Chapter 77-77- Neither Learn This, nor Learn That

Teaching Dugrabi basic runes lessons actually didn't have much impact on Yvette's daily life.

Firstly, the knowledge imparted requires time to digest, and Dugrabi's rote memorization ability is extremely poor. Just memorizing the commonly used runes will take him several months or even years.

Secondly, there wasn't anything overwhelming or urgent in her daily life. She meditated at a fixed time each day, and occasionally studied "Detailed Explanation of the Spell Structure Engine" and "Analysis of Spatial Rune Technology." The rest of the time, besides reading miscellaneous books, she mostly slept.

But she doesn't think that sleeping is a lazy behavior at all, in fact, it is a kind of practice.

This is not sophistry, but she found through long-term observation that the brain produces soul runes faster during sleep.

If placed in the origin of civilization, this would be an epic discovery.

——This may even have been discovered, but human lifespan is too short and there are few natural mages. Even if the soul rune that increases the total sleep time is discovered, no one will care.

But it was different for Yvette.

Soul runes are mental power. The two are the same thing. They are related to the natural mage's control over the spell, the efficiency of the rune hacker in cracking a spell, and also to an ordinary person's spirit and even sleep quality.

There are only two known ways to increase Soul Runes.

One is meditation.

One is the natural output of the biological brain.

In the past, Yvette's main method of cultivation was meditation. The principle was simple: meditation was like tensing all the muscles in the body, tightening the soul runes even more and increasing their density, triggering the "rune siphon effect." In the process, wouldn't there be a chance to absorb some external soul runes and gain a boost? The same is true for nature mages who can increase their magic power through this method.

Well, it's a very simple mechanism, and there's no real alternative or improvement. The downside is that, over time, it can lead to spiritual depletion, and while it can recover, it's still very uncomfortable.

But sleeping is different.

During sleep, the speed at which the biological brain produces soul runes will increase. While the mental power is strong, the spirit body is also comfortable and energetic. After waking up, one can comfortably carry out various learning and exercise activities. It is simply born for immortal species like Yvette.

She could sleep as long as she wanted.

Sleep to create the best spiritual body in the world, and sleep to become an unparalleled king of mental power.

Although this would require a very long sleep, she had secretly made up her mind to make this her lifelong career and practice.

So, to sum up, this cannot be simply attributed to laziness.

…

Time flies, another year has passed, and it is February with lush grass and singing birds.

This is the sixth year that Yvette and others have come to Kukes. The spring is still cold. In order to imitate the wintering behavior of humans, the village chief Tongpi led everyone to build a fireplace. Now they can warm themselves by the fire during the cold weather.

This even led to the development of the practice of "chopping wood". Due to its novelty, it became very popular, resulting in an abundance of firewood in the kingdom's hall. Sometimes, there was so much firewood that Dugrabi had to burn some of it with his dragon breath.

Dugrabi thought this was outrageous. Why would a group of alchemical creatures need to keep warm? Except for it and the teacher, the others here probably would never know what cold felt like in their entire lives.

However, when it thought of the even more outrageous human cultivation of this group of people, it felt relieved again, with a feeling of "What else can I say when you are all like this?"

Sometimes it would advise acquaintances, such as Jasmine or Bingyu, that instead of practicing with the goal of becoming a human, it would be better to set a higher goal and directly aim to become a "dragon". In this way, as a real dragon in the world, it could give some guidance.

But unfortunately, the mechanical people did not appreciate it. After being frustrated, Dugrabi gave up and continued to study the basics of runes every day, but he began to doze off while studying.

On Yvette's side, there is one area where she has made great progress, and that is practical skills.

Ever since she met Spider-Woman in Kux two years ago, she would regularly launch a sneak attack on Kux every two or three months, mainly because she wanted to compete with Spider-Woman.

During the process, she set a relatively vague way of progress for herself, which was to see how many minutes into the battle she would have to go before she could gain the upper hand and achieve stable suppression of the Spider-Woman.

At first, it took about 10 minutes to do this, and the overall situation was a draw - at least she thought so, because at that time, she and Spider-Woman were very similar in fighting skills and were very suitable training objects.

Today, two years later, this number has been raised to 5 minutes, which is indeed a huge leap. She is very proud of it. She feels like she has gradually become a technical player from a numerical geek.

But Spider Girl was in a bit of trouble. She reported the information of this mysterious intruder to the commander, but she still didn't know which monarch the intruder belonged to and why he kept coming to the territory of the King of Tianhai to cause trouble.

In fact, every time the opponent did not use force on Spider Girl, they would usually beat her until she was exhausted and about to give up, and then they would suddenly leave, which made the two lords, Mountain Whale and Fish Man, not want to come to support her. They were always slow, like the police who were always late in special effects movies.

This couldn't help but make Spider-Girl have a terrible guess, that is, the other party intends to wear down the patience of the Kux defense forces through such a protracted war. When everyone relaxes one day, the mysterious silver-haired girl will kill her.

With such thoughts, Spider Woman finally couldn't stand it anymore. She decided to resign and leave immediately after the important event was over, so as to avoid being frightened all day long.

…

June of the same year was the rainy season.

However, this is not the case in Kukes. The temperature here is not high in June, and it is below 10 degrees Celsius year-round. The climate is cold and dry. Although green grass has covered the mountains, the snow-capped mountains in the distance still stand there steadily. They never melt year-round.

On this slightly chilly morning, after completing a small test on Dougrabi's knowledge of runes, Yvette finally decided to let it learn more advanced knowledge in advance and make some plans for its future learning direction.

In the warehouse, Yvette knocked on the board next to her and said, "I have several different professional skills I can teach you. See what you want to learn. Your senior sister, Rosalyn Sheen, dabbled in a little bit of everything, but I suggest you don't follow her. Firstly, you don't have her passion for runes, and secondly, her knowledge was very superficial. Much of the knowledge spread across the Glowing Continent was probably derived by her later."

"Okay!" Dugrabi was very excited and immediately showed an appearance of listening attentively.

"Well, first of all... I can teach you the techniques of rune hacking. Once you master this technique, as long as you're fast enough, you can hijack someone's magic before their spell hits you, retaliating in kind," Yvette explained. "But the downside is that rune hacking requires a lot of prerequisites. You need to be proficient in the basics of runes and the corresponding compilation techniques, rune security technology, architecture, encryption technology, database knowledge, and vulnerability practices..."

Listening to the teacher rambling on about a lot of knowledge areas he had never heard of, the wildfire that had just started burning in Dugrabi's eyes was instantly extinguished.

No, spell hijacking sounds even more awesome than the legendary forbidden spells, but isn't there too much to learn?

Isn't this deliberately making things difficult for it?

The more it listened, the more dizzy it became. It quickly interrupted the teacher and said, "Why don't you just tell me how long it will take me to learn this?"

Yvette was a little embarrassed: "Based on your current learning efficiency and our simple learning conditions...it will probably take at least two hundred years..."

Dugrabi was stunned. Two hundred years of hard work for a skill? It wouldn't be in the Endland by then, right?

It quickly said: "Next, next one?"

"I can teach you magical engineering. Mastering this technique will allow you to create some simple magical equipment. While you won't be able to create cutting-edge artifacts like elemental chips, with the level of magical equipment development on the Glowing Continent, becoming a top alchemist shouldn't be a problem..." Yvette said. "Of course, this also requires mastering a lot of basics, such as the fundamentals of magical engineering, magic circuit etching, mathematics, physics, and the basics of mechanics..."

Oh my god, math! Dougrabi was terrified and shook his head again: "No, no, no, teacher, please stop reading. Next one! Next one!"

Yvette continued, "I can teach you rune compilation, which is a prerequisite for rune hacking. It allows you to design your own personalized spells based on your needs. Although in the human world, spells with too large specifications are not usable, usually limited to 200 runes, but understanding runes is understanding our world. I believe you have studied the basics of runeology for so long that you are very clear about this..."

"No, no, no, I think it's enough for me to master the commonly used runes. There's no need to learn all the uncommon runes..." Speaking of runes, Dugrabi was terrified. All kinds of nightmares flooded his mind. He shook his head and said, "Next! Next!"

"Then I will teach you techniques in the fields of agriculture and nature. While it won't directly improve your combat power, using magical techniques to influence plant growth should be extremely important to the overall development of the Dragon Kingdom, enough to make you a name for yourself in history. This only requires an understanding of natural magic and crop science, soil science, agricultural meteorology, and..."

"Uh, teacher, I don't want to farm, nor do I want to get involved in the management of the Dragon Kingdom... Next one! Next one!"

"Then I'll teach you rune medicine. Magical potions can heal illnesses and save lives, while rune potions can produce special effects and provide different enhancements. However, due to the differences in materials, when you return to the Glowing Continent, you may need to start by researching and classifying the properties of medicinal materials. So the first thing I'll teach you is..."

"Teacher, I, I don't want to be a doctor either. Please, please change to another one..."

“…”

In this way, he changed several different professional directions in succession, but because of various prerequisites, Dugrabi was still unable to make a decision. It seemed that he was not interested in any field.

This time, Yvette was really angry. She stretched out her hand and hit the black dragon's head three times.

You kid, you don’t want to learn this or that, what on earth do you want to learn?

(End of this chapter)