Grow! Grow! Grow!-This Ship Was Going to Sail Itself!!!

The intense spell practice had paid off. After two days and two nights of training, Shen Le could precisely and effectively control the Water-Repelling Spell, draining the fish glue from a square meter at a time and quickly making the lacquer skin stuck by the fish glue adhere to the wooden boards.

After reaching this level, he suddenly had another idea:

Wasn't the opposite of repelling water injecting water?

If he rapidly drove the moisture, or water vapor, within a large area to its edges, wouldn't the density of water vapor around that area increase dramatically, soaking into the target—for example, dried, cracked, curled lacquer skin?

No sooner said than done. Shen Le fired up the high-temperature steam garment steamer, filled an entire box with steam, and quickly aimed it at the board where the lacquer skin had curled up.

The Talisman lit up. The steam rapidly sank into the box, pressing downward. "Huh? Why did this steam turn into water?"

The high-temperature steam became a mist of hot water, flowing in all directions over the lacquer skin. Shen Le stared blankly for a while before suddenly understanding:

If high-temperature steam was subjected to enormous pressure, it could be compressed back into liquid. To soften the lacquer skin by soaking it with steam, he either had to raise the steam's temperature and press it into the lacquer skin before it liquefied;

Or he had to increase the compression speed, so that before the steam liquefied, some of it had already been forced into the lacquer skin—"

The steam garment steamer's temperature was fixed, and Shen Le had no way to raise it for now. Increasing the compression speed, though, was something he could try.

Shen Le cast the spell over and over, experimenting again and again. After another full two