The Last Alchemist

For Nirod, if there was anything worse than having his legs broken, it would be seeing the magician Rosen standing in front of him alive.

“Hey~ I didn’t expect that we would meet here again.” Rosen’s voice was light and without any emotion.

Nirod seemed to have seen a ghost. He supported himself on the ground with his hands and struggled desperately with his broken legs. In the blink of an eye, he retreated five or six meters: "You, you are still alive?"

"I know why you are surprised, and I also know your expectations, but I still have to tell you cruelly that you guessed right. I killed the tree demon Donasis."

"Ah!!!" Nirod's arms suddenly softened and began to tremble violently, almost unable to support his body: "How could the tree demon be defeated? What right did you kill him? Why is this happening? Why can't you die! How come you are still alive?"

He was incoherent, his eyes were scattered, and his spirit collapsed

Rosen waved at the two musketeers: "Catch him in the fortress and lock him up!"

The two soldiers stepped forward, grabbed Nirod's arms on the left and right, and dragged Nirod towards the fortress like a dead dog.

Nirod's broken leg dragged on the ground, leaving two long bloody marks, but he seemed to feel no pain, and kept muttering: "Why? Why?"

Rosen ignored him and turned to shout to the people behind him: "Come on, follow me into the academy!"

Everyone responded, quickened their pace, and walked towards the gate of the wall.

This last section of the road happened to be the previous battlefield. The ground was full of broken corpses of monsters. The most eye-catching and tragic corpse was the iron orc. The sturdy body was torn in half, and a long intestine was dragged on the ground around it. The death was extremely tragic.

The survivors who followed Rosen back had experienced the disaster of the God's Blessing Night. They hated monsters to the extreme, but were full of fear. The monster corpses on the ground naturally attracted people's attention.

"What happened here?"

"So many corpses of ghouls?!"

"Smell it, there is a special smell in the air, exactly the same as Master Rosen's musket."

Grod, the musketeer, heard the discussion of the people nearby, and his body unconsciously straightened up, and said proudly: "No need to guess, I will tell you what happened here."

A large group of people immediately surrounded him, waiting for him to answer their questions.

Grod straightened his chest, raised the rifle in his hand, and said loudly: "Just now, nearly 700 monsters wanted to sneak attack us. We used muskets and bombs to beat them to a pulp!"

"Really? More than 700 is not a small number."

"Musketeers are really that powerful?"

"Then you must have suffered heavy losses, right?"

Grod was immediately unhappy with the doubts, patted his chest hard, and said loudly: "I tell you, we unfortunately lost two brothers in the battle, but we killed at least 400 monsters. Especially our captain, a At least 300 people were killed! Did you see the body? That guy was an iron orc, covered in black hair, taller than both of you, and was directly broken into two halves! "

"Wow~~ So powerful~~"

"It should be true, look at the ground, there are many small holes, these are made by muskets."

"Wow~ Look, I dug up a musket bullet, my God, it's bigger than my thumb!"

"No wonder it's so powerful!"

"The fortress here is so high, and there are such powerful musketeers, it's safe now."

People talked about it.

This unexpected battle turned out to be a very effective reassurance pill, which quickly gave the anxious people a sense of security.

The next thing will be much easier.

In order to accommodate more survivors, many bungalows were built in advance inside the academy's retaining wall, which can accommodate about 2,000 people. If there are more than 6,000 people, it won't be a big problem to squeeze in overnight.

Lilith was responsible for arranging the accommodation for the survivors, while Anne led the musketeers to maintain order. More than 6,000 people were divided into small groups and quickly integrated into the academy fortress.

In the second half of the night, everything was temporarily arranged.

Of course, this was only temporary. With more than 6,000 people suddenly, more food, wider housing, a large number of daily necessities, and the construction of public facilities such as bathrooms and toilets were needed. Otherwise, the fortress area would soon stink.

In short, in the foreseeable future, it would be very busy just to deal with the trivial matters of the residents.

In the hall on the second floor of the fortress, Rosen gathered all the magicians together and began to discuss subsequent measures.

Rosen didn't like to deal with trivial matters, nor did he like to speak in public. The meeting was led by Lilith as usual, and Rosen's role was to "calm the scene" in the conference hall.

"With more than 6,000 people, the food consumption has increased by more than 20 times. This is not a small amount, and we can't delay for a moment. Xuma, the potato pot must be expanded quickly, and the food production must keep up quickly."

The magician Xuma's combat ability is average, but this guy is very talented in making magic food. Although the taste of the magic potatoes he made is not as delicate as Rosen's, it also has a unique flavor. Moreover, he is very interested in food making. A few days ago, he innovated and made several flavors of magic potatoes at once, which received unanimous praise from everyone.

Since he has talent and likes to do this, he naturally became the logistics supervisor of making magic potatoes.

Lilith added: "If there are more people, there will be problems with public security, but the power that can be used will also be much greater. 40 musketeers are definitely insufficient, and more warriors must be trained. From Nerogard City Judging from management experience, there must be at least 300 musketeers for more than 6,000 people. In addition, we have to defend against monster attacks, so the number of warriors must be higher. I suggest that we calculate it as 500 for the time being. Rosen, you What do you think?"

"Okay." Rosen nodded.

Lilith turned to look at Annie: "Annie, then I'll leave this matter to you."

"No problem. But the supply of muskets must be sufficient." Anne said.

"Musket. Is this possible to increase the production rate?" Lilith looked at the magician Lanster.

The magician Lanster was once punished with dozens of whips by Rosen for manslaughter. Under the instigation of the magician Tarot, he and Rosen had a big disagreement at that time, but this matter has become a thing of the past. This guy is also a magic genius. , has quite good talent in alchemy.

Now, he has been able to independently produce a musket with qualified performance, and he also has many unique ideas on musket design concepts. Of course, he has become the supervisor of musket production.

Now when Lilith asked, he had a grimace: "I'm afraid this is difficult. The size requirements for the parts of the musket are very strict, and there cannot be a single error in the key components. All of these can only be corrected with magic power, but magic power It is limited. We currently only have three people producing muskets. According to the current capacity, we can only produce two rifles a day. If we want to improve it, we will have to have more alchemists.”

Is it so easy to find an alchemist?

Among the magicians left that day, there were only three talents with alchemy talents, and the other magicians had their own tasks, so there was no way to spare any manpower.

"Ah~ Is there no other way?" Lilith was a little disappointed, and she looked at Rosen for help.

Rosen thought for a while and said, "I'll take care of this matter. Annie, don't worry about the muskets. You can select people for basic training first. There will definitely be a sufficient supply of muskets in half a month at most." "

"Understood." Annie nodded. Since Rosen said there is a way, then there must be a way.

Lilith breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the magician Biggs again: "With so many people, we need more housing. Moreover, it will be impossible to live in the fortress forever in the future, and the production of gray sticky powder must also be accelerated."

Things like gray sticky powder are actually ordinary cement.

Biggs is a quite young magician, just in his early 20s. Ever since Rosen invented the building material 'ash clay powder', he has been fascinated by this magical powder that turns into hard stone when added with water. Now, all the gray powder in the fortress was caused by him.

"Of course there is no problem. Of course, I need more manpower to carry raw materials and firewood. By the way, Master Rosen, I discovered a flaw in the gray clay powder. After it solidifies, it is very similar to stone. It can withstand compression but not tension. "

This Biggs is an idiot who never strays from his profession. As he was talking, he discussed gray clay with Rosen. The key point was that what he said hit the key points of gray clay. It was modified with bamboo strips. The method is indeed feasible, but it is not the best.

Rosen smiled and said: "Bamboo strips are okay, but they are still not strong enough."

"Then what to use?" Biggs looked curious.

“Why not steel?”

"Steel. Steel is a great idea! It's a very good idea, but it's too extravagant. It's really too extravagant." Biggs looked pained.

In this world, the output of iron is very low, and high-quality steel is more expensive. For example, the alloy steel used by Rosen to make muskets would definitely be more expensive than gold if placed elsewhere. Even ordinary carbon steel is definitely not something ordinary people can afford when used to build houses.

"Ahem~~" Lilith coughed lightly and said: "Gentlemen, I must interrupt your academic discussion. We now have a very important and urgent issue that needs to be discussed. This issue concerns Nerogard. The future is very urgent and must be solved immediately.”

Everyone looked at Lilith with stunned expressions.

Lilith then said: "Today's Nerogard City, ordinary monsters are no longer much of a threat, and the terrifying tree demon was also defeated by Master Rosen. Now, the last threat in the city is the mysterious The monster lord. This monster lord is the culprit of the destruction of Nirogard and the source of all instability. If we want to rebuild Nirogard, we must at least drive this big lord out of Nirogard City. Rosen, what do you think? Woolen cloth?"

Rosen was convinced: "This monster lord is a huge threat and must be eliminated as soon as possible! The problem now is that we know very little about it, but fortunately we caught the Phantom Assassin Nirod. That guy is a monster The great lord’s right-hand man is currently mentally broken, so it should be easy to pry his mouth open.”

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