The Last Alchemist

Laplace Manor, balcony on the second floor of the wooden building.

Rosen suppressed the fear in his heart. He stood up slightly and looked past Sir Laplace's body to the inside of the room.

Thanks to the bright moon tonight, he could clearly see everything in the room, but if he had a choice, he would rather not see anything.

There were two figures on the big bed in the room, one was Rosen's mother, and the other was a man with blond hair, to be precise, with blond curly hair.

Rosen's mother was also wearing only pajamas. She leaned with her back in the arms of the blond man, waving her hands in the air meaninglessly. Her feet twitched unconsciously, kicking the bed board every now and then, making a 'dong' sound. ~咚~' sound, and her throat made a sound of 'uh~uh~'.

The blond man leaned against the head of the bed and held Rosen's mother in his arms. He lowered his head and put his mouth close to Rosen's mother's neck. From time to time, he made a very soft swallowing sound in his throat.

This situation is like a ferocious beast biting the neck of a fawn. The beast is drinking blood, but the fawn can only make a meaningless struggle.

"Vampire~blonde curly hair as bright as the sun, and a slender and straight body." Rosen felt that his calves began to feel sore and weak under control, and he felt a little unable to stand.

Although the blond man's face cannot be seen, from the details seen so far, this vampire looks exactly like the high-level vampire Rosen just killed in the game.

At this moment, the vampire on the bedside suddenly raised his head. His entire mouth was covered with blood, and a lot of sticky blood was dripping down, but this did not cover up his charming facial features and those pair of Bright lake blue eyes.

He looked over to Rosen's position, and his eyes met Rosen's gaze. His mouth full of blood opened slightly, revealing an evil smile, and his eyes seemed to say: "I have noticed you a long time ago. You don’t have to run, just wait for death.”

‘It’s really him! High-level vampire Viken! ’

Rosen was so frightened by this sight that he couldn't help but retreat continuously. He stepped on the balcony with his feet and made a "dong~dong~" sound. In the end, he leaned heavily on the wooden railing of the balcony and made a "clang" sound. There was a sound, and if the wooden railings were not high enough, Rosen would have fallen directly downstairs!

"How could I be so unlucky? It's okay to travel through time, but when I come across a super boss like a high-level vampire, it's like hell!"

"What should I do? What should I do? This kid has already discovered me! I have no power to fight back now, and there is no way I can escape. Do I really have to wait for death?"

"Maybe you can return to Earth after you die. But what if you can't come back? You only have one life. If you die, you are dead. It is impossible to be reborn!"

"Do you really want to wait for death? No, no, no, I haven't lived enough yet. I want to live! I want to live!"

After staying on the balcony for more than a minute, Rosen slowly came back to his senses. He turned his head and glanced at the vampire Viken in the room, and found that he had bitten Rosen's mother's neck again and continued to suck blood.

A thought came to Rosen's mind: 'If the prey is a lady, Viken likes to suck the blood slowly. In his words, the blood of a lady is more delicious and he has to taste it carefully. ’

This judgment did not come out of thin air. In the game, in order to defeat the vampire Viken, he tried 49 times in a row and tried various methods. He has thoroughly studied this vampire BOSS, which is also his biggest reliance now.

'Depending on the situation, Viken will have to be sucked for a while. I don't have the ability to save people, but as an alchemist, there is a glimmer of hope for self-rescue! ’

Thinking of this, Rosen immediately climbed up the balcony railing on his hands and knees, returned to his room, and ran back to the alchemy room at the corner of the corridor in three steps and two steps at a time.

'A vampire is as fast as the wind and powerful. His sharp claws can break gold and crack rocks. His senses are far more sensitive than humans. If I run away directly, there will be no possibility for me to escape! ’

'I am not a master hunter now, nor do I have any alchemy weapons. I am just a rich young man who is less than 15 years old. I know nothing. I am just a beginner in alchemy. I am by no means his opponent. I am not one of the hundred. ’

‘Although Vampire Viken is a blood-sucking maniac, he has an arrogant personality and likes to show off. The thinking logic of high-level vampires is similar to that of humans, which means that I have a glimmer of hope if I can follow the flaws in his thinking and set traps for him! ’

‘Yes, a trap! But how to set a trap? What traps are effective against vampires? ’

Rosen ran back to the alchemy room almost instinctively. During this time, his mind was spinning wildly, desperately thinking of ways to protect himself.

After returning to the alchemy room, Rosen immediately lit all 12 candles on the candlesticks. The alchemy room suddenly became very bright, and many dark corners were also illuminated very clearly.

There is a bookshelf to the left of the wooden table. Next to the bookshelf is a decorative wooden shelf. On it are a bottle of red wine, a bottle of musk ointment, and many bottles and jars of different sizes, totaling twenty-five or six. So many.

‘These are all alchemical potions. ’

Rosen's heart suddenly moved, and a large number of memories about alchemy emerged in Rosen's mind. Most of them came from the "Hunter" game in his previous life, and a small part came from the memories of Rosen, a boy from another world. The former are recipes for various alchemical items, while the latter are specific alchemical practical experiences in the real world.

Metaphysical knowledge and down-to-earth practical experience are perfectly blended together to form an alchemy that is truly usable in other worlds!

How to save his life from the vampire Viken?

Of course, he couldn't rely on Viken's mercy. That guy had no mercy at all. The only thing Rosen could rely on now was alchemy and the alchemical drugs on the wooden shelf in front of him.

Rosen strode towards the medicine shelf and opened the alchemical drugs one by one.

"Gypsum, alum, quartz, charcoal, saltpeter, stone orchid extract, glycerin, etc. What is this?"

Rosen opened a black bottle, and a faint musky smell suddenly floated in the air. After smelling it for a while, he actually felt a little dizzy.

He recognized this thing: "It's the extract of mandrake root!"

Mandrake, also known as the angel's horn, has a faint musky smell in its rhizome extract, which has a strong anesthetic effect, can make people mentally confused and hallucinate, and drinking too much can even cause death. This bottle of extract is about 30 ml, which is very concentrated. If ordinary people drink it, there is a certain chance of death. The most important thing is that this thing is also useful for vampires.

"Good stuff, if I can make Viken hallucinate after being poisoned, then I should have a chance to escape, but how should I use it?" Rosen pondered. Vampire Viken is not stupid, on the contrary, he is very smart and will never take the initiative to swallow the mandrake poison.

Unable to think of a way for a while, Rosen opened other bottles and continued to check the potions.

After opening five bottles, he found another bottle of special potion. This thing has a unique smell, a faint fishy smell, and a bitter taste. A word popped into his mind: "Stone sea urchin grinding liquid, containing pilocarpine, treats glaucoma, and can also detoxify mandrake poison, etc.~~ Wait~~"

A trace of inspiration flashed through Rosen's mind like lightning.

"Mandrake poison, sea urchin grinding liquid, a bottle of red wine, musk ointment, and my alchemy talent!" Rosen thought of a reliable way.

Do it when you think of it!

He immediately picked up the bottle and pulled out the cork.

'Bang~' opened the bottle cork, and the fragrant wine aroma immediately came out. This bottle of red wine is a good thing, called "Moonlight Night", and a bottle is worth 100 ronds. Sir Laplace was reluctant to drink it, so he put it in his son's alchemy room as a decoration.

"Swish~swish~"

Rosen tilted his hand and poured the red wine onto the wooden board without any regret. Soon, most of the whole bottle was poured out by Rosen, and a strong smell of wine floated in the alchemy room.

Vampires have very sharp five senses, and their noses are more sensitive than dogs. Rosen did this to use alcohol to cover up the smell of mandrake poison in the air.

This is not enough.

Rosen took the musk ointment from the wooden shelf again. This thing is pure spice, which is very common in aristocratic families and will not attract attention.

He took the ointment to the candlestick on the table beside him and roasted it. After the temperature rose, the evaporation speed of the musk aroma suddenly increased greatly, and the musk smell in the air became very strong.

‘The aroma of wine paralyzes the vampire’s sense of smell, and the musk smells similar to the mandrake poison, which should be able to confuse the vampire’s judgment.’

After doing all this, Rosen took the mandrake venom, gritted his teeth, drank it all in one gulp, then quickly hid the medicine bottle, and picked up the red wine. There was still a little half of the red wine left in the bottle. He immediately took a big sip of the red wine to wash away the taste of the mandrake venom in his mouth.

His opponent is a vampire who is far superior to humans in every aspect. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a superman. When dealing with such a person, no matter how cautious you are, it will never be too much.

After drinking, Rosen put the medicine bottle containing the sea urchin grinding liquid in the chest pocket of his cotton robe, then walked quickly to the chair beside the table and sat down, immersed in his mind, and used his alchemical talent to sense the situation in his body.

The mandrake poison does not recognize people. It will start to take effect after drinking it. If he does not use alchemy to interfere, he may be poisoned before the vampire comes to suck blood.

Soon, Rosen sensed the mandrake poison in his stomach.

‘Huh? Strange, my elemental perception ability has become much stronger, at least twice as clear. Is it because of the poison in my body? ’

This change surprised Rosen a little.

He felt very clearly that he had a very cold, evil-smelling thing like airflow that quickly passed through the outer wall of his intestines and stomach, entered his blood vessels, and spread rapidly throughout his body along the blood vessels.

When the concentration of this evil "airflow" reached a certain level, the hallucinogenic effect of the mandrake poison appeared on Rosen.

Rosen felt numb, his head was heavy, and there were a lot of double images when he looked at things. The double images kept changing and turned into all kinds of strange things. The world seemed to be slowly rotating.

"It's almost done. The mandrake poison has spread all over my body. There is already a sufficient concentration of toxin in my blood. The hallucinogenic effect is now appearing, which means that the toxin has begun to affect my nervous system. If I want to live, I must control the spread of the toxin, otherwise I will be doomed even if there is an antidote!"

Poisoning in the real world is not like what is written in martial arts novels. No matter how serious the poisoning is, once the antidote arrives, you can jump around immediately, as if nothing has happened. The reality is that after the toxin enters the body, it will quickly destroy the body's tissues. If the time is delayed too long, it will cause irreversible damage to the body. At that time, even if all the toxins in the body are immediately removed, the person is basically useless.

"My elemental control ability should be able to reduce the toxicity of the mandrake poison."

Rosen closed his eyes and focused all his attention on the evil cold current.

Datura toxins are not good kids. They not only penetrate into the blood, but also try to break through other body fluids. They have already penetrated into the lymphatic fluid. A very small amount of toxins even crossed the blood-brain barrier and entered Rosen's cerebrospinal fluid.

This is also the reason why Rosen has hallucinations.

Once the toxins accumulate to a certain extent, Rosen's nervous system will be irreversibly damaged.

'Go back! '

Rosen concentrated his mind, stretched out his 'hand of thought', and began to drive these evil cold currents back to the blood vessels.

A very wonderful thing happened. The evil cold current was like a fish caught in a net. Although it still jumped around, it could not break through the fishing net and had to retreat back to the blood vessels helplessly.

Rosen's hallucinations disappeared immediately.

'Hiss~ The effect is at least twice as good as I expected! 'Rosen was surprised and happy. He estimated that this might be because of the internal environment. It must be easier to control your own body than the outside world.

"Great, I seem to have some spare energy. I should be able to do better." Rosen had more ideas.

When vampires suck blood, they bite the blood vessels in the neck of their prey with their blood-sucking teeth, and the first blood they suck is also near the neck. But now, the mandrake toxin in Rosen's body is almost evenly distributed in the blood vessels of the whole body. If he can make the toxin gather in the blood vessels near the neck, the toxin inhaled by the vampire in a short period of time will increase many times, and the poison will be released faster and more violently!

Thinking of this, he immediately took action.

Under his conscious control, the evil cold current scattered in the blood vessels continued to surge to the position of the carotid artery, and the evil cold current in the neck became more and more condensed, and the difficulty of control rose sharply.

'Hu~Hu~' Rosen's breathing became much more rapid: 'I am using the element control force to fight against the natural diffusion of the liquid, which is really a lot of energy consumption. Hold on! Hold on! Now the toxins are all near the neck, and the neck is around the head. I must not let the toxins disperse, otherwise the first victim will be my brain! '

This is like dropping a drop of ink into a water cup. Because the molecules move irregularly, the ink will inevitably tend to spread evenly into the clear water. What Rosen is doing now is to condense the ink dissolved in water into ink drops again.

This is an entropy reduction process. According to the first law of thermodynamics, this process can never occur spontaneously and must be driven by additional energy from the outside.

So, where does this energy come from?

Rosen's elemental control comes from the brain, and the first supplier of this energy is the brain. The energy of the brain is not obtained out of thin air, but depends entirely on the supply of blood.

Now, the energy consumption of the brain has increased significantly, and the blood supply has increased instantly.

According to the second law of thermodynamics, in this process, the energy provided by the brain can never be 100% converted into effective energy, and it must be accompanied by additional energy consumption, and all energy consumption will eventually be converted into heat.

The result of Rosen's series of operations is that his head becomes hot, just like a high fever. In order to dissipate heat, his body breathes rapidly and the whole person begins to sweat profusely. In order to provide sufficient energy to the brain, the heartbeat accelerates wildly and begins to beat violently, almost jumping out of the throat.

This feeling is like running a marathon.

But the story was not over yet.

Another side effect appeared. In order to supply energy to the brain, a large amount of blood was concentrated in the brain, and the body temperature rose greatly, causing the intracranial pressure to rise. The result was a series of severe headaches.

All this made Rosen clearly realize that he had come to a real world. In this world, the essence of all changes is the transformation of energy, and extra abilities must be accompanied by extra efforts.

He knew very well that if he exceeded the limit of his body, his body temperature would definitely go out of control and his brain would be irreversibly damaged. But he also knew that whether he could survive depended on this one fight tonight!

The severe headache almost drove Rosen crazy.

"Persist! Persist! To survive in such a cruel alien world, inhuman efforts are necessary!"

"Vampire Viken, fuck @your mother!"

"Don't let me live, otherwise I will definitely kill you!"

"Viken, ￥ # ...%￥"

Rosen cursed in his heart. He was in this situation now, all thanks to this damn vampire. Even the time travel was related to this vampire, this jinx! Pretender! Blood-sucking beast!

Just when Rosen was about to faint, he vaguely saw a figure walking into the alchemy room.

A charming, mellow voice came over: "Hmm~ Full of alcohol, cold sweat all over the body, want to use alcohol to resist the fear in your heart? Oh~~~ Hehe~~~ What a wise choice."

The tone is exactly the same as in the game. Rosen now has a splitting headache and even the fear is gone.

"Pretender! If I don't die, I will definitely kill you!"