Chapter 17 Are You a Ghost?

The economic crisis of Alchemy City is more severe than Ambersu imagined. Even the small lords below have begun to prepare for the collapse of Alchemy City.

However, Amberxiu has no time to care whether the Alchemy City collapses or not. He is fully devoted to the experiment of creating zombies.

Master Morgan pointed out the direction for Amberxiu. By optimizing the simulated soul technology, Amberxiu quickly created a "bionic" soul at a cost of about two hundred gold coins.

Considering the value of a soul, two hundred gold coins is undoubtedly a luxury. After all, the soul of a human slave is not worth even one gold coin. However, the magic ritual created by Master Morgan costs 50,000 gold coins, and Amber only spent 200, which undoubtedly greatly reduced the cost.

Moreover, there is still room for further cost reduction.

The first step in making the zombie had been completed, but after the soul problem was solved, the design of the zombie's body encountered some minor troubles.

Living mercury is the most suitable body for the soul, but the problem is that living mercury lacks many internal organs when it is created.

I don’t know what the original plan of those crazy people in Alchemy City was. Apart from showing extremely high resistance to magic, living mercury is a completely deformed life.

The lack of necessary internal organs made the living mercury very fragile, and it had no ability to move except for the instinct to devour metal. In this case, even if a soul was stuffed in, it would only be a waste of materials, so Amber needed to help the living mercury complete the missing internal organs.

The best way is to refer to the body structure of slime. After all, living mercury is a modified mercury slime.

"Alas, I regret not having read enough books when I need them. I really know nothing about slimes."

Even a lich with eternal life would seem insignificant in the face of the vast ocean of magical knowledge. Every year, new magical theories are published in Legendary Spells, and the results that have not been published are countless.

Even though Amber was a diligent scholar, it was impossible for him to master all fields.

At this time, you need to seek help from experts.

However, when Amber Xiu asked around in the chat group of the Mourning Poets Society, these legendary undead spirits all said that they had never conducted any research on slimes.

This is normal. Low-level monsters like slimes are not only weak and ugly, but also have almost no use value. They are an extremely unpopular research direction. The undead have a lot of time, but no one is interested in this thing.

Amberxiu could only take out the previous years' "Legendary Spells" magazines and start searching for slime-related content one by one.

The results were disappointing. Even in a famous magic journal like "Legendary Spells", there was very little content about slimes.

I can only say that Slime is really weak.

After much thought, if I want to find an expert on slime, the only place left is the Alchemy City, which has researched living mercury.

But now the Alchemy City is in the midst of a financial crisis, and prices are rising like crazy from top to bottom. If you ask for relevant information at this time, you will probably be severely ripped off.

Only Amber Xiu could tell others about the matter of adding money, because if it happened to him, it would become a painful torture comparable to taking a bath in holy water.

After much thought, Amberxiu couldn't find a shortcut, so he could only follow the most traditional way of the lich - catching a few slimes and doing experiments. As long as he dissected one or two hundred slimes, he could become an expert in slime research.

Amber performed Transfiguration again and returned to human form.

This is a world with extremely serious racial discrimination. Liches always have many inconveniences when walking outside. Only by transforming into human appearance can they reduce many unnecessary troubles.

Disguised as a black-haired boy, Amberxiu once again walked out of his laboratory and headed out of the castle.

Passing by Isabel's workshop, Amber took another capitalist look inside.

Fortunately, the little girl was honest and did not steal his experimental materials.

Previously, Amberxiu had created an intelligent ghoul as an experimental assistant, but within a few days, the ghoul had eaten up one third of the stock. He was so angry that the fire of his soul was smoking, and he could only dismantle the ghoul, which had grown twice as fat, to recover some of the losses.

Sensitive Isabel noticed Amber's presence and showed a surprised expression, then walked over quickly to greet him and said, "Teacher, I finally see you again."

"teacher?"

Amber Xiu was stunned for a moment and asked, "You call me teacher?"

Isabel nodded and said, "Thanks to your guidance on alchemy last time, I found that I have made a lot of progress. Maybe it's a bit presumptuous to call you that, but I am really grateful for your guidance, teacher."

Amber Xiu did not refuse the title, as he truly deserved the title of teacher.

Since he was a teacher, he had to care about the students. Amber asked Isabel, "Do you have any questions recently?"

Isabel's eyes lit up and she said, "Yes, teacher, wait a minute."

Isabel took out her notebook, opened a page and said, "When extracting belladonna, I couldn't control the temperature well..."

"Pay attention to the time it takes for bubbles to appear. Stop heating if the first bubble appears within thirty seconds."

"The Animal Talking Potion was made according to the ratio in the book, but the quality is very low."

"Affected by the temperature, the room temperature in the castle is relatively low, so you need to increase the proportion of the suspension appropriately, about 5 percent."

…

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

No matter what question Isabel asked, Amber could answer it almost without thinking.

The more Isabel asked, the more she felt that the black-haired boy in front of her was unfathomable. There were many questions that the previous teacher could not answer, or was unwilling to answer, but she did not expect that the boy in front of her could answer them so easily.

These are all very basic alchemy knowledge, which is too easy for a research scholar like him, but for Isabel, it is a precious experience that took her many years to figure out without anyone reminding her.

Isabel knew the value of knowledge, and she admired and even worshipped the young teacher in front of her.

Isabel quickly turned to the back pages of the notebook and continued, "Also, the Hill Giant Strength Potion..."

"Wait, is this a potion you can make now?"

"This... I saw the recipe, and here are the ingredients..."

"You are too ambitious and will only waste materials. You won't be able to understand this advanced potion even if I teach you step by step."

Amber's tone became stern. The basic potions were fine. They consumed a lot of materials and required Isabelle's hard work every day to prepare them. But the Hill Giant Strength Potion was different. It was very precious and belonged to the advanced potion. If Amber failed once, the materials lost would make Amber heartbroken.

After delaying for more than half an hour, Amber stopped and said to Isabel, "Alchemy is a very profound subject. You don't want to become a master of alchemy in one day, do you? Master everything I teach you first before asking other questions!"

After being taught a lesson, Isabel was not dissatisfied at all.

Compared to the previous teacher, Amber was as kind as an angel. He didn't even use insulting words like fool and idiot to curse her, and he didn't hide the knowledge of alchemy. The many questions recorded in this little book had troubled Isabel for a long time, but every time she asked the previous teacher, she only got a very perfunctory answer.

Amberxiu carefully told Isabel not to waste materials, and was about to leave when he was stopped by Isabel again.

"Teacher, please wait a moment, I have one last question."

Amber turned around suspiciously and asked, "What's the problem?"

Isabel asked cautiously: "Teacher, you... should be a ghost, the ghost of this castle? Right?"

Amber: ...

(End of this chapter)