The Last Alchemist

In such an illusion, everything you see and hear is true and false.

Rosen can see the truth with magic, but Veronica is a 'muggle'. She has a strong power but cannot see the truth. She can only be used by illusion and become the killing weapon of the illusionist without knowing it.

At this moment, the situation is very critical. Rosen cannot hesitate at all. He must wake her up immediately!

To wake her up, he must pass the message to Veronica, and the accuracy of the message must be guaranteed, and the message must not be tampered with by the illusionist during the transmission.

Then, the problem is transformed into how to ensure the reliability of the message transmission.

Illusion Illusion, both borrow the way to disrupt the target's perception to influence the other party's behavior. First, illusion is magic, and it is extremely difficult for magic power to enter the body of intelligent life. Second, illusion usually cannot make the target feel pain, because pain will greatly increase the target's alertness.

Borrowing these two points, Rosen came up with a way to safely transmit the message.

He quickly gathered his magic power, first probed into the hand cannon, and removed the firing pin inside the hand cannon. Then, his magic power quickly extended to the skin near the back of Veronica's hand, and then vibrated the air molecules near the skin with all his strength, quickly raising the temperature of these gases.

When he completed these actions, Veronica was not idle either. She turned the hand cannon in her hand, facing the target's chest, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Fighting must be done with all her strength, this is her survival rule in this chaotic world.

‘Kacha~’

There were a few slight metal collision sounds from the hand cannon, but the expected loud noise did not appear.

“What’s going on?” Veronica was stunned.

As soon as she hesitated, she felt a slight burning pain on the back of her hand. She subconsciously retracted her hand and looked down. She saw a strange burning symbol on the back of her hand.

This symbol looked like two circles connected horizontally side by side. If it was a few months ago, when she saw this thing, she had no idea what it meant. But now, she is very familiar with this symbol. It is the symbol representing "infinity" in calculus.

"Why does the infinity symbol of calculus appear on my hand?" Veronica was stunned.

These days, she has been immersed in calculus day and night. All the contents of calculus are deeply engraved in her mind. Even if it is just a symbol, it can easily shake her mind.

When she was stunned, she actually forgot to continue attacking.

After a second or two, she felt a burning pain on the back of her hand again, and more symbols appeared. This time, they were not mathematical symbols, but words.

"Be careful of illusions!"

"Illusions?!" Veronica was shocked.

Before she had more ideas in her mind, she felt a burning pain on the back of her hand again: "The one opposite you is Rosen!"

"Rosen?"

Veronica looked up and looked across, but found that there was a patrol guard standing opposite her. The other party held a spear in his hand, gritted his teeth, and put on an attack formation ready to stab him.

If it was before, Veronica would have counterattacked immediately upon seeing the situation on the other side, but now, she had doubts in her heart, so she subconsciously dodged to the side.

As a result, she dodged, but the guard on the other side still stood there, holding a spear in his hand as if to attack, but never stabbed.

Veronica recalled the previous few exchanges, the other side had been dodging, and did not fight back at all.

This time, she believed most of it, and was shocked: "I was trapped by an illusion, and almost killed Rosen!"

On the other side, Rosen saw Veronica standing there in a daze, and knew that the other party probably came back to his senses.

Originally, his idea was to escape the barrier as soon as possible, but now seeing Veronica like this, his heart "stomped" and began to worry about Annie.

This potential illusionist has probably already found out their situation. Since Veronica can be confused, Annie must be in danger.

If he escapes now, Annie will either be caught or killed directly. No matter which result, it was not what he wanted to see.

"No, I have to go back to find Annie!"

Thinking of this, Rosen activated the alchemical magic again and wrote on the back of Veronica's hand: "Go forward, pass through the wall in front of you, and go all the way north."

This wall is the incision of the illusion barrier. Going through it will break through the illusion.

Veronica hesitated for a moment and walked towards the wall.

When she reached the wall, she subconsciously listened.

"Keep going! The wall is fake!"

Veronica gritted her teeth and pushed forward hard, but she hit nothing. She staggered forward for several steps before she regained her balance. She looked up and found herself back on the muddy streets of the dock area. People were coming and going around, and Rosen was standing two meters behind her, looking at her and smiling.

Rosen asked: "Did you see me?"

"I saw it. Just now, it was really..." Veronica looked apologetic.

"It's nothing." Rosen waved his hand to interrupt Veronica's apology and continued: "Now, you immediately stay away from the barrier. After making sure that no one is following you, go back to our mansion and wait for my news."

"What about you?" Veronica was stunned.

"I'll go find Annie."

As soon as he finished speaking, Rosen turned around and returned to the barrier.

When he arrived in the barrier, Rosen looked back and Veronica disappeared behind him, leaving only a cold and heavy wall, and in front of him, the pursuers were already in front of him.

Among the pursuers, 30 were fully armed warriors, 3 were magicians, two were young men, and one was a middle-aged man.

When these people saw Rosen, they were not in a hurry to take action. More than 30 warriors surrounded the magician. The middle-aged magician took a step forward and looked at Rosen: "Young man, who are you? Come to Nile What are you doing in Jiade City?”

Rosen didn't speak, or even look at the middle-aged magician. He looked at each of the pursuers, not only at their bodies, but also at the shadows they cast on the ground.

After watching for more than ten seconds, he suddenly smiled lightly: "What a scheming idea! What an illusion!"

These pursuers, including magicians, and even the middle-aged magician who just spoke, are all fake and are illusions created by illusionists.

In other words, this illusionist hiding in the dark released the illusion much earlier than Rosen thought. Among the three of them, the first one to fall into the illusion was not Rosen, but Anne.

The illusionist seized on their guilty conscience and used illusions to confuse Anne, so that Anne could report the news in a hurry. Then in an emergency, Rosen jumped out of the hotel window without having time to tell the truth from the false. Finally, Veronica came to look for her again. , a series of actions directly exposed all three of them.

Rosen even suspected that the illusionist could only confirm that there was a problem with the Flower Hotel at first and did not know the specific situation. However, he only used a few tricks to get Rosen and the three of them to jump out on their own.

This kind of scheming gave him an opportunity for a sneak attack, and even Rosen fell easily.

The middle-aged magician's expression froze, and then he also laughed: "Young man, you discovered the truth much faster than I thought. However, you haven't answered my question yet."

"Haha~ Do you think I can say it?" Rosen asked with a sneer.

As he spoke, he walked towards the pursuer, ignoring his presence.

The strange thing was that when he walked in front of the pursuers, the more than 30 people immediately disappeared like mist, and Rosen passed through the mist and continued towards the Flower Hotel.

After taking two steps, there was a flash of light beside him, and the middle-aged magician appeared again: "Young man, I must remind you that fighting against the academy is not a wise choice. And so far, you have not If you violate the laws of Nerogard City, you only need to indicate your intention and that you are not a threat to Nerogard City and the academy, and I will let you go immediately."

Rosen smiled faintly: "Oh, if you had said this earlier, I would have considered it. But just now, your act of inducing my friends and I to kill each other made me very angry!"

"Is that monster your friend? Oh, it seems that things are more complicated than I thought. But, since you are with the monster, then it is not wrong for me to let you kill each other."

At this time, Rosen had already reached the door of the Flower Hotel. Before entering the hotel, he turned and looked at the carriage opposite the hotel with the college logo on it, and asked: "That carriage, and the warriors and female magicians beside the carriage, Is it your illusion too?"

"Maybe." The middle-aged magician shrugged his shoulders, noncommittal.

"Don't tell me? I'll find out when I go take a look."

Having said that, Rosen was about to walk over and use his magic power to investigate. As soon as he took a step, the carriage, soldiers, and young female magician on the opposite side all turned into mist and disappeared.

The middle-aged magician laughed: "Okay, okay, it's indeed a lie."

"No, I still have to take a look. In your illusion, seeing is false. Only my magic power can tell me the real answer."

Rosen strode towards the other side of the street, while using his alchemical magic power to reach the limit distance of 4 meters.

The street was not wide, so Rosen reached the carriage in a few strides. He walked around the carriage and the surrounding area several times to make sure that the place was empty before turning back to the Flower Hotel.

"Young man, confidence is a good thing, but I advise you." The middle-aged magician Phantom spoke again.

Rosen interrupted him harshly: "Shut up, you bastard! Don't be complacent. Sooner or later, I will find you out and blow your brains out!"

After saying that, he strode into the door of the Flower Hotel, and the phantom of the middle-aged magician actually followed him in.

Everything in the hall was as usual, very lively, full of scantily clad prostitutes and men looking for pleasure. On the surface, it seems that it has not been affected by the previous changes at all, but this is just an appearance.

Rosen's alchemical magic told him that there were many people in the hall, but all of them fainted and fell to the ground for unknown reasons. He crossed this false hustle and bustle and walked to the small isolation area deep in the hall.

Dallas had been in this area before, but at this time, there was no trace of him in the quarantine area.

This did not surprise Rosen. He squatted down and used his magic power to carefully explore the traces left on the ground. After about ten seconds, he stood up, walked to the wall, and reached out to open the hidden button on the wall.

‘Kacha kacha~’

A secret door appeared on the wall. Rosen did not walk in immediately. He turned to the phantom beside him and said, "I guess you have discovered Dallas's secret, right?"

"right."

"Then you should know that I have no ill intentions towards the college or this city."

"I thought so before. But now that you're with a monster, I'm not sure."

"Narrow-minded!" Rosen couldn't help but cursed. After a pause, he asked again: "If I guessed correctly, my companions and Dallas were trapped in the secret room by you, right?"

"Of course. The footprints on the ground and the breath in the air have clearly shown this." Magician Phantom nodded.

"Let's make a deal."

"Tell me." Magician Phantom folded his arms and leaned against the wall, calm and composed.

"Release my companions, and leave Dallas to you, and you can do whatever you want with him."

Originally, taking Dallas away and interrogating him in another place would have been the best option, but in the current situation, Rosen did not want to completely turn against the academy, and taking a step back was a better choice. He believed that the academy should be able to make Dallas tell the truth.

"Hey~ Didn't you threaten to blow my head off just now? Why did you change your mind so soon?" Magician Phantom seemed a little surprised.

Rosen smiled faintly: "This time, you came prepared, and it is basically impossible for me to find your true body. But the world is not big. As magicians, we always have the opportunity to meet again."

"Well, you are right, but you almost found me just now. Forget it, let's not talk about this. I'll be frank. I think I have a better plan, such as trapping you for a while and waiting for more magicians from the academy to arrive."

Before the magician phantom finished speaking, Rosen sighed: "You made me completely lose my patience, and you killed the only chance for us to reconcile."

"Young man, you are very arrogant. I must remind you that with your little power, you are not qualified to talk to me about the word reconciliation!" The magician phantom showed displeasure on his face.

As soon as he finished speaking, Rosen suddenly glowed with silver-white light. After a moment, the light quickly dimmed, and finally disappeared into the air with Rosen, completely disappearing, as if disappearing from the world.