Witch Alchemist

"What's going on?"

Roy put the "Shrinking" spell book into the space ring, walked out, and found that Gold had come to the door.

Attia was guarding the outer door and turned to look.

Roy waved his hand.

Compared to reading the book, he was more concerned about the mercury mine mentioned by Gold.

Gold walked in: "Sir, the workers found some unusual red ores during the mining process and reported them to me.

After identification, I confirmed that it was cinnabar, which can be used as a raw material for refining mercury.

I remember that when you arranged the quarry before, you specifically mentioned that you should pay attention to this kind of thing."

"Indeed." Roy nodded with relief, "Do you have a sample? Let me take a look."

"Here you go." Gold predicted Roy's needs and took out the sample.

Roy took a look and found that they were rhombohedral and short columnar, with twin crystals running through them, and bright vermilion in color.

"It's a cinnabar crystal with a relatively high purity."

This is a mineral material that can be used to refine mercury. It once played an important role in the development history of alchemy.

And in the alchemy furnace, this kind of thing is also a frequent visitor.

"Good stuff, quickly find some centaurs to mine it for me...

As for the refining after mining, let me think about it, issue a task, refine mercury...

Calculate it according to the time and energy occupied, and give 100 magic stones a month!

See if there is anyone who knows this and is willing to work part-time."

After reading it, Roy returned the sample to Gold.

Not long after, Andov, Winter and others came one after another and learned about this matter.

"How can I say this job? It's simple, but it takes up time and energy.

I'll forget it. It's more cost-effective to go out hunting or perform some combat missions."

"I would like to do this, but I don't know how to do it."

Finally, Olinda stood up: "I know a little about this. I have tried various ways to refine mercury before."

Roy nodded with satisfaction.

Olinda used to be his personal trainer, and was good at magic gunpowder.

Cinnabar is more or less related to it, so it's not surprising that he knows how to handle it.

Olinda took the opportunity to say, "By the way, can you change the reward to blood mercury? How about 100 ml per month?"

Roy refused coldly, "I told you before that 3 magic stones can be exchanged for 1 ml. After joining the team, you will get 2 magic stones, which means you can only get 50 ml per month.

And I will check the mercury production.

It's hard to set a quota for now, but we have to ensure quality and quantity and supply on time to complete the task."

"Okay then." Olinda knew Roy well, so she had to give up bargaining.

Roy said to everyone: "You should have heard that I know how to refine blood mercury.

In the future, if you want to strengthen the Great Knight, you can come to me.

Team members, all at a friendly price of 2 magic stones per milliliter.

But you can't resell.

I will remember the amount of each of you, the limit is 5000 milliliters, and 4 magic stones will be restored after it is used up."

Everyone only supported this and praised it.

Roy said to Gold: "Make sure that the fuel and other supplies needed by Olinda are sufficient, and do a good job of logistical support."

Gold bowed and said: "Yes."

...

In the next few days, Roy paid special attention to Olinda.

She has instructed the craftsmen to build a simple refining furnace.

Cinnabar, also known as cinnabar, is a natural ore form of mercury sulfide.

Since ancient times, alchemists and alchemists have refined mercury by refining cinnabar.

The method is also relatively simple, that is, crush the cinnabar ore into powder, mix it with coke powder in a certain proportion, and put it into a porcelain pot or furnace for calcination.

Then, just collect the liquid mercury condensed from the mercury vapor.

If there are impurities in this process, it can be purified by distillation or other methods.

But under high temperature conditions, cinnabar decomposes into mercury vapor and sulfur gas, which will be extremely toxic.

With Knightland's craftsmanship and education level, it is not certain that such a simple job can be done well.

Forget about gas masks.

Gold whispered to Roy: "Sir, let the workers in Skatu do this kind of thing.

If an accident happens, they will die, and we can just replace them with another batch."

Roy said: "Such unnecessary casualties are unnecessary.

And by taking advantage of these things, we can distribute our resources and find various ways to give team members job opportunities.

No mistakes!

They need all kinds of resources, but I can't give them for free."

Gold heard it and muttered to himself: "That's too expensive!"

...

A few days passed quickly, and the first batch of mercury refined by Olinda was delivered.

Roy immediately ordered the magical alchemy props to do the preliminary preparations.

At this time, the "portable small alchemy laboratory" once again demonstrated great convenience.

Automatic dust removal, cleaning, ventilation and other functions, needless to say, can all be completed by the witch array.

Among the alchemical tools inside, except for the beaker that talks a lot, most of the others are honest, reliable and mature tools.

Although the main development direction is "Potions", these basic operations that even apprentices can do well are also sufficient to cope with.

With them, it is basically equivalent to "apprentice-level alchemy operation automation"!

Roy squinted for a while in the small study in the partition room, pillowed on the "Shrinking Art" book, came back to check, and nodded with satisfaction.

Then he began to refine blood mercury.

So far, this thing is still a very important alchemical product among the many items he has refined.

It was completed quickly and familiarly.

Then he put it aside and thought about another thing.

"Biological colonization suits and skin armors should also be considered...

This can effectively improve combat power."

In fact, he had already thought of this idea in the past days.

As an alchemist in the wizard world, he must have equipment for body armor.

But ordinary armor may not be stronger than his body, and wearing it is inconvenient.

In addition, the spiritual power that can be effectively materialized with a thought can be completely immune to most mortal means.

There is no special weak spot on my body that needs special protection.

Therefore, the main defense is still the caster, or the opponent who is also a formal wizard.

"In fact, with the Equis stone, it is enough in battle.

But there is no fear of too much armor.

I also need some daily protection..."

Roy pondered and thought of the colonization suit.

This is a technology from the Arcane Empire, a close-fitting armor similar to artificial skin!

The artificial skin that I thought about before can finally come in handy!