Chapter 17 Anatomy, Witchcraft

"Witchcraft?" Carly looked into Lucien's gentle eyes, but her heart couldn't help pounding in response.

Powerful witchcraft, great wizard!

She would never forget how the usually lofty earl grovelled at the feet of the Third-level Wizard Apprentice who was guiding them, nor would she forget the sight of the adult with a wave of his hand making several strong thieves self-immolate to death on the road.

Just as Carly was immersed in her fantasies, Lucien suddenly changed the subject, even a slight curvature appeared at the corners of his mouth...

"However, even to cast the simplest witchcraft, you need to solidify at least three spiritual runes, Carly, you must not fall behind in the Meditation Method after you've learned witchcraft."

"Ah..." Carly's little face involuntarily collapsed.

Three spiritual runes? She hadn't yet solidified a single one.

Lucien naturally noticed the change in Carly's expression, but that was his intention.

If there wasn't a visible carrot dangled in front of Carly, it would be impossible to stir up her initiative.

And right now, for Carly, being able to cast witchcraft was undoubtedly a tempting carrot.

"Alright, if you want to cast witchcraft, besides needing sufficient spiritual power, you need to firmly grasp today's knowledge first," Lucien stretched out his hand and gently tapped on Carly's head.

"Ow..." Carly hugged her little head.

Lucien ignored Carly's playfulness and directly took out a set of "experimental tools" from a nearby cabinet.

Various needles, knives, tweezers, pliers, and even an axe.

Carly looked at the set of tools that seemed to be filled with blood, holding her breath slightly.

"Anatomy is a foundational experimental science; if you encounter any special creatures of interest in the future, you can also directly observe their internal structure through anatomical methods, and convert this natural construction into knowledge unique to you," Lucien began to teach Carly while inspecting various instruments.

"Next, I will explain the most common nine anatomical instrument techniques and related knowledge to you by performing a dissection on a rock fire lizard..."

Carly watched as Lucien polished the dissecting knife until it gleamed, her little face turning somewhat pale.

Lucien noticed, but said nothing; after all, what wizard doesn't see blood? Since Carly had embarked on this path, she must adapt!

Lucien opened the cage beside him, then took out a rock fire lizard about forty centimeters in length from the cage, and regardless of its struggle, firmly pressed it onto the dissection table.

"There are two dissection methods, one is vivisection, which requires keeping the subject alive during the process to observe the operation of certain structures inside, like in our upcoming experiment observing the water arrow trout where we need to ensure the specimen's vitality during observation."

"Of course, for the rock fire lizard, we needn't go through such trouble. We can do a simpler post-mortem dissection or anesthetized one. So before the dissection, to avoid unnecessary trouble due to the rock fire lizard's struggle, we can make it quiet down," Lucien said as he gently calmed the rock fire lizard on the dissection table, giving Carly, who was looking on apprehensively, some relief.

But the next moment, Lucien's hand brought out an awl, and with precision, speed, and ruthlessness, he pierced it behind the second scale after the first spine of the rock fire lizard, directly damaging its central nervous system.

The rock fire lizard only slightly twisted its body before quickly becoming "docile".

"Ah—" Carly stood up in fright at this sudden scene.

However, under Lucien's calm gaze, Carly sat back down somewhat sheepishly, revealing an awkward smile.

[Your student Carly feels awe towards you, respect +1]

"Come closer, you won't see clearly sitting so far away," Lucien frowned slightly, to tell the truth, although these pieces of knowledge were very clear in his mind, he still felt a bit nauseous after the practical operation.

But in front of Carly, Lucien forcefully concealed his discomfort; instead, he turned to look at a nearby little quail and commanded Carly in a rather indifferent tone to move closer.

Next, Lucien picked up a dissecting knife.

...

As a material for dissection, the rock fire lizard's scales, muscles, and internal organs were all subjects for research, but as a supernatural creature capable of casting spells, its most worthwhile study naturally lay in its "fire-breathing system" containing mystical natural magic patterns, and this was naturally the focus of Lucien's dissection lesson.

"Fire sac." Lucien shifted slightly to one side, gesturing for Carly to come closer and look at the special organ located under the rock fire lizard's jaw.

At this moment, Carly held her breath, quickly memorizing all the features of the fire sac, that special fire-resistant layer of skin, and the special secretion inside which resembled high-quality sulfur powder.

"The throat bearing natural magic patterns." Lucien gently pointed with the tweezers at the complete throat pipe he had deliberately preserved during the dissection.

"Using spiritual power to simulate the construction of the magic patterns in the rock fire lizard's throat as a model for witchcraft, then preparing some sulfur powder or the rock fire lizard's fire sac as casting material, finally activating it with the witchcraft power from within one's body, a spell is formed," Lucien explained, gripping a handful of sulfur powder in his left hand and beginning to demonstrate the entire process of casting witchcraft in front of Carly.

Bang—

The sulfur powder in Lucien's left hand exploded with a slight sound and began to quickly combine with the witchcraft model he constructed, attracting countless scattered Magic Essence, merging with the sulfur powder like kneading dough, finally forming a small ball of unstable orange-red gel.

Lucien manipulated his spiritual power, tossing the small ball of gel toward a stone target in front of him. The moment the gel collided with the stone target, it burst open and turned into flames clinging to the stone.

Carly's eyes lit up because she recognized the flames as the same witchcraft used by the Third-level Wizard Apprentice when they were first led out as new blood, against the bandits.

But soon, Lucien stopped maintaining the witchcraft and instead turned to Carly, throwing her a question, "Now then, Carly, tell me, does the spell I just cast have any flaws? And how should we improve it?"

Carly blinked, seemingly uncertain as she slowly pointed at herself with one finger.

"Me?"

In her little head, there seemed to be a big question mark.

"This isn't a serious question," Lucien looked at Carly's confused little expression, reminiscent of a deer caught in headlights. His mouth twitched, "You can treat this as an open-ended discussion topic. As wizards, we should not only simulate these natural magic patterns, but also modify them to achieve better practical effects."

"For example, what should we do if we need to cast this spell but lack flammable materials like sulfur as casting material?"