A Noble Lady's Day (Part 2)

"Good day, Vias Teacher."

"Good day, beautiful and lovely Miss Anne. The Goddess is watching over you."

Etiquette was essential. After bowing, Lu Xing sat across from the teacher on the laboratory bench. Trying his best to imitate Anne's cheerful and lively tone, he asked, "Teacher, what are we learning today~?"

He subtly glanced back, using his eyes to ask the cold-faced maid with long black stockings and legs standing behind him: How much do I sound like Anne?

The maid didn't move.

She probably didn't understand what I meant.

What a terrible maid. Useless except for a pair of long legs. I'll have Anne fire her another day!

"Today we will attempt to create an unknown type of highly magic-resistant metal. It will be able to resist Magic of the Earth and Death attributes, and will also have a certain degree of impact resistance and ductility."

Vias Stevens said with a smile.

The smile on Lu Xing's face almost faltered.

As expected, it was the right decision not to spend five hundred experience points exchanging for basic Alchemy knowledge. He thought Alchemy was similar to chemistry, where you just added reagents to a container.

Who knew it was so professional!

Thinking about it, that makes sense. Although Ancient Elven Language was impressive, there was too little archaeological data, and even Deities didn't know much of it, so it only cost one hundred experience points.

But Alchemy had been studied continuously, and its complexity far exceeded Ancient Elven Language.

Luckily, this old scholar with a grizzled beard was the Swinton Family's Alchemist. He had taught Anne for a long time, so during class, he would easily become engrossed in his own Alchemy experiments and wouldn't be very strict with Anne – this information came from the cold-faced maid.

After giving some explanations, the old Alchemist couldn't wait to start performing Alchemy. He first chose a metal with the Earth attribute as the base material, then added some Magic reagents in a specific order, stirred, observed, and chanted spells to guide Magic to attach to it.

At first, he could still explain things to Lu Xing, but gradually he started talking to himself, not caring whether the student across from him was following the correct Alchemy steps.

Lu Xing loved classes like this!

He also tried to start Alchemy, following the teacher's steps.

"You know Alchemy?" The black-stockinged maid spoke up.

"I know chemistry."

Lu Xing was very calm. After all, it didn't look difficult, similar to a chemistry experiment. It didn't matter if he didn't understand the principles; he had the teacher demonstrating.

"You know spells?" the maid asked again.

"Of course Anne does."

Following the teacher's steps, Lu Xing chanted spells while slowly applying an unknown blue Magic potion onto the Earth attribute metal.

He already knew that there were five types of Magic in this world, corresponding to the five original Main Gods. There was also a special type of Magic that only ancient races could learn, such as Elves, Dragons, Beastmen, Fairies, etc. Only they themselves could learn their Magic.

Among them, Beastmen referred to Ancient Beastmen. Most Ancient Beastmen were extinct, leaving only a few Titans and Behemoths.

Interestingly, people with the bloodline of ancient races could also use some racial Magic, but its power and effect were far inferior to that of pure-blooded races.

"Anne, what are you doing?"

The old man suddenly looked up. He saw Anne inserting a glass rod into the vessel and then pouring the blue potion onto the glass rod, allowing the potion to flow in slowly.

"I'm adding the reagent," Lu Xing replied, then asked, "Am I doing it wrong?"

"…No, that's very correct!"

Vias quickly understood the purpose of the glass rod and praised, "It can guide the potion flow very well, and it's more convenient than using a funnel. Anne, how did you think of this method?"

I learned it in chemistry lab.

Lu Xing realized that there were many similarities between Alchemy in this world and chemistry on Earth. However, Alchemy was something only a few people had access to, and the Alchemy process seemed relatively crude, relying heavily on the use of Magic.

This also seemed to be because Magic originated from the five Main Gods. Essentially, it was the act of driving Magic, and through the Main Gods' authority, it manifested power.

In programmer terms, the Main Gods' authority was the interface; Magic did not have access to the underlying code.

"Teacher, has anyone researched Deity Transformation authority?" Lu Xing tried asking.

"That's something only the Saint Rank concerns themselves with."

Vias quickly replied, lowered his head, and tried to use the glass rod to guide the potion. After finding it very effective, he praised Lu Xing again.

Lu Xing originally wanted to ask about other things, but seeing that this teacher wasn't very enthusiastic about teaching, he gave up.

At noon, the Alchemy class ended.

The system didn't give any prompts, but Lu Xing estimated that his performance was at least satisfactory.

He returned to the castle for lunch. The maid wanted to change his clothes again, but Lu Xing refused, saying they could do it before the afternoon class.

"What class is this afternoon?"

Lu Xing sat at the exquisite dining table, eating. The head maid, Catherine, stood behind him, hands clasped in front of her, her etiquette impeccable.

"This afternoon is the class Anne dislikes the most and is worst at."

"Oh? What is it?"

"Mathematics."

"She… No, Anne studies mathematics too?!"

Lu Xing chuckled. Math was his strong suit!

He just didn't know what math was like in the Magic World, but the logical principles of mathematics should be universal.

Catherine calmly said, "Mathematics is a necessary prerequisite for learning magic, and also essential knowledge for managing a territory. You, this ignorant soul, seem to have studied mathematics as well?"

"Me? To be modest, my math IQ is 140!"

"You are already ignorant and rude enough. I hope you will stop spouting lies."

"Heh heh."

Lu Xing had found a way to deal with this cold-faced maid. He wouldn't argue with her or refute her; he simply extended Anne's slender, fair hand and ordered, "Catherine, get me a drink!"

The cold-faced maid's lips moved, but her good upbringing and the standard a maid should adhere to forced her to yield. She brought him a glass of juice.

Lu Xing nodded with satisfaction. "Step back. Don't disobey me again next time!"

He had had enough of the maid's unforgiving mouth!

Even though he knew she was worried about Anne and was a loyal maid.

Catherine lowered her eyes and stepped back.

Her legs trembled slightly.

She found that when she was ordered by the mysterious soul, her heart was filled with shame and indignation. She wanted nothing more than to confront him and demand what he had done to Miss Anne.

But after being forced to submit to the other party, an unspeakable feeling surged from the bottom of her heart. She knew clearly that he was not her master, but he was Anne, and he was male. The humiliation from the "Master" made her... her whole body feel hot.

Perhaps it was too humiliating.

Catherine found an explanation for herself, but she also faintly anticipated offending him again and being ordered by him the next time.

Just like in the morning, being forced to hold the Master's hand down the stairs, as if submitting to his despicable and vulgar gaze...

"I'm full, Catherine. Take me to rest for a while."

Lu Xing didn't notice the maid's changing expression. After eating his fill, he wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and got up to instruct her.

It wasn't that Lu Xing was used to ordering people around; it was simply that the castle was too big, and he didn't know where Anne's nap spot was.

"You need to remember, you are not Anne! Do not try to order me as the master!"

Catherine warned him coldly, yet she extended her hand towards Lu Xing to help him tidy his appearance, which had become messy from eating.

Lu Xing smiled with Anne's cute little face. "No, I am Anne, Catherine. I order you, take me to bed to rest!"

Catherine's heart trembled.

He was the Master