Mystery: A Spark

Although Arthur's cooking skills were quite good because he lived alone in his previous life, he naturally had to study them carefully since he was cooking for himself.

However, since his main cooking style is stir-frying, Arthur hasn't really explored simple grilling techniques like this.

The reason he was so keen on learning how to barbecue was because he found that sometimes the food from this other world tasted a little strange.

Although the food was actually not bad, it just didn't taste right.

How to put it? It's like Italians seeing pineapple pizza, or Chinese people seeing fruit dumplings.

Perhaps the food itself was actually okay, but eating it always felt gritty all over, like ants were crawling on my body.

Moreover, Arthur will soon be returning to Rune, which, as everyone knows, is based on the British Empire, a land where delicious fish heads can be transformed into stargazing wonders.

In the original story, Klein also started trying different ways of eating food from different places because he couldn't stand the monotonous food in Rune, and tried to broaden his diet.

Therefore, Arthur felt he had to take precautions, so he absolutely had to learn Danitz's simple and unpretentious barbecue technique.

Other cooking methods may be difficult to carry out due to a lack of cooking utensils, but barbecuing is very simple; all you need is a fire and seasonings.

As an extraordinary individual on the Hunter path, once Arthur advances to Sequence Seven, fire will certainly be indispensable.

Since seasonings can be carried around, it means that as long as he has this skill, he will always have a way to prepare food, no matter where he goes.

At least you don't have to force yourself to eat outrageous foods like stargazing or canned wolffish.

After a few days of learning, Arthur has made some progress in barbecuing; all that's left is to spend time figuring it out slowly.

That night, Arthur practiced casting the spell to create a rudimentary soulstone in the Trial Illusion, hoping to acquire this life-saving ability as soon as possible.

Tragically, all his attempts to seduce the demon guards failed.

Several days passed, and just as the Golden Dream was about to arrive at Toscate Island, Edwina suddenly sent someone to inform Arthur to go to the captain's cabin.

Upon entering the captain's cabin, Arthur saw Edwina sitting behind a desk, on which sat a metal cage containing several large, squeaking gray rats.

"What's going on here?" Arthur paused for a moment when he saw this scene before asking:

"Captain, you were looking for me?"

"Yes, sit down. I have good news for you. I've succeeded in my research on the ability to absorb life force," Edwina said with a light laugh, her brows revealing an undisguised sense of accomplishment.

"That's great," Arthur said, somewhat pleased.

This means that the warlock magic within Gul'dan's Skull can be converted, allowing Arthur to cast spells outside of the artifact.

Edwina didn't waste any words and immediately began to cast the skill, targeting the mice in the cage on her desk.

Soon, Edwina extracted a ball of green light from one of the fat rats.

She took out a dagger and made a cut on another gray rat, then pressed the green light onto the gray rat.

After the green light was extracted from the fat rat, it withered and died quickly.

The gray rat that had been slashed by Edwina began to heal its wound rapidly after being given this green light.

After doing all that, Edwina said:

"As you can see, this ability can extract the life force of one individual and then give it to another individual."

"Moreover, it is quite obvious that this ability has transcended the realm of secret arts and become a new system of magic, which I do not know what to call it."

“Warlock magic, that’s the name of this spell system,” Arthur said after watching Edwina cast the spell.

“Warlock…I see, it’s a good name,” Edwina said thoughtfully.

After she finished speaking, she began to teach Arthur the spell's casting principle, just as they had agreed at the beginning.

After comparison, Arthur discovered that the new spell Edwina had developed was actually no different from the original in its casting process.

The process involves first constructing a spell model, then channeling energy, and finally successfully casting the spell.

The process of constructing a spell model and channeling energy is essentially the same as the casting process in a game, which is an indispensable step when casting most spells.

The biggest difference between the new spells developed by Edwina and the originals lies in the fact that she used a completely new method for constructing spell models.

It is this new method of constructing spell models that enables this spell to be successfully cast in this world.

“As you’ve probably already noticed, I used a different method to construct the spell model, which is why the spell was successfully cast. If you want to learn, I can teach you,” Edwina said.

“I want to learn.” Arthur nodded without hesitation.

If he can learn it, it means he can convert the spells in Gul'dan's Skull himself in the future, without having to ask someone for help with every spell.

Once he returns to Rune, finding a secret arts mentor will be extremely difficult, so it's better to rely on himself.

“Well, in that case…” Edwina smiled and praised Arthur’s eagerness to learn.

Then she bent down, pulled out a large stack of books, at least half a person's height, from under the table, and placed them on the desk.

“I can write down the method for constructing this new spell model for you, but if you want to perform other spell conversions yourself, then you will need to learn all the knowledge in these books,” Edwina said casually, as if it were just a very simple matter.

"This... Captain, you're being too generous." Arthur swallowed hard as he looked at the huge stack of books in front of him.

Good heavens, he has basically never touched a textbook since graduating from university.

Now, suddenly making him study, and with such an outrageous stack of books at that, isn't this practically killing him?

Chapter 23 Edwina's Hesitant Words

If it were just one or two books on mysticism, that would be fine.

If Arthur put in the same effort he did in his senior year of high school, it wouldn't be impossible for him to learn these occult books.

But now, Arthur roughly counted the stack of books in front of him and found that there were actually seven in total, which made him a little nervous.

But he had no choice; he couldn't stop learning.

Although Edwina successfully converted the life-draining skill, if Arthur wanted to fully recreate the sorcerer's magic system in this world and make it a complete and extraordinary path, then this conversion work had to be done by Arthur himself.

Only he can use the Skull of Gul'dan, and he can also conduct continuous experiments within the Trial Realm, which is his greatest advantage over others.

Apart from him, anyone else would have needed to put in several times, or even dozens of times, more effort to complete this task than Arthur.

Since Edwina had already given Arthur the books needed to convert spells, all he could do was grit his teeth and learn them.

Arthur rubbed his face, sighed, and finally accepted this cruel reality.

He asked Edwina, "Captain, are all these books a gift for me?"

"Yes, these are all copies I created using the sketching technique. You can take a look."

"Don't feel embarrassed. Compared to how much you've helped me this time, these books are nothing," Edwina nodded and said softly.

After hearing her words, Arthur raised an eyebrow and asked:

"Help? Captain, did you gain something special from this?"

Edwina hesitated for a moment, and instead of answering Arthur directly, she asked a question:

Do you know about role-playing?

“I know.” Arthur suddenly realized why Edwina was so happy.

Sure enough, Edwina smiled slightly and said:

"I have been a cryptic instructor for some time now, and I have been playing that role all along."

"But before that, the effects of my role were not very obvious. However, little by little, it still yielded some results."

"But this time, after I successfully converted your life-draining skill, the arcane master potion in my body was completely digested."

Completely digested? Is that so outrageous? It's just a skill... Arthur thought with some doubt.

But then another thought popped into his head.

That is, the reason why the arcane master potion in Edwina's body was completely digested may not only be because she converted the life-draining skill, but also because she developed a universal method for converting the warlock magic in the Skull of Gul'dan.

Because of her efforts, a new system of magic will emerge in the world, which has a tremendous impact on mysticism.

If we look at it from this perspective, then it's not incomprehensible that Edwina completely digested the potion within her body.

"Congratulations, Captain! It seems you'll soon be an iceberg admiral on the high seas," Arthur congratulated with a smile.

“This is all thanks to your help. I’ll be going back to Lenburg next time to try and advance to the rank of Prophet.” Edwina’s eyes were filled with obvious joy.

She wasn't stupid, and at this moment she naturally understood that the premonition that led her to meet Arthur was mostly brought about by some other being.

And it's not hard to guess who that being is.

As for why her faith would be interested in Arthur, she didn't want to delve into that at the moment.

This involves matters of the true God. Since her Lord didn't give her any other guidance besides that premonition, it's best for Edwina to pretend she knows nothing.

Those who excel on the Reader's Path usually have a strong thirst for knowledge, because it is difficult to advance on this path without a thirst for knowledge, and she is no exception.

However, Edwina can still distinguish between seeking knowledge and courting death.

Since she had already gained the enormous benefit of fully digesting the potion in this matter, Edwina didn't want to get involved in the secrets behind it that had nothing to do with her.

Just pretend nothing happened. I just happened to save an innocent person who fell into the water, and everything else is none of my business... Edwina thought to herself.

“I hope you will be promoted smoothly, Captain. By the way, Captain, Danitz said he wants to disembark on Toscart Island, and I plan to go with him.” Taking this opportunity, Arthur brought up his idea of ​​disembarking.

"You're leaving?" Edwina was taken aback.

“Yes, Captain, I plan to return to Rune afterward,” Arthur replied.

“I see…” Edwina pondered for a moment, then took out a small iron box from her clothes, first dispelling the spiritual barrier on it, and then handed it to Arthur.

Arthur reached out and took it, and looking at the classic packaging, he immediately guessed what was inside.

"Captain, is something extraordinary contained inside?"

“Yes, but it’s a bit of a shame. It’s not the Provocateur trait you need right now, but an Arsonist trait,” Edwina replied.

The arsonist trait is pretty good too. Anyway, I already have the Provocateur potion recipe, and collecting the materials for the Sequence 8 recipe shouldn't be too difficult... Arthur thought to himself.

"Captain, I... I might not have enough money on me right now," he said hesitantly.

"This is for you. The digestion of Sequence 5 potions is much more difficult than you think, so you don't need to refuse. This is a thank-you gift I was planning to give you anyway, not to mention that you also gave me a new set of spell system knowledge," Edwina said nonchalantly.

Wow, what a generous offer! A Sequence 7 Extraordinary Trait would cost at least a thousand pounds, and he just gave it to me... Five pounds in commission fee is enough to take down a Sequence 6 Beckron Ambassador. How many Beckron Ambassadors would this Trait cost... Arthur's mind wandered.

He certainly wanted this special ability very much. Since Edwina had already put it this way, Arthur naturally didn't pretend to back down anymore and simply put it away.

"Thank you very much, Captain," he said sincerely.