I'm a mage, what's wrong with loving farming?

Chapter 401401. The "value" of gold

The original gold, the philosopher's stone.

In many alchemical legends, this mysterious substance is the "end" that can violate the principle of equivalent exchange and create unimaginable miracles.

——And now it lies quietly in the palm of Cloya's hand, just the size of a pebble, the whole body is the red color of life, like a beating heart.

"Uh...how do I use it?" Kloya looked at it with a deep gaze for a while, and just when Mia thought he was going to use it, she suddenly heard such a question.

"You don't know?" Mia said helplessly, "Didn't I extract all the knowledge of alchemy and compile it into a book for you? Don't you read it normally?"

“Well, I read half of it.”

"Why do you even wear lipstick?"

"It seems to be ground with star flowers."

The knowledge that flooded into her mind made Chloe feel a little itchy, and she couldn't help but wipe the lipstick off her forehead with her hand.

Mentioning this, Mia's expression became a little subtle: "It was the human named Tony who helped me put on the makeup. He seemed to like me very much and even touched my face while putting on the makeup.

I just barely resisted the idea of ​​sending him on a journey to the astral plane."

“…”

Touching Zhibao's face is a once-in-a-lifetime wonder.

Croix once again looked at her teacher's current stage costume, which was covered with various diamonds, and said, "It looks like you're having a lot of fun."

While he was talking, his hands were not idle.

Various materials emerged from the circle of platinum particles scattered around him, forming an extremely complex alchemical array under his magical control.

This thing is quite troublesome.

“It’s okay.” Miya thought about herself singing and dancing on the stage. It was indeed a wonderful feeling that she had never experienced before. What was even more wonderful was that her voice could actually materialize into “spiritual fuel”.

Those who attend the concert will become more energetic after absorbing this fuel.

He was sure that his power had not been wasted.

The mere "sound" could actually convey such a miraculous power, which aroused his interest in research, and he also received seventy, eighty, or ninety tour notices...

Speaking of the announcement, Miya suddenly remembered something: "I was planning to have some fun and then go back to help you look after the kids, but now it looks like you'll have to find someone else to help."

“…”

"You really are addicted to it. Don't worry, I'll find someone to help you."

Well… although he said he was looking for help, the tower spirit should have taken over the job of watching over Luke a long time ago. Fortunately, he had a reliable tower spirit who allowed him to wander around outside.

The two chatted casually.

The extremely complex alchemy array finally took shape.

He placed the Philosopher's Stone in the center of the magic circle. The blood-red light flowing from the Philosopher's Stone passed through the lines of the magic circle and gradually turned into a golden liquid.

It is an intoxicating golden color.

The golden light is so shining that it is even more fascinating than the light of the sun.

Mia walked forward and smeared a little on her finger.

“This is the original gold.”

"Gold is the most stable substance. It is perfectly pure and even immortal. The gold made by the Miya Sage is actually an equivalent exchange of souls - that is, the ability to make all inanimate objects move."

At this point, a look of disdain appeared on his face: "That guy, the Treasure of Time, thought that gold only had the ability to maintain its gold nature, so he used it to make trading items.

However, He should have discovered some clues.

Where's your clock golem?"

Croa, who was listening attentively, exclaimed, "Isn't it making a space magic device?"

"The key position of the clock golem should contain the original gold, which is the equivalent exchange for its ability to move and possess a soul."

"So what I want to tell you is to use this gold to create a life with a complete soul."

He casually took out a piece of...Tiramisu.

He then used the gold on his fingers to draw on the "body" of Tiramisu, representing an infinite ring on the outside and a pattern that looked like flames on the inside.

At the moment the pattern is completed.

【Delicious Tiramisu·Golden Gift】

[This monster received the description from the "Glorious Ring of the Treasure of the Sky", using gold as the fuel for the actions of the soul, and transformed from an inanimate object into a living monster. 】

[All of its actions rely on the "Golden Blood Fire Ring". When this magic fails or the original gold is consumed, it will die again.]

After being enchanted, the tiramisu jumped from Mia's palm, then fell to the ground with a "pop". Not only did the cocoa powder on its surface fall off, but even the base and finger biscuits were exposed.

The two bean-sized pieces of chocolate that served as eyes showed a look of fear, but since they had no fingers or even feet, they could only crawl on the ground, looking silly and cute.

Croa could even sense its thoughts, the joy of new life and the novelty of everything.

"Why is it so stupid?" Croa complained, then thought: "It feels so similar to the things in Gluttony's Paradise?"

"It's just a low-quality demon creation."

Mia picked up the tiramisu casually, restored it to its original state, and then explained: "The soul controls the body. In the special alchemy of Mia Sage, once you have a soul, the body can be driven by the soul and some miracles will happen."

"For example, it can even split its soul to create more small tiramisu, and it can also absorb the materials used to make tiramisu to grow and become bigger."

He took out a bunch of ladyfingers, a mixture of cocoa powder and egg cream and put them aside. The tiramisu chocolate beans' eyes lit up instantly and he walked forward to devour them in big mouthfuls.

The happiness and joy seemed to overflow, as if it was a gift from heaven - food eating food, the scene was really a bit dazed.

Then, its body split into some small tiramisu. Those small tiramisu inherited the golden blood and fire rings on its body surface, and even used finger biscuits as feet and began to jump around.

It itself quickly lost its breath of life, and the ring of life drawn by Mia on its body surface quickly dimmed, and finally turned back into tiramisu.

When it was about to die, its little chocolate bean eyes were still looking at the jumping little tiramisu with a "maternal" gaze.

Although it only takes a few minutes from birth to death, it really seems like a life, with its own joys, sorrows, anger and happiness, as well as expectations for future generations.

“It’s amazing.”

Croa looked at the jumping little tiramisu and said in surprise, "A magical beast that can reproduce and pass on its legacy? These are snacks, and they can actually turn into magical beasts."

He had also studied the things in the Gluttonous Paradise. In essence, they were just monsters similar to food, but this thing was food that was directly transformed into monsters.

“That’s the value of gold.”

"The original gold that can buy life."

Mia finished speaking, her tone becoming serious: “I know you like to study all kinds of magical beasts and magical plants, but don’t use these things to create things related to humans.

The human form is very special.

The Philosopher's Stone can pay that price, but the ripples it brings that affect fate are inevitable, and you will bear the consequences for that."

"You mean humanoid?"

"That's right. Don't create humanoid creatures. I know you've made human golems, but their soul structures are different from those created from gold after all."

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"After all, they are just golems, not people." Mia pointed at herself: "Me too."

Cloya narrowed his eyes, and suddenly remembered some horror movies he had watched in his previous life. The legends about "fake people" in those movies made him feel a little terrified, even though he could now kick that thing like a ball.

His sixth sense was telling him not to do this.

"Okay, I understand." Kloya nodded, "Then can I try it?"

"Of course." Mia stepped aside: "But the output of gold is also cyclical. The more original gold there is, the more it can pay for the soul."

"Uh-huh."

At this moment, Cloya had taken out a piece of jelly and began to concentrate on drawing the soul's fire ring with golden liquid.

Creating life was not unfamiliar to him.

But this time it was extra difficult.

The gold on his fingers seemed to be held down by something. During the process of drawing, it was as if an unknown force was suppressing him, forcing him not to continue drawing and refusing the jelly to give birth to life.

If I had to say it, it was like an invisible hand was holding him down, preventing him from describing it. That hand was very cold, and if you didn't know better, you would think it was a ghost appearing in a horror movie.

He felt something was wrong and looked at Mia beside him.

The latter found a chair nearby and sat down, explaining slowly:

"It is not a life that the rules allow."

“So this process will be difficult and hard.”

The look in His eyes was complicated.

Croa nodded: "I know, but I'm more curious about what the Philosopher's Stone is made of. How can it create life?"

——Just now, he felt that the golden liquid on his fingers seemed to have the rhythm of life, and these rhythms came from the philosopher's stone quietly staying in the center of the magic circle.

"This part of the data has been lost." Miya replied: "But you can rest assured that it is definitely not made from any life. Read less of those books."

"Uh..." Kloya was a little embarrassed. In fact, he really doubted whether this thing was created with life and soul. He remembered watching an anime before traveling through time, which had these settings.

There was no way that Teacher Miya could deceive him.

He shook his head and concentrated on drawing.

This time it went unexpectedly smoothly.

The flowing gold left rings and fire patterns on the jelly as his nimble fingers did. The jelly immediately grew rudimentary hands and feet and began to dance happily.

The Astral Body Engraving Technique scanned it and found that it was no different from the tiramisu just now.

"Why was it so smooth this time? Was it because I hesitated just now?"

"Yes, its life is flowing through your fingertips. If you yourself doubt the reason for its birth, you are its father, the only person it can rely on."

"This is a taboo set by Sage Miya."

"She once lamented to me that being a parent is the simplest thing and does not require any assessment, but after giving birth to a child, she is unable to take good care of them and may even regard the child as the beginning of her own suffering."

"This is a gift from fate, a gift that cannot be refused."

"That's why Sage Miya left such a taboo in the Philosopher's Stone. Croa... If even you think its birth is filthy, then what kind of things will it encounter after its birth?"

Facing Mia's gentle question as always, Kloya sighed deeply: "As you said, teacher, if I feel that its birth comes from the death of countless lives, I will hate it."

“It comes from my description and is the result of my own expectations. If I hate it, it will become extremely depressed, doubt its own existence and thus collapse.”

"And then? Have you ever thought about what will happen after the collapse?"

"Huh?" Kloya was stunned, and then it ceased to exist...

A horrible thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

"Even if it was a complete life when it was born, will it have life and death, and become a wronged spirit?"

How horrible it would be if the life created by the original gold turned into a wronged ghost.

At this moment, Miya's expression suddenly became playful. He stood up, reached out to pick up the Philosopher's Stone, and then fiercely slashed it at the void in front of him -

“Swish!”

“Sizzle!”

The platinum-colored light was like a knife cutting through cloth, creating a huge hole in the void. Inside was a golden light that was shining brightly but also accompanied by a deep resentment.

"This is the price you paid for the Philosopher's Stone you asked me for."

"In the countless distant past, all the beings that were rejected and destroyed by their creators and finally turned into vengeful spirits are here. They are blocking the source of power of the Philosopher's Stone."

Kloya had a headache: "You can't cheat your apprentice like this."

He had already seen what was inside, a bunch of strange things, even more devilish than the devil. If an ordinary person took a look at it, he would probably not dare to go to the toilet at night.

What’s even more terrifying is that there are legendary levels among them, and there are even some that make him feel vaguely pressured. He doesn’t know what the former owners of the Philosopher’s Stone have done.

Miya smiled and said, "I'm not asking you to go."

He pointed at the tiramisu and jelly that were jumping around in an adorable way.

"Let them go!"

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