The Last Alchemist

After the battle, the wasteland seemed particularly peaceful, even the wind had stopped.

After resting for a while, Rosen stood up and waved to the coachman John: "Come and pack your things. Let's change a place to spend the night. It's really smelly here."

Nearly a hundred ghoul corpses lay beneath the position. The bloody smell of the monster's blood and the rancid smell of the ghoul's bodily fluids mixed together could almost make a person choke to tears.

"Yes, yes, sir." John had no objection at all.

Rosen, Anne, and John worked together and quickly put all the things on the ground back into the carriage. Then, Rosen and Anne stood on the scaffolding outside the carriage, and the coachman John twitched. Whip, the carriage rumbled down the slope.

In the previous battle, the weeds on the slopes had been burned clean, and the carriage moved much faster than before.

"John, go to the Giant Ghoul Lord instead."

"Okay."

The carriage turned a slight corner and drove towards the giant ghoul lord's corpse. When it reached the corpse, the passengers on the carriage looked at the huge corpse.

This corpse's left arm was missing, and there was a large hole in the chest that was transparent from front to back, with a diameter of more than 20 centimeters. The muscles next to the bloody hole were turned into meat paste, and the hard shell was filled with cracks like spider webs.

Two shots shattered the body of a powerful giant ghoul lord into pieces.

Under close observation, the terrifying power of the weapon became more and more shocking. Everyone on the carriage, including the user Anne, felt a thrilling feeling of terror in their hearts.

Annie said softly to Rosen: "Tell me, there will be something better in the future. It is already so powerful, can it be improved?"

Rosen chuckled: "This is not simple. Think about it, I also add explosives to the bullet, and wait for the bullet to hit the opponent and explode after entering the opponent's body."

"Ah? Even a dragon can't stop such a bullet, right?" Annie's eyes were wide open, with fear in them, but there was also a trace of expectation.

Rosen laughed and pointed at the monster corpse on the ground: "Annie, the hard shell and spikes on the giant ghoul lord are very good materials and cannot be wasted."

"It's natural."

Anne jumped down from the carriage, picked up a dagger, and began to peel the shell and remove the thorns of the ghoul lord. Rosen was on the side and the coachman John was on guard.

Annie's hands and feet were very agile. After seven or eight minutes, she removed the giant ghoul lord's abdominal armor, leg armor, arm armor and other entire hard shells one by one.

Rosen was tidying up and observing these hard shells.

The material of this thing is neither gold nor wood. It feels a bit like frosted ceramic. When the two hard shells touch lightly, they make a crisp sound of "ding~ding~". Each hard shell is about 6 mm thick and the texture is very elastic, but When Rosen broke it with his hands, he could easily break the hard shell into half.

After folding it in half, as soon as you let go, you heard a soft "bang~" sound, and the hard shell returned to its original state, leaving no trace on the folded area.

Rosen marveled in his heart: "It's bulletproof, soft, and light. It's really a good thing."

He then used his alchemical power to push various molecules in the air to hit the surface of the hard shell. After a few hits, Rosen couldn't help but let out a 'huh' sound.

"What's the matter?" asked Anne.

Rosen didn't answer. He took out a whole piece of plastron and spread it on the ground. Then he picked up the big spiral sprayer and hit the plastron hard with the butt of his gun.

"Dang~"

There was a crisp sound, and the struck plastron showed no softness at all. It showed the toughness of steel.

Rosen said happily: "It is flexible and elastic in its normal state. The moment it is hit hard, its strength immediately increases tenfold and a hundredfold, becoming like steel. What a good thing! What a good thing!"

On Earth, there are also polymer materials with similar physical properties. However, when Rosen traveled through time, this material was still in the laboratory and had not yet reached the application stage. It was far less useful than the giant ghoul lord's hard shell. When he has time, he will have to study the material of this thing.

Annie said happily: "It is said that the giant ghoul lord's hard shell is an excellent material for making armor. I didn't believe it at first, but now it seems that the legend is true."

After peeling off the hard shell, she pulled out the giant ghoul lord's spikes one by one.

Rosen took one and observed it carefully. Each of these spikes was half a meter long and nearly a centimeter in diameter. It was hollow in the middle. There were many pores on the head. Each spike weighed about 200 grams.

'If this thing pierces the body, it will be an excellent blood-letting device. If it is not pulled out in time, even if it does not hit the vital point, it will bleed to death. ’

‘Hmm~ This thing is also very strong. It looks like iron pipes. It is also a good thing and may be of great use in the future. ’

‘No, why did the giant ghoul lord evolve such a powerful hard shell and spikes? ’

Rosen was very confused.

His scientific basis is the theory of species evolution pioneered by Darwin.

As far as he knew, in nature, the energy that all life can obtain is limited. Every bit of energy is very precious and cannot be wasted. Unless faced with some kind of survival pressure, life will never consume energy to evolve a completely useless ability.

Because nature is cruel and ruthless, survival of the fittest and survival of the fittest.

Of course, history is not without willful species, but these willful species will inevitably be unable to compete with those species that are energy-conscious. Once they fail to compete, the first consequence is that they cannot find food, starve to death, and are eliminated.

This is a natural law discovered by Darwin. It is an iron law verified by countless lives over time. It is so powerful that even humans on earth, with their extremely advanced science, cannot be completely exempted.

‘Is the giant ghoul lord so powerful just for hunting? No, it's not like that. The staple food of ghouls is carrion. Is that to intimidate opponents? No, ghouls have no natural enemies at all. Their blood and body rot are poisonous. No wild beasts will hunt ghouls covered in rot. Those wild beasts, even ferocious griffins, would take a detour when seeing ordinary ghouls, for fear of being poisoned. ’

‘The hard shell on the ghoul must have taken a huge amount of energy to synthesize. It doesn’t seem to be used at all, but it is an excellent armor to defend against bullets. Could it be that this thing is used to protect against bullets? No, no, no, this speculation is too absurd and baseless. ’

While I was thinking wildly, Annie's voice came to my ears: "Rosen, what are you thinking about?"

"Ah?" Rosen came back to his senses: "I was wondering why the giant ghoul lord is so powerful?"

"What's there to think about?" Annie shrugged her shoulders: "Since records began, the giant ghoul lord has always been so powerful. It was born this way."

"Since records began? How long?"

"The earliest record is from more than 2,000 years ago. A giant ghoul lord led a ghoul army into a city and killed everyone. Why do you ask this?" Annie asked strangely.

"Oh~ It's nothing, I'm just curious." Rosen smiled and suddenly asked: "Annie, does the giant ghoul lord have any opponents?"

Anne shook her head uncertainly: "Probably not. Anyway, I have never seen it. There is no relevant record in the senior's diary. It is a kind of overlord-level monster."

Rosen became even more confused. After pondering for more than ten seconds, he suddenly asked: "Annie, how do you think these monsters appeared?"

Annie shook her head: "I don't know either. The Flame God Cult actually says that these monsters come from hell, and the gods release them to punish mortals for their sins."

Rosen smiled bitterly when he heard this, and continued: "As long as you believe in the eternal fire, you can purify your sins and have the power to resist monsters. Isn't this the Flame God's rhetoric to attract followers? Do you believe it?"

Anne shrugged: "Who believes it and who is a fool? No one knows how the monsters came. They seem to appear suddenly in the world."

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