It was still far away from the place where the Radiant Hall was in charge of the grain trade, and Mokasa was just passing by, and Lu En was riding on the airship.

Stopping and stopping along the way, going down from time to time to see the local customs, Lu En was now accustomed to this rhythm of travel, and this was the fifth day of their flight to Apidu, which was now the coastal grain transportation base, and was still a third of the map away from the newly established seaside city.

Just before, when the airship passed by a cloud, it rained, and the soft and elastic wing membrane fairing was rubbed by the fine water droplets to create irregular ripples, which looked very atmospheric.

From above, the fortress formed by the steaming mist of the clouds looked like a clump of fat bread freshly taken out of the oven, and the fog disappeared quickly for a moment when the rain escaped, and then quickly gathered into a round shape.

According to the book "The Great Teacher's Strange Creatures Miscellaneous Notes", most of these clouds will inhabit some small monsters, named Cloud Monster, which is a strange creature between the water element and the air element, which can spit thunder and lightning, absorb the wind, and the natural skill is the spirit of water 1 and the spirit of the wind 1, the mind is about equal to a ten-year-old child, although it can grow, but it is born and dies at dusk, and is extremely sensitive to temperature changes. Sometimes when it rains, you can see them falling from the sky, turning into water droplets and landing with the rain.

However, this strange creature is the most popular among the nobles, and with a special magic device, a small cloud can be formed for the cloud monsters to inhabit, so that they will not die due to temperature changes, and keep them as pets.

Lu En was thinking about things when he heard another pounding explosion outside, which seemed to be coming from the boiler room.

He didn't care, and at first he thought it was a little strange, but when he inquired, he found out that there was an alchemist who was conducting some kind of experiment with the help of the boiler of the airship, and such a small test accident would happen many times a day, and it would not affect the people in the airship at all.

After reading the newspaper, Lu En pushed open the door again and came to the warm hall where the fireplace was baking, but he came late, so every comfortable corner was occupied by the man holding the cat.

It's not all cats, some are pets, some are people, some are monsters, anyway, they generally assume similar functions as cats.

He is now on the upper deck of the airship, which was specially made for dignitaries, the lower level of the airship is the warehouse and the cheap Chase shop, while the upper deck is extremely luxurious, and it has made great efforts to enjoy it, such as the newly replaced glass window in front of Lu En.

These exquisite glasses, purchased in the eastern part of the empire, lived up to its reputation, clear and transparent, every stardust in the mid-air at night was clear, and there were always people gathered by the window, and the sea of clouds could be seen from the sky.

However, the whistling sound caused by the friction of the wings of the airship in the air is still endless, and there will occasionally be a flash of fire around the hull, which is overflowing magic, but such a sound can affect the lower level, and cannot reach the interior of the upper level of the airship, which is well insulated, and on the upper level, there are one or several sleeping people, men and women, and beasts in the soft feather beds in each room.

The person in charge has not arrived for the time being, and Lu En is reading the newspaper.

The newspapers of the empire have a special interest, he is not looking at a certain regional newspaper, but the major events of the entire empire, there is no birth of daily newspapers now, and even weekly newspapers are very few, and the spread of news is mostly based on magic, the cost is very high, and the territory of the empire is large, and the newspapers are generally published every three months, and the news is slow to spread.

This week's weekly report mainly reports on some major events in the Empire, such as the arrival of the fire djinn on the border, but miraculously not a single person died, this is the destruction of the home of the Duke of Wald, and it spends a great deal of space praising the selflessness of the Duke of Wald, who reached out and contained the fire djinn in his own home.

There is also a picture in the newspaper depicting the arrival of the Flame Continent on it, which looks impressive.

The other news is about the church, there is a celestial apostle who has returned to the heavenly realm, taking charge of the newly restored fifth heavenly realm, and the earth is located in the same place as the sixth lord of the heavens, which is a very normal thing, but what really makes Lu En feel that something is wrong is that the celestial apostle is named Yurahir, and the newspaper says that she once fell into the mortal world, causing a sensation, and then rekindled the flame of faith and ascended to heaven again.

Is this Yurahir the one he knows?

Not very clear, but probably not, though...... Probably there is some connection.

There is also something four months ago, the Sea Emperor Dragon returned to power, the Lord of the Four Seas Abyss Prison was imprisoned, and the civil strife of the Sea Clan has been temporarily subsided now, at this point in time, the Sea Clan will definitely think about regaining the territory along the coast, after all, the coast is vibrant, rich in products, there are a large number of sedimentary materials and nutrients eroded by sea erosion carried by external forces such as rivers, and the source of sediment is very rich, plus the shallow kelp is rich in life, the sun is abundant, and the plants are luxuriant, even the sea tribe also likes the shallow sea along the coast, And I don't like the lifeless deep sea, so taking back some of the shallow sea is something that the sea clan will definitely do.

As for taking them all, before the sea tribe has grown a level 10, I'm afraid it's unlikely, and humans won't let go of those resources, just the corals, pearls, and shallow water spirits in the shallow sea are a huge property, not to mention others, like fisheries, submarine veins, and even the ocean itself are resources.

It is foreseeable that war will break out sooner or later, and the soldiers and horses will go first before the grain and grass are moved, and the grain trade and transportation will be the next top priority of the empire, and there will be a large amount of grain transported to the sea to supply the war.

By then, it would be too late, so before that, Lu En had to intervene, otherwise there was a high chance that he would never have a chance.

It's just that at this time, there was another explosion, and the boiler room seemed to have exploded again, and the tip of Lu En's nose moved, and he smelled a bloody smell.

It's not fresh, it smells rancid, it must have been around for a while, but it dissipated quickly.

He immediately blessed himself with a keen sense of smell, and under the power of magic, the rancid smell suddenly became stronger.

"Killed someone?" He put down the newspaper and walked towards the boiler room.

There were some locks along the way, but he easily opened them with a percussion and walked straight inside.

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At this moment, in the boiler room.

The mana oven hummed and emitted extremely high heat, in which a large amount of mana was gathered into a ball, constantly extracting mana from the fuel, that is, the mana crystals, and the outside world, turning it into floating power, allowing the airship to flow down the monsoon ring to the coastal city of Apido.

There are a lot of equipment in the boiler room, the crucible is gurgling, the air in the room is stuffy, there are many alchemy instruments, the liquid is flowing in the brass pipes, the aroma of the burning agent and the smell of many kinds of potions and raw materials are mixed everywhere, and in the middle of the copper tubes that are linked, there is a potion that I don't know what it is, which is dripped into the test tube by distillation.

The test tube, on the other hand, is linked directly to the center of the room.

On the shelves on one side of the boiler room, the various honors that I have received as an alchemist's apprentice from childhood to adulthood: trophies, certificates, and the like are displayed, while next to the shelves are a large number of old books.

On the other side of the boiler room, there were two "people" in an iron cage, and in addition to that, there was the remains of a woman, who looked like an adult woman, about forty or fifty years old in terms of figure and skin.

The two locked up people, one was a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, her legs had been sawed off, hastily bandaged with bandages to stop the bleeding, her eyes were blank, and she didn't know whether she was alive or dead, and the other was a girl whose hands and legs had been cut off, because her face was covered with blood, so she couldn't see her face clearly, and her body could be seen to be alive if she was slightly undulating.

In the center of the boiler room, a large but simple circle was arranged, and the sheets were sewn from several sheets of different colors.

A bald middle-aged man was walking barefoot on the magic circle, carrying a small iron bucket in his left hand and drawing a magic circle with a brush dipped in blood in his right hand.

In the center of the circle, the limbs of a man are placed, which seems to be from a caged girl.

The bald alchemist muttered, "It's almost ......"

In his words, it seemed that there was some kind of entanglement between the array and the magic furnace, and the magic output of the magic furnace would leave the state of stable output from time to time, and then crackle and explode, which may be the source of that abnormal movement.

The girl in the cage weakly cursed a swear word, but could not say anything else.

The alchemist gave him a bland look and continued to complete his circle. When he finished the last stroke, he breathed a sigh of relief and stepped back from the bed to rest.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a voice slowly elaborating in his ear:

"Bloodline extraction and refining array...... Do you want to purify your bloodline? ”

The bloodline is extracted and refined into an array, which can be guided by the bloodline of the same species and the same race to purify its own bloodline, and Nana can change from mixed blood to pure blood, which is the kind of refining array that it relies on.

But compared to the kind that Nana once used, this one is too simple, the little girl used to be the elder in order to hook up with Lu En, and used a level 7 alchemist inside the high-level vampire to draw the array, the grade and complexity are several orders of magnitude higher than this, and there is no need to be so bloody, purifying Nana's bloodline is that the elder himself flicked a drop of blood out, and in this way, Nana directly turned into the Night Family 3, which is not consumed at all for the elders, at most it bites the tongue.

And this one in front of you is obviously some kind of inferior compromise.

What puzzled Lu En the most was that this person didn't seem to have any hybrids to purify, of course he could see that this person had almost no monster characteristics, and was completely a pure-blooded human, and the materials he used to purify his bloodline, that is, the girls and girls who had their hands and feet cut off, were monster hybrids.

Pure-blooded humans use Mo Wu Soul to purify their bloodline? What kind of energy is this? Turn yourself into a pure-blooded monster? Isn't that a big loss? This is an insult to humanity.

"Who is it?" This alchemist also has magic skills, in fact, alchemy is basically related to magic, and there are few high-level alchemists who are not mages, after all, alchemy is a branch skill of magic.

So he immediately stepped on the ground, rune after rune floated around him, and with a spell and a gesture, the bald alchemist's body crackled, and a cloud of violet energy surrounded him.

"Yo, such a complicated spell?" Lu En was a little surprised, and the spell that he was about to release in his hand was also dispersed.

Mana Recoil Spell, a spell that causes a painful resonance recoil on the spell user in the area of effect when cast, and each spell that works will shock the caster itself.

This kind of backlash will cause some unskilled mages to have a high probability of failing to cast spells, even skilled mages need to be distracted to maintain, so as not to be affected by the backshock, plus the magic resonance will directly produce damage, which means that every spell will hurt the mage himself, if it is a spell blessed to others, then it will hurt the blessed person.

Lu En was originally going to stop the bleeding for the two children, but if he just cast the spell like this, the shock would make them both hang up neatly.

"Who are you?" The alchemist took out a bottle of potion from his pocket, took out another scroll, and then bit the scroll uneasily, and took out another thumb-sized orb from his waist, and when he was ready, he looked at Lu En vigilantly.

"The orb is sealed with a level 8 great magic, the maze technique ......," Lu En said slowly.

Labyrinth, a spell that traps the recipient in an alien labyrinth made up of force field planes, but generally only lasts about ten minutes.

"The scroll is a sleeping arrow." The Sleeping Arrow can create a pure spiritual arrow that cannot be blocked by physical matter, which can make the target fall into a deathly sleep, and even if it is killed, it will not wake up.

"What is a potion? Can't tell, mana amplification potion? Vaporize Body Potion? Don't move, you can't tear the scroll, you can't drink the potion, you're dead by the time you make the move. Lu En tapped his finger and frowned.

The reason why he chose to intervene was not sympathy, he was not so boring, it could interfere with his meddling in the grain trade, he was sympathetic, but he would not let that get in the way.

What really made him decide to appear was that the bald alchemist in front of him wore a Wald's coat of arms.

Why would a pure-blood human purify his bloodline? And he was a member of the Walds.

It doesn't seem to be the family, it should be a branch, but the family coat of arms is hung up, which means that it is doing things for the Wald family, which can't sit idly by.