Warlock Apprentice

Skilled Tooling alchemists usually set up detailed plans before creating alchemy items. They needed a long time to do researches and preparations before finally proceeding with the item itself.

Innovation, talent, insight, and technique… These were all essential factors to make an alchemy item. Without them, one could only copy the ways of ancestors.

Many alchemists spent their lives in this field without making much achievement. People with less innovative ideas could never create new inventions while those who managed to find inspiration often failed to become successful in the end. Rather, their inspiration could go wild and prevent them from using well-balanced materials which could cause terrible results such as exploding experiments.

This was why there were very few alchemists in the world and even fewer talented ones.

Angor never considered how long he would walk down this path. The only thing on his mind, for now, was to recreate an Earth weapon by using alchemy.

There were many data saved in Jon’s hologram tablet. However, data about weapons only took up a small part of them.

Jon was a botany researcher who was not interested in aggressive weapons in the slightest. The few limited 3D printer weapon blueprints in the tablet were most copied by him from random places on the Internet when he tried out his new printer as a university student.

Generally speaking, a combination consisted of four types of spells: assault, enhancement, control, and recovery.

Of course, different wizards might have different ideas about their combinations. Someone preferred using defensive spells or even detection ones. There was no fixed rule about how to choose a combination. The key point was how the wizard used the spells in different situations.

For example, choices for control spells included Frost, Grease, and Flash. In actual combats, wizards had to know how to apply these spells effectively. An apprentice who learned a correct combination was able to deal with most situations.

However, studying combinations was usually a preferred tactic for apprentices only. Especially since they did not have enough time, effort, and mana to learn many additional spells. Apprentices could only master a few spells while wizards did not have such a problem.

Combinations also had their weakness. Predictable spells were easily countered by opponents. For example, Monarch of Eternal Freeze only knew how to cast Frost. A Bloodline wizard or someone adept at fire spells could easily break his trick apart.

This was why spell combinations only worked for apprentices in general.

Angor also planned to get a combination, but he never intended to set such a restriction for himself. The reason why he still wanted to learn a combination was to prepare himself for the challenges at Sky Tower. In other words, this was an emergency effort when he did not have much time to do much else.

Instead of following typical combinations, Angor gave up on learning any assault spells. He only focused on finding control and defense ones.

Once he got his alchemy weapon, he would rely on the weapon to attack people. He only had to prevent enemies from getting too close as well as watch out for long-range cantrip attacks.

Grease, Flash, Ice Wall, Optic Confusion… Angor listed the spells he needed and slowly memorized their fundamentals.

Three days went by quickly.

He had almost finished setting his combination. The main focus of the combination was to stop anyone from approaching. If it failed, he could use Optic Confusion to hide. And if that did not work either, he had Toby to help.

Once he successfully learned these spells and created his alchemy weapon, it would be time to finally challenge the tower.

Angor’s mind space still did not recover by the time he almost finished learning the spells. Thus, he had to choose something else to study.

During his time, Nausica and Sailum came looking for him and invited him to do quests together and earn merit points. However, Angor refused by using his condition as an excuse.

With nothing better to do, Angor took out the information about seeded participants in Sky Tower that he received from Dave.