The two of them struck Nikola as strange.
How to put it?
Their discussion gave him a very "wild" feeling.
They were talking about things someone like him, from the Academic School, would never say or even think of.
Or rather, even if he came across them, he would probably overlook them.
"How did you two even learn alchemy?"
At the thought, Nikola couldn't help blurting out the question.
"A little through self-study, mostly through discussion."
"Yeah, that's about right."
Lan Qingyou's summary struck Alisa as spot-on.
Although they really did spend most of their time studying on their own, they had arrived at many of their conclusions on key issues through discussion.
At first, Alisa simply couldn't understand why the Witch of the Tower wanted to create something like a whole race.
After all, as far as she could tell, the Witch of the Tower might have been a Troublemaker on the surface.
She certainly acted like she enjoyed stirring up trouble.
But in reality, she was probably someone who liked peace and quiet even more than Alisa did.
And yet this very person had created the Witch Race and even taken the title of Witch Queen.
When Alisa first heard the news, she'd thought the Witch of the Tower had gone mad.
But after her Artificial Human technology matured and she began producing them on a large scale, she realized that having a lot of people had its advantages.
Even without any deliberate guidance from her,
once they developed their own thoughts, the nature of the Witch Race would lead them to gradually pursue the truth of Magic.
Only then did Alisa discover the benefits of it all.
Eventually, she even started discussing things with the Witch of the Tower, despite their "differences in philosophy."
It had felt