The Last Alchemist

Lilith had a dream.

In the dream, she was wearing thin clothes and running barefoot in the ice and snow.

Behind her, there was a huge, all-devouring black shadow chasing her, getting closer and closer. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't distance herself from the terrifying shadow.

Gradually, she lost strength, her feet were cut with cold stones and dripping with blood, and her body became more and more numb.

"Am I going to die?" This thought came to Lilith's mind.

The strange thing is that although she knew that death was imminent, she did not feel the slightest fear in her heart, but instead felt a sense of relief.

The ruthless father, the powerful mother, the playboy brother, the sluggish college, and the smiling faces hiding desire and malice - all made her feel bored.

"This world doesn't love me, and I don't love this world either. Just so we can part ways."

Lilith stopped and stood there, letting the black shadow behind her catch up. She watched as the black shadow opened its huge mouth, bit her body, and swallowed her into his stomach bit by bit.

She felt intense pain, along with painful numbness.

"It's all over." Lilith closed her eyes.

At this moment, she clearly felt her soul. Her soul had lost all strength and was sinking, sinking, bit by bit, towards the dark abyss.

There was a trace of sadness in Lilith's heart, but more of it was fatigue and numbness after fatigue.

Nothing matters anymore.

‘That’s it. ’

She closed her eyes, waiting for the last moment to come.

But this moment never came.

"What's wrong? Are the gods not even willing to grant me death?"

Suddenly, she felt something strange. When she opened her eyes, she found that the boundless ice and snow had disappeared, replaced by warm golden sunshine.

The sun shone on her body, as if it could penetrate her body. The warmth like a flame swept through her body instantly, easily dispelling the coldness and numbness of her body.

This warmth is full of rich vitality. Under the shining of the golden sunshine, countless seedlings break out of the ground, grow rapidly, bloom and bear fruit. Almost in the blink of an eye, the whole world becomes spring-warm and blooming!

Lilith was puzzled: "How could this happen? Could it be that I have died and entered the kingdom of gods?"

She looked left and right, but she still couldn't find the answer.

After searching for a while, she felt hungry, so she picked the fruit from the tree, took a bite, and the sweet and delicious juice overflowed her entire mouth. When she was thirsty, she leaned over to drink the melted snow water and took a sip. The sweet spring water flowed down her throat, nourishing her soul.

"This must be heaven." She became more and more certain in her heart.

Here, she forgets all her worries and plays carefree, while her body regains strength day by day. She didn't know how long it took, but she suddenly heard a voice above her head: "Auntie, wake up quickly!"

"Who? Who is talking?!" Lilith looked at the sound, but only saw a blue sky.

"Forget it, ignore him, I won't leave."

She has fallen in love with this place and wants to stay here forever. As for that dark and cruel world like hell, she didn't even bother to think about it, let alone talk about it.

But Lilith still had a shadow in her heart because she didn't know who the voice was.

‘Who is that? Is it a god? ’

She didn't know, and the sound never sounded again.

I don’t know how long it took, but Lilith suddenly heard a voice in the sky again: "Girl, wake up quickly. I have tried my best for you. If you don’t wake up, I have to leave!"

"Who are you?" Lilith raised her head and wanted to shout loudly, but she suddenly realized that she couldn't speak. No matter how she opened her mouth and shouted, no sound came out of her throat.

"What's going on? Why have I become mute?" Lilith was a little flustered, and there were more and more shadows in her heart. She was eager to know the truth.

At this time, her body had accumulated enough strength, and she began to struggle with all her strength, trying to scream.

Gradually, she discovered that the beautiful world around her body lost its luster and turned into darkness. But this darkness was different from the ice and snow before. This darkness was warm and reassuring, just like when she was a child. Mother's arms.

She continued to struggle.

Suddenly, her ears heard a sound.

‘Shashasha~Shashasha~’

A very familiar sound, that of a quill writing on cheap papyrus.

"Someone is writing next to me, who could it be?" Lilith was very curious, and she began to try to search her memory.

With this search, the floodgates opened, and a torrent of memories washed away.

"Earl Derek, the magician Green, the invisible monster chameleon, the poisonous mushroom. And the young alchemist, by the way, that alchemist. He said he would save me, but is it him?"

Lilith opened her eyes with all her strength, she wanted to see what happened.

At first, she couldn't do this. Her eyelids seemed to weigh a thousand pounds and she couldn't open them. After trying hard for a long time, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared in her eyes.

She finally opened her eyes.

What caught her eyes was the dim light that was constantly shaking. She was familiar with this kind of light: "It's candlelight."

Immediately afterwards, she heard footsteps coming from behind her head. She wanted to turn her head to look, but she found that her body seemed completely numb. Not to mention turning her head, she could not even move her fingers.

After a few seconds, a young man appeared in her field of vision. He sat on the edge of the bed, reached out and opened her eyelids, and opened her eyelids roughly.

"How could this guy treat me so roughly?"

Lilith felt a surge of anger in her heart. No one had ever treated her so rudely. She subconsciously wanted to use magic power to flick this guy's hand away.

As a result, she found that she could only feel very weak magic power, which was not even enough to tickle the other person.

The young man seemed to have noticed her movements, smiled, and said, "The pupils reacted consciously. It seems that you are really awake."

After saying that, he let go of Lilith's eyelids.

Lilith sighed secretly. She opened her mouth and wanted to speak, but she found that she could only spit out a weak stream of air and could not make a sound at all. She was unwilling to give in and tried hard.

After a long time, Lilith finally made a very, very slight sound: "Who are you?"

"Alchemist, you came to steal from Linnaeus, have you forgotten?" The young man winked at Lilith.

Lilith thought about it for a moment, and there were some vague impressions in her memory, but they were not very clear. She asked again: "Where am I now?"

"In a secret basement under the glass flower house. We are safe for the time being." The young man answered all questions.

Lilith felt that she had more control over her body, and her voice became stronger: "How long have I been in a coma?"

"One day and seventeen hours, to be exact."

"How's Earl Derek?"

"I don't know, I have been taking care of you in this basement during this time. He may be dead, or he may be alive, who knows." The young man spread his hands.

After a few simple questions, Lilith felt a little tired. She closed her eyes and calmed down for a while. After regaining some strength, she whispered: "Thank you for saving me. I will repay you."

Unexpectedly, the young man shook his head repeatedly: "No! It's not necessary! You'd better get well as soon as possible and then teleport back to the academy. From now on, you and I will pretend that this never happened."

".I don't understand. If you don't want to repay me, why do you want to save me?" Lilith couldn't figure it out. She had never heard such words or met such a person in her whole life.

"Because you happened to be teleported under my bed, and you happened to be still breathing, and I happened to have a way to save you. Otherwise, when I think about this in the future, I will feel uncomfortable, and I will have to save you. Of course, if I I didn’t see you, you’re dead as long as you’re dead, and you have nothing to do with me.” The young man said matter-of-factly.

"." Lilith was speechless again. After a moment of silence, she asked, "Is there any water? I'm thirsty."

"certainly."

The young man was naturally Rosen. When he heard this, he thought, and a small water ball flew up from a clay pot on the side. It stopped when it flew to Lilith's mouth: "Open your mouth."

Lilith complied.

The water ball turned into a long line and penetrated into her mouth. Like a snake, it inadvertently penetrated deep into her throat. During the whole process, her tongue did not touch any splash of water.

"Is this how you fed me water when I was in a coma?" Lilith was a little crazy.

Rosen scratched his head and felt a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, I'm used to it, so I didn't stop for a while. Why don't you take another sip to moisten your throat."

He got another small water ball and put it into Lilith's mouth.

After taking a sip of water, Lilith found that she was once again at a loss.

The people she met in the past either coveted her beauty, wanted to take advantage of her talents, or were in awe of her strength. Anyway, they always wanted something from her. Born into a noble family, she was able to deal with these people with ease.

But this young man was very weird. He stopped talking without asking for anything in return. He even asked her to forget about it. And she could tell from his tone that what he said must be the truth.

This was the first person who wanted nothing from her, and she was at a loss.

After being silent for a while, the writing sound of "rustling~" started again, and the other party actually started writing something on the small desk again.

Lilith became more and more speechless.

After thinking for a while, she simply stopped worrying. She was a little tired, so she closed her eyes and prepared to rest.

Originally, she wanted to rest, but after a while, she suddenly felt anxious and her stomach was very bloated, but she couldn't move her body. There was a young man sitting next to her. She really couldn't talk about such private matters.

Gradually, she couldn't bear it any longer, and she hummed subconsciously, while her body struggled to get up.

Of course she couldn't get up, but the movement attracted Rosen's attention.

"What, are you worried?" Rosen asked.

Lilith's face was slightly red, but her body felt really uncomfortable. She felt that she couldn't hold it in for too long without making a fool of herself, so she nodded lightly: "Yes."

Rosen said matter-of-factly: "Oh, it's okay. Just pull it on the bed. When you're done, tell me and I'll clean it up for you."

In the past two days, he had two large ones and eight or nine small ones. He was not used to it at first, but then he became numb and felt that this was just normal physiology and nothing disgusting.

Lilith almost went crazy: "What are you talking about?!"

She was embarrassed and uncomfortable. If she had the strength now, she would definitely teach this rude guy a lesson.

Seeing that she was silent, Rosen put the quill back into the ink bottle and smiled slightly: "Don't worry. I use alchemy to clean it up. I won't invade your privacy when I clean it up. After I clean it up, I won't leave any trace behind." No smell, the sheets and bedding will be as clean as new ones. In fact, I have done this a lot in the past two days.”

"You!" Lilith's pale face turned blood red.

She was embarrassed and angry. She was so angry that she couldn't hold it back. The flood gate opened, and a warmth spread under her buttocks.

Lilith was going crazy, she was so angry that she rolled her eyes and fainted again.

Rosen was startled and hurriedly checked his breathing. After finding that everything was normal, he alchemically grabbed the urine in the quilt, condensed it into a ball and pulled it out of the quilt. Then, he extracted the water from the urine, Set aside in a clay pot. Impurities are thrown into the sewer along the gaps in the thick iron cover.

After finishing, he stood up and stretched: "Now that I'm awake, my body should recover quickly. Phew~ I'm finally going to get through it."

He straightened the papyrus on the table, picked up the quill, and continued writing.