Who taught him to restore the country like this

Chapter 98 Elemental Puppet

The competition was over and Patton accepted the defeat.

Since Barton decided to join the Grey House and could no longer stay at Secret Star Academy, Tallulah brought Barton back to the Arcane Academy.

In the Arcane Academy's alchemy room, Barton carefully examined the herbs Tallulah had sent him, his brows furrowed. Even with over a decade of alchemy experience, he couldn't quite guess what kind of potion Ron was trying to create.

"This is a new type of potion that has not yet been circulated on the market. I hope you can sign a secret contract."

After Ron asked Tallulah to leave the room, he took out a sheepskin contract that was glowing with magic.

Alchemists are generally very averse to secret agreements, as this is a question of their credibility and a restriction on their exploration of knowledge.

Under normal circumstances, if Barton heard the other party asking to sign a secret contract, he would directly refuse to make potions for them.

But now he was refining medicine for Ron because of the bet in the competition, so he was not so opposed to the secret agreement.

After a little thought, Patton signed the secret contract.

After signing this secret contract, he is not allowed to disclose the relevant information of the new potion in any form, nor is he allowed to refine the potion without the employer's permission.

"The potion I'm going to make is called the Soul-Transforming Potion. It uses the remaining soul aura of the deceased to temporarily transform a person's soul into the soul of the deceased."

Ron put away the secret contract and told them about the potion he was going to make.

After listening to this, Barton raised his eyebrows unconsciously.

This description sounds... vaguely familiar?

"Any questions?" Ron asked.

"No problem, keep talking," Patton said.

"There's nothing more to say. Just follow the steps above to refine it."

Ron handed over a piece of parchment covered with tiny handwriting, which detailed the order in which each herb should be added, the time nodes accurate to the second, and the key to controlling the heat.

This is a low-end prescription he exchanged for his reputation points. It’s fine as long as it works.

With Patton's experience as a high-level alchemist and the support of the prescription, refining it shouldn't be too difficult.

……

Outside the pharmacy.

Tallulah paced back and forth like a restless cat, her mind completely absorbed in the recent competition.

When the blonde woman cheated and the lava puppet collapsed, she was indeed completely desperate and even prepared to accept failure.

However, at that critical moment, a powerful and mysterious life energy suddenly poured into her body, which not only instantly activated the rune array she had set up in advance but had dimmed, but also allowed her to miraculously condense a giant stone puppet with twice the power, reversing the situation in one fell swoop.

That life energy... was a perfect match for her arcane power. Not only did it double the puppet's strength, it even gave her the illusion that she could remotely revive the destroyed Molten Golem.

The feeling of comfort and strength that came from deep within her soul was so wonderful that even thinking about it now, she couldn't help but tremble slightly with excitement...

The Arcane Academy had also tried to integrate life magic into the arcane, but the result was like pouring a glass of water into a lake, with no ripples.

However, Ron's life magic was like a tsunami that could instantly make the entire ocean boil, directly overturning Tallulah's understanding of the upper limit of arcane power.

As long as she learned Ron's life magic, she felt that her strength could be raised to a higher level.

She couldn't wait to learn this amazing life magic!
At this moment, the door of the pharmacy creaked open.

"Mr. Gatling."

Tallulah rushed to Ron like an arrow, and without saying a word, she knelt on her knees, her only remaining left eye flashing with an extremely eager light: "Please teach me that life magic!"

Ron closed the door and looked down at Tallulah with a calm expression: "Sixth-level magic, you can't learn it at your level."

"Then... is it a fifth-level magic with similar effects?" asked Tallulah.

"No."

"What about the fourth level?"

"No."

"Eh..." Tallulah's face instantly fell, her disappointment evident in her words.

Ignoring her pitiful and aggrieved look, Ron's eyes fell on the row of silver metal bars on her waist: "Can anyone use this thing of yours?"

"this one?"

Tallulah pulled out one and said, "It's made of mithril. It can carry any material or magical changes, but it requires mastery of the arcane to activate it."

Seeing that Ron seemed very interested, she generously handed the mithril rod to him and asked, "Would you like to learn arcane magic?" Ron tried to use life magic on the mithril rod.

The mithril rod showed no reaction.

"It's okay. I can teach you. It's easy to learn." Tallulah said excitedly, "There are even more advanced alloy rods in the dean's office. Wait, I'll get them."

Ron didn't stop.

He is very interested in elemental puppets.

Especially after seeing how well his sixth-order life magic [Derivative] matched the elemental puppet, he became even more interested.

Soon, Tallulah brought the dean's alloy rod.

In order to avoid the matter of borrowing the dean's baby from being exposed, she directly dragged Ron to the special training ground opened by the Magic City Chamber of Commerce.

This special training ground is similar to a small secret realm. There are no magical monsters. Only monsters of specific levels are deployed according to customer needs for actual combat testing.

Talula opened a secret realm where fourth-level monsters were released.

"Mr. Gatling, hold this end and input life energy into it." Tallulah handed one end of the alloy rod to Ron and held the other end herself.

Ron grasped the alloy rod as instructed, and with a slight movement of his mind, the [derived] life energy flowed into it like a trickle.

Tallulah followed closely behind, skillfully mobilizing arcane power!
hum-

The alloy rod instantly erupted with a dazzling green light, twisting and expanding violently like a living thing. In the blink of an eye, a massive energy worm, over ten meters long and radiating a rich emerald green life energy, appeared before the two. Life energy flowed slowly through its translucent body like lava.

The two of them quickly took a few steps back.

Tallulah looked up at the bizarre creature emanating a majestic aura of life and clapped her hands in amazement. "This is incredible, Mr. Gatling. The efficiency of this conversion of magical energy into material structure... is simply perfect!"

"Hurry, try its power!" Tallulah urged excitedly.

"Oh? I can control it?"

Ron tried to convey an attack intention to the giant worm.

"hiss--!"

The giant worm let out a silent hiss, and its huge body turned with extraordinary flexibility towards a fourth-level rock armored bear that was roaring and rushing towards it in the distance.

Its head suddenly shrank and expanded, and a ball of sticky, dark green mucus with a pungent smell spurted out like a cannonball.

It's so fast!
The rock-armored bear had no time to react before being drenched in slime.

laugh--

A tooth-aching, intense, corrosive sound instantly rang out! The slime touched the Rock Armor Bear's thick, supposedly impervious fur, eroding it like a hot knife through butter.

Thick smoke rose up along with the stench of burnt flesh. The parts covered with mucus festered and melted at a speed visible to the naked eye, revealing the white bones underneath.

"Whoa-"

The rock bear let out a heart-wrenching howl, rolling and scratching frantically on the ground in pain, trying to get rid of the terrible slime that was like a maggot on its tarsal bones.

However, the mucus seemed to have life, and continued to erode and spread into its body along the wound.

In just a few breaths, this fourth-level monster, known for its defense, twitched and collapsed to the ground. Its huge body was quickly corroded beyond recognition and it completely lost its vitality.

Kill instantly with one move!

Tallulah was surprised again and again.

This is so cool!
A hint of surprise flashed across Ron's eyes. He hadn't expected that, guided by the alloy rod and Tallulah's arcane magic, the [derived] life energy could transform into such a domineering and bizarre attack form.

This alloy rod... is really a good thing.

"Mr. Gatling, it's my turn."

Tallulah held another alloy rod and looked at Ron expectantly.

Ron understood and activated the derivative seed remaining in Tallulah's body.

hum!
The vast and warm life energy instantly filled Tallulah's limbs and bones. She was greatly encouraged and gave a delicate cry, throwing the alloy rod in her hand with all her might.

The alloy rod deformed and expanded rapidly in the air. In a flash, a cheetah-shaped puppet with a body length of more than three meters and burning with blazing white flames appeared proudly.

Its agile body had smooth lines, and the scorching aura and energy fluctuations it emitted were several times greater than those of the molten fire golem she summoned with the mithril rod.

Feeling the surging power within her and the close connection she felt with the Flame Cheetah, Tallulah felt stronger than ever before. At this moment, she was even confident she could face a top-tier fifth-tier mage head-on without losing.

This feeling... is simply incomparable!
　Another chapter later (still can't break through the limit...)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)