This Lich Needs More Money

Chapter 17 Are you an undead?

The economic crisis in the Alchemy City is more severe than Amberxiu imagined. Even the small lords below have begun to take precautions and prepare for the collapse of the Alchemy City.

However, Amber Xiu has no time to care about whether the Alchemy City collapses or not. He devotes himself wholeheartedly to the experiment of creating zombies.

Master Morgan pointed out the direction for Amberxiu. Through the optimization of artificial soul technology, Amberxiu quickly created a "bionic" soul at a cost of about two hundred gold coins.

Based on the value of the soul, two hundred gold coins is undoubtedly very luxurious. After all, the soul of a human slave is not worth even one gold coin. However, the cost of the magic ritual created by Master Morgan was 50,000 gold coins, while Amberxiu only spent 200, which undoubtedly greatly reduced the cost.

 Furthermore, there is room for further cost reduction.

 The first step of making the zombies has been completed. However, after the soul problem was solved, the body design of the zombies encountered a little trouble.

Living mercury is the most suitable body for the soul. The problem is that when it was created, living mercury lacked many internal organs.

I don’t know what the original plan of the madmen in the Alchemy City was. In addition to showing extremely high magic resistance, the living mercury is a completely deformed life.

 Lack of necessary internal organs makes living mercury very fragile, with no ability to act except for the instinct to devour metal. In this case, even if a soul is forced into it, it is just a waste of materials, so Amber Xiu needs to help the living mercury to complete the missing internal organs.

The best way is to refer to the body structure of slime. After all, living mercury is a modified mercury slime.

 “Alas, the book becomes useless when it is used. I really don’t know anything about slime.”

Even a lich with eternal life will seem very insignificant in the face of the vast sea of ​​magical knowledge. Every year, new magic theories are published in "Legendary Curse", and there are countless results that have not been published.

Even if Ambrose was a diligent scholar, he could not be proficient in all areas.

 At this time, you need to seek expert help.

But Amber Xiu asked around in the chat group of the Dead Poets Society, and all these legendary undead said they had not done any research on slimes at all.

This is normal. Low-level monsters like slime are not only weak and ugly, but also have almost no use value. They are an extremely unpopular research direction. The undead have a lot of time, but no one is interested in this thing.

Amberxiu could only move out the "Legendary Curse" journals from previous years and start a local search for slime-related content.

The results are disappointing. Even in a famous magic journal like "Legendary Curse", there is very little content about slimes.

I can only say that slime is really weak.

After thinking about it, if I want to find an expert on slime, the only thing left is the alchemy city that has developed living mercury.

But now the Alchemy City is in a financial crisis, and prices are rising like crazy from top to bottom. If you ask for relevant information at this time, I'm afraid you will be severely stabbed.

 Abstract money can only be said to others by Amber Xiu. If it happens to him, it will become a painful torture comparable to taking a bath in holy water.

After much thought, Amberxiu couldn't find a shortcut, so he could only follow the most traditional method of the lich—catching a few slimes and bringing them back for experimentation. As long as you dissect one or two hundred slimes, you can become an expert in slime research.

 Amberson cast the transformation spell again and returned to human form.

 This is a world with extremely serious racial discrimination. Liches always have a lot of inconveniences when walking outside. Only by turning into humans can they reduce many unnecessary troubles.

Wearing the appearance of a black-haired boy, Amberxiu once again walked out of his laboratory and walked out of the castle.

Passing by Isabel's workshop, Amberxiu took another capitalist look inside.

 Fortunately, this little girl was quite honest and did not steal any of his experimental materials.

Amberxiu had previously created a wise ghoul as an experimental assistant, but he had eaten away a third of the inventory within a few days. At that time, he was so angry that the fire in his soul was smoking, so he could only use this ghoul. The ghoul, who had gained only two laps of weight, was able to recover some losses by dismantling it.

 Sensitive Isabel discovered Amberxiu's presence, showed a surprised expression, and then walked over quickly to say hello: "Teacher, I finally see you again."

“Teacher?” Amberxiu was stunned for a moment and asked, “You call me teacher?”

Isabel nodded and said: "Thanks to you for teaching me alchemy last time, I found that I have improved a lot. Maybe it is a bit presumptuous to call it this, but I am really grateful to Teacher Qi for your guidance."

Amberxiu did not reject the title. He was indeed worthy of the title of teacher.

Since you are a teacher, you should care about the situation of your students. Amberxiu asked Isabel: "Do you have any questions recently?"

Isabel’s eyes lit up and she said, “Yes, teacher, please wait.”

 Isabel took out her notebook, opened one of the pages and said: "When extracting belladonna, I can't control the heat..."

“Pay attention to the time when the bubbles come out. When the first bubble appears, it will stop heating within thirty seconds at most.”

“The animal conversation potion was made according to the proportions recorded in the book, but the quality is very low.”

"Affected by temperature, the room temperature of the castle is relatively low. You need to increase the proportion of suspension appropriately, about five percent."

 …

No matter what question Isabel asked, Ambrose could give the answer almost without thinking.

The more Isabel asked, the more she felt that the black-haired boy in front of her was unfathomable. There were many questions that the previous teacher could not answer, or was unwilling to answer. Unexpectedly, the person in front of her gave the answer casually.

These are very basic alchemical knowledge, not too simple for a research scholar like him, but for Isabel, it is a precious experience that no one reminds me and it takes many years to figure it out.

Isabel knew the value of knowledge, and she admired and even worshiped the young teacher in front of her.

Hurrying through the back pages of the notebook, Isabel continued to ask: "Also, the Hill Giant Strength Potion..."

“Wait, is this the potion you can make now?”

 “This…I saw the recipe, and here are the ingredients…”

“To be too ambitious will only waste materials. Even if I teach you step by step about this advanced potion, you won’t be able to understand it.”

Amberxiu's tone became stern. Those basic potions were easy to say, but they consumed a lot of money. Isabel had to work hard every day to prepare them. But the Hill Giant Strength Potion is different. This thing is very valuable, and it is a high-grade potion. The material lost after one failure can make Amber Xiu feel heartbroken and break his bones.

After being delayed like this for more than half an hour, Amberxiu quickly stopped and said to Isabel: "Alchemy is a very profound knowledge. You don't want to become an alchemy master in one day, do you? First, teach you everything I have taught you. Don’t hesitate to ask anything else!”

 After being taught a lesson, Isabel was not dissatisfied at all.

Compared with the previous teacher, Amberxiu was almost as kind as an angel. He didn't even use insulting words like idiot and idiot to curse her, let alone hide his knowledge of alchemy. Many of the questions recorded in this little book have troubled Isabel for a long time, but every time she asked her previous teacher, she only got extremely perfunctory answers.

Amberxiu carefully asked Isabel not to waste materials. He was about to leave when he was suddenly stopped by Isabel.

 “Teacher, please wait a moment, I have one last question.”

Amberxiu turned around in confusion and asked, "What's the problem?"

Isabel asked cautiously: "Teacher, you...should be the undead, the undead of this castle? Right?"

 Amberson:…

 (End of this chapter)