Chapter 15 015: Ice Element
"Hoo!"
Luo Xi breathed a sigh of relief. Although it seemed like only a moment, in fact more than fifty days had passed. Combined with the more than sixty days of meditation before, the accumulated time points were reduced by nearly half in an instant.
"But I was promoted after all."
Shaking his head, Luo Xi quickly turned his attention to magic.
He opened the bookcase, took out a magic book and sat down at the table. Next, it was time to study the spell.
This is a magic book about the water element, but it does not describe the water element itself, but the advanced elements of the water element——
Ice element.
In nature, ice is just a different form of water, and in the magical world, the two are two sides of the same coin.
However, compared to the form-transformation magic in nature, it is more difficult to transform water into ice, as it involves changes in temperature, structure, etc., and requires operations on the microscopic aspects of the elements.
The seventh rune of will provides the wizard with the ability to control the elements at the microscopic level. For this reason, only apprentices who have condensed the seventh rune can master ice magic, and mastering ice magic is also the characteristic of advanced apprentices.
"Rustle." The sound of pages turning could be heard one after another.
Luo Xi had read this magic book many times before, and now all he had to do was put it into practice. After quickly flipping through it, he began to operate it.
He first raised his hand to condense the water element.
After three years of experience, he is no longer the rookie who has just entered the magic world. His control ability is second to none among his peers, and he can use such primary elements with ease.
At this moment, it was just a short rune, and then there was a continuous rustling sound. Water elements from all directions quickly rushed in and gathered into a ball in his palm.
"The next step is to turn water into ice"
Staring at the water element in his hand, Luo Xi began to chant spells to adjust the element's structure and lower the temperature.
Wisps of white mist emerged in his palms, and it was obvious that the activity of the water element was slowly decreasing. Snowflake-shaped crystals had even appeared in the clear water.
Luo Xi's face lit up with joy.
However, at this moment, there were two clicks, and the snowflake-shaped crystals collapsed quickly again. Then there was a splash, and the water ball in the hand exploded and scattered.
Rosie frowned.
“Snap!”
He snapped his fingers, and a gust of wind blew up out of nowhere in the closed room, gathering the water that had just been scattered together, and then blowing it out of the window.
Wind Calling, a simple wind spell.
During these three years, he has learned sixteen apprentice-level spells, the one who mastered the most spells among the apprentices of the same period.
After cleaning, Luo Xi started his second attempt.
However, it failed again in the conversion process, and the ice that had clearly begun to solidify collapsed into water.
"Strange, the temperature has dropped, but why can't it condense?"
Luo Xi touched the water on the ground with his hand, and it was obviously ice water at a very low temperature.
"Try again."
Luo Xi tried a few more times, but all ended in failure without exception.
Not giving up, he even tried the system twice more, but unfortunately the result was still the same.
【Five days have passed, and you have not succeeded.】
"It seems that there is a key link that I haven't figured out clearly. I should ask the instructor tomorrow."
In the field of magic, you can't work in isolation. There are many key points that you just can't figure out without someone to point out to you, and you'll be stuck in the shackles without anyone to point out.
Luo Xi had tried several times before, but there were some magic problems that he couldn't figure out by himself alone, no matter how much time he put into it.
The next day, after class, Rosie stopped Ms. Catherine.
"Teacher, I have a question for you."
As an excellent student ranked in the top five in the class, Witch Catherine has always been kind to Luo Xi and said in a very easy-going manner: "Really? Then come to my office."
When they arrived at Catherine's office, Catherine made herself a cup of cocoa and also made one for Luo Xi.
"Would you like some cocoa?"
Luo Xi was going to say no, but seeing that she had already made it, she could only nod and say, "Thank you."
After sitting down in front of the chair with the cocoa, Catherine said, "Ask, what question is stopping you?"
Luo Xi took out the magic book from yesterday and handed it over, saying, "Teacher, I tried to use paper money to calculate the spell on it yesterday, but I found that no matter how I calculated it, I couldn't stabilize the structure when the water element was transformed into the ice element. Why is that?"
Catherine took the book and took a look at it. She couldn't help but asked in surprise, "A Preliminary Analysis of the Forms of Ice Element? This doesn't seem to be something you should read, right?"
Luo Xi said: "I was just curious, so I borrowed it from the library to have a look."
“I see.”
Catherine nodded. She guessed that Luo Xi might be hiding some of his strength, but she never thought that Luo Xi had already been promoted to a senior apprentice, so naturally she would not have any doubts.
She asked, "Show me the process of your calculation yesterday."
Luo Xi took out a notebook and handed it over. This was where he had recorded every step of the spellcasting process last night.
Using pen and paper to simulate and deduce before constructing a model is a skill that every wizard has mastered. Luo Xi is just applying this skill now.
Catherine read it carefully and said in surprise: "The deduction is really meticulous. Basically, the trajectory of each element nucleus is taken into consideration, and the arrangement and combination of the elements when they are running are also very correct."
"If it weren't for this mistake in the details, I would have thought you had completed the model construction. Feynman's formula won't work here, and here too."
Katherine the Witch pointed out several errors.
Luo Xi 'taught carefully'.
What Catherine didn't know was that these small mistakes were actually left intentionally by Luo Xi. After all, this was just a magic deduction note, and it would be strange if there were no mistakes at all.
"But these are not the main reasons why your deduction cannot proceed."
Catherine continued, "The key is the timing."
Luo Xi was stunned: "The heat?"
Catherine nodded and said, "Yes, the transformation of water element into ice element is a natural process. If you lower the temperature and keep it low for a long time, it will naturally condense into ice."
"But what about you?"
"When it just started to condense, you began to push it forcefully, gathering these semi-finished products together. This caused the original element structure to be destroyed, and the temperature could not be maintained, so it naturally collapsed."
Luo Xi suddenly realized that this was the case.
Witch Catherine said: "Everything in the world has its own rules. In many things, haste makes waste. Just like stewing mushrooms, the mushroom soup that is stewed slowly over low heat will be thick and fragrant."
"If you burn a lot of firewood just to get something to eat quickly, you'll end up with a burnt mess."
Luo Xi said humbly: "The student has learned his lesson."
Catherine smiled and encouraged, "You don't have to be discouraged. 90% of apprentices will encounter this problem when they first learn element conversion."
"You have already achieved this level just by deduction, which is beyond most of them."
Luo Xi said: "It's mainly because you taught me well, Master."
Catherine curled her lips and said, "Don't flatter me here, you clever little fellow. You are the most cunning one among all the apprentices. You are so clever in everything you say and do."
Luo Xi scratched his head embarrassedly.
Catherine then asked, "Come to think of it, I also have a question for you. The internship is about to end. What are your plans for the future?"
(End of this chapter)
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