Walking into the backyard of the North Slope Mountains in the face of the howling north wind and snow, Lucia closed the wooden door to keep the cold out. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In winter, a wooden shed is erected above the yard, which may affect the daylight, but at least it can prevent the snow from burying the place.

There was a roaring bonfire burning on the side of the courtyard, and standing in the doorway, you could feel the heat generated by the flames, Lucia took off her gloves and put her cold hands against the bonfire, sucking its temperature.

"Is it cold?" Anna, who was standing at the workbench, tilted her head, "Come to me, I'll keep you warm." ”

"Ah...... Thank you," Lucia trotted to her, and then her whole body was surrounded by a warm green fire, as if she were soaking in the baths of a castle, and felt the warmth of comfort from head to toe.

What a handy ability...... Lucia thought enviously that she had never been afraid of the cold.

"Warm, huh?"

"Hmm!" she nodded vigorously, "what are you making?"

"No, some parts of a new gun," Anna said, picking up a slender steel tube with a piston in the middle, and pulling it back and forth twice, "Your Highness said that he was not sure of success once, and that it would take trial and error. ”

The parts have a shiny and smooth appearance, and are clearly made of the finest steel, meticulously cut by black fire. Before coming to town, Lucia would never have imagined that the surface of iron could be made as smooth as glass, like a work of art.

And these works of art also have their own credit, thinking of this, she couldn't help but curl the corners of her mouth, His Royal Highness Roland and Anna have said that without high-quality materials, no matter how precise the processing methods are, the finished product will only be full of holes.

"Didn't Your Highness come with you?" Anna retracted the green fire.

"He said he still had some things to deal with, and he would come back later, so that I could familiarize myself with the new abilities first," Lucia pouted.

"Your evolved abilities...... What has become of it?" she asked with interest, "I don't think there's anyone in the League of Witches who is more sensational than you are when they're adults." ”

Lucia touched her head embarrassedly, "If it weren't for you and Master Speer, I'm afraid I wouldn't have survived until the last minute." ”

"You've already said thank you, don't keep this in mind," Anna said, waving her hand, "use your new abilities and take a look." ”

Lucia answered, and began to drive the magic in her body, and the strange sensation of that night came back to her mind - the outline of everything no longer familiar and continuous, but divided into many tiny squares, which were gathered together according to their color, forming patches of color. Only this time she didn't feel the colic of the magic backlash again, so she was able to calm down and look at each square.

She picked up a piece of Anna's machined part, the previously smooth off-white surface had become uneven, and the stains on it were clearly visible under the magic—about seven or eight colors, the largest of which was cyan. There is no regularity in their arrangement, like a painter accidentally knocking over a pile of paint in a bowl on the floor, the only difference is that they have clear boundaries and do not encroach on each other.

This was not the tiny particles His Highness was talking about, and Lucia realized that if it was really the stuff that formed the basis of all things, the "squares" and "spots" were too big.

And there is a larger category on the particles, which is the element.

The particles are combined into larger balls according to different laws, and these balls reflect very different properties due to their different structures.

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

After telling Anna what she saw and what she thought, she thought for a moment before she spoke, "Maybe it's a branching ability." ”

Branch...... Ability?"

"That's a rare gift," laughed Anna, "and only a handful of adult witches in the League of Witches possess it—it seems like it only appears on the day of adulthood, and if you miss it, you can't get it again." I think it is closely related to the main ability of the witch, or rather a supplement and reinforcement of the main ability. For example, Zoroa's magic pen, without which she would have had to mix the paint before she could paint. The same is true of Teacher Scroll's Book of Magic, 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 could not afford to buy pen and paper. ”

She paused, then continued, "And your main ability is to disassemble and reduce, so I'm guessing these patches may be guiding you to separate a certain type of element precisely - maybe you can give it a try and see if you can peel off a certain type of color patch individually?"

Lucia nodded, reusing her abilities on a piece of pig iron at her desk. Unlike the previous breakdowns, this time she carefully tightened the mana into filaments and pulled the cyan blocks.

The process was much more difficult than she had imagined, she had never manipulated her magic so meticulously, but Lucia was equally happy that she could feel the magic more truly than she had been before she was an adult, as if they had become her fingers - or even an extension of her consciousness.

As more and more filaments bonded to the patches, the squares finally loosened, and they were pulled out of the iron ingots right next to each other, and the remaining spots suddenly changed—the originally distinct borders trembled, and then the whole iron ingot collapsed, curling into a yellow-green crystal the size of half a fingernail, and a boxy iron block next to it.

Lucia gathered her ability and wiped the fine sweat from her forehead, she noticed that the two were not the same color as normal vision under the magic vision - the previous cyan spot had become a silvery-white color, which was also the usual luster of pure iron. The latter's color patches are still colorful, but without the use of power, 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.

"Maybe it's a compound reconstituted by other elements in pig iron," Anna's eyes sparkled, "I'm not sure, but a little experiment could be done to verify it." If that's true, do you know what that means? You can extract a single part of an element from a complete object, and the remaining elements don't turn into a puddle of loose sand, but reassemble according to the condition of losing that element...... Any useless and inferior material can be reborn in your hands. ”

. (To be continued.) )