Wizard: You can become stronger by living life to the fullest.

Chapter 15: Ice Element

"call!"

Luo Xi breathed a sigh of relief. Although it seemed like only a moment had passed, more than fifty days had actually gone by. Adding the more than sixty days of meditation he had spent before, the accumulated time had shrunk by almost half.

"But at least we advanced."

He shook his head, and Rosie quickly turned her attention back to magic.

He opened the bookshelf, took out a magic book, and sat down at the table. It was time to study the spell.

This is a water-elemental magic book, but it doesn't describe the water element itself; rather, it discusses the advanced elements of the water element.

Ice element.

In nature, ice is simply a different form of water, and in the magical world, the two are two sides of the same coin.

However, transforming water into ice is much more difficult than the transformation magic in nature, as it involves changes in temperature and structure, requiring manipulation at the microscopic level of elements.

The seventh rune of will grants wizards the ability to control the elements at a microscopic level. For this reason, only apprentices who have condensed the seventh rune can master ice magic, and mastering ice magic is a characteristic of advanced apprentices.

The sound of pages turning rustled continuously.

Rosie had already read this magic book many times before, and now all that was left was to practice it. After quickly flipping through it once, he began to operate it.

He first raised his hand to gather water elements.

After three years of reflection, he is no longer the novice who just entered the magical world. His control ability is second to none among his peers, and he can use such basic elements with ease.

At this moment, it was just a short rune, but all that could be heard was a continuous rushing sound, and water elements from all directions quickly surged in and gathered into a ball in his palm.

"Next is to turn the water into ice."

Staring at the water element in his hand, Rosie began chanting incantations to adjust the element's structure and lower the temperature.

Wisps of white mist emerged from his palm, and it was clear that the activity of the water element was slowly decreasing. Snowflake-like crystals had even appeared in the clear, transparent water.

Luo Xi's face lit up with joy.

However, at that moment, there were two cracking sounds, and the snowflake-like crystals quickly collapsed. Then, with a splash, the water ball in my hand exploded and scattered in all directions.

Luo Xi frowned.

"Clatter!"

He snapped his fingers, and a gust of wind suddenly blew into the closed room, gathering the scattered water together and then blowing it out the window.

Wind Spell, a rudimentary wind-based spell.

In the past three years, he has learned sixteen apprentice-level spells, making him the apprentice with the most spells among his peers.

After cleaning, Rosie began her second attempt.

However, it failed again at the conversion stage, and the ice that had clearly begun to freeze collapsed into water.

"Strange, the temperature has dropped, but why won't it freeze?"

Luo Xi touched the water on the ground; it was clearly ice water at a very low temperature.

"Let's try again."

Rosie tried several more times, but all of them ended in failure.

Undeterred, he tried the system twice more, but the result was still the same.

Five days have passed, and you have not succeeded.

"It seems there's a crucial point I haven't figured out. I'll ask my advisor about it tomorrow."

In the realm of magic, you can't work in isolation. Many key points are hard to understand without guidance, and you'll remain stuck in those shackles without someone pointing them out.

Rosie had tried several times before, but some magical problems were impossible to solve on her own, no matter how much time she invested.

The next day, after class, Rosie stopped Ms. Catherine.

"Professor, I have a question I'd like to ask you."

As one of the top five students in the class, the witch Catherine had always treated Rosie well, and said very casually, "Really? Then come to my office."

Upon arriving at Catherine's office, Catherine made herself a cup of cocoa and also made one for Rosie.

"Would you like some cocoa?"

Luo Xi was about to say no, but seeing that she had already prepared the soup, she could only nod and say, "Thank you."

Holding the cocoa, Catherine sat down in a chair and said, "Go ahead and ask. What question is holding you back?"

Rosie took out the spellbook from yesterday and handed it over, saying, "Teacher, I tried to calculate the spells in this book using paper money yesterday, but I found that no matter how I calculated it, there was no stable structure between the transformation of water element into ice element. Why is that?"

Catherine picked up the book and glanced at it, then exclaimed in surprise, "A Preliminary Analysis of Ice Element Forms? This doesn't seem like something you should be reading, does it?"

Luo Xi said, "I was just curious, so I borrowed it from the library to take a look."

"I see."

Catherine nodded. She had guessed that Rosie might be hiding some of her strength, but she never expected that Rosie had already advanced to the advanced apprentice level, so she naturally had no doubts.

She asked, "Show me your calculations from yesterday."

Luo Xi took out a notebook and handed it over. It contained the steps he had recorded last night, following the procedures of the spellcasting process.

Simulating and deducing with pen and paper before constructing a model is a skill that every wizard has mastered; Rosie is simply using this skill now.

Catherine examined it carefully and exclaimed in surprise, "The deduction is truly meticulous. It has taken into account the trajectory of each element core, and the arrangement and combination of the elements during their operation are also very accurate."

"If it weren't for this minor error, I would have really thought you had completed the model construction. The Feynman formula won't work here, and here too."

The witch Catherine pointed out several errors.

Luo Xi was "well-informed".

What Catherine didn't know was that these few minor errors were actually intentionally left by Rosie. After all, this was just a magic deduction note, and it would be too strange if there were no errors at all.

"However, these are not the main reasons why your deduction cannot proceed."

Catherine continued, "The key is in controlling the heat."

Luo Xi was taken aback: "The cooking time?"

Catherine nodded and said, "Yes, the conversion of water element into ice element is a natural process. If you lower the temperature and keep it at a low temperature for a long time, it will naturally condense into ice."

"But what about you?"

"If you force it to condense just as it begins to solidify, bringing these semi-finished products together, the original elemental structure will be destroyed, the temperature will not be maintained, and it will naturally collapse."

Luo Xi suddenly realized, "So that's how it is."

The witch Catherine said, "Everything in the world has its own laws. Many things cannot be rushed. Just like stewing mushrooms, only mushroom soup simmered over low heat can be rich and fragrant."

"If you recklessly burn a large amount of firewood just to eat faster, all you'll end up with is a pile of burnt stuff."

Luo Xi humbly replied, "I have learned a great deal."

Catherine smiled and encouraged her, "Don't be discouraged. 90% of apprentices encounter this problem when they first learn elemental conversion."

"You've already achieved this level simply by performing deductions; you've surpassed most of them."

Luo Xi said, "It's mainly because you taught me so well, mentor."

Catherine pouted: "No need to flatter me. You little rascal, you're the most cunning of all the apprentices. You're incredibly clever in everything you do and say."

Luo Xi scratched his head sheepishly.

Catherine then asked, "Speaking of which, I also have a question for you. The internship is about to end; what are your plans for the future?"

(End of this chapter)