Chapter 429 Separation of Elements

Facing the howling north wind and falling snow, Lucia walked into the backyard of Beishan Mountain and closed the wooden door to keep out the cold.

After winter, a wooden shed was erected above the yard. Although it affected the lighting, it at least prevented the snow from burying it.

There was a blazing bonfire burning next to the yard, and you could feel the heat waves generated by the flames standing at the door. Lucia took off her gloves and put her cold hands against the bonfire to absorb its warmth.

"Are you cold?" Anna, who was standing in front of the workbench, tilted her head and said, "Come here and I'll warm you up."

"Ah... thank you," Lucia trotted to her side, and then her whole body was surrounded by a ball of warm green fire, as if she was soaking in a bath in a castle, feeling a comfortable and soft warmth from head to toe.

What a convenient ability... Lucia thought with envy, she never had to be afraid of the cold.

"Are you warm?"

"Yeah!" She nodded vigorously, "What are you making?"

"Some parts of a new gun," Anna picked up a slender steel pipe with a piston in the middle, and pulled it out and inserted it twice. "His Highness said that he is not sure of success in one time, and it needs trial and error."

These parts have a shiny and smooth surface, obviously made of the best steel and carefully cut with black fire. Before coming to the town, Lucia would never have thought that the surface of iron could be made as flat as glass, just like works of art.

And these works of art also have their own merits. She couldn't help but curl up her lips when she thought of this. His Highness Roland and Anna both said that without high-quality materials, no matter how precise the processing methods are, the finished product will only be inferior. Hundreds of holes.

"Didn't His Highness come with you?" Anna withdrew the green fire.

"He said he still had some things to deal with and would come over later to let me familiarize myself with the new abilities first," Lucia curled her lips.

"What has become of your evolved abilities?" she asked with interest. "There is probably no one in the Witch Union who can cause more of a sensation than you as an adult."

Lucia touched her head in embarrassment, "If it hadn't been for you and Lord Speer at that time, I might not have been able to survive until the last moment."

"You've already said thank you, so you don't have to keep this matter in mind," Anna waved her hand, "Quickly use your new ability and see."

Lucia responded and began to activate the magic power 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 according to color. Patches of color formed. It's just that this time she didn't feel the pain of magic backlash, so she was able to calm down and look at each square carefully.

She picked up a piece of part that Anna had processed. The previously smooth off-white surface had become uneven. Surrounded by magic, the color spots on it were clearly visible - there were about seven or eight colors, and the largest one was cyan. Their arrangement has no regularity at all, just like a painter accidentally knocking over a pile of paint in a bowl on the ground. The only difference is that they have clear boundaries and do not invade each other.

These were not the tiny particles His Highness was talking about. Lucia realized that if they really formed the basis of all things, these "squares" and "color spots" would be too big.

There is a larger classification above particles, which is elements.

Particles are combined into larger balls according to different rules. These small balls have completely different properties due to their different structures.

If she was still confused about her abilities and didn't understand their specific functions when she was in Golden Spike City, now she can clearly understand the concept of elements. Judging from His Highness's description and classification of them, what he observed should be these things.

After telling Anna what she saw and what she thought, she thought for a while before saying, "This may be a branch of ability."

"Branch... ability?"

"That is a rare talent," Anna said with a smile. "Only a few adult witches in the Witch Union have it. From what Ms. Agatha said, it seems that it will only appear on the day of adulthood. Once you miss it, it will never happen again." Possible to obtain. I think it is closely related to the witch's main ability, or a supplement and enhancement to the main ability. For example, Soraya's magic pen, without it, she still needs to mix the paint before she can paint. Teacher Shujuan The same is true for the book of magic. She once told me that before she was a minor, although she could quickly memorize most of the books she read, she could not share the contents of the book with others because she had no money to buy pen and paper. others."

She paused and then said, "And your main ability is decomposition and reduction, so I guess these color blocks may be guiding you to accurately separate a certain type of elements - maybe you can give it a try and see if you can Peel off a certain color block alone?”

Lucia nodded and used her power again on a pig iron ingot next to the work table. Different from the previous decomposition, this time she carefully let the magic power converge into thin threads to pull the cyan squares.

This process was much more difficult than she imagined. She had never manipulated her magic in such detail, but Lucia was also very happy. Compared to before becoming an adult, she could feel the existence of magic more clearly now, as if they had become One's own fingers - even an extension of consciousness.

As more and more filaments stick to the stains, the squares finally loosen, and they are pulled out of the iron ingots next to each other, while the remaining stains suddenly change - the originally clear boundaries tremble. , then 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 power and wiped the sweat from her forehead. She noticed that the colors of the two under magic vision were different from those under normal vision - the previous cyan spots became silvery white, which is also the common luster of pure iron. . The color block of the latter is still colorful, but if you don't use the ability, it looks like a clean gem.

"What is this?" She gently pinched the tiny crystal. Compared to the iron ingot, its size was insignificant, but its appearance was much more beautiful.

"This may be a compound recomposed by other elements in pig iron," Anna said with sparkling eyes. "I'm not sure, but you can do a small experiment to verify it. If it is true, do you know what this means? ? You can extract a certain part of the elements from a complete object, and the remaining elements will not turn into a piece of loose sand, but will be recombined according to the conditions of losing the element... Any useless and inferior materials can be There is new life in your hands.”

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