"Ow… ah… what the… fuck…"
"Alright, that's on me. I overestimated your jumping ability…" Listening to George's continuous wailing, Kasenhis calmly, though with trembling hands, took out a splash healing potion and gave the unlucky guy a full-on healing shower.
Phew~ At the same time, he secretly let out a dark sigh of relief.
Good thing this was a private session. If this had been a proper class, pulling something like this would've been a full-blown teaching accident.
The kind that could scare people to death and cost him his job.
George, now fully healed, looked at his perfectly fine legs, then at his beggar-style cropped pants and shoes, and somewhat helplessly cast a Mending Charm.
"Alright, so what I just demonstrated was… uh… an incorrect example. You'd better just use scaffolding properly," Kasenhis said absentmindedly as he set up scaffolding all around the base of the twins' Infusion Altar, allowing them to climb up and down freely.
And safely build the altar…
Well… not exactly safe, but… whatever.
Just as they placed the final Runic Matrix at the center of the altar and were about to take out their wands to transform it—like turning a crafting table into an Arcane Workbench...
"Hey! Wait, wait, wait! I fully approve of your ability to draw parallels and directly use your wand to transform it, but I am very unhappy that you didn't properly read the blueprint," Kasenhis stopped them.
The Weasley twins looked completely confused. They glanced at the blueprint, then at what they had built. "It's correct, Professor…"
"Wait, Professor…"
"You don't mean the Runic Matrix and the base…"
"But what if they fall down?" the Weasley twins asked one after another.
"What's the problem? Just dig it out boldly." Kasenhis waved his hand and tossed them two pickaxes.
The two exchanged a glance. Their execution was absurdly decisive—without even a moment of hesitation, they swung their pickaxes and mined out the supporting blocks beneath the Runic Matrix.
Then, if their dropped jaws were connected and sliced into thin strips, they could probably wrap around Hogwarts once.
"What the hell is this?" George stared blankly at the one-cubic-meter block floating in midair.
Right after that, still unwilling to believe it, he waved his hand beneath the Runic Matrix.
"There's not even a trace of magical fluctuation… Professor? How is this even possible?" Fred asked, equally dumbfounded.
"Mm-hm… alchemy. You know, that thing," Kasenhis shrugged.
"Now you can use your wands to continue the transformation."
The twins immediately raised their wands toward the Runic Matrix. Almost instantly, the originally pitch-black blocks began to melt like wax, glowing as they slowly changed shape, eventually forming a crude yet standard Infusion Altar.
No—two of them.
"Very good. You did an excellent job. Now we can make your first infused item—the Ring of Ascension. How about it?"
Now that Kasenhis had already secured a very "beautiful" shop for the Weasley twins in advance, he was no longer in a hurry to have them drop out and rush off to make money.
If they learned fast enough, they could even work as Infusion Artificers right in school. One infusion for a hundred Galleons—before long, they'd earn enough to buy the shop outright.
Wasn't that far more respectable than dropping out and becoming middlemen outside the school?
And the prank items made with an Infusion Altar would be far more powerful and refined.
A perfect win-win.
He had already made up his mind. As long as the Weasley twins didn't bring up dropping out themselves, he would just play dumb and pretend to forget about it.
In any case, that shop would end up belonging to them sooner or later. It was just a matter of time.
"The Ring of Ascension?" The twins raised their eyebrows. "What does it do? How do we make it?"
"Take out your notebooks and write down this recipe!" Kasenhis stood up from the sofa and began, "A normal ring, a feather—quill works too—and a fragment of a Wind Magic Crystal."
"Oh, right. After this class, remind me to give you some Magic Crystal seeds. Plant them yourselves so you won't have to suffer like I did back then, running all over the world searching for crystals." Kasenhis had basically been rained on himself, so now he was holding up an umbrella for others.
As for the twins, they didn't care much about that. To them, roaming the world in search of crystals was far more interesting than staying in a lab growing them.
"Professor, let's just start the lesson! We'll handle the crystals ourselves!"
"Let's treat it as an adventure!"
The Weasley twins chimed in together.
"Alright. Do you have any rings?" Kasenhis asked.
"Uh… let me think… we really don't have any jewelry. Rings, even less so," Fred shook his head.
"I see. Then try these—do they fit?" Kasenhis went behind his desk, took out two rings he had casually made before, and tossed them to the twins.
They caught them deftly, slipped them onto their fingers, and gave them a shake. Not bad.
"Then that's settled." Kasenhis nodded. "Place the rings on the stone pedestal beneath the Runic Matrix, then put the Wind Magic Crystal fragment and the feather on the other pedestals."
The twins followed his instructions.
Then they looked at Kasenhis rather blankly. They had seen bits and pieces of other processes before, but this was their first time using an Infusion Altar.
"Next, of course, use your wands. Control the Wind essentia in your bodies and channel it into the Runic Matrix," Kasenhis said.
After explaining that, he confidently returned to the sofa and sat down.
Infusing a Ring of Ascension on the altar could be considered the most basic and safest type of infusion.
It didn't even require supervision—it should proceed smoothly on its own.
And just as Kasenhis was thinking that, a terrifying explosion rang out, blasting through his ears.
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Sorry for not posting for three days. My dog died bro... May his soul rest in peace.
I already knew his time was near, but it still took me three days to come back to my senses. I'll start uploading every day from tomorrow
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