Chapter 11: Chapter 11 Progress, Treatment
"Forget it, let's just treat it as testing the effectiveness of the teaching prompts," Lucien thought to himself as he watched Carly, who was now holding a cup of water, walk away.
After all, according to the system's prompt just now, "having Carly fetch a cup of water for him" was one of the suggestions. And now, with Carly volunteering to fetch water for him, he could indeed see how effective this system prompt was.
Of course, Carly was unaware of Lucien's thoughts. Her own were quite simple: she wanted to express her gratitude to her tutor Lucien in her own way. After all, she was very appreciative that Tutor Lucien was willing to teach her with such patience.
Especially since her own comprehension abilities were rather poor, even though Tutor Lucien had explained everything so thoroughly, she still found it difficult to understand...
Just now, when Lucien was explaining, Carly clearly remembered seeing the veins on Tutor Lucien's face bulging out for a while, but in the end, Tutor Lucien managed to hold back his frustration.
Thinking of this made Carly feel a bit ashamed, and yet she also wanted to laugh.
She looked down and quickened her pace unconsciously.
Whoosh—The water from the kettle was poured into the cup.
With one hand holding the kettle and the other holding the cup, Carly's gaze inadvertently fell upon the cup.
At that moment, the water from the kettle formed a "water line" as it slowly poured into the cup, creating a vortex inside, with numerous bubbles being swept along and continuously forced into the center of the vortex before popping out again...
"So that's how it is... I overthought it. Actually, the Gills Vortex doesn't require the parameters I imagined; most of them can be ignored..." Carly murmured to herself, as the knowledge point that had been troubling her became clear all at once.
Hiss—
By then, the cup was full, but Carly, still immersed in her thoughts, didn't notice until the boiling water overflowed and scalded her slightly. Only then did Carly snap out of her reverie.
"Ah..." In her haste, she quickly put down the cup, looked at her slightly reddened hand, and shook it vigorously before cautiously blowing on it.
Despite the mild scald on her hand, there was a light shining in Carly's eyes.
After all, she had just overcome a knowledge point that had been torturing her, and the sense of achievement made her heart swell with joy.
"Hehehe…" Carly picked up the cup again, scalding herself a little in the process, but this time she grinned foolishly, like a simpleton delighted with their own antics.
Meanwhile, Lucien was closely monitoring Carly's progress in her studies.
When he saw Carly's progress bar jump from 2.41% to 3.28%, Lucien couldn't help but blink.
Previously, when he had Carly organize knowledge points by herself, the progress bar had advanced very slowly, creeping up by 0.01% at a time; but now, Carly's learning progress had suddenly increased by a whole 0.87%!
Lucien stroked his chin, his expression turning into a frown reminiscent of a Psyduck.
This doesn't make sense!
Just by fetching a cup of water, how could Carly have made so much progress?
It must be the system's teaching prompts!
At that moment, that was the only explanation Lucien could think of.
"Tutor..." Carly, realizing she was being closely observed by Lucien, hid her slightly reddened hand, which she had just scalded, behind her back with a sense of guilt.
After all, in the Earl's house, a clumsy servant would be punished.
"There seems to be no change…" Lucien mumbled to himself, yet he reopened Carly's character panel and carefully "spotted the difference".
"Hm?" Upon closer comparison, Lucien actually did find a subtle difference.
"A minor burn on the fingers?" Lucien turned to Carly, who at the moment was hiding her hands behind her back.
"Stretch out your hand."
"Ah…" Carly appeared uneasy, hesitating for a moment before tentatively extending her hand, even spreading her palms in a posture ready for reprimand.
When Lucien reached out his hand, Carly had even preemptively closed her eyes.
But she soon noticed something different.
Because the pain she imagined did not come; instead, the recently burned area felt rather cool, and the pain was considerably lessened.
Carly couldn't help but open her eyes.
And she saw Lucien's right hand emitting a faint glow, and under the illumination of this special light, her recent burn was rapidly healing.
Zero-level Witchcraft: Hawk's Hand of Healing.
The burn on Carly's hand healed quickly, and soon, Lucien's glowing hand touched Carly's right arm.
"Mm…" With the touch of the palm, Carly felt the wound on her arm, which had been accidentally caused during the airship journey, started to scab over and heal quickly.
"Stand up, stretch out your arms," said Lucien, looking at Carly. Since he had already made a move, he naturally intended to resolve any potential issues in Carly's body.
"Ah… Yes." Although Carly didn't know how Wizard Lucien was aware of her concealed injury, she didn't dare to ask and obediently stretched out her arms, however, her cheeks were somewhat flushed.
Carly's most serious physical damage was on her waist, where she had been beaten with a stick by a junior butler in the Earl's estate. Although the surface wounds had healed, a large purplish bruise-like mark remained at the spot, and there were aftereffects that caused Carly pain whenever she engaged in strenuous movements.
However, as Lucien's right hand gently touched the clothes over Carly's waist wound, the faint glow penetrated the outer clothing, gradually merging into Carly's body.
The healing process was brief, lasting close to ten seconds. After all, such minor hidden injuries might be tricky for the average person, but for a wizard, it really was just a matter of the simplest Zero-level Witchcraft.
"Mm…" Carly's body shook slightly, her waist wound sending out sharp pains, but what followed was a long-missed feeling of relief.
"All done," Lucien withdrew his palm.
At that moment, the "birthmark" on Carly's waist had almost completely disappeared.
"Thank you… Thank you, teacher," Carly said in a soft voice, her face a bit rosy as she lowered her head.
"If you're well-rested, we can continue with the lesson."
"Ah… Yes, of course." Carly replied, hastily sitting down, yet her eyes were shining brightly.
[Your student Carly feels grateful toward you, respect value +5]
Lucien's eyebrows raised slightly.
He now put a question mark on the system's description of respect value as "extremely precious," since from what he could see, the process of teaching Carly seemed to easily yield respect value.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone