Warlock Apprentice

An alchemist only had to pay attention to two factors when doing enchantment; maintaining a stable mana output, and ensuring that the patterns were flawless.

Maintaining mana was already possible for Angor. He just had to build a stable mana tunnel using the Axes of the Universe, like what he did when casting Thaw.

Drawing absolute correct patterns onto an alchemy item was very difficult for apprentices. However, Angor could achieve it by using something else…

Enchantment Cyclopaedia: For Starters was a book Angor recorded in the Nightmare Realm. It had more than 700 pages and was of a similar size to dictionaries if it was printed in papers.

Every page described a complete rune.

The rune on the first page was called Rune of Shapen, which doubled the sharpness of an item.

The rune looked simple. It only required about 50 strokes to draw.

His bright-red blood flowed onto the surface of the weapon and dropped to the floor. Not a single trace of blood was left on the blade itself, which always shined like a newly-produced mirror.

“Even the side of the blade was affected by Sharpen. A finished weapon could probably be used as a fine supernatural alchemy weapon,” Angor thought.

He finished assembling the weapon quickly. When he held the weapon in his hand, it could be easily recognized as a… farming sickle, used by working peasants.

The blade had a length of 31.2 centimeters and a width of 13.7 centimeters. The handle made from Steel Wood was 65.1 centimeters long. Overall, the sickle was not big and was a suitable one-handed tool.

The design of the weapon was pretty average. There were simple art patterns on its blade, and its handle was smoothed and polished. However, these were all ordinary stuff.

As for its power…

Angor took the sickle from his lab and walked into the woods along the river.

He swung the sickle at the trunk of a grown maple tree. The trunk which was as thick as an adult was cut in half easily.

Superior sharpness.

He tried again. This time, he injected mana into the sickle, which created a faint aura along the blade. Then he aimed for another maple tree.

The tree snapped nice and clean. However, this time, the cut was not smooth. A number of cracks and barbs could be seen around the cut on the tree. Angor believed that this was the effect of Sharpen rune.

He tested the weapon several times. At one point, a tree broke in half when the sickle did not even connect with it.

“So this is the power of a supernatural weapon!” Angor smiled in satisfaction.

The Rune of Sharpen allowed the weapon to carry a sharp aura on its blade and cut something afar.

Being able to create a supernatural weapon meant Angor had officially become an elementary apprentice alchemist.

And he had only spent one month on it.

Any other alchemists who learned about Angor’s achievement would probably run away in shame.

From the beginning to finally becoming an apprentice alchemist, most people needed many years. There were many complicated steps on the way of learning alchemy, each of which could easily hinder someone’s progress for a year or two.

Angor… well, he was born to break these rules and maybe attract hate from others while at it.

However, he still felt it a pity that he could only follow 3D blueprints he already had. He was yet to create something on his own.

…

Upon returning to his villa, Angor decided to try creating another alchemy weapon before finally going for something he could use when challenging Sky Tower.

He suddenly remembered Nausica. If not for Nausica’s help, when the world’s consciousness descended into the mirror world and brought a terrible gale with it, Angor would have been on the ground as a pile of broken human flesh and became fertilizer for the Tree of Eternity.

Thinking about this, Angor decided to craft an alchemy weapon for Nausica.