The Last Alchemist

Although the Viken skull may contain the legendary mithril, Rosen currently does not have the conditions to extract the mithril. At least he needs to get to the free city of Berkeley, find a blacksmith, or build a reliable one himself. Only a high-temperature blacksmith furnace can be used for purification.

Fortunately, he prepared a lot of low-level exorcism medicine. Although it was a little painful when taking it, it could buy him a year, which was pretty good.

Rosen put Viken's skull in a close-fitting waist bag, packed all the luggage with Anne and others, and then the group boarded the carriage and continued northward.

The weather was very good that day, the wind was sunny, there was not much mud on the road, and the carriage ran very lightly.

After sitting for a while, Veronica praised: "This carriage is very good and very stable. I have only seen similarly comfortable carriages in the City of Wisdom."

"Thank you for the compliment." Rosen smiled.

Sitting there was boring anyway, so he expressed his doubts to Veronica: "I'm very surprised, why do you keep calling high-level vampires undead?"

Hearing this question, Anne, Sister Mary and little Alice all pricked up their ears, obviously everyone was very curious.

Veronica smiled slightly: "High-level vampires are the misunderstanding of the undead by human hunters. In fact, the undead do not rely on blood to survive. There are many undead who have never eaten blood in their lives, such as Irene. ”

This was the first time Rosen heard this statement. He was dubious: "But Viken sucked the blood of hundreds of people in one night, including my parents. I can see that he has an almost paranoid attitude towards blood." Love.”

Veronica sighed: "I'm sorry that this happened, but Viken has already paid the price for his stupidity, hasn't he?"

After saying that, she turned to look at the crystal glass looking at the carriage, with a hint of melancholy on her face: "As long as they are willing, the undead can live forever. Maybe it's the jealousy of the gods, maybe it's the curse of eternal life, the body of the undead They are particularly sensitive to silver and can be easily harmed by it. At the same time, they are also easily seduced by blood. As long as an undead tastes the blood of living people more than three times, they will become addicted and will never forget the taste of blood. The ultimate pleasure.”

Anne on the side suddenly said: "Is it like an alcoholic addicted to alcohol?"

Veronica nodded: "It's a bit like it, but the addiction is many times greater than the addiction to alcohol. The undead who have tasted blood cannot get rid of their blood addiction by their own will. If they don't eat the blood of living people within a certain period of time, they will He becomes more and more manic until he completely loses his mind. Unfortunately, Viken is such a fool!”

"Then what are higher life forms?" Rosen asked again.

This time, Veronica knew everything: "Higher life refers to the creatures that are free from the control of gods. Such creatures will continue to become stronger from the time they are born. They will not get sick or age. Not to mention death. If there are no accidents, advanced creatures can usually live forever!"

"You won't get sick, you won't age, and you will always become stronger?" Rosen savored Veronica's words carefully, and after a while, he sighed: "Getting rid of the shackles of birth, old age, illness, and death, you are indeed stronger than ordinary people. However, Any creature living in the mortal world, even if it does not die, will always encounter accidents of one kind or another, and will inevitably die."

Veronica nodded slightly: "You are right, we are all mortals. Mortals are like reeds by the river, but some reeds are stronger and some are weaker."

The topic was a bit heavy, and everyone in the carriage fell into silence.

After a while, Rosen suddenly smiled and said: "Okay, okay, the ants are still living in vain. As long as you live for one day, you must live a good day. Come on, Alice, today I will teach you the cross coordinate system."

"Okay, brother." Little Alice immediately took out her paper and pen.

Veronica on the side looked very moved when she heard this word. She was also very interested in the coordinate system.

Rosen saw it and said with a smile: "Come on, come on, let's listen together. The coordinate system I'm going to talk about today is the basis of analytic geometry. What is analytic geometry? It means converting simple geometric problems into Various algebraic operations are very interesting."

A few simple words firmly captured Veronica's mind. She pricked up her ears and kept her burgundy eyes unblinking, for fear of missing any mathematical knowledge.

On the other side, Anne, Sister Mary and others were also listening.

Anne can still understand a little bit, but Sister Mary is completely confused, but she doesn't feel bored. When she encounters something she doesn't understand, she will look at her daughter Alice. As long as she saw Alice listening carefully, she would feel satisfied.

‘My daughter is learning powerful alchemy. She no longer has to dig in the mud for food. It’s great. ’

The carriage swayed toward the north. In the carriage, Rosen was concentrating on imparting his mathematical knowledge. Beside him, two students were also listening intently.

Time passed by gently and quickly like running water. Soon, most of the day passed. The sun was setting in the west, and the carriage drove about 130 kilometers north and was about to leave the northern border of the Parason Empire.

However, due to the defeat in the Third Northern War and the turmoil at the top of the empire, there were no troops stationed on the northern border, and the border was reduced to a mere formality and had no practical significance.

In the carriage, Rosen was concentrating on explaining. Suddenly, Veronica turned her head slightly toward the carriage window and said, "There is a situation ahead."

After about ten seconds, Anne also pricked up her ears: "There is movement ahead, cavalry are coming, the number is about 30. Wait, it's not just the cavalry, there is also a faint explosion, it seems like"

"It's lightning magic!" Veronica suddenly became alert.

Annie continued: "They ran all the way along the mainland and came towards our direction. They are now about 600 meters away from us!"

Rosen immediately opened the front window of the carriage and shouted to the coachman John: "Uncle, there is a situation ahead. Get into the grass on the roadside to avoid getting into trouble."

"Okay." Coachman John responded.

After experiencing the heavy wind and rain last night, he became much calmer. He pulled the reins slightly, stopped the carriage, looked around again, then cracked his whip, and the carriage drove towards a gap in the reeds on the right side of the road. Go in.

The reeds were about two meters high, and the carriage was hidden behind them. If you didn't pay special attention, you couldn't find them at all.

Rosen picked up the big spiral sprayer and said to Annie: "Let's go outside the carriage to see the situation."

"Okay." Annie took her world-destroying musket.

Rosen opened the carriage door and walked in first. Anne followed closely. Just as he was about to close the door, he saw a red shadow flash and Veronica was already standing beside her.

"Don't forget me. I just swore last night to protect Rosen's safety."

"Okay." Annie rolled her eyes, feeling that this woman was a bit annoying.

The three of them hid behind the carriage, using the carriage as a cover to observe the situation on the road through the gaps in the reeds.

It is said that it is a three-person observation, but in fact it mainly relies on Veronica and Annie.

The two women had amazing ears. While listening, they kept reporting on the battle situation ahead.

Anne whispered: "There are 31 people in total, 29 of them are chasing, and the weapons are mainly crossbows. The first two are on the run. Wait, one of them was hit by an arrow. It should be fatal. He fell off the horse directly."

Veronica continued: "The one who fell off the horse was shot in the vital part, and I'm afraid he is dead. The remaining one was still running. Wait, he cast another spell. It was Fire Breath! The flames disturbed the knights behind. Three knights fell off their horses."

Anne followed closely: "The magician in front was still 200 meters away from us. Unfortunately, his horse was shot in the leg by a crossbow. He fell off the horse. He got up and continued running. The knight behind him followed, and he cast a magic spell. , it’s chain lightning, it’s such a powerful magic, at least 5 knights fell!”

Veronica glanced at Annie: "What's so powerful about this magic? Your doomsday iron balls are really powerful. If you throw one out, the knights will immediately run away without a trace."

These words reminded Anne, and she turned to look at Rosen: "The situation is obvious. A group of cavalry is chasing two magicians. Do we want to save them?"

Before she finished speaking, Veronica suddenly spoke: "Wait a minute, the magician has spoken. He said that you lackeys, God will definitely punish you!"

Rosen was stunned and asked, "Did the other party say anything back?"

Veronica listened carefully and nodded: "A knight spoke, and he said: 'Pagans, the fire will purify your sins!'"

These two lines of dialogue were enough for Rosen to infer a lot of information.

‘In the Third Northern War, the Northern Alliance can win, and the Flame God Cult will provide great help. As a result, the Flame God Cult gained power and became the orthodox state religion of the northern countries. Pope Talati XIX of the Flame Cult subsequently declared that magic was an evil force and prohibited anyone from studying magic. He then sent a large number of temple guards to hunt magicians everywhere. As long as he caught a magician, he would immediately send him to the stake. This is the history of the game. ’

‘In the game, when I killed Viken, not long after the Northern Alliance won, the Flame God Cult had already begun planning to deal with Nerogard Academy, the city of wisdom. Judging by the time, these two magicians may be from Nerogard Academy. ’

Thinking of this, Rosen immediately said to Annie: "Save that magician."