[Chapter 94 Alchemy]

After asking enough information, David indicated that he had no more questions to ask for the time being. He immediately saw Newton happily holding his Hammer of Judgment and looking at it over and over again. He

didn’t want to ask anything at first, but after seeing Newton’s behavior, David couldn’t help but ask: “Is it okay to just look at it like this?”

“This is the most basic observation.” Newton looked up and down several times, and the more he looked, the more surprised he felt. He did not hide the surprise on his face at all: “The material used for this hammer head seems to have only been simply processed, and no other minerals have been mixed.”

The more Newton looked, the more surprised he was. The more he looked, the more he wanted to figure out what kind of mineral it was: “It seems to contain a lot of energy, and this energy exudes a sacred breath. Is it natural?”

After pondering for a while, Newton began to rub the handle of the hammer again: “Or is it the special metal in the handle that caused this phenomenon?”

David knew the answer, but he didn’t say a word, just looked at Newton. He was very curious about what magical methods the alchemists had?

He didn’t wait too long, and soon noticed that Newton’s eyes were emitting a faint golden light. He lowered his head and kept looking at the Hammer of Judgment in his hand, muttering from time to time: “Oh~Is that so! Eh? What material is this?”

The more he looked at it, the more excited he felt. Newton, who was in high spirits, put away the light in his eyes, and then looked up and asked David: “I may have to use some special means, do you mind?”

“What kind of special means?”

“It’s a spell in alchemy. Don’t worry, it’s just analysis and recording, and it won’t cause any damage to your weapon.” When Newton talked about things related to alchemy, his confidence became much stronger, and even his waist and back became straighter: “Even if it is really damaged, I can fix it immediately and give you a better quality one.” “

It’s good that it won’t be damaged.” David stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation. He was really curious about what kind of ability the alchemy in this world had. As for the hammer, the manufacturing process of this hammer was not very sophisticated. For the people in this world, the real difficulty was that they could not obtain the two key materials of crystal ore and light cast iron.

Newton, who had obtained the permission, was overjoyed and became very energetic. Although he did not jump three feet high, everyone could see his excitement.

He held the Hammer of Judgment in the palm of his left hand and opened his other hand to make a gesture of holding it in an empty hand. The old alchemist did not recite any spells, nor did he have any special preparatory steps. There was only a flash of golden light, and the Hammer of Judgment was wrapped in the golden ball of light. The

golden ball of light floated between Newton’s hands. After wrapping the Hammer of Judgment in it, a halo appeared around the ball of light.

This golden ball with a halo looks a bit like Saturn, but the halo surrounding the ball of light is densely covered with various mysterious runes.

David took a few glances and did not understand any of them. He just thought that these runes were very beautiful, which made Newton’s spell look very high-end and classy.

“These runes symbolize the alchemist’s understanding and perception of various alchemical techniques. Each alchemist’s alchemical array, alchemical framework, and alchemical runes are very different.”

I don’t know if it was because David readily agreed to let him study the Hammer of Judgment, or because the old alchemist was addicted to being a teacher. Seeing that David and Sharon were paying attention to the alchemical array in his hand, he directly started to explain.

This opening was amazing. The alchemical array in his hand was still analyzing and recording various details of the Hammer of Judgment. The old alchemist might have felt bored waiting, so he talked endlessly.

I don’t know if he noticed the confused expressions on the two people’s faces, so Newton turned around and started talking from the most basic things, as if he was going to give the two people in front of him an authentic alchemist introductory course. David

didn’t say anything. He was indeed very curious about this so-called alchemy. Anyway, he was free, so he just listened.

Sharon also remained silent. Although she didn’t know what else this alchemist could do besides alchemy and researching various rare minerals, it didn’t stop her from learning more mysterious knowledge.

Material conversion should be the core content of alchemy, but it is not so easy to do this. According to the words of Pierre Newton, the old alchemist, only a very small number of people who stand at the top of alchemy can truly convert any substance at will.

That not only requires the alchemist to have huge energy, but also to have sufficient understanding of various substances. And reaching this level, you can change anything at will and turn it into what you want.

But this involves a forbidden area, which is a minefield that all alchemists are currently not allowed to touch: living bodies!

“Because this behavior is immoral?”

Sharon couldn’t help but asked.

“No, it’s just too dangerous!”

“…”

This living body refers not only to humans, even ordinary animals are also very dangerous, and even plants are not low in danger. This is also an important reason why most alchemists mainly study minerals.

After talking about some taboos, Newton began to explain how alchemists use energy.

“What? I didn’t say what kind of energy it was? Oh, sorry, I skipped a paragraph.” Newton turned back and introduced the energy that alchemists use when performing alchemy: “It is mainly arcane energy, but it is difficult to absorb arcane energy, and there are also many troubles when using it later, so alchemists will ‘refine’ the absorbed arcane energy and convert it into a more ‘safe’ energy before using it.”

“Of course, in theory, in addition to arcane energy, other energies can also be used in alchemy, even without ‘refining’ and conversion, as long as your control over this energy is strong enough.”

Newton continued to talk non-stop, and soon he got to the real introductory part of alchemy.

After obtaining energy that can be used for consumption, knowing the dangerous taboos, and knowing what alchemy is, you can start to try to get started.

“First, use your own energy to build a frame.” The alchemy array is composed of an alchemy frame and alchemy runes, among which the frame is the most basic frame.

“What kind of frame?”

“It doesn’t matter, as long as you can put things in it.”

Newton was a little annoyed that David kept interrupting him, but when he turned his head, he saw a golden energy cube appear between David’s hands.

“Huh? You have a talent for alchemy!” A look of surprise appeared on Newton’s face, which was very similar to when he suddenly saw the materials he was interested in: “No, no, you must maintain the stability of the entire frame structure. This cube is unstable at first glance and it is too easy to collapse.”

“No, I’m not talking about the instability of the cube shape. It makes no sense to change it to a triangle. I mean the uneven distribution of energy… Yes, yes, that’s it!”

“Alchemical runes need to be arranged on the frame. In the early stage, if you want to arrange enough runes on the frame, the easiest way is to increase the face… Um… This sixteen-sided frame is enough for the time being.” He

talked all night in one breath, and even the analysis and recording spells in his hands had been completed, but he couldn’t stop the old alchemist.

He put the Hammer of Judgment aside and continued to instruct David to build his own alchemical frame. Then he taught him how to draw alchemical runes and how to complete his own alchemical array.

After teaching the theoretical knowledge, Newton let out a sigh of satisfaction: “I haven’t taught so well in a long time!”

Looking around, he found that the sun had already risen in the sky.

“…”

He looked down at the Hammer of Judgment in front of him, and then glanced at the cup beside the fire. Newton sighed helplessly: “I wanted to analyze it carefully after analyzing and recording it.”

“Don’t worry, there is still a month anyway!”

“That’s right.” Newton regained his spirits, stood up and stretched his body: “I taught you alchemy all night, which can be regarded as a good way for me to vent my anger.”

“Vent my anger?”

“Yes, I want to see who will question my teaching ability in the future!” The old alchemist seemed to remember something particularly angry, and the originally stable energy in his body suddenly burst out a little, blowing his beard up.

“So that’s it.” David wanted to agree with that evaluation in his heart. He discovered it when he was listening to the class last night. Newton often jumped around when talking about things, basically talking about whatever he thought of, and the old man was particularly unhappy that he was interrupted.

If David was not essentially the old alchemist’s “employer”, and if David asked a question, David would understand it immediately after the old man taught it once, I’m afraid he wouldn’t give him a good face.

“I have learned alchemy?”

Newton immediately put on a disdainful expression when he heard this: “How can this be called learning? You have just opened the door to alchemy, and you haven’t even stepped in yet!”

“…”

“If you want to really get started, you need to stay in the blacksmith shop for a while, learn and understand how matter changes its own form and how it merges with other substances.” Newton also told David how to practice next: “And draw your own alchemy runes.”

According to Newton, with David’s talent, if he is willing to work hard in the blacksmith shop for a year, draw basic alchemy runes, and then combine them with the alchemy frame to complete his own alchemy array, then he can be considered to have truly entered the door.

“At that time, you can use alchemy to change the appearance of metal objects as you like, just like me.”

Newton knew that if he wanted people to study hard, he had to give them a goal to achieve, so he showed the effect of entry-level alchemy – taking out a piece of metal from his waist, and as the alchemy array appeared and disappeared, the metal block had turned into a sharp dagger.

(End of this chapter)