The principle of alchemy is the same as magic, it is to urge the free magic elements in the outside world to be controlled, so as to produce some supernatural energy, so as to achieve a specific effect; the difference between alchemy and magic is that the means of controlling the elements are different, magic is to use the user's own training, using spiritual power to directly control the elements, and alchemy is to create a system of complex equipment and tools as a medium, indirect control of the elements, if purely in terms of combat, the magician of the same level is always slightly better than the alchemist, but the alchemist also has his own advantages, that is, the adaptability of alchemy is much higher than magic

First of all, the cycle of cultivating magic is much longer than learning alchemy, secondly, alchemists are almost not limited by any physique and talent, and there are many magic apprentices in the Snowy Federation who have not made progress due to mediocre qualifications and have studied magic for many years, and they can become famous by studying alchemy, and in addition, alchemists can also transfer their results to other people

For example, a warrior who has never learned any magic at all can throw an alchemist at an enemy to produce a fireball-like effect, which is why alchemy is so popular in Olopa, not only in the Snowy Federation, but also in any country in Olopa, which is an extremely lucrative profession

In the same way, each alchemist is different, and there is a special group of alchemists among alchemists, who specialize in the dark magic that is hated by all races, and this kind of alchemist, like necromancers, is exiled by all countries and races on the mainland, and only the island of death is their place to live

Kassandrona is such a typical alchemist, if the ten kings under the Hellward Warden are all necromancers, this is not true, because one of them, Kassandrona does not know any dark magic at all, nor does she have any pulsations of magical energy in her body, but she has her own special skill, which is alchemy based on dark magic

When Owen first met her, Kassandrona was already in her 40s, although she was nearly half a hundred years old, her facial features were still marked, and it was clear that she should have been a beauty when she was young, she was not wearing the dark magic robes exclusive to necromancers, but wearing the shoulder-wrapping work robes that alchemists do real. A human of flesh and blood, her blood is still red, uneroded by dark magic and turned black, her obsession with dark alchemy is surprising, and Kassandrona needed a large number of living people to carry out the real thing, and more than ten years ago, she captured and killed many islanders - this is the reason why she was imprisoned in the underworld

In fact, Kassandrona did not have the lofty ambition to return to the mainland, but simply wanted to continue her research, and in the dark prison she met the warden Buyos, and became his subordinate if she needed it: the results of her research were desired by Buyos, and in return, Buyos promised her to do as she pleased

In fact, Owen's first impression of Kassandrona was not bad, compared to those gloomy and evil necromancers, Kassandrona was a normal human being, she did not show any vicious or tyrannical expression to Owen, giving people the feeling of the neighbor's eldest sister, and Owen naturally remembered Elena after seeing her

(Elena, thousands of miles away: Am I this old)

However, Owen soon found out that he was mistaken, this woman was arguably the most terrible and hated person he had ever met in his life, she had brought Owen all the inhuman suffering in the world, and the reason why she did not show any cruelty to Owen was because she did not regard Owen as a human being at all, and in her eyes, Owen was just one of countless real products

The first time she did the real yàn, Kassandrona broke every bone in Owen's body, injected a substance into the bone marrow, and then joined the broken bones piece by piece...... The brutal torture continued for a whole day, and then Owen was thrown back into his cell in the small cave like garbage, and that night Owen was so pained that he couldn't sleep that night, and he finally understood what happened to his neighbors who were imprisoned nearby after they were taken out, and every day at the hands of the cruel and cruel female alchemist

The necromancer sent Owen enough food and herbs every day, at first Owen couldn't move his limbs at all, he could only lie on the ground and eat like a dog, chewing and spitting on his wounds, after a few days, Owen's hands and feet began to regain consciousness, and his body gradually recovered, I don't know if it was the herbs sent by the necromancer that had a miraculous effect, or the substance that Kassandrona injected into Owen worked, in short, he recovered quickly in more than a month - this is a miracle, if other people were so seriously injured, it would take at least a few years to recover to Owen's current state, and more people would be paralyzed for life

However, physical recovery is not a good thing, because it means confronting another reality

The sharp knife cut into the fragile skin, Kassandrona was like a butcher for many years, the knife avoided the organs that kept Owen alive, and cut his muscles inch by inch, she turned a deaf ear to Owen's screams of ghosts and howls, she had long been accustomed to this, it was rumored that there was a kind of torture on the vast continent of the East called Ling Chi, when the prisoner was executed, the flesh of the person was cut off with a knife, so that the prisoner died painfully and slowly, Owen had never been to the far east, but the feeling of dying under Ling Chi's torture was what he felt now...... Owen, who had half his life left in the night, was wrapped in gauze and thrown back into his cell, he couldn't remember how the perverted woman had re-stitched the cut flesh, he only knew that he had survived it again

Owen watched as he was disemboweled, and Kassandrona pulled a large section of his bloody intestines out of his stomach, smeared some unidentified ointment on the intestines, and then stuffed them back into his stomach and sewed them on......

He was strapped to a chair with his head held in place by an iron ring, and Kassandrona cut off his skull, then thrust several tiny iron tubes into his exposed brain as he groaned and struggled in pain and powerlessness......

Kassandrona poured a blue potion from Owen's mouth, the liquid eroded mercilessly down his mouth and into his esophagus, even if it was too late to vomit, he felt as if he had been put into his abdomen, a red-hot iron mass, a violent burning sensation scorching him from the inside of his body, Owen struggled in pain, his blood boiled like a frenzy, his heart began to beat like a frenzy, and he began to beat wildly like a burst......

Every once in a while, the woman would perform a real job on Owen, each time in a different way, Kassandrona gave him enough time and medicine to treat the wound in the last real yàn, and after the injury was healed, she couldn't wait to throw him into another real yàn, as if she was looking for the limit of Owen's body to bear Cheng dù, Owen didn't have any dignity, he was not even a slave, just a replaceable real yàn, Owen sometimes even thought about giving up his own life, in fact, there were many people in the cell next to him who chose to escape by suicide because they couldn't bear the pain brought by this endless real yàn

In addition, Owen couldn't help but wonder that he should have surrendered to the paladin and spent the rest of his life in the church's prison - maybe even better, didn't the paladin say to forgive himself

However, Owen immediately shook his head, put this shameful thought behind him, and as for suicide, every time he had any thoughts of self-determination, he would think of his last promise to his nominal brother Walker, not only Walker, but also Sophia, Cassius, Joyka, and Ray had made a promise before they were separated in the Reguno house: to return to the village of Serre in ten years to reunite

Every time he thought about it, Owen regained the motivation to survive, and Owen always had a belief: when everything has an end, he must be patient and wait for an opportunity to come

Two years of cruel time passed, I can't remember how many times the bloody reality happened on my body, and I never deliberately remembered that the original brown hair turned as silver white as a thousand years of snow, and after suffering it again and again, Owen's body became stronger and stronger, and his willpower became stronger and stronger, so that later, he could even use the method of self-hypnosis to temporarily block his senses to offset the severe pain caused by the test

On this day, the door to the cell was opened, and Owen was taken out again, but to Owen's surprise, he was not taken to the real room this time, but in the opposite direction.