The Last Alchemist

Rosen discovered that there were two furnaces in the alchemy room, one for making glass and one for melting metal.

The glass furnace is basically modeled after Savi's glass shop, with only slight modifications. The metal furnace is very small and has a unique structure.

The entire furnace is only about half a person tall. The main body is somewhat similar to a blacksmith's furnace, with a blast box, but its fuel is not ordinary charcoal, but special charcoal powder. The structure of the combustion chamber is also almost completely closed, leaving only three openings.

Two of the ports are air ducts, and one port is used to add charcoal powder fuel.

There is a funnel-like thing next to the combustion chamber, which is a container specially used to hold charcoal powder. The lower end of the container leads directly to the combustion chamber, and there is a switch in the middle to control the flow rate.

After everything was ready, Rosen first threw Viken's skull into the high-temperature crucible above the combustion chamber, then activated the power of alchemy and started purification.

He removed all oxygen, nitrogen, water vapor and other gases from the air, leaving only an extremely chemically stable inert gas next to Viken's skull.

This is a crucial step.

Because titanium is a metal with very active chemical properties, it can not only react with oxygen, but also start to react with nitrogen when the temperature is higher than 700 degrees, and can even burn in nitrogen.

Without inert gas protection, Rosen could only obtain titanium compounds, not metallic titanium.

After protecting Viken's skull, Rosen pulled the bellows with his hand and began to concentrate the oxygen in the air.

After a few continuous pulls, the air in the combustion chamber was basically replaced with pure oxygen.

Rosen gently turned the switch of the fuel container, and the carbon powder immediately flowed down from the channel, and soon filled the entire combustion chamber, mixing with oxygen.

Rosen's idea of ​​using toner was inspired by the earth's thermal power plants. Thermal power plants burn coal, and in order to improve combustion efficiency, the coal is broken into pulverized coal for use.

Of course, this trick cannot be used indiscriminately. If there is no corresponding knowledge reserve, the carbon powder and pure oxygen are enclosed in a closed environment and ignited. If the control is not good, a violent explosion will occur!

Seeing that everything was ready, Rosen took a deep breath: 'The electromagnetic sickle ignited. ’

"Huh~~"

The combustion chamber suddenly lit up. In the almost pure oxygen, the charcoal ground into powder burned at a terrifying speed. The color of the flame was pure white, and the light emitted was unusually dazzling. The temperature in the combustion chamber began to rise linearly. .

With such a violent burning, if the operator of the furnace was replaced by an ordinary alchemist, it would definitely end in a tragedy in which the furnace was destroyed and everyone was killed.

But in Rosen's hands, this furnace is a super weapon that can provide high temperatures of more than 2,000 degrees. At this temperature, WKU's skull can be easily melted into a liquid state.

In the crucible, Viken's skull remained in the crucible for about 30 seconds, and then began to turn red and white. After about half a minute, it turned into a ball of liquid metal emitting white light.

Rosen's thinking tentacles penetrated into the liquid metal and carefully analyzed its components.

‘The breath of the main ingredient is cold, hard, and has a strange softness. This should be metal titanium. In addition to titanium, there are also trace amounts of impurities, including carbon, oxygen, calcium, and phosphorus, which are somewhat similar to ordinary bone components. These ingredients are useless, eliminate them! ’

Rosen activates purification.

In the combustion chamber, bubbles began to appear in the liquid metal, and with the generation of these bubbles, a pungent smell filled the air.

The bubbles lasted for more than half a minute, and then the texture of the liquid metal became very pure.

‘The impurities are basically gone, this is a pure piece of titanium metal. ’

Rosen turned off the switch, stopped the supply of toner, and then opened the lid of the crucible. With a slight thought, the liquid metal titanium emitting white light turned into a sphere and floated out from the crucible.

In order to prevent the titanium metal from deteriorating, the liquid titanium ball is still tightly wrapped with inert gas.

‘If titanium metal is really mithril, this metal must be used to refine the moonlight elixir, so such a piece of metal is not acceptable. ’

Thinking like this, with a thought, the power of alchemy turned into a dense fine network, quickly cutting into the liquid metal titanium mass, dividing the fist-sized liquid titanium into small particles the size of sesame seeds.

Rosen's thoughts condensed: 'Explode! ’

With a soft sound of 'Peng~', the liquid metal titanium exploded, quickly solidified in the inert gas, and turned into silver-white titanium particles the size of sesame seeds. These titanium particles were then collected together by Rosen's alchemical power. , becoming a small pile of silver-white sand.

Collect these hot titanium particles, wait for them to cool naturally, put them into a glass bottle, mix them with inert gas, and store them in a sealed container.

After doing all this, Rosen raised his hand to wipe the fine beads of sweat on his forehead.

With the power of his current two-layer electromagnetic sickle, it is not tiring to control the burning of toner, nor is it a burden to purify oxygen from the air. The most tiring thing is to explode the titanium metal.

Rosen secretly sighed: 'For my current strength, the metal key is still a little too strong. ’

He activated the alchemy talent and looked at it. His current talent proficiency was only 7%, and his free talent points were only 0.3 points. He was far away from activating the third level of electromagnetic sickle.

‘My current magic power is stronger than a 1-star magician, but much weaker than a 2-star magician. Although there are not many one-star magicians on the mainland, they are not few either. Nerogard Academy alone must have thousands of one-star magicians. When I entered the academy at this time, I completely ignored everyone. ’

In this era, knowledge is important, but power is more important. If you don't have power, even if you are a sage, someone can smash your head with a hammer. Why should you listen to your nonsense?

After a short rest, Rosen shouted to the air: "Veronica, are you free? Come and help me see if this is mithril."

His voice was not loud, but Veronica was next door and must have heard him.

Less than 3 seconds after the voice fell, Rosen felt a gust of wind in the alchemy room, and then Veronica appeared in the alchemy room.

"Where is the mithril?" Veronica asked.

"It's on the table, in a glass bottle." Rosen pointed to the bottle.

Veronica walked over, opened the glass bottle, and saw that it was filled with silver-white metal as big as sesame seeds. She suddenly moved in her heart: "Hiss~ It really looks like it!"

She reached out and picked up a titanium grain, first pinched it with her hand, and observed it carefully. After a few minutes, she put the titanium grain into her mouth again, as if she was tasting the taste.

Rosen waited anxiously for the verdict of fate.

After about five or six minutes, Veronica nodded slowly: "This should be Mithril!"

Rosen was surprised and happy: "Are you sure?"

Veronica still nodded: "I'm sure. Your Mithril is softer than the ones I've seen, but the taste is almost the same. I think the reason why the Mithril I saw at the beginning was harder should be because of the impurities mixed in."

Rosen was overjoyed: "Then how many moonlight elixirs can be refined from these Mithril?"

"These Mithril are about 1 Nilo pound. If you sell them, you should be able to sell five or six thousand gold dragon coins, but if you configure the Moonlight Elixir, it will probably be enough for you to last for three months."

This immediately made Rosen feel a little disappointed: "Mithril worth five or six thousand gold dragon coins can only be used for three months?"

This is too extravagant.

Veronica smiled and said, "Don't forget, in the three months of taking the Moonlight Elixir, you will be completely unaffected by the Blood Seal Magic, and even the previous effects will be cured. After that, if there is no Moonlight Elixir, you can continue to take low-level exorcism medicine, and you can last for another year. Do you still think these three months are useless?"

After saying this, Rosen felt much better, and then his eyes suddenly lit up: "Yes, what am I worried about? Since pure titanium is mithril, can't I just go find titanium metal? The abundance of titanium metal in the earth's crust is not low."

Thinking of this, Rosen's haze disappeared.

He had already prepared other materials for the Moonlight Elixir, and he used them immediately. After a few minutes, he prepared the medicine and swallowed it in one gulp.

After the medicine entered his stomach, Rosen felt a sudden shock, and a cold breath suddenly rose from his stomach. This breath was like water, radiating from the stomach to all parts of the body. Finally, Rosen felt that his whole body was cold, and even his bone marrow felt cold.

Veronica had been paying attention to Rosen's situation. She saw that Rosen's face turned pale and asked hurriedly: "How is it?"

Rosen felt numb: "I can't tell. I feel like someone is scraping my internal organs and bones with a knife, and prying my bone marrow hard, but it doesn't hurt. The whole person is cold."

Veronica was stunned when she heard it. She had never encountered such a situation before, so she could only say: "Wait and see."

"Yeah."

Rosen nodded and tried to activate the power of alchemy to observe his body. As a result, he found that in just a short while, there was no titanium metal in his stomach. All these titanium metals were transformed into metal ions, distributed in the internal organs, muscles, blood vessels, and bones, and then they were motionless, and they didn't know what they were doing.

‘Strange, when did my stomach digestion become so strong?’ Rosen was completely confused, and what confused him even more was that, apart from finding that titanium turned into ions, he did not find any other abnormalities.

‘It’s really a ghost.’

After about half an hour, the cold feeling began to subside, and after another half an hour, everything returned to normal.

Rosen carefully experienced the changes in his body: “It seems to be better. Well~ my mind is clearer than before, and the inexplicable negative emotions before are basically gone, and it seems that my memory has also improved a lot.”

What made Rosen most happy was that after using the moonlight elixir, apart from the strange cold feeling, there was no pain at all, which was a hundred times better than the low-level exorcism medicine.

Veronica breathed a sigh of relief: “Not bad, not bad, it seems that the moonlight elixir can indeed resist the blood seal magic.”

Just as Rosen was about to speak, someone knocked on the door of the alchemy room, and the voice of the housekeeper Ah Fu sounded outside the door.

"Mr. Rosen, there is a visitor."

"Who?"

"Mr. Mobius."

Rosen was surprised: "Didn't I send the battery to him yesterday? Doesn't he still want to admit defeat?"

Veronica spread her hands and shook her head: "I don't understand it either. Why not let him in and see what he says."

"Okay."