Chapter Seventy-Seven: Atelier Alchemy

After saying goodbye to Zhao Ziyu, Bai Qi returned to the barracks space.

Coming to the central town, Bai Qi went straight to the Soul of Magic, and on the top floor of the Soul of Magic, there was a hall dedicated to teaching the alchemy of space soldiers.

In front of the counter at the entrance of the hall, more than three hundred survival points for learning basic alchemy were paid, and Bai Qi stood on one of the knowledge input devices under the guidance of a clerk.

A few minutes later, when Bai Qi walked down from the knowledge input device, a large amount of alchemy basics had been forcibly stuffed into his mind.

This knowledge is extremely complex and spans a huge range, including the knowledge of forging weapons and armor, the knowledge of making zuò leather armor, and even the knowledge of crafts such as creating inlaid ornaments and cutting gemstones.

Bai Qi staggered out of the soul of magic and went into a bar and sat in a daze for more than an hour before he basically sorted out the things in his head.

After that, he returned to the top floor of the Soul of Mana and purchased a "low-level alchemy workshop rental card" at a shop for 5,000 survival points.

With the card, he returned to his private space.

In front of the door of the private space, Bai Qi used the alchemy workshop rental card on the door, and then he opened the door, revealing a portal as deep as the night sky.

Bai Qi stepped into the portal, his eyes were dark, and then there was a light again, and a small modern factory appeared in front of him.

In this enclosed space of about 500 square meters, dozens of beautiful instruments with a futuristic look are placed.

Bai Qi walked around the factory, mapping the purpose of each machine to the knowledge in his mind.

Then he went to the edge of the factory, where there was a window on the wall.

He typed in what he wanted in the light curtain above the window.

After the insignificant dozens of survival points were deducted, the window opened, and more than a dozen metal ingots, large and small, appeared in the window.

Bai Qi picked up the metal ingots, walked to an instrument that looked like a furnace at the edge of the factory, opened the lid, threw the metal ingots into the furnace one by one, and closed the lid of the furnace.

After that, Bai Qi clumsily started the furnace.

After about three minutes, the discharge port under the furnace automatically opened, and seven or eight metal strips slid out of the discharge port.

After thinking for a moment, Bai Qi reached out and grabbed one of the metal strips in the charging trough.

The reason why he hesitated for a moment was actually to inquire about the basic knowledge of alchemy that was forcibly entered in his mind, these metal bars did not look like they were in a red-hot state, but in case the temperature did not drop completely, he grabbed it with his hands without authorization, wouldn't it be unpleasant for him.

The metal bar was cold to the touch, apparently completely cooled in the instrument.

These metal bars are the most basic forging steel smelted by Bai Qi according to the metal formula in the basic knowledge of alchemy, using this intelligent smelting furnace, called "special alloy steel for sharp weapons", which is the most basic material for forging sharp weapons such as swords.

The metals used in the recipes of this low-grade material are all found on Earth, so weapons forged from this steel can be brought back to the real world and will not be banned.

According to the laws of the Tower of Babel, anything that is beyond the technology of the earth or made of materials that are not available on the earth will be sealed in the storage space when leaving the barracks space, and cannot be taken out.

Bai Qi picked out a steel bar 80 centimeters long and weighed about three kilograms, and before taking it to another instrument, he opened the hatch and sent the steel bar in.

As soon as the instrument was turned on, it vibrated slightly.

This is an intelligent metallographic adjuster, which can replace the process of repeated folding and forging in the process of sword casting, and directly let the metal form a special metallographic that can greatly improve the strength and toughness of the sword.

A few minutes later, the metal bar fell from the discharge port into the trough, and the steel bar did not change much, but Bai Qi knew that his toughness and strength had at least doubled.

Next, Bai Qi took the steel bar to another instrument and sent the material into the inlet, which is an intelligent cold machining center.

This machining center is not the same thing as a machining center in the real world, it is a tool that uses gravity, magnetic resonance, and some forces that Bai Qi completely does not understand, and forcibly shapes the metal in a state without heating, the processing cost of this instrument is very expensive, the processing cost is calculated by the second, and the unit price per second also varies according to the different raw materials.

Fortunately, this kind of "alloy steel for sharp weapons" is very weak for this instrument, from the metal strip to the complete processing according to the model selected in advance by Bai Qi, it only takes 0.003 seconds, and the cost is 98 survival points.

According to the records in the basic knowledge of alchemy, this kind of intelligent cold processing center was originally designed for making high-level combat equipment, and it is definitely overkill to process this low-level weapon, but in order to liberate alchemists from heavy and simple labor, the space is equipped with this high-level instrument in alchemy workshops of all levels.

By the time the metal strip is spit out of the outlet, it has already been formed into an embryo of a sharp sword without a hilt, and this instrument completely replaces the process of hand-hammering and forming by craftsmen.

However, this is the end of the sword, and the processing is only half complete.

Bai Qi took the sword embryo and came to the "metallographic fine-tuning instrument", and sent the sword embryo in, the function of this instrument is similar to the metallographic adjustment instrument, but its accuracy is higher, and it can adjust the metallographic in different positions in the sword embryo separately, such as the hardness of the blade can be adjusted higher, and the toughness of the sword spine position adjustment is higher, and it can even produce different metallographic phases in the sword body, so that these different golds are intertwined with each other to form fine lines, so as to improve the toughness and hardness of the weapon.

When the sword embryo was spit out of this instrument, it was already covered with fine and beautiful patterns.

Finally, Bai Qi went to the window next to the workshop to exchange a small metal rod, this metal rod is a metal material made of rare metals, its main function is wear-resistant, can effectively prevent the wear of the blade.

Insert the sword embryo into the "intelligent cold plating instrument", and insert the metal rod into the special hole, turn on the instrument, the metal rod is quickly sucked into the hole and disappears, after a few minutes, the instrument automatically closes, and the sword embryo is withdrawn.

The blade of the sword is plated with a layer of dark blue metal, which makes the sword look even more cold and sharp.

After this step is completed, a beautiful Chinese sword is fully formed, with exquisite and mysterious patterns and sharp blades that shimmer with a faint blue light, all showing its sharpness and elegance.

The next process is simple, when processing the sword embryo, the threaded card slot for installing the sword handle has already been processed, and with the help of simple machinery, the ready-made sword handle is quickly installed by Bai Qi.

He bought a standard-sized scabbard from the window to match the hilt, and a beautiful sword was complete.

The whole process takes only a dozen minutes, and with the help of these high-tech instruments, forging a long sword is very simple.

But in fact, for Arcane Equipment, the completion of this process is just the beginning.

For example, if Bai Qi wants to turn the most basic white longsword in his hand into an arcane longsword with additional attributes or skills, he also has to go through four processes: laser cutting, cold plating of the enchantment layer, drawing spell inscriptions, and cold welding.

Among them, laser cutting, cold plating of the enchantment layer, and cold welding can be quickly and easily completed with instruments, but the process of drawing spell inscriptions cannot be replaced by machine qì or artificial intelligence in any case, because only spell inscriptions drawn with spiritual power guidance are effective and can be activated, while with artificial intelligence, no matter how accurate the drawn inscriptions are, they cannot be activated.

As for the truth in this, it is not something that Bai Qi, a rookie who has just come into contact with alchemy, can understand.

It is only the process of drawing spell inscriptions that requires an alchemist to spend a lifetime of research and practice.

These dozens of sophisticated and expensive instruments have only one purpose, that is, to allow alchemists to get rid of heavy and cheap labor, and to be able to independently and quickly refine arcane equipment.

Now, Bai Qi can only make equipment that already has models in the zuò instruments, and when he actually becomes an alchemist, he can use these instruments to design his own equipment completely independently.

However, Bai Qi probably will never be able to wait for that day, because alchemy is actually a derivative of arcane, and to become an alchemist, you must first be a mage.

Fortunately, Bai Qi's purpose in coming here was not to become an alchemist, he just planned to forge some white weapons that could be brought back to the real world.

Bai Qi worked in the alchemy workshop for three days, forging dozens of swords with different shapes and gorgeous appearances, and put them all into the storage space, before leaving the workshop satisfied.

A beginner workshop rental card can be rented from the workshop for a month, and the time in the workshop is the same as the time in the training space, no matter how long you stay in the workshop, only a short time has passed between the barracks space and the real world, and the rental time of the workshop can be frozen at any time and enabled at any time, if Bai Qi's team needs to train alchemists in the future, this card is not a waste.

Bai Qi casually threw the flashy white swords in the storage space in the corner of the living room, and he planned to put them in the store pù in the future as treasures of the town.

In terms of cost, each of these swords is only equivalent to one or two hundred survival points, and in the barracks space, it is definitely a garbage that no one picks up, but if you go to the real world, each one is much stronger than those famous swords.

Although forging these things effortlessly is actually quite fun, but after three days of busy work, Bai Qi was tired enough, took a hasty bath, fell down on the big bed in the bedroom, and fell into a deep sleep.

When he woke up, it was already noon the next day, he had eaten, returned to the real world, called Zhao Ziyu to say hello first, and then went to the store to take a look.

Since Zhao Ziyu's decoration plan has not yet come out, the decoration of the store pù has not yet started.

At this time, Bai Qi regretted letting Zhao Ziyu go to the design shop pù to decorate, generally speaking, the famous design takes a long time, in case it gets to the end, Zhao Ziyu only came up with the decoration plan after a month or two, and then spent another month or two to decorate, and when the shop pù opened, maybe he had already hung up.

However, this matter is really not in a hurry, it takes a month or two to decorate the store, and after the opening, you can't say that you have earned hundreds of thousands of dollars on the first day, these things can only be done slowly.

When he returned home, Bai Qi searched the Internet for sword antiques, and found that the quantity was very small, and he couldn't see the quality, so he couldn't get any better.

As for the antique market, if he goes there to throw money, it is better to order antique swords directly online.

Thinking about it, Bai Qi can only pay attention to Adrian and Heinrich, the weapon collection in Western countries started much earlier than in China, there should be a lot of them, Bai Qi doesn't need many good things, some modern, even modern famous masterpieces can be used as façade.