Alchemy is a large and complex discipline that is intertwined with magic but independent of each other.

Let's take an analogy.

If magic is the base game, then alchemy is a large DLC that needs to be purchased separately.

Referring only to the alchemy in magic, it is actually the alchemy spell in the magic school.

An Yizhi's disorderly cultivation, self-propelled explosion spiders, unstable compounds, as well as the simple alchemy that comes with the robes and staffs, the seven-ring alchemy array, the chaos alchemy, and even the powerful 12-chain alchemy explosions are also under the classification of the alchemy faction.

However, these spells are mainly things that provide convenience for mages to participate in battles, and can be used to temporarily synthesize some emergency products, but they cannot make real magic items, and are only one of the spell categories.

On the other side of alchemy, there is a pure academic school, a discipline that has almost nothing to do with fighting, that is, alchemy in the true sense of everyone's mind.

Under this discipline, alchemy will be divided into more than a dozen branches such as potions, weapons and armor, alchemy machinery, and the manufacture of strange things, and there are several different schools under each branch, which is only the tip of the iceberg in the huge system, which is enough to show the complexity of the science of alchemy.

Mages generally use some alchemy methods for emergencies, and alchemists will also use some spells to protect themselves, but if you want to do both, it's easy to lose sight of one or the other.

Don't use Nikolai as a template, think that alchemists are powerful mages, in fact, many alchemists are not good at fighting, and the level is generally about level 15 that can be graduated from the magic academy......

Although his combat power is not high, the time and cost of training a qualified alchemist is not much less than that of a mage, and even more so, depending on what subject he wants to study.

If you study potions, the picture is similar to that of a real-life chemist, extracting useful ingredients from various materials and mixing them to achieve their desired effect, and the manufacturing process can even be made without any magic involvement, but the final product has all kinds of miraculous effects that are difficult for magic to achieve.

That's the potion.

However, because they do not require the participation of magic, the alchemist who learns potions is the weakest in his peers.

Compared to potions, alchemists who specialize in crafting weapons and equipment are the 'fighters' of their peers, and they must have a high level of enchantment faction spell attainment, so that they can attach the effects of spells to items. At the same time, it is necessary to have a considerable degree of understanding of the spells of other factions, although it is not required to be able to use them, at least those tons of spell information must be memorized, only in this way can you enchant the items with the desired spell effect, so the alchemists of this discipline have the strongest combat effectiveness.

Making alchemy machines requires knowledge that seems unrelated to magic, such as materials science, structure, and even architecture.

The alchemists of this discipline are also the ones who have had the most profound influence on the lives of most mortals. The ships that roam the oceans, the airships that travel between cities, the golems that each mage tower has, and even the magic mechs in the dungeon world of Endymion, as well as the floating cities and magic fortresses of the ancient elves, are all products of this discipline.

And the alchemists who make strange things, such as Lena in front of Ann Yizhi, are quite legendary.

Strange objects, mainly worthy of which are items that have magical abilities, but do not belong to weapons and potions.

This was considered a 'miracle that could not be copied artificially' in the early days of mortal alchemy technology.

I don't know if anyone has ever wondered why in the world of the brave, there are the largest number of magic books?

This is not the aesthetic of alchemists, in fact, the creation of most magic books and curiosities exceeds the expectations of the makers.

Some magic books are just a carrier for the author to record the study of spells, at best a memo, and some of the authors of strange magic books are not even mages or alchemists at all, just ordinary people without the slightest combat power, and they record more knowledge than magic, and they have nothing to do with it.

However, these strange things were born, and they were born by accident and were born by accident to produce unexpected effects.

At first, everyone didn't understand the principle, until with the development of alchemy technology and the words left by the ancient elves, mortals finally unveiled the mystery of the creation of strange things, and it boiled down to one sentence.

A strong longing can be transformed into a powerful force.

This sentence may sound particularly metaphysical, but there is evidence to follow.

We often say that things that are made with the heart of a craftsman have life, and the reason is similar.

This is just an analogy, if there is really life, then it is a essence......

Many of the strange things that were born after the Elder Elves were originally just non-magical objects made by craftsmen, but they were empowered by strong thoughts, and they became strange objects with magical powers.

Of course, this method is very accidental and does not guarantee a stable output at all.

Later, the alchemists further dissected and studied the techniques used to create strange objects, and up to now, there are roughly two ways to create strange things.

A method that is more similar to the method of making weapons and equipment, by carving a magic circle to attach the spells of each faction to it, there are many strange things made in this way, such as the Bigby talisman orb on An Yizhi's body.

The advantage is that the cost is low, and you can freely add the spell effect you want.

But the disadvantages are also obvious.

Due to the fact that the engraving circle enchantment requires a certain 'surface area', the skill of the alchemist is extremely demanding, and it is impossible to add too many or too strong spell effects, which means that the level of strange items made with this method usually does not exceed the excellent level, and the perfect level of high-level magic items is very rare.

The other method is more difficult to explain, and the only thing to say is the 'miracle' of the birth of strange things by artificiality.

There is little to no spell or circle involved, more of a crafter's ingenuity and how much effort he will put into making the item.

Lena is an alchemist who specializes in creating strange things, and the method she uses is the latter of the things just mentioned.

Annichi and Hela saw that Lena first took several bottles of potions of different colors from the potion rack on the side, introduced them into a beaker in a certain proportion, and stirred them with a glass rod to make a potion that shone with a blue-purple aura.

Put the potion into a watering can and spray it evenly on the surface of the storage beads.

The potion seemed to be very volatile, with droplets of water one second and disappearing the next, and Lena had to spray it four or five times until she used up the entire bottle.

An Yi pointed at the curious and confused, he was a layman after all, but Hela was an insider, you can ask her.

"Do you understand?"

"The devil knows what she did with the storage beads with potions, and every alchemist has his own secret tricks, which outsiders generally can't understand."

As they spoke, Lena walked over to another long table, pushed all the papers scattered on it to the ground, and then laboriously picked up the leather of the thunder eel and unfolded it on the table, frowning and thinking about something.

It didn't take too long to think, Lena made marks on the leather with an oil-based pen, and then picked up large scissors and cut a rectangular piece of leather about two meters long.

The position of her lower scissors has also been carefully considered, and it is just the right time to retain a complex and complete 'thunder pattern'.

After that, she flattened the roughly cut leather and trimmed it carefully, and tied the corners of the rectangular leather with metal wires, not knowing what it was for.

While Lena was busy working on the leather, the storage beads she had put aside also changed.

At first, it wasn't very obvious, and Ann Yizhi saw that the color of the edges of the pale yellow storage beads seemed to be lighter, but as time went on, the reaction speed also increased, and it was obvious that the basketball-sized storage beads were fading, or it would be more accurate to describe them as concentrated.

Its pale yellow shell quickly shifts towards transparency, as if all the colors are converging towards the center, forming something that is wrapped in clear glass on the outside and bright lemon yellow on the inside.

It looks like an egg with a transparent shell, and the egg white wraps around the yolk in the middle.

"Oh, I understand, she is improving the quality of the storage beads, originally the quality of this storage beads is not good enough, so she used potion to concentrate the storage beads to improve the quality of the storage beads at the cost of reducing the volume."

Hella explains:

"If you want to achieve a certain alchemy effect, there is not only one way to use, if you change it to Master Nikolai, he will carve an energy-absorbing magic circle on the surface of the electrostatic bead, and then bombard it with a suitable lightning spell, and use external force to improve the overall quality."

"Which method is better?"

"This mainly depends on the demand, the need to store the beads to maintain the original size, the best way of Master Nikolai, if you don't need such a big person, this girl's method not only saves time and effort, but also has better quality under the same quality."

Hela was pointing out these to Ann, while Lena on the other side finished finishing the shape of the leather, and she touched a handful of sweat with her hands, leaving a very funny black mark on her fair face.

An Yizhi was about to open his mouth to ask, but Lena didn't think An Yizhi didn't exist at all, and turned around and pulled out several half-meter-long metal bars and a large roll of metal wire from the cabinet on the side.

The metal refracted a purplish-red glow, like some kind of alloy.

It's not a precious metal, and it's not as malleable and harder than good steel, but it's super corrosion-resistant, and it's the most commonly used metal for the Sea Tribes.

Cutting off several strips of metal with pliers, Lena picked up one of them and stared at it with her eyes.

Immediately, the metal bar quickly elongated and softened as if it had been manipulated by an invisible hand, changing into the desired shape according to Lina's wishes.

"It's spiritual alchemy, and it's really worthy of being the elven farsighted of the sea elves."

Hela couldn't help but admire.

An Yizhi wanted to complain a little, what the hell is spiritual power alchemy? Does it have anything to do with Mental Power Gundam?