"Hey, little brat, are you here too?"
Of course Soygo's words were not good. There was silence in the air for a moment before Abel won: "You still haven't changed, teacher."
"You actually recognize me as your teacher? You're a self-made idiot." Soygo sneered, strode up to the alchemy platform, slapped all the light on the magic circle out, then restarted and constructed his own restraint The force field unfolded and the tendency of the two bubbles to "contact" with each other stopped in less than a minute.
But it just stopped. Soygo failed to send back the filaments pulled out by the two bubbles, let alone make any other changes to the two bubbles.
"Huh? You bastard, come here and see what's going on." Soygo greeted Zafi.
"If you call me by nicknames in front of my students again, I will use elemental magic to wash your hair for a day." Zafi still had a smile on his face, but his tone became a very cold threat. But he still walked over, and so did Geer.
"Lillian, and that idiot, come here and learn from me." Soygo didn't care about Zafi's threat at all, and instead greeted Lu Ning.
Zafi came to the two spheres and looked at them carefully for a moment, then stretched out his fingers, and a little magic lingered on his fingertips. His peak magic control ability was extremely exquisite, and he quickly made the magic circle around the two spheres, and then withdrew his fingers.
"This is not of any element in the world."
Soygo patted the instrument next to him vigorously: "I have eyes! If it belongs to this, can it show an [Unknown]?"
"Think about it before you use your disgusting mouth. What I mean is that it does not have the properties of elements." Zafi curled his lips, "Even unknown substances can still be analyzed because they still have elements. properties, and these two bubbles don’t – they don’t have elemental properties.”
"what is that?"
"If you ask me, I can't answer it. It doesn't have any of the attributes that we know exist in the world. Even the current appearance, I suspect, is just because these are the only parts we can recognize." Zafi He knocked on his temple and looked at Lu Ning, "How did you come up with such a thing?"
"Abel must compete with me in alchemy. He said he didn't have much time, so he bet his life and death on me. As for the refining raw materials, I got them from the remains of the Star Seer."
"Don't have much time?" Soygo raised his eyebrows.
"Teacher, I was designed to have this invisible body, and I was also designed to have an ending. Now, I am just a dead person living in a magic book. Soon, even these will no longer exist. "Abel said sadly, "And a being like me has a very strong obsession, so after returning, I immediately followed the path I came from to find it."
"Who is it..." Soygo scratched his head.
"My magic book is in the hands of Emperor Heinz." Abel sighed, "But it's too late now. Please rate my last refining."
"Then I have to figure out what this is! Zafi!"
"Sorry, that's not my area."
At this moment, Geer, who had been silent all this time, spoke.
"It's...something like ectoplasm."
Soygo and Zafi were stunned at the same time.
When Lu Ning heard this word, she initially thought it was because she didn't know enough about this place so she had never heard of it, but Abel also made a confused sound.
"Ger, are you sure?" Soygo frowned.
"I mean, similar." Geer quickly waved his hand, "It has the characteristics that it should have, but it is definitely not ectoplasm. Ectoplasm does not exist."
"Mr. Soygo, Mr. Zafi, what is ectoplasm?" Lu Ning asked.
"It is the first thing when the planet was born. It only existed in the world at the beginning of the world. It was mixed in about ten seconds and turned into the original form of countless stars." Soygo shook his head, "Indeed, a bit Like, but the mixing of ectoplasm is caused by the impact of external forces. This thing doesn't have any external forces, but it still tries to get closer to each other."
Lu Ning stared at the thin line between the two bubbles.
"What happens if they come into contact?"
"Good question, I don't know." Soygo sneered, "Any unknown in the experiment is dangerous. Maybe nothing will happen. Maybe the energy generated in an instant can turn us all into ashes. Do you want to bet? Bundle?"
"Can you always control them? If not, maybe contact will happen sooner or later. This is the strangest alchemy product I have ever seen, but at least I am half of the refiner." Lu Ning walked to the cable Across from Egg, he carefully found the middle of the thin line and stretched out his finger.
"Lillian!"
"The nature you mentioned made me have a conjecture. Teacher Soygo, I may be right or wrong, but this time I want to try."
She pointed her finger between the two thin lines.
"Danger!" Zafei was about to reach out, but found a magic shield blocking Lu Ning's body. This shield protected her entire body, except for her hand. He immediately looked up and glared at Soygo.
"This girl is my student. She can do whatever she wants. With me here, the most she will do is lose one hand." Soygo also stared back at Zafi, "If the alchemist loses even his courage and imagination, No, then the meaning of living does not exist.”
The moment the two of them looked at each other without giving in, Lu Ning's finger had already reached the middle position. She suddenly felt as if she was communicating with the half she had refined. In fact, the real distance between the two bubbles had long been close to the point of contact, and Lu Ning's fingers happened to be connected to the two bubbles. between.
Then, she suddenly felt a sense of confusion welling up in her heart, her eyes lost focus, as if she was in a whirlpool of light and darkness, and the vast galaxy and dark sky were quickly moving away. Immediately, a feeling of fullness lingered in her heart, and she could feel the warmth. It also contained many other emotions, positive and negative. They were so strong but insignificant, and they only fleetingly passed through her heart. After a moment, the feeling of emptiness reappeared, as if even eternity had ushered in its final demise, and the emotion finally turned into a little sadness.
Lu Ning blinked and a tear fell from his eye socket. She lowered her head and glanced at her hand. The nail of the index finger of her right hand that was touching it had turned into a hard material like a stone, but she didn't feel any discomfort. It is emitting a little glimmer of light, and even the light of the surrounding refining array cannot cover up the glimmer.
"How long has it been...?"
"Huh? What?" Soygo raised his eyebrows, "You touched the middle, and then all the bubbles disappeared. It only took a second in total?"
one second.
Lu Ning was stunned for a moment, and then her somewhat stiff mind slowly understood what had just happened.
"Teacher...what I thought was somewhat correct, but not completely correct."
"That's wrong. Stop looking for excuses."
"Well, yes, I thought wrong." Lu Ning followed suit. "The Stone of the World does need to be born from nothing, but this nothing does not require us to find it ourselves."
"Why are you talking about this again?"
"Because I just experienced the birth and death of a world." Lu Ning smiled and glanced at his fingers. The sadness was still lingering in his heart, for no other reason than the disappearance itself.
To be born from nothing, rather, is to inject the matrix of the world into "nothing". Lu Ning felt that it was very much like the fusion of creation theory. If she did not make contact, the two bubbles would stop before they actually came into contact, forming a stable "to be activated" state. It was precisely because of her external interference that The "nothing" between the two bubbles disappeared, and the world was born.
She actually knows everything that happens in this world, but it is very vague. She is the god who created the world and is the supreme ruler of everything. But she didn't do anything. A second later, the world had completed the process from birth to death. The billions of civilizations that had been born in it disappeared in an instant. In the end, the only thing left was the nail that had turned into a crystal gem. .
"...So, what is contained in the World Stone is not a world, but the remains of the world, the world's... tombstone." Lu Ning put down his hand, "It's strange. It seems to have done something great, but it also seems like Something as small as a yawn.”
"After all, not everyone has the opportunity to try." People like Soygo have not experienced this, and they cannot understand Lu Ning's mood. Only Zafi said this.
"Abel?" Lu Ning looked around, "I completed the final refining."
For a long time, there was no reply. Lu Ning paused for a moment and realized that there were some clear things in the vague memories he just had.
[It seems that intangibility is not necessarily a good thing, at least I have no chance to experience it. 】
Lu Ning smiled softly.
"It seems that you have found a method, but... Lilian, refining through coincidence and non-replicability is not advisable in alchemy." Soygo suddenly spoke, "Alchemy is not complete. They are the same, but there are different paths to the same destination. It is not a good habit to deny other possibilities after getting only one result."
Lu Ning was stunned for a moment when he suddenly started teaching people so seriously.
"Ger! Let's go." Soygo looked at Lu Ning's dazed expression with satisfaction and walked out of the door. Geer also left with him.
Zafei did not leave with him, but raised his hand and waved it in front of Lu Ning.
"Mr. Zafi, was Mr. Soygo teaching me seriously just now?" Lu Ning turned around and asked in disbelief.
"That's right. No matter if it was a coincidence or not, he must be a little dissatisfied when you took out the World Stone first. But his serious attitude was probably because he wanted to see your expression and regain some ground in his heart." Zafi smiled. He said, "It's rare to see him shut his mouth."
"By the way, nothing happened outside, right? Everyone..."
"Don't worry, it was Geer who divined your location. The shop owner knows about us."
Pierre is quite well-informed about Evaron, and it is certain that he has heard of these lecturers who are full of personality.
Zafei walked out of the door with Lu Ning.
"You... As expected, we all know each other." Lu Ning felt relieved after knowing that Pierre and others were fine, and turned to ask about something she had always been curious about.
"No way, it's all bad luck." Zafi smiled, "We crossed the unknown sea together, but we have different interests and rarely get together in one place."
"I heard that even the Emperor and Saint couldn't cross the Wuminghai."
"Because you are not a local. You can only use local materials to find a solution. You always know that detoxifying things will be found near highly poisonous substances, right? In fact, it's nothing special. It's just that Soygo likes to use this to bluff people." Zafi laughed. At this time, the two of them had already walked up the stairs and arrived at the Crow Hotel. Pierre saw Lu Ning coming out and smiled at her, but didn't say anything.
"Just in time, maybe I can find some clues from what Abel knows." Lu Ning saw that many people she knew were there, then she closed her eyes slightly and dug out the memory given by Abel.
The person who gave him the self-refining technology, including the techniques and precautions... these are not critical. The person has always covered his face with a black cloth, so it is impossible to determine the origin. What followed was just as she guessed, Abel turned himself invisible through this method, but soon fell into a deep sleep.
The night he woke up was the night Boliwell had a problem. Abel began to transfer through the connection created by the refined product in the world, and was unable to suppress his instinctive murderous intention. Lu Ning also saw Juno and heard what she said. Abel did have doubts about this and began to try to find the truth. However, before he could really take action, a black shadow came to him.
The invisible body seemed to have been expected, and Abel was quickly defeated. His only good luck was that he could not die, and the other party injected him alive into a magic book. This magic book soon came into Heinz's hands.
Finally, Abel was released last night. He sensed that his state could not last long - the grimoire was closely related to him, and the grimoire he was inhabited by had been destroyed.
Following his past footsteps and relying on his last obsession with alchemy, he found Lu Ning.
Leaving aside some other knowledge and the like, this was Abel's experience. Lu Ning told all this, and everyone present fell into silence.
"Lillian." White Rose spoke first, "Do you feel that something is not right?"
"Yes." Lu Ning nodded. Sure enough, the person who could understand the fastest here was still Shang Wenxue.
"What's the problem? Is this similar to the information we found?" Black Rose said.
"No... there are some problems." Zafi spoke, "Abel lost. He couldn't die so he was injected with the magic book. In other words, this production method is a mixture of the magic book and a dead person."
"Oh?" Soygo suddenly showed a look of understanding after being exposed to this.
"Another important point is that Abel was given to Heinz after being injected. Heinz did not perform the magic himself." White Rose stretched out her finger, "Also, if I must say it, Abel Bo has only been released after being injected with the magic book, and the magic book has been destroyed. This shows that they were specially selected for the use of the Book Burner."
Lu Ning nodded. In addition, if White Rose can know about the two assassinations that took place in the library, she can also discover another problem, that is, the souls of the dead who were injected into the magic book represented by Abel are very likely to He's not the type of assassin Hyakki Hiro in the library who got the power of the magic book!
"Heinz did plan this incident, and hunted many murderers for the magic book, and even created murderers. But he did this to provide it to the Book Burner. Why on earth must this type of magic book be used? It's clear. But besides that... there are people taking advantage of Heinz's plan to create a completely different magic book in a very similar way." Lu Ning said.
White Rose immediately opened her mouth: "Copycat?"
"Or... the culprit."
