Bang!
A loud noise was accompanied by a blazing huge wave sweeping towards Cody. If it had been before, Cody would have been frightened out of his wits, but after experiencing such scenes many times every day for three months, now his heart has There was no more waves, he just quickly stepped back and cursed a few times.
From that day when Master Gan was going to teach Cody alchemy, Cody talked to Brother Solo when he returned to the dormitory, collected his change of clothes, and moved into Master Gan's alchemy room. He hasn't left the house for three months now. . The explosion just now was caused by Cody refining an alchemical material. Although after three months of countless experiments, a lot of materials can be extracted normally, there are still times when mistakes are inevitable.
Similarly, his hair has also experienced three months of destruction. Under the repeated waves of fire, most of the hair that originally reached his shoulders is now gone. In addition to the burnt areas, the hair close to the scalp is also gone. Already bent.
After the fire wave receded, Cody sat down on the ground. He had become accustomed to failure and would not feel the same loss and self-doubt as on the first day. Pulling up the sleeve of his left hand, he touched the dark gray, rough-looking bracelet on his wrist. Who would have thought that it was a magic weapon. In every recent explosion after a failure, I relied on this bracelet to resist the heat waves that were a bit unbearable.
Cato's Bracelet. This is the name Cody gave it. Although Master Gan said that this defective product did not deserve to be given a name, Cody didn't care. This was the first magic weapon he refined, even though it was refined with the cooperation of Master Gan. Yes, but the main force is still myself. Cato's bracelet has no magic and can only block most of the heat. It was tailor-made for him by Cody. Even if his hair was burned, the heat of each explosion made him a little bit too much. He always felt like he was going to be roasted. . After successfully refining Cato's Bracelet, Cody returned another heat-resistant magical weapon that Master Gan gave him. Although the effect of that magical weapon was countless times better than Cato's Bracelet, it was too much. It looked gorgeous and precious, and Cody didn't want to use it after only using it once.
"It's better to make things yourself, so what if it's defective, as long as it's practical. Save other gorgeous things and sell them to rich people in the future, otherwise the cost of alchemy will really be unbearable." Cody pulled up his sleeves. Sit up after getting down.
Over this period of time, he finally understood why magic weapons are expensive. Not only because they are rare, but also because they consume too many materials. If they are not sold more expensively, they may not even be able to recover the cost. Think about the materials you have lost in three months. Although they are just ordinary things, they cannot withstand the huge amount. After some calculations, even if the current Cody is sold, it is not worth so much money, and there are still things damaged after the failure and explosion. Fortunately, these things are all supported by Master Gan, so we are not afraid of waste, but we cannot rely solely on Master Gan for the rest of our lives.
Although he failed a lot, except for the only bracelet of Cato, Cody was not without gains. Not only did his basic alchemy ability improve a lot, but because of the constant high-intensity concentration, his mental strength, which was rarely practiced through meditation, also improved. It has been enhanced a lot, and with Master Gan's teachings on magic, Cody has now learned the second intermediate magic. In fact, Cody feels that he can actually learn the third intermediate magic, but Master Gan said there is no need to worry, wait. Learn after you are fully proficient. Cody is now focused on alchemy, so it doesn't matter whether he learns magic or not.
In addition to practicing alchemy for three months, I also studied ancient Chinese. Don't say it, Master Gan is indeed right. Practicing alchemy is indeed helpful for learning ancient Chinese, because in addition to refining and fusion, other steps require corresponding spells, and the magic spells are all ancient Chinese and must be given to him by Master Gan first. Find the corresponding spell in the hand-written alchemy manual and then memorize it, so that you can complete a refining. Not only the ancient texts, but also the obscure runes are indispensable. The final step of alchemy is to use spiritual power to engrave the runes on the magic weapon to be successful. Through repeated operations, most of the ancient texts and runes that were originally difficult to digest have been imprinted in Cody's mind.
And now I know why alchemists are rare, not only because there is no one to teach them, but also because they have mental power, elemental affinity and elemental control. These things can be practiced acquiredly, but without innate conditions, it is difficult to achieve success, especially It is the elemental affinity, the strength of the innate weakness that determines how far a magician can go. In addition to these, the most important thing is that only fire element magicians can become alchemists, and only the power of fire can decompose and fuse those strange materials. And ordinary magicians, even if someone teaches alchemy, don't have so much money to waste. After all, when you start learning, you have to rely on money to accumulate, and alchemy materials are not cheap.
The place where Cody practices now is a room made of rock. The rock has been polished into a whole, and he doesn't know how it was built into the house. The rough surface is engraved with dense runes, forming a magic circle to defend against the impact of the huge energy generated during refining. Without this magic circle, this stone house would have been ruined by Cody, let alone Master Gan will also perform alchemy here.
Cody casually picked up a dull black iron block and threw it into the furnace in front of him. With a wave of his hand, a ball of flame fell into the furnace. With Cody's control, the flames in the furnace enveloped the iron block. Burn violently. I don’t know what the black marrow gold iron block that Master Gan is talking about is. Ordinary metals have already begun to melt under such a fire, but this iron block has only begun to turn red.
Master Gan will assign Cody daily tasks. Only after completing the tasks will he be allowed to refine what he likes. In each task, there are several materials that are difficult to refine. In order to refine his own magic weapon suit, Cody can only grit his teeth and complete the task first. He wants to arm himself to his underwear, but now he only has one bracelet, so he must keep working hard.
After more than half an hour of calcination, the original bowl-sized black marrow gold in the furnace was no longer as big as a fist, and its color turned dark red, glowing faintly in the flames. It was almost over, and Cody didn't relax. The last moment was the most critical part. He failed many times because of his carelessness. Steadily controlling the flame, Cody relaxed and put away the flame when the black marrow gold shrank again and turned completely golden red.
He poured a ladle of water from the bucket next to him and poured it on him. The sound of sizzling water was instantly accompanied by the pungent water vapor. After several ladles of water, there was no movement. Cody dropped the water ladle and picked up the black marrow gold from the furnace that had cooled down and turned black again. I don't know why this thing is so magical. If there is a problem with refining, it will not break even if it explodes. It can also be watered directly at such a hot temperature. It has no impact. It is obviously metal, but it doesn't feel too hard. It can withstand fire and is still light.
Cody tried to calcine a piece of black marrow gold, but in the end it only became the size of a few fingers, and it would not turn into molten iron like some other metals. However, Master Gan said that the piece of black marrow gold was useless and was useless. Cody didn't know why the harder black marrow gold was useless. Master Gan told him that each material has its own optimal state, and it does not mean that the longer the calcination time is, the better. Just like black marrow gold, its characteristics are elongation and toughness. After Cody's excessive calcination, although it has become harder, it has destroyed its most important characteristics and is of no use. In terms of hardness, there is something better than it. Material. Cody said silently and wrote it down seriously. This will determine whether he will waste materials in the future.
After completing the last alchemy task of the day, Cody walked out of the stone house. After a busy day, he now needed a good rest, and then began to refine his own magic weapon. He had a bracelet on his left hand, and the ring he needed on his right hand was missing one material. You can start merging. It's not that Cody likes the ring, but Master Gan said that he would not help Cody in the future, and he would do whatever he wanted. I have no choice but to urgently want a second magic weapon, and only the ring requires the least materials. Although it is more difficult to engrave runes on smaller rings, there is no way, the talent is here. Although he can't remember the runes, engraving is what Cody is best at. Master Gan was speechless about Cody's talent. He knew all the difficult things and couldn't learn simple life-and-death skills.
After drinking a few glasses of water, Cody flopped down on the sofa used for resting, completely forgetting the lesson he had learned when training the Solo brothers not to drink large gulps of water when they were tired.
When I woke up, I opened my eyes and saw that Master Gan had come back at some point. He was sitting not far from Cody and checking the materials that Cody had refined today. The one where Cody was lying had been dyed black. He didn't want to get close to the sofa at all. I have told Cody many times that after refining, I changed my clothes, took a shower and then rested, but it still didn't work at all. I don't want to talk about it now. I just need to stay away, but I will still ask Jifu to change it every once in a while. The mat above.
"Teacher, when did you come back?" Cody knew that Master Gan liked to be clean, so he sat on the sofa without going next to him. After Cody was able to refine some materials on his own, Master Gan no longer guarded Cody every day. In addition to teaching him new knowledge, he would come once a day, and sometimes he would come back only once every three or four days. Although Cody has a lazy personality and likes to study and explore, it is generally very worry-free for him, and he will not touch anything that he absolutely cannot do. The main reason is that Cody is also afraid, not to mention that blind refining may cause an explosion that he cannot bear. Who knows which of the strange jars in the alchemy room is poison.
Master Gan put down the materials in his hands and said: "I just came back. The quality of these materials is very good. I can see that you are making progress every day. In the past, you had to work until very late to complete the same materials and the same quantity. Now It was all finished in the afternoon and the quality has improved compared to before.”
"It's mainly because you teach well, teacher." Cody smiled and flattered him. Although Master Gan didn't like it, he wouldn't resent it. Who would hate being flattered? "Mainly, I also want to spend more time refining it. My next magic weapon, as an alchemist, can't just be a magic wand and a magic bracelet."
Knowing that Cody wanted to arm himself with his ideals, Master Gan could only shake his head. The most important thing for a magician is himself. Although external objects can provide a lot of help, everything is in vain if his own strength is not enough. However, he will not attack Cody. There is rarely anything that interests him, and his progress in magic is not small. As long as he does not sacrifice the good for the sake of the weak, he will not interfere too much with him.
Master Gan waved his hand and a bag flew towards Cody out of thin air. Cody quickly caught it and did not rush to open it. Instead, he looked at Master Gan with a puzzled look. As soon as I touched the items in the bag, I knew what they were. I just didn’t know why Master Gan gave me the money.
Seeing Cody's confusion, Master Gan said calmly: "I have processed all the materials you have refined during this period. Those things that we cannot use, there are people outside who are rushing to get them. I will give you the money after deducting the cost." Your wages are refined like this every day, so you should have some compensation."
Cody quickly stood up and went to Master Gan and handed the bag back, "No, I can't ask for this money. I have learned so much from you, and you also gave me materials to refine magic weapons. It's too late to repay you, so how can I ask you for it?" Please take back the money." It's not that Cody is being polite or doesn't want it. With his money-grubbing character, how could he give up the money in his hand that is obviously not light? It's just like what he said, he has already got enough here. , and the materials sold were all provided by Master Gan, and he really shouldn't want them.
Seeing Cody hunched over and bringing the bag to him, Master Gan's face flashed with relief, and then he said impatiently, "Here you go, just take it. I don't like it for such a small amount of money. Even if you don't refine some materials, , I also have to do it myself. You save me from wasting time. If you want to repay me, study hard and let me worry less. When you are strong enough in the future, just cooperate with me to refine a magic weapon. . By the way, there is also the next competition with Sfulin's disciples, and you should perform well then. Although that old guy Sfulin is not an alchemist, he has a lot of magic weapons in his collection. You can help me win. One piece is worth countless dollars."
Seeing that Master Gan refused to take it back, Cody stopped insisting. Regardless of his just words, he immediately opened the money bag. After taking a look inside, he couldn't close his mouth. He reached out and took out a purple coin inside, and exclaimed: "The amethyst coin, it turned out to be an amethyst coin."
No wonder Cody was excited, he had never seen amethyst coins a few times. I usually carry copper coins and a small amount of silver coins on my body, and rarely touch gold coins. You must know that one gold coin can be exchanged for a hundred silver coins, let alone the amethyst coin worth a hundred gold coins in your hand now. , this is the greatest wealth in his history.
"Okay, okay, it's no shame to be so excited for just an amethyst coin without any potential. As long as you work hard and become an excellent alchemist in the future, you won't look down on such a thing anymore." Seeing Cody's excitement Master Gan said to himself, "Boy, knowing your preferences, am I still afraid that I can't control you?"
