Millennium Witch.

Chapter 28 - New Technique

Perhaps because she had too many beautiful memories from her journey in the dream world, Rosalyn, after realizing that she would never see her two friends, Hans and Marie, returned to reality and fell into a long period of emo.

She lost interest in going on adventures. Apart from studying rune knowledge diligently every day, she spent most of her time sitting in a chair in the manor, then raising her face and staring blankly at the towering ruins of the Black Tower next to her.

Yvette didn't offer much comfort, as it was a normal emotional reaction. However, she would sometimes accompany Rosalind to the dilapidated dome atop the Black Tower, letting her see the post-apocalyptic city of Ish and experience the unique atmosphere of destruction followed by rebirth.

And so, four months passed.

As Ish Island transitioned from late summer to early winter, Yvette finally gained a basic understanding of "element decay and replenishment technology" and began repairing the scrambled element capacitors, energy storage plates, and other junk she had collected.

The repair process was quite lengthy, mainly because the technology involved so many intricacies. A slight mistake could lead to a failure during the repair process, rendering the battery unusable. After four or five large energy storage panels were destroyed, one finally completed its elemental replenishment, restoring it to its original form—a full 200 points of magic power, almost equivalent to a third of Yvette's, which it had salvaged from under a magical vehicle.

In this way, her initial ambitions were finally realized.

Yes!

From now on, she can finally use the electric grid to electrocute all those vegetable thieves!
Rosalyn was quite resistant to this. She felt that it was fine to surround the manor, as a way to defend against the aberrations, but electrifying the vegetable garden would be too harmful to the small animals, which she couldn't bear to do.

But she couldn't disobey her master's orders. For some time afterward, whenever she saw the charred corpses of squirrels, wildcats, or certain birds near the vegetable garden, she could only sadly bury them and stick a wooden stake in them to make cenotaphs. Over time, cenotaphs appeared in every corner of the manor, making it look like a cemetery, which Yvette found quite unsightly.

Of course, for Rosalyn, there are many advantages to the teacher mastering the element completion technique.

For example, the most direct benefit is that the manor no longer experiences frequent power outages; at night, streetlights can be lit inside the manor and even on the streets of the safe zone outside the manor; and in winter, there are even heaters available, so people no longer have to wear thick clothes and use magic to warm themselves by the fire from time to time, as they used to.

If the dream hadn't ended so quickly, leaving no time to save up for other professional documents, Rosalyn would have suspected that her teacher could even manually repair some high-tech magical mechs and mechanical puppets, and single-handedly reproduce the pinnacle technology of the Origin Civilization.

Yes, she never doubted that her teacher was a genius.

……

Another year of cold weather arrived, and one morning around January or early February, a rare and intense blizzard struck Ish Island. The fierce winds whipped up thousands of snowflakes, painting the world a chaotic, leaden white.

But for the master and apprentice, who could use the heater for extended periods without worrying about power outages, this snowstorm no longer had the same destructive power as before.

Yvette sat serenely by the floor-to-ceiling window in the first-floor living room, enveloped in the warmth of the heater. Steam rose from her bone china teacup. Gazing at the howling wind and snow outside, a scene of tumultuous change, she sipped her tea with a relaxed and contented air.

A while later, when Rosalyn came downstairs and started preparing lunch for her teacher on time, Yvette suddenly called her over and transmitted three new spells into her magic terminal.

"Teacher, these are..."

“Three new medium-sized spells, which haven’t been optimized yet, but the structure is finalized. Your ring still has plenty of new storage space, so record them in first and start mastering them early.” Yvette took a sip of tea, her gaze still fixed on the swirling snow outside the window.

These are three new spells she designed after visiting the Origin Civilization, combining new ideas and inspirations discovered online. Each spell has a power level of around 5, making them truly medium-sized spells. Of course, she can also design spells with higher power levels, such as 10, or even those exceeding one million power levels.

But it's pointless, because it's unusable.

This brings us to another crucial module of the magic terminal: the "Spellpoint Cache".

This is a special module connected to the "element chip" inside the terminal, much like the video memory of a graphics card, which directly locks the maximum spell size that a terminal can cast.

The ring Rosalyn is currently using is the complete "Sky Ring Y2" that she commissioned professionals to repair in her dream. It is a high-end magic ring with a full health pool of 120 million, but the rune point cache only gives her 6.

Therefore, procedures exceeding 6 units are not worth considering at all.

Even the new high-end ring "Black Tower S3" that Yvette bought in her dream earlier than "Elemental Decay Completion Technology" cost her 3 credits, but only gave her 6 rune points cache and 150 million storage space—the 3 level is already the highest level among civilian terminals—which shows how strict the technological blockade is in the industry chain.

This is normal, though. If compliant magic terminals on the market can easily cast large-scale spells with a power of 10 or more, what about military-grade equipment? How would it be classified and sold at a high price?
This is why the performance rating of a spell is so important when trading welding torches, because often gangsters don't have the resources to cast large spells and can only compete on the quality of small to medium-sized spells.

……

Because she prioritized cooking for her teacher, Rosalyn didn't sit down at the table until after lunch, after washing the dishes and drying her hands with a cloth. With excitement, she began to look up the three new techniques her teacher had given her.

In terms of user experience, the four spells of "ice, fire, wind, and thunder," which have been refined through countless trials and are now almost flawless, are quite useful and can be applied to the vast majority of combat scenarios.

Even so, the three newly developed medium-sized techniques still made Rosalyn's gaze sharpen, and she felt extremely excited.

First, the first new technique – the regeneration pump!

In short, it's a powerful self-healing technique. Yvette had previously developed a similar "Vitality Technique," and this is an upgrade to it. In addition to enhanced self-healing, it also conjures a regenerating heart outside the body, absorbing the blood flowing from the wound and returning it to the body, thus preventing various forms of weakness caused by excessive blood loss.

Next up is the second new technique—Crimson Armor!
This is a protective spell that increases the body's defenses. After use, a large number of dark red runes will appear on the surface of the skin, and the body's resistance will be greatly increased. It will have extremely high resistance to both simple physical damage and special damage from high or low temperatures, effectively preventing the aberrant creature from attacking and scratching the skin, thus avoiding dying without knowing why.

Finally, the third new technique – muscle decompression!
Like the Crimson Armor, this is a self-enhancing spell, but it leans towards offensive capabilities. After use, it significantly increases the user's strength, stamina, and even reaction speed. When combined with the Crimson Armor, it transforms the user into a melee mage, capable of tearing low-level aberrations apart on the spot.

However, the downside is that both Muscle Unlimited and Crimson Armor cost 20 mana each and last for 10 minutes. For Rosalind, whose mana has just reached 45, once she chooses this melee mage combination, the traditional four major spells of ice, fire, wind, and lightning are almost unusable.

Therefore, she could only hope that her teacher would complete the optimization of the mana cost ratio of these three spells as soon as possible, and put more effort into meditation.

Once she has enough magic power in the future, she can activate the Crimson Armor and Muscle Limit Break while unleashing the four top-tier spells of ice, fire, wind, and thunder. Wouldn't she be able to roam freely on the island? At that time, she can also explore more dangerous areas on the island with her teacher.

(End of this chapter)