The Last Alchemist

Playing games, fighting bosses, feeling hungry until midnight, what accidents will happen if you go out for a late night snack?

Car accident? robbery? Or maybe an affair?

None.

Rosen opened the apartment door, stepped out, and traveled directly through time.

The moment he crossed the door, he felt a little dazed. The light around him shook strangely like water waves. He lost his balance, stumbled, and was about to fall.

Rosen reached out hurriedly and instinctively grabbed the door handle behind him, steadying his body before falling.

"What the hell? Is there an earthquake? Wait, something's wrong. The door handle doesn't feel right!"

The door handle of the apartment he rented was made of polished stainless steel, which felt smooth and cold to the touch, but the door handle he was holding now was made of wood, which felt smooth and cold to the touch.

It's a little rough, with many strange patterns carved on it.

Looking back, he found that the door he was leaning on was not the dark blue security door in the apartment, but a solid-colored wooden door with many simple carvings on the door.

The surrounding light has also changed. The sound-activated lights in the apartment corridor are energy-saving lamps. The light is white, stable and bright, but now it is dim yellow, the brightness is very low, and it keeps shaking.

Rosen followed the light and looked over, and saw an antique desk in the center of the room behind him. There was a silver candlestick on the table. There were 12 candles on the candlestick, six of which were lit. There was also a book beside the candlestick. A thick book with yellowing pages.

The wooden building, the wooden door, and the ancient-style furniture and furnishings in the room were inexplicably strange, yet somehow familiar.

"Oh my God, what happened? I just want to go to KFC to eat fried chicken drumsticks!" Rosen was stunned.

When I was at a loss, something even weirder happened.

Rosen was shocked to find that his hands were shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye. No, not only his hands, but also his feet and body were shrinking!

‘What the hell is this? There's no way to explain it! ’ Rosen’s eyes almost dropped.

It's true that he usually likes to play games, but he has not neglected his studies. As a top student in the physics department of a prestigious university in China, majoring in materials physics, he has always claimed to be the descendant of Lord Newton. He has never believed in those mythical ghost legends and scorned any so-called supernatural phenomena. But now, this Everything happened right in front of his eyes, and Rosen felt that his worldview was rapidly collapsing.

Immediately afterwards, he found that the clothes on his body had changed at some point.

Because it was early winter weather, he was wearing a dark gray down jacket when he went out, but now it has turned into a weird indigo cotton robe with a fur vest on his shoulders. It is made of fine bearskin with dense and thick fur. Thick, but retro in style, and also a bit familiar.

‘It looks familiar, it really looks familiar. I seem to have seen this waistcoat somewhere. ’

Before the matter was over, something even more bizarre happened.

Rosen discovered again that there was an extra memory in his mind for no apparent reason.

In my memory, he is not a top student from a prestigious university in China. His name has not changed, but he has an additional surname. His full name is Rosen Laplace. He is only 14 years old. He is the only son of Sir Laplace. In the Airante Province of the Principality of Dren. Jazz's family has thousands of acres of fertile land and more than 60 tenant households. He has lived a prosperous life since he was a child, his parents doted on him, and he can have whatever he wants. He is a standard young master from a wealthy family.

The memory was very real, as if Rosen had experienced it personally.

‘Isn’t this a place name in the game I just played in the Airante Province of the Principality of Delen? How could I be in the game world? Is someone trying to mess with me? Or am I dreaming? ’

He pinched his cheeks and arms hard, grimacing in pain, and his arms were almost bruised, but there was still no change in the surrounding environment.

"Isn't it a dream? Could it be that when I just went out, I happened to pass through a natural time and space wormhole? Although the wormhole thing has no observational facts, it is still feasible in theory. As for physical changes and memory, it is possible It is also an additional effect of wormholes. If it is a wormhole, it may be bidirectional. "

Thinking of this, Rosen opened the door and stepped back, trying to retreat to the apartment where he lived.

In the end, nothing changed. There was still a dark room behind the door, and there was still a dimly lit corridor outside the door. A pair of horn oil lamps hung on the corner of the corridor, and the big flames danced, like a pair of eyes watching. To him, the wooden stairs, horn lamps, and deer head decorations hanging on the walls all reminded him that he was still in a 'dream'.

"No, there must be something wrong!"

The game he plays is called "Stalker". It is the latest generation of online games and is extremely popular. It has only been open for three months and has more than 80 million stable online players.

Just now, Rosen tried 49 times in a row and successfully killed a big vampire BOSS. The BOSS's combat power ranked in the top 10 among known monsters. After defeating the BOSS, his global player ranking rose by 100,000, entered the Player Hall of Fame, and became a star player. Countless platforms have offered him olive branches. Making millions a year is not a dream.

The feeling is just like drinking a glass of ice water in the dog days of summer, so refreshing!

However, although the game is exciting, Rosen is very reluctant to really live in the world of "Manhunt".

The world of stalkers can be described in eight words, which is ‘monsters, war, plague, and famine’, and in four words, it is ‘hell on earth’.

It is a great luxury for an ordinary person, even if he is a noble, to live in peace until old age.

"I want to go back! I don't want to stay in this hellish place! God, please don't play tricks on me like this, okay? I'm still a baby and I can't stand the torment of you!"

In order to return to Earth, Rosen decisively abandoned Lord Niu and turned to the great god of Chinese tradition.

While praying, Rosen was not idle either. He walked back and forth in and out of the door, trying to return to Earth through the wormhole, but nothing around him changed. After his imaginary 'space-time wormhole' threw him into another world, he patted his ass and left.

Finally, Rosen gave up. He leaned against the door and slumped on the ground.

He didn't know how long he had been sitting there, but the surrounding situation had not changed at all. All signs showed that he had really traveled to the world of "Stalker".

Rosen, as a person, has a problem, which can also be said as an advantage, and that is that his nerves are extremely strong.

After the initial shock, he quickly recovered.

"Rosen Laplace, the father of this body is a knight. The family has a thousand acres of fertile land. The family is quite well off. Wait, why do I think the surname Laplace is so familiar? Is it because of the great scientist Laplace? Because of the Marquis of Lars?”

Marquis Laplace, whose full name is Pierre Simon Laplace, is the founder of celestial mechanics, founder of celestial evolution, and founder of analytical probability theory. He also proposed the famous determinism (falsified). In terms of his contribution to science, in his time, he was second only to Newton. As a top student in the physics department, Rosen was very familiar with Marquis Laplace.

"No, no, it's not because of Marquis Laplace. I seem to have seen this surname somewhere just now!"

This feeling of familiarity was not the first time. When he first crossed over, he found that the surrounding environment was very familiar, as if he had experienced it not long ago.

"Something's wrong, something really isn't right."

Rosen stood up, returned to the room, and looked carefully at the wooden table placed in the center of the room.

The candlelight on the table danced gently, and the parchment book on the table reflected milky white light. The page was closed, and "A Preliminary Study of Alchemy - Written by Albert" was written on the cover.

More memories came to mind, belonging to the original owner of the body: "I was still an alchemy apprentice. Half a year ago, a passing magician discovered that I had alchemy talent, so my father spent a huge sum of money to build a basic alchemy room for me. It’s a pity that my qualifications are dull and I have made almost no progress after half a year of study. I still have something in my mind!”

Rosen discovered that there seemed to be a fog deep in his mind, and something seemed to be hidden in the fog and was about to burst out.

"What is this? What is it?" Rosen scratched his head subconsciously.

'bite! ’

His head suddenly shook, and Rosen found that the air in front of him lit up slightly, and a talent tree appeared in the air in front of him. The talent tree was called 'Alchemy Road'.

‘Alchemy talent tree! Isn't this only in the game? This thing also traveled through time with me? ’ Rosen almost shouted.

His game character in "Hunter" is a famous alchemical stalker, and his biggest reliance is alchemy.

The reason why Rosen chose this path is because the physical rules of the hunting world are almost exactly the same as those in the real world. The alchemy in the game is the chemistry of the earth, and the chemical nature of the earth belongs to the category of physics, and his professional materials There is a very close connection between physics.

As a top student majoring in materials physics, he thrived in the field of alchemy. Within three months of starting the server, he became a world-famous master hunter.

The alchemy talent tree in front of me only has the first level of talent activated, called 'Friend of the Elements', and only 1 point is lit up.

Rosen focused on Friends of the Elements, and the notes about this talent immediately appeared.

‘Elemental Friend, for every 1 point activated, elemental perception ability +100 points, elemental control power +100 points. ’

Rosen was delighted: 'The effect is exactly the same as in the game. This activated point should be the body's natural alchemy talent. However, judging from the game experience, if there is only 1 point of Elemental Friend, the effect is quite weak. I wonder how it will be in the real world? ’

‘In the game, players can gain experience and activate talent points by hunting monsters. I wonder if this world can be like this. Wait, after hunting monsters, I know why this place looks so familiar! "

Rosen finally understood why he had always felt a strange sense of familiarity with his surroundings: ‘Laplace Manor! This is Laplace Manor! I'm dizzy~ Didn't I just fight the vampire BOSS in the second-floor hall of the wooden building of this manor? ’

The perspective on the LCD screen was completely different from the real world. After watching it for so long, Rosen finally came to his senses.

This memory is like a vine, pulling out a large area of ​​new memories at once.

‘By the way, I’ve been to this room too. It’s right here, next to the table. When I arrived, there was a young man’s body lying here. The vampire also killed Sir Laplace and his lady, and the entire manor was full of corpses. He slaughtered all the residents of the manor! ’

All clues indicate that Rosen's identity after time travel is that of the boy who was supposed to be killed by the BOSS in Laplace Manor, the only son of Sir Laplace.

"It can't be such a coincidence, right?" Rosen's calves were trembling a little.

"The fact that I'm still alive means the monster hasn't come yet?" He felt a little lucky.

‘咻~咻~’

Rosen took a few breaths and frowned: "What does this smell like? Why is it so weird?"

A strange smell filled the air, a little sweet, and a little like the smell of rust. It seemed to be the smell of blood!

Rosen recognized this smell. When he was a child, there was a slaughterhouse next to the town. Every time he passed by, he could smell a similar smell, but it was not as strong as it is now.

He became alert: 'How can there be such a strong smell of blood in the middle of the night? '

'Uh~~~Uh~~~Boom~Boom! '

There seemed to be a very subtle sound coming from the top of the corridor. Rosen listened carefully and the sound became clearer, like a moan, and like a struggle when suffocating. Rosen had never heard this kind of sound, but he could vaguely feel the despair contained in the sound.

The flickering candlelight, the ancient European-style wooden building, the strong smell of blood, and the weird sound made Rosen's hair stand up all over his body.

"Has the boss arrived? I am still alive only because it is not my turn yet?"

That is a terrifying existence that ranks in the top 10 in combat power among known monsters. Since the boss has already arrived at Laplace Manor, does Rosen still have a chance to survive?