After the carving knife was injected with magic, the operation became more difficult. If too much magic power was injected carelessly, or the force was slightly too strong, it needed to be burned again.
Even though Adrian was in the thinking acceleration mode of the experience card, it was only after two failures that he successfully burned the rune on yew for the third time.
After finishing the carving, Adrian tried to inject magic into it. The rune immediately reacted, and faint black smoke came out.
"Is this a success?" Adrian turned his head, looked at Irene, and asked.
Irene nodded automatically, staring blankly at the rune on the yew. Too fast!
She remembered burning a complete rune on yew for the first time and successfully activating it. How long had that taken her?
Two months... three months?
She'd thought she had good talent at first and had even been proud about it.
Thinking of this, Irene felt a little discouraged. But due to her dignity as a teacher, she still put on an expressionless face.
"Burning runes is only the most basic work. The really difficult thing to learn is arranging the runes."
Adrian nodded seriously, preparing to continue investing grade points and start the hard study.
A few days passed in a flash, and Irene, who'd been explaining rune arrangements to Adrian, had begun to doubt reality.
Because after she'd briefly explained the meaning of the runes and several arrangements, Adrian had already started demanding other content instead of repeating and reviewing lessons.
"Are you sure you understand?" Irene didn't believe it.
"Of course. If you want to make a corrosive magical item, you can use the arrangement formula of 1-1-3-6-7. Rune number one represents corrosion and is the core of the formula. Number three is used to conduct magic. Number six controls whether magical items are activated or not, and the last rune, number seven, is a protective shell to prevent the power of magic from hurting yourself."
Adrian said seriously, then bowed his head and burned onto a well-made ring. A few minutes later, a brand new magical item was produced.
[Ding!]
[You have made a new magical item, please name it!]
'Ring of Corrosion.' Adrian thought silently, then checked the item's information.
[Magical Item: Ring of Corrosion]
[Magic Power: Low]
[Effect: After injecting magic, instantly casts a corrosive dark magic]
[Description: The only advantage of this particular magical item, crafted by a novice using the most common materials, is that its runes are incredibly beautiful. Don't expect it to be of much help in combat.]
Looking at the item description in the system display, Adrian's mouth twitched. At any rate, this was the first real magical item he'd made. Couldn't the system give a better comment?
Adrian tried activating the ring and set the workbench as the target. A black light flashed, and the corner of the workbench slowly aged and decayed.
The effect wasn't bad, but the corrosion speed was too slow. No wonder its role was limited in battle. Wizards' bodies were protected by magic power, so this degree of corrosive magic was indeed quite weak.
Adrian sighed and tossed the ring aside, planning to wait until he could make a better one.
"Mom... so can we start learning some more difficult formulas?" Adrian said, unable to wait.
"The book is for you. You can study it on your own." Irene tossed a copy of Advanced Runes onto the table, her face expressionless. She felt she needed to be alone.
She thought about what she'd been planning to teach these days.
It seemed she was going to have Adrian burn one or two basic runes on boards?
Now Adrian had almost learned the results of her painstaking research over the years. She had to sort out things that were genuinely advanced, otherwise she didn't know how to teach him.
After Irene left the work area with a strange expression, Adrian also studied carefully and opened the new Advanced Runes. For a while, all kinds of strange ideas came to mind. He even considered whether he could crack some simple rune sequences by himself.
Just when he was preparing to act, Adrian suddenly felt his various ideas were forcibly interrupted. He was stunned for a moment.
"What did I want to do just now?"
[Ding!]
[The experience card mode has expired. Do you want to renew it?]
"No, get lost!" Adrian said with frustration.
The reason he'd been able to record the meaning and arrangement of various runes in his mind within a few days was completely because he'd used experience card mode for seven hours intermittently, which had cost him most of his grade points.
Of course, even this didn't mean his study these few days could compare to Irene's accumulated knowledge over the years.
After all, it took a lot of time and energy to analyze a runic formula, but learning an existing runic formula was much simpler.
In addition, Irene had taught him everything this time, without the slightest concealment about various techniques. If he couldn't learn quickly this way, then he'd have wasted so many grade points.
After exiting the accelerated learning state, Adrian picked up the carving knife again and practiced burning runes.
This time Adrian carved very slowly, and the runes were far from the previous standard. But Adrian wasn't surprised, this was something he'd expected.
What he could do in experience card mode didn't mean he could do it normally.
But anyway, the knowledge he'd acquired and the muscle memory still remained. All he had to do was strengthen it through lots of practice.
In the next period of time, Adrian was learning more advanced runic knowledge, and his daily rune burning practice never stopped.
His current grade points could only be improved by increasing spell levels. The growth was very slow, so regular effort was particularly important.
Occasionally, Adrian also discussed new rune arrangements with Irene.
He prepared to develop some defensive magical items based on the principle of the Shield Hats developed by the Weasley twins in the original story.
Since both George and Fred could do it through their own research, Adrian thought he and Irene could do it with some effort.
When he really started to act, Adrian realized how difficult it was to develop a new rune arrangement.
In addition to consuming time and energy, it also needed lots of support from Galleons.
Because runes must be burned on highly conductive magical materials to be activated, and unknown runic formulas were very risky. Destroying the items used to carry the runes was a good result. You could also accidentally hurt yourself, so they could only try cautiously.
Otherwise, the more than one hundred ancient runes on the stone plate wouldn't have detailed explanations for only one-third of them.