Successful Mastery

"Activation Energy fills the strands of hair, allowing them to grow rapidly and become strengthened...

This is the Hair Ghost Witch Body!

To carry out this modification, one must take the Hair Ghost Bloodline Potion and combine it with a series of mysterious rituals to control its origin..."

Roy continued reading.

The Hair Ghost Bloodline Potion mainly required two ingredients: Hair Ghost Residue and Animate Potion. They only needed to be mixed together.

Hair Ghost Residue was a supporting practical resource, which the Witch Tower would provide free of charge.

This was an investment in cultivation.

But the Animate Potion had to be refined personally!

This was not merely a matter of personal customization. It was also a test.

"Let me see...

Great Albert's Water is a common universal solvent that can be bought directly in the market district.

Two hundred milliliters of fresh human blood, used to provide specific biologically active components. It can also be extracted at any time...

There's also slime mucus, air-dried earthworms...

All kinds of miscellaneous items were common occult symbols, and could be found in abundance at the materials market.

But there was one point: during the refinement process, one had to cast Animate, converting the corresponding Witchcraft Energy into a specific form...

It seemed that everything was ready except for the final push.

The true key, as expected, was still mastering Animate!"

Having clarified this point, Roy understood.

As for having someone else do it, or using a ready-made Animate Potion refined by someone else...

That option simply did not exist.

A mage's Mage Body Modification involved their core secrets.

It had to be firmly kept in their own hands.

Only followers, slaves, puppets, and the like would allow others to manipulate them at will.

Moreover, being able to refine it oneself often meant being able to withstand the erosion of Activation Energy during the ritual and achieve the desired effect.

Before actually taking the potion, this was also a way to test whether one was suited to it.

When refined personally, one used one's own Witchcraft Energy, eliminating rejection reactions.

This invisibly increased the success rate of the modification as well.

Before he realized it, June arrived.

As it approached the first full year since his transmigration, the seventeenth Tiwaz() and eighteenth Berkano() Will Runes successfully manifested one after another.

The progress of Alchemy Talent Acquisition in Progress finally accumulated to the long-awaited 100%!

A translucent Phantom Panel appeared in his vision, its text emerging.

Alchemy Machine (Black Iron Rank)

When performing Apprentice-level Alchemy Operations, stamina and energy consumption are halved

Roy abruptly came to himself from his meditation and looked at it with pleasant surprise.

"Another talent that applies to the Apprentice level!

This time, it halves stamina and energy consumption!"

After pondering it briefly, he quickly understood that this would greatly reduce his fatigue when performing related operations.

Its significance seemed to go far beyond merely making him feel better. It could also save the time needed for recovery afterward.

Besides that, it could prevent fatigue from increasing the failure rate or reducing the quality.

"It looks like it can be paired with Skilled Worker, making daily refinement much easier!"

Roy's evaluation of it was: "Quite useful."

It was not the kind of thing that brought about a Qualitative Change, but it could greatly improve his daily alchemy experience.

After all, as a Witch Realm Alchemist, daily refinement was extremely tedious and exhausting.

"But this progress is far too slow. It took an entire year to finally reach 100%.

If I get the chance in the future, I'll have to find a way to accelerate it as much as possible!"

Alchemy Talent was always his foundation. He had to find a way to understand it thoroughly!

Time flew, and several more months passed.

The difficulty of mastering Animate far exceeded Roy's expectations. Even after October, he still had not learned it.

By then, nearly Half a Year had passed since he met the requirements to study it.

During this period, the progress of Alchemy Talent Acquisition in Progress seemed to have slowed even further. By now, it had reached only 20%.

His Spiritual Power, however, continued to grow steadily. New Will Runes—the nineteenth through twenty-second, Ehwaz(), Mannaz(), Laguz(), and Ingwaz()—successfully manifested one after another.

This was already an outstanding level for a senior apprentice. He was only two runes short of meeting the requirements to advance to Advanced Apprentice!

"Ugh, learning is so difficult!"

One morning.

Roy woke up in bed at his residence and rubbed his temples, feeling only a heavy fog in his mind.

In this field, lacking the support of Alchemy Talent, he truly experienced the troubles of an ordinary person's mediocrity.

If only one of his Alchemy Talents could help him learn faster...

Some thoughts suddenly flashed through his mind.

"Fortunately, after so many days of research, I've gradually digested much of the knowledge I learned in class and at the library.

Using that to deduce the key principles of spellcasting...

It should be like this, and also like this..."

After quickly washing up, Roy did not even have time to eat breakfast before getting busy once more.

The lights in his residence shone brightly over the desk, making his focused and serious face appear somewhat pale.

He wrote and sketched continuously, drawing one mysterious rune pattern after another in his notes.

These were all crucial components of the Spell Model. As he made his deductions, he simultaneously attempted to compile and run them in his mind.

Roy organized his thoughts and confirmed the occult symbolism of the Will Runes.

The incantation "", was the pronunciation of the second Rune, Wu Lu Zi().

It meant "aurochs," and represented determination, will, courage, vitality, as well as primitive strength and endurance.

It pointed toward the innate will and strength of an object.

Meanwhile, "", was the pronunciation of the twenty-first Rune, Laguz().

Translated, it meant "water."

But just as "water" in the Five Elements did not merely represent water in the narrow sense, its true meaning was the power and fluctuations contained within a body of water.

All things in heaven and earth were like streams, waterfalls, and even oceans, possessing a flowing nature.

This was a key component of Animate.

Controlling energy, strength, movement, flow...

All of these were related to it.

Together, the two meant "the flow of strength." By extension, they could animate all things.

Suddenly, inspiration surged through Roy.

Many processes he had failed to understand before became as natural as water following its course, and everything suddenly became clear.

"I understand! The casting of Animate should be like this..."

A low incantation suddenly rang out in the room.

",..."

A moment later, Roy pointed toward the clothes hanging on the rack in front of him.

He could clearly sense that, following this gesture, some force within his body had left him.

It was a strand of Spiritual Power containing his thoughts and intentions, concealing the profound mysteries of the spell incantation and model structure.

What they formed was precisely the power of Animate that he had painstakingly pursued for more than Half a Year!

As white radiance billowed, the clothes seemed to come alive one after another. They hopped and bounced free from the rack on their own, then lined up neatly on the table like soldiers awaiting inspection.