Although Howard and Boliwell both have some knowledge, their fields do not overlap at all. Now they are simply talking like chickens and ducks, and it is completely impossible to explain.
At this time, Lu Ning also let the two of them quarrel. No matter what, the relationship between the two was much closer than hers, and it was not her turn as an outsider to help with the explanation. She placed the picture on the table depicting the corresponding refining transformation formation. He pulled out the parchment and studied it carefully.
The knowledge of array diagrams contained in this transformation array does not exceed the scope of Lu Ning's knowledge. Although some adjustments have been made above, it only specializes the flow of magic power from several angles. If pressed, it is biased towards precious metals. The direction of refinement.
But in theory, that kind of phenomenon should not occur. The principle of equal exchange in alchemy cannot be violated. There are no precious materials in this room. What was used to refine the poisonous gas in the room?
Lu Ning took out a small bottle from her pocket. This was the medicine bottle she had given to Pierre before. After cleaning it, she took it back. When she just opened the window, she filled the bottle with some green gas.
"I'm going to check what this gas is. If you can explain it clearly, come and find me." Lu Ning said to the two of them, walked out of the door and went straight to the alchemy laboratory.
Any alchemy laboratory must be equipped with regular testing tools and inert stone sealed boxes. Even with such regulations, at least twenty alchemists die every year while refining unknown substances. Even a store like Howard's, which only sells general medicines and sundries, must abide by this rule.
Therefore, Lu Ning easily obtained a series of tools he needed, pulled out three drainage tubes, divided the gas into three parts, and began to test each data separately. The process wouldn't be quick, so Howard and Boliwell arrived shortly after and weren't done yet.
"Is there any result?"
"Dad, let me believe it wasn't me." Boliwell said with a grimace.
"I believe you didn't do it on purpose. No fool can poison himself to death in his sleep! Lilian, are the results out?"
"We have to wait. Just in time, since you guys stopped arguing, I'll ask Boliwell a few things." Lu Ning glanced at Boliwell.
"He said everything." Howard responded directly on Boliwell's behalf.
"Boliwell, do you have a brother? Either a few years apart, or a twin brother." Lu Ning asked.
Boliwell was silent for a moment after hearing this question, and Howard glared at him directly.
"Okay... yes." Boliwell nodded, "You are also an alchemist, so you can basically know... I come from the Cardin family. Most of the children in this family are twins. I am no exception. I have a younger brother."
"Can you tell me what happened?"
With a long sigh, Boliwell found a place to lean against and said, "We studied together until we were eight years old. I became a junior alchemist when I was eight years old."
"You're a genius, no, you're almost thirty this year, right? Then aren't you a loser?" Howard began to comment seriously.
"Dad, don't make fun of me. I did progress faster than my brother at that time, which also led to the two of us not being able to synchronize our alchemy skills. It's okay for ordinary people, but it's not for us. It’s so easy.”
"Are you studying twin alchemy?"
"For the family, once they have something that no one else has, even if it is of little use, they will try to give it a noble luster. That project has never actually been interrupted, and every year the Cardin family There will be a large number of twins who will start to become guinea pigs, and we will just be the failed group."
"Is your delayed entry also related to this?" Lu Ning asked.
"Maybe, because the gap between my brother and me is too big and has not shortened for six months, so the family can only stop our project entry. Our life has returned to normal, but the contact between junior alchemists and apprentices Education was different in the family and we had to separate. The problem was, after that, we never saw each other again."
"..."
"I asked many people, but no one knew what happened. I found some elders in the family, but such a thing had never happened. Some elders who were close to me went to the school to check and found that my younger brother had been raped. An alchemist equivalent to the level of a magister was accepted as his disciple, and after two months of study, he went out to travel with him, and never came back after that."
"Does your family not care?" Howard was stunned for a moment.
"My brother was fifteen years old at that time. It is normal for a teacher to travel with him at this age. What's more, the other party is a magister, so even a family must treat it with caution. The Cardin family does not have a particularly outstanding academic background, nor does it have a special academic background. It's not a prominent family. Apart from having many children, it doesn't have the ability to inquire about the whereabouts of a magister." Boliwell said with some self-deprecation, "And my alchemy has begun to stagnate. Elementary level knowledge is not enough for me. It’s not a problem, I also know a lot about the intermediate level, but every time I start to officially refine the intermediate potion, I always feel that something is missing, and the refining fails.”
"You...don't have any guesses?" Lu Ning asked.
Boliwell shrugged helplessly: "How is it possible? Do you know? The purity of all my failed intermediate potions is 48 and 49, without any exception."
The alchemist's successful potion range is between 95 and 100, and full purity is an impossible number. The instrument for measuring purity does not calculate decimals...
"Do you think your brother's existence has caused your current situation?"
"Otherwise, why do you think I'm here? Which alchemist doesn't have the dream of making a masterpiece that will be handed down from generation to generation?" Boliwell looked like he was about to cry, "But I... don't have any possibility of entering the country."
"You are also unlucky. Lilian, I'm afraid there's a big problem with that mage."
"You always know the names of your brother and the mage, right? Since he studied for two months first, the mage must have been in school for a while first."
"My brother's name is Abel, Abel Cardin," Boliwell said immediately. "His teacher... I don't know if that's his real name, but the school records show his name is Soigo-Ossa. Oh (Soyg-oHTTHo).”
As he spoke, Boliwell wrote two names in the air. When Howard and Lu Ning saw the mentor's name, they felt that it was 90% fake.
"Are you stupid? Where have you ever seen a person with a name like that?" Howard almost couldn't help but press Boliwell's head. "Don't you know how to investigate before letting your brother become a disciple?"
"He really has the level of a magister!" Boliwell argued while avoiding Howard, "And he comes from the Nameless Sea. How can we investigate?"
This time it was Lu Ning's knowledge blind spot: "Where is the Wuming Sea?"
"Close to the northeastern part of the continent, there is a far sea in the extremely cold area. The water there is black. It is clearly different from the normal sea and cannot be confused with each other. Ships will sink when they pass by, and no living thing can fly in the air... So how do you believe that someone can come from Wuminghai?" Howard looked like he was about to curse.
"They think... being able to cross the Nameless Sea... must have great abilities..."
"What a piece of shit! Even the Magic Emperor and the Magic Sage can't cross the sea, but you can still believe that a magician can come here! Is your head of the house filled with inferior magic liquid?"
"But he can really..."
"Did you see him? Did you follow him to swim in the Nameless Sea?" Howard scolded him repeatedly.
"He brought a bottle of sea water."
Although Boliwell's voice was a bit soft, both Howard and Lu Ning heard the words clearly.
"You...you say it again?"
"He brought a bottle of seawater from the Nameless Sea, pure black, and then made a feather float on the water in front of many people."
Howard was dumbfounded.
"If he really has this ability, he should be able to cause a sensation in the magic world." Lu Ning scratched his head and rummaged through his pockets - the large pockets on the inside of the apprentice's robe are really convenient. , she almost stuffed it into a treasure bag.
Soon, she took out a scroll. Of course, students like Xueni and Catherine have their own channels to learn some information about public classes in advance. For example, a timetable for the earliest days, and a brief list of lecturers.
Lu Ning hasn't studied it carefully yet, because she really doesn't know anyone on it, but since she has such a copy, there is no harm in it.
Unfold the scroll and search down according to the lecturer's name. A name with personality should be very conspicuous in the list.
"Found it." Lu Ning was a little surprised. She didn't expect to find it.
Boliwell and Howard came together and saw that very weird name.
"Grand Magic Alchemist...hiss." Howard clicked his tongue, "Your brother was taken away at the age of fifteen. It's less than twenty years ago, right? Now he's a Grand Magic Alchemist?"
"Where is my brother? Is there any news about him?" Boliwell asked hurriedly.
"No, the introduction here is very short, but since he appears here, there is always a chance to ask." Lu Ning glanced at the timetable, "Starting from the next day, he will have public classes. The first class should be at nine o'clock in the morning, Topa District, Royal Alchemy Academy."
"Boy, you have to go." Howard glanced at Boliwell.
"Yes, I must know what happened these years."
At this time, the work of checking the device was completed. Lu Ning wrote down the readings on a piece of parchment, then took out the standard comparison table and started looking for the properties of the medicine corresponding to the readings.
"It is a highly volatile and slightly toxic drug. It may cause retching and headache. Excessive inhalation may cause fainting, but it is not fatal. For treatment, it should be left in a ventilated place for a period of time." After a moment, Lu Ning raised his head and said.
"Then it's nothing serious." Howard breathed a sigh of relief, "Don't do those things in your house from now on."
"Yes, yes." Boliwell nodded repeatedly.
"Now finish your work for today! Lillian has done everything she should do and is still accompanying you to clean up the mess. Don't look downcast anymore! Be more energetic!"
Howard energetically called Boliwell to go to work, and Lu Ning also packed up her things and exited the laboratory.
She wouldn't tell everything, it was most likely an accident, but she had to be vigilant.
There was nothing wrong with the analysis report. The damage caused by the poisonous gas was limited and it had no scary functions, so she took it as it was. Boliwell was busy dealing with Howard and would not think carefully about the problem here...or in other words, he was actually not sensitive to danger.
"The part used for exchange is the cell wall." Lu Ning didn't write this on the piece of paper, but it was not difficult to deduce the results of the alchemy and the transformation formation. She had already figured out what the exchanged materials were.
The refining array was made using bed boards as materials. Due to the value of the bed board itself, the poison gas was not very effective. However, the bed board still remained intact because only part of the cell wall structure was refined.
This is an aggressive alchemy. This time, the cell wall was extracted as a refining material. Boliwell, who was lying on the bed, survived. But what if it is a cell membrane next time? Or even less elaborately, extracting oxygen, or protein, or even blood as material?
Blood...at this level, it is something that Lu Ning knows can do with alchemy.
As for the alchemy that continues to compress to the microscopic level, she has never heard of it. Maybe she should check out "Advanced Alchemy" to see if there is any theory in this area.
On the other hand, when she showed the list to the two of them, she also suppressed the lower half of the list and did not let them read more.
At this time, it unfolded, and the names that I saw at a glance were revealed.
Grand Magister-level summoning magician, Dalgh-aXa.
Grand Magus-level astrologer, Gor-hTh.
Grand Magister-level elemental magician, Zaaph-oHMHo.
"So...is there really anyone who can come from there, or...everyone who comes from there has a problem?"
In any case, Lu Ning had already made up her mind to listen to all four of these people's courses when she had time.
Near noon, Lu Ning came to the commercial street, which was also a used bookstore. She wanted to buy another copy of "Advanced Alchemy" to read. But this time when she walked to the door of the bookstore, she found that it was closed.
There was no announcement to explain the reason, there was just a "Closed Today" sign on the door, and there was no one there when I looked through the cracks in the door and window.
She was a little disappointed. After all, the books here were indeed cheaper than new books in the bookstore, and there were also new books from previous generations. But as soon as she turned around, she saw another person coming from the alley. Lu Ning still remembers her appearance. She was the magical learner Jefni who told him about the Rainbow Mushroom store when she first came here.
Jiefeni obviously remembered Lu Ning. When she saw her, she greeted her politely. Then she took a look at the bookstore and couldn't help showing a disappointed expression.
"It's not open today either."
