Chapter 257 : Activation Witchcraft
Chapter 257: Activation Witchcraft
"Cling—" Just as Janna-Roland was preparing to continue listening attentively, a familiar task notification sound suddenly rang in her mind.
【Today's Task: Master a medical-type witchcraft;
Task Reward: 300 Talent EXP, 800 Skill EXP, and one random reward.】
Looking at the task window in green text before her, the joy in Janna-Roland’s eyes nearly overflowed.
"Looks like the talent upgrade process is going to happen ahead of schedule———"
Judging by the frequency with which the Daily Quest System assigned tasks, Janna-Roland had originally predicted that she would have to wait until the weekend for the remaining 3% progress stuck on the 【Plant Affinity】 talent to fully complete.
What she hadn't expected was that after just completing a 【White-grade Task】 on Saturday, a 【Green-grade Task】 had immediately followed on Monday—and the task content was Janna-Roland’s strongest suit: witchcraft learning.
"The healing branch of 【Activation Witchcraft】 is also divided into several categories: severe external injuries (such as amputations and burns), serious internal injuries (organ damage, massive bleeding), toxin expulsion, and other highly fatal conditions——"
As he spoke, Anthony-Blackcrow took out a well-preserved male corpse from his interdimensional storage bag and placed it on the lab table.
"Ka-cha——" With a light sweep of his left hand, the corpse’s right arm was severed in full view by Anthony-Blackcrow’s bare hand.
"The witchcraft I’m going to demonstrate now belongs to the 【Activation Witchcraft】 category, specifically 【Restoration Technique】. The incantation is very simple. The difficulty lies in how to quickly reattach the severed limb at the joint, aligning bones and nerve connection points during the casting process——"
Upon hearing Anthony-Blackcrow's words, Janna-Roland, who had originally felt confident in her witchcraft studies, couldn't help but purse her lips, her gaze fixed without pause on the junction between the severed arm and the corpse’s shoulder.
"Restore as before——"
The short incantation left Anthony-Blackcrow’s mouth, and a grayish-white glow quickly surged from his palm.
"Watch closely, all of you!"
After this loud reminder from Anthony-Blackcrow, they saw countless fleshy buds sprouting from the severed area of the limb he had touched.
These buds wriggled like tiny, pink, resurrected serpents. Under Anthony-Blackcrow’s remarkably precise control,
like a perfect reattachment of frayed copper wires in a split cable, in just a few breaths, the severed arm had reconnected. Even the lacerations between skin and muscle had fully restored.
"This is incredible—" Seeing Anthony-Blackcrow reattach a limb so effortlessly, Janna-Roland couldn’t help but exclaim in awe.
She wasn't alone. All the apprentices seated in the classroom inhaled sharply.
Beyond being amazed by Anthony-Blackcrow’s exceptional healing skill, they also felt a dull ache at the thought of having to learn such an advanced form of 【Activation Witchcraft】 in their first class.
"No wonder so few people choose to take 'Intermediate Healing'. Compared to 'Beginner Healing', the difficulty isn't even on the same scale."
When previewing the textbook, Janna-Roland had already known that the first chapter mainly explained 【Activation Witchcraft】.
However, witnessing Anthony-Blackcrow’s live demonstration, she realized her understanding of the textbook’s description of “aligning cross-sections, connecting nerves, activating cellular vitality” had been far too superficial.
"You don’t need to look so shocked. What I just demonstrated was merely the most basic form of 【Activation Witchcraft】: the 【Restoration Technique】. As long as you’ve mastered the 【Mana Control】 content taught in the 【Beginner Healing】 class, with just a bit of practice, you’ll be able to grasp the 【Restoration Technique】 quickly—"
Although Anthony-Blackcrow’s words sounded rather “sharp,” they were undeniably true.
The 【Restoration Technique】 looked difficult, but all the apprentices present actually understood the principle behind it very well.
As Anthony-Blackcrow said, what they lacked was simply the patience and repetition to practice it until they succeeded.
"Does anyone want to come up and try?"
As he spoke, Anthony-Blackcrow sliced off the corpse’s left thumb and placed it on the lab table.
"You’ve got to be kidding—he just demonstrated once and now he wants someone to perform it? That’s absurd!"
A female apprentice specializing in water elements, seated in the back row, couldn’t help but whisper to the necromancy male apprentice next to her.
"Is this your first time in the headmaster’s class? His style has always been this… direct. As long as you don’t make eye contact with him, he usually won’t call on you."
"Let’s hope so—"
As Anthony-Blackcrow repeated his invitation, the water element female apprentice lowered her head, imitating the necromancy male apprentice beside her, completely avoiding any eye contact with Anthony-Blackcrow.
"In that case, I’ll start calling names—"
Hearing this, the water element female apprentice tensed up and quickly whispered to the necromancy male apprentice beside her:
"Idris, didn’t you say Headmaster Anthony never calls names? What’s going on?"
The necromancy male apprentice named Idris also looked confused at this moment.
Because he knew that Anthony-Blackcrow, who suffered from severe face blindness, could absolutely not remember anyone’s name without a roster.
"Could it be that the Headmaster brought the roster this time?"
Idris wasn’t the only one with this thought. Other older apprentices, also aware of Anthony-Blackcrow’s peculiar condition, felt a mix of doubt and surprise in their hearts.
"Janna-Roland, you give it a try."
Upon hearing Anthony-Blackcrow call out Janna-Roland by name, everyone’s gaze instantly turned to her, who sat in the second row.
"I knew it. There’s no way the Headmaster would remember the names of ordinary apprentices. But if it’s Miss Janna-Roland, then it all makes sense."
As a celebrity of White Coral Academy and even the whole of Doring, Janna-Roland’s name was known to all.
So, if Anthony-Blackcrow had called on Janna-Roland, it was entirely understandable to the other apprentices.
While everyone murmured in low voices, Janna-Roland stood up calmly after being called, and walked to the side of the lab table without the slightest hesitation.
"Headmaster Anthony, before the actual practice, I have a request."
"A request?"
Hearing Janna-Roland’s words, Anthony-Blackcrow, who had stepped aside, casually nodded.
"Go ahead."
"I’d like to try it once before the official practice—"