Facing the howling north wind and falling snow, she walked into the backyard of Beipo Mountain, and Lucia closed the wooden door to keep out the cold.
After the winter, a circle of wooden sheds was erected above the yard. Although it affected the lighting a little, it could at least prevent snow from burying it here.
There was a roaring bonfire burning on the side of the yard. Standing at the door, you could feel the heat wave generated by the flame. Lucia took off her gloves and put her cold hands on the bonfire to absorb its temperature.
"Is it cold?" Anna, who was standing in front of the workbench, turned her head, "Come here, I'll keep you warm."
"Ah... Thank you," Lucia trotted to her side, and then her whole body was surrounded by a warm green fire, like soaking in a castle's bath, feeling the comfortable and soft warmth from head to toe.
What a convenient ability... Lucia thought enviously, she never had to be afraid of severe cold.
"Is it warm?"
"Hmm!" She nodded vigorously, "What are you making?"
"No, some new gun parts," Anna picked up a slender steel tube with a piston in the middle, and pulled it back and forth twice, "His Royal Highness said that he didn't have a chance of success, and it took trial and error."
Shiny and smooth, these parts are obviously made of the finest steel, meticulously cut with a black fire. Before she came to the town, Lucia would never have imagined that the surface of iron can be made as flat as glass, it was like a piece of art.
And these works of art also have their own credit. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth. Her Royal Highness Roland and Anna both said that without high-quality materials, no matter how accurate the processing method is, the finished product will only be a thousand warehouses. Hundred holes.
"Didn't Your Highness come with you?" Anna took back the green fire.
"He said that there are still some things to deal with, and he will come later, let me familiarize myself with the new abilities first," Lucia pouted.
"What has your evolved ability... become?" she asked with interest. "There is probably no one in the Witch League who can be more sensational than you as an adult."
Lucia patted her head embarrassedly, "If it wasn't for you and Lord Speer at that time, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to last the last moment."
"You have already thanked you, so you don't have to take this matter to heart all the time," Anna waved her hand, "Quickly use your new abilities to see."
Lucia responded and began to drive the magic in her body. The strange feeling that night came to her mind again. The outline of everything became no longer familiar and continuous, but divided into many small squares, which were gathered together by color to form a A patch of stains. It's just that this time she didn't feel the colic of the magic backlash, so she could calm down and look at each square carefully.
She picked up a piece of part that Anna had processed. The previously smooth gray-white surface had become uneven. Surrounded by magic, the color spots on it were clearly visible in about seven or eight colors, the largest of which was cyan. Their arrangement is completely irregular, as if the painter accidentally knocked over a pile of paint in the bowl on the ground, the only difference is that they have clear boundaries and do not occupy each other.
These are not the tiny particles that His Royal Highness said, and Lucia realized that if it really constitutes the foundation of all things, these "squares" and "color spots" are too big.
And there is a larger classification above particles, that is, elements.
Particles are combined into larger spheres according to different rules, and these spheres reflect very different properties due to their different structures.
If she was still ignorant about her abilities when she was in Jinsui City and didn't understand its specific role, now she can clearly understand the concept of elements. According to His Highness's description and classification of them, it should be these things that I have observed.
After telling Anna what she saw and what she thought, she thought for a while before saying, "This may be a branching ability."
"Branch... Abilities?"
"That's a rare talent," Anna laughed, "only a small number of adult witches in the Witch Union have the ability to listen to what Ms. Agatha said. It seems that it will only appear on the adult day, and once you miss it, you will never be able to get it. .I think it is closely related to the main ability of the witch, or it is a supplement and enhancement to the main ability. For example, Soraya's magic pen, without it, she still needs to mix the paint before painting. The magic of the scroll teacher The same is true of the book. She once told me that before she was a minor, although she could quickly memorize most of the books she had read, she could not share the contents of the books with others because she had no money to buy pen and paper. "
She paused, then said, "And your main ability is decomposition and restoration, so I guess these color blocks may be guiding you to accurately separate a certain type of elements. Maybe you can try it and see if you can peel it off alone. A certain color block?"
Lucia nodded, and reapplied her ability to a pig iron ingot beside the work table. Unlike the previous decomposition, this time she carefully condensed the magic into filaments to pull those cyan squares.
This process is much more difficult than she imagined. She has never manipulated her magic in such a meticulous manner, but Lucia is also overjoyed. Compared with before she became an adult, she can now feel the existence of magic more truly, as if they have become Your own fingers are even extensions of consciousness.
As more and more filaments adhered to the stain, the squares finally loosened, they were pulled out of the iron ingot next to The entire iron ingot collapsed and curled into a yellow-green crystal the size of half a fingernail, and there was a square iron block next to it.
Lucia gathered her powers and wiped the fine sweat on her forehead. She noticed that the cyan stains before the two were different from the normal vision under the magic vision became silvery white, which is also the common luster of pure iron. The latter's color block is still colorful, but without using the ability, it looks like a clean gem.
"What is this?" She gently pinched the tiny crystal, which was insignificant compared to an iron ingot, but much more beautiful in appearance.
"Maybe it's a reconstituted compound of other elements in pig iron," Anna's eyes sparkled. "I'm not sure, but a little experiment can be done to verify it. If it's true, do you know what that means? ?You can extract a certain part of an element from a complete object, and the remaining elements will not be turned into a puddle of scattered sand, but will be recombined according to the conditions of losing the element... Any useless and inferior materials can be used in your in the hands of new life.”.
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