Reina bought some potatoes and ham from the most affordable food store on the street, and she was going to make a potato-ham mushroom bisque for dinner today.

The mushrooms that Adams and his father collected from the Black Forest were delicious and would have performed well in the soup when they were dried and stewed.

She scurried down the long street, through the deserted alleys, and pulled a brand new key out of her pocket and slipped it into the cylinder of the wooden door.

Yes, it's been almost a month since Adams and his party moved to Marienburg, the alchemist's original property has been confiscated by the "vultures", and he doesn't want his daughter to be harmed by the gangsters again, and the two are worried about the gargoyle leaking out.

The wrath of the "vultures" is not so easy to bear.

It's not that the two of them are really afraid of this powerful giant swordsman, but one less trouble is better than one more trouble.

So, after careful deliberation between Adams and Hilton, they decided to continue their journey east with Reina.

Marienburg was chosen because it was a safe place in the stormy kingdom of Bato.

This benefited from the importance that the lord of the place attached to the guard, but also to the attitude of the lord in this political vortex.

Baron Marin's neutral attitude prevented the Qinwang faction and the rebels from preemptively taking action against the land, but this was only temporary, and pressure from both sides was imminent, and there was never a neutral word in the political game.

Reina opened the old door, the living room was large, and only Adams sat by the wood-burning fireplace to keep warm, and the latter looked up to notice the maiden's arrival, and smiled brightly at Reina.

"Today's dinner is potato and ham and mushroom soup, with the rye bread I bought yesterday," the girl said cheerfully to Adams, and then walked into the kitchen humming a little song.

She knew that her father was probably still tinkering with his strange things in the study as usual.

In addition to eating and sleeping these days, the alchemist is like a weed rooted in the study, motionless.

Reina washed the potatoes, peeled them with a knife, and threw the round stuff into the pot.

Potatoes are rich in starch, they are easy to eat, and most importantly they are cheap. The girl took the purse out of her pocket, counted it, and then put it back with some sorrow.

It seems that there is still a lot of money in the purse, but the recent expenses have been a little bigger.

The rent of this big house is not cheap, and Regina is a little puzzled why the three of them need to live in such a big house, just because the sound insulation of the house is good? Recently, her father often went to the alchemy union to buy materials and equipment, and the price of these things made her staggering.

In this way, you have to pay a silver coin almost every two days, and if you continue like this, you will soon be unable to live your life.

Fortunately, my father said that he was working on a very powerful thing now, and when he could research the results, he would be able to make a lot of money immediately.

His father also said that when he made a lot of money, he would buy himself a castle by the sea with a garden, and buy a lot of beautiful clothes, so that he could wear a beautiful dress and catch crabs by the sea.

Reina wants beautiful clothes and a castle by the sea, but she misses her mother even more, and if her father really makes a lot of money, then her mother will not be able to serve His Majesty the King, and she will be able to return to her side.

Adams sat on a stool in the living room and did nothing.

He was so bored these days, he was going to inquire about his father, but he didn't know where to start when he went out.

Hilton completely transformed the study into an alchemy workshop, and then went in and never came out.

Damn, alchemy equipment is really expensive, and the most rudimentary device alone costs a gold coin. This is blackmail!, Adams thought with some indignation.

Not only are those bullshit devices inaccurate, they're also of terrible quality!

It's best that Hilton can get some results quickly, otherwise the family will really be unable to open the pot.

......

Hilton often said to himself that he was a mediocre, that he had a poor affinity for magic, that he was nothing more than a beginner alchemist.

Hilton often told Reina that he was a talent and that he would be able to bring his daughter to live a good life.

But Adams argues that Hilton is actually a genius.

Every time he walked into the study these days, looking at the dense data on the parchment, looking at the Hilton who drilled in and out of the laboratory all day, and watching him build and tear down the construction models one by one, Adams couldn't help but feel extremely admired for the other party's dedication.

Maybe an alchemist can't make a good spellcaster, but Adams believes he can definitely make a good scientist when he puts it on Earth.

Because he is diligent, but also because he is indeed talented.

Perhaps believing that his achievements in magic were destined to be limited, the alchemist set his sights on some other places, such as mathematics, such as physics, such as chemistry, in short, he began to study the nature of matter deeply, and gradually established a set of his own research methods.

In Adams's eyes, that is the scientific research method, and Hilton's scientific thinking is ahead of the vast majority of people in this world, even ahead of the book in front of him.

Beginner's Alchemy Handbook

It is said to be the best elementary textbook for the Alchemist Guild that has been recognized by countless people, but in Adams's opinion, the book has a huge loophole and transmits extremely incorrect ideas.

The realm of alchemy is indeed wonderful, with the transformation of matter, wonderful magic, and all kinds of secret recipes that make Adams, who is new to alchemy, feel like he has discovered a colorful new world.

However, there is an important assertion in the book that is enshrined as the truth of the alchemist.

That is, in order to become a good alchemist, you must first become a good spellcaster, and only by understanding the mysteries of magic can you apply them more perfectly to alchemy.

This doesn't seem to be inappropriate, the high-end realm of alchemy can't be separated from magic.

But from the perspective of Adams's modern, use and research are two different things entirely.

Alchemy and modern science actually have a lot in common, and their purpose is to gain the ability to use the truth for their own benefit by inquiring into the truth of things.

Magical affinity may be important, but a lot of data, experiments, and deductions are undoubtedly more important to help solve problems.

So he believes Hilton might be able to find his own way.

However, the trickiest thing right now is that they don't have enough money to support it!