Chapter 25: The Alchemical Apprentice
The magic car was driving very fast, and Ilan and Agnes were standing on the car, also very curious, looking here and there, with an inquiring look in their eyes, like two curious babies.
There are four rows on the left and right of this car, twelve rows of seats, and a co-pilot seat in front, so that forty-nine passengers can be seated, and the soft animal skin is paved on the top, which looks warm and comfortable, in addition, there are ten pull rings hanging on the thick roof, and more than ten people can stand, at this time, the car is already full, and there are four or five people standing like Ilan and Aini, it seems that everyone is very recognized by the magic car, it can be seen that the residents of Yir City go out to take the magic car, it has become the best choice, Safe and comfortable, you can go anywhere.
Ilan was particularly interested in the operation of the car's power system, and couldn't stop watching the driver's uncle spin the steering wheel and drive the car along the established route through the streets. The surrounding scenery and buildings flew backwards quickly, which made the two of them feel very strange.
Ten minutes later, the two of them stepped out of the car, as if in a dream, like falling into the clouds, feeling a little unfinished, and before they woke up from the shock, they had already arrived at the door of the Manzano Alchemy Tower.
It is a seven-storey spired-top cylindrical alchemy tower, which belongs to the benchmark model architecture of the city of Il.
Agnes was still very excited, she liked this magic car very much, and the little girl said with emotion: "Elan, don't you say, this magic car is good, big and beautiful, not slow, more convenient than our rabbit camel?" When will I own one? It's a joy to think about. ”
"Well, it's good, I promise, what I'm talking about is that in the future, I must personally make a magic car, you see, it's like that, just like the Beetle, when the time comes, I'll carry you, and we'll travel around the whole world, the East Continent, the West Continent and the Original Continent, you can go wherever you want, how about it?" Ilan was also a child, bursting with unquenchable ambitions, and thinking that he had learned the Harry Gold Forge technique, that is, he almost had practical experience, and maybe in the near future, he should be able to make such a car, so he confidently made a wish to Agnes.
"That's a good idea, you're going to be a free driver for me, and take me around for a ride, but you have to hurry up, I don't have much patience, maybe one day, I'll take the gold coins to buy one, haha." Ani smiled happily, very happy at Ilan's words, and the feeling of happiness was written all over her beautiful cheeks. "The world is so big, I want to see it."
"Hehe, there will be a day, believe me, I will work hard, you will see, but for now, let's learn alchemy first. Well, this round seven-story tower should be Manzano's alchemy tower, I hope I can learn useful things from him. Ilan's eyes were full of firmness and brightness.
"I believe in you, Ilan, that you will be able to succeed. Let's go, let's go in, I really don't know why you have to find this alchemist named Manzano as a mentor? Agnes looked at Elan, her eyes were very deep and suspicious, as if she wanted to figure out how to inject power into Elan.
"Hehe, I just heard that being this Manzano's alchemy apprentice is very difficult, I want to challenge it, shouldn't we know the difficulty?" Yilan was a little embarrassed, and he couldn't say anything about the ringing spirit, so he had to talk nonsense, and his lying face was sneering.
"Okay, face the difficulties, okay, I like this, I'm the genius little princess Agnes, the smartest Harriland, I like to challenge difficult things the most, and the things that are not difficult are left to ordinary people." Agnes suddenly smiled, it was obvious that Ilan had stumbled on her temper. Obviously, no matter how good the trick is, it will vary from person to person.
Manzano's alchemy tower is seven stories high, which is almost the standard of an alchemy master, and he can live in a seven-story tower as a senior alchemist, which is enough to show that this Manzano is by no means an ordinary alchemist, and his alchemy talent is definitely superb.
Because, the general association of the Alchemy Association of Eller Morse in Il City is simply a symbol of justice and fairness, and the place where the alchemists live is absolutely particular, the nine-story tower is for the alchemy grandmaster, of course, the president of the association is also qualified to live, the eight-story tower belongs to the alchemy master, and the seven-story alchemy tower is the patent of the alchemy master, hehe, as for the alchemists, they can only live in the tower below the seventh floor.
And Manzano can live in the seven-story tower, obviously his talent and strength must be close to the master level, only in this way, it is possible to get the permission of the Alchemist Association or an exceptional reward, and he can stay in the seven-story tower in advance.
In fact, Manzano's alchemy assistant, or alchemy apprentice, is also the most difficult to do, and there have been many bad examples of this before.
One by one, apprentices come in the name of genius to learn his genius alchemy from Manzano's hands, but things often go against people's ideas. There are so many people, but none of them can last for three months, and the longest one lasted for two months and one day, but in an alchemy experiment, he blew up a thigh, became a cripple, and received a large amount of gold coins to go home to talk about his life. The shortest apprentice only lasted for an hour, that is, half a month ago, and his fate was better, but during alchemy, he was hit by a strange mutant toxin, and he is still unconscious, but his arms and legs, all the accessories are still intact, and it is also a great luck in misfortune.
Just imagine, under the hands of such a terrifying alchemist, accidents erupt so frequently, and the disability rate remains high, hehe, as long as he is a normal person, he has palpitations and can't do it, and no one wants to live the second half of his life and become unable to take care of himself.
Therefore, the people of Ilcity who studied alchemy began to turn away from Manzano, treating him as a beast of prey, alas, although Manzano was a genius, he also meant danger, didn't he?
It's better to stay away from genius and manzano, although you earn less gold, but you can live a long life, and in this way, you can stay away from danger and beauty.
Therefore, Manzano's mood is also extremely bad these days, his reputation is bad, and it is not easy to recruit people. Although he had raised his salary again and again, and the salary of the alchemy apprentice was more than twice that of other alchemy pagodas, the front door was still deserted, and the recruitment advertisements had been sent out for several days, and still no one dared to come to apply, so that his work and the progress of his experiments were greatly delayed, which made him unbearable.
He had to stop and do some of the work that only assistants and apprentices needed to do. Manzano said in his heart: Alas, people's hearts are not ancient, why are people now so impetuous and do not respect alchemy? Shouldn't it be, scrambling to come and get me a job?
Manzano muttered to himself: "Oh, it seems that there was a time when it was like this, but after a few Yan zhòng accidents and a few deaths, it became the current situation. ”
Manzano's alchemy apprentice is almost impossible to find, a few days ago he finally found a country kid, but unfortunately he was poisoned again, alas, he has to do everything by himself, do it himself, when will he be able to produce results?
Manzano was depressed and in a very bad mood, how much he wished that an alchemy apprentice would come to his aid! This seems to have become an extravagant hope, and the recruitment of alchemy apprentices has become a grudge that he cannot let go.
In this alchemy tower, all kinds of alchemy materials are piled up everywhere, all kinds of ores, mythril, power stones, magic stones, as well as various herbs, monster corpses, bones...... There's no pattern, it's just so miscellaneous and casually thrown there, regardless of it. Manzano's physique was weak, and he was not allowed to do heavy work.
After all, he was just an alchemist, not a combat professional.
Manzano had a bitter face, in the past few days, his life has not been easy, and he feels that he has become much older all of a sudden.
The alchemy materials here have not been cleared out, and over there, the new materials from the Alchemy Association have been sent over again. This made Manzano's habit of walking around the alchemy pagoda every day be thwarted, cough cough, the ground was full of garbage-like materials, so that Manzano's feet could not be inserted.
In the Alchemy Association of Eltmoth, a batch of magic potions recently customized has not yet had time to be made, but his friend Kirilenko hurriedly sent a batch of magic weapons and asked him to enchant him, saying that he would use them soon. should have refused, but he didn't know how to be sophisticated, so he only cared about catching up with his good friends, and forgot to excuse himself, and his face was thin, so he had to take this job.
However, he was really too busy, and some basic preparations could not be completed at all, not to mention the use of various raw materials to make alchemy products. He was fed up with this sin, and he thought to himself: If someone comes to apply, no matter what the circumstances, even if they don't know anything about alchemy, I will keep him and treat him as an apprentice.
Manzano had enough of the days without an assistant, and he had to find a decent assistant to clean up the chores at hand, otherwise his alchemical research would not be carried out. His mind was completely tormented by this incident, as if he had gone mad.
At this moment, Ilan and Agnicha pushed open the tall arched door of the alchemy tower, and with a creak, startled the two of them, thinking how long it must have been that this gate had not been maintained, and it was all like this.
Although the two of them are not bad in other aspects, but their alchemy IQ adds up to zero, or they don't know anything, along the way like a pair of curious babies, look at it here, touch it there, it's like a child entering a zoo, a pair of eyes are not enough at all, looking at the strange alchemy runes on the wall, imaginative, unbelievable, and looking at the herbs, ores, mythril, pure gold, etc. on the ground, and there are some bottles and jars, altars and bowls, what tripods, burning spoons, beakers, test tubes, flasks, red, green, and green medicinal liquid floated and precipitated in it, which was very eye-opening for the two of them, and their super high curiosity was also greatly satisfied.
"Is this the alchemy room? It's amazing! Healing potions, agility potions, and strength potions, are these things used to make zuò? It's more magical than magic. Agnes looked intoxicated, full of longing for alchemy.
"The alchemist is really rich, if only these things were given to me, then I can exchange them for some gold coins and buy what I need." Ilan's eyes lit up, and all he saw were gold coins, blinding his titanium dog eyes.
"Ahem, what are you two imps doing here?" Manzano immediately saw these two elves and strange little guys, in his alchemy tower, they didn't treat themselves as outsiders at all, and kept turning over this and that, Manzano had to wonder what the hell the hell were the two of them doing here.
"Ah, how can there be anyone? Won't you say a word to prove your save? Why did you suddenly jump out and scare me, do you know or not, people are scary and will die, really, you are so old, and you love to joke, how can your family let you out? The little girl was startled, and her little mouth began to be uncovered, her little hands covered the position of her heart, making a frightened look, and her two beautiful big eyes were round, glaring at the Manzano alchemist, and although there was not a single dirty word in the words she spoke, it was extremely ugly.
"Hehe, I've been here for a long time, but you two didn't see it. Little girl, whose family are you? How did you get here? Manzano is a bit natural, he doesn't care about the tone of his voice at all, to put it mildly, he has a genius brain, but only when he is alchemy, for other things, his IQ is less than fifty.
"We're here to enlist as an alchemy apprentice, you see who we should look for, it's too chaotic here, there's not even a road. What about Mr. Manzano? Isn't it upstairs, you're his butler, right? Ilan finally remembered what he was here for, so he said to Manzano very politely, and finally did not forget to arrange Manzano's sentence.
"It's too messy, yes, it's too messy, it's been a long time." Manzano replied subconsciously, and suddenly his thin and tall small body like a bamboo pole suddenly jumped up again like a spring, "What are you talking about, alchemy apprentice, you are here to apply for alchemy apprenticeship." Oh great, are you all? ”
"Oh yes, my name is Ilan, and this is my good friend, Agnes, and we are both going to enlist as Mr. Manzano's alchemical assistant." Ilan was a little slanderous about the old man in his heart, why is it so messy here, obviously the level of this Manzano is not very good, doesn't Harrilan's saying say, if you don't sweep a house, why sweep the world? I can't even manage a real room, so how can I go to alchemy.
The little girl also nodded her head again and again, agreeing with Yilan's statement, the two of them are together, advancing and retreating together.