Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 182 Alchemy
"I remember that your house seems to have more rooms?" Rhodes looked at Gilbert and said.

"This..." Gilbert hesitated.

"I'll vacate the room in the tavern later and live in an empty room in your house." Rhodes said without waiting for him to answer. Moving to Gilbert's house can also monitor him, so as not to let him leak or secretly slipped away.

"Okay." Gilbert was a little helpless.

After that, Rhodes retreated his room to the tavern owner, and then returned to the room to clear his luggage.

When he put on his armor and took his bags and returned to the first floor of the tavern, he saw that Gilbert was still in the tavern, so he found a seat and sat down.

He stood up after seeing Rhodes down.

"Can we go back now?" Gilbert asked.

"Wait a minute, I still have a horse, can you raise a horse there?" Rhodes asked.

"My yard should be fine, but I need to prepare some feed, and I seem to have some in my grocery store." Gilbert replied after thinking about it.

Rhodes nodded, and then led Gilbert to the stables of the tavern. After finding his traveling horse, he led the horse to the grocery store opened by Gilbert.

Rhodes felt that he had become a bully, but it was best for safety reasons, lest Gilbert go back on his word and report himself to the guards in the fortress or escape with the secret recipe of gunpowder.

He was going to lock Gilbert in the basement of the grocery store when the war started, and provide him with food and water so he wouldn't sneak away.

At the back door of the grocery store, Rhodes took out his key and opened the back door of the grocery store.

"Why?" Rhode looked at Gilbert helplessly and felt a chill.

"Keys," Gilbert replied.

"No." Rhode led the horse into the yard.

"Why?" Gilbert followed.

"Don't ask, I'll kill you if you ask again." Rhodes replied flatly.

But the effect was not bad, and Gilbert didn't speak again after hearing it, but turned and walked to his own room.

"What are you doing?" Rhodes asked.

"To get a prescription," Gilbert replied.

"Do you want to poison me or poison yourself?" Rhodes found a place to tie the horse.

"No, someone ordered some alchemy potions from me that can heal injuries, and they will be delivered tonight. I'm going to rush to make them now." Gilbert replied.

"I'll go with you." Rhode suddenly became interested in alchemy. He felt that he who had studied inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, and physical chemistry might have some achievements in alchemy.

"I don't like people around when I'm experimenting." Gilbert pushed open the door of his room.

"I'll give you a chance to reorganize the language." Rhodes followed.

"Well, as long as you don't talk." Gilbert sighed.

Rhodes felt that a few days of abusing Gilbert like this might make him suffer from Stockholm Syndrome. From then on, he obeyed his own words, and he would be grateful to Dade if he treated him a little better.

But these can only be thought about. Rhodes himself thinks this is unlikely, and he still has to think of a more reliable method, such as signing a contract.

Gilbert stood in front of the alchemy workbench and was ready to start the operation. He had prepared all the materials before and placed them neatly beside him.

"Before you start, let me ask a question, what are these materials?" Rhodes asked.

"This is the blue mountain flower, this is the wheat, this is the bear's claw, and this is the giant's toe." Gilbert pointed to the powder in the wooden bowl and explained one by one.

"Wheat can make healing potions? How about rice, rye, sorghum, and corn?" Rhodes asked.

Gilbert shook his head, "I don't know, I haven't tried it. Although I want to try it, the bear claws and giant toes needed for healing potions are very precious. I don't want to waste materials for these experiments. You should know, like me Such unknown alchemists are poor."

"Then if I pay you to build a laboratory and help you buy materials for experiments, would you like it? But it needs to be researched according to my needs." Rhodes asked.

Gilbert's eyes lit up when he heard it, "It will cost a lot of money, and tens of thousands of gold coins will definitely not be enough."

Rhodes took out a handful of gems from his body, shook them in front of him, and then put them away again.

Gilbert became short of breath when he saw the gem.

"Didn't you say you were not interested in money?" Rhodes asked with a smile.

"It depends on how much it is. At that time, I didn't want to care about you, so I bought some worthless materials." Gilbert replied.

But if you think about it, many people can say that they are not interested in money when faced with hundreds of dollars, but it is different when faced with tens of millions.

Rhodes felt that it might be the Calamity of the Wise that affected Gilbert, so he touched the Calamity of the Wise and lifted the effect on Gilbert.

"If you are really willing to spend so much money to ask me to do experiments for you, I will follow you in the future." Gilbert's IQ still said after replying.

Looking at his expression, Rhodes didn't think he was lying.As a person who often lied, it was easy for him to tell who was lying.

"Why don't alchemists like you have the money to do the experiments you want?" Rhodes asked.

"You have to know that almost all mages are proficient in alchemy. And we alchemists can only be regarded as mage apprentices who know alchemy, although I think my talent and attainments in alchemy are higher than most mages. , but those wealthy nobles will still choose to pay those mages to make the potions they want." Gilbert replied.

Rhodes nodded, "We're discussing this matter after the battle at the fortress is over, you should continue to do your thing now."

Gilbert didn't say much, and started the operation.

He put the powder of the giant's toe in the middle of the alchemy workbench. After injecting magic power, the powder was suspended, and a flame emerged from the middle of the workbench, continuously burning the powder
After that, he added some other materials in a certain order to the pile of powder.

"The most difficult thing about making healing potions is that each step needs to inject different amounts of magic power to make the temperature of the flames different. Only in this way can we make potions with better healing effects." Gilbert explained, he passed the alchemy workbench Knock the mixed powder into a wooden bottle.

Glass manufacturing in this world is still at a very primitive stage, and wooden bottles are generally used as containers.

"Is this filled with water?" Rhodes asked.

"This is not ordinary water. This is the water that is formed by heating the water with flames and collecting the evaporated water vapor. We generally call it the essence of water, or water essence for short," Gilbert explained.

Rhodes was a little speechless after hearing it, a distilled water said so loftily...

(End of this chapter)