Chapter Seventy-Eight: Alchemy
Early in the morning, Alan lay quietly on the bed and reminisced about the scene in the dream, and his emotions gradually calmed down, and then got up quietly, without alarming Elvis, who was still immersed in sleep, and quietly left the dormitory.
Outside, the morning breeze mixed with a faint fragrance hovered around the campus, and Alan stood under the eaves, stretched, greedily inhaling the faint fragrance in the air.
It should be the osmanthus blooming in the imperial capital, and it is the season of osmanthus blooming, when I left my father, it was the season of osmanthus blooming in the mountain village, and before I knew it, it had been three years, was my father okay? Why didn't I write to myself for a long time.
With a faint feeling of homesickness, Alan strolled down the boulevard to the college's laboratory.
Everything was quiet on campus, Alan unlocked the door of the laboratory, stepped in, and the familiar scene in the laboratory finally brought his thoughts back to reality. During this period of confinement, Alan has been staying in the laboratory, studying the knowledge of alchemy while trying various small magic experiments. Yesterday, he found a rare four-twin crystal in a new batch of raw materials in the laboratory, which was only suitable for magical experiments due to its small size and small use. Looking at the four twin crystals, Alan suddenly had the idea of using the four twin crystals to conduct lightning magic experiments.
So, he separated the four twin crystals, filled them with full gas magic elements, and then took two crystals and put them on the experimental table, paid attention to the two crystals, chanted the lightning magic spell, and soon a lightning chain appeared between the two crystals, and then Alan turned around to take the other two crystals, he was going to start the lightning magic of the other two crystals, and then put the four crystals together to observe the lightning changes between the crystals.
Just as Eren took the other two crystals and prepared to put them together, a strange thing happened, without Eren reciting any incantation, a lightning chain suddenly burst out between the two crystals in Alan's hand.
Alan was startled at the time, and almost missed leaving the crystal on the ground, but fortunately he quickly calmed down and looked around, the laboratory was empty and there was no one else, and he didn't hear any magic spells, obviously this lightning magic was not launched by someone else, so he didn't chant the spell himself, how could the magic start on its own, Alan fell into deep confusion, he had to stop the experiment and start over, and the same thing happened again.
Alan repeated the experiment twice, and both proved that this was not an accident, as the same phenomenon occurred both times.
At this time, Alan was completely unaware of the magic principle behind his experiment, and if he understood this principle, it was equivalent to grasping the key to open the door to the wizarding world.
Alan stopped experimenting and fell into deep thought, but he quickly gave up, as he could barely come up with a reason for it. So he decided to put this question aside for now, and wait for the opportunity to ask the teacher specifically.
Alan rested for a while, drank a glass of water, and flipped out another alchemy notebook and read it. Alchemy, as a type of magic, has always been in a non-mainstream state in the wizarding world. Almost every magician knows some knowledge of alchemy, but there are very few great alchemists, mainly because alchemy is a very boring work that requires a lot of time and energy. However, even so, there are still individual magicians who have extraordinary achievements in alchemy, because although alchemists have been staying in the alchemy laboratory behind closed doors, they are far less dazzling than ordinary magicians, but alchemists have a very attractive benefit, that is, alchemy can make magicians rich. Through the hands of the alchemist, the simple metal weapon will be doped with various alloy elements, will be turned into a good conductor of magic, and then inlaid with a crystal or magic core that can store magic elements, and through a magic array carved into various magic runes, the magic power in the crystal and magic core will be released, which will multiply the power of ordinary weapons, so many great alchemists' works are worth thousands of gold and are in short supply. For those magicians who prefer things outside of their bodies, alchemy work is undoubtedly a very suitable choice for them.
Currently, Richard Jones, one of the four court mages of Yus, is an alchemist, the emperor's personal bodyguard, and the emperor's ** Many of the high-ranking officials of the team use the magic equipment created by him, and there is no doubt that Grand Mage Jones has made a lot of money from these equipment, so he is definitely the richest one among the four court mages of the empire, and even there are rumors within the academy that Mage Jones will trade the equipment built by the Phelps family to the south of the continent to seek higher profits, of course, this is just a rumor, even if it reaches the ears of Emperor Yus, the Great Emperor is estimated to laugh it off. As one of the four great magicians of the court, Grand Magician Jones also has a part-time teaching in the Academy of Magic, and even now most of the equipment and raw materials in the magic laboratory come from his donations, including the alchemy notes that Alan read at this time are also some records of his early experience.
Master Jones once looked for a student in the academy as his successor to alchemy, and he talked to Alan specifically about this matter, in his eyes Alan is a student with the potential to become a great alchemist, facing the temptation of seemingly piled up gold coins, Alan said that it is impossible not to be tempted, he even specifically asked Dean Fox for advice, but the dean's answer was very vague, but the meaning of the words, Alan still understood that alchemy is not a bad thing, and it will even promote the progress of magic, but alchemy for money is equivalent to locking up in a room and repeating the action of inlaying the magic core into the equipmentThis kind of magical work is not advisable, and young people should still go outside and experience it. Dean Nex's thoughts coincided with Allen's, so after some ideological struggle, Allen finally rejected the kindness of Grand Magician Jones. The great magician Jones had to give up Alan and then look for other students, and finally he found a boy named Coria, Coria and Alan both joined the academy in the same batch, it is said that Coria's family is a completely declining aristocratic family, and it is the turn of this generation that there is no family property left, Coria's father is a gambler, owes a lot of foreign debts, and is often forced to come to the door by creditors, these are the fundamental reasons that force Coria to bow to money, I heard that the day after Coria and Master Jones signed a master-apprentice contract, a large bag of shiny gold coins was placed at the head of Koria's bed, and with these money, Korya not only paid off his father's gambling debts, and bought a courtyard for their home, which made many students look envious, but they soon found that Coria seemed to have disappeared from their group, and in addition to daily classes, Koria devoted almost all of her spare time to the money-making business that Master Jones loved.