Returning from the abyss

Chapter 450 Precious Metal Refining

Moonstone District, Sack Lane Plaza.The distance from here to the one-eyed squid is not too far. When Lu Ning arrived, the sun had just shown some warmth.

Today is the last day before the opening day, and many people are inquiring about the speakers, content and venue of the public lectures, but Lu Ning has already planned tomorrow's schedule. In the morning, he is a magician-level alchemist from Guanwu Academy In the afternoon, he went to the alchemy laboratory of the college to observe the latest model of artificial life.

She walked along the buildings on the west side of the square, counted to No. 14 door, raised her head, and saw a stone building like a prison.Of course this appearance is just to scare off the uninitiated, this building is one of the lab rentals in Moonstone.

Even if not in terms of alchemy, all industrial disciplines, such as potions, enchanting, inscriptions, cartography, etc., require laboratory support.But not everyone can afford this thing, so once there is demand, there will be supply soon.

Geoffrey is already waiting here.

"Please, Lilian."

"No, I want to thank you for your trust." Lu Ning nodded slightly to Jiefuni, and followed her in.

For a good holy bell, Jefni rented a medium-level alchemy laboratory. The indoor conditions were only a little worse than the laboratory Lu Ning saw in Xue Ni, but the thick stone walls were mixed with inertia. The magic stone is much better at isolating magic interference.

"I rented it for a total of five hours, and the materials are all there." Geoffrey pointed to a box next to the alchemy table, "That... can I look at it here?"

Lu Ning smiled slightly: "Of course, just don't disturb me."

Geoffrey nodded repeatedly, walked to an empty corner of the laboratory, pulled a stool and sat down.And Lu Ning stepped onto the alchemy platform and took off the apprentice's robe.In the past few days, she also bought several new clothes for herself, which was recommended by Catherine. Today, she is wearing a college-style black dress, pleated skirt and boots. The apprentice robe is not very convenient for alchemy. The reason It was she who stuffed too many things in her pocket.

When taking the materials first, Lu Ning began to calm down. She has gone through this alchemy calculation several times, and she is qualified to complete the apprentice-level alchemy product several times, but she didn't really do it anyway. If you have refined precious metals before, it is still a one-time finished product refining, so you can't be careless.

The difference from potion refining is that precious metal refining does not carry out drainage, and the products are directly generated on the refining array, and for finished product processing, it also needs to be set on fire on the refining array. As for the type of flame, it depends entirely on the type of product.After Lu Ning put the materials into different categories, she took out an oil lamp with a bell jar from the tool cabinet, picked up a bottle of blessing ointment, dug out half of it, dispersed it with water, and poured it into the oil lamp.

Then comes the material.

Gold and lead, these two are the most basic refining materials. Although it is said that the greatest alchemist can refine with stones, Lu Ning has searched through the three alchemy instruction books and can't find out how to do it, unless It is to refine a mountain into a gold ingot, otherwise it violates the principle of equivalent exchange.

Not to mention the rest of the odds and ends, even slag and the like, the most important thing is a small bottle of blood.

Magic is in the blood of all magicians, even the most junior apprentices.The blood in Lu Ning's hand came from Jiefuni's body, which was also for some kind of mysterious magical resonance.This theory has been verified to exist, but the principle has not yet been ascertained, which is why it is finally difficult for Jiefuni to refuse Lu Ning's proposal.

After the magic liquid was injected, Lu Ning stretched out her hand and pressed it, and the transformation array lit up.

But that's not enough.

Lu Ning glanced at her hand, tapped the pattern on the side of the alchemy table, and the second layer of cascading formations lit up, and this layer was suspended in mid-air, looking as dazzling as a halo.

"Stable operation."

She focused on the transformation formation in front of her, pulled out some golden sticks, and started planning.

Precious metals cannot be wrong. There are several times more types of metals in this world than Lu Ning once knew, and more than half of them are created by alchemists.There will always be alchemists who accidentally produce strong radiation metal and kill themselves. The most terrible ones are those who don't even know about radiation and then give it to others.

But Lu Ning calmed down.

In the process of exchange, it is good to slowly let the matter change.The shaping process is a three-dimensional composition through two-layer layer-by-layer refining and transformation, and all items are divided and then spliced.As long as the alchemy has not reached the generation stage, it can be adjusted arbitrarily. Maybe Lu Ning took a long time, but he is sure that there will be no problems in every step.

Three hours passed in a blink of an eye, and finally, Lu Ning lit a flame on his finger, lit it on the oil lamp, and a ball of pure white flame suddenly ignited in the bell jar.She took a deep breath, held the handle of the oil lamp, and slowly placed it into the specially adjusted blind area of ​​the magic flow in the center of the refining formation, then quickly removed the base and cover, leaving the ball of flame in the formation.

"Ok?"

Lu Ning glanced at the situation of the flames, and found that there were some differences in the flow of magic power, but she obviously didn't activate any magic when she reached in and withdrew her hand.However, this problem is also easy to solve. She took out a golden stick and readjusted the various magic power nodes, and everything returned to normal before the flames were distorted by the magic power.

"generate."

She said something happily and picked up the bottle of blood.Of course, these bloods cannot be put in as materials in advance, otherwise, what magical resonance is there after the exchange?And in the generation stage, the material exchange has ended, and it is time to start shaping.

The process has been simulated dozens of times in the brain, and the hands began to reproduce on the refining formation in full swing. The flame was slowly elongated and rounded under the precise guidance, and the exchanged precious metals also began to condense particles from the void. After being poured, the shape of a holy bell was gathered out of thin air. After being burned by fire, a large amount of water turned into steam, and more substances formed a network-like basic skeleton, and metal began to precipitate on the surface of the skeleton.

After completing this step, you are basically not far from success.

In 10 minutes, the precipitation of the metal was nearly complete. Lu Ning threw the remaining half of the ointment directly into the fire, and the bright white flame instantly covered the sky over the entire refining formation. She didn't have the ability to draw patterns on the surface of the holy bell. , simply use the last step of burning and shaping to let the pattern form naturally.

The light of the fire and the light of the transformation formation disappeared together, and a holy bell with an opening diameter of nearly [-] centimeters remained in the center of the formation. Light blue ice-like patterns spread across the entire surface of the gray holy bell. Picking it up by the handle, there was no sound.

Successful.

The holy bell is a divine magic weapon, and those who do not know the divine language cannot ring it.

After sitting for so long, Jiefuni finally stood up happily, but she still didn't dare to speak, and could only signal Lu Ning with her eyes.

"The refining is over, this is yours." Lu Ning let out a long breath.

"Thank you!"

Jiefuni even ran over excitedly, took the holy bell from Lu Ning carefully, shook it lightly, and a pleasant and peaceful voice came out, Lu Ning felt that her fatigue from several hours of continuous alchemy sweep away.

"It really suits you." Feeling the effect, Lu Ning smiled at Jiefuni.

"It's also thanks to your excellent skills. I don't know any other alchemists who are willing to help me refine..." Jiefuni hugged the holy bell, the joy on her face was beyond words, "It's noon, I invite you to dinner!"

Of course Lu Ning agreed.

The two left the alchemy laboratory, and after Jefni refunded the fee, they walked out along the street.At first Lu Ning thought she was going to the commercial street, but as she walked, she realized that the route was wrong.

"Jeffne? Aren't we going to eat?"

"That's right." Geoffrey turned her head, "But we're going to have dinner in Luyin District today."

"Isn't that the central city?"

"The central part of the city is not separated from the outside, and have you forgotten what day is tomorrow? The principal of Jiaesen School in the Green Silver District, Mr. Parcival is the current chief of the Principals Association, and the day before each open day In the afternoon, he will tell the students about the courses that need attention this time in the campus square."

"You're going to listen to that, but there must be a lot of people, right?"

"If he couldn't take care of the students because of the large number of people, he wouldn't be the respectable Mr. Percival." Geoffney smiled slightly.

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On the way to Luyin District by car, Lu Ning quietly looked through the list she had transcribed. It wasn't that she didn't want to remember those people. The problem was that there were too many celebrities gathered in Ewalang at this time, and she couldn't remember them at all.So she first picked the ones that looked good and copied them down.

And Parcival is impressively on the list.

As one of the only three magic sages in the world, Percival's attainments in magic have reached the point where no one can explore the depth.He majored in elemental magic, arcane magic, incantation, transfiguration, summoning, and space magic, all of which have reached the level of a magus sage, and he is also involved in most types of magic. His well-known industrial attainments Including rune, enchantment and gemology are the highest level known to the world.Few people have been able to imitate the original chaotic magic spell. Percival served as the president of the Magic Council from about 50 to 30 years ago. Essen remains Headmaster to this day and retains the position of Honorary Member of the Council of Magic.

When copying it down, Lu Ning actually had no concept of how powerful this person is, probably because everyone on the list has a long list of great achievements, and Parcival is actually not very conspicuous.But now, if you take a closer look, you will know that this achievement is probably unmatched by magicians today.

Out of curiosity, Lu Ning didn't waste time on the lunch question, and urged Jie Funi to rush to the scene.

Jiaessen's campus is completely different from the ones in Moonstone.

Before entering the school gate, you can see three tall towers standing at the back of the campus. Giant magic energy crystals representing the three most extensive types of magic, namely elemental, arcane, and divine, are inlaid on the top of the towers.As you approach the school gate, you can see a church-like auditorium building, with two floating buildings shaded by giant trees on both sides. I can feel the surging torrent of magic power.

Bypassing the auditorium, you can see the pulpit square of Jiaessen.On the square paved with white marble, the closer you go to the center, the more steps go up, and a square high platform with a side length of about seven meters is surrounded in the middle. At this time, the square is almost crowded with people, and two people can only squeeze together. In the place where there are no steps at the back, the strange thing is that even so, Lu Ning did not feel that his sight was blocked, but he could clearly see the old man on the high platform who was still hale and hearty despite his gray hair.

"Curving light magic." Jiefuni heard Lu Ning's question and explained, "The whole square has been casted with magic. No matter from any angle or position, the people on the central podium will always be visible, and their voices will always be heard clearly. , I don’t know exactly what kind of magic it is, but it seems that only Jia Essen has come up with this kind of magic in the entire Avalon.”

"So how should Mr. Parcival deal with the problems of so many people?"

Jefney smiled slightly: "Mr. Percival's magical attainments are also at the magister level. Among the advanced magical arts, there is a spell called listening to the voice of the sky."

Before she could continue to explain, a light cough suddenly sounded in everyone's ears. In an instant, the originally noisy square became quiet in an instant, and there was not even a sound at all.

It was the old man standing on the high platform who was about to speak.

"Welcome all students, you may be the favored ones who are studying here in Ewalang, or you may be motivated students who have come here from far away to seek answers. No matter which one, Ewalang will treat each of you equally Tomorrow, the public lecture is about to start, and I will spend a short time summarizing for you which professor's lectures are suitable for students studying various magic subjects in the first few days, and then I will answer you here this afternoon Various doubts related to public lectures."

Percival smiled kindly, raised his hands, and a golden light jumped in the sky. All the major classifications of magic so far were suspended above the square in the falling light powder.

"Let's start with the most widely known and most studied elemental magic."

Parcival's knowledge is undoubtedly profound. For every subject involved, he will name at least three candidate professors, not only for their academic achievements, but also for their characteristics, suitable for the crowd and even personal comments.Lu Ning even suspected that Percival knew the mysteries of magic better than most of the people here, and when it came to alchemy, Soigo-Osao was definitely on the list.

"This is a mysterious alchemist, because my attainments in alchemy are not advanced, so it is difficult to explain his specific strength. But if you are interested in the advanced skills of alchemy, this big A magister-level alchemist is undoubtedly the best candidate."

(End of this chapter)