pertwk Chapter 4 New Equipment
Chapter 4 New Equipment
It must be said that... this instructor, Manugges, is indeed very generous!
As a wizard apprentice, thirty magic stones a month is quite a considerable income.
You should know that after Viktor brought one-fifth of his family's wealth to Dawnstar City, he exchanged it all for magic stones, and he only got less than a hundred... That's a number that an ordinary family couldn't accumulate in tens of thousands of years!
So now it's only three months' salary...
Of course, this also proves the huge gap between wizards and mortals...
In addition, exchanging discounts for knowledge and other benefits to become Manugs' apprentice is indeed a pretty good and straightforward path, allowing one to avoid many detours.
However, Victor still had concerns about the difficulty and time required to maintain the alchemy golem production line!
After all, he knew clearly before his rebirth that there are no free lunches, especially in the wizarding world where people are colder and more bound by the principle of equal exchange.
Alchemy golems are truly high-end items, and many wizards have difficulty accessing them. If this job were really that easy, it probably wouldn't have been so easy for me to get it; there would probably be a lot of people vying for it already.
Nina keenly sensed Victor's emotions and asked with some curiosity:
"Victor, don't you seem happy at all?"
"No, Senior Nina, I just don't like to express my emotions."
Viktor looked up and smiled, but showed no intention of revealing his thoughts.
Having only known each other for less than ten minutes, he doesn't like to engage in overly intimate conversations with people he barely knows.
"is that so?"
Nina remained noncommittal, giving a cryptic look.
However, she didn't intend to delve into the details. Instead, she turned around and beckoned Victor to follow her to the alchemy golem production line: "The mentor is still busy with his work, so I'll help you familiarize yourself with the tasks you need to perform."
"How much do you know about alchemy and alchemical golems?"
Viktor shook his head and answered truthfully:
"I don't understand at all."
Nina sighed:
"I knew it... It seems I can't hand over the work to you so easily."
"But I was prepared."
"Alright then. I need some time to prepare for my promotion to a full-fledged wizard, so for the next month or so, I'll be here every day teaching you what you need to do. Is that alright with you?"
"No problem, Nina."
Viktor nodded, then turned to look at the production line beside him and asked Nina:
"But... am I, a lowly wizard apprentice, truly capable of this task?"
"Of course...no!"
Nina didn't hold back either:
"But if I teach you for a month, you'll be almost there... As long as you're not too stupid, I'm confident I can help you handle more than 80% of the malfunctions and problems."
"As for the remaining problems, even if you really can't solve them, there's nothing that can be done. What can your advisor do if he can't find anyone truly skilled in this area?"
Viktor, however, felt that it wasn't that his mentor, Manuges, couldn't find someone.
The person he finds probably won't be someone like him, a low-level apprentice, who can be easily satisfied with some perks... Alchemy golems are high-end items among wizards, and a wizard who can master them, even if he's just a wizarding apprentice, should definitely have a high salary!
"I understand... Senior Nina."
"Good that you understand."
Nina smiled, then led Victor to a workbench at the end of the production line.
The workbench was covered with tools, books, and various alchemical golem parts. Nina flipped through them for a moment, then quickly pulled out two books and handed them to Victor:
"This is a book about the basics of alchemy, and also an introductory book on ancient runic techniques."
"The knowledge in the book can help you lay a foundation and also help you learn how to maintain the production line."
"Moreover, these two books were given to me by my mentor before, and now I'm giving them to you. I hope you can figure them out."
Viktor reached out and took both books in his hands.
He wanted to thank Nina, but as his hand touched the two books, the panel he had closed suddenly popped back up in front of him:
[Equipable item detected: Introduction to Alchemy]
[Equipping this item grants the following attribute: Alchemy Genius lv1 — Increases alchemy learning efficiency by 200%, and has a small chance of triggering alchemy inspiration.]
[Requirement for absorbing equipment: Copy the introductory book of alchemy twenty times]
[Equipment slots are full. Replace equipment?]
......
[Equipable Item Detected: A Brief Explanation of Ancient Rune Technology]
[Equipping this item grants the following attribute: Rune Master lv1 — Increases Ancient Rune learning speed by 200% and slightly increases understanding of Ancient Runes.]
[Requirements for absorbing equipment: Memorize the book "An Introduction to Ancient Rune Techniques" so well that you can recite it backwards]
[Equipment slots are full. Replace equipment?]
......
Two items that can be equipped in a row?
Viktor was shocked, and his movements inevitably slowed down a little.
This made Nina laugh out loud:
"Haha~~ No need to be so nervous."
"These two books are indeed very difficult. It took me a year to barely understand them back then."
"But now that I'm here to help you, you can ask me anything you don't understand. If all goes well, I can guarantee that you'll be able to learn the knowledge in these two books in a month, or at least understand how to continue learning on your own."
Victor nodded.
But his mind had already turned to the two books he could equip... He had initially thought that after arriving at the wizarding academy, he would see many items that he could equip, but he hadn't encountered any along the way.
He subconsciously assumed that the items he could equip were very rare, but he didn't expect that Nina had only given him two books, which he was able to equip.
The key point is that he had already seen both books, so why was he only able to choose equipment after Nina handed them to him?
Is there some hidden restriction in my equipment slot that prevents me from equipping items that aren't mine?
Viktor silently kept this question in mind, preparing to find an opportunity to test it out.
Then he looked at the effects of equipping the two books—and he had to admit, they were both quite good!
For wizards, if meditation and witchcraft are their hands, then alchemy is their legs... Every wizard inevitably deals with alchemy, whether it's potion-making, mineralogy, or animal taming, but there will always be a subject they excel at.
Go and study, go and further your education, go and explore.
The gains from this experience always feed back into one's path as a wizard.
However, most people have limited energy and can only study one path. Occasionally, a few extraordinary geniuses will emerge, but they can only make breakthroughs in a few directions at most.
Now, with the help of the equipment slots, Viktor seems to have the potential to become one of those extraordinary geniuses...
However, his equipment slots were still occupied by the Healing Potion, so he had to wait until he absorbed the Healing Potion's attributes before he could equip the two books... It shouldn't take too long.
Because the healing potion requires the accumulation of 100% of maximum health, at a recovery rate of 0.001% per second, the required time is less than 28 hours.
It's just a little over a day... that's not a big problem.