The Last Alchemist

‘The violent flaming demon dogs, the cruel black vine demons, the blood-eyed black crows that cover the sky. Countless demons, countless executioners, the whole world is heading towards destruction. ’

‘The devil is laughing wildly, and mortals are crying helplessly. Oh, God, save your people and drive away these ruthless devils.'

‘The ancient sages sacrificed their lives to the gods, and they received gifts from the gods. From then on, the light of the sun shone again in the mortal world. ’

‘Ah, God, your power is so great, your glory is so magnificent, your warriors are so powerful, the devil is tamed, sin is purified, you are the almighty God, you are the master of all things! ’

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Most of the notes left by Bishop Amran were excerpted from ancient books, describing a fragmented ancient legend. Amid the praises to the gods, there are a few details of ancient battles interspersed.

Rosen flipped through page after page, and soon he reached the last page of the notes.

At the end of the page, there is a quote from Amran.

‘There has never been a savior, there has never been a merciful god. If there is any god in this world who can be of greatest help to the world, it is the God of Fire. Flame brings light and warmth to the world, helps people cook food, and helps blacksmiths tame steel. Even powerful monsters fear the destructive power of fire. Now that I have to make a choice, I will choose to serve the Lord of Fire. O great Lord of Fire, may you be eternal! ’

After reading this sentence, Rosen slowly closed the page of the note. He sat cross-legged on the ground, quietly savoring the indescribable melancholy in his heart.

‘Amran, oh Amran, you and I could have stood in the same trench, facing a common enemy. It’s a pity that you are too paranoid and crazy. Hey~~~’

After thinking for a long time, Rosen put the note back into his pocket and took out the golden ball he got from Amran.

'Seeing the suffering of mortals, the gods sent powerful steel warriors to the mortal world. These warriors have a golden heart that contains the power of the gods.'

Below this content in the note is Amran's annotation, which reads: 'I have been searching for many years and found that the Iron Warriors are most likely real. Existing underground in Nerogard City, a powerful monster called the Death Guard is most likely the ancient Iron Warrior. ’

The so-called golden heart should be the fist-sized golden ball in Rosen's hand. As for the sentence "The heart contains the power of the gods", Rosen didn't understand it for a while.

He turned over and over looking at the golden ball in his hand. The surface of the ball was not smooth and had a strange frosted feel. When the ball rotated, the firelight reflected by it was vaguely mixed with a trace of strange white light.

This thing is definitely a good thing. If you can find a way to use it, you might be able to get the 'power of the gods'.

The naked eye is no longer enough to observe the mystery of this sphere, so Rosen decided to use magic to observe it.

In view of the terrifying experience of observing the body of the Death Guard before, Rosen did not dare to touch the ball with magic power easily. However, it should be safe to use magic power to observe it at close range.

Just do it if you think of it.

Rosen separated out a very small ray of magic tentacles and approached the golden ball bit by bit. As long as he finds something a little wrong, he will withdraw his magic tentacles without hesitation.

Time passed by second by second, and the magic power was getting closer and closer to the golden ball.

10 centimeters 5 centimeters 1 centimeter 1 millimeter one micron.

1 micron can be regarded as the dividing point between micro and macro. At this distance, Rosen stopped and indirectly observed the surface structure of the metal sphere by sensing the flow of air near the spherical surface.

'Hmm~ The surface is bumpy~ It's a bit like the surface of the moon full of craters. Wait, there seems to be some strange lines on the surface, and there seems to be some rules. Could this thing be some kind of rune array, just like the sesame seeds on the monster's body? Similar? ’

‘It’s a bit far away, let’s take a closer look. ’

Rosen was ready to take a closer look at the metal ball.

It begins to enter the microscopic realm below microns, and then goes three orders of magnitude smaller, reaching nanometers. By then, quantum effects will be very obvious. At this level, even an extremely small disturbance may cause Rosen to make a mistake, allowing the magic power to touch the golden ball.

In order to avoid such a bloody situation, Rosen placed the golden ball on the ground, then stepped back and pushed it out 3 meters away before stopping. Then, he found a stable posture and sat down, as if he were an old man. The monk is in samadhi and does not move at all.

The reason for doing this is to avoid additional disturbances caused by breathing airflow and heartbeat. The second point is to prevent the gravitational force of your body from causing subtle disturbances to the ball when your body shakes.

Gravity is a thing that may seem inconspicuous at ordinary times, but in ultra-precision measurements, it must be taken into account. When Cavendish used a torsion scale to measure the gravitational constant, in order to avoid interference, he hid far away and used a telescope to observe the readings of the torsion scale.

After everything was ready, Rosen once again stretched out his magic tentacles toward the golden ball, getting closer bit by bit, and soon reached the micron level, and then began to slow down.

Just like this, it got closer and closer. About half an hour later, the magic tentacle finally reached a distance of 5 nanometers from the ball.

At this distance, Rosen finally saw clearly the lines on the ball's surface.

‘Holy shit~ It’s really a basic rune! ’ Rosen couldn’t help but curse.

On the surface of the sphere, he saw countless basic runes at an astronomical level. These runes were connected to each other and arranged in a pattern that Rosen could not figure out at all. From time to time, a large group of small, cotton-like white light balls flashed between every two runes.

‘Nano-level size, strange arrangement pattern, how come this thing is a bit like the CPU on Earth? ’

When he traveled through time, the transistor size of commercial CPUs had been reduced to less than 10 nanometers, and billions of transistors could be accommodated in a place as big as a thumb. If a magician from another world came to Earth and observed the CPU core from the same perspective, he would definitely see a similar scene to what Rosen saw.

The final question is how to find the pattern of these basic runes.

This is a very difficult task. Just thinking about it, Rosen felt a numbness in his brain, and he felt like facing the entire National Library alone.

‘No matter what, let’s try it first. Maybe I can find the pattern soon. ’ Rosen still had a glimmer of luck in his heart.

The structure of the CPU on Earth is also extremely complex, but its foundation is just a variety of simple gate circuits. Maybe this thing in front of us is similar.

At this point, Rosen has been attracted by this strange field. He forgot his current situation and even temporarily put Veronica behind his mind and began to concentrate on it.

But, things are unpredictable.

Just as Rosen was concentrating on observing the structure of the golden sphere rune and then copying its structure bit by bit, the golden sphere on the ground inexplicably jumped a few times.

The amplitude of the jump is very small, almost imperceptible to the naked eye, but don’t forget that the distance between Rosen’s magic tentacles and the golden sphere is only a very small 5 nanometers.

The result is that Rosen’s magic tentacles hit the surface of the sphere.

‘Boom~~~’

Rosen felt that a powerful bomb exploded in his brain, and an endless white light attacked him. His entire mind was pure white, and he couldn’t see the end at all.

If the destructive toxin gave Rosen the feeling of a sticky dark swamp, then at this moment, he felt that he was in the center of a nuclear explosion.

All he saw was white, and there was an unbearable burning sensation.

This feeling was extremely terrifying, as if it was going to burn his soul and body to ashes.

At this moment, Rosen's only thought was to immediately retract his magic tentacles and get away from this terrifying golden sphere as soon as possible.

But the terrible thing was that this damn golden sphere seemed to have a huge stickiness. No matter how Rosen retreated, he could not get rid of the endless white light. The terrifying burning sensation became more and more intense, almost to the point where Rosen could not bear it.

"Ah~~~~~" He couldn't help but roar.

At this moment, Rosen had only one thought in his mind: 'Am I going to die? '