Main Text Volume Chapter 171 Alchemical Finished Product

"Do you want to buy it? If you do, I can give you a set of art kits." David dug out a black tool bag from some corner, opened it, and saw that it was full of various art tools. There were pens, rulers, brushes, knives, and some colored inks.

Angel gritted his teeth and said, "Buy!"

The balance on the bone card was instantly at the bottom, and Angel took out 7 magic crystals from the small bag on his waist to make up the difference.

"Do you want it delivered to your door?" David asked with a smile.

Angel immediately waved his hand and refused, "No, I will hire someone outside."

He spent 50 silver coins and hired five big men. He picked up the packed alchemy tools and went home in a hurry.

He piled the bought tools in the basement, and then Angel continued to hire these five big men to go to the market in Apprentice Town and bought several special experimental tables and simple and comfortable stools.

For most of the next day, with the help of these big men, Angel's basement was successfully transformed into a laboratory. Although it still looks very simple, Angel is already satisfied.

The night is as cool as water. In this chilly night, Angel looks at the neatly cleaned laboratory and suddenly feels a sense of belonging.

In the following days, Angel's alchemy journey is smooth sailing.

It took three days for Angel to successfully refine the first work of his alchemy career: a folding fruit knife.

The fruit knife is also one of the 3D printer drawings stored by Jon in the holographic tablet. It only needs to create three main parts and two spare parts to assemble it.

——Assembly-type alchemy props are the mainstream mode of mechanical alchemy. Although it may be less technical than the one-piece molding, and the power is also much lower, but because of the convenience and universality of mechanical alchemy, it also has a certain status in the alchemy world.

The folding fruit knife, the handle of the squid tree, the wood grain itself is a kind of decoration; after the knife is turned over, you can clearly feel the coldness of the blade, and if you look closely, you can even see faint lines on the blade.

The hardness of the demon blood copper, coupled with the sharpness of the casting water, the combination of the two unclassified materials, formed a hard and cold front.

Angel took out the touchstone for testing sharpness, and gently scratched it, and a faint knife mark appeared on the touchstone.

The touchstone is a special tool for alchemists to test sharpness. Ordinary mortal weapons cannot break its shell. Only weapons that can break the magic defense of wizard apprentices will leave marks on the touchstone.

Although this fruit knife has no special effects, its texture and sharpness alone are far better than ordinary weapons. The fruit knife can leave marks on the touchstone, which means that it is basically a weapon that ordinary people can use.

As a practice work, Angel is very satisfied.

Moreover, this weapon is the first alchemical work in his life, and its commemorative significance is greater than its own meaning. Just like the dagger of the young Sanders that Angel obtained from the Nightmare Realm, it is just an ordinary weapon, but it has special meaning to Sanders.

Angel decided to collect the fruit knife and happily put it in his inner pocket.

Holding back the joy of success, Angel did not stop. He meditated for a while to recover most of his magic power and began to refine his second work.

For this work, he still chose the cold weapons in the 3D printing atlas, or kitchen utensils.

—— Chinese kitchen knife.

The reason why he used the Chinese kitchen knife as the second hand-made work was mainly to try one-piece molding.

He did not intend to make the Chinese kitchen knife into an assembled alchemical prop, but wanted to make a one-piece prop directly in the hot melting method.

One-piece molding was obviously much more difficult than he imagined, and he spent a lot of thought on just selecting materials. One-piece molding does not mean using only one material, but means making the desired props in the hot melting method, and the material is not limited to one.

After many experiments, Angel selected dozens of material matching methods in the "Material Combination" recorded by Nightmare Realm, and tried them one by one.

If it were any other alchemist, it would take more than half a year to match the materials for the final product. However, Angell had an alchemy heritage from an unknown school, which allowed him to skip many steps. More importantly, everything he refined had a diagram.

Moreover, the 3D diagram was projected on a holographic tablet, which provided a 720-degree panoramic view without any blind spots. Sometimes, even if Angell didn't understand the principle, he could still make a rough idea by copying it.

Five days later, Angell's Chinese kitchen knife was finally completed.

The integrated handle and blade flashed a cold light. This kitchen knife still had no special effects. After all, Angell had never learned magic patterns, didn't understand magic arrays, and didn't put in any special materials or catalysts. In the end, the special effects were minimal.

Angell waved his hand casually, and the Chinese kitchen knife easily cut a nearly 1 cm knife cut on the touchstone.

"One-piece molding is indeed better than assembly." Angell thought to himself. Just holding it in his hand, he felt the sense of integration.

After the success of making the Chinese kitchen knife, Angell's heart also became wild.

He decided to make a series of Chinese-style weapons.

The reason why he did this was not because of sentimentality, but purely for practice and to familiarize himself with the combination of various materials.

Ten days later, Angell walked out of the underground laboratory in a cloud of dust. At this time, on one side of the underground laboratory, there were three weapons.

A sword, a knife, and a thorn.

The sword was a three-foot Qingfeng sword, the knife was a sheathless Tang sword, and the thorn was a double-wielded Emei thorn.

Except for the Emei Thorn, which is molded in one piece, the other three weapons, including the sword and knife, are only of the grade of folding fruit knives. Angell estimated that he could sell them for one or two magic crystals. But he has no plan to export them for the time being, after all, he is in a hurry. Moreover, although these weapons are considered alchemical weapons, they are also the bottom kind, and any mortal blacksmith may be able to refine them.

Angell was depressed in the basement for several days, and gave himself a half-day holiday, rested and relaxed for a while, and returned to the quiet room again.

The basic plate of alchemical works is actually the mastery of fire, shaping, and condensation, which Angell has roughly mastered. The various cold weapons he refined a few days ago are actually the basic plate of alchemy.

But learning these does not mean that Angell has become an alchemical apprentice. At most, he is considered a top blacksmith in the mortal world.

The real alchemy lies in the props it refines, which have ordinary effects.

The so-called ordinary, for example, equipment with amplification effects, machines that can stabilize energy, weapons that can release spells, props with special effects, and more magical and unspeakable abilities. Even space props and time props can be achieved through alchemy.

Angel's goal is naturally this kind of alchemical props.

Generally speaking, if you want to make alchemical props with ordinary special effects, you can do it through these means:

First, magic pattern learning. In the alchemy process, matching the properties of the materials and adding corresponding magic patterns can promote each other and finally get ordinary special effects.

Second, magic energy array. This belongs to magic pattern learning and is an upgraded version of magic pattern learning.

Third, guide the special nature of the material.

Of course, there are other means, but the mainstream is these three.

Among them, the first two are also called "enchantment", and the third is called "blending".

In the alchemy world, enchantment is just a side path, and blending is the most orthodox means.

And if the blending is good, the effect of the alchemy product is far better than enchantment. Because if you want to make alchemical items have special effects through magic runes and magic array enchantment, you also need the coordination of the corresponding material properties. You can't engrave whatever you want; there are great limitations.

And blending is to fully show the special properties of a certain material through the combination of materials. For example, under certain special conditions, winter gold and ice crow feathers can bring out the icy special effects of the material itself through the blending of dozens of different catalytic liquids.

The icy special effects of alchemical items made in this way can be attached to materials of any nature, will not be restricted by enchantment, and the effect is much stronger than enchantment.

If Angel wants to go further on the road of alchemy, he must choose the third option: blending.

But in order to cope with the upcoming tower climbing, Angel decided to take a shortcut: enchantment.

He took out "Basics of Alchemy" and began to learn how to enchant step by step.

If you want to learn enchantment, you must first understand magic runes.

Magic pattern learning has its own set of characters, or in other words, each pattern in the magic pattern is a character, which represents many worldly truths.

For example, a magic pattern for ripening plants contains principles including weather, moisture, soil, seasons... and so on. These weather, moisture, soil, seasons... all represent a pattern, and arranging these patterns according to the given values ​​is a complete magic pattern.

A true magic pattern apprentice must start from the meaning of each pattern. The basic 60000+ patterns have different meanings, and even some with the same meaning will derive different patterns because of the different seasons expressing the truth. Just like the same pattern expressing "sunset", because one is winter sunset and the other is summer sunset, there are different patterns.

Angel naturally does not have the patience to memorize these 60000 basic patterns.

For alchemists, it is usually forced to memorize the complete magic pattern pattern and replicate it into the alchemical props without understanding the meaning of each pattern.

Generally speaking, it is just copying the pattern.

But copying the pattern is not easy.

Because carving magic patterns also requires stable magic power and long-term carving, and no mistakes can be made in the middle.

For example, carving a complete magic pattern - the wave magic pattern. In a huge circular pattern, there are tens of thousands of lines with different directions and corners, which are finally combined into the wave magic pattern. During the alchemy process, the alchemist must control the output of magic power and carve this magic pattern on the alchemy props stroke by stroke.

Moreover, when carving magic patterns, whether it is the spacing, direction or size, there is a slight difference, which basically means failure.

Because of this, not many alchemists choose the "enchantment" path.

But for Angel, "enchantment" is very suitable for him.