Jiang Han underwent a full six days of private tutoring, until she had spent every last point she had accumulated.
This time, she did not keep her eyes on those expensive oddities and exclusive spells. Instead, she spent all her points on Eileen's private tutoring courses. The gains had been considerable. Eileen truly deserved her status as a grandmaster of the spellcasting world; no matter how outlandish Jiang Han's ideas were, she could always find examples to explain them.
Systematic learning.
Systematic case analysis.
Systematic, steady improvement, step by step.
It was like taking an advanced course. Though the increase in raw strength was not as great as at the Ghost Witches' training base, it had opened a door to a whole new world in Jiang Han's mind.
"..."
The training grounds beneath the Mist Immortal Cat Nest.
"Acid Arrow!"
Jiang Han chanted the simple incantation and unleashed a spell raised two circles through incantation and metamagic techniques. Its arrowhead solidified, while the trail behind it looked like the trembling end of a strand of yarn.
The dark green Acid Arrow pierced the training dummy's chest. The structure of its spell-tail, that disorderly quivering yarn-end, was disrupted, and the entire arrowhead exploded, blowing the whole training dummy to pieces as well.
Jiang Han looked at the destruction she had caused with satisfaction, rubbing her left index finger against the knuckle of her thumb.
The sensitive trigger spell activated.
A pair of ghostly Giant Cat Claws rummaged twice through the acid puddle and the training dummy's scattered parts. The acid vanished, and the dummy was pieced back together.
The Giant Cat Claws drifted lazily toward the long table beside the training grounds.
Jiang Han snapped her fingers.
The fluffy ghostly claws vanished just as they were about to touch a huge