Chapter 276 Amber's New Research
Amber returned to his underground alchemy factory from Silvermoon High Court.
Although the deal was not concluded, it was not a completely wasted trip. Amber sold the secrets he knew about Arthur Lane to Hecky Stone and made a small profit of several million gold coins.
Out of consideration for the Mourning Poetry Society, we have to give a discount to our own people. If it were an outsider, the price would have been several hundred million.
After the dwarf vampire learned the truth about the dragon blood curse, he howled for several minutes, as excited as a naughty child. Then Herky Stone decisively drove Amber away, saying that he would stay in seclusion for the next few years to write a book that would go down in history.
An Boxiu was very happy for him for having such a great ideal, and said that he would get half of the royalties and his name would be on the second work.
Heki Stone wanted to refute his argument by saying that desert people don't care about copyright, but Amberxiu decisively took out another trick.
"If you don't give me the money and the credit, I will tell this secret to other historians. I think they will be happy to give me these things."
Herky Stone surrendered decisively. Compared with the ideal of leaving his name in history, the mere royalties and authorship were just a hush money for this lich.
Only then did Amber return to his alchemy factory with satisfaction.
I checked the work and found that everything was going well.
The first batch of mushroom-man spore powder has been delivered to the Withered Rose, and the production of sunscreen has begun. Because it is a very simple alchemical product, it can be produced directly in one go and does not require secondary processing.
Now there are thousands of bottles of sunscreen, so Amber asked Harvey to send them to the distributors on the ground and prepare to launch them on the market.
Harvey asked curiously, "Teacher, how much is our price?"
Sunscreen on the market now costs about ten gold coins a bottle, which is very expensive and only the nobility can afford it. You have to apply it every day, and a bottle can only be used for half a month at most. How can ordinary families afford it?
But that's because fungus man spore powder is extremely rare, so the cost cannot be reduced.
Amberxiu wanted to open up the low-end market so that more people could afford it, so he directly priced it at five silver coins.
One hundred silver coins for one gold coin, Amber's price directly turned sunscreen from a luxury item into a civilian product. Although five silver coins were not cheap, it was within the consumption level of civilians who occasionally had a good meal, and most people could still afford it.
Moreover, Amber Repair is preparing to launch large bottles, one bottle is enough for a month, which is more affordable.
"Five silver coins a bottle. If you recite a sentence praising the God of Alchemy when you buy it, you can get another 20% discount."
"It's so cheap, I'm afraid some people will think our products are inferior."
Harvey is not an innocent little boy. He is a man who lives in the market and is quite familiar with these ways.
They are not only launching a new product, but also competing with the original sunscreen, and their opponents will use every possible means to deal with them.
If the price is cheap, they will definitely say that it is made of inferior materials and has various side effects. Then they will find a few people to pretend to be victims, saying that something went wrong after using the sunscreen, and then ruin the reputation of Amber Repair's products.
These are all common "business war" tactics. If you're even more ruthless, you might even hire land thugs to smash up your store.
However, all of Amber Repair's dealers are locals, so there is no need to worry too much about this.
So, the real question is how to ensure that your sunscreen will not be discredited by your competitors.
Amber Xiu smiled and said, "I have already prepared for this. Later you go to the Alchemy City... oh, no, it should be called the Golden City now, to find another student of mine. Her name is Isabel, and she is a rising star among alchemists today. Let her come to the desert and configure our sunscreen on site, which will naturally solve most of the problems. For the rest, I will ask the current president of the Alchemist Council to help certify our products to ensure that they are more advanced than our competitors."
After hearing this, Harvey knew that Amber had already made arrangements, so he was no longer worried.
If a legendary prophecy wizard tells you it’s a deal, then it’s definitely a deal.
Harvey was about to leave when Amber stopped him and said, "Wait a minute, I have thought of a way to quickly promote our product brand. Give each distributor a piece of ice cream, cover it with our sunscreen, and let them put it in front of the store to bask in the sun."
"Ah, our sunscreen is so effective? Can it keep the ice from melting?"
Amber said: "How is this possible? I asked you to move your hands and feet so that the ice would not melt."
Harvey: ...
This teacher is really unreasonable in employing people. How could he, a prophecy wizard, know this kind of magic?
"Anyway, the task is given to you. Don't ask me to do everything myself. You should also use your brain. If you just throw dice all day, your IQ will decline."
What Amberxiu said was not entirely alarmist, the prophecy wizard did have problems in this regard.
When you put too much trust in the dice of fate that you threw, you will become lazy to think, and slowly turn into a useless person who just goes with the flow.
Harvey thought that he didn't throw dice very often, but since the teacher said this, Harvey could only accept his fate.
How to prevent ice from melting?
Harvey walked, lost in thought.
After sending the students to work, Amberxiu started his own work.
Amberxiu didn't need to worry about the alchemy factory, everything was going on in an orderly manner.
Amberxiu is now busy with the large-scale reproduction of mercury zombies. Stimulated by Amberxiu, Withered Rose is becoming more and more excited about attacking Ryan. She begins to urge Amberxiu to prepare a large army of mercury zombies for her and to send large amounts of ore to her at any cost.
It was not easy for Amberxiu to take the money and not do the work, so he had to set aside an area in the dungeon to receive the ore and cultivate the mercury spirit figurines.
It is easy to raise this thing. The Mercury Zombie eats metal and can't even excrete it, so just put the Mercury Zombie and the ore together, and this guy will automatically split and reproduce.
Now that the venue has been arranged, all you have to do next is come and observe regularly.
After finishing this, Amber returned to his laboratory and started a new experiment.
However, what was placed before him this time was no longer the skeletons of various creatures, but a pile of mechanical parts of different models and functions, as well as a small amount of weapons and equipment, all of which were the materials needed today.
Amberxiu simply assembled it, and a palm-sized drone appeared in front of him. He then took out the gold coin, the artifact of the God of Alchemy, and transformed the drone into a corpse attribute, and then fabricated a soul and stuffed it into it.
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The propeller of the drone began to spin rapidly, and the drone took off.
"Forward, backward, left, right, raise, lower..." Amberxiu kept giving commands to the drone, and the little guy was able to complete all the tasks given by Amberxiu excellently.
After doing this, Amberxiu put the drone aside, then took out a dagger and converted it into a corpse attribute.
Immediately afterwards, Amber created a new virtual soul and put it into the dagger.
After a while, the dagger also floated up and flew up and down according to Amber's command, appearing very flexible.
This is what is often called a flying weapon. In many ancient castles, after the owner dies, the flying weapon will sometimes attach itself to the weapons and armor that the owner particularly loved during his lifetime, and become an alternative undead.
Possessed weapons can usually float in the air and attack on their own. These are called flying weapons, while possessed armor is generally called hollow armor or living armor.
Anyway, the principle is the same, that is, the dead souls use dark magic to control these metal equipment.
However, this situation is very rare, because metal is really difficult to possess, and only those extremely powerful undead can do it.
However, since Amber has the legendary gift of transformation, it is very simple to create this kind of flying weapon.
"The simulated soul imprinted with the flying technique can indeed turn the dagger into a flying sword. The speed is also good, and the flexibility is even better than that of a drone, but the accuracy is much worse, and it is more difficult to hover..."
Amber continued to test, and then created many "Undead" with different shapes for subdivision and comparison.
Mechanical undead are characterized by precise control and a relatively low soul cost, but their flexibility is affected by their mechanical bodies, their movements are stiff, and their movements are fixed, making them easy to predict.
As for flying weapons and hollow armor, because they are made purely by the Undead, each individual one appears to be very agile, and the flight trajectory of swords and daggers is not affected by their form at all.
If you pit an undead drone against a flying dagger, the drone will definitely lose.
However, these souls must at least be imprinted with the art of flight, and the cost of manufacturing souls is many times higher than that of the mechanical ones.
Especially for the hollow armor, if you want it to be able to move freely like a human, the soul cost will be even higher, which is almost equivalent to creating a high-level undead.
Each has its own advantages and disadvantages, and Amberxiu needs to keep adjusting to find a battlefield suitable for them to perform.
"The drones can be sold to adventurers. They can even form a team with necromancers. The undead drones can help them explore and track. If the price is cheap, they will probably buy them. As for these flying weapons and hollow armor, they can be disguised as antiques and sold to collectors."
Flying weapons and hollow armor are very old and could only be possessed by the undead, so these things must be antiques. Amber's counterfeiting method is flawless and no one can refute it.
"These products are all 20% off if you praise the God of Alchemy. This way, your strength should be restored soon, Teacher."
The reason why Amber Xiu is so busy is because of the upcoming chaos.
The split of Lion is imminent, and a world war is bound to begin. Once the dragon and Lion decide the winner, the gods will break the previous agreement not to fight each other, which will inevitably affect the mortal world on a large scale.
Amber must prepare early.
These new types of undead soldiers are not only commodities, but also his future weapons of war.
If these tiny flying creatures were carrying a bottle of explosive alchemical potion and thrown over the enemy's head... haha, then let those enemies experience what modern warfare is like.
(End of this chapter)