Moonstone Quarter, Thacker Lane Square. The distance between here and the one-eyed squid is not too far. When Lu Ning arrived, the sun was just showing some warmth.
Today is the last day before the open day. Many people are inquiring about the speakers, content and venue of the public lectures. Lu Ning has already planned tomorrow’s schedule. In the morning, he is a wizard-level alchemist from Guanwu Academy. Lyles's magic return lecture, and in the afternoon he went to the college's alchemy laboratory to observe the latest artificial life model.
She walked along the buildings on the west side of the square and counted to Gate No. 14. When she raised her head, she saw a stone building that looked like a prison. Of course this appearance only scares off the unsuspecting, but the building is one of the Moonstone District's lab rentals.
Even excluding alchemy, all industrial disciplines, such as potions, enchantments, inscriptions, cartography, etc., require laboratory support. But not everyone can afford it, so once demand arises, supply quickly appears.
Jefni is already waiting here.
"Sorry to trouble you, Lillian."
"No, I want to thank you for your trust." Lu Ning nodded slightly to Jiefeni and followed her in.
In order to get a good Holy Bell, Jiefeni rented a mid-level alchemy laboratory. The indoor conditions were only slightly inferior to the laboratory Lu Ning saw at Xueni's place, 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. The materials are all there." Jefni pointed to a box next to the alchemy table. "Um...can I watch it here?"
Lu Ning smiled slightly: "Of course you can, just don't disturb me by making any noise."
Jiffany nodded repeatedly, walked to an empty corner of the laboratory, pulled up a stool and sat down. Lu Ning walked up to the alchemy platform and took off the apprentice's robe. She has also bought several new clothes for herself in the past few days. Catherine recommended it. Today she is wearing a college-style black dress, pleated skirt and boots. The apprentice robe is no longer convenient for alchemy. It's because she stuffed too many things in her pockets.
When she first took the materials, Lu Ning began to calm down. She had already gone through the alchemy calculations several times. She was qualified as she had completed apprentice-level alchemy products several times, but she did not actually do it anyway. Whether you have been refining precious metals or refining finished products in one go, you cannot be careless.
The difference from potion refining is that there is no drainage in precious metal refining, and the products are generated directly on the refining array. For processing of finished products, it is also necessary to set up a fire on the refining array. As for the kind of flame, it depends entirely on the type of product. After Lu Ning put the materials into categories, he 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.
Next comes the materials.
Gold and lead are the two most basic refining materials. Although it is said that the greatest alchemist can refine them with stones, Lu Ning looked through three alchemy instruction books and couldn't figure out how to do it unless It is to refine a mountain into a gold ingot, otherwise it would violate the principle of equal exchange.
Not to mention the rest of the scattered items, even things like slag, the most important thing is a small bottle of blood.
All magicians have magic in their blood, even the most junior apprentice. The blood in Lu Ning's hand came from Jiefeni's body, which was also for some mysterious and mysterious magical resonance. This theory has been verified to exist, but the principle has not yet been discovered, which is why Jiefeni finally found it difficult to reject 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 this is not enough.
Lu Ning glanced at her hand and tapped the pattern on the side of the alchemy table. The second layer of the Stacked Transformation Formation also lit up. This layer was already suspended in mid-air, looking as dazzling as a halo.
"Stable operation."
She looked intently at the refining formation in front of her, took out the Midas Touch, and started planning.
There can be no mistakes in precious metals. There are several times more types of metals in this world than Lu Ning once knew, and more than half of them were created by alchemists. There will always be alchemists who kill themselves by accidentally producing highly radioactive metals, but the worst ones are those who don't even know the radiation and then give it to others.
But Lu Ning was able to stabilize.
The exchange process is just a matter of slowly changing the material. In the shaping process, the three-dimensional structure is formed through two-layer stacking and transformation, and all items are divided and then spliced. As long as the alchemy technique has not reached the generation stage, it can be adjusted at will. Maybe it took Lu Ning a long time, but he is sure that there will be no problems in every step.
Three hours passed in a flash. Finally, Lu Ning lit a flame on her finger and burned it on the oil lamp. A 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 blind spot of the magic flow specially adjusted in the center of the refining array. Then she quickly removed the base and cover, leaving the flame in the array.
"Um?"
Lu Ning glanced at the flames and found some differences in the magic flow, but when she inserted her hand and withdrew it, she clearly did not activate any magic. However, this problem was easy to solve. She took out the Midas touch and readjusted each magic node, returning everything to normal before the flames were distorted by the magic.
"generate."
She said happily and picked up the bottle of blood. Of course, these blood cannot be put in as materials in advance, otherwise, what kind of magical resonance will there be in exchange? In the generation stage, material exchange has ended, and it is time to start shaping.
After simulating the process dozens of times in his mind, his hands began to reappear on the refining formation intensively. The flames slowly stretched and rounded under precise induction. The precious metals that were exchanged began to condense particles from the void, and blood After pouring it down, the shape of a holy bell was gathered out of thin air. After being burned by the fire, a large amount of water turned into steam, and more substances formed a basic network skeleton, and metal began to precipitate on the surface of the skeleton.
After completing this step, you are basically not far from success.
Twenty minutes later, the precipitation of the metal was almost complete. Lu Ning threw the remaining half of the ointment directly into the fire. Bright white flames instantly covered the sky above the entire refining formation. She no longer had the ability to draw patterns on the surface of the Holy Bell. , simply use the last step of the burning and shaping process to let the pattern form naturally.
The fire light and the light of the refining array dissipated together, and a holy bell with an opening diameter of nearly 20 centimeters remained in the center of the array. Light blue ice-like lines spread across the entire surface of the gray holy bell. Lu Ning pinched Picking it up by the handle, no sound was made.
It worked.
The Holy Bell is a divine magic weapon, and people who do not know the divine words cannot ring it.
After sitting for so long, Jiefeni 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.
"Thanks!"
Jiefeni even ran over with some excitement, carefully took the holy bell from Lu Ning's hand, shook it gently, and a pleasant and soul-peaceful sound came out. Lu Ning felt that she was exhausted from working on alchemy for several hours. Sweep away.
"It really suits you." Feeling the effect, Lu Ning smiled at Jiefeni.
"Thanks to your superb skills, I don't know any other alchemists who are willing to help me refine it..." Jefni hugged the Holy Bell, the joy on her face was beyond words, "It's noon, I'll treat you to dinner!"
Of course Lu Ning agreed.
The two of them left the alchemy laboratory, and after Jiffany returned 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.
"Jefni? Aren't we going to eat?"
"Yes." Jefni turned around, "But we are going to the Green Silver District for dinner today."
"Isn't that the central city area?"
"The central city is not separated from the outside, and have you forgotten what day tomorrow is? The principal of Gaesen School in Green Silver District, Mr. Percival is the current chief of the Principals Association. The day before each open day In the afternoon, he will tell students about the various courses that need attention this time in the campus square."
"If you want to listen to that, there will definitely be a lot of people, right?"
"If he can't take care of the students because there are too many people, he is no longer the respectable Mr. Percival." Jefni smiled slightly.
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On the way to the Green Silver District in the car, Lu Ning quietly looked through the list she had copied down. It was not that she didn't want to remember those people. The problem was that there were too many celebrities gathering at Evarang at this time, and she couldn't remember them at all. So she picked the ones that looked powerful and copied them down first.
And Parcival was among them.
As one of the only three magic sages in the world, Percival's attainments in magic have reached a level that no one can explore. His majors in elemental magic, arcane magic, incantation, transformation, summoning, and space magic have all reached the level of a magic sage, and he is also involved in most types of magic. His well-known industrial attainments Including magic writing, enchantment and gemology, it is the highest level known in the world. The original chaotic magic spell is still rarely imitated by anyone. Percival served as the president of the Magic Council from about fifty to thirty years ago, and after his retirement thirty years ago, he served as the president of the Green Silver District. He still serves as the principal of the top school Gaesin and retains the position of honorary member of the Magic Parliament.
When he copied it down, Lu Ning actually had no idea how powerful this person was. This was probably because everyone on the list had a long list of great achievements, and Percival was not very conspicuous. But now if we take a closer look, we can see that this achievement is probably unrivaled by today's magicians.
Out of curiosity, Lu Ning didn't waste time on the lunch issue and urged Jiefeni to rush to the scene.
The campus in Gaesin is completely different from the ones in the Moonstone District.
Before entering the school gate, you can see three towers standing at the back of the campus. Giant mana crystals representing the three most common types of magic, 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. The magic circle supporting the two buildings suspended in mid-air is running quietly, but you can feel it even a little bit. You can feel the surging torrent of magic power.
After walking around the auditorium, you can see the pulpit square of Gaessen. In the square paved with white marble, the steps go up one step at a time toward the center, forming a square platform in the middle with a side length of about seven meters. At this time, the square is almost crowded with people, and two people can only squeeze in. There were no steps at the back. The strange thing was that even so, Lu Ning didn't feel that his sight was blocked. Instead, he could clearly see the old man on the high platform who was white-haired but still energetic.
"Curving light magic." When Jiefeni heard Lu Ning ask, she explained, "The entire square has been cast with magic. No matter from any angle or position, the people on the central podium can always be seen, and the voices can always be heard clearly. , I don’t know exactly what kind of magic it is, but it seems that only Jia Essen in the entire Evarang has done this.”
"So how is Mr. Parcival supposed to deal with so many people?"
Jefni smiled slightly: "Mr. Percival's magical attainments are also at the level of a magician. Among the advanced magical arts, there is a spell called listening to the sound of heaven."
Before she could continue to explain, a cough suddenly sounded in everyone's ears. In an instant, the originally noisy square suddenly became quiet, and there was no sound at all.
It was the old man standing on the high platform who was about to speak.
"Welcome students, you may be the proud students studying here in Evarang, or you may be motivated students who have traveled thousands of miles to seek answers to your questions. No matter which one, Evarang will treat each of you equally. . Tomorrow, the public lecture is about to begin. I will spend a short period of time summarizing for you in the first few days, which professor's lecture is suitable for students studying different magic subjects, and then I will answer the questions for you here this afternoon. Various doubts related to public teaching.”
Percival smiled kindly, raised his hands, and golden light jumped in the sky. All the major classifications of magic so far were suspended in the sky above the square as light powder fell.
"Let's start with the most well-known and most learned elemental magic."
Percival's knowledge is undoubtedly profound. For every subject involved, he will name at least three alternative professors, not only in terms of their academic achievements, but also in terms of their characteristics, suitability for the group, 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, Soygo Osaou was among the recommended ones.
"This is a mysterious alchemist. Because my attainments in alchemy are not very advanced, it is difficult to explain his specific strength. But if you are interested in the advanced skills of alchemy, this great master A magister-level alchemist is undoubtedly the best candidate."
