Convert lead into elemental gold!

As powerful as it sounds, it's actually the most insignificant of the countless uses of the Philosopher's Stone.

As long as this near-artifact miracle is properly used, the reaction of matter, the transformation of energy, the creation of life, and even more incredible feats.

All the uses that the alchemist can or can't imagine are within the function of the Philosopher's Stone.

This is not an empty fantasy of alchemists, but something that actually exists.

According to records, alchemists created a large number of philosopher's stones during the ancient Holy Rolland Empire, and developed a prosperous civilization through them.

Eventually, before a catastrophe struck, the alchemist even created a new plane through the Philosopher's Stone.

"Well, the Philosopher's Stone does exist." Chen Zhou also nodded approvingly, at least he had a lot of methods to create this kind of secondary artifact.

There are many different ways to create the Philosopher's Stone, from expensive magical materials, to sacrificing human life and soul, to high-level alchemists directly rubbing it by hand......

Its cost ranges from 0 to hundreds of thousands of gold coins, and the possible effects are endless, making it an alchemical version of "Prayer".

However, even knowing the method of creation is meaningless.

The first is that the required materials are difficult to meet, and the second is that if you want to create the Philosopher's Stone, you must have a quasi-legendary spellcasting level, that is, a ninth-order (20cl) spellcaster.

"Actually, you don't have to be at the ninth order, as long as the caster reaches the required level and can professionally process the raw materials."

The base caster level is not the same as the caster level, and through a variety of spells, talents, techniques, and curiosities, the caster can gain power far beyond the upper limit of their basic casting ability.

It's just that how to skillfully use the spell-casting ability that far exceeds the upper limit of one's ability is still a matter that requires long-term practice.

"But I heard that the Kingdom of Norton isn't working on the Philosopher's Stone?"

After Rufus made it clear that the alchemy of matter and chemistry could not create the Philosopher's Stone, Chen Zhou suddenly thought of the information he had seen through the "New Horizons" forum when he was in Blue Star.

According to the information of the Star People who have infiltrated the Alchemy Society, it seems that the Kingdom of Norton has been researching the creation of the Philosopher's Stone since two hundred years ago.

"What?"

Rufus wondered, how could they possibly have the ability to make inferior artifacts?

"The alchemists of the Norton Kingdom are not that good."

Rat Rat also thinks the same, there really is an alchemist who can create the Philosopher's Stone, and the Kingdom of Norton has long since conquered the continent after punching orcs, kicking elves, and sweeping Carlos Gajilan.

"Unless ......"

It's not impossible to gain more cast ability than you can when you're running low.

Sacrifice, a special spell casting method that has existed since ancient times, temporarily enhances the caster's abilities by consuming certain things.

The effect of this method of paying the price in exchange for power depends on the size of the price paid and the person to negotiate with, if you can communicate with a more powerful demon lord or a similar existence, it is not impossible to even create a magic effect beyond the ninth order.

"Sacrifice?" Rufus thought of it with the rat.

Not only that, as a member of the Alchemist Guild, Rufus, who was once regarded as a genius by his mentors before turning to the study of elemental alchemy, knew some inside information about the Alchemy Association.

Through his own experience in the Alchemy Society, he was almost instantly frightened and cold sweat flowed from his back...... It seems that the group of madmen in the Alchemy Society are not out of the possibility of sacrificing humans in exchange for the ability to cast spells and make the Philosopher's Stone.

"Is the Alchemy Society so unprofessional in your eyes?" Chen Zhou was stunned for a moment, he just said casually, how could the other party be so convinced that the association would use such a means without a lower limit.

"Because the current situation of the Norton Kingdom is actually not as good as it seems."

After looking around to confirm that there was no risk, Rufus couldn't help but smile bitterly: "The pollution of the environment and the tide of magic have caused us a lot of trouble. ”

Only then did Chen Zhou realize that the Norton Kingdom, which everyone had thought had maintained its development in the tide of magic before, was far from being so easy.

According to Rufus, hundreds of years of wanton discharge of alchemical waste have led to serious pollution of the environment.

Although the waste is exposed to the wilderness and buried deep underground, the substances that are harmful to the human body gradually penetrate the soil and enter the underground water body over time, or mix into the atmosphere through the flow of air.

The foggy appearance of the Norton Kingdom today is precisely due to the fact that the alchemical substance spreads throughout the territory with the circulation of water and gas.

Some of the druids of the association used magic to prevent this danger from spreading to neighboring countries and regions, limiting its danger to the territory of the Norton Kingdom.

This invisible hazard was initially insignificant, but over time, it has gradually become substantial and has caused many inconveniences to the Kingdom of Norton.

For example, the cost of importing food, which is increasing year by year.

If it weren't for the Northern Great River Territory peddling a large amount of high-quality grain to the outside world, this year's Blue Crystal Sacrifice almost directly caused the contradictions in the Norton Kingdom to detonate.

The Society's alchemists have been trying to solve this problem for a long time, and have developed a number of technologies and solutions, including restricted portal emissions.

However, it will still take a long time to restore the environment, and whether the alchemy waste can solve the problem before it has a more obvious impact on the Nortons is the main research direction of the association's alchemists.

"Ahem, that's why I turned to research energy researchers to be so unpopular, and I couldn't have applied for some funding and didn't even have half of it."

However, Rufus believes that temporarily abandoning the current alchemy technology and using relatively harmless elements to alchemy is also one of the solutions to the problem.

"However, elemental alchemy is not as simple as you think, the instability of the elements makes it easy for them to explode when acting on alchemy, and the various abilities of energy scientists are basically developing in terms of various attribute explosives."

Elemental alchemy can indeed solve the current dilemma of the Norton Kingdom, the problem is ...... They didn't have time.

"So you think the Alchemy Society is ready to sacrifice?" Chen Zhou still couldn't understand Rufus's uneasiness, "There's no need to be so uneasy about your own family. ”

Rufus's face darkened, it was precisely because he knew the Alchemy Society too well that he thought they would definitely do this!

"If you think about it, there have been a lot of suspicious research projects since the Magic Tide burst at the end of last year, and maybe they're going on a dangerous plan."

He immediately took the case: "No! I have to investigate this, and I can't let their opportunistic practices blaspheme the legitimacy of alchemy! ”

(End of chapter)