So I Became a Witch and Started Doing Daily Quests

Chapter 258: Medical Talent

Hearing Janna-Roland’s request, which hardly even counted as a favor, Anthony-Blackcrow agreed without so much as blinking. As she walked to the lab table, Janna looked at the shriveled corpse in front of her. After a moment of thought, she chose to take out her usual enchanted gloves from the Thorn Bracelet and put them on properly before picking up the severed thumb that Anthony-Blackcrow had cut off.

Watching the more than ten pairs of eyes fixed intently on her from below the platform, Janna, who had long since grown accustomed to such attention, did not feel particularly nervous. She simply let out a long breath and tried to clear the distracting thoughts from her mind.

“Form Manifestation One”

With the incantation of the Shaping Spell uttered from Janna’s mouth, two threads, finer than a strand of hair, slowly flew out from her fingertips and burrowed into the severed thumb.

“Hmm, though her control over magic power is still lacking, for a mere apprentice to reach this level is already commendable.”

Watching Janna preemptively use magic threads to analyze the structure of the severed thumb, the usually strict Anthony-Blackcrow couldn’t help but nod, acknowledging her attempt.

“Restore as Before One”

Just when everyone thought Janna would still need some time to continue analyzing with her magic threads, a crisp incantation rang out. A green light burst forth from Janna’s gloved palm.

“Rustle One—”

As the green light grew brighter, just like when Anthony-Blackcrow had demonstrated, the severed thumb in Janna’s palm began to sprout dense, flesh-colored buds at the cross-section.

“No way—”

Watching this unfold, Idris, a necromancy apprentice sitting in the last row, felt a sense of unreality.

As a third-level witch apprentice who had repeated Medical Studies twice, only he knew how terrifying a talent it was to successfully cast the Restoration Technique on the very first attempt.

Leaving aside the elemental affinity of magic particles, a caster could only hope to succeed with the Restoration Technique if they had an extremely thorough understanding of the human body’s structure.

Even Idris himself, who had a perfect grasp of anatomy as a necromancy apprentice, had never managed to succeed in casting the Restoration Technique.

Beyond the fact that necromancy particles were inert and thus at a disadvantage when casting Activation Witchcraft, Idris’s control over magic power was simply lacking.

At the very least, it was far inferior to Janna’s—

Swish—

Just when everyone thought Janna was about to succeed, the glow flickered and the Restoration Technique failed due to a misconnected nerve.

“Sigh, she was just one step away—what a pity—”

Watching the failed regeneration attempt, Idris couldn’t help but sigh with regret, though he also felt a bit relieved.

He had to admit, in terms of understanding human anatomy and controlling magic power, Janna had performed exceptionally well.

However, due to lack of experience, her first attempt at casting the Restoration Technique still ended in failure.

“Even a genius has to stumble a few times before succeeding———”

At that moment, unlike the various thoughts going through the apprentices in the audience, Janna let out another deep breath, her eyes lowering as she swiftly opened her quest interface.

[Today’s Quest: Master a medical-type witchcraft (Completed);

Quest Reward: 300 Talent XP, 800 Skill XP, Special Character Talent “Precision Control”.]

“Precision Control?”

[Precision Control: Grants precise control over energy in particle form.]

Reading the description of the “Special Character Talent” on her quest interface, Janna couldn’t help but look pleasantly surprised.

“So that means, even without upgrading the Restoration Technique, with just this character talent, I could easily pass Principal Anthony’s in-class test——.”

With that thought, Janna, ever cautious in her actions, still chose to upgrade the Restoration Technique she had just learned to its current level cap.

“—”

Looking at the golden glow flashing across the Restoration Technique skill entry on the character interface, Janna composed herself and softly said to Anthony-Blackcrow beside her:

“Principal Anthony, I think I’m ready.”

“Good, then let’s begin.”

As a formal witch deeply versed in medical studies, Anthony-Blackcrow instantly saw that the reason for Janna’s first failure was simply inexperience.

With just a few more hundred repetitions, this mere Restoration Technique would soon be completely mastered by Janna.

“Restore as Before One”

Swish—

The light flared and the flesh buds burst forth.

This time, before anyone could even react, the severed thumb in Janna’s hand reattached to the corpse’s palm perfectly and effortlessly in front of everyone’s eyes.

“This—”

Had he not seen it with his own eyes, Idris would never have believed that the difference between a first and second casting of the same spell by the same person could be so drastic. This update ıs available on novèlfire.net

Just a moment ago, Idris had mentally prepared himself for Janna’s second attempt to also end in failure. But the result turned out to be the exact opposite.

At that very moment, not only Idris and the apprentices in the audience were shocked—even Anthony-Blackcrow, who stood by Janna’s side the entire time, was equally stunned.

Though it didn’t show on his face, Anthony-Blackcrow’s inner astonishment was no less than the observing apprentices.

As the saying goes, the layman watches the show, the expert sees the technique.

Anthony-Blackcrow knew better than anyone just how outrageous Janna’s improvement from her first to second attempt at the Restoration Technique truly was.

If her first attempt could be compared to a toddler taking its first steps, then her second attempt was already equivalent to a grown warrior charging ahead.

“This talent… it could even rival the geniuses gathered in those elite witch academies——”

At that thought, Anthony-Blackcrow immediately dismissed the notion in his heart.

Putting aside her medical talent, her transfiguration talent, and her witchcraft learning ability—for a second-tier witch apprentice to have already mastered two Law Fragments was more than enough to place Janna among the top-tier prodigies.

In fact, in some aspects, Janna’s talents were even more terrifying.

“Excellent. Your talent in the medical field is greater than I imagined.”

“Thank you for your praise, Principal Anthony.”

Calmly accepting Anthony-Blackcrow’s compliment, Janna bowed slightly and returned to her seat under the complicated gazes of her peers.