My health recovery is incredibly fast.

What a perfect match! No wonder they went to develop the Western Continent together.

Xia Zuo suppressed the urge to twitch his lips and watched his mentor sketch a magic circle on the wall.

The two were facing the Warriors' Guild's teaching tower. On the wall in front of them, the stone bricks slid to both sides, and a transparent corridor woven with magic extended from one end to the tower opposite.

Xia Zuo followed his mentor up the magic corridor, and the sensation under his feet was no different from walking on a hard marble floor.

Arriving at the outer wall of the Warriors' Guild's tower, Adanavados once again drew a magic circle, causing the stone wall to recede to both sides.

A cacophony of sounds rushed towards us; the Warriors' Guild's teaching tower was unexpectedly bustling with people, much more so than the Alchemy School's tower.

"So many people?" Xia Zuo muttered.

"The Alchemy School's training opportunity only grants a one-month training period, the shortest of the four schools. The standard training period for the Warrior Guild is one year, for the Demon Hunter School it's six months, and for the Tower Mage it's three years."

Adanavaldos answered the student's questions and led him through the crowded hall.

The passing soldiers saw Adanavados's attire and face. Although they may not have known his exact identity, they still stepped aside to make way for him and nodded in greeting.

Xia Zuo followed his mentor, walking under the watchful eyes of the crowd. His expression was calm, and his hands were tucked into his sleeves, like an honest little follower.

From the conversations of those around him, Xia Zuo learned that these few days were the days when the Warriors' Guild would be conducting a group test.

Today is the physical fitness test; tomorrow marks the start of a multi-day practical competition.

Xia Zuo followed his mentor into an office.

The layout here is completely different from Adanavados's office; the overall style is more like a rugged sand training ground.

Several burly men, wearing only cloth covering their bodies, were entangled with several human-shaped sand figures on the sand. On the sidelines, a dark-skinned man who looked like a teacher was standing with his arms crossed and a stern face, loudly reprimanding the students on the field.

He was wearing a dark brown cloak, with two curved swords, one long and one short, fastened at his waist.

Adanavados's lips moved silently as he spoke a few words to the cloaked man in a peculiar way. Then, he led Shazo around the training ground and headed towards a downward staircase.

"That was Hasasin, the sand sorcerer, responsible for training sand warriors," Adanavados briefly explained the cloaked man's background to the students, then continued:

"His protégé, Plefen, lost his left hand in a battle, and the ordinary mechanical prosthetic could not meet the requirements of sand magic."

"This series of spells requires the simultaneous release of wind and earth energy to create sand. Sand warriors will choose to hold a scimitar in each hand to assist in casting the spell, while using the scimitars to engage enemies at close range."

Generally speaking, the elemental energy used must be matched with the elemental resistance.

Sand warriors favor wind and earth energy, so their wind and earth resistances must be outstanding.

When Xia Zuo passed through the sandy area earlier, he used a detection spell on the men covered by the cloth. Now, when he checked the feedback results, it was indeed the case. Their wind and earth resistances were all above 15%, while the other two resistances were only around 5%.

Among the eight attributes, the Sand Warrior has the highest values ​​for Agility and Spirit, followed by Stamina and Willpower.

Based on the panel data, this is a class that uses sand magic and scimitar skills to engage enemies in close combat, which matches the description given by Adanavardos.

Those who are able to come to the temple for further study are all the best within that school of thought.

Those men wearing coverings were all warriors who had practiced advanced breathing techniques.

They had taken multiple doses of breathing technique elixirs and undergone several mutation modifications by the Ring-Breathing Worms. Their vitality attribute value was more than double that of ordinary mages, reaching a level of 8. They also possessed many special abilities brought about by mutations such as [Power Burst], [Physical Burst], and [Sandwalking].

Just as Xia Zuo's thoughts were churning, the two of them descended the stairs to the next floor.

There are several people dressed in alchemist robes, arranging a medical chair.

A burly man lay on a chair, while an alchemist applied some kind of gel to his body.

His left forearm was missing a section; his entire left hand had been severed at the base by a sharp object.

Adanavados addressed the alchemists who came forward to greet him:

"You continue setting up the treatment ceremony, and I will observe with my students."

He pulled Xia Zuo to the wall, cast a spell to summon silver sand, and made two chairs out of the sand.

"These are Master Qilan's personal students. They specialize in bio-alchemy, potion alchemy, and the study of ingenious objects. They are responsible for refining raw materials and ingredients into finished alchemical biomimetic systems. Sometimes, they also take on the task of healing the members of the Temple."

Adanavados tilted his chin slightly and said in a low voice that only Shazo could hear:

"They are applying a master-grade anesthetic gel with an anesthetic effect to Plefen. Mages generally possess willpower higher than that of ordinary people, with the Demon Hunters having the strongest willpower, followed by the Tower Mages, then the Warriors of the Warriors Guild, and finally the members of our Alchemy School."

“Plefen has an extremely strong will and has been recruited by the Witcher School several times. To put him into a state of anesthesia, we would have to use a master-level potion.”

Xia Zuo asked quietly:

"Teacher, do you mean that it will be very painful when getting a prosthetic limb installed?"

Adanavaldos nodded and said:

"If the patient is not under anesthesia, they will feel intense pain, but it is different from ordinary pain."

"The pain is distributed in dense dots on the cross-section. The pain is like tens of thousands of needles piercing the wound. This high density of pain sources will eventually make the patient feel a strange itching, causing spasms and convulsions. In extreme cases, it can also cause serious elemental loss."

"That's so dangerous..." Xia Zuo exclaimed.

He had initially assumed that the alchemical school's process of installing mechanical prosthetics on the wounded was as simple as using a coupling ritual to install alchemical implants...

“To minimize potential harm, the patient must have excellent physical recovery capabilities,” Adanavardos said, pointing to Plefen lying in the chair.

"As a high-ranking warrior, he has undergone many modifications using breathing techniques and secret medicines, and his physical recovery ability is equivalent to taking 10 doses of beginner-level regeneration potions."

But that's not enough.

"To ensure everything goes perfectly, Hassan specifically arranged for 10 beginner-level and 10 advanced-level rebirth potions for Plefen."

Upon hearing this, Xia Zuo unleashed a detection spell on Pulefen.

...

[Vitality] 63

...

This high level of vitality is the result of massive investment...

One beginner-level potion costs 2000 citizen points. The price doubles for the advanced level, requiring at least 4000 citizen points to exchange for one.

Conservatively estimated, the resources Master Hasasin spent to ensure his students could properly cast sand magic were worth approximately 6 Silver Moon Federation citizen points.

Cowhide...

Xia Zuo clicked his tongue in amazement.

The alchemists beside the operating table applied anesthetic gel to Plefen.

One of the alchemists took an air bag from his alchemy bag and connected Plefen's mouth and nose to the air valve of the air bag using a breathing mask and tube.

"Inhale, Profen, inhale all of this anesthetic mist into your lungs. We've calculated the dosage; there won't be any problems," the alchemist instructed.

Plefen's lungs slowly expanded, and he inhaled all the anesthetic mist from the air sac in one breath. At the same time, the anesthetic gel on his body quickly seeped under his skin, and his eyelids became incredibly heavy. Within seconds, he fell into a deep, unconscious sleep.

Xia Zuo confirmed through probing techniques that Plefen had entered a state of severe anesthesia that lasted for 3 hours.

The alchemists beside the operating table cast detection spells, confirming this.

The raw materials and bait used in Xia Zuo's alchemical bionic system have been processed into a pure white bionic left hand.

The alchemist took the bionic left hand out of the sealed metal box and placed it next to Plefen's severed left arm, aligning the wrist section of the bionic left hand with the section of the left arm.

This step requires the use of lenses manufactured by Ingenious Objects to ensure that the two cross-sections are precisely aligned with a deviation of no more than 0.01 millimeters.

After calibration, the alchemists lifted a heavy glass container and placed it over the two sections to hold down Plefen's left arm.

The leading alchemist pressed a button on the top of the container, and a circular notch appeared on the top.

He took an elemental vial from his alchemy pouch, inverted it onto the top, allowing the elemental minions inside to pass through the opening, and then immediately pressed the button again to seal the glass container.

"Mentor, why does that elemental servant look different from the elemental servants we usually see?" Xia Zuo asked, looking at the four-colored light on the elemental servant.

Elemental minions generally possess only one elemental aura, typically a bluish-green aura representing the wind element—because elemental minions created with wind elemental energy have the inherent property of [constant levitation], making them very convenient to use.

"Those are high-level elemental servants created from four elemental servants through enchanting techniques."

Adanavados patiently explained:

"They were all made by Plefen himself, and each contained his spiritual ocean."

"In the field of pheromone science, high-level elemental servants are the best tools for releasing energy pulses because they can release four types of energy pulses, three more than ordinary elemental servants."

"High-level elemental servants possess their master's spiritual ocean, which allows them to communicate with their master's thoughts and effectively convert commands from their master into energy pulses, which are then transmitted to the mechanical prosthetics. The probes built into the mechanical prosthetics then identify the commands on the energy pulses and transmit them to the drive components to execute the commands."

Adanavardos raised his left hand and pointed to the base of his five fingers.

"The erucic acid in the mechanical prosthesis is a consumable and needs to be replenished regularly. There are five infusion ports for adding erucic acid at the base of each of the five fingers. The erucic acid oil processed by oil alchemy can be injected into the mechanical prosthesis through these five infusion ports, with each infusion port corresponding to a level of erucic acid oil."

"What an ingenious design." Xia Zuo nodded, then thought of another consumable item, "Mentor, how do we replace the probes of the identification element?"

Adanavardos held his left palm up and drew a circle on his right index finger.

“In this part, there is a pry-open window that reveals a modular cluster of identification elements, which looks like a square piece of chocolate with many fine probes at the bottom. Pleford simply pries off this cluster of identification elements and installs a new one.”

As the two spoke in hushed tones, a high-ranking elemental servant slipped into the gap between the two sections, causing Plefen's body to twitch.

"Clatter, clatter..." The figure on the recliner convulsed more and more violently, its body colliding with the chair, making a series of sounds.

The alchemists standing by were unfazed by the trembling subject on the recliner. They calmly tightened the buckles on his belt, securing him firmly so he wouldn't fall off.

Plefen's left forearm was pinned down by the glass container, making it the only part of his body that did not move.

“This is the most difficult step,” Adanavardos said, stroking his beard.

"The high-ranking elemental servant is gradually merging itself with the nervous system of Plefen's left forearm, following a pre-defined operating procedure."

Xia Zuo asked, "Mentor, are the operating procedures for high-level elemental servants also determined by these alchemists in front of us?"

“It’s not entirely the work of our alchemy school, Shazo. Mapping neural networks is a very complex art.”

Adanavardos said gently:

"Our current level of alchemy is insufficient to allow us to depict the full picture of the human nervous system."

"Some spells from the Spirit School can barely do this, but they have many limitations and can only depict their own neural map."

“Plefen went to learn the magic of the spirit school that has the effect of introspection, and spent three months drawing his own neural map.”

“Based on his neural map, our alchemical school created an alchemical nervous system adapted to his neural network. Then, the tower mages used the language of the Spell-Knowing to write the operating procedures for the high-level elemental servants.”

Adanavados, seeing the knowing look on Shazo's face, pointed at Plefen and said:

"His installation method, which uses the ocean of the mind as a medium to connect himself with the mechanical prosthesis, is called coupling. Observe him carefully for an hour and see what changes occur."

Xia Zuo squinted at the figure on the recliner and released his detection spell again.