Chapter 2: Alchemy's Attainments (I)
"Bring him back to town first" pinching his chin and thinking about it for a while, Noshi made a decision. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Sister Noshi, let's just hand this guy over to the soldiers in the town, don't you have more important things to do when you go to Kribi City this time?"
Glancing at his younger brother, Nuoxi shook his head, "It's nothing, it's just a trivial matter."
"That's right, my sister is the ace of the Kribby Knights, so there's nothing to worry about," Varus said with a laugh.
"Let's go!" Verus's attitude towards Rivi changed a hundred and eighty degrees compared to Noshi, twisting Rivi's hand and letting him move forward.
"Wait, what's in there?" Noshi asked with a wave of her hand to stop Rivi, her eerie red eyes staring directly at the leather bags that Rivi was hanging from his waist.
"Just, just gadgets," Levi stammered.
"Verus"
Verus smiled and nodded, and continued to twist Revie with one hand, untying his leather bag one by one with the other and handing it to Noshi.
"What, what?" asked Noshi, taking the metal object two fingers in his hand, with a large head and a small tail, after a moment's hesitation.
"That's a wrench, don't get my gears off, don't put them together if they're different sizes!" Levi was angry, but no one took his words seriously.
"Why do you still have a hammer on you?" Verus also pulled out Rive's leather bag, and then took out a small hammer.
"Let go of me!" shouted Levi.
"How dare you talk to us like that—" Verus couldn't say anything more than he could say, for he noticed that there was something wrong with the way Rivi looked at him.
"I said, let me go," Levi said word by word, gritting his teeth.
Verus, who was still just a teenager, subconsciously let go of his hand, and Rivi, whose hands were free again, didn't scream, but leaned down without saying a word to clean up the parts that had fallen to the ground.
There were gears of all sizes, as well as parts that even Noshi couldn't understand the purpose, and Levi carefully picked them up one by one and stored them in their respective leather bags.
Noshi's gaze locked on Rivi's body, the knight's sword at his waist had been drawn in half, and the blade reflected a cold metallic sheen in the sunlight.
She hadn't forgotten that Verus had said that Revie was a mage, and that if Revie was caught off guard, he might hurt her brother.
But the danger did not arise, Levi just lowered his head and packed up the contents of his leather bag, and when all the parts were put back in the bag, he took the leather bag and said.
"You have to hold it, be careful."
"Okay, okay," Verus replied stunned, and then he saw Levi obediently turn his back and twist his hands back to his waist.
From beginning to end, Levi didn't have the slightest intention of running away, in fact, Levi also knew in his heart that he was not the opponent of these two sisters and brothers, and it was estimated that he would not be able to run away, but would make the other party misunderstand.
"Are these, tools important to you?" Pushing the knight's sword back, Noshi looked at Rivi with a complicated look.
"Does your sword matter to you?" Rivi glanced at Noshi angrily.
"Of course it's important, but you actually think these tools are knights' swords?" Noshi, who has always believed in the knight's creed and has taken it as his motto, is very puzzled.
"Your sword is for killing, my tools are for making items, and you're a knight, I'm not," Levi said.
"You're a craftsman?"
“... Sort of."
"I'm sorry" Noshi's eyes flickered, "Verus, let's go"
"Oh" Verus restrained Levi's hand with both hands again, but it was noticeably lighter.
...
The town of Jotun, a small town in the south of Kribby City whose main income is self-brewing, has a small population, and there are only about 60 people in the whole town, including the mayor.
At the entrance of the town, there is a huge sign with the word "Jotun" written in white oil, in the common language of the mainland, and next to it is a bubbling ale sign.
Under the sign, several children from the town are playing a game of knights and mages, with the boys mostly playing the role of knights and the girls playing the role of female mages in mage robes.
"Sister Noshi is back, and Brother Verus!" one of the boys, who was playing the knight, threw away the broom in his hand and shouted.
The other children followed suit, looking out of town, and a girl with a mage's robe dragging to the ground cried out, "Look, Brother Verus has come back from hunting, alone?"
"No, he just looks like a human, actually... A fish starved of water?" The boy who first noticed Noshi and their boys tilted their heads, because now Levi really looked like a fish that had been stranded for a long time.
"Give me water, or let me go, I can get water out" The walk back to the town of Yotun took two hours for the three of them, and Levi fainted several times because of his weak constitution.
With the experience of the past, Verus didn't dare to let go of him this time, and he and Noshi didn't have any water on them, so along the way, Levi was stunned that he didn't drink any water, and now he was so thirsty that he stuck out his tongue, and his lungs were also burning and hurting.
"Brunstein, go to the tavern and get him some drinks"
The boy called Brunstein waved his hand and went into the tavern next to him, bringing Rivey a golden ale that was already pouring out along the edges.
Levi, who was dying of thirst, picked up the ale and swallowed it with a clatter, only to soon turn pale.
"Puff! this is wine!?" Levi spat out a sip of ale, "You're actually giving me a drink!?"
"Something, none of us men in Jotun don't know how to drink," Verus replied.
For alchemists, alcohol should never be drunk, because drinking alcohol will greatly reduce the alchemist's willpower and judgment, and at least it will fail to create things, and at worst it will hurt oneself during alchemy.
Alchemists are not mages, and the biggest difference between the two is that alchemists are insulated from mana, so they do not produce any mana fluctuations when performing alchemy.
In other words, an alchemist who does not need to resort to mana, as long as it is within the tolerance of his will, the alchemist can do alchemy without stopping until he loses consciousness.
In addition, alchemists sleep less than mages, and even go without sleep for a week.
"I want water, and water is enough" Levi drank more or less, and he couldn't drink enough, his face turned red, and a little sweat oozed from his forehead.
"You're really in trouble".
He brought water from the well for Levi, and when he had drunk it all, Verus dragged him in the direction of the town of Jotun's militia.
The militia is a civil organization that was established spontaneously in every town in the Kingdom of Northwell, and in order to maintain the security of the town, in some large towns, there will be retired knights or mages to join it.
However, the town of Jotun is a small town, and there are no knights or mages in the militia, and only the residents of the town are responsible for maintaining law and order.
The militia was located in the northwest corner of the town of Jotun, and brought Revie to the door of the militia, and Verus, who was also one of them, used the key in the house to open a cell and put Rivi inside.
"I'll come back at dinner time, you'll sleep here tonight," he said, and Verus closed the door to the militia, and the light shone through a 25cmx25cm long iron window on the wall.
It's been a long time since anyone had been here, the air was filled with cold humidity, and dust was looming in the sunlight.
Rivey's leather bag and all the tools in it were now in Verus's hands, and with only a linen robe left on him, he found a corner in his cell and sat down.
Naturally, the cell was empty, but Levi was not alarmed, because in this world, there was at least one condition that needed to be able to hold him up—and that was height.
"Transfiguration!"
After it was confirmed that Verus had gone away, the golden magic circle, or alchemy array, appeared on Rivi's right hand again, and I saw that Rivi gently pressed against the iron door with his right hand, slightly harder.
Under the effect of alchemy "transformation", the iron gate suddenly began to squeeze and twist outward, and when he saw this scene, Livi quickly stopped, because it was still early afternoon outside, and it was not yet time to escape.
For Levi's alchemy, even if he doesn't need to deform and twist the iron door, he can use it to disintegrate the iron door in an instant, and the walls made of masonry are no exception.
So, in this world, the only thing that can lock up Levi is height, and if the place where he is locked up is high enough to fall to death, then he can't do anything, because alchemy doesn't include flying.
"Alas, I still have to find my tools, and I don't know where my bag went to those two people"
...
"Verus, how did my clip turn into a lump of scrap metal?" said the mayor of Jotun and the grandfather of Verus and Noshi, who knocked Varus on the head hard.
"My spear is gone, it's all that guy's fault," Varus said angrily as his grandfather, who didn't dare to contradict him.
The metal clip on the ground was the one that had broken the Levy Firebolt, but now the clip had been squeezed into a lump of scrap metal under the "transformed" alchemy of Levy.
"Forget it, Noshi, tell me what's going on" Andrew, who was well-groomed with gray hair and muscles, turned his gaze to Noshi next to him.
Noshi didn't hide it from Andrew, and told everything about the recent capture of Levi, which made Andrew's face look surprised.
"And this thing belongs to the young man named Levi Dorian?" Andrew picked up the fire hammer that had been broken in two on the ground.
"Yes," replied Noshi, but she didn't understand what the broken object was for, she just saw that Levi had to take it when he fled, so she picked it up with it.
"This young man named Levi is from the Kaos Empire, right?" asked Andrew, setting the firearm aside.
"Now that there is an extra San Caios between the Kaos Empire and Northwell, he hasn't fought in years, what are you going to do with him?" Andrew waited for his granddaughter Noshi's reply.
At this time, Noshi was also a little embarrassed, to be honest, she didn't know what to do with Rivi now, and the other party didn't look like some heinous person, so he handed him over to the soldiers of Kribi City, and his fate would be self-evident.
The Norswells' hatred of the Kaos is not a simple joke, and even some of the San Kaos traders who trade in and from the city of Kribi are sometimes treated unfairly.
"Okay, okay, let's all come and eat, old man, you too, don't you see that Verus is hungry?"
While Noshi was still thinking about Rivi, an elderly woman with white hair stepped out of the kitchen, holding a steaming pot of potato stew in her hands.
"Forget it, let's eat first, Verus won't wash his hands yet!" Andrew scolded Varus, who had sneaked up to the side of the stew.
"Okay, grandpa" Noshi also put aside his tangled thoughts for the time being, ready to wait until dinner was over before making a decision.