After a long silence, Li Qi finally asked:
"Teacher, this... should be a Magic Orb, right?"
Derien immediately replied:
"That's right. A Magic Orb that's already been phased out."
"You want me to study this?"
Li Qi asked again.
Derien frowned and countered, "If not, then what?"
"..."
Li Qi felt that Derien thought far too highly of him.
He had only mastered a few Alchemy Spells and learned some Basic Alchemy Theory. He had not even fully grasped those things yet, and now Derien was asking him to try to understand a Magic Orb.
It was like playing a game where the game told you that one button was for jumping, another for attacking, another for rolling, and another for releasing skills.
All right, now that you've learned the controls, go defeat the Demon King!
That was exactly how Derien's request felt to Li Qi!
This was not a matter of whether he could do it. It was that this was fundamentally not something someone at Li Qi's level should be doing!
Although Li Qi remained silent, Derien could still sense his confusion.
Seeing that Li Qi had not said anything for a long time, he explained again:
"You don't need to worry. This thing isn't technically complicated. As long as you understand its construction, even an Alchemy Apprentice could easily reproduce it. All I'm asking you to do is analyze its structure. I'm not asking you to make an exact copy, so what are you worried about?"
"I see..."
Derien's explanation eased Li Qi's tension somewhat.
If this thing really could be made by anyone who understood its principles, then it made sense for Derien to use it as today's teaching material.
Besides, even if it was extremely difficult to make, since Derien had brought it out in