"What?"

In the studio, Luo Zhen looked up in surprise, "You said you found a prosthetic material that can replace Lingfeng Wood?" ”

"Yes." Nolan pushes him the copied recipe for improved knight's steel.

"I've already sent someone to collect these materials, and when the time comes, you can test it out and see if you can make a finished product and replace Yuna with a new prosthetic."

Although the ingredients of the recipe have changed, the core materials of the improved Knight Steel are still Starfall Iron and Mithril.

Including some other rare auxiliary materials, they are actually quite valuable alchemy materials, and the cost is much higher than the original knight steel.

But fortunately, unlike magic crystals, these materials are basically produced in the Linfeng Mountains, and Linfeng City is completely self-sufficient.

Although most of the land in Peak City comes from the vast La Buse Grasslands on the border of the Western Regions, a part of the western part of the Peak Mountains is also in its sphere of influence.

Compared with the relatively barren grasslands, the Linfeng Mountains are much richer, especially rich in star meteorites and all kinds of rare herbs.

Even if it only owns a part of the land on the western side of the mountain range, the various materials mined in it are one of the most important financial components of Peak City.

Previously, due to the impact of the war, the passage between Linfeng City and Linfeng Mountain Range was cut off by the grassland people's troops, and the materials mined in the mountain range could not be transported with the support of other cities, which once caused the city to fall into a dilemma of lack of resources.

After the end of the war, the city regained contact with the troops stationed in the Linfeng Mountains, and as the general staff of the city lord's mansion, he used all kinds of resources mined in the mountains at his disposal.

As long as the supplies are dispatched in the name of the military department, these expensive materials do not even need to be paid for out of his own pocket.

"Try it...... It's good. ”

Luo Zhen took the formula, his expression slightly complicated.

For him, puppet manipulation is a secret technique passed down from the family's ancestors, whether it is the material for making the doll suspensory or the prosthetic, it is the best formula that they have obtained after continuous trial and optimization for generations.

If an outsider doesn't know the doorway, how can it be as simple as you think, and you can optimize it?

This is our family's secret art! It's all been optimized by you, where do we put our faces?

Originally, with his violent temper, he subconsciously wanted to refute the kid in front of him who didn't know the height of the sky.

But the words of refutation were finally swallowed by him again, after all, standing in front of him was a genius alchemist, the chief staff of the City Lord's Mansion!

Design individual flying equipment, build individual strategic-level magic guides, and produce five new magic guide cannons in one day...... Thinking about what he had done, he was silent.

He would have scoffed at another alchemist, but if it was Nolan...... Perhaps?

Don't question, believe first.

That's what he learned from his time with Nolan.

Wait for the failure of the formula experiment in the future, and then laugh at Ya's ...... He silently let go of the cruel words in his heart.

……

Two days later, the city of Flamel.

The Flamel family is in charge of Flamel City, and its head is also the president of the Alchemy Society's headquarters, and the members of each family also occupy the majority of the Society's board of directors.

The so-called Flamel family is the descendants of the legendary alchemist Edward Flamel.

They inherited the talent of the master Edward to study alchemy, and after hundreds of years of development and precipitation, the alchemy technology of Flamel City was in the leading position in the entire Roland Empire.

Of course, this is not all the work of the Flamel family, who are keen to collect various alchemical theories and are happy to engage in academic exchanges with like-minded colleagues from all over the empire, rather than behind closed doors.

The Alchemy Society was founded by the Flamel family, and as its influence grew, a large number of talented alchemists responded to its call to build the Alchemy Tower of Flamel City higher and higher.

This morning, Arand Flamel finished his breakfast and went to the Alchemy Society as usual to start today's work.

He is a member of the Flamel family, although he is only a sideline, but he is still appreciated by the family for his excellent alchemy talent, and has become a director of the alchemy society's headquarters.

His job is to review the research results submitted by the alchemists to the Society, and to give them a proper and reasonable rating.

The scores are graded from high to low, Grand, Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3, with each level being raised, and the Society places more emphasis on the alchemist who completes the research.

If it reaches the first level or even higher, it proves that this alchemist has made great contributions in the field of alchemy.

Not only will he receive material rewards from the Society, but the Society will not hesitate to throw an olive branch to him and invite him to become the management of the Society.

Under the recognition of the Society, the alchemist's name will quickly be known by his peers, and he will gain fame and fortune, which is also the most common way for an alchemist to reach the pinnacle of life.

Therefore, it is quite important to accurately rate the results of various studies, not only for learning, but also for the future of individual alchemists.

Every day, the headquarters of the Alchemy Society receives countless reports of research results from various branches, from dozens of cities in the north and south of the empire.

Before the branch sends the results report, it will make a rating in advance to facilitate screening by headquarters.

A large number of second- and third-level research results will be accepted by the judging panel of the headquarters, and only a few first-level or even special-grade research results will be handed over to the directors and evaluated by the most professional alchemists.

Naturally, research results of this level are very rare, and they may not be seen several times a month, so as a review director, Aland's daily work is relatively easy.

He stepped into his office as usual, thinking about sitting here for a while before leaving.

The assistant on the side walked over and said to him excitedly: "My lord, I sent an urgent email from Linfeng City, look at the logo, it turned out to be a special research results report!" ”

"Peak City?" Aland raised an eyebrow, "The branch over there is wrong." ”

The central part of the Roland Empire was separated from the western part of the Rowland Empire by the Peak Mountains, and the areas west of the mountains were remote and backward for the people of the Central Empire.

Yes, remote and backward.

Even though the distance between Peak and Flamel is not very far, the city still gives this impression to most of the Empire, including Alander.

Alchemy is the highest level of human wisdom, and wisdom is a luxury in all ages.

Generally speaking, the more remote, the more nascent, and the farther away from the cultural center of the empire, the less alchemists are valued, and the less alchemy results there are.

Linfeng City perfectly meets the above three conditions, it is a remote border city with a history of only more than 70 years.

In front of the ancient city of Flammel, which has a thousand-year-old cultural heritage and existed before the birth of the Roland Empire, it is as ignorant as a clean newborn.

How is it possible for such a city to produce extraordinary research results? This level is enough to go down in the history of alchemy, and it is a great achievement that can make the inventor a "legendary alchemist"!

In fact, since the Alchemy Society set up a branch in Linfeng City for more than seventy years, not to mention the super-grade research results, not even the first-level results have not been made.

This must be the wrong division of Peak City, Arand thought to himself, the package is estimated to contain the results of the third level, which should be handed over to the jury and not himself.

However, the society stipulates that as long as the initial rating of the branch is above the first level, regardless of whether it is engaged in oolong or not, it must be handed over to the director of the headquarters for review.

He could only walk to the laboratory next door and bow to the assistant, "Open it and take a look." ”

"Okay."

The young assistant didn't think much of it, he was just curious and excited about the special document.

Arriving at the laboratory, the assistant quickly removed the package with three layers inside and three layers outside, and took out a document and a half-meter-long and wide substrate that was encapsulated.

"Report on the Research Results of the Streamlining of the Second-Order Wind Spell Circle "Acceleration"" ......"

Aland silently read the title of the first page of the document and said with a smile, "It's really a third-level research achievement." ”

Streamlining spell circles is one of the most accepted research topics in the Alchemy Society, and usually does not have a high rating.

Because the magic rune system has been studied by countless alchemists for hundreds of years since its invention, it has long since reached a bottleneck.

The optimal solution for drawing many spell circles has been explored, and even if it is optimized on this basis, the progress of each time is very small, which can only be regarded as icing on the cake, and cannot cause qualitative changes.

In this way, the rating is naturally not high.

This is not the case for high-level spells, not to mention that this is only a streamlined circle for second-order spells.

Seeing this, he couldn't help but lose interest, but as he flipped to the end of the document, his expression slowly became strange.

The volume of the circle is often several meters, and it is generally relatively large, so the results report sent generally does not contain the finished circle, but attaches a brief structure diagram of the circle.

After the people at the headquarters received the structural diagram, they used it to reproduce the circle.

Originally, this was the process, but for some reason there was no outline of the structure of the circle attached to the document report.

On the blank page, there was a line that read:

This circle is written by a new magical rune system, so—

"Can't be represented in the form of an old structure diagram?"

Arand read the sentence and frowned deeply.

There is not even a structural diagram, how does the headquarters know what this magic circle looks like?

His afterglow glanced at the mysterious substrate that was half a meter long and wide next to him, and a ridiculous thought suddenly flashed in his heart.

Wouldn't it be the finished product of the "Acceleration" circle that was sent to Peak City?

But isn't the general size of the second-order magic circle about two meters, and this substrate is only half a meter in size, and the volume difference is too big, right?

But if not, what is this thing?

He soon knew, because the assistant on the side opened the substrate of the package and took out the half-meter-sized magic circle base.

"This—this is—" Arand held his breath for a moment as he looked at the pocket circle in front of him, which was only thirty centimeters long.

Indeed, as the report said, the various magical runes drawn on this pocket circle had never been seen before, as if they were from a new system of runes.

The reason why it is certain at a glance that they are self-contained and not scribbled is that these runes are obviously arranged in a regular manner, and they are arranged in a circle-

It's beautiful.

Yes, the science of magic is also an aesthetic, and there is a consensus in the alchemy community.

The magic circle that can be successfully activated must be secretly in line with the elemental laws between heaven and earth, and it is a beautiful existence.

This pocket circle was beautiful, which made his heart beat quietly.

It can't be real, right......

Because the branch directly sent the base of the magic circle, and also saved the trouble of reproducing the magic circle at the headquarters, he immediately ordered: "Embed the base into the experimental table, I want to activate this magic circle!" ”

"Yes!"

The assistant skillfully placed the base of the circle into the laboratory table and connected it to the source of mana.

"Hum—"

Under Aland's nervous gaze, the next moment, a cyan magic array unfolded in front of the experimental table.

In front of the cyan array, the air shook suddenly, but because there was no target to accelerate, it didn't seem to cause an obvious vision of heaven and earth on the surface.

But as a mage, he could feel the flow of elements in the laboratory changing at this moment.

Aland's expression was a little dull, he stood in place, his head was a little unable to process the information in front of him for a moment.

The circle was indeed successfully activated.

This means that the circle, which is only 30 centimeters long, is real and effective.

It also means that the new magic runes that make up this circle have full practical value.

Successfully streamlining the two-meter circle to a 30-meter scale?

This kind of fantastical thing really appeared in front of his eyes?

"Oh my God...... Oh my God, oh my God! ”

When he realized how much value was hidden behind the pocket circle in front of him, Arand felt that he was going crazy.

"Premium! That's right, that's the result of a super-grade study! ”

He pursed his lips and said, "It's not as simple as streamlining a low-level magic circle, it's creating a new rune system!" ”

As he spoke, he stomped his foot vigorously and ran out impatiently.

He was going to see the Elder.

"Your Excellency?" The assistant had never seen such a gaffe of Aland, and said at a loss, "What should I do with this magic circle, should I put it here first?" ”

"Circle...... That's right, the circle! ”

Arand came back to his senses, trotted back again, and hurriedly said, "Take it out and seal it, I want to keep it close to me!" ”

The results of special research are the treasures of the society, and there is no room for mistakes.

No, not only the treasure of the Society, it will be a treasure for all alchemists!

The more powerful the alchemist, the more he could understand the value of this pocket circle, and Arand was convinced—

A legendary alchemist who is about to redefine the science of magic circles is about to be born in a remote border city.

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