The Last Alchemist

“Tuk-tuk-tuk~”

Rosen knocked on the outer wall of the carriage and asked: "Sister Mary, I just forgot to ask you, how is the girl? Was she scared?"

"Sir, she has been silent."

"I'm fine." The black-haired girl's voice suddenly sounded: "I've seen fire bombs made by alchemists in the north. Of course, they are far less powerful than yours."

The girl's speech is clear and fluent, so there shouldn't be any big problems.

"Oh, it's good that you're not scared. You can rest in peace and recover." Rosen was relieved.

He stood up and walked to the luggage rack behind the carriage. He first took out a bag of dry food, and then took out three thick bearskins. He wrapped one himself, handed one to Anne, and handed the other to the coachman.

Then, he poured some grease on the ground next to the carriage, put a piece of cotton cloth on the grease, and lit it to create a bonfire for heating.

Sitting down next to the campfire, Rosen rubbed his cold hands and patted the rocks beside him: "Annie, you can sit down too. And John, come and sit too, it's warm here."

John came over and sat in the corner next to the bonfire, deliberately keeping a distance of nearly 2 meters from Rosen. It was obvious that he was in awe of Rosen.

Annie didn't move, she was still looking at the ghoul in the distance.

Rosen smiled and said: "Don't worry, those guys are frightened and won't dare to come again for a while."

Annie shook her head, wrapped the bearskin around her body, walked over and sat next to Rosen: "I'm not worried about these ghouls now, I just feel a little strange."

"Tell me about it." Rosen opened the dry food bag, took out two large fried meatloaf and handed them to Anne, and threw another one to the coachman John, then knocked on the carriage door and waited for the door to open. , passed three big meat patties inside, and finally took out one himself and ate it with relish.

This fried meatloaf is a specially prepared dry staple food. The bread is made of fine refined white flour. The filling is made of tender and delicious pork rib meat mixed with celery, chives, minced garlic, enough salt, and Rosen's free time preparation. Made from some sodium glutamate. Finally, the chef of the Baron Mansion personally fried and grilled the wrapped meatloaf with the best fresh olive oil. The meatloaf was finally baked with a strong aroma. When you take a bite, the aroma of delicious gravy and vegetables fills your entire mouth. , not inferior to the delicious food on earth at all.

When the meat pies were made, Baron Draco ate five large meat pies in one go before he stopped. He even said that he had never eaten such delicious meat pies in his life.

In addition, Rosen also specially used alchemical power to sterilize and disinfect the meat patties. Coupled with the low temperature in late autumn, these meat patties can preserve their delicious taste for a long time, which is enough for the group to rush to the free city of Berkeley. .

The coachman John had already started devouring it. Little Alice in the carriage was holding the meatloaf in her little hands and chewing it quickly. Because she ate quickly and chewed slowly, her cheeks were bulging, and she looked like a hamster. The black-haired girl who had been quiet all this time was also assigned one. She smelled the fragrance and tried to take a bite. Her eyes suddenly lit up and she said softly: "It's delicious~"

She immediately took another big bite.

Annie was also hungry. She ate a few big mouthfuls of meatloaf before speaking: "According to my past experience, ghouls basically have no brains, and they have no revenge. Once they feel that their prey is in trouble, they will stay away from them." Get away. I can’t figure out why those guys don’t leave.”

Rosen was stunned for a moment, but he didn't pay attention to this detail. Because in the game, the various monster models are very rough and incomparable with the real world. Therefore, although he is a master hunter in the game, his understanding of monster habits is far inferior to that of Annie, a native of the world.

Now when he heard what Annie said, he immediately became concerned: "Why do you think this happens?"

There was a trace of worry on Annie's face: "I don't know, but I can think of two possible reasons. Either, there is something in our fleet that is very attractive to ghouls. Or, it is these ghouls. It is bound by some more powerful monsters."

After hearing this, Rosen frowned slightly. He ate the meatloaf in big gulps, used his alchemical power to clean off the grease on his hands, then picked up the telescope and carefully observed the ghouls lingering in the distance.

In the dim vision, these ghouls stayed aimlessly in the wasteland, walking here and there from time to time, occasionally glancing in the direction of the carriage, but most of the ghouls stayed in place in a daze most of the time.

This state does not look like he is full of desire for prey at all.

"Could they be waiting for us to let down our guard?" Rosen asked. Carnivores on the earth do this kind of thing of squatting on their prey. Wolves, hyenas, lions and many other carnivores do this. They first run around aimlessly next to their prey, and then wait for the prey to adapt to their presence. Will look for opportunities to explode suddenly.

Annie shook her head: "If it were a monster like a werewolf, evil ghost, or water ghost, it would be possible, but a ghoul is absolutely impossible. This is a half-human, half-corpse monster with only the most basic instinct of devouring."

After finishing speaking, in order to increase her persuasiveness, she added: "My judgment is not only based on my own observation of the habits of ghouls, but also many records in the monster logs left by previous generations of hunters in Holder Fort."

Rosen was convinced, and he thought: "Hmm~ If it is not for sneak attacks, then their current state seems a bit like they are waiting for someone, or something else."

"Wait for someone. Wait!" Annie's face suddenly turned cold.

"What did you think of?"

Anne's face showed worry: "I thought of a possibility, a very bad possibility."

As she spoke, a trace of palpitations flashed through her golden eyes: "We may have entered the realm of a giant ghoul lord."

Rosen suddenly realized: "Giant Ghoul Lord. Oh~ It's really possible. Now I'm having fun."

Ghouls are very strange things. As the number of devoured flesh and blood increases, there will be a certain chance of evolution. Ghouls will evolve into giant ghouls that are larger, have barbs on their bodies, and are probably more intelligent. The giant ghoul continues to devour flesh and blood. Over time, its size, strength, and intelligence will further increase, with more spikes on its body, and a thick hard shell will grow on its skin, becoming a giant ghoul lord.

In terms of combat effectiveness, ordinary ghouls can fight against an ordinary five-man combat team with their fearless fighting style and poisonous rancid pus, while giant ghouls can easily wipe out a 10-man combat team. As for the Giant Ghoul Lord, it, along with the gathering of ghouls under it, has the potential to wipe out a town the size of Sunderland.

Anne whispered: "The giant ghoul lord's territory can extend for tens of miles, and the number of ghouls under his command can be hundreds. Without the restraint of the lord, the only result of nearly 200 ghouls gathering together is Killing each other instead of fighting together is enough to show that there is a giant ghoul lord in this area."

"That makes sense." Rosen nodded and asked: "Annie, do you think the Sky-Destroying Fire Gun can penetrate the outer hard shell of the Giant Ghoul Lord?"

He had only fought ordinary giant ghouls in the game, but he had never fought against the giant ghoul lord, and he didn't know much about the power of the giant ghoul lord.

"I don't know." Annie held the handle of the musket Ruintian tightly: "In the world of stalkers, no one can kill the giant ghoul lord single-handedly. Ordinary crossbows, guns, and swords can't do anything to this thing. It's completely ineffective, and you have to be wary of the poisonous spikes thrown out from its body at all times. . It is recorded in the hunting records that more than 200 years ago, a giant ghoul lord led thousands of ghouls to attack a small town in the south called Varano, and the trebuchet dropped hundreds of kilograms of boulders on it. I only injured it and let it run away in the end!”

"Are you talking about the night of the Valano massacre?" Rosen asked. This information came from the memory of the original owner of the body.

"Yes. That night, there was a massacre in the city. Thousands of people died. The smell of corpses was so high that the ghouls attacked the city." After speaking, Annie lowered her voice and asked, "Rosen, what if the giant ghoul lord If you’re really here, do you want to use a secret weapon?”

Rosen pondered for a few seconds and then said, "No need to say anything else, just take it out and prepare it first."

"good."

Anne stood up, climbed onto the scaffolding beside the carriage, reached out and took down a long object wrapped tightly in a tarpaulin from the shelf on top of the carriage.

When Annie returned, Rosen reached into his arms and took out a palm-sized wooden box from his pocket and handed it to Annie: "Take it."

Anne carefully took the wooden box, looking like a devout believer in the Northern Flame Cult.