The Last Alchemist

There are two ways of writing the runes recorded by Lilith.

One is to use a special ancient stone tablet as writing material, and the other is to use the magic power of a magician to draw.

Naturally, Rosen did not have an ancient stone tablet in his hand, so he could only take the second path.

He selected a basic rune with the simplest pattern, activated his alchemical magic, and began to construct the rune's appearance in the air.

There was only one rune, and its structure was much simpler than invincible magic. Within half a second, Rosen successfully constructed the rune with magic power.

"If the rune is written correctly, there will be a faint flash of light after the drawing is completed."

This is Lilith's introduction to runes.

Rosen looked at the air in front of him. That was where the magic power was building the runes, but where was the slightest bit of light?

In other words, Rosen failed to draw the runes.

"This is fucked up!"

Rosen picked up Lilith's manuscript and looked at it carefully. The runes on the manuscript were all hand-drawn sketches. They only drew a rough shape and there was no accuracy at all.

Moreover, Lilith also said that when drawing basic runes, the shape requirements are not strict, but only an inexplicable spirituality.

"Spirituality? Spirituality? I think it's just feudal superstition!"

Rosen felt that he was becoming more and more depraved. He dealt with this kind of inexplicable thing all day long. He said that magic was not magic, but science, but this damn thing was just like the ancient Taoist priests drawing talismans. , there seems to be no pattern at all.

If Rosen hadn't been sure that Lilith wouldn't deceive him, he would have burned the old manuscript paper at this moment.

After trying to calm down his almost crazy emotions, Rosen decided to try again.

He chose a new rune, activated the magic power, and built the rune structure. After about half a second, he suddenly felt a slight movement in his heart, and there was a feeling similar to inspiration.

Almost at the same time, Rosen saw a faint white light appear in the air in front of him. Looking carefully at the shape of the light, it was vaguely the magic rune he had just constructed.

Rosen was dumbfounded: "This is a success? But why?"

He concentrated his energy, tried his best to improve the precision of magic detection, and looked at the microstructure of the magic runes very, very carefully.

As he watched, the expression on Rosen's face became increasingly weird, and finally turned into a stunned look, as if he had seen something incredible.

"Creating something out of nothing? How is this possible? Doesn't conservation of energy hold true in this world?"

On the earth, the law of conservation of energy is one of the most basic laws of nature. It can be called the cornerstone of the material world. Even in this world, from Rosen's time travel to the present, all physical phenomena observed are consistent with energy. Conservation law.

However, just now, what Rosen observed using his alchemical magic power directly subverted this law.

"After the runes were activated, photons appeared out of thin air. The total energy of the system increased inexplicably, but I couldn't find the energy source."

“During this process, my magic power did nothing but construct an inexplicable shape. Although this also consumed some energy in my brain, this energy had nothing to do with the photons in the space in front of me. "

"Why is this?"

Rosen relaxed his control over his magic power and covered his forehead with both hands, feeling that his world view was about to be overturned by this damn rune science.

After a while, Rosen calmed down a little. He rubbed his face vigorously and began to verify the third rune.

"Damn it, the system energy has increased out of thin air again!" He cursed in a low voice, not sure whether he was cursing himself or this unexplainable phenomenon.

He continued to verify that the fourth, fifth, and sixth runes had been constructed with magic power.

"Of the 21 basic runes, 17 are effective and 4 are unresponsive. Every time, energy appears out of thin air. This is not true. I must have made a mistake somewhere. Yes, I must have made a mistake. Maybe it is a measurement error. maybe!"

Compared to questioning the law of conservation of energy, Rosen believes that he is more likely to make mistakes, and the biggest reason for his mistakes may be his lack of understanding of runes.

With this thought, Rosen continued to read Lilith's manuscript.

"Rune magic is a gift from the gods, and it is very different from ordinary magic. Its most significant feature is that as long as the rune key is used correctly, magic energy can be continuously obtained without the need for any casting materials. ”

Seeing this sentence, Rosen became confused again.

"There is no need for casting materials. As long as you draw the runes, you can cast the spell. Isn't this just another expression of making something out of nothing?"

He did not believe in evil and continued to read.

"Although runes have many incredible advantages, they also have flaws. Its biggest flaw is instability. The same magician and the same spell-casting method will sometimes take effect immediately, sometimes it will take a while, and sometimes it will take effect immediately. , but simply did not respond. Many magic masters believe that it is precisely because this is a gift from the gods that there is such unexplainable instability. Mortals cannot understand the gods' intentions. "

These words made Rosen feel more and more speechless.

"Instability. Let me verify."

With a thought in his mind, he activated his magic power again and reconstructed the basic runes.

This time, out of the 21 basic runes, 17 were still valid and 4 were unresponsive, but what was unexplainable was that the 4 unresponsive runes were different from before. But God knows, Rosen's methods haven't changed at all.

Rosen doesn’t believe in evil and will try again.

This time, there are 21 runes, 13 are effective and 8 are ineffective.

Try again.

19 are effective and 2 are invalid.

try again

After trying it more than twenty times in a row, Rosen got different results every time, with no statistical rules at all. His entire worldview was overturned, and he sat dumbly in front of the table.

"On Earth, although God throws dice, there is still quantum mechanics that can describe the probability. This god from another world doesn't even throw the dice and just does whatever he wants. This... this is such a willful guy!"

After sitting blankly for a long time, Rosen cheered up again and continued reading the manuscript.

"A simple rune magic: glow spell. The 1st, 7th, and 16th runes are combined in an equilateral triangle. If you are lucky, the god will light a lamp for you. If you are unlucky, then Click it a few times and it will always light up.”

Rosen immediately began to ‘light the lamp’.

The first time, it didn't light up; the second time, it still didn't light up; the third time, the fourth time, until the 15th time, there was a soft "chi" sound in the air, and a white light as big as the tip of a thumb. The ball appeared out of thin air.

This ball of light looks like a ball of pure brilliance. The light is bright and stable, roughly equivalent to the brightness of a 100-watt incandescent lamp. If used at night, it is many times better than ordinary candlelight.

But Rosen didn't pay attention to the light ball itself at all. He focused on the massive photons pouring out of the light ball out of thin air.

If activating a single rune only produces a few more photons, then this glow technique can already directly observe the non-conservation of energy with the naked eye.

At this point, Rosen was completely numb. His brain was stupidly maintaining the rune structure of the glow technique, and the light ball had always existed stably. It was like the eyes of the gods, looking down on Rosen. , laughing at the little wisdom in his mind that belongs to mortals.

So far, rune literature has two strange characteristics. First, energy comes out of nothing; second, it is completely unpredictable and unstable.

Each of these two characteristics is exceptionally fucked!

"Is this really a chaotic magical world?"

"Am I wrong?"

"But in this case, why are the elements of this world the same as those of the earth? Why can this world also synthesize penicillin, gunpowder, and manufacture guns, chemical batteries, and incandescent lamps?"

"Who can tell me why this terrible scene happened?!"

Rosen covered his head with both hands and stared straight at the line of basic runes on the manuscript, but he couldn't think of a reasonable explanation.

Just watching and watching, I don't know how long it took, Rosen suddenly felt a slight movement in his heart, and a very vague and very strange idea came to his mind.

"No, these runes are not quite right. There seems to be something wrong with them. These basic runes may not be the real foundation. If what I think is right, maybe I can solve the instability problem."