Cornflower Witch

Chapter 41 The Girl's Prayer

"So, let me first understand your basic level today."

Today, Hilti was wearing a white top and a plain blue skirt, which looked quite bright and lively, much better than the black dresses she had been wearing for a while.

In the rest area on one side of the training field, the girl had a small blackboard hanging up and began to tutor two classmates.

After some communication, she quickly understood the situation between the two.

Komia's problem wasn't actually that big. Apart from a few more profound and obscure parts that she didn't understand, she understood most of the knowledge, but she had forgotten some of it because she hadn't memorized it.

Karen's problems are quite serious. Not only does she only know most of the terms without understanding their connections, but she also has many problems with basic arithmetic and vocabulary.

"It seems there's still a long way to go," the girl thought.

However, she still had to give it a try and couldn't give up at the beginning. She started to fill in the gaps in Karen's foundation, and as for Komia, for now, she only needed to consolidate the knowledge she had forgotten.

……

Two hours passed quickly. After the class ended, Siltia did not extend the class time but announced the end of today's tutoring session.

"Phew, I thought Tia was going to keep going." Komia lay on the table, having just seen Siltia help Karen with the basics for quite a while.

“Everyone’s comprehension is limited. It’s not a good thing to talk too much in one day. Besides, you all need to train, so you can’t let this cause you to neglect your studies.” She put away her notebook.

“Oh, right.” Hiltiah remembered something and looked at Karen with some curiosity.

"Karen, can you teach me how to shoot an arrow?" She had never tried archery before.

"Tia actually wants to learn this?" Komia was the first to be surprised.

"Archery is actually very tiring; it takes a lot of strength to draw the bow." She had tried it before.

"However, the training ground has bows and arrows with very low poundage. Tia can try them out. Well, some noblewomen occasionally use them for decoration."

The three of them then arrived at the shooting range on one side of the training ground and quickly found the training short bows placed there.

Under Karen's careful guidance, Hiltiya roughly understood the posture for drawing a bow and the precautions to take.

"Beginners should avoid using bows with too high a draw weight," Karen advised.

"First, it's difficult to draw the bowstring back; second, if you accidentally release it, the rebound of the bowstring can injure you and also damage the bow."

"I understand."

Hilti held the short bow, nocked an arrow, and slowly drew back the bowstring. Then, at Karen's instruction, she released the bow, and the arrow barely reached the nearest target.

(Basic Archery Proficiency +12)

Basic Archery Lv.0: A skill still being learned, current progress (12/100)

Having roughly grasped the concept, Hilti looked at the arrow shafts stuck diagonally in the distance, and when she shot the arrow a second time, her accuracy was noticeably better.

On the fifth shot, the arrow finally landed on the bullseye of the target, though not quite perfectly straight.

"Phew, this seems quite interesting. It's completely different from using melee weapons," the girl thought, putting down her bow.

Because arrows are not held in the hand like a sword hilt, they are out of control the moment they are released. Therefore, she cannot operate them with the same precision and flexibility as she does with a sword. More often, she has to prepare in advance, calculating the force, trajectory, wind direction, and the condition of the target.

Logically speaking, if someone is very good at archery, their mental arithmetic ability should also be good. Even if it's intuition, it's still a subconscious reaction after the brain has calculated.

Thinking about it this way, Karen might not be stupid, she just lacked education and guidance.

……

For the next few days, the three of them learned from and trained each other until Barron and Mick recovered from their injuries and returned to class.

When Mick first heard from Teacher Hyde that Hilti would tutor him, a surge of joy rose in his heart, but he quickly suppressed it.

"It's just tutoring, don't overthink it," he tried to remain calm. However, that afternoon, when he actually sat in the rest area and listened to the girl's clear and gentle voice, he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy, noticing details he hadn't paid attention to before.

Tia not only has a beautiful voice, but also a great figure and exceptionally beautiful skin. It's just a pity that her thick glasses ruin her beauty.

"Pay attention in class." The girl tapped the blackboard lightly with a wooden stick, interrupting Mick's thoughts.

"Yes." He had no choice but to stand up and sit properly, which made Komia cover her mouth and chuckle.

A few days after Mick started coaching him, Ray joined in, and the two of them, along with Karen, consistently ranked among the bottom three in the class for Secret History.

Teaching one is teaching, and teaching three is also teaching. Tiya was not uncomfortable with this. In fact, in the process of teaching the three, she gradually learned what a lot of knowledge looked like in the eyes of ordinary people.

For her, having received nearly 16 years of complete education in the Earth system in her previous life, she understands the internal interrelationships of various kinds of knowledge and has a cognitive framework for the entire world, so understanding many things is easy. However, for ordinary students who are completely ignorant and have never understood many concepts, learning some things is a completely different story.

For example, with an engine, she would know that the engine needs to be cast from a metal alloy with sufficient strength, that it relies on a certain combustion chemical reaction to provide energy, and that the power is transmitted to various parts through physical mechanical transmission, as well as the interlocking of various gears and connecting rods to create differential speeds for adjustment, and so on.

A single engine actually involves the combined application of knowledge from multiple fields, including materials science, metallurgy, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and mechanics.

However, people who only know one aspect and have never been exposed to other knowledge are prone to having biased understandings due to the lack of a framework.

In the process of teaching these students, Hilti also made a good review of the knowledge framework from her previous life.

It's incredible that she can recall such distant knowledge so clearly, even remembering the names of her elementary school classmates.

……

Life began to settle into a routine and stable routine. In the mornings, Hilti and her classmates would listen to their teacher's lectures. In the afternoons, she would tutor three struggling students, then practice archery in her spare time. In the evenings and mornings, she would tend to the flowers and plants in her backyard. In the evenings, she would chat with Taliel, listening to her recount the interesting and exciting things that happened in Scorched Stone City that day, before finally going to sleep.

Before we knew it, a month had passed.

Her carefully cultivated 'Swan Orchid' has finally reached the time to bloom.

Carefully crouching down, Hilti held the small, tender green bud in her hands, her heart filled with joy.

In any case, it was the first potted plant she had carefully cultivated, which had taken her a lot of time and effort, and was filled with anticipation and joy.

【Swan Orchid】(Rare-82): Currently in bloom. Humidity is not optimal and needs to be increased to 23.53%. The ambient temperature is slightly low and needs to be raised by 7.4 degrees Celsius. Optimal air circulation is needed, and sufficient nutrients and micronutrients are required…

From the flower buds, which are a mix of light green and tender green, several slender shoots emerge. In this most vibrant place, a faint 'Emerald Honey' elemental power gathers, just one step away from the complete 'First-Tier - Emerald Honey' elemental power.

Even with her eyes closed and not looking, she could still feel the faint fragrance of grass and trees emanating from the flower bud in front of her, as well as the invisible ripples.

It's still a little short. If we can put in this last missing piece of the puzzle, we can probably bloom a flower with the complete 'Tier 1 - Emerald Honey' attribute power.

Temperature, humidity—she sat up and looked out over the small courtyard.

If she were to build a greenhouse with glass panels, there wouldn't be enough time, and she also lacked sufficient funds.

Therefore, she can only use other methods to replace it for now.

After making some inquiries, Hilti found the glass workshop in Scorched Stone City. She spent 6 silver coins to have the workers there specially make three large glass domes for her, and then carefully transported them back to her residence.

She found the three best-looking and best-condition 'Swan Orchids' in the backyard, carefully covered them with glass domes, and dug several narrow channels underneath for ventilation and watering. Although this didn't achieve perfection, the environment was much better than before.

Facing the three 'Swan Orchids' that were about to bloom, she added more 'Emerald Dew' to ensure the 'Emerald Honey' condensation.

Afterwards, Hilti stood beside the glass dome, gently stroking it with her hand, thinking to herself.

Even if it doesn't bloom into a flower with the complete 'Emerald Honey' phenotype, I won't be sad or regretful; this is the best result I can achieve so far.

However, I still hope that you can bloom perfectly, because I look forward to that happening.

Standing before the 'Swan Orchid', the girl prayed silently.

The autumn wind carried a few fallen leaves into the small courtyard, lifting the girl's soft hair. As the girl closed her eyes to pray, the tender green buds inside the glass dome slowly unfurled, and the closed buds began to reveal their first cracks.

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