The Last Alchemist

In this world, there are no cement roads, and asphalt roads are unimaginable. What is common is muddy roads with weeds, and the width of the road is basically no more than 4 meters.

When it rains, the uneven road surface is full of puddles. If a carriage passes by, the road surface will become very muddy. After walking for a while, the shoes and trouser legs will be covered with mud spots.

Unfortunately, this is the muddy path leading to the town of Sunderland.

If there is one more rotten corpse beside this muddy path, even the best mood will become gloomy.

After discovering the body, Anne stepped on the mud to the body, broke a branch from the tree, and began to carefully examine the scars on the body. Rosen followed, but stopped 2 meters away from the body.

He was not afraid of being infected by germs. With the power of alchemy, he had full control over his body, enough to resist any germs. What really stopped him was the strong stench of the corpse. There were a lot of green flies flying around the corpse. These flies would fly towards Rosen from time to time, landing on his clothes and even on his face, which made Rosen feel very uncomfortable.

After about five or six minutes, Annie finished the examination, she stood up and stepped back a few steps.

"How is it?" Rosen asked.

Annie was a little confused: "It's a bit strange."

"What do you mean?" Rosen asked hurriedly.

Anne broke off a branch from the tree and fiddled with the skin on the body: "Look here. And here. These skin ulcers don't look like natural decay, but rather like abscesses."

Rosen squinted and looked carefully for a while, then nodded: "Indeed, the abscesses are so large and there are so many of them, they are enough to be fatal, right?"

Annie nodded, pointing to the marks on the ground next to the tree, and said: "Look here, and here, from these marks, we can see that this person's left leg was broken and the injury was very serious. He crawled all the way here. When we got to the big After he got under the tree, he was exhausted, so he lay down on the trunk to rest. As a result, he never moved again. It should be that the disease broke out and took his life. "

Rosen speculated along the clues of Annie's observation: "After this person died, the body rotted and emitted a corpse stench, which attracted the ghouls hiding nearby to eat the body. Originally, the ghouls should have eaten up the body, but now it is daytime and the sun is very strong. The ghouls are afraid of light, so they hid temporarily. Hey~ What is that? "

There was a black thing one meter to the right of the corpse.

Rosen walked over, squatted down and looked carefully for a while: "It's a piece of wild kudzu root, which can satisfy hunger, but there is no trace of biting on the surface. "

Kudzu root contains a lot of starch, which can satisfy hunger and is a very good food.

He turned his head to look at the rotten corpse and found that the corpse was very, very thin, and it looked like skin and bones.

"Severe malnutrition and serious illness, he should be very short of food, but after getting the food, he didn't eat a single bite. Why?"

Annie sighed: "I can probably guess the reason. Look at his face, he is twenty-five or twenty-six years old, most likely a father. And this piece of kudzu root should be prepared for his child to eat."

Rosen was shocked and felt a strong sympathy.

Annie continued: "From the clothes, he should have been a farmer before his death. With such a serious illness, he must not be able to continue farming. He has a child to raise at home, so he has to go out to the wild to find food. From the decay, he has been dead for at least five days. His child... I'm afraid... I'm afraid... Oh~~~"

"Oh~" Rosen also sighed.

He knew that what Anne said was right. There were no good seeds in this world, let alone advanced planting techniques. The food productivity was very low. Ordinary people had to work very hard in the fields to barely fill their stomachs. Famine was common. In an ordinary farm family, the father is the mainstay. If the father dies, the mother alone cannot support the child. Even if the child does not die, he will live a very miserable life.

After a long silence, Rosen said: "The body was seriously ill before his death. Not only will it attract ghouls by the roadside, but it may also spread the disease to innocent people passing by. Let's burn it. This is the only thing we can do."

Anne nodded: "Okay."

The two searched the woods by the roadside, brought back a pile of hay and dead branches, piled them on the rotten corpse, and ignited them. Rosen condensed some oxygen to help the combustion.

In the raging flames, the rotten corpse turned into ashes.

Rosen looked at the flames and whispered: "Dust to dust, earth to earth, may your soul rest in peace."

After the flames went out, he turned around and said: "Annie, let's continue on our way."

"Well, okay."

Both of them were in a heavy mood and had no interest in continuing to chat. They hurried on their way silently.

As he walked, Rosen's mind naturally immersed in the alchemy talent tree.

In the game, killing an ordinary monster can only provide 0.1 to 0.3 talent points. Only by killing very powerful monsters can you get 1 full talent point. There is no doubt that the vampire Viken belongs to the very powerful category.

'Friends of Elements can activate 5 levels, and only when all are activated can the next level of talent be opened. I have no choice now. This talent can only be used to strengthen the "Friends of Elements", but how to activate it? '

Rosen tried to focus his mind on the corresponding talent in his vision. After about 2 seconds, an option popped up, "Do you want to activate it?"

'activation! ’ Rosen tried to recite it silently in his mind.

As soon as the thought came to an end, he felt a slight jolt in his head and a slight pain. After about 5 seconds, the pain completely disappeared. He only felt refreshed, as if something had been untied from his mind.

Looking at the alchemy talent tree, the friend of the elements talent, for every 1 point added, the elemental sensing ability +100 points, the elemental control power +100 points. Now that one more point is added, Rosen's ability has doubled than before!

His ability was greatly improved in one fell swoop.

Rosen tried to focus on the surrounding air and then used elemental manipulation to push the oxygen. As a result, he actually generated a very obvious air flow around his body.

He tried to compress the scope of the air flow. As the scope continued to shrink, the alchemical power became condensed, and the speed of the air flow suddenly accelerated greatly. It actually made a "hiss~hiss" wind whistle, and it blew slightly on the skin. Aches.

"sharp!"

Then, he tested the action distance of the force. There was no change in this point, it was still about 2 meters. Beyond that, he was powerless.

‘Hmm~ The strength has increased a lot, but the range of power remains almost unchanged. It is indeed an authentic alchemy talent. ’ Rosen was filled with emotion.

In the game, alchemy is a unique branch of magic. Unlike ordinary magicians who can remotely control it at hundreds or even thousands of meters, the alchemist's magical power can only extend up to 2 meters and can only focus on the environment around the body.

Rosen was very interested in his alchemy talent. After sighing for a while, he began to test the limits of his power again.

After some testing, Rosen had an intuitive understanding of his own power.

‘If my current power is focused, it can easily offset the intermolecular force without resorting to external force, but it will still be unable to break chemical bonds. Even if you try your best, you can only break the weakest hydrogen bond. As for stronger metal bonds, ionic bonds, and covalent bonds, don't even think about it. If you really want to control chemical changes, you can still only use the collision method to solve the problem. ’

‘However, although the collision method is good, it is quite complicated to operate. A large amount of calculations must be performed before operation, and the efficiency is really low. Preparing 15 ml of nitroglycerin before almost killed me. ’

'Hmm~ The strength of the power has increased a lot, but the fineness has hardly changed, and it still stays at the atomic level. The larger the molecule, the clearer the perception, and the smaller the molecule, the blurr it is. As for a single atom, I can barely feel it. I have to be very focused to be vaguely aware of it. The subatoms further down are completely powerless. ’

After careful testing, Rosen had a clearer understanding of his new power.

Rosen tried to sense the blood seal magic in his body again. After trying for a few minutes, he shook his head helplessly: 'Blood seal magic obviously exists, and low-level exorcism medicine has proven this. But I can't feel it at all. Could it be that this thing has subatomic level power? ’

He had no way of verifying this guess, so he could only wait for his strength to increase further before exploring.

"Rosen, why don't you speak? What are you thinking about?" Annie's voice suddenly came.

"I suddenly thought of an alchemy problem, and I got a little obsessed." Rosen chuckled and subconsciously scratched his head.

With his smile, most of the gloomy atmosphere caused by the nameless rotting corpse dissipated.

Seeing his appearance, Anne couldn't help but reach out and pat Rosen on the head: "You will definitely become a great alchemist in the future."

"Yeah, so do I." Rosen stopped mid-sentence and stared straight ahead, as if he was possessed.

It turned out that Anne was tall and Rosen was only as tall as her shoulders. When she raised her hand, the gap under the armpit of the leather armor was exposed. Through the gap, Rosen could see a dazzling white ball. This scenery was like a powerful iron-boron magnet, which firmly attracted Rosen's eyes, unable to turn away. After a few glances, Rosen's nosebleed almost came out.

‘Oh~ It’s not big, but it’s definitely not small. The shape completely defies the gravity of the earth, and it should feel great in the hand. ’

Seeing things and thinking about people, Rosen immediately recalled the beautiful time he and his two ex-girlfriends experienced in a small hotel.

Anne was so keen that she immediately noticed something strange about him. When she lowered her head and looked at herself, she immediately knew what had happened. She hurriedly retracted her arm, her cheeks already glowing red: "Well, my leather armor should be repaired. "

Rosen came back from his reverie. He nodded repeatedly and said with a dry smile: "Yes, it is indeed time to practice."

The atmosphere was quite awkward, and even the air seemed to have become much hotter. Anne stopped talking and walked quickly with her head buried in front. Rosen was too embarrassed to speak, so he could only trot along, trying his best to keep up with Anne's footsteps.

After jogging like this for about 20 minutes, Rosen finally couldn't bear it any longer and shouted breathlessly: "Annie, I've been walking for a long time and I'm tired and hungry. Can we get something to eat?"

The road is very muddy. The sun was blazing overhead again, and Rosen's body had not fully recovered from the massive blood loss. He was really exhausted at this time.

Anne saw Rosen out of breath, and a trace of guilt flashed across her face. She looked around and pointed to a sycamore tree not far from the roadside: "Go under that tree, where you can get some shade. "

After saying that, seeing that Rosen was struggling to walk, she simply stretched out her hand to hold Rosen's arm, half-lifting and half-supporting him to the shade under the tree.

Rosen found a raised tree root to sit down. After catching his breath, he took out flour, mixed it with some salt, poured some water and kneaded the dough. On the other side, Annie quickly lit a fire.

After kneading the dough, Rosen used fresh branches to pierce the dough and put it on the fire to roast. Although the roasted dough was not very delicious, it was filling.

Annie sat for a while. At first, she was fiddling with the campfire. While fiddling, she suddenly picked up a stone on the side of the road and threw it into the bushes behind her.

With a sound of "ji~", a hare turned out from the bushes.

Annie walked over, quickly peeled the skin and removed the internal organs, and soon put the rabbit meat on the fire. After a while, it exuded a strong aroma of barbecue, and Rosen on the side swallowed his saliva.

Compared with barbecue, roasted dough is simply impossible to swallow.

Anne saw it, but she held back her laughter, and pulled off a rabbit leg and handed it to Rosen: "Eat it."

Rosen's eyes lit up: "Thank you. Here you go, salty dough, very chewy."

When Anne took the toasted dough, Rosen immediately started eating, a bite of toasted dough, a bite of rabbit meat, and a sip of water when his mouth was dry. It tasted quite good.

Annie saw that he was eating so sweetly, and her appetite came, and she started eating in big mouthfuls.

While eating, Anne suddenly stopped, tilted her head, and listened with her ears erect. After about a few seconds, she whispered: "There are footsteps, the sound is very chaotic, there are 8 people, coming towards us. Strange, it seems that 1 is chasing and 7 are running away."