Chapter 483 - 482: All-Nighter Champion

Chapter 483: Chapter 482: All-Nighter Champion

’If I had this during a fight, wouldn’t it be like giving my opponent a constant X-ray exam?’

Before Seraphina could even smile, her eyes widened at the words "breakpoints in the flow of energy."

The Secret Peeping Single-Lens Mirror now had three functions. "Insight into the Weakness of All Things" was an old one, while "structural gaps" served as a supplement to it.

But for a Rune Master like Seraphina Sinclair, this final function was no different from getting a legendary pull in a gacha game!

The Seraphina of the past might have dismissed this, but the Seraphina of now had just achieved a major innovation.

Seraphina Sinclair understood all too well what "breakpoints in the flow of energy" meant.

The hardest part of rune painting wasn’t the first stroke of the pen, but finding the path of the rune’s Spiritual Power!

Seraphina Sinclair had spent so much time and wasted so much Blank Talisman Paper trying to copy the Gale Rune precisely because she couldn’t figure out how the energy flowed within it.

Before, she had to rely on guesswork and process of elimination, trying and refining over and over again. It was no different from fumbling her way through the dark.

But if she could directly "see" where the energy flow broke, it meant that if she were to attempt a new rune now, her number of failures would be drastically reduced!

Brimming with joy, Seraphina Sinclair opened the mobile cabin’s upgrade page.

With these fifteen expansion essences, the upgrade wouldn’t be a problem.

She pressed Confirm, and the text on the panel instantly changed to [Upgrading...].

She would see the changes to the cabin in the morning.

For now, Seraphina simply stood up, stretched a little, then pulled Luna Jacobs into the Basic Training Room with her.

She was about to strike it rich, so she no longer cared about the value of a measly compressed energy block.

’From now on, as long as someone’s working in the mobile cabin, we can keep the Basic Training Room running!’

Seraphina Sinclair found a corner and sat down. She took out the secretion from the Flowing Wind Fox Tail Gland, mixed it with a bit of water, and created new runic ink.

She planned to use the Single Lens to observe the flow of the Gale Rune’s strokes. Using the processed powder and Ebony Rune Parchment for this would be too wasteful; Seraphina couldn’t bear the thought.

That was why she had dug out this incredibly pungent secretion again.

Luna Jacobs, who had just followed her into the training room: "..."

’Will I ever get an office space that doesn’t have some weird smell and where no one bothers me?’

Unfortunately, the mobile cabin was only so big, and it wasn’t up to her.

Oblivious to this, Seraphina Sinclair gripped her Silver Stream Rune Pen and expertly drew the rune on a blank sheet of yellow rune paper.

Just as before, the yellow rune paper couldn’t handle the power of the Gale Rune. The moment it was complete, a rapid succession of faint tearing sounds echoed as the paper was ripped to shreds by an unseen force.

The paper fragments drifted down from mid-air, like a flurry of colored snow.

But Seraphina Sinclair didn’t even blink.

In those brief few seconds, the Dark Gold mist at the edge of the Secret Peeping Single-Lens Mirror had trembled slightly, adding a layer to her vision that an ordinary person could never see.

The instant the Gale Rune took shape, Spiritual Power surged from the tip of her rune pen like a tamed snake, slithering along the rune’s strokes. Every beginning, turn, and end of a stroke, every pulse of Spiritual Power at each bend, was laid bare before her eyes in minute detail.

Her increased Intelligence didn’t just allow her to learn more; it also gave her a near-photographic memory.

There was no need for a second look; Seraphina could perfectly recall the patterns she had just witnessed in her mind.

Most of the strokes were fine, the energy flowing continuously. Only in one or two places had the flow obviously broken due to an incorrect stroke order.

After practicing the correct strokes on some scrap paper, Seraphina eagerly took out a sheet of Ebony Rune Parchment and drew an improved Wind Twister Charm.

[Wind Twister Charm (C)]

Seraphina looked at the grade after the name, and the corners of her lips tilted up slightly.

’It went from C- to C.’

It might only seem like a half-grade difference, but to Seraphina, this was a monumental achievement.

She then drew a Fire Drawing Rune, a Corpse Suppression Rune, and a Blood Stopping Talisman.

Unlike the Gale Rune on the Wind Twister Charm, the runes for these three talismans had no issues.

"As expected of inherited techniques. So much better than my self-taught methods..."

Seraphina mumbled to herself and put everything away.

Even though time flowed slower in the Basic Training Room, it couldn’t offset the long hours Seraphina had spent working.

She stood up, stretched, and went to rest.

The night passed dreamlessly.

Early Friday morning, the moment Seraphina entered the mobile cabin, she was met with Luna Jacobs’s excited gaze.

The moment she saw that look, Seraphina knew that another blueprint must have been improved.

This wasn’t the first time, but after hearing what Luna said, Seraphina still couldn’t help but look surprised.

"Here. Two blueprints, both C-level."

"Two?" Seraphina took the stack of blueprints, her voice rising unintentionally. "You improved two of them in one go?"

Luna Jacobs didn’t say a word, only lifted her chin slightly. Her expression seemed to say, ’What else would you expect?’

Seraphina looked down at the blueprints in her hand.

One was the Furnace Blueprint she had requested be prioritized, and the other was the Metal Processing Device Diagram.

She had acquired this diagram from Frostleaf in exchange for a Copy Certificate, and Frostleaf...

...had been dead for a long time now.

Seraphina looked up, asking Luna Jacobs with a hint of confusion, "Why did you improve both blueprints at the same time?"

Luna Jacobs shrugged. "I was only planning on improving the Furnace Blueprint. But when I took a serious look last night, I realized the structure of the processing device diagram was only a few steps off from the furnace blueprint. Since I’d already figured out the furnace’s structure, I just went ahead and improved this one too."

’Just like that?’

’She sure knew how to brag.’

Seraphina looked at the dark circles under Luna’s eyes and sighed. "Go get some rest. Let the Gloom Hatchling handle moving us today."

Luna Jacobs waved her hand dismissively. "It’s fine. I’m a puppet, not human."

She cracked a smile. "I won’t drop dead from overwork."

Then, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she looked at Seraphina with a touch of pride. "When it comes to pulling all-nighters, I’m definitely better than you."

Seraphina: "..."

’If she insists on competing over that, can’t I just admit defeat?’

"You win," Seraphina said, picking up the blueprints with a sincere tone. "The all-nighter champion. Happy now?"

The corner of Luna’s mouth twitched upward, but she quickly suppressed the smile and turned to tidy up the tools on her workbench.

With the blueprints spread out on the workbench, Seraphina began to examine them carefully.

Both blueprints had become C-level.

The change to the furnace was the most significant. The probability of smelting ore into Copper Ingots, Iron Ingots, and Gold Ingots changed from 99%, 0.99%, and 0.01% to 49%, 50%, and 1% respectively.

Although the chance of getting a Gold Ingot was still slim, at least she no longer had to pray for a miracle to get an Iron Ingot.