Furan arrived at a recently cleared room in her home.
Using her Hand of Telekinesis, she moved several boxes of items inside and prepared to get to work.
She truly didn't dare to step out casually now, fearing she would be caught by those apprentices carrying Tracking Bugs. She wasn't afraid of the apprentices, but she feared being caught by the mentors.
Faced with the search by the Modification School, she hid as best as she could to avoid being discovered.
She had left almost no information behind when she killed Richter; even if there was any, it had likely been crushed to dust by those two from the Construction School.
So as long as she didn't go out and wasn't caught by those apprentices reacting to the Tracking Bugs, she would definitely not be found.
At the same time, she had a premonition that as long as she didn't go out, she wouldn't be caught by the Modification School.
When she used Astrology, she had seen a scene of herself creating a steam engine, and she was only just beginning to build it now.
If she were caught by the Modification School during the production process, she would surely be dead, and the image she saw would never come to pass.
In other words, the future she saw implicitly contained the information that she would definitely not be caught by the Modification School before she finished the steam engine.
And after making the steam engine, she was confident she could use it to complete the Appliance Enchantment Spell.
After that, if she went to Harbos from the Weapon Forging class to demonstrate this Spell, she would surely gain his protection.
From Furan's observations since transmigrating, the status of a School was extremely high and came with many privileges.
Since those Rank 1 and Rank 2 Mages were only members of a School, it seemed that founding a School required a higher Mage rank.
A School Master must be at least Rank 3, right?
By then, the Modification School would naturally no longer be a threat.
Of course, she could also go to the Sword Chant School to request protection, but she knew which was more important: a potential apprentice or an apprentice who could learn a Rank 1 Spell.
Harbos's strength was clearly greater than Burnett's; he was miles ahead just in terms of his equipment's decoration, not to mention the difference in how much they valued her.
So Furan planned not to leave her house until she finished the steam engine.
Furan opened all the boxes, revealing all the materials.
Taking a deep breath, she first used the Hand of Telekinesis to take out the orichalcum; she was going to use this stuff to make the piston first.
The materials she had obtained were all made into standard ingots, so she first used a Magic Craftsman technique—Spiritual Cutting.
The force and speed of the cutting depended on the strength of one's Spiritual Power, and Furan's Spiritual Power had long since surpassed that of ordinary apprentices due to the stacking of several professions.
So she quickly obtained a half-sized orichalcum ingot.
She put this piece into the small furnace she had bought, added coal, and began heating it.
Originally, she wanted to buy a Spell that released fire to do the heating, so she could practice a Spell while getting the job done—wouldn't that be wonderful?
But the monopoly of the Elemental School shattered her fantasies. How could they even hide a simple Ignition Spell?!
So Furan could only use the furnace to burn it.
After waiting for a while, Furan felt it was about ready, so she used the Hand of Telekinesis to lift the orichalcum into the air.
[You used Spiritual Power to keep the Hand of Telekinesis from dissipating while under attack, Hand of Telekinesis proficiency +3]
The orichalcum glowed with a scorching light. The moment the Hand of Telekinesis touched it, it was on the verge of vanishing from the high temperature, but under Furan's spiritual strength, the Hand of Telekinesis maintained its blurry shape.
She held the orichalcum at a relatively safe distance and began using Magic Craftsman techniques to shape the piece of orichalcum.
As if affected by an external force, the originally sharp edges of the orichalcum gradually became rounded. A circular shape slowly appeared on the narrow side and continued to expand.
Finally, a wide circular disc appeared before her eyes. The original scorching light dimmed, and a wave of heat could still be felt nearby.
[You used Magic Craftsman methods to forge a small component, Metallurgy proficiency +10]
After this prompt appeared before her eyes, she checked her panel.
Sure enough, an additional entry for [Magic Craftsman] appeared in her profession column, and it even added 0.1 to her Spirit attribute, reaching 2.8.
At the same time, it added a trait for her.
[Dexterous: Accuracy increases significantly when using Magic Craftsman techniques.]
Although she felt this trait couldn't compare to the one given by Apothecary, it was better than nothing; it was good to make it less likely for her to mess things up.
Gaining the Magic Craftsman profession was within her expectations. After all, she had mastered Metallurgy, so logically, a profession should have formed.
It was just that she only knew theoretical things and hadn't practiced at all, which had prevented the profession from forming.
If she had gone to learn blacksmithing, she would have formed a Blacksmith profession, but adhering to the philosophy of learning advanced technology, she learned Magic Craftsman techniques instead.
After all, using Spiritual Power to work sounded much more reliable than banging away with an iron hammer.
Plus, she had to do a lot of delicate work; if she learned blacksmithing, how to process those parts would be a problem.
Furan looked at the pile of materials before her and sighed. Although she had made a piston, there were still many things she had to make next.
Various small components still needed to be adjusted, and she didn't know if the diagrams she had drawn were correct.
In addition, there was a very important component she needed to make: the water tank for holding water. This was her biggest project.
The size of the steam engine she was making was somewhat large, and the steam required to drive this steam engine would increase accordingly.
She didn't know what the best proportions for each part were, so with the idea of creating plenty of energy first, she drew a large barrel three meters high and one and a half meters in diameter.
"Take it slow."
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"Welcome, apprentices, to my lecture."
Harbos appeared on the podium. He scanned the seats below but did not see that familiar figure.
He frowned. Why hadn't that apprentice he favored come?
This time, his lecture was about how to craft weapons targeted at specific creatures—for example, what structures could slice through a monster's skin, or what solutions could be applied for powerful effects.
The content he taught this time was much simpler, and many apprentices could understand it, but the examples he gave were too far removed from them—either from the Firmament Mountains or the Vine River Bend.
These places were too far from Apprentice City, and the cost of transporting materials would be astronomical, making it truly difficult for them to practice.
When the lesson ended, Harbos flashed to the side of the distracted Elan and brought him to the place where they had chatted last time.
Elan's vision blurred, and he arrived at a place both familiar and strange. He felt very nervous, but fortunately, he saw Harbos opposite him, and his brow relaxed.
"Are you ready to agree to the deal I mentioned before?" Elan said with a smile.
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