Chapter 63: Chapter 59: Successful Refinement Chapter 63: Chapter 59: Successful Refinement “It really is… wealthy indeed!” While examining this pile of loot with his spiritual power, Lucien couldn’t help but sigh to himself.
If Apollo’s collection had temporarily alleviated his urgent needs, then the part of Nolian’s collection that he had retrieved from the damaged storage pendant felt like a windfall to Lucien.
This was just a small part of what Nolian had accumulated, but its value already exceeded what Lucien had obtained from Apollo last time, and even the quality was higher, devoid of any common materials included just to “inflate the numbers.”
The only regret was that among this portion of the collection, there were no Witch Tools that Lucien desperately needed, only specimens, Magic Stones, and some gathered materials.
However, Lucien wouldn’t need these items right away, so he placed some of the more valuable materials into his Space Ring and then temporarily stored the rest in a corner of the laboratory.
Carly, on the other hand, was handling a nearby skull specimen with a certain formality, carefully preserving it.
It served as a testament to the cruelty she had come to recognize in the Wizard World. At the same time, it made her extremely grateful for the incredibly right decision she had made in the past.
“Carly, are you ready on your end? If so, I’m about to start repairing your hunting bow!” Lucien had just finished clearing up those pendant shards, along with other materials and the broken bow, getting everything ready for forging the hunting bow.
“Coming!” Carly, hearing his call, jogged over to Lucien. But after taking just a couple of steps, she paused slightly, turned back to the skull specimen, carefully cut off a corner of the wooden base, and then hurried back.
“Instructor Lucien, may I add a small inlay item later?”
Carly looked at Lucien with a plea in her eyes.
Lucien shrugged his shoulders, showing no objection to Carly’s small request.
“Then let’s begin.” Lucien finally checked the materials against the alchemical blueprint one last time, then turned to Carly, himself already picking up several pieces of scrap material from the alchemical pendant.
“Wizard formation number one, fourth-level high-temperature strength.” Lucien quickly identified the scrap materials using the system’s identification function, then followed the suggested treatment method based on the identification results to begin further purification and impurity removal.
Meanwhile, Carly was running around the lab, either assisting Lucien with preparing some auxiliary materials, pre-activating or adjusting a wizard formation, or fetching some needed tools from a corner of the laboratory…
Soon, with their precise cooperation, the pendant fragments had been turned into a shiny silver metal liquid. Under Lucien’s further meticulous control, and with the addition of starry iron ore, the liquid slowly began to take the shape of the center of a hunting bow’s body.
Lucien’s forehead was now beaded with sweat. Alchemy and Magic Potion preparation were both tasks requiring high precision.
Just like now, he had to constantly use his spiritual power to adjust the intricate structure within the metal bow body, ensuring the internal spiritual power pathways were clear and followed the designs on the alchemy blueprint.
“Carly, bring the hunting bow here!” Once Lucien’s Perception sensed that the tiny internal pathways of the bow body had been mostly sorted out, he did not hesitate to proceed with the final step of the forging.
“Here it is!” Carly quickly took out the hunting bow and then handed it over to Lucien.
Swipe—Lucien didn’t hesitate to wave his hand, instantly cutting off the somewhat rough break on the bow with his magical power, smoothing the break and shaping it to match their designed appearance.
“Fit.” Lucien carefully combined the two fixed sections of the broken bow with the newly crafted metal bow body, piecing together a complete hunting bow.
At the same time, from the metal bow body, a shiny silver metallic liquid was slowly cleaned out by Lucien, who was rapidly merging it with the Wind Whispering Wood on both sides, using witchcraft.
He connected the fine spiritual power channels inside the metal bow body with the original wooden bow body, gradually integrating the three parts of the hunting bow into one whole.
Carly stood on her tiptoes, holding her breath carefully as she watched, her eyes filled with unmistakable anticipation.
At this moment, Lucien’s crafting process had reached the part where the bowstring was to be inset and decorations made. But after Lucien finished insetting the bowstring, he yielded the main spot at the workbench, saying, “Carly, the decorative details are yours to do. After all, this is your hunting bow.”
Suddenly called out by Lucien, Carly first froze, then came over somewhat excitedly, “Yes!”
However, Carly’s excitement was momentary. When she actually started the hands-on work, she was trembling slightly, and the hand holding the alchemy tool seemed more like it was holding a bomb.
Seeing Carly’s appearance, as if she was carving a bomb, Lucien couldn’t help but find it amusing, but remembering it was Carly’s first time handling this, he suppressed the urge to smile. However, he couldn’t help himself in the end and had to turn away, allowing the corners of his mouth to rise silently.
Meanwhile, Carly had carefully inset the wood chip she had just cut into the bow body, right where the thumb usually rests when holding the bow.
Carly hoped this would serve as a constant reminder to herself.
When the decoration was finished, Carly reluctantly handed the hunting bow back to Lucien. “Mentor, it’s ready.”
Lucien nodded slightly, took the “bow embryo,” and moved to another workbench to begin the Enchantment work.
Since it was the most basic Enchantment runes, there wasn’t even a need to combine them into a complete wizard formation, so the process of enchanting the hunting bow was quite simple. Lucien soon finished the engraving and hiding of the total of nine wizard runes.
“It’s a success!” Lucien quickly put away the pure silver engraving knife he was using and then picked up the hunting bow, now pulsating with Magic Essence.
“Identification requires 10 points of Reverence Value, do you wish to identify?” Seeing the system identification module’s prompt, Lucien couldn’t help but smile.
After all, the cost of system identification to some extent indicated the item’s value, and an identification cost of 10 Reverence Value points indicated that the quality of the finished hunting bow was even better than he had anticipated.