The Experiment Succeeds

There's a saying that goes, "When someone enters your area of expertise, all their fancy moves seem incredibly stupid to you."

Leo also saw Fran's actions in the same light, even though he knew that Fran's Magic Artisan Arts extremely strong, and that she was at the pinnacle of Artisan.

However, Fran's use of the Soul-Repelling Copper seemed utterly ridiculous to him.

Soul-Repelling Copper is a metal that targets spirits, but it often only causes minor harm to spirits and cannot inflict serious damage.

This led to the widespread use of this metal in the weapons of some low-ranking Mercenary, ensuring they wouldn't be helpless when encountering evil spirits.

As for Necromancy School, the best use of it is to make a dagger, to deal with situations where you need to threaten evil spirits but not kill them.

However, in general, this metal only has some effect when dealing with spirits.

He was currently working on a product refining project within the Alchemy School, and he genuinely couldn't fathom what use such a metal could have if covered with magical devices.

While others were making such unpredictable moves, Leo, believing that he was the Necromancy School and had a good understanding of Soul-Repelling Copper, thought Fran's actions were incredibly stupid.

"A foolish mage who thinks any material will work." He mentally defined Fran and then looked away.

He wanted to try out the magical device himself; otherwise, wouldn't his father's letter of recommendation have been wasted?

He turned to discuss things with the other mages, no longer paying attention to Fran's actions.

Fran's actions seemed rather subtle to Nora, who was standing nearby.

Although she thought highly of Fran and even wished Fran would join the Elemental School with her the next second, Fran's actions were still somewhat beyond her comprehension.

Although she acknowledged that Fran's work as a Magic Artisan was very skilled and fast, the fastest Magic Artisan she had ever seen.

However, based on her limited knowledge of alchemy and materials, she simply couldn't believe that wrapping the metal in a piece of another metal would have any impact on the final extraction yield.

But as she had said before, she should first observe what Fran was doing, not interrupt her thinking, and wait until she finished before speaking.

So she shut her mouth and casually watched Fran's movements.

Fran placed the Grey Ghost Iron inside and immediately infused it with her Mental Power, making the magical device work.

She felt the fluctuations emanating from the magical device, and her tense heart relaxed. She had been worried that the high temperature might destroy the magical device, but now it seemed that it wouldn't.

Shortly after she activated the device, she saw the lid, which had been gently placed there, jump up and then fall back to its original position.

This prompted Fran to immediately use her Telekinetic Hand to press hard on the lid. Through her Telekinetic Hand, Fran could sense a force pushing the lid upwards.

"It's those gases, isn't it?" Fran guessed, intensifying the Mental Power she channeled into her Telekinetic Hand.

As Fran pressed the lid down firmly, she sensed a different magical fluctuation emanating from within, a reaction distinct from when she extracted the White Star Sand earlier.

Fran remained silent, waiting for the magical device to continue operating.

After Fran pressed the lid down, she sensed the power inside continuing to grow through the sensation of her Telekinetic Hand.

After about three minutes, Fran felt the force reach its peak and begin to slowly weaken.

After about seven minutes, Fran's Telekinetic Hand could no longer feel any force striking the lid.

She manipulated her Telekinetic Hand to lightly release the lid, and finding that it wouldn't lift again, she then deactivated the magical device.

Fran then manipulated her Telekinetic Hand to lift the lid, but nothing happened.

She looked into the magical device and discovered something quite peculiar.

The good news is that the magical device did indeed release powder, and quite a considerable amount; Fran roughly estimated it to be around fifteen grams.

The bad news is that not only did powder precipitate out, but also some large, white-gray particles, and even the precipitated 'star sand' contained a mixture of black and white.

Fran took out all of these things, separated the mixed black and white powder, and cast a weight-measuring spell on each of them.

The final result was roughly as follows: a total of 19 grams of large, white-gray particles, about 3 grams of black 'star sand', and after confirmation, about 5 grams of White Star Sand were washed out.

Fran was very satisfied with the result, as it exceeded her expectations; she hadn't anticipated that the device would work so well.

The White Star Sand she extracted even surpassed the ancient Alchemy School methods in terms of yield, which was enough to bring the project to an end.

Fran estimated that the three grams less in overall weight were directly dissipated in the initial gases.

This incident made Fran realize that the law of conservation of energy might still exist in this Magic World, and that it might be absolute.

With this achievement, Fran began to plan her next steps. She only needed to conduct one more experiment to confirm the existence of the law of conservation of energy, which she estimated would be a very significant academic breakthrough.

Fran hasn't learned alchemy, which is directly related to this academic achievement, yet. She needs to learn alchemy first and make it appear on her Panel before she starts experimenting. Presumably, she'll gain a large amount of proficiency points then.

Fran was planning their next move, while Nora was dumbfounded. She never imagined that wrapping the magical device in a layer of other metal could increase its productivity to such an extent.

"She definitely noticed something, and this metal definitely has some important purpose," Nora thought to herself.

However, she had no idea why Fran was able to notice this key point, and even after that, she directly found the required metal and solved a problem that countless Alchemist could not solve with just a couple of clicks.

Fran understood that she discovered this largely because of the barriers between different School, since the process of extracting White Star Sand involved spirits, which was why the Alchemist had not discovered it until now.

Although some alchemical creations do involve aspects related to spirits, not all Alchemist are skilled at manipulating spirits, nor is anyone constantly on hand to use spirit-detecting spells to monitor every alchemical production.

Then, Fran looked at the remaining Grey Ghost Iron and Philip, who was still busy in the distance. Now all she had to do was wait a little while.