Things in the world are so strange, the young and unspeakable Elan and Agnes, two alchemy rookies, were unexpectedly hired as the alchemy assistants of the Manzano alchemist when they wanted more dishes and more dishes, which made those old alchemy assistants who had been engaged in alchemy for more than ten years, or even decades, know, how could they be embarrassed?

However, the paper couldn't hold the fire, and this matter was quickly spread. The next day, every day, to the seven-story alchemy tower in Manzano, the field staff who had to transport various alchemy materials and collect task products, Cassadine Lambert, a junior alchemist of the Elletmoth Alchemy Society, was an old man in his fifties, not tall, with a typical Glasgow Levine-style goatee, which could be regarded as an alternative star-chaser.

He was an old man, in the alchemy tower, and saw that the promising senior alchemist Manzano was always guiding the two twelve or thirteen-year-old apprentices Ilan and Agnes, many times, they were engaged in some basic alchemy work, processing some alchemy materials, cleaning, infiltrating, cutting, selecting, concocting, drying, looking at their unfamiliar operation techniques, and the handling of different alchemy materials was also in a hurry, he knew that these two were purely rookie level rookies. His heart is very unhappy, like a fish in his throat, he always feels that something is wrong, he has something to say in his heart, and he is unhappy if he doesn't vomit.

Cassadine Lambert stood at the door, holding an account book, and instructed his men to unload sacks of alchemy materials and place them in the place designated by Manzano, and also took his eyes to look at the genius alchemist. His mouth opened and opened, but he seemed to feel that there was a huge difference in status between the two of them, and he knew Manzano's stinky temper, so he couldn't open his mouth, but in the end, he closed his very gossip mouth with a complicated expression, which was really extremely aggrieved.

"Did Ilan see it, these herbs should be classified and placed in areas 1 to 5, the ores should be classified and placed in areas 6 to 10, and animal skins and bones should be placed in areas 11 to 15, and the remaining mysterious substances should be put into areas 16 to 20 alone, and the alchemy runes on them should be recognized, remember their classification methods, well, is it okay?" Manzano instructed the laborers who were carrying things while teaching Ilan, and these chores would be part of Ilan's work in the future, of course, he had to be careful to avoid mistakes in the future.

"Got it, Mr. Manzano, I've written it all down by heart." Ilan held a small notebook and wrote with a quill brush, from No. 1 to No. 20, various items were divided into more than 20 kinds, 365 categories, and of course a number of small items, Ilan made detailed records.

"Alchemy rune is a secret symbol containing mysterious alchemy knowledge, in fact, it is not artificially created, but the essence of things, extracted from the origin of matter, belonging to a kind of reflection and study of the essence of things, a kind of rules, truth, is a universal truth." Manzano is now a very competent teacher, and even in his work, he does not forget to teach two disciples.

"The interpretation of alchemy runes is often the opinion of the benevolent and the wise, but there is no doubt that the alchemy rune represents a kind of creation power between heaven and earth, which the gods and mortals can never really decipher, and are eager to decipher, a great knowledge about the generation of matter and creation. After learning the alchemy runes, you can simplify alchemy from complex, and then you can use some general equations to calculate and solve some alchemy problems, and at the same time, you can also understand the essence of the world through these runes, of course, including magic and various skills, and further, you can even create rune formations that are comparable to the gods, for example, the eternal love that once was. Manzano said eternal love, and suddenly became silent, looking at the window of the tower, all the way to the deep sky, and his eyes were full of infinite yearning.

Almost immediately, Ilan took all this complicated knowledge to his head, which was too simplistic. In the past few days, his memory has become surprisingly good, and he will never forget it, and every night Manzano has arranged a study task, and he memorizes books on pharmacy, alchemy, and enchantment. This made him feel very unreal, and every morning when he got up, he had Agnes pinch herself to prove that he was not dreaming.

Whenever this happens, he can always make Agnes laugh, the laughter is beautiful and charming, and it makes Ilan addicted and feels that he is dreaming, which makes his uneasiness even more severe, and even to the point of insomnia.

When Elan told Agnes about her uneasiness, the little girl was surprisingly not surprised, but said to him very funny: "You are really funny, how can people never forget it?" It's impossible, maybe only gods can do it, are you a god? The answer is no, you're not, so you don't tease me, haha, Ilan, you're so good to me! ”

The laughter was as beautiful as a silver bell, which made Ilan even more uneasy, so, at his strong request, Agnes slowly took out one alchemy book after another from Mr. Manzano's rich library and began to test whether Ilan really remembered.

A complex and incomprehensible book on ancient alchemy was memorized by Ilan from beginning to end. Agnes' eyes widened, and her mouth opened more and more round, oh, round enough to swallow a large ostrich egg.

"Elan, you can recite this book "Glasgow Levine's Inquiry into the Origin of Alchemy" again."

"The origin of alchemy actually comes from temptation, and for the temptation of immortality, the search for immortality is the greatest temptation for human beings. Throughout history, almost all the sages of human beings, whether it was Hariran or Noah, elves, or beast spirits, had hoped that they could achieve immortality and become gods in the realm of the gods, and they had made various attempts. ”

Later, many of them succeeded and became the gods they are now, revered and envied by countless people. Of course, of all the attempts, the alchemist's fantasy and skill are the most universal. The alchemists' original main goal was to make medicine, which was for the sake of immortality, and the elixir of life was their ultimate goal. ”

"The alchemist believes that the distillation and purification of alchemy materials in alchemy is a process of perfection through death and resurrection, symbolizing the perfection of the soul of the person engaged in alchemy from death and resurrection, so that the 'elixir of life' he refines can prolong life, refresh the spirit and strengthen the essence, and enable them to obtain a happy life, superb wisdom, noble morality, change his spiritual outlook, and finally achieve communication with the Creator and obtain true immortality."

However, such a goal may be achievable. However, many alchemy masters have also studied this, and the alchemy god Albertmos once explained the difficulty of immortality on this proposition: "Since it is a fortunate thing in the world, I think that it can only be obtained by a very small number of people through the good revelation of the creator god, not by personal diligence." According to my research, the philosopher's stone is the key to immortality. ”

"Oh, oh, how is that possible? Elan, is it really you? It can't be a bag drop, right? ”

The awkward passages of alchemy were recited by Elan without any discount, and Agnes was very hurt in her heart, she suddenly interrupted Elan's recitation, pinched Elan's face hard, and carefully observed every place in Elan, to make sure that this was really the Ilan she knew.

In the end, it was undoubtedly certain, and Agnes cried innocently, "I am so pitiful, why didn't God give me such power, but gave you this stupid boy?" What an unfair fate. ”

However, after screaming in the alchemy tower for a while, the little girl quickly changed her mind again, and became eyebrows and smiled: "Well, hehe, I understand, it must be the goddess of fate Turfona who sees that you are too stupid and thinks that you are not worthy of being friends with the extremely smart Agnes, so she makes you smarter, so that you are worthy of Anie's wisdom, well, it must be like this." yes, Ani is so smart, I can think of it. Agnes raised her clenched little fist and swung it down vigorously, saying very narcissistically.

Although Ilan's vision did not forget to make him love and not rest, but the study of alchemy is as always, because of this ability, his understanding of alchemy can be said to be a thousand miles away, at least theoretically, but it lacks some practical grinding, I believe that after a few years of experiments, this can definitely make up for it.

As a result, his work became busier and busier, because it took Elan a month to thoroughly organize Manzano's bookshelves, and every book became dusty, and knowledge was like buckets of water poured directly into Ilan's brain. At least more than pure theory, even Manzano can't say anything about him, but every qiē is all on paper, and alchemy still needs to be realized with both hands, so the little girl gave almost all the hands-on opportunities to Yilan, which is called a combination of theory and practice.

However, the quiet days did not pass for a few days, and troubles always came indirectly and unconsciously.

Because, the news that the prospective master Manzano had recruited two rookies as apprentices spread in the Alchemy Association of Il City, which made many members of the Alchemy Association Elders at the master and grandmaster level very uneasy, is this Manzano going to ruin his future? He is a genius who may be promoted to the Great Grandmaster of Alchemy in his lifetime. This time, it was a thankless effort to cultivate two rookies who couldn't do anything, instead of racing against time to engage in their own research and strive to become an alchemy master as soon as possible, which is really unteachable!

A batch of goatees were annoyed, blowing their beards and staring, very neat, as if they had been rehearsed in advance.

Despite this, these old men did not act on their own, after all, Manzano is a big temper, just a little, thank God if he doesn't find someone to get angry, who wants to touch his moldy head. And Agnes has always been her own way, and she won't take care of everyone's feelings, and Ilan can't imagine that his spirit seems to be a little abnormal, and he is bothering him every day. I will always be scared, and when I wake up, I can't remember anything.

The masters and grandmasters of the Alchemy Association did not come together, they were divided into several teams, pretending to come to inspect, and kept coming to visit, but Manzano's stubborn temper, everyone knew it, no one was willing to speak, just stood there, watching the three of them do alchemy preparations there in an orderly manner, Aini and Ilan were too busy, Manzano had to do it himself, and he also taught by words and deeds, which moved Aini and Elan very much, and they obeyed Manzano's words, and the three of them cooperated surprisingly well in alchemy.

Every day, the job of the two people is to help Manzano deal with the piles of alchemy materials, step by step cleaning, soaking, cutting, selecting, concocting, drying, etc., the work is frequent and boring, but for Agnes and Ilan, they can always find a little fun to entertain each other, even in the midst of this heavy work, and the laughter of the day renders the entire alchemy tower into a happy base camp, happy work, happy study, and labor becomes a pleasant enjoyment.

It's like today, Ilan's handsome face was painted as a little flower cat, as funny as you want, which made Agnes's laughter continue, and the silver bell-like laughter also infected Ilan and Manzano, and the two of them were also very sunny and energetic when they worked.

Although Manzano is not young, he doesn't know why, but he was persecuted by the two, and he actually changed his previous style, and no longer kept a straight face, as if everyone owed him gold coins.

Now he is always smiling when he is alchemizing, as if he has made a heavy discovery, and the rigorous alchemy work has become a happy and pleasant alchemy, just like stepping on the drum, his whole body is full of strength, and the work is done easily and effectively, and the success rate of alchemy has been greatly improved.

This reminded him of a very philosophical sentence, "Emotions affect efficiency, and attitudes determine a qiē."