Chapter 36 Alchemical Relics

"This amount of oily soil must contain more black oil than what's left in the alchemy engine."

With a delighted wag of its tail, Garus picked up a lump of oily clay, squeezed it, and extracted the black oil, dripping it into its mouth.

However.

It wasn't as intense and spicy as I had imagined.

The taste was bitter and unpalatable, like eating excrement, which made Galos frown.

He had never eaten excrement, but he thought eating excrement was nothing special.

Unlike the black oil I ate last time, this seemed to contain a lot of impurities. After swallowing it, I didn't immediately feel a surge of energy. Instead, I needed to digest it first, and the energy I got after digestion was probably not as good as the black oil I ate last time.

"why is that?"

Galos was somewhat puzzled.

After a moment's thought, he understood the general reason.

"The black oil in the alchemy engine has been refined, not crude oil. What I'm eating should be pure natural crude oil, which hasn't been refined and contains many impurities."

Crude oil is also edible.

However, its absorption efficiency is not as good as black oil, and the taste is indescribable.

Fortunately.

There is a solution.

Galos turned to Samantha and gave her a task: "Use your alchemy to refine all the crude oil in these oily soils into black oil."

To please Galus, he bestowed upon himself treasure.

Samantha has been diligently studying alchemy day and night and has learned how to refine black oil. Although her skill level is only average, she still knows how to refine crude oil into black oil, which is the simplest process.

Hearing Galos's words.

Samantha stuck out her tongue and licked her lips, saying, "Oh, my dear brother, I would do anything for you, but would that make you happy?"

It doesn't want to work for free; it's here to ask for money.

This is a reasonable request.

Samantha's current position is equivalent to Garoth's follower, a follower of the dragon. In dragon society, such a follower is different from a servant or slave.

The dragon serves the master.

The master dragon needs to regularly provide the subordinate dragons with a certain amount of compensation.

Empty talk won't work. The Red Dragon is dull and rude, but when it comes to treasure, he becomes meticulous and shrewd.

Galos hasn't completely shaken off his obsession with treasure yet, and he'd feel a pang of heartache if he had to part with his money.

However, after thinking it over, Galos was ultimately quite generous and lined up several gold coins.

"Work hard, and these are yours."

For the young dragon, these gold coins were enough. Samantha pounced on him with shining eyes, ready to take the gold coins.

"My dear brother, you are so good to me! I am willing to serve you and do anything for you!"

It called out, and said.

"Wait, my clever sister, do you want more?"

Galos's words seemed to have some kind of magic, causing Samantha to stop what she was doing.

"certainly!"

It said this with conviction.

Galos said calmly, "Considering our blood ties, I will offer you two choices."

"One option is to take these five gold coins directly and keep them safe, but there is still a risk of losing them."

"Secondly, you can keep it with me. I will safeguard it for you. Moreover, with the Dragon God above, I guarantee that I can give you six gold coins after one year, eight gold coins after two years, and the amount will continue to increase every year."

Samantha hesitated for a moment, unsure of what to do.

Galos pressed his advantage, gently persuading, "Think about it, which is better, unchanging or ever-growing wealth? We dragons should focus on long-term benefits."

I hesitated for a long time.

Samantha thought it over and over, but she still couldn't resist the temptation of the ever-increasing wealth, so she agreed.

"I'll be collecting it in a year, so you have to give it to me then, or I won't work for you anymore."

Samantha said.

Its words were resolute.

But after a year, things might not be so simple.

Moreover, since he himself is a dragon, he knows the weaknesses in the dragon's nature. Garus is very skilled at deceiving dragons, and if it behaves well enough and doesn't try to cheat, it wouldn't be a problem to give it some rewards.

Galos nodded, put the gold coins away again, and said seriously:

"Of course, you know me, I'm not a treacherous green dragon."

Thinking about her growing wealth, Samantha skipped and jumped happily as she went to work.

It uses common iron ore found everywhere in the wilderness of Sel, melts it with the breath of flames, and then slowly hammers it, engraving some runes on it, shaping it into the most basic alchemical crucible.

Place pieces of oily clay into the crucible.

Samantha chanted incantations, her hands drawing and sketching in the air, using magical energy to outline runes and inject them into the air. Then she opened her mouth and exhaled dragon breath, beginning to refine black oil using alchemy.

Not long after.

Galos now had an extra portion of refined black oil.

It was packaged in a somewhat rough iron can, and the dark liquid had a viscous texture.

After taking a gentle sniff, Galos drank it all in one gulp.

call!

It felt as if a flame was igniting inside my stomach.

"The flavor is pure and strong! This is the black oil I've been looking for."

Sparks flew from his nostrils, and Galos's spirits instantly soared. The dark red patterns on his inner scales became even more vibrant, and the iron-red hue at the very edge of his buffer scales seemed to brighten as well.

With a flap of its wings, Galos soared into the sky and landed on a barren wasteland on the outskirts where it often trained.

call!

Use the Silverfrost Ring to exhale cold air that freezes rocks, making them as hard as steel.

Full of anger, Galos couldn't wait any longer and charged headlong into the crowd, beginning his daily training.

at the same time.

A few people walked slowly along a small branch of the path marked by a thousand snakes.

A blonde warrior, about two meters tall, wearing heavy armor and carrying a heavy sword as big as a door; a pale-faced, tall and thin necromancer surrounded by negative energy; a hot-bodied female wanderer with a dagger and a crossbow at her waist; a beautiful female priest in a white robe; and a young-looking spellcaster in a light blue robe.

A total of five people formed an adventurer team.

The golden-haired warrior's armor and greatsword were engraved with alchemical runes and had a high-quality feel, clearly indicating that they were excellent equipment. The equipment of the others was more ordinary, but it was not ordinary ironware either.

This group belongs to the [Tomorrow] Adventure Team.

They heard rumors that a powerful alchemical artifact remained in an abandoned mine in the wilderness of Sel, so they went to explore it, hoping to find the legendary powerful alchemical artifact.

The wanderer looked at the intricate map in his hand and whispered, "There are no normal roads ahead. We will officially enter the wilderness, the territory of many monsters and ferocious beasts."

The necromancer grinned: "Opportunity always comes with risk; it's an inevitable path."

On the planet Bernardo, necromancers, a profession that desecrates corpses and souls, are subject to some discrimination, but they are not simply condemned as evil beings because of their profession. Whether someone is evil or not depends on the individual.

"It is said that there are many dragons in this wilderness. I hope we don't encounter any."

The pastor spoke softly.

The spellcaster lowered his voice and said, "What if it's a baby dragon? If we encounter a baby dragon, we'll be rich. We can return directly without exploring the abandoned mine. With the sealing spells I have, I can easily drag the baby dragon to the ground, leaving it no way to escape."

The young dragons pose no threat to them.

What they fear are the older dragons.

"Stop dreaming. There's no such thing as being that lucky. Be careful and stick close to me."

The blond warrior spoke in a deep voice, his tall figure leading the way, giving his companions a strong sense of security.

They entered the wilderness, cautiously observing the surroundings, and gradually ventured deeper.

If viewed from above, a careful observation of their trajectory reveals that they will pass through the Hemlock Hills, and if they are lucky, they will encounter a young dragon, as the spellcaster wishes.

(End of this chapter)