The Last Alchemist

As one of the leading ore merchants in Nerogard City, Mobius's residence was quite shabby.

The carriage drove all the way to the dock and finally stopped near the dock at the entrance of a large warehouse built with wooden planks.

After getting off the carriage, Rosen looked at the broken wooden door in front of the warehouse that was full of insect holes. He couldn't help scratching his head and turned to Veronica next to him: "Mobius, you live like this all year round. A shabby warehouse?”

Even if the warehouse is dilapidated, the surrounding environment is still very poor. The road is covered with black mud. The mud is mixed with pig, dog, and human feces, rotten vegetable leaves, and dead fish. There are all kinds of indescribable odors floating in the air. smell, especially the fishy smell. Because we are close to the dock, the dock workers' horns and anchor bells ring frequently. It is interesting to listen to it for a while, but it becomes noisy after a long time.

Veronica shrugged: "Mobius is a weirdo."

She walked to the door, stretched out her hand, knocked on the broken board, and shouted, "Mobius, are you there? Can you please tell me?"

After waiting for more than ten seconds, a response came from the door: "Here it is, the door is locked. You two can come in."

Veronica pushed the door hard, and the rotten wooden door made a "squeak~" sound, and then hit the wooden wall with a loud "clang" sound.

"Be gentle, don't break my wooden door!" Mobius's roar followed closely.

Following his voice, a figure in a black cloak walked out quickly from the dark and damp warehouse. It was Mobius. When he saw Rosen, he was obviously stunned: "What are you doing here?"

"Can't you sense me? Why are you so surprised?" Rosen looked at the other person and found that the cloak he was wearing was the same one he wore before, because there were dozens of very obvious holes in the cloak.

Mobius noticed Rosen's gaze and waved his hand angrily: "Stop looking, you have ruined my cloak!"

With that said, he turned around and walked towards the depths of the warehouse, waving his hands at the same time, gesturing for the two of them to follow.

After taking a few steps, he said: "I could sense you before because you took mithril and your body made a lot of noise when it transformed into an undead. But now, you and I are both undead. Can you sense me?" ?”

"No." Rosen shook his head.

"That's right. I can't sense you either."

While talking, the three of them walked deep into the warehouse. In broad daylight, the light here was very dim. For lighting, Mobius specially lit an oil lamp.

By the dim light of the oil lamp, Rosen saw a large number of wooden boxes surrounding him. Various ores were piled in the boxes. Some boxes were stacked to the top, while others were only half full. Next to the oil lamp, there is a very flat large wooden table with dozens of glass bottles on it. There is also a blacksmith's furnace with a faint red light next to the table.

Rosen activated his alchemy power and did some probing. He found that the glass bottles contained various chemicals, and there were still some solidified metal residues left in the crucible of the blacksmith's furnace.

"Mobius, are you also doing alchemy?" Rosen asked.

Mobius took off the hood of his cloak, revealing a round and shiny bald head. Hearing Rosen's question, he rolled his eyes angrily: "What, you are allowed to do it, but I can't do it?"

Rosen shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, it's just that you don't seem to have alchemical magic power, right?"

Mobius became more and more angry, looking like he was hurt after being despised: "Why, is it great to have alchemical magic power? I don't have magic power, can't I still make iron and steel? Can't I still purify a lot of metals?"

Rosen quickly apologized: "Don't be angry, I didn't mean to laugh at you."

Without thinking, Mobius exploded. He blushed and yelled at Rosen: "Mockery? What qualifications do you have to laugh at me? Just with your ridiculous alchemical magic power? I tell you, I With hundreds of years of experience in alchemy, perhaps the masters of Nerogard Academy can laugh at me, but you are not qualified yet!”

Rosen looked stunned. What did this guy do? Did he take gunpowder today? Can you still talk well?

Veronica on the side saw this and stepped forward to smooth things over: "Mobius, were you despised by a certain alchemist master in the academy again today?"

"Huh~huh~" Mobius took a few big breaths and sat down heavily on a broken chair. The chair suddenly made a "creak~ creak~" noise, and it sounded like it was about to fall apart.

After calming down for a while, he said with a face: "Not that boy from Parkland! I sent him some tin ore today, and I happened to encounter an alchemy problem. I wanted to ask him for advice, but the boy actually said that I It’s not for alchemy, so don’t mess around, so as not to hurt your body! This bastard was still in the womb when I was doing alchemy!”

As he spoke, Mobius became excited again and danced as if he had been greatly insulted.

"Okay, okay, this is not the first time you have been ridiculed by those masters. Just bear with it and let it pass." Veronica stretched out her hand to press down, and continued: "Don't lose your temper, Rosen is here. I’m looking for you to buy mines. Business is coming to me. Why are you so nagging? Why don’t you do business quickly?”

Mobius was a little wary of Veronica. Seeing that she was impatient, although he was still extremely unhappy, he had to suppress it. He turned to look at Rosen: "Alchemist boy, tell me, you What do you want to buy?”

Rosen stood in front of a large box and tossed a light red, glassy stone up and down in his hand: "I want to buy these things."

Mobius was stunned for a moment: "This is dark silver ore, can you refine dark silver?"

"Dark silver?" Rosen was also stunned for a moment. He chose aluminum ore, so why did it become dark silver?

He immediately realized that the luster of metal aluminum and silver are very similar. The difference is that pure aluminum is much lighter than silver, and its luster is darker than silver. It is understandable that it is called dark silver.

As for refining, the aluminum ore in his hand is also called diaspore. Its main component is hydrated alumina. It is not difficult to extract metallic aluminum, as long as electrolysis is used.

Wait, Rosen suddenly woke up. In this era, the understanding of electricity was very limited, and it was difficult to obtain high temperatures. It must be very difficult to refine aluminum.

Rosen put the so-called 'dark silver ore' back into the wooden box and asked, "Is dark silver expensive?"

Mobius sighed with emotion: "It's expensive! One pound of dark silver can be sold for 100 gold dragon coins. The alchemist masters in the academy especially like to use dark silver. They mix some other metals into the dark silver to create The alloy is harder than steel, doesn’t rust, and is very light. It’s really a good thing.”

Rosen was stunned when he heard this, not only because of the price of aluminum, but also because of the master alchemist’s use of aluminum. Isn’t this the aluminum alloy on earth?

‘Magical talent really has a huge promotion effect on technology. From a technical perspective alone, the Magic Academy seems to have mastered many technologies that are beyond the times. ’ Rosen sighed in his heart. He felt that he needed to have a deeper understanding of the development of magic.

But from whom? A few words immediately popped up: 'Squirrel Club, Apprentice Magician Hill. ’

‘It seems that I have to talk to the trainee magician when I have time. ’

After making up his mind, Rosen said: "How much does this dark silver ore cost per nile pound?"

"The ore is not expensive. There is an abundance of this kind of ore. If you want it, I will give it to you for 100 grams per pound." Mobius's attitude suddenly became very attentive.

"100 Kelen? It's really not expensive. I'll buy 20 pounds first."

100 kren is equivalent to 75 silver rands, which is very cheap for Lawson nowadays.

After finishing the order, he walked to another ore box. This box was full and full of black stones. He took it out and looked at it carefully. He was overjoyed: "Ah, this is biotite! How much does this cost?" "

"This thing is everywhere. Ordinary people buy it for decoration at home. It usually costs 10 kelons per nilot pound. If you want it, I will give you 7 kelons per nilot pound."

Rosen waved his hand: "It's cheap, I'll buy 100 pounds first."

Mobius was stunned when he heard this: "Why did you buy so many useless things? Wait, did you discover the use of this stone? Did you discover something?"

Rosen waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, I just look good."

Mobius is not easy to fool: "You fart!"

He rushed to the ore box, stretched out his hand, snatched the biotite from Rosen's hand, then sat down on the ore box, protecting all the biotite tightly: "Let's talk about a deal. If you tell me the use of biotite, I will give you this box of ore for free!”

Rosen smiled half-heartedly: "What if I don't tell you?"

"Then I won't do business with you today. I won't sell biotite, and I won't sell dark silver ore either!" Mobius acted rogue.

Rosen didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He thought for a moment and said, "It's not a big secret. I can just tell you. But just giving me a box of ore is too low a price."

"That's easy to say!" Mobius immediately jumped down from the ore box. He pointed at the ore in the warehouse and said generously: "You can pick any of my ores and take whichever one you like. Regardless of the type, I agree. You got enough 30 Nilo pounds!”

"Really?" Rosen was delighted.

"It's absolutely true!" Mobius vowed.

"Okay then, it's a deal."

Rosen began to look around the warehouse.

It has to be said that Mobius, the ore merchant, is very professional. He has collected a very complete range of ores. He has a lot of common ores here. He can also find a lot of those rare ores here.

After Rosen walked around in a circle, he finally stopped in front of a wooden box. In the wooden box, there was half a box of iron-black, scaly stones with a slight metallic luster.

"I want this, all of it." Rosen pointed at the ore box, his expression indifferent, and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.

Mobius stepped forward, looked at the wooden box, and asked doubtfully: "You don't want so many good things, but you want this cheap magnetite?"

This kind of magnetite has very weak magnetism. It is basically bought by poor people who are reluctant to spend money to use it as a magnet to attract needles and threads. It can't be cheaper.

After hearing this, Rosen glanced at Mobius from the corner of his eye, and a trace of pity flashed in his heart. He nodded gently: "Yes. I have been studying magnets recently. I found that the magnetism of magnets seems to have the same power as thunder and lightning. . So, I need a lot of magnetite to study this magnetic force."

"Oh~" Mobius had no doubt about him: "To be honest, the thunder and lightning cage you built really impressed me. The price you sold for your moon wand made people jealous. That's good, these magnets There isn’t much iron ore, only 40 pounds of iron ore in total. If you like it, take it all.”

"Thank you very much." Rosen smiled slightly and added: "After I return, I will start refining the strange metals in dark silver and biotite. If you are free, you can come to my alchemy room and watch."

Mobius was startled: "Onlookers? Aren't you afraid that I will see through your secret?"

"It's your ability to see through it."

Mobius had no reason to disagree, and immediately said: "That's okay. I'm free now, let's go now."