Chapter 248: Transduction Ritual
Ocean Messenger?
Hearing the telepathic voice in her mind, Jia Na couldn't help but take a step back. She quickly adjusted her mindset and replied telepathically in an extremely friendly tone:
"Hello, I am Jia Na, the Wizard Apprentice who is purifying the contamination on your body. May I ask, have you woken up?"
After tentatively asking, for a long time, the mermaid who claimed to be the Ocean Messenger did not send any more telepathic messages.
"Are you still there?"
Seeing that her second telepathic message was also like a stone sinking into the sea with no response, after much hesitation, Jia Na still cast the Mental Perception Witchcraft on the Deep Sea Mermaid.
"The soul is indeed still in a deep seal state—"
"Master?"
Seeing Jia Na's sudden uncharacteristic silence, the Celestial Sparrow beside her, who was slightly panting due to excessive magic consumption, couldn't help but ask Jia Na with a hint of doubt.
"I'm fine, Afu. You worked hard this time. Go back and rest early."
"Yes, Master."
Watching the Celestial Sparrow disappear back into the holy light, Jia Na's gaze couldn't help but return to the Deep Sea Mermaid before her.
"It seems that was just a random awakening—"
After thinking for a moment, Jia Na, who had originally planned to observe the body structure tomorrow, finally changed her mind.
Because Jia Na didn't know when the Deep Sea Mermaid would wake up. If she woke up, it would be a significant obstacle to Jia Na's "transformation plan."
Therefore, just in case, Jia Na decided to complete the preparations before soul Transference as soon as possible, so as not to miss the opportunity.
"Huff—" She let out a long breath. While casting Mental Perception, Jia Na's hands also gently rested on the Deep Sea Mermaid's body.
"Buzz—"
Flowing light surged. Accompanied by a Emerald Green light emerging from Jia Na's palms, the medical-specific magic threads condensed by Shaping quickly penetrated into the Deep Sea Mermaid's body along the bone meridians, for detailed body structure observation.
"So, this is how a mermaid's organs are arranged—"
From the torso to the organs, and then from the bones to the muscle structure.
Under high-intensity observation with intense mental concentration, soon, the Deep Sea Mermaid's upper body structure, although similar to a human's, yet extremely different, was completely perceived by Jia Na.
"Next, it's time to observe the fish tail—"
As time passed little by little, compared to the smooth observation of the torso, Jia Na found it extremely difficult to analyze the fish tail.
Besides the extremely complex structure of the fish tail, the water element magic gathered within was constantly confusing Jia Na's vision.
This also caused her "magic threads" to be completely "expelled" by the water element magic before they could even probe much.
"No wonder in the Intermediate Healing course, there is a large chapter dedicated to the transformation of magic attributes. If it weren't for transformation, with this probing efficiency alone, the patient might not even survive until the cause of the illness is found—"
Although Jia Na understood the principle of magic transformation, it was extremely difficult to maintain precise control of the magic after transformation, just like with her inherent attribute magic.
Even with "cheating and adding points," without someone teaching her, with Jia Na's current Primary Medical level,
It was still quite unrealistic to learn it independently.
"I can only grind slowly—."
Seeing the magic threads once again being impacted and offset by the water element magic, Jia Na, who had been maintaining the casting state for a long time, finally exited the crystal ball, and her spiritual consciousness returned to her physical body.
"Is it already this late?"
Looking at the time displayed on the mechanical clock, which showed two thirty in the morning, Jia Na, feeling a bit listless, couldn't help but rub the sides of her forehead, where her temples were slightly swollen due to excessive mental energy consumption.
"There's a Professor Margaret's Intermediate Herbology class tomorrow morning—I need to go to bed and rest early."
After simply washing up, Jia Na immediately sat cross-legged on the bed and began to meditate.
"Huff—Inhale—Huff—"
This time, perhaps because she was too tired, it didn't take long for Jia Na to enter a state of deep meditation accompanied by even breathing. The next day, early morning.
"Thump thump thump—"
Hearing the rapid knocking sounds from outside the window, Jia Na's previously closed eyes suddenly opened.
"Is it the Raven?"
After a night of deep meditation, Jia Na's depleted mental energy and magic power had completely recovered.
Seeing the anxious Raven outside the window, Jia Na, who had put on her slippers and gotten out of bed, quickly walked to the window sill and opened the window.
Huff— The morning breeze was sharp and biting cold.
Although it was already March, for Turin, where the snow had not yet melted, the morning weather could be described as cold.
Just by opening the window, Jia Na could feel the heat on her body being rapidly drained by the cold air outside. "apprentice, this is today's class schedule, remember to keep it."
"Okay, thank you, Lord Raven."
"You're welcome."
After receiving the envelope handed over by the Raven, Jia Na thanked the Raven and closed the window again.
"Usually, the class schedules delivered at this time are notifications of class changes—"
【Notice: All classes of Principal Anthony-Black Sparrow, Professor Grace-Eva, and Professor Mary-Margaret this week are postponed due to special reasons. The specific resumption time will be notified separately later.】
"As expected—"
Looking at the content of the letter, Jia Na couldn't help but think of a few days ago, when she was preparing to ask Anthony-Black Sparrow and Grace-Eva about 【Law Fragment】 related questions, the Tower Spirit had replied that both of them were not in the academy.
At that time, she had guessed that Anthony-Black Sparrow and Grace-Eva had gone out.
But she didn't expect that they hadn't returned until today, and even Mary-Margaret wasn't in the academy. "This is good too. Since there are no classes today, I can continue doing what I didn't finish yesterday."
Yesterday, Jia Na had successfully analyzed the body structure of the upper body of the "Deep Sea Mermaid," but she had only started on the fish tail part yesterday and still had a lot left.
"It's time to use the Transduction Ritual to enhance my perception—"
Normally, apprentices performing cross-element transformation for the first time should use the opportunity to enhance their perception with the Transduction Ritual on the most crucial soul simulation.
However, when Jia Na cast Mental Perception on the Deep Sea Mermaid yesterday, she found that although her soul attribute was quite different from her own soul with a Plant Affinity attribute, her state of existence was extremely similar to that of a human.
This also meant that as long as Jia Na solved the problem of the "fish tail" attribute clash, her progress in soul Transference would be equivalent to completing more than half.
