Wizard Earl

Chapter 405 Passing on Experience and Skills

Connor's eyes gleamed as he examined the Dominican gold in Martina's hand. Despite his disdain, he forced a smile to encourage Martina, praising her, "Not bad, not bad, Martina, your alchemy fundamentals are quite solid, but..."

"But what...?" Martina seemed quite pleased with Connor's praise at the beginning, but her expression instantly turned cold again when she heard Connor add a "but".

"Your alchemy skills are decent at a basic level, but that's about it. When you were refining this Dominican gold, some impurities were clearly present, but because they were located in difficult-to-refine areas, you didn't choose to refine them to avoid damaging the energy structure of the object and to preserve the unique magnetic force of the Dominican gold!"

As he spoke, Connor took out a piece of Dominican gold from his spatial ring, which was even larger than the piece of Dominican gold he had just given Martina. Then he took out his alchemy furnace from his spatial ring and put the Dominican gold into the furnace.

As soon as Dominican gold entered the alchemy furnace, under Martina's watchful gaze, Connor's spiritual fire instantly enveloped the furnace.

"If you feel you have sufficient control over your spiritual fire, you can try doing what I do: at the beginning of the tempering process, envelop the entire alchemy furnace with your spiritual fire. This will greatly increase the efficiency of tempering materials. However, while this increases efficiency, any mistakes you make during the alchemy process will be magnified very quickly!"

While explaining to Martina, Connor's hands didn't stop moving. His hands flew up and down, casting several spells on the alchemy furnace. Under Connor's control, the spiritual fire surrounding the alchemy furnace seemed to come alive, changing rhythmically.

Seeing Connor's "outrageous actions" in front of her, Martina's cold face silently crept up with a hint of shame and indignation.

Connor, focused on the Dominican gold being tempered in the alchemy furnace, seemed oblivious to Martina's changing expression, and continued, "When controlling the fire, you need to be both quick and precise. After three concentrated bursts, you must pause for a moment; don't immediately continue with more concentrated fire... You must master the strength of this!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Connor's mind stirred, and the spiritual fire that had been burning fiercely on the alchemy furnace just a second ago vanished instantly. The tempering of the Dominican gold in the furnace also stopped, and a piece of Dominican gold the size of an ordinary egg fell into Connor's hand, which he then handed to Martina.

Putting aside the fact that the Dominican gold that Connor refined was originally larger than Martina's, making it more difficult to refine, after refining, it's obvious to the naked eye that the Dominican gold refined by Connor is several levels better than the Dominican gold refined by Martina, in terms of luster, texture, and purity.

Looking at the Dominican gold that Connor had refined and handed over, and then at the Dominican gold she had refined herself, Tina's face immediately darkened. She didn't take what Connor offered, but instead snorted coldly and casually crushed the Dominican gold she had refined into dust.

"Connor, I admit my alchemy skills are inferior to yours, but that doesn't mean you can flaunt your alchemy skills in front of me!" After saying this in anger, Martina turned around and walked out of the alchemy laboratory in a huff.

Martina's words immediately startled Connor. He didn't know what he had done that made Martina mistakenly think he was showing off his alchemy skills. If Martina said that she looked down on his alchemy skills, Connor could accept that, since that was indeed the case. But looking down on her was one thing, he really had no intention of showing off his alchemy skills to Martina!

Martina's alchemy skills are at best those of a beginner with a solid foundation. Connor feels that it is meaningless for someone like her to show off her alchemy skills, and it will not give him any sense of accomplishment!

He had just introduced Martina to some techniques and precautions for refining metal, solely to help Martina improve her alchemy skills as much as possible in a short period of time so that she could take over the responsibility of refining metal bricks and return to the apartment before the alchemy bomb exploded. He had no other intentions whatsoever!

Although Martina's alchemy skills were not high, her foundation was very solid. If he taught her some experience and techniques, her metal-tempering skills would improve significantly. In addition, with her precious second-tier alchemy furnace, Connor thought it was a worthwhile endeavor to temper the metal bricks that the secret society had given him.

If Martina's alchemy skills were truly beyond redemption and condemned by both gods and men, Connor would have stopped wasting his breath on her and simply kicked her out!

"Wait!" Connor flashed forward and stopped Martina before she could walk out of the alchemy lab.

"Get out of the way!" Martina shouted angrily without even listening to Connor's explanation. Her hands reached for her spatial ring, as if she was ready to pull out her extremely rare combined enchanted item and fight Connor if he didn't move aside!

"Wait, wait, please listen to me, okay?" To prevent this cheap laborer from running away for nothing, Connor quickly and gently persuaded him, "I don't know why you figured out I was showing off, but I really didn't mean it that way. I'm explaining these alchemy techniques to you entirely because I think you can help me!"

After finishing speaking, under Martina's scrutinizing gaze, Connor opened a jade box containing metal bricks that the secret society had given him, and showed the metal bricks inside to Martina, saying:

"The reason I contacted you through Old Victor is because of this. The Secret Society wants me to perform alchemy on these metal bricks. There are two steps involved, and the Society requires me to be as fast as possible while maintaining quality. So I wanted to find someone to help me. Old Victor told me that you studied alchemy with Master Reyes for a while, so I came to you!"

(End of this chapter)