Kribby City goes all the way north to reach the Valley of the Titan Valley, this sheepskin map Levi was bought by a Northwell merchant, so this map also corresponds to the terrain of the Kingdom of Northwell, and the surrounding area also indicates the location of the town, this map is worth two silver coins. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After Levi had said goodbye to Lef, the three of them continued along the avenue, it was eleven o'clock in the morning, and it took them most of the day to get to the ranch by horse-drawn carriage, and now it was even slower to walk.

In order to match the speed of their employer, the Joel siblings also deliberately slowed down their pace so that Levi would not be so uncomfortable.

As he walked, Levi studied the parchment map, and then he found that there was a small Zhuangzi named "Nice" near the entrance to the Valley of the Giants, and when there was any shortage of supplies, he could go to the Zhuangzi to buy some more.

There are still many towns scattered near this road to the Valley of the Giants, but for fear of catching up with Erima, these towns are not ready to be visited, so they temporarily set the small village of Nice as their destination.

It's rare that it's empty now, and the stuffy Levi took off his hood, and his pale blonde hair clung to his forehead under sweat,

The combination of three people was inconspicuous, and a large number of caravans passed by from time to time, and these caravans often had dozens of mercenaries guarding the side, squeezing Levi and them to the side of the road.

Levi, who walked in the middle, looked left and right, and looked at the two mercenaries he had hired, Joel was dressed in a simple outfit, wearing a cloth coat, except for the inch sharp knife, Levi didn't see that he was wearing any other weapons, and the bulging muscles could be seen on his bandaged hands.

As for Chrissy, she wore an extra pair of leather armor, but because she was so small, it seemed that the leather armor was specially made by a leather craftsman, otherwise she would not have been able to wear ordinary leather armor, but the most striking thing about Chrissy was of course the man-high sharp-horned war hammer on her back.

This war hammer is supposed to be made of pig iron, and Levi himself will definitely not be able to use it, but he knows how powerful this war hammer can be once picked up, and it is estimated that it will smash him out with his backpack when it hits him.

"Is Mr. Levi going to the royal capital?" asked Joel as Levi stared at the warhammer behind Chrissy.

"Not necessarily, I just have something to do to go to the heart of the kingdom."

The Valley of the Titan is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, when the Kaos Empire was not divided, the two sides launched a three-month offensive and defensive battle in the Valley of the Titan Gods, and finally the Kingdom of Northwell relied on the geographical advantage of the Valley of the Titan to defend the canyon and force back the Imperial Army that was attacked by the front and rear of the Kribi City.

Because of this move, most of the residents of the Northwell Kingdom now regard the place north of the Valley of the Titan as the hinterland of the kingdom, and the place south of the Valley of the Titan is the periphery, and the Valley of the Titan acts as a natural barrier between the two, with great military value.

However, just as the city of Kribi has been transformed into a semi-commercial and semi-military town, the Kingdom of Northwell, which has not been at war for many years, is said to have set up only a few pass posts in the Valley of the Titan Gods, and there are no soldiers above the legion level stationed in it.

"I don't think Mr. Levi is a businessman, he's on a trip?" asked Chrissy, who was on the road anyway, and had nothing to do.

"You don't have to call me sir, just call me Rivi, it's okay to go on a trip."

In fact, Levi just wanted to find a place to finish his research without being disturbed, but Errima obviously wouldn't let him go easily.

Now his research has been almost done in the preliminary preparations, the difference is one thing, that is, the energy that can make these devices work, Owen ore is the most feasible and stable means of energy supply that Levi has discovered at this stage, but he does not have much Owen ore inventory on hand, and the specific method of extracting ore energy has yet to be verified.

This time he fled to the Kingdom of Northwell, and Levi planned to solve the problem of the shortage of Owen ore stocks, but until now he has not learned where the mines in the kingdom that produce Owen ore are, and the output is also surprisingly low.

"By the way, is your mother sick?" Levi remembered that Joel seemed to have said that their mother was sick last night, but as soon as he finished speaking, Levi regretted it, and the most taboo thing about interacting with people was to ask himself what he shouldn't ask, especially when it also involved the other party's mother.

Not surprisingly, as soon as she heard Levi's question, Chrissy's face suddenly became ugly, but Joel's face did not change, but said in a low tone, "Well, my mother has been sick for more than a year."

"Since you've been sick for more than a year, haven't you asked a doctor?" asked Levi subconsciously.

"Please, all the doctors in our town have called for it, and they can't see my mother's illness well, only Dr. Abigail says he can save her," Chrissy said with a disapproving look.

"But the medicine prescribed by Dr. Abigail costs a lot of money, and my brother and I have saved all the money we have saved as mercenaries over the years have been used to him."

The indifferent Joel also opened the conversation at this time, "However, my mother still didn't make any difference after taking his medicine, but we have no other choice, we can't watch my mother die."

Levi fell silent, he was a pragmatist, he thought that since he had not improved at all after taking the medicine, he should stop taking the medicine immediately, knowing that the relationship between medicine and poison is very complicated, and overdose can even have negative effects.

He is no stranger to medicine, but it is not easy for Levi to make a rash judgment without seeing the other party's mother, so let's wait until later, and he doesn't mind helping the two siblings if he can.

Stop and go, and when dusk came, Levi and the others found an open space and prepared to make a fire, because it would be too late when it was completely dark, and the fire would usually be completed before then, and after some discussion, Joel proposed to go to the nearby mountains to hunt some prey and come back, and Chrissy would stay behind to make the bonfire.

The mercenary profession is good if there is no battle, once there is a battle, then it is definitely not enough to eat, and compared to eating jerky pancakes, hunting live creatures is not only delicious, but the flesh and blood that enters the stomach can also provide a lot of fat and calories to the mercenary, making the mercenary more handy when fighting.

Sitting on the ground, Joel was gone, and now Chrissy was piling up the dry wood and hay she had picked up, took out two flintstones and began to "snap" and light the fire.

In the past, the fire was made by Joel, Chrissy knocked on the flint in her hand for a long time, but she didn't light the bonfire hay, only to see her face flush and glance at Rivi, and continue to increase the strength in her hand.

However, the flint and steel were almost crushed by Chrissy, and Levi did not see any flames coming out of the campfire, and sighed, so he asked Chrissy to step back and give up his place.

He can use flint and steel, but using flint and steel to ignite the fire is too primitive, and after lighting the flames, he has to blow, which is thankless, and I saw Levi take out the ignition crystals in his waist bag.

As for why he didn't use the alchemy array to ignite, it was because he couldn't explain to Chrissy later, one was with the help of tools, and the other was a personal ability, which was always different.

The ignition crystals are cube-shaped, small to hold in the hand, wrapped in a metal shell on the outside, and embedded with a fire crystal inside, these crystals are found all over the continent, and the spars contain mana energy with "burning" properties, which can replace the burning gas extracted by Levi in the alchemy experiment.

That's right, in fact, the ignition crystallization is already an alchemy product that has been improved by Levi, at first he extracted the combustible gas in the natural gas, and then added a small ignition device to achieve the purpose of ignition, but later he discovered these various attribute crystals with magic energy, so he turned to design a set of combustion devices for the fire attribute crystals in them.

Compared to Owen ore, the spells in these fire crystals can be extracted by Levi very easily, but these burning spells can only exist as energy after being extracted, and they will not burn without the ignition of sparks, so Levi's next step is of course to create an ignition device that can produce sparks.

First of all, a small flint and steel, pad near the fire outlet, and then tightly press a lighter on it, below the lighter is a switch to control the energy of the fire crystal, the energy discharged by the fire crystal is stored in the ignition crystal, when the ignition is ignited from my forehead, you only need to turn the lighter wheel with a little force and then press down the switch of the fire crystal energy, and the energy that can be burned inside is pumped to the vicinity of the fire outlet, and the sparks bursting between the lighter wheel and the flint will ignite these energies to form an open flame that can be burned sustainably.

When Levi runs out, he only needs to let go of the switch and seal the energy back, and the open flame that has lost its energy supply will naturally be extinguished.

This is not much different from the design principle of ignition through gas, except that one is powered by fire crystals, and the other is combustible gas, but these combustible gases are not easy to handle, and at that time, Levi almost fell into a volcano in the northwest of the Kaos Empire in order to get the natural gas mentioned in the book.

The fire crystals are different, they are all in circulation on the market, and they can be bought with money, and there is another point that the energy of the ignition crystals is easy to extract, and you only need to punch a hole in the middle of the spar and reproduce an alchemy array that extracts energy.

"What is this?" asked Chriss, who was beside Levi, curiously pointing to the ignition crystal.

"It's a tool for ignition," Revy said as he pressed the ignition crystal in front of the pile of hay and pressed down the lighter wheel and switch.

Ugh!

A small flame appeared, and the continuous burning soon ignited the hay on the ground, and without the wind blowing, the fire intensified and burned all the hay and firewood.

"So Levi are you a mage?" Chrissy said, turning her head to stare at Rivi, the blazing bonfire burning her red hair and little face in flames.

"Hmph, this isn't a spell, you can try it too," and with that, Levi slipped the ignition crystal into Chrissy and taught her how to use it.

Ugh!

"How, how is it possible?!I haven't learned spells, why can I turn fire out of thin air?!" Chrissy was just a girl who was not yet twenty years old, and she was amazed when she saw the ignition crystal burst into fire in her hand.

Levi, who was sitting next to her, looked at Chriss, who was smiling happily with the ignition crystal, and smiled faintly.

That's why he's been studying alchemy relentlessly, and unlike other professions, it's not just Rivi who can change it.

What can be changed... And a lot more, aren't they?