Making

After returning to his apprentice dormitory, Taylor immediately began preparing for his experiment. His current room was more than twice the size of the Menial Apprentice quarters he had lived in before, and it had been specially divided into three rooms: one for resting, one for experiments, and one for studying.

The central hall and the small bathroom beside it were for everyday activities like eating, drinking, and relieving oneself. This was also the preferential treatment White Wizards gave formal wizard apprentices, and such treatment spurred more Menial Apprentices to devote themselves to learning knowledge and improving their own strength.

In his private laboratory, Taylor ignored the chattering mice nearby. After casually scattering a handful of breadcrumbs to send them away, he immediately began crafting the Spider's Eye Witchcraft Tool.

First, he had to clean the single eye and carry out the first mental force stabilization, thoroughly compressing and fixing it with mental force while using the magic power mixed into his mental force to disperse the chaotic residual magic beast energy inside.

At the same time, he melted down the remaining eyeballs and refined them layer by layer into the purest solution. Part of this solution would be absorbed into the single eye to enhance its power, while the rest would serve as enchanting material to assist with the witchcraft rune enchantment.

To create his first Spider's Eye, Taylor had conducted many simulations in advance. He had specifically bought all kinds of miscellaneous eyeballs from the junk shop for experiments, and had even successfully created some sort of defective witchcraft tool whose purpose he did not know.

It was a witchcraft tool formed from thirteen pairs of cow eyes. Its only known effect was that the eyeballs would turn on their own to stare at people. No other use had been discovered.

This time, Taylor carefully performed the refining, melting, witchcraft rune enchantment, and every other step. He made each one as perfect as possible. To that end, he dissolved all the black powder he had bought from Oak into a cup and gulped it down.

His mental force, concentration, and fine control had all reached the current limits of what he could achieve. The first witchcraft tool he intended to create, the Spider's Eye, did not disappoint him either.

Taylor held the single eye that had absorbed the solution in one hand and a sharp quill in the other. The quill was coated in the extracted solution, mixed with Taylor's mental-force magic power.

With the quill in his hand and his peak fine-control ability, Taylor perfectly inscribed fourteen witchcraft runes onto the single eye.

When the final stroke left the translucent single eye, Taylor set it into a pendant with a silver metal base.

This beautiful, crystalline eye, clear and distinct in its layers, suddenly formed a small circle around its pupil. Fourteen runes appeared one after another upon that circle and began lighting up in sequence. All the nearby magical elements were drawn by the runes into the beautiful eye.

The beautiful eye suddenly bloomed with strange radiance. Taylor even vaguely observed a certain pattern in the movement of magical elements within it, but the peculiar phenomenon vanished in an instant.

What lay in Taylor's palm now was a silver pendant, its metal base holding an eyeball that turned freely.

Fine magical runes invisible to the naked eye circled the pupil. They slowly faded into the area around it, and the eye blinked and looked around as though it were alive.

Taylor took out a metal chain mixed with magic ore, threaded the silver pendant onto it, and hung it around his neck.

After putting on the necklace, Taylor sat on his bed, closed his eyes, and began to meditate silently.

With the necklace's amplification runes enhancing him, his mental force growth improved to a certain extent, and his magic power conversion speed also became faster.

After opening his eyes, Taylor channeled his magic power into the Spider's Eye. The Spider's Eye began to glow faintly and fired a colorless beam onto a mouse being used for experiments nearby.

The mouse instantly fell unconscious. It lay belly-up, constantly flailing its claws and tiny legs as if it had encountered something especially wonderful. Even when Taylor took out a small knife and stabbed it directly, the mouse did not react at all. It remained immersed in its bliss, and pain could no longer wake it from the illusion.

Taylor placed the mouse that had died in the illusion on the balcony of the hall. A dark shadow flashed past, and the mouse vanished instantly.

Then Taylor gathered magic power again. A bundle of white threads flew out from the Spider's Eye and covered an iron block in front of him.

Taylor reached out to lift the iron block directly, only to discover that after the spider silk covered it, it had even firmly adhered the ground beneath the block to it.

The adhesiveness was pretty good.

Seeing this, Taylor nodded in satisfaction. Then he crouched down, put on gloves, and began testing the spider silk's material, effects, hardness, adhesiveness, and resistance to water and fire.

He began cutting it with an ordinary small knife. Cracks appeared in the knife, yet the spider silk did not change in the slightest. It could be concluded that the spider silk's hardness had already surpassed ordinary steel.

Then he dripped water onto the spider silk. It showed no change, and it even felt somewhat cool to the touch. Next, a Small Fireball appeared at Taylor's fingertip and was placed beneath the spider silk. The spider silk did not change much. Although it began to char slightly, it could still hold out for roughly three minutes overall.

Those three minutes could decide the course of a battle.

Although the Spider's Eye's silk looked powerful now, and Taylor might be able to defeat a Level 1 Wizard Apprentice about as strong as himself in a one-on-one battle, he still needed to remain cautious and careful. After all, every wizard apprentice's witchcraft models had undergone some degree of modification, just like his Small Fireball and his Black Fog.

No one knew what methods a wizard possessed, not even an apprentice.

Fortunately, the overall environment was relatively peaceful at the moment.

After finishing the experiments, Taylor contentedly touched the silver pendant on his chest and began planning his next step.

That was to work hard to increase his total mental force and magic power, construct his third witchcraft model, and advance to a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice.

As a highly practical apprentice-level witchcraft model, the Gale Spell could not only be used to accelerate movement, but also to condense wind blades, form wind ropes to bind and slow enemies, deflect physical attacks, and more. It was a witchcraft with strong all-around capabilities.

It was also one of the most difficult secondary witchcraft spells to learn during the wizard apprentice stage, with a total of eight witchcraft runes and thirty-one mental-force nodes.

In addition, it had room for optimizing one witchcraft rune and developing three mental-force nodes.

The Gale Spell was difficult, but once he succeeded, Taylor's strength would improve by leaps and bounds. Only with sufficient strength would he have the confidence to use his special ability and travel to a brand-new plane to explore knowledge and truth that belonged to him.

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