Beast Slayer Online: Initialization
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Chapter 75
Lannor continued sorting through heaps of herbs while occasionally responding to Margarita’s teasing.
“You know,” the sorceress said lazily, “my lonely, bored students are very interested in you. A healthy, energetic witcher with an exotic face, and, miracle of miracles, one granted access above Loxia Palace. If I hadn’t stopped them, you’d have had several unclothed ‘guests’ knocking on your door the very first night.”
Grinding flower petals in a mortar, Lannor raised a brow. “Several? I thought they’d at least take turns.”
“Don’t underestimate the appeal of your body, little witcher, especially to sorceresses.” Margarita rested her chin on the arm of her wheelchair. “Most men would never refuse such treatment. But I consider you an ally, perhaps even a friend. When I intend to reward you, I’ll inform you first and ask for your consent.”
She tilted her head with an amused smile. “So? I could lift the restriction outside your room tonight. Some of those girls might start a fistfight in class just to be the first through your door.”
The way she looked him over made her seem less like the headmistress of a magical academy and more like a woman impatient to watch a scandal unfold. For Aretuza, though, this kind of thing barely counted as one.
“Please keep the restriction in place, Rita. Honestly, I’d planned for my first time to be with a succubus.”
Damn it, if they were trading dirty jokes, then so be it. Poor virgin Lan was relying entirely on witcher-level body control to keep his face from turning red. A matter of masculine dignity.
“Ah ... a succubus.”
Behind him, Margarita’s voice remained calm. Yet somewhere near the wheelchair came a faint wooden creak, as if an armrest had suddenly been gripped far too tightly.
“Yes, those creatures bred for pleasure are quite popular. Perhaps the Academy could arrange one for you.”
The wheels of her chair rolled away toward the door.
“Hah...” Lannor exhaled sharply once she was gone.
The moment he turned around, his cat eyes caught Arya covering her mouth, laughing like a squirrel trying not to be heard. She immediately straightened up and scampered off to scrub the used mortars.
Mentos’ schedule had proven brutally precise. After several uninterrupted hours of recording medicinal properties into the database, Lannor now possessed herb-recognition experience equivalent to five or six years of work for an ordinary alchemist.
Alchemy proficiency: 73%.
Enough to properly brew elixirs.
The cost of reaching that level so quickly, however, was staggering. Nearly one-seventh of the 1,500 Orens had already vanished. Earlier that afternoon, Lannor had systematically worked through nearly every common herb stocked in Aretuza’s reserves, cataloguing potency data for future potion-making. And as one of the North’s two great sorcerer academies, Aretuza’s inventory represented most medicinal ingredients found across the market.
“Swallow, Raffard the White, enhanced White Honey ... is my proficiency enough to make all three now?”
Mentos answered with complete certainty.
Training Support System
Status: Stable
Statement:
This is the intended purpose of the proficiency framework, sir.
Skill Origin Analysis — Alchemy
Source: Bordon
Designation: Bordon’s Alchemy
Current Proficiency: 73%
Reference Benchmark: Bordon — Peak State
Interpretation:
Effective capability now corresponds to 73% of Bordon’s maximum alchemical performance.
Skill Framework Update Condition: External Knowledge Acquisition
Dynamic Reassignment Available
Future Designation: ***’s Alchemy
Scaling Standard: Subject to recalibration upon new reference acquisition.
“Ordinary humans suffer fluctuations in performance,” Mentos continued. “With Intelligence Core support, however, proficiency degradation will not occur unless the subject sustains organic damage.”
“Seventy-three percent of Bordon’s peak skill is enough to brew these three elixirs. Are your senses of taste, smell, or tactile precision impaired?”
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