said to be born to be hated.

However, Angell himself still has a little regret, because he can only refine weapons with 3D maps at present. He has not had time to explore other types.

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Returning home, Angell decided to refine another alchemical weapon. After this weapon is completed, he will start to refine his own weapons for climbing the tower.

Before refining this work, the shadow of Nausicaa flashed through Angell's mind. At that time, the will of the world descended on the mirror world, causing a hurricane to hit. On the Luoyunye platform, if it were not for Nausicaa's timely rescue, he might have fallen from the clouds and turned into rotten meat to become fertilizer for the Eternal Tree.

So, Angell decided to make an alchemical weapon for Nausicaa.