Alchemy Pagoda No. 7 has always retained the original cave appearance, and the outer cave of more than 700 square meters is piled with some miscellaneous materials, making people think that this is a natural cave storage room.

Victor and Renault follow the stone steps and turn into the passage that leads to the inner cavern. The brazier embedded in the stone wall was not lit with torches, and the whole cave looked dull. With the moon elves' dim vision, Victor could see his surroundings clearly, but the mountain wind pierced through the halfling's vents into the cavern, and the air flow scraped against the rock wall to make a terrible cry that tortured his pointed ears.

The inner cavern, less than a third the size of the antechamber, contains an inexhaustible spring of cold water that flows down a man-dug canal through the mountain and down to the camp below. The cave was dark and damp, and the walls were covered with fluorescent moss, the faint light of which turned the central stone platform green.

This is the place where the four series of Void Elements converge, and when the Alchemy Tower Void creates things, the water vapor in the air will condense into a mass of Void Water Elements visible to the naked eye, which will complement each other with the other three series of elements, and evolve the deep mystery of the law of creation.

Victor is not here today to see the wonders of the Void Creation.

He placed a bottle of recovery potion on the stone platform, and his consciousness connected to Taling, "King. ”

"Welcome back, my lord. Taling responded immediately.

"This is a type of recovery potion made by the Alchemy Militia. Estimate it, king. Victor commanded in his consciousness.

"Yes. The king quickly gave an answer: "400 gold soles." ”

"The price is fair and unfair. ”

Victor nodded and shook his head, "The materials for the recovery potion belong to natural resources, and the part collected by the alchemy militia has almost no cost, and the materials brought back by the caravan are no more than 60 gold soles. However, a type of recovery potion can provide a knight with a calm fighting spirit. This means that the recovery potion can help the trainee knight who cleans the bloodline to resonate with more elemental bits, and it can help the naturally awakened trainee knight to impact the knight realm, and there is no disadvantage of elemental bit solidification, it can also help the high-level knight recover and increase the total amount of fighting qi in battle!"

"A bottle of top-grade energy potion is worth 1,000 gold soles, how many gold should a recovery potion that is more than ten times stronger than it be worth?"

The king responded, "My lord, it would be unfair to weigh the value of the recovery potion from a static point of view. First of all, the energy potion will be eliminated by the recovery potion, and secondly, in order to enhance the strength, the lord will recruit more noble children with knight blood, and the price of the refining potion must be greatly increased, and the price of the recovery potion can only be maintained at a low level, otherwise the lords will not be able to afford it, and they will not hesitate to start a war until a new balance is achieved. ”

"That's right, but you can't deny that the advent of the recovery potion has strengthened the luck of the knightly class. Victor picked up the recovery potion from the stone platform, looked at it carefully for a while, and handed it to Renault beside him, and said with a smile in his consciousness: "The recovery potion has increased the strength of the knight, and the pile method recorded in X-3 has made the paladin go further...... Is this a coincidence?"

The king responded, "Raise the strength of humanity and deal with unknown changes." Isn't that exactly what you want, my lord?"

"Of course!" Victor raised an eyebrow and sighed in his heart, "First of all, the super-class ingredient blue taro, which can enhance the connection between the Golden Knight and the real world, allowing them to explore the transcendent martial arts and look forward to the legendary realm. This was followed by a recovery potion to increase the strength of the entire knight class...... This kind of coincidence can't help but feel creepy. ”

"My lord, this is probably not a coincidence, but an inevitability!" the king explained, "You have verified that the knights are the descendants of the ancient alchemists, and the civilization achievements of the alchemy empire are of course centered on the interests of the knights. ”

"That's right......," Victor pondered for a moment, and asked, "King, you have my memory, you should know about the Fermi Paradox, right?"

"Fermi, the famous physicist of Earth, was discussing flying saucers and aliens with others when he suddenly asked, 'Where are they?'. This is known as the Fermi paradox. The king responded.

Victor smiled and said, "Then I'll ask now, where are they?"

The view of Fermi's paradox is that if humans can fly to various planets in the galaxy in 1 million years, then extraterrestrial civilizations should have arrived on Earth a long time ago as long as they set off 1 million years earlier than humans.

In the same way, assuming that the No. 7 Alchemy Pagoda is a tool for the revival of the Alchemy Empire, tens of thousands of years have passed, and the recovery potion and blue taro should have appeared a long time ago.

"Unless you're a special individual. The king immediately sent a message: "This conclusion is indeed terrifying!"

"Marionette?" Victor sneered, his eyes cold, and then said in high spirits, "Let's rearrange the existing information in chronological order." ”

"About 40,000 years ago, the alchemy empire encountered an unknown invader, and the dull alchemy puppet could not resist the enemy's attack, so a certain alchemist invented the void creation technique, using alchemy life to fight against foreign enemies, and after a thousand years of war, he finally repelled the invaders. ”

"Attention is to repel the invaders, not to eliminate them. Victor emphasized and continued: "The alchemy empire suddenly collapsed and collapsed for unknown reasons. But there are signs that the Alchemy Empire's Mage Guild has taken on the responsibility of the continuation of the race, and they have ushered in the Age of the Chosen One to protect knights and mortals alike. However, the Chosen and the Knight families established their own city-states, which were scattered around the world, and did not form a unified form of government. ”

The king said: "The islands of civilization after the end of the world, communication is blocked, and each develops. It shows that the top of the alchemy empire suddenly disappeared, and the major cities were surrounded by some kind of power division, which made the middle level of the empire lose contact with the outside world, resulting in the severance of the inheritance of alchemy civilization. ”

Victor said, "I have a question here, since the extraordinary power of alchemists comes from bloodline, they do not intermarry with mortals, and alchemist humans can meet all the needs of alchemists, where are mortals in the alchemy empire? What is the meaning of their existence?"

The king paused for two seconds and replied, "Mortals are the source of mages. ”

"Very correct!" Victor laughed and said, "If mortals are extinct, the mages will be finished!" In a sense, the Mage Guild has a transcendent status in the Alchemy Empire, they are obsessed with the study of supernatural powers, and do not directly intervene in the secular regime, but they must protect mortals, the early Chosen One, the Church, and the Alchemy Empire before. ”

"I seem to have seen the mage kingdom before the Alchemy Empire. According to Tournans's account of power, the knight heads to the elemental sea, while the others follow the laws of the world's origin. The model of the spell built by the mage is fixed, and the knight's original power has infinite plasticity, so the mage helped the knight to create alchemy, because the mage can't do it himself, so he can only rely on the knight. The two sides formed a knightly government, mage research, and the influence of this political structure continues to this day!"

Victor paused, frowned, and said, "It's puzzling, why didn't the Chosen One reproduce the alchemy civilization?"

"There are two possibilities, one is that you can't do it, and the other is that you don't want to do it. The king said.

"I think both of these possibilities point to the mystery of the collapse of the alchemy empire!" Victor said in his mind, "There are also multiple possibilities for the Fermi paradox. The most terrible conclusion is that any civilization will play itself to death when it develops to a certain extent!"

"The Alchemy Empire may have done something it shouldn't have done!" Victor asked, "Do you know what I think?"

The king responded, "My lord, I am limited by the side of my will, and my mind is far less active than yours. The implication is: the concubine can't guess it.

Victor said proudly, "I have a bold conjecture that the alchemists and the mage guild have teamed up to do a forbidden study - they are making gods!"

"King, did you ever think that the Lord of Radiance's pattern of behavior was close to procedure?"

"Triggered by fixed conditions, there is a lack of natural life with a variety of demands. These are all in line with the characteristics of unnatural life. The king replied.

"Hmm. Victor agreed: "The first rule of the Radiant Code is that no mortal shall touch God or convey oracles. This certainly ensures the stable transmission of power, but there is also a mystery hidden behind it. The Lord of Radiance only works without speaking, and serves humanity tirelessly...... The first pope bullied him like this, and he didn't have a problem?"

Paladin Konstantin said that sorcerers perfected their spell models by listening to the voices of evil gods, stealing knowledge and power. It can be seen that the Mage Guild is doing the same thing, and they have even developed alchemy. When foreign enemies invaded the alchemy empire, the high-level of the Mage Guild saw that the situation was critical, took the initiative to communicate with the gods, and learned the alchemy of the void creation, that is, the alchemy tower, and the price was a sacrifice to the gods. However, the Alchemy Tower must be built at the intersection of the elements, in a fixed location. Alchemical creatures are limited by logistical conditions and longevity, and can only defend, not expedition. The Alchemy Empire drove out the invaders, but could not get rid of the threat. The gods obtained a steady stream of sacrifices in this way, and the Alchemy Empire was unwilling to sacrifice the gods for a long time, they wanted to solve the problem once and for all! Therefore, the high-level leaders of the Alchemy Empire secretly studied the mysteries of the gods and created the ultimate alchemy life, the Lord of Radiance. ”

Victor said slowly: "I remember that the alchemy combat units Dragon Warrior and Savi Warrior both have the ability to be immune to soul intimidation, which shows that the opponent of the Alchemy Empire is not inferior to the higher creatures of the dragon. Therefore, the greatest power of the Lord of Radiance is not to bestow divine magic or create incomparable angels of radiance, but to pry the changes in the laws of the world and weaken the abilities of higher transcendent beings at the root. ”

And He did. The first Pope weakened the Chosen One's connection with the evil gods, but during the Alchemy Empire, the Radiant Lord's ability caused panic among the gods, who concentrated their efforts on eliminating the upper echelons of the Alchemy Empire, and took advantage of the loopholes in the Alchemy Tower to liberate the alchemy creatures and completely destroy the Alchemy Empire. ”

"The gods taught the Void Creation Technique, and deliberately left loopholes, obviously not well-intentioned. The secret creation of the alchemist and the mage association is to cross the river and tear down the bridge, and they are also not well-intentioned. As a result, the Alchemist and Mage Council lost. Victor pursed his lips and said, "The gods pressed the mages and knights to the ground and beat them so hard that they no longer dared to engage in alchemy. ”

"The Alchemy Tower's absorption of the Law Crystal is not to reproduce the alchemy civilization, but for the needs of war. The alchemy pagoda is too widely distributed, and it is impossible for the high-level of the empire who have mastered alchemy technology to take care of every alchemy pagoda, so they have made many law crystals and handed them over to the heads of various war zones in case of emergency. Victor said lazily, "Well, that's about it." ”

The king said, "My lord, I understand what you mean, but there is a loophole in logic. For example, if mortals are the source of wizards, why should the Chosen sacrifice mortals with blood? For example, the blood sacrifice of the Chosen to evil gods directly leads to the awakening of the Lord of Radiance. If the gods are afraid of the Lord of Light, why should they incite the blood sacrifice of the sorcerers?"

"Smack!"

Victor slapped his palm on the stone platform and shouted, "Conspiracy!

"The gods master the art of alchemy, and they are ready to teach the Chosen and the High Knights how to make the alchemy tower. However, don't forget, the Alchemy Empire still has an opponent. The original invaders did not know what means were used to make the Chosen One sacrifice blood to the gods, kill each other, and cause the Lord of Radiance to awaken. The first Pope Enoch was no match for wizards, so he borrowed the power of the Lord of Light to change the laws of the world. At the same time, Enoch had selfish intentions, and he wanted his descendants to monopolize the authority of the ultimate alchemical creatures, so he ordered the extermination of wizards who could compete with them, and also established the first article of the Radiant Code. The high wizards became lost dogs, the magic inheritance was completely severed, and the connection between the gods and the wizards was weakened, and communication was very difficult, and it was impossible to teach the full alchemy at all. ”

"In this way, the invaders have no opponents. I don't know why, the gods need sacrifices. They also cannot tolerate the extinction of wizards, and incidentally, the extinction of humans. So, here I am!"

"I am the savior of the gods!" declared Victor domineeringly.

The king, however, pointed out mercilessly: "Your lord, there are many contradictions in your subjective conjectures. ”

"Since the upper echelons of the Alchemy Empire want to use the Lord of Radiance to completely destroy the invaders, why do the invaders still need to awaken the ultimate alchemy creatures? Now that the laws of the world have changed and the extraordinary power of the invaders has been weakened, can they defeat the church with the Lord of Radiance?"

Victor thought that he would be able to run amok with the alchemy tower, but in fact, the alchemy tower was not enough in front of the church.

The Alchemy Tower needs wealth, and the Church only needs faith. The Alchemy Tower has a ceiling of soul fire, and the clergy are endless. Alchemic creatures are individually powerful, and the Church can summon Angels of Radiance, and the Lord of Radiance can smoke the gods to the ground...... The cost is not comparable, the quantity is not comparable, and even the quality is not comparable...... If the Alchemy Tower is regarded as an alchemy creature, the gap between it and the Lord of Radiance is completely intergenerational, and there is more than one generation apart.

The king continued, "The mighty Lord of Light can't do anything with the orcs, and the church that masters the magic is not even comparable to the wizards of the Chosen Era. ”

"Selfishness!" Victor argued with some embarrassment, "The Alchemist and Mage Guild is the creator of the Lord of Light. Enoch had not been educated as a mage in the Alchemy Empire, and he feared that the Council of the Chosen would snatch the authority of the Lord of Light, and that his descendants would not respect the knights. Now, the inheritance of the spell model has been severed, the magic has never been updated, and the knights of the golden generation have become the bronze generation. Without wizards and high knights, how could the clergy of the Church defeat the orcs alone......"

The king responded, "Your dear master, your assumptions do not take into account the element of transcendent beings, the factor of orcs, the factor of barbarians and elves, the factor of goblins, and the factor of inhumans, so it is impossible to get a correct answer, and your judgment is not supported by evidence. ”

"Uh...... Well, I admit that there are still many unsolved mysteries in history......" Victor cried out in annoyance, "None of this is the point!

He took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and said, "I'm not a knight, I'm not a wizard. This shows that ordinary people can also activate the Alchemy Pagoda, but only the soul is divided. According to the Fermi Paradox, it has been more than 9,000 years since the Lord of Radiance changed the law, and since the gods want to activate the Alchemy Tower, the civilization legacy of the Alchemy Empire should have appeared a long time ago!

"There are too many possibilities to speculate!" replied the king.

"I'm more inclined to be irreplaceable. "Victor deliberately emphasizes his worth

The king replied steadily, "My lord, from what is known, this is impossible. ”

Victor was silent for a moment, and then said: "King, if I die, you will die, and the Alchemy Tower will wait for the next manipulator." I suspect that the soul division has a huge flaw, and alchemists and mages have made it possible for mortals to master the alchemy tower. Since mortals can manipulate the powerful Alchemy Tower, it is impossible for the Alchemy Empire to be without limits. For example, one of his soul fires can control alchemical creatures, and mages and alchemists can also control another of his divine fires. ”

"I just want to know now, am I being controlled?" Victor finally asked the most crucial question, quietly and nervously waiting for an answer, he was not waiting for an answer, but by whom.

Without hesitation, the king replied, "My lord, I am proud to be controlled by you. In my case, you can ask such a question, and it is clear that no one controls you. ”

Victor was a little disappointed, but also relaxed, and after thinking about it for a long time, as if talking to himself: "Well, I am free, and there are no so-called competitors. In case the invaders reappear, there will be the Lord of Radiance, the clergy of the Church, and the armies of the kingdoms. If I can't do it, I'll hide far away. It's okay to stay here in the Alchemy Pagoda, I can use it or not. ”

The king replied, as usual, "My lord, I follow your will. ”

"......" Victor said angrily: "I'm leaving!" The Alchemy Tower continues to produce alchemy creatures, 12380 soul fire points retain 500 points, and the rest of the soul fire maintains 6 alchemy dragon lizards, 200 alchemy mastiffs, 600 alchemy crows, 300 spirit monkey militia, 150 barberry militia, and the rest all produce alchemy auxiliaries, load spirit monkey secret form, long-range weapon mastery, and load the three major production skills in turn. ”

"The production task has been established. The king said, "At present, there are 500 soul fire points left, and the remaining funds are 64,700 gold soles. ”

Victor shook his head and turned to leave the cave.

Outside the cave, the sun was shining, and Victor's mood was unspeakable.

It's a test to see if there's any otherworldly creature behind the tower. If there is, it is better to let it hide in the shadows than to let it appear in its original form.

Victor weighed for a long time, believing that his own worth was irreplaceable, and he gambled his life and freedom. Anyway, the worst outcome is death, and it's hard to change, and if you win the bet, maybe there's a chance to turn around.

However, the temptation did not have the desired effect, and the king behaved impeccably, and Victor wondered if he was too worried.

The so-called refrigerated alchemy tower is just talk.

The threat of Ant-Man is predictable and unavoidable. On the other hand, the Kamen Brotherhood has come up with a blood boiling potion and a color-changing dye, and the skeleton characteristics of the Brotherhood's elite warriors are the same as those of the Church Paladin, whose training methods are derived from the Chosen One.

Does this mean that the Brotherhood has the shadow of the Mage Council behind it?

The Brayons and Sophia's stalemate is incomprehensible, and Victor now has to suspect that they have also obtained the recipe for the recovery potion.

Does this also mean that the remnants of the Council of the Chosen have infiltrated the eastern part of the human kingdom?

At the beginning, the little baron was inexplicably plotted by wizards, and then the eldest son of the Duke of Borui's family, Raymond Peter, inexplicably sent someone to assassinate the elven nobles.

What's the connection?

It is precisely because of these opponents, both overt and covert, that Victor must develop his own strength at the original pace.

This adjustment to the production mission will gradually reduce the number of alchemy militias, increasing the number of alchemy auxiliaries to 900 in preparation for the expansion of mercenaries, mercury and gold regiments. Of course, if you find traces of the Law Crystal, you must not let it go.

The curtain of the new era has been opened, and everyone wants to stand at the peak of power in the new era, and everyone is striving to be the first. Sylvia is in contention, the Pope is in contention, Sophia is in contention, the Auguste family is in contention, and the Radiant Knight is in contention...... In such a wonderful era, how can the owner of the Alchemy Pagoda not argue?

Victor stepped into the sunlight and smiled at Renault, "Nelson, they have completed the remodeling, I should go back to Silvermoon Manor and practice for His Majesty the Pope." ”