This wizard only wishes to be a teacher

Chapter 58: Chapter 56: Repairing Bows and Arrows, Alchemy Teaching

Chapter 58 -56: Repairing Bows and Arrows, Alchemy Teaching

However, Lucien still took the matter to heart.

After the teaching session ended, Lucien led Carly back to the laboratory and took out the broken bow from his Space Ring.

“Lucien, if you can’t restore it completely, just fixing its appearance is fine…” Carly said nervously, looking at the bow that had broken into two pieces.

Lucien did not respond, but instead focused intently on inspecting the broken bow.

Based on the smattering of alchemy knowledge he had acquired over the past few days, if he just wanted to “repair” the bow to make it a decorative piece, it wouldn’t be difficult. In fact, it would only require the simplest witchcraft to glue the two pieces together and then smooth them out.

Yet, if he wished to enhance the hunting bow without changing its original form, so Carly could continue to use it in battle, it would be quite difficult for Lucien at his current level.

Carly, observing Lucien’s troubled expression, wanted to say something but feared that she might disturb his train of thought. She could not help but pinch her thigh repeatedly, clearly very anxious.

Her small movements still drew the attention of Lucien, who was at that moment a bit distracted, and this made him think.

The threshold for learning alchemy seemed to be much lower than that of a pharmacist. Given Carly’s current strength, it seemed she could already begin her instruction step by step.

Lucien was very curious what kind of reward the system would give him if he taught Carly how to repair the hunting bow.

With this in mind, Lucien, under the nervous gaze of Carly, set the two pieces of the hunting bow down again. Then he looked at Carly and shook his head slightly. “I think it’s better not to repair this hunting bow for now.”

Carly looked at the hunting bow, which was now placed back on the table, and then at Lucien shaking his head. She felt as if she had just been sentenced to death, slumping down completely.

“It’s okay, Lucien…” Carly forced a smile, but anyone could see the helplessness and loss behind it.

Carly hung her head and reached out to take the “remains” of her first hunting bow back.

“I only said not to repair it for now, not that it can’t be fixed,” Lucien said while looking at Carly’s completely deflated slender frame, somewhat helplessly reaching out and gently swatting away Carly’s hand.

Carly looked up at Lucien with a hint of hope now in her eyes.

“I feel that since this bow means so much to you, if you can’t take part in its repair, it will always lack something,” Lucien said to Carly, “I want to teach you some relevant alchemy knowledge first, and then we can work on repairing it together.”

Carly was stunned for a moment, then quickly lowered her head with her cheeks slightly flushed.

“Ah… I, no problem, I mean… no…” Carly’s words were illogical at that moment, her gaze unfocused, in a state of total shutdown.

It was only after Lucien gave her a gentle yet firm tap on the head that Carly gradually came back to her senses from her shutdown state.

“Can I really do it?” Carly looked at Lucien, now filled with self-doubt.

“Then it’s up to you,” Lucien took out the Alchemy Note from the Space Ring and handed it to Carly, “You should record the first thirty pages yourself, but I need to clarify that teaching alchemy was not within our original plan…”

“So, based on the principle of equivalent exchange, do I need to pay an extra price to you?” Carly’s eyes shone brightly, as she seemed quite excited.

“No, what I mean is that we will need to use your original rest time for our teaching sessions and there will be extra alchemy homework,” Lucien watched Carly’s eager expression, shrugged his shoulders, and instantly Carly’s goofy smile stiffened.

However, when Carly slightly lowered her head and saw the broken bow quietly lying on the experiment table, in the end, she hesitantly nodded, “Mentor Lucien, the homework… won’t be as much as in the basics of witchcraft, will it?”

“Don’t worry, I will help you balance it reasonably,” Lucien smiled, like the vague figure seen when staring into the abyss.

For some reason, seeing Mentor Lucien’s mysterious smile, Carly only felt that his face seemed to become somewhat enigmatic and it gave her the creeps.

[Your student Carly has developed respect and admiration for you, Respect and Admiration +20]

“Come, today I will teach you about the most fundamental knowledge of alchemy, recognizing various materials. Of course, our first task is to repair the bow and arrow, so I will only talk to you about the materials needed to make bows and arrows for now, and we will catch up on other materials and systematic knowledge later.”

With a wave of his hand, Lucien took out some ores and a piece of wood with light blue stripes from the Space Ring.

“These are starry iron ore, one of the most common alchemy materials, having good flexibility, commonly used for creating parts that require a certain resilience. You can pick them up and see, their standard is that you can see bright twinkling stars in the ore veins, and they absorb spiritual power poorly, but when infused with spiritual power, you can see a faint blue glow. Here we can use it to make the body of the bow, leaving enough room for the later rune Enchantments…”

“This is Wind Whispering Wood, a magical plant containing a light wind element, often used in making wind attribute Witch Tools. Even without inscribing any runes, items made from Wind Whispering Wood have a slight acceleration effect. For example, your previous hunting bow was made mainly of Wind Whispering Wood…”

While teaching, Lucien also guided Carly step by step toward repairing the bow and arrow.

He was very curious whether the system would provide him with something new, like upgrading witchcraft, after Carly mastered the method of repairing the hunting bow and turned it into a simple Witch Tool.

To be honest, the process was not complicated.

After all, both Lucien and Carly’s requirements for the bow and arrow were not high, Carly even merely wanted to repair the bow and arrow. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

So, just over three hours later, Carly had roughly drawn a sketch of the bow and arrow on scratch paper.

Above the sketch was a hunting bow, where the fractured parts would be spliced together from flash star iron and Wind Whispering Wood to compensate for the gaps caused by the original breakage.

And at Lucien’s suggestion, these newly added parts were inscribed with a few wizard runes representing “acceleration,” to provide the bow with a basic enhancement: as long as one infused the runes on the bow with spiritual power during the draw and shoot, it would slightly increase the initial speed of the arrows fired.

“Mentor Lucien, I’ve finished the design,” Carly put down her Feather Pen and handed the final sketch to Lucien.

[Your student Carly has designed a simple Alchemy Hunting Bow (Unnamed), congratulations on mastering the blueprint: Simple Alchemy Hunting Bow·Modified!]