The Last Alchemist

Everyone in the hall fell silent.

After a while, Rosen's voice rang out: "Sage, if we follow the method you said, is it very likely that the body will explode?"

Niya nodded: "Very high! Because a mortal's body can never withstand the power of gods. Even if it doesn't explode, it will suffer huge damage. The longer it persists, the greater the damage will be. Even if you are lucky enough to survive, your body will remain. Irreversible scars.”

She sighed and continued: "Of all the magicians here, you and Max are the only two who can be called powerful. In terms of magic power alone, Max is much stronger than you, but he is already old and his body It's not as good as before, and it won't last long, and he has no obligation to do so, so if you want to save people, you are the only choice."

Rosen was silent again.

Mobius on the side waved his hands repeatedly: "How can this be done? Rosen's life is not his alone. There are hundreds of people in the ruins of the college who want him to protect him. If he dies, everyone will die with him! This is already It’s not one life for one, it’s hundreds for one. If Veronica was still awake, she would never agree to do this!”

Niya ignored Mobius. She looked at Rosen without blinking, waiting for him to make a decision.

After a while, Rosen asked: "How long can Veronica last in suspended animation?"

"The maximum duration is five days."

Rosen turned to look at Veronica lying flat on the stone table. Her originally rosy face turned pale, and her eyebrows were still frowning even in suspended animation. Looking at the wound on her waist, it looked like a crack in flawless white jade.

Seeing that he was silent for a long time, Niya said: "Time is very tight, have you decided?"

Rosen woke up with a start. He turned to look at Sage Niya. This woman was probably in her fifties, with gray hair and many wrinkles on her face. She looked similar to an ordinary old woman, but her pair of The eyes are unusually clear. The strange thing is that Rosen can't see any emotion in these eyes.

He turned to look at Max, the messenger of lightning, who was aside. Compared with last time, Max's hair on his temples had become snow-white, there were many more wrinkles on his face, and his mental state was far less good than last time. He looks like a skinny little old man.

Max felt Rosen's gaze, he turned to look at Rosen, and then quickly looked away.

Rosen felt that there seemed to be a trace of guilt in Max's eyes.

At this time, he had calmed down and was no longer panicked. He savored Sage Niya's performance carefully, and suddenly felt that there seemed to be a hint of impatience in the other party's actions.

This was the first time he met Niya, and it was only the second time he met Max. He didn't understand the character of these two long-famous magicians at all. Under such circumstances, it is too reckless to take such a huge risk based on the other party's words.

He couldn't be sure that the other party had other intentions, but he knew that there was no free lunch in this world, and there was no unreasonable favor.

‘Veronica is in suspended animation, I still have five days. No, be safer, even three days. In three days, if there are enough samples for me to test, it should be possible to find a way to detoxify. ’

‘Where are the samples? Yes, there must be a lot of monsters out there. I’ll just go out and kill a few more. ’

Thinking of this, Rosen said: "Since there are still five days left, I want to try another method."

"Any other way?"

Judging from the tone, Sage Niya seemed to be taken aback, but Rosen kept looking into her eyes, and she still did not show any emotion in her eyes. This made Rosen even more wary.

He turned to look at Max: "Sir, I want to go outside, catch a few monsters, and find a way to crack the toxin."

Max was surprised: "You want to find an antidote to the tree demon puppet?"

"Yes, I want to try."

"Impossible. The Destruction Tree Demon is an ancient demon, and his power comes from the Dark God. It is impossible for a mortal to crack it, and you are wasting your efforts!" The sage Niya on the side rejected Rosen's idea very simply.

Rosen still insisted: "Even so, I still want to try. If it doesn't work, I will rush back and use your rescue method."

Sage Niya still disagreed and wanted to stop her, but before she could speak, Max said: "This method is very safe. Niya, let him try it. Rosen is a person who is good at creating miracles. ”

When Max said this, Niya could only nod: "That's it. Max, you will take him out of the underground palace later. Be careful on the way and never expose the location of the underground palace."

"Of course."

Seeing that Rosen was going to find trouble with the monster, Mobius volunteered, "Rosen, I'll go with you. It would be nice for the two of us to take care of him."

"Don't!"

Rosen raised his hand to stop: "You stay here. If the toxins in Veronica's body worsen, you might as well notify me as soon as possible."

"But" Mobius was a little reluctant. In his opinion, anyone could do the reporting.

"No buts!" Rosen waved his hand to interrupt him, gave him a wink quietly, and then continued: "You are Veronica's friend, and we are friends too, do you understand?"

He didn't particularly trust these two great magicians.

"Okay." Mobius understood what Rosen meant.

Rosen then said to Max: "Sir, please take me out."

"You come with me."

Max turned and walked towards the wall. After he reached the wall, he waited for a few seconds, and then another step appeared on the wall. Strangely, this step still went up, just like when he came in.

Max walked up the steps, and Rosen followed him. When both of them walked up the steps, the wall returned to its original state, as if nothing had happened.

Mobius deliberately walked up and touched the wall, and found that it was cold and there was nothing.

"What kind of magic is this? Is it a space gate?" He turned around and asked Niya.

Niya shook her head: "Undead, don't be too curious."

Mobius was bored, pouted, and walked to the bench next to Niya and sat down: "Sage, why do you insist on letting Rosen die?"

Niya closed her eyes and said lightly: "I didn't want him to die, he insisted on saving the dragon girl. I just provided a way to save people, and gave him the freedom to choose."

"Come on, you can't even fool a three-year-old child with this, you know Rosen will definitely save people." Mobius sneered.

"Stranger, I hope you can be quiet, or I will force you to be quiet." Sage Niya's tone turned cold.

"Okay, okay, I won't say it." Mobius hurriedly shut up.

On the other side.

About ten minutes later, Rosen stood at the edge of the dock market again.

"Good luck, young man." Max patted his shoulder and turned back to the alley.

Rosen didn't rush to act, he checked his equipment first.

The two muskets were intact, there were 47 armor-piercing bullets, more than 100 high-strength alloy balls for use with the energy pool, a manganese steel dagger, hemostatic cotton, 3 flash grenades, 5 high-explosive bombs, and a bundle of ropes with grappling hooks. The energy pool still had more than 400 kilograms of TNT equivalent energy.

‘To do the detoxification experiment, I need to capture at least two living tree demon puppets. One for the experiment and one for the control. Oh, no headshots, and no loud noises. I need to make a plan.’