The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

"Metal Transfiguration!" Ryan softly read out the name of this new witchcraft.

After reading it carefully several times, Ryan soon discovered that the difficulty of visualizing the witchcraft model for this new witchcraft 'Metal Transfiguration' was completely higher than the witchcrafts 'Scorching Touch', 'High Temperature Force Field' and 'Blazing Light' he had learned before.

It was even several times more difficult than the 'Sharpness' of the metal system.

Ryan had expected this.

Because this is a first-level witchcraft.

According to the level, both the 'Sharpness' and the 'Blazing Light' he had learned before were only witchcraft at the apprentice level.

Therefore, even with Ryan's current mental power of 39 points, it was not easy to learn this Metal Transfiguration.

Since he had planned to exchange for Metal Transfiguration before, Ryan prepared a lot of iron ingots, copper ingots and other metal ingots in the corner of the room in advance.

After spending a lot of time memorizing the structure of the witchcraft model, Ryan walked to the corner, picked up a heavy iron ingot, and began to try.

For Ryan, he has a system. As long as he succeeds once, it means that it will be permanently engraved on the professional panel.

So, even if this witchcraft is very difficult, Ryan is still confident that he can master it in a short time.

After spending more than an hour and failing dozens of times in a row, Ryan, with fine beads of sweat on his forehead, finally succeeded!

With the performance of metal deformation.

I saw that the rectangular iron ingot held in Ryan's right hand began to deform at a very fast speed!

After a few seconds, it turned into the shape of a dagger.

Ryan estimated that it took about three seconds.

Surprised, Ryan frowned and immediately thought of something.

I saw him carefully look at the blade of the dagger for a few times, and tested the sharpness with his fingers, with a thoughtful look on his face.

After a while, Ryan chanted the spell again and cast the metal deformation spell.

Soon, the dagger changed rapidly again, this time, it turned into a delicate small iron hammer.

From the appearance, it looks very much like the blacksmith hammer used by ordinary blacksmiths.

However, the blacksmith hammer used by ordinary blacksmiths is usually only made of iron, while this small iron hammer, including the hammer head, is made of iron.

After waving the small iron hammer in his hand a few times, Ryan showed satisfaction.

Putting the small iron hammer aside, Ryan crossed his arms and paced back and forth in the room, thinking.

"The blade of the dagger is a bit soft, because the dagger formed by metal deformation has not been quenched and hardened."

"If this is used in combat, the destructive power of the sharp weapon will be significantly reduced."

"The hammer is much better, and the impact is not that great."

Ryan recalled that basically, whether it is a sharp weapon made of bronze, wrought iron or steel, it needs quenching to enhance the hardness and sharpness of the blade.

"In this case, I need to find a special metal or alloy to match this metal deformation spell to achieve the best effect in terms of power."

"No!"

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed through Ryan's mind.

He performed the metal deformation spell again and changed the small hammer in his hand back to the form of a dagger.

Then, Ryan performed another metal-based witchcraft, the sharp spell.

With the successful performance of the sharp spell, the surface of the dagger in Ryan's hand suddenly appeared a dazzling, water-like silver light.

Ryan picked up an iron ingot with his left hand and cut the iron ingot with the dagger in his right hand.

Under the effect of the sharp spell, this process was not difficult.

This immediately made Ryan look happy.

"If you use the sharpness technique, the metal material may not be very high. Hardened gold ingots or blood-marked steel are enough."

"I don't need to look for rare or scarce metals."

"Huh?"

"Wait, the sharpness technique I just used seems to be much better than before." In an instant, Ryan found a problem.

He could clearly feel this change, the power increased by at least 10% or 20%!

"That's not right, the sharpness technique is still level 1 (90/100), and the level has not increased." Ryan looked at the wizard apprentice (supernormal) career panel.

"Could it be because of the increase in my mental power?"

"That's not right!"

"My mental power has reached 39 points for a long time."

Ryan frowned, turned the system to the attribute panel in confusion, and checked it item by item.

When he saw the talent 'Intermediate Steel Body', Ryan narrowed his eyes and suddenly thought of something!

"Could it be that the talent point upgraded the 'primary steel body'?" Ryan muttered to himself.

He remembered it very clearly.

At that time, when the 'primary steel body' was upgraded to the 'intermediate steel body', a silver-gray metallic halo lit up on his body surface.

This halo was very similar to the halo when performing the sharp spell, flowing on his body surface like mercury, and then the halo converged and could not be seen.

"But this is impossible. I have never heard of a person's elemental affinity changing."

Ryan was still very sure of this.

He and Naya Usman of the Warlock Family once talked about this issue.

In addition, there are also ancient books, and it is almost unheard of that a person's elemental affinity will change.

"But if it is true as I guessed, improving the talent of steel body will increase my metal affinity." Renn couldn't help but feel excited in his heart.

That means that metal witchcraft is more suitable as your own innate witchcraft!

"I remember that Naya tested herself once. At that time, the fire element affinity was 71 and the metal element affinity was 72. They are both above average affinities."

"No, I have to go to the training hall immediately! There is a test crystal there."

At this time, Ren also noticed that the system prompt also appeared:

[You have learned the art of metal transformation, and your related understanding has improved! 】

[You have learned a new skill - Metal Transformation]

[Your skill Metal Transformation has been improved, and your experience value +1]

However, Renn was thinking about the elemental affinity at this time and did not take a closer look. Instead, he left the room and walked quickly towards the training building.

When Ren entered the training hall on the first floor, he saw not far ahead. The person responsible for guiding was still the greeting girl he saw last time.

When the welcoming girl saw Ren coming in, her eyes immediately lit up, she took the initiative to step forward and asked enthusiastically:

"Hello, Master Ren, how can I help you?"

"Hello. This time, I want to conduct an elemental affinity test."

"Ah?" The girl's beautiful eyes suddenly widened.

Is it possible that this extremely powerful Lord Ren is planning to develop into a wizard?

It's not that there are very few people in the sword wielding branch who take both the knight and wizard paths.

On the contrary, this situation is not uncommon.

It's just that it's rare to see someone like Renn, who has super talents as a knight and also practices witchcraft!

"What's wrong?"

"No, it's nothing. Lord Ren, the elemental affinity test is on the third floor. I'll take you up." The welcoming girl reacted immediately and said with a smile.

"Okay." Renn followed the welcoming girl along the stairs and circled up the wall.

"By the way, where is this on the second floor?" Ren asked casually.

The last time he came, he mainly visited the torrent room and advanced torrent room on the first floor, but he didn't really know what was on the second floor.

"Sir, the rooms on the second floor are mainly where some instructors use small class teaching to guide the sword-wielding adults to master different types of extraordinary combat skills. In addition, there are massage rooms and attack power testing rooms on the second floor."

"And a massage room?" Renn couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"Yes, my lord."

"Well, Mr. Renn, actually, my massage techniques are also good." Seeing Renn's expression, the welcoming girl thought Renn was interested in massage. Her pretty face turned red and she recommended herself.

"Well next time, something happened this time." Renn didn't think much about it.

This time, he was preoccupied with testing the elemental affinity and naturally had no intention of massaging.

"Okay, sir." This made the welcoming girl feel a little discouraged. However, when she thought that Mr. Ren did not refuse, the girl's mood suddenly improved.

"By the way, what is the attack power testing room you just mentioned?" Ren asked again.

"Oh, that's where the sword-wielding adults test the power of their extraordinary combat skills. There is also a testing room for witchcraft power on the third floor," the girl said quickly.

That's it, Ren nodded.

He had a rough idea of ​​the layout of the entire training building.

The second floor is mainly for sword wielders of the knight path.

Such as small class teaching.

Different instructors are responsible for teaching different extraordinary combat skills.

not bad.

Renn has already thought about it. If he wants to improve Locken's ax and shield combat skills next time, he can try it. It should save some skill points.

As for the third floor, it should be prepared for sword holders of the wizard path.

Soon, Ren followed the welcoming girl to the third floor.

"Sir, this is the room where elemental affinity is tested. There will be someone there to receive you, so I will send you here." The girl said with a smile.

"OK, thanks."

Ren saw that the door of this room was wide open, and he could see that there were several small rooms inside, and there seemed to be no one there.

Too.

Everyone's elemental affinity is innate. If there is no influence from the supreme power such as gods, it will not change throughout a lifetime, so there is no need to test it frequently.

As Ren entered the room, a girl quickly came up to him and asked in a clear voice: "Sir, how can I help you?"

"I'm going to do some elemental affinity testing."

"Okay, sir, according to regulations, this service requires you to charge 5 merit points. Do you think that's okay?"

"Okay." Renn nodded.

The girl took Ren to another compartment inside.

As soon as he entered, what caught Ren's eyes was a prismatic crystal that was much taller than the crystal of the Usman family. It was two meters high and the cross section was also an equilateral triangle.

The room is surrounded by white walls, and there are no lighting such as wall lamps installed. This is because the paint on the wall surface emits a faint white light.

"Sir, the method of using this test crystal is very simple, as long as you hold it, concentrate, and then mobilize the energy particles as much as possible." The girl made a simple gesture and explained on the side.

"Yeah." Renn nodded.

Without any hesitation, Ren began to hold the crystal prism that was about the same height as him with both hands, closed his eyes, and concentrated.

As Ryan's spiritual power was injected, the prismatic crystal soon emitted a bright white light. At the same time, the originally transparent prism began to surge with colorful light.

Soon, the light gradually stabilized.

Ryan opened his eyes and looked.

There was a silver mist on the top of the prismatic crystal, and red mist in the middle. The length of the silver mist was obviously slightly longer than the length of the red mist.

The bottom of the crystal was some mixed colors, which can be ignored.

"Hey, sir, you actually have an extremely rare affinity for metal elements! And it has reached a superior level." The girl was surprised and said in amazement.

Hmm?

Superior?

Ryan's heart was shocked!

Sure enough, his affinity for metal elements has changed.

Before Ryan asked, the girl took the initiative to report the data:

"Sir, your affinity for metal elements is 84.2, which is top-grade and rare. The second is the affinity for fire elements, 71.8, which is above average and also very good."

Metal element affinity 84.2!

Ryan remembered it very clearly.

When Naya tested him before, the affinity for metal elements was only 72, but now it has reached 84.2. No wonder the power of witchcraft has increased a lot!

The higher the affinity of a certain element, the stronger the power of witchcraft under the same conditions.

In other words, if Ryan casts metal witchcraft now, the power will be much stronger than before.

The key to the problem is that he should still be able to continue to obtain talent points and improve his talent "steel body" in the future.

This means that his affinity for metal elements may reach a higher level, which makes the power of Ryan's metal witchcraft increase significantly!

You must know that the improvement of the level of witchcraft control only increases the speed of casting, not the power of witchcraft.

If you want to increase the power of witchcraft, the easiest way is to increase your mental power.

But the problem is that the improvement of mental power requires months of meditation practice.

In addition, most wizards of the same level, such as first-level wizards, have little difference in mental power, so the magic power that can be improved by elemental affinity is particularly precious.

So now, Ryan has a happy trouble in front of him!

A trouble that no one else will have.

He originally planned to learn the fire system, and the first-level witchcraft "Resist Fire Ring" with atomization mixture to be promoted to a formal wizard.

But now, it is a pity not to take the metal system.

"Sir?" The girl saw the young swordsman with rare talent in front of her stunned in place, and couldn't help but remind him softly.

"Oh, nothing."

"Sir, do you need other tests? For example, the total amount of mental power, witchcraft model comprehension, etc." The girl asked proactively.

"No, thank you."

Ryan's mind is now focused on the choice of witchcraft path.

These, when you want to test them next time, you can come anytime.

"Sir, regarding the study of metal witchcraft, there is no instructor in the branch who specifically teaches related teaching, but there are two instructors who teach fire witchcraft."

"Next time!" Ryan waved his hand and left the third floor.

Along the way, Ryan was still thinking!

"The problem is that if you choose the metal system, there are too few witchcraft."

"Of course, there may be some metal witchcraft in some wizard schools. For example, the Bixiu Construction School that provides this metal transformation should definitely have more than one metal transformation!"

"But, this needs to be confirmed again."

While thinking, Ryan quickly turned and went to the library of the Sword Bearer Branch.

In the library.

"Hello, sir, may I help you?" A beautiful young girl staff saw Ryan coming forward, stood up and bowed.

"Help me look up information about metal witchcraft." Ryan said, and took the initiative to hand over his golden badge to the other party.

"Okay, sir! Please wait." The girl took the badge respectfully with both hands and began to search quickly.

"I found it, sir. There are eleven ancient books related to metal magic, namely "Introduction to Ancient Metal Magic", "Application of Metal Magic in Construction", and "Introduction to Ancient Metal Magic (Steel Barrier)."

"Borrow all eleven books."

"Hmm?" The girl looked at Ryan with her big eyes.

Eleven books? I can finish them!

"Any questions?"

"No problem, sir, the borrowing price is a total of 110 merit points."

"Swish."

Soon, Ryan returned to the room with a pile of heavy rubbings and immediately read them eagerly.

Ryan used a search-based fast reading method.

Two hours later, he quickly figured out a few questions.

First, the book "Application of Metal Magic in Equipment Manufacturing" wrote that the Empire had first-level metal magic such as "Mercury Sword", "Steel Ball Crushing", and second-level metal magic "Spike Torrent", etc.

It is just that due to the special application of metal magic in equipment manufacturing, it is strictly controlled by the empire.

Simply put, if Ryan wants to obtain metal magic from official channels, he must continue to improve his status or authority.

In addition, some wizard schools also have some metal magic.

For example, it is recorded in "The Application of Metal Magic in Construction" that there is a second-level metal magic "Construction Guard" in the Bixiu Construction School.

This school is a school that specializes in the study of metal puppets and war colossi, and the number of personnel in the entire school is very small.

After all, if you don't have affinity with metal elements, you can't do it in this field.

At the same time, many ancient books record that "Metal Transfiguration" is a very important magic in the metal system, and it has different degrees of bonuses for other metal magics.

Such statements.

"It seems that it is not impossible to use metal magic as a natural magic!"

The more he thought about it, the more feasible it seemed to Ryan!

At this time, Ryan suddenly remembered that he hadn't checked the previous system prompts.

Immediately, he flipped through it.

I saw a brand new icon at the top of the icon below the wizard apprentice (supernatural) panel.

The pattern on the icon is a twisted and deformed metal column, with a palm pattern on the side, and short arcs between the two.

These short arcs form a circle, which seems to symbolize that the palm is facing the metal column, releasing some mysterious fluctuations, causing the metal column to twist and deform.

At the same time, there is a line of small words below the icon:

Metal Transfiguration lv1 (1/100)

Metal Transfiguration lv1 effect: consume a certain amount of mental power, use a specific witchcraft model to attract the surrounding metal energy particles, and change the shape of the metal in the host's hand.

(Note: Metal Transfiguration is a continuous guided witchcraft. The speed of deformation is proportional to the level of control and mental power, and inversely proportional to the total amount of deformed metal, metal type, etc.)

Hmm?

Ryan read the text in the annotation several times.

He had expected that the speed of deformation is proportional to the level of control.

There is nothing special about the fact that it is proportional to mental power. The several apprentice-level witchcraft he mastered before were all proportional to mental power.

However.

"The type of metal is inversely proportional to the total amount of deformed metal, which is a bit annoying." Ryan muttered to himself.

This point was overlooked in his test just now!

Soon, he picked up the two iron ingots he had prepared and tested the metal deformation again.

Sure enough, the time consumed for the transformation into a hammer increased from about three seconds to about four seconds due to the increase in the number of iron ingots.

This immediately made Ryan frown!

After thinking about it, Ryan tested the deformation of several iron ingots, which were about the weight of a two-handed warhammer.

As a result, it took a full ten seconds to transform more than ten iron ingots into the original pig-headed hammer!

This.

The situation in front of him suddenly made Ryan's face look a little ugly.

Although it is now at level 1, it can be improved later.

But even if each level is improved, the casting time can be reduced by 20%.

"Then lv2 is about eight seconds"

"lv3 is more than six seconds, lv4 is more than five seconds, and lv5 is four seconds"

".lv8 is two seconds"

Ryan did some mental calculations.

He found that even lv10 would take about one and a half seconds.

It looks fast, but the problem is that it is still a bit different from what Ryan expected!

Before, Ryan's idea was that in battle, weapons would instantly transform, such as a big sword suddenly turning into a sickle, and the enemy would be caught off guard and hit instantly!

Or, the warhammer in his hand would instantly turn into a tower shield to resist the enemy's sudden attack, etc.

The battle between the knights is not calculated in seconds, but in 0.1 seconds, or even shorter.

This means that Ryan's addition to lv10 is also an order of magnitude off

"No!"

"There is also a metal type!"

Ryan's mind trembled!

He found a bigger problem!

Immediately, he walked quickly to the corner of the room and picked up a handle-shaped hardened fine gold fragment, which was the handle of his broken pig-head hammer.

A few seconds later.

Ryan's face was extremely ugly!

Because he had just tested it, and the hardened fine gold of the same weight was much more difficult than the iron ingot!

If he wanted to change the hardened fine gold ingot into the original pig-head hammer, it would take almost twenty seconds!

This is simply.

In other words, his previous idea of ​​instant transformation in battle is almost impossible to achieve!

Unless, metal deformation becomes a natural witchcraft!

The mental power consumption is greatly reduced, and at the same time, the casting speed is greatly improved!

But how is this possible!

Metal deformation is not a defensive witchcraft!

After thinking about it, Ryan took a deep breath and adjusted his mood.

He planned to put metal deformation aside for the time being.

At this time, Ryan saw the wooden box containing the atomized mixture on the table.

Opening the wooden box casually, a bottle of potion emitting azure blue mixed with golden starlight appeared in front of Ryan.

Seeing such a beautiful atomized potion, Ryan couldn't help but pick it up and look at it carefully.

At this time, the system prompt suddenly appeared:

[Ding! Detected that the host has obtained the atomized potion, triggering the job change - Wizard (Legend)! ]

[The prerequisites for promotion to Wizard (Legend) are: 1. Wizard qualifications; 2. Spirit 30 points or more; 3. Basic meditation will rune (24/24); 4. Master any one first-level witchcraft; 5. Atomized potion. The current conditions are met, yes/no to change to Wizard (Legend)! ]

[Note: After switching to Wizard (Legendary), the Wizard Apprentice (Extraordinary) career panel will be covered. 】

"I haven't learned to 'resist the ring of fire' yet, why?" Renn asked doubtfully.

In an instant, Renn froze on the spot!

He figured it out!

At that time, he triggered the prerequisites for promotion to the Flame Walker (Legendary). He still remembered the fourth item: mastering the first-level fire witchcraft 'Fire Body Protection'.

In the systematic presentation, from beginning to end, there is no defense against the idea of ​​witchcraft!

Where does this statement come from?

Ren thought about it carefully again.

This is what Naya Usman, a descendant of the Warlock family, said to him at that time:

"Wizards found that this choice of solidified witchcraft model is the best for defensive first-level witchcraft. In ancient times, many wizards chose attack-oriented witchcraft. But later it was discovered that when faced with assassins or some powerful When a monster with stealth ability makes a sneak attack."

"I took it for granted before!"

"It turns out that metal transformation can become a natural witchcraft!"

"I have the talent 'Intermediate Steel Body', and my defensive power is quite strong. If my talent can continue to improve in the future, it should not be weaker than the first-level defense towards witchcraft."

"correct!"

"Also! Isn't the metal transformation technique, transforming into a shield or armor, also equivalent to defensive witchcraft?"

Suddenly, Ren's eyes lit up!