Millennium Witch.

Chapter 78 - 78 - Fire Magic Grimoire
After being hit three times by Yvette, Dugrabi became a little nervous and quickly said, "Teacher, don't rush! I'll make a decision right away... I want to learn... I want to learn... I want to learn ready-made spells! The kind that can be used directly in battle! I don't need rune literature or anything like that, that's too old-fashioned and not suitable for me..."

You don't want a fishing rod, you just want fish... Yvette thought, but recalling Dugrabi's performance over the past year, she felt it was very much in line with its style.

However, without magical equipment, the spellcasting environment of the Radiant Continent dictates that spells must be made very small. Even if she were to give Dugrabi a ready-made spell, she would still have to spend some time redesigning it.

After thinking about it, she suddenly realized that this matter seemed quite interesting.

To draw an analogy, it's like an author who has written a million-word novel deciding to write a ten-thousand-word short story.
……

That evening, she turned on the lights in the RV, spread the papers out on the table, picked up a quill pen, dipped it in ink, and began to work out simple design ideas on the draft.

Because she hadn't experienced something like this in so long, she couldn't help but think of things that happened five hundred years ago.

Back when she was researching rune compilation at the bottom of the Abyss Base, she often felt smug about her clever little designs, thinking she was incredibly smart and a genius compiler. But when she entered the dream for the third time and went to Agasher University to audit classes, she realized that those little designs she thought were genius were just basic knowledge points that all college students had to master in class.

There's a sense of shame about someone who's illiterate and discovers universal gravitation in a small mountain village, only to find out later in a big city that this knowledge is already commonplace.

Now, her attitude towards ultra-small-scale spells with less than 500 runes is completely different from before.

On the one hand, her accumulated experience has given her more ideas and approaches to this ultra-small-scale design, which are yet to be tested. On the other hand, this experience is very simple and authentic, bringing a sense of novelty that she hadn't experienced before.

However, she does not believe that the design of these small-scale procedures is simply for the purpose of teaching students.

She was certain that she would use these techniques in the future.

After all, she is a long-lived species, and the magic terminal is a high-tech precision device. No matter how good the quality is, it will always malfunction over a period of hundreds or even thousands of years.

For example, her old terminal, the Black Tower S3, had accumulated a large number of bad sectors over 200 years, and the symbol point cache also had some problems. Last time when she entered the dream in Agash, she specially replaced it with a new one, but she stopped using it after acquiring a new ring.

In a few decades or even a hundred years, when the ring on her hand also has problems and there is no stable channel for entering dreams, where will she go for after-sales service?
That means we can only use these small-scale spells, just like the mages on the Radiant Continent.

……

For the sake of future security, over the next month, a grand plan gradually took shape in Yvette's mind.

Unlike ordinary, junior rune compilers, she, standing at the high end, always looks very far ahead. If you ask her to design a small-scale spell, she will not only consider that small-scale spell.

Instead, she has to consider a bunch of smaller procedures.

In gaming terms, she hopes that these techniques can work together and interact with each other, which can be called "combos," and will eventually become a "system" or "style."

If her idea succeeds, by utilizing the synergistic effects between smaller techniques, the entire system, once completed, will present a jigsaw puzzle-like effect.

The power unleashed by the final, crucial step will surely exceed your imagination.

Thinking of this, she wrote a few words on the paper—

Water, fire, wind, earth, thunder.

This is her forte: elemental magic. It is also one of the five easiest development paths to learn in the university courses of the Origin Civilization. The runes corresponding to each system and the effects between the runes are already relatively clear and reliable.

If you were to create a magic manual, you would definitely start with these five.

Then, she thought for a moment and wrote five more words below—

life.

soul.

natural.

Force field.

Light and shadow.

This does not fall under the category of elemental classification and may seem a bit strange, but it is a genuine category in the field of rune compilation of the Origin Civilization, born through mutual consensus.

Simply put, it's a "concept" of a magical technique.

Any technology that fits the concept can be categorized into these five types. Compared to the five elemental magics, these five conceptual magics are more advanced, more difficult, and have far fewer learning channels. Many rune compilers may never even come into contact with these five areas in their entire lives.

Let's start with "life magic".

This is a concept of runes that can only be encountered at a very small number of top universities, and more than 70% of these top universities are related to Black Tower Medicine and Lintui Biotechnology.

If Yvette hadn't started her career at the Abyss Base, which indirectly meant she received the true teachings of Black Tower Medicine, she wouldn't have been able to develop techniques like "Muscle Restriction" and "Regeneration Pump." These techniques are closely related to life magic, and the runes they use are unusual and special, representing a significant advancement in the Origin Civilization's understanding of runes.

Next is "Natural Magic".

This is conceptual magic closely related to the fields of plants and agriculture. Although many universities teach it, it is very superficial. The truly high-end, military, and valuable content is all taught at the universities in Emerald Continent, and they all belong to Lingman Company.

Then comes "soul magic".

It has two branches: "Undead" and "Spirit," which, although both are based on soul runes, are different.

The biggest difference is perhaps that the former is illegal; whether it's for study or research, being caught will lead to imprisonment. The latter, however, is a legitimate field of mental medicine, also known as "mind magic," which is taught at many top medical universities. Even Yvette herself knows a little about it—she acquired it from the Abyss Base, and over 200 years ago, it helped her complete her first communication with Rosalyn.

Next is "Force Field Magic".

This is purely military technology. Yvette was able to create the "Crimson Armor" based on it, deciphering and deriving it bit by bit from salvaged military equipment. As far as she knows, this technology has only three main applications: anti-gravity engines, magic barriers, and pulse spells. Each of these involves high-end military fields and is extremely difficult to access.

Finally, there's "light and shadow magic".

This is mainly reflected in the changes of light and shadow, which is the core of some holographic particle advertising, projection technology, and even printing technology.

It sounds ordinary, but it is actually divided into two areas: shallow and deep.

The superficial magic of light and shadow is merely a commercial technique related to lighting, decoration, projection, and display, which Yvette also has some knowledge of.

The deeper layers of light and shadow magic involve high-end civilian and military applications, such as holographic camouflage, chip etching, network transmission, and so on.

Like force field magic, this is something she would find difficult to learn even if she entered the dream world again, because there are only a handful of universities that can teach this kind of knowledge, and none of them would allow outsiders to audit the classes, no matter how much money they spend.

I wonder if the continuation of civilization has involved any advanced technologies related to "force field magic" and "light and shadow magic".

If so, then she should definitely join us wholeheartedly.

……

Having outlined her learning goals and plans for her future dreams, Yvette returned to her manuscript.

Life, soul, nature, force field, light and shadow. She either didn't understand these five concepts of magic, or only had a very superficial understanding of them. Naturally, she couldn't design a special school for them; she could only extract parts and integrate them into the school of elemental magic.

For her first style, she planned to start with the fire element.

The tentative name is "Flame Magic Grimoire"!
Once it was finished writing, he called Dugrabi to copy it.

As for how the black dragon, without hands and relying only on its claws, would swoop down... that's not something she should be concerned with.

……

Two years passed peacefully during the development of the "Grimoire of Flame".

Because she has sacrificed a lot of time for reading miscellaneous books, daydreaming, or taking afternoon naps, and has to maintain her daily meditation practice, her life is no longer as leisurely as before, and seems a little more arduous.

However, the frequency of the Spider Woman's harassment did not decrease at all; in fact, it increased.

And it was clearly visible that she used more and more fire magic when harassing the spider woman, and by the second year, she was almost constantly being roasted by fire.

The Spider Woman, however, was in a much better mood, and even secretly pleased.

Because she sensed that the mysterious silver-haired girl, who was obsessed with fire magic, was not as formidable in combat as before, and seemed to have gone down a crooked path of regression instead of progress, with her strength greatly diminished.

On the other hand, she receives "nourishment" from the monarch every month to improve herself, and is getting stronger and stronger. She is gradually able to reverse her past decline and fight the silver-haired girl to a standstill, or even gain a slight advantage.

It seems that the day of revenge is just around the corner!
(End of this chapter)