Lin Jue said these doubts one by one, the girl's Chinese level seemed to be not bad, and she didn't need Lin Yue to translate at all, but she was silent for a while, and then explained his doubts one by one.

The cause of the incident is still in the Alchemy Academy under the National Academy of Magic of the Federal Federation of Brandon.

As early as more than 50 years ago, the church put a scientific research fund and a special bonus to the academy, both of which have only one purpose, that is, to allow the magic academy to research and concoct a potion that can resist the temptation of mermaid songs, and all expenses in the research process will be deducted from this scientific research fund, and once this potion is successfully blended, an additional amount of money will be awarded to the research team.

Don't look at the Brandon Federation is the place with the largest number of magicians in the entire continent, and even the headquarters of the Wizards' Guild is located on the territory of the Federation, and the sources of funding include huge tuition fees from students, sponsorship from the Wizards' Guild, and funding from the federal government.

It is a fact that the magic academy has a strong ability to absorb gold, but it is also a fact that their expenses are greater than their income, and the largest of them is undoubtedly the alchemy academy.

Alchemy is a discipline that consumes a lot of money, and it is also a gold-swallowing beast, and every qualified alchemist who is trained represents countless abandoned alchemy materials that have proved failure, and these discarded failures represent the peaks that were once piled up with gold coins.

Fifty years ago, in the wizarding world, the discipline of alchemy was at its lowest ebb, and even almost abandoned for a time, for the following reasons.

First, the alchemy materials in the central continent are mostly non-renewable resources, with the passage of time, and the increase in the number of alchemists, the materials are decreasing day by day, and the scarcity of materials means that the price of materials is getting higher and higher, although alchemy products are precious, but people's demand for them is not very high, until the end, even the price of the finished product of alchemy products is not as good as the price of the materials it consumes, and it is impossible to make ends meet.

Second, it is precisely because the price of alchemy materials is getting higher and higher, and the funds required to learn this discipline are becoming more and more huge, and ordinary families can rarely provide an alchemist, while rich nobles, these noble children, are not willing to touch such an undignified profession as alchemy.

In this way, alchemy will fall to the bottom, which seems to be expected.

Although decades later, this year, as the price of alchemy products rose all the way, the fate of alchemy was finally saved, but fifty years ago, it was when alchemy was at its lowest ebb.

In order to prevent the decline of this discipline, with the support of all parties, every day, the Academy of Magic will purchase countless high-priced alchemy magic materials for the students of the Alchemy Academy to practice, after all, only the alchemists who pile up materials are good alchemists, this point of view is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

But at that time, alchemy was so decaying that even the Academy of Magic and the Magicians' Guild almost gave up this discipline completely.

Because the amount of bonuses is too huge, with a total of one million gold coins, as the saying goes, money can make ghosts grind, internal and external difficulties, under the temptation of such a considerable amount of bonuses, the Alchemy Academy immediately launched the research and deployment of this potion.

It just so happened that the wizarding world was also considering cutting off the financial aid to the Alchemy Academy at that time, and since the church gave money, it just relieved their urgent needs and worries.

Although it is easy to say, take money, refine medicine, and settle the bill, but when they actually started to conduct this research, people found that this matter is not simple at all.

First of all, it is necessary to make a potion for the mermaid's singing, which means that there must be a live merfolk to cooperate with the experiment.

But very few people can withstand the temptation of merfolk and come back alive, let alone catch a live mermaid, which leads to the mermaid as a creature, almost only in myths and legends, although occasionally some people who have sailed the ocean claim to have seen mermaids, but these ethereal news are far from enough.

As a result, the experiment of resisting the mermaid's singing potion has been stagnant and stagnant.

It wasn't until more than twenty years ago that an alchemist came up with a hypothesis, could the mermaid's song be an illusion?

This hypothesis was widely accepted, and attempts were made to use anti-illusion potions to resist the merfolk creature, and only a month later, a ship brought the potion to trouble the mermaids, only to have no one return, so this theory was refuted.

Until two years ago, a trading ship traveling between Splendid City and Dawning City, in order to escape a storm, found the remains of a sailing ship on a desert island, and they found a logbook on board, which proved that this was the ship that went to find trouble with the mermaid.

The logbook says that the anti-illusion potion is indeed useful, and they did use this potion to successfully resist the mermaid's song, but the reason why they did not come back is precisely because of these mermaids, the anti-illusion potion they carried at that time, the effect did not seem to be very good, and the time was not effective, only half of the people resisted the mermaid's song on the first day, and the other half of the people lost themselves.

The next day, the merfolk seemed to be very unhappy that the duck had suddenly flown away, so they followed it, waiting for an opportunity to attack again, and even though the people had drunk the potion, a large part of them still lost themselves.

As the days passed, the merfolk attacked the crew with their singing voices every day, and after only five days, there was no follow-up in the logbook.

This discovery proved that the hypothesis was basically correct, so the scholars in the Alchemy Academy studied it again based on this hypothesis, and in the end, it was estimated that it was probably because the illusion created by the mermaid was too strong, and the strength of the anti-illusion potion was not enough, so the accident occurred.

And this time, the reason why they followed the church ship to sea was actually for several purposes, first of all, in order to enhance the strength of the anti-illusion potion, they needed several materials that could only be collected in the open sea, and they were refined on the spot to ensure the maximum effect of the medicine, and at the same time, they investigated on the spot what the effect of this enhanced potion was.

Secondly, in addition to the alchemy apothecary, the Academy of Magic also sent a large number of scholars from other professions to accompany them, with different purposes, some for the study of the ocean, tides and other types of magic, some for the study of magical creatures in the ocean, and scholars with other purposes, so many categories that it is impossible to list them all.

And the girl in front of her, she studied alchemy materials, and when she came to the ocean, there was actually no use, and the only materials that could be touched on the ocean might only be wood and seawater, but alchemy materials science was not used to study wood and seawater.

As a result, she was the only one in the entire fleet who took the initiative to apply to join the voyage.

The reason she joined the voyage was that she had heard that the fleet would sail with magic cannons.

Her purpose is to observe the magic cannon on the sea, in order to improve the magic cannon for sea ships, so that the magic cannon can be installed on the ship with maximum efficiency, or change the structure of the magic cannon, in order to produce this powerful weapon at a low price.

Her original words were like this: "What a good opportunity, fate, I can come back in the next life if I lose it, if I can't touch the magic cannon, the pinnacle of alchemy material science, in this life, I will not be reconciled in the next life!"

When she said this, her eyes lit up.

A few years later, when Lin Jue recalled this picture, he was still embarrassed.

The look in his eyes was like that of a hungry jackal, and in front of him was a lamb that had been skinned, coated with all kinds of spices, and roasted on the fire, and one shuddered to see.

It wasn't until a few days later that Lin Jue learned from her classmates that this girl was a crazy lover of alchemy materials, and the magic academy had been established since it was established.