Chapter 9: City of Divine Punishment
Amber Xiu had three completely different lives.
In his previous life, he was a science student who had a fake diploma and was confused about life. Even his ideals were buried in cheap entertainment. When he died, Amber found that the things that flashed in the revolving lantern were not worth mentioning.
Then, God gave him another chance to travel to this chaotic but exciting world. The young man was arrogant and thought he was born to be the protagonist. It was no problem for him to become a legend in three years and a god in ten years. Amber Xiu had been thinking about doing great things since he was an adventurer, until he found that even if he reached the legendary level, he was just a fake.
It is always said that people grow up when they realize that they are not the center of the world.
The same thing happened to Amber Xiu. When he found out that he was already very old and was just a fake legend who couldn't even afford the youth potion to prolong his life, he realized that he was just one of the lucky ones among the countless people in the world, and that time travelers were not that special.
So what if he is a legendary wizard? He is still a poor fellow. He might as well not be a human being.
There's nothing wrong with being reincarnated as a lich.
Thanks to the fact that his heart had stopped beating and his brain had almost stopped functioning, Amberxiu was only slightly distracted when he looked at his former self in the mirror. He changed his robe filled with a dark aura into ordinary clothes, and prepared to leave the castle to go shopping.
Passing by another laboratory, Isabel was preparing medicine inside.
Petrified lizard oil is a magic potion that can remove the effect of petrification. Using this potion as the main ingredient and adding some cheap ingredients can make a good rock softener. As long as it is diluted with water, it can be used to reclaim wasteland.
However, petrified lizard oil is quite difficult for an alchemy apprentice to obtain.
Amber was a little worried that Isabel would waste too much medicine, so he stopped to look at her for a few more times. Then he couldn't help but say, "The basic skills are good, but the flame temperature is wrong. The flask is placed too low. The reaction temperature is too low, which will lead to incomplete reaction. The prepared medicine is not only of poor quality, but also wastes materials. The outer flame temperature is the highest. Didn't your teacher teach you this basic thing?"
Isabel was startled and turned around to see a strange boy standing at the door of the laboratory with a surprised expression.
“You…” Isabel wanted to ask if Amber was a recruited freeman, but she reacted immediately and said excitedly: “You also know alchemy? What is the outer flame? I used fixed equipment in my teacher’s laboratory, and I have never seen this kind of free adjustment…”
An Boxiu laughed and said disdainfully: "An old-fashioned way of keeping secrets, I'm afraid I'll teach it to my apprentice."
Many alchemists value their skills more than their lives and are unwilling to teach many basic things. Customized equipment is the simplest and most effective way to keep secrets.
Fixed height, fixed flame temperature, fixed feed ratio... Because it is custom-made, the apprentice can only perform fool-proof operations. The success rate is very high when configuring specific potions, but the fewer failures, the less the apprentice learns.
Just like the assembly line worker in Amber's previous life, they did simple and repetitive work and learned almost no real skills. Without these customized devices, many apprentices could not even prepare the most basic potions.
Isabel was able to make tranquilizing potions in another laboratory, which made her a very good alchemy apprentice.
"Alchemy is not just about following the recipe. Ambient temperature, humidity, and even air circulation are all key. Every step in the notes is actually a reaction principle. If you don't understand these, you will only be an apprentice for the rest of your life."
Amberxiu walked into the laboratory, readjusted the height of the flask, adjusted some ingredients, and then successfully made a bottle of petrified lizard oil of perfect quality.
Isabel watched Amber's skillful operation, her eyes widened with admiration. The black-haired boy in front of her seemed to be a few years younger than her, but his understanding of alchemy far exceeded hers, and his explanation was even simpler and easier to understand than her teacher's.
Isabel wanted to ask a few more questions, at least ask the boy's name, but as soon as she put the bottle of petrified lizard oil away, she turned around and he was no longer there.
Isabel was stunned for a moment, and suddenly her scalp felt tingling.
This lich's castle...isn't it haunted?
Isabel instantly imagined a story. A genius young alchemist who died in the castle appeared when he saw others doing alchemy experiments because of his grudge? The more she thought about it, the more scared she became. Isabel felt her back was soaked. This castle was really full of horror.
Isabel only hoped that what the lich said was true, and that after the land was reclaimed, she could allow them to move out of the castle and build houses elsewhere.
Amberxiu walked out of the castle with a young boy's face, then cast a flying spell on himself and flew into the sky.
After flying for about half an hour and covering about fifty or sixty kilometers, Amber finally saw the abstract city - the Alchemy City, Alchemia.
The city stands on a vast plain, with a large amount of magic metal inlaid on its tall rock walls, and thousands of alchemical runes carved out. It is rumored that this city is a huge alchemical product, which can snap and turn into a giant mechanical construct when necessary.
This must be bragging. If the entire city turned into a mechanical giant, most of the residents inside would be killed without the enemy attacking.
However, these runes must contain great power. After all, before the economic crisis, Alchemia was known as the richest city on the continent.
The reason why this city is abstract is not because of the runes on the wall, but because when viewed from the sky, there are seven magnificent alchemy towers lined up in a row in this city. These alchemy towers seem to be built with various gems, and they are extremely dazzling in the sun.
The seven alchemy towers were uneven, of different colors, and even had different appearances and styles, except for their twisted and ugly temperament. Even though Amber Xiu had no artistic attainments, he felt that these alchemy towers were very ugly, no, it should be said that they were extremely ugly and abstract.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
It's not just Amber Xiu who thinks so. The City of Alchemy has been the champion of the Ugliest City Competition among the Nine Kingdoms for many years in a row. Even the Alchemist Council itself can't stand it.
But they cannot change it because it is a "gift" from the gods.
When the Council of Alchemists attempted to create gods and blasphemed the gods, the God of Alchemy punished them. Not only did he prevent them from making any new breakthroughs in alchemy, he also gave them these seven towers.
Anyone who has studied alchemy can tell at a glance what the shapes of these seven towers are.
The tower with green poop looks like the residue left over from overheating when the healing potion was prepared; the tower with red duct adenoma looks like the flocs condensed after the imbalance of the bear's strength potion... And so on, the seven towers represent seven types of alchemical products, which are also the seven most classic and common products of experimental failures.
The gods used these seven towers, symbols of failure, to nail the city of Alchemia to the pillar of shame in history.
However, the shame had nothing to do with Amber Xiu. He wore a human costume and entered the city gate in the most normal way. It was only a short time after entering the city that Amber Xiu felt that this alchemy city had changed a lot.
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(End of this chapter)