"Prospecting team, let's go!" Ronan wrapped the cowhide around the mole's waist, then asked the strengthened crow to grab the outside of the cowhide and take the mole to take off.

Beside them, there are also three crow glyphs around to protect them from being attacked by other birds.

This is the tenth mining team sent out by Ronan, and it has basically covered all the locations near the castle where there may be ore veins.

The environment on the surface of a mine is generally unsuitable for living organisms, as there is often a lack of soil and water sources. As a result, the amount of vegetation and fauna in the mining area is often very limited and relatively easy to identify.

If no veins are found in these places, further afield, you will need to go deep into the permafrost.

At that time, it will be a big trouble for both mining and transportation.

After ticking off the task of finding ore veins, Ronan reviewed the other things on his list.

There is no need to worry about supplies, the town is in good order, the surviving inhabitants of the village have asked the cavalry to call for it, and the task of comforting Kasanna has been completed today, and she is now planning the castle garden with a group of handmaidens recruited from Black Rock City.

Ronan ticked off one task after another, making sure he was in order, and then made his way to the basement of the old castle.

As he stepped in, the old basement that had been dusted again shimmered, the dust vanished, and the alchemy furnace regained its luster and slowly opened its mouth.

Compared to before, there are two more corpses in the interior of the research workshop, which are the two female vampires.

Although Ronan had only marked twenty-five crows with magical powers due to time constraints, activating the sharpness and enhancement was enough to easily shred them.

Ronan had planned to cut off their limbs and try to bring them back alive.

Unfortunately, the two vampires who found out that something was wrong finally chose to blow themselves up, leaving only the remnants of the corpses.

In the darkness of the night, Ronan asked the crows to bring him back to the research workshop.

Arriving at a research table made of birch, Ronan cut off a small piece of vampire's flesh and placed it on a clean glassware.

Due to the time it had been dead, the flesh had taken on a dark red color, but it had not yet decayed.

Ronan then took out the pale red round gem he had obtained from the vampire Sherman.

Eye of the Moonstone (Red), a gem that absorbs blood full of life force and transforms it into special magical powers.

As it brought the gem close to the flesh, it began to stir and try to absorb the remaining blood on it, but Ronan stopped it in time.

And he began to try to use his magic power to pull the special magic in the gem and pull it out.

After many attempts, the pale red magic inside the gem was successfully pulled by him, and under his magic guidance, it merged into the flesh and blood of the vampire.

Ronan began to pay full attention, observing carefully, using his magic to experience the changes.

The vampire's flesh seemed to have some kind of trajectory carved into it, and when the pale red magic was fused, it instantly began to follow the trajectory in the flesh.

In an instant, the flesh that should have died long ago contracted violently like a beating heart—expanded—contracted—expanded—expanded, and the cycle continued.

The flesh has come to life and is constantly splitting and regenerating!

Not only that, but as this piece of flesh changed, it even began to radiate to the flesh of other vampires around it, making them faintly move.

Ronan recorded the scene carefully, then stopped pulling at the reddish mana.

After losing its source of power, the vampire flesh that danced on the glassware instantly wilted and returned to its original state.

The research workshop is back to its original state.

After a while, Ronan changed a piece of flesh and began to repeat the previous experiment, carefully recording the trajectory of the reddish magic in the vampire's flesh each time.

"It can be roughly categorized into two trajectories, one that will cause the flesh to start growing, and one that will affect the other flesh."

The trajectory of the former presents a T-shaped ankh, while the trajectory of the latter resembles a blooming five-petal flower.

Ronan held out his finger again, and the magic converged to his fingertips.

But this time, instead of touching the pale red magic inside the gem, he injected his own magic into the vampire's flesh.

Nothing happens after the mana is injected.

Ronan then changed his attempt and continued to inject magic, but this time it began to operate in flesh and blood according to the two trajectories he had explored before.

It almost took 20 points of mana for the flesh to throb slightly, and then it didn't react again.

And the pale red mana is almost 1 point, and it can make the flesh start to expand and contract.

"The transformation formula of magic and the transformation efficiency problem." Ronan had an understanding of the experiment.

Those two trajectories are classified by Ronan as one of the transformation formulas of magical power, and can also be directly understood as two spells that can have an effect on flesh and blood.

Similarly, Ronan's [Sharpness] and [Auto-Aim] are counted as a type of conversion formula.

The transformation efficiency represents the power that can be exerted after the magic power is turned into a spell.

The first thing to understand is that magic itself has no meaning for living beings, what makes sense is the effect of its transformation.

Just like nuclear energy, in the eyes of many people, it is a high-level energy source, but for human beings, nuclear energy itself has no practical significance.

A stone, a piece of wood, they all have nuclear energy, but they can't use it.

What humans need is heat and electricity that they can feel and use.

The reason why uranium-235 and plutonium-239 are called nuclear fuels is that they have nuclear energy that can be converted and utilized.

The heat energy brought by the explosion and transformation of nuclear weapons has become the most powerful weapon of mankind, and nuclear power plants have made modern civilization flourish from nuclear energy to thermal energy to electrical energy.

In this transformation process, there must be energy loss, the more perfect the transformation method, the lower the energy loss, and the more controllable the process.

The same goes for the formula for the transformation of magic.

The knight's breathing method is to absorb magic power, integrate it into flesh and blood, and strengthen the body, in this process, an ordinary person needs to absorb at least hundreds of magic power to become a knight.

Vampires, on the other hand, are also able to absorb magic to strengthen their bodies, and they can also gain extraordinary vitality.

But whether it's a knight or a vampire, their conversion efficiency to magic is outrageously low.

Sherman, the male vampire who was killed by Ronan, judging from his corpse, had at least 200 points of magic in his body, which was more than five times that of Ronan.

But under Ronan's feathers that cost 2 points of magic power, it was cut like a toy, and there was no way to fight back.

This is the effect of transformation efficiency, and the competition between magic is never about quantity, but about quality.

"The pale red magic can activate the trajectory in the vampire's flesh and trigger the efficient transformation formula, my magic can't, I can only build the trajectory by myself, but due to the lack of accuracy of the trajectory constructed, the effect of those two tracks is very poor."

"But that's not a problem, if you continue to spend time imitating, you will always be able to reproduce the trajectory perfectly."

Ronan is in a good mood, although even if these two trajectories are perfectly reproduced, they are far from being comparable to the capabilities that come with the system.

But it opened a whole new door for him.