Chapter 44
The Improvement of Witchcraft Completed
Time flies, and two weeks have passed in the blink of an eye.
Matthew and Lucian spent two weeks finally calculating the complete structure of Silas's sorcery.
"Finally finished..." Lucien let out a long sigh of relief, slumping into his chair like a deflated balloon.
He had been driven crazy by the calculations of this spell, and it was thanks to Matthew's calculus theory that he didn't know how long he would have been calculating it.
Thinking of this, he smiled at Matthew and said, "Starting tomorrow, you don't need to come anymore."
"Yes, time really flies."
During his studies, Mathieu took the opportunity to come across Lucien's study notes and several books on plasticity.
I had already memorized the information, and some of the parts I didn't understand were verified and answered through subtle questioning during my conversation with Lucien.
His understanding of sculpting is now comparable to that of runic literature, which is enough to support him in completing the improvement of [Burning Hand].
"Is there anything you still don't understand about body sculpting?"
Matthew shook his head. He couldn't wait to get back to his dorm and start improving the Burning Hand, so after saying goodbye to Lucien, he hurriedly left the lab.
"Click—" The pitch-black door slowly opened, and Silas stepped out.
Upon hearing the voice, Lucian immediately stood up, turned around, and said, "The structural shape of the mentor has been calculated."
Silas nodded and picked up the report on his desk to examine it.
"Teacher, I think Matthew is quite intelligent, why don't you take him as your student?"
Silas remained motionless, his gaze fixed on the report, and said calmly, "He is indeed quite intelligent to be able to come up with a calculation method like calculus, but that's only in mathematics."
"Didn't you see how long it took him to complete the assignment? He's not qualified enough to be my student."
Upon hearing this, Lucien remained silent and said nothing more.
……
late at night……
Matthew sat cross-legged in the room and slowly opened his eyes.
After finishing his meditation, he felt his mental strength had increased.
The school's mandatory quest was issued a week ago, but Matthew skipped it because of Silas.
His mental strength is currently at 26 points, and he will reach 30 points in four weeks.
"As long as I meditate step by step for the rest of the time, barring any unforeseen circumstances, I should be able to advance to intermediate apprentice before the next school mission."
Although a promotion was just around the corner, Matthew felt little joy at the moment.
Because his meditation time has decreased by three minutes this month, including the time he reduced before, he now meditates for only one hour and fifty-five minutes a day.
"My meditation time is decreasing at an accelerated rate; I need to find a way to stop this soul erosion quickly..."
Matthew shook his head, temporarily putting the problem out of his mind. "Forget it, let's focus on improving [Burning Hand] first!"
He mentally reviewed the content he had extracted from Lucian's notes, a slight smile playing on his lips.
"This time there shouldn't be any problems."
After seeing the structure and shape of Silas's sorcery, Matthew had a direction for improvement in mind.
He intends to use his knowledge of plasticity to alter the shape of witchcraft.
Change "Burning Hand" to "Burning Claw"!
This improvement, though it may only change the shape, actually increases its power dramatically.
【Burning Claws】The fire element at the tip of the claws is highly compressed and concentrated at a single point, resulting in attacks with extremely strong penetrating power.
This is similar to how a conical bullet is more lethal than a round-nosed bullet.
In addition, [Burning Claws] can also cause tearing damage, with flames directly penetrating the wound and causing deeper trauma.
Without hesitation, Matthew immediately began to combine his knowledge of plasticity to improve the "Burning Hand".
First, he needs to accurately calculate the structural shape of the [Burning Claw].
The second step is to dismantle the fire elemental magic flow path of [Burning Hand] and then reshape it into [Burning Claw].
Finally, the rune magic output was modified to compress fire elemental energy into the claw tip.
Because Matthew spent his days in the lab calculating the shape of the spell's structure, and because the Burning Claw spell was much simpler than Silas's spell, he completed the calculations in just five hours.
He then began to dismantle the flow path of magic and compress the output of magic.
……
Ten days later...
The dormitory floor was piled high with scrap paper, and the little elf was hiding in a corner, wanting nothing more than to get away from Matthew.
The reason was simple: Matthew had been busy with witchcraft improvements these past few days, and his clothes hadn't been changed for days, so a sour stench emanated from him, filling the entire room.
At that moment, Matthew scratched his messy hair, holding a thick stack of papers in his hand.
The above records his improved version of the [Burning Claw] technique.
Although the reform of the witchcraft was completed, his face was somber, and he was not satisfied with the reform.
【Burning Claws】 was very different from his expectations. First of all, he could not completely reshape the spell according to the calculated structure.
Secondly, the compression efficiency of magic output is also very low.
It can be said that the [Burning Claw] in his hand is only a prototype, and there are still many areas that need to be improved, which will require a lot of time.
"Sigh!" Matthew sighed. "Let's refine it using the system first."
Just in case, Matthew has now developed the habit of systematically refining any useful knowledge.
"System, refine..."
Hmm? Wait a minute…
Just as Matthew opened the system to extract the content, he discovered a notification he had never seen before.
[Name: Unnamed Witchcraft]
[Description: A complex sorcery based on the [Burning Hand] and plasticity...]
[Can be optimized]
"Can it be optimized?"
"The system can even optimize witchcraft?"
Matthew clearly remembered refining the [Burning Hand] technique through the system when he learned it before, but the system didn't suggest any optimization options at that time.
"It seems that there's no room for improvement in basic sorcery like [Burning Hand]. I was even thinking of improving it before."
"Based on the system's description, [Burning Claws] is a composite sorcery based on creation, not a modified sorcery!"
"So, I've created a completely new form of witchcraft?"
Matthew never imagined that he had unknowingly stepped into the realm of creating witchcraft!
He calmed his agitated emotions. "System, optimize the witchcraft!"
Suddenly, information about how to reshape the [Burning Claw] and compress magic output appeared in his memory.
At this moment, the perfect form of the [Burning Claw] was officially born in his mind!