Chapter 15: Gold
Coming to the machine, Benjamin followed the example of the others and placed his apprentice badge on a detection array under the machine.
Soon, a lot of information appeared on the screen in front of him. Looking at the task information that was more detailed than the one on the big screen, Benjamin felt a little emotional.
"This thing can already be called a 'magic network', right? While common people are still only in the Middle Ages, wizards have already entered the network society."
Considering the wizards' ability to conquer multiple dimensions, it is not surprising that they have entered the online society.
"Let me see..."
Jieming first looked through his personal information and was soon surprised to find that his points balance was not zero.
"What's going on?"
Benjamin was puzzled when he saw the six points in his account, but fortunately the income statement gave a detailed explanation of the source of these points.
"Because there's less than a month between the start of school and the next month, I'm refunding a portion of the 10-point difference each month according to the contract... What the hell?"
Benjamin was really shocked. Not to mention how much resources it would cost to refund the difference for so many students, the school's behavior alone made him a little unbelievable.
"Surely so generous! This kind of thing...even in a society ruled by law in the past, there probably wouldn't be many organizations that would do this, right?"
In addition to being amazed, Benjamin also felt a surge of excitement in his heart.
It seems that the wizards' strictness in contracts is a little beyond his imagination. Even though Benjamin knows that this is most likely a means for the academy to win people's hearts, he still can't help but feel a sense of identity.
"Being willing to abide by the rules, and the rules are relatively fair, is indeed enough to make people feel recognized..."
Suddenly, with a few more startup points, the pressure on Benjamin was immediately reduced a lot. He quickly searched for information about laboratory leasing.
"A small, low-level laboratory... renting it for 10 hours costs five credits, but renting it for a month only costs two hundred credits. Damn! What a huge difference!"
But fortunately, his points now are just enough.
Benjamin left the machine as if nothing had happened, went to the apprentice canteen for dinner, and then returned to his dormitory.
After closing the door, Jieming sat cross-legged on the bed, seemingly in meditation, but in fact his consciousness had already arrived in front of the Dadao Book Pavilion.
A stream of light fell in front of him as he wished. Benjamin grabbed the book transformed by the light and began to look through it quickly.
"I remember it was here... I got it!"
This is a basic book related to practice, which mainly records the methods of extracting various materials.
On the page that Benjamin was paying attention to, the content was about a material called "pure gold".
Gold is the essence of a thousand refinements. However, there is a secret method that can refine the essence of ordinary gold, obtaining the purest and strongest substance, called "pure gold." This substance inherits the solidity of heaven and earth, imbued with the principles of permanence and immutability, impervious to all attacks and shielded from all evil. It is the most precious choice for casting armor and for fitting Mount Sumeru into a mustard seed.
The general meaning of this text is: A material called "fine gold" can be extracted from a large amount of gold. This material has the concept of eternity to a certain extent. Its properties are extremely stable and it is almost unaffected by any energy. It is a good material for refining defense and storage magic weapons.
However, at that time, Benjamin's cultivation had not even broken through to the first level of Qi training, and although his family was a small businessman, it was wishful thinking for him to come up with a large amount of gold for refining, so he just flipped through the book casually.
This was his first reaction after seeing a fist-sized ball of gold in alchemy class today.
"Let me see... Although it's difficult, if there are enough tools to assist, even a Qi training level 1 cultivator can barely refine pure gold. The only problem is that the material consumption is a bit high."
Moreover, according to the book, refined gold is only the most basic spiritual material. After continuous refining, it can also be refined into other higher-grade materials.
However, given Jemin's current situation, refining the pure gold is enough.
After carefully studying the method of refining pure gold, Benjamin suppressed his inner excitement and withdrew from the depths of his consciousness.
He reached out and picked up the ugly gold cube he had just made today.
Such a large piece of gold is quite heavy, and it is not easy for an ordinary person to lift it with one hand.
But after learning the meditation method, the elemental power not only strengthened the mental strength but also strengthened the physical body of the wizard apprentices. And Benjamin benefited from the double benefits of the cultivation method and the meditation method, so it was not too troublesome to use it.
He kept fiddling with the golden cube in his hands, his face perfectly showing the expression of a country bumpkin who had never seen the world.
Secretly, Jieming mobilized the true energy in his body and began to explore through the detection method he learned from the Dao Book Pavilion to see if this piece of gold could be refined like the one in the world of immortal cultivation.
The results were surprising. From the exploration results, it can be seen that the gold structure of the two worlds is almost the same, and both can be refined into pure gold!
"Huh... Don't be too hasty, the conditions aren't perfect yet..."
After calming down his excitement, Benjamin began to think about what benefits this material could bring to him and how to use it to earn his first money.
"But no matter what, in order to better cover up, alchemy cannot be neglected."
Having made up his mind, Benjamin sat back at the table with the gold nugget, and used the basic alchemy manual to consolidate the basic knowledge explained by Instructor Clark in today's class, and studied the metal alchemy plate that looked very complicated.
For a while afterwards, Benjamin repeated this seemingly boring and routine life:
During the day, he would stay in the dormitory to study alchemical theories and try to use alchemy to reshape the golden cube. At night, he would meditate in the quiet of the night, replacing sleep with practice.
Occasionally he would run into Amy in the cafeteria and they maintained just the right amount of contact.
Amy always brings all kinds of college gossip and rumors, providing Benjamin with a lot of valuable information.
This was repeated for more than ten days, until Benjamin was sure that he had fully mastered the fine gold refining technology, and then he began to implement the real plan.
"Mr. Jermyn, this is the laboratory you reserved for rent. As you requested, it has a window facing the rising sun. From now until 6 a.m. the next day, this laboratory is yours."
"Please note that the defensive array within the laboratory can only withstand spells below level one. If any damage is caused, compensation will be required..."
A silver-white metal puppet was chattering about various laboratory rules while opening a fully enclosed metal door.
"...The laboratory is completely sealed. If any problems arise, outsiders will not be able to know. Please pay attention to safety."
"Okay, got it."
Without waiting for the puppet to continue nagging, Benjamin simply closed the door of the laboratory.
(End of this chapter)
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