When Kyle Sichi returned home after finishing today's experiment, his wife had already made pancakes and mushroom soup. She also poured him a glass of white wine.
The latter two items were sold in the Convenience Market, especially the white and huge mushrooms. As the introduction on the sign said, "You can't find anything more delicious than this." After tasting it, he found that it was true. After eating one piece, it was hard to forget the full and unique taste.
Of course, it was also very expensive. A palm-sized flower cost one silver royal. If it were not for the high salary, Kyle would not have bought such expensive food. There were many things like this, such as soap and mirrors. As long as one had money, life in the town was much more comfortable than that of the common nobles.
Roland was simply unfathomable. This was also what he felt the most.
After dinner, his wife handed him a letter.
"This is?"
"The guard sent it this afternoon. You hadn't come back yet," his wife said while cleaning up the tableware. "According to him, it seems to be from Redwater City."
"Really?" Kyle walked into the study, cut open the envelope with a knife, and took out the letter and opened it.
The first sentence was "Hello, dear mentor".
This was a letter from Chavez. He could not help but smile. He sat at the desk and carefully read it.
It turned out that after he left the Redwater City Alchemy Workshop, another alchemist, Capora, became the new Chief Alchemist. However, this man was narrow-minded. After obtaining the crystal glass formula left by Kyle, he not only claimed to the Lord that it was the work of him and Kyle, but also intentionally or unintentionally excluded Chavez in the alchemy experiment.
In the letter, he complained that perhaps it was because he borrowed Capora's apprentice when exploring the double-stone acid-making method, but in the end, he did not inform Capora of the results in advance. Now, several other alchemists seemed to have begun to avoid him, intentionally or unintentionally, which made Chavez very annoyed.
Kyle could roughly understand their thoughts. As the youngest alchemist in the refining room, many people thought that Chavez stood out among the many apprentices only by luck and his appreciation. However, the Chief Alchemist sneered at this view. Saltpeter and green vitriol were both common materials. The reason why it was Chavez who discovered the double-stone acid-making method and not others was enough to explain the problem. Observation, memory, bold conjectures, and careful experiments were all indispensable. This young man's talent was even above his own.
In the end, Chavez also attached two alchemy formulas to the letter, saying that he had recently discovered two acids and wanted to share it with his mentor. Kyle could tell at a glance that the essence of these two formulas was nothing more than the neutralization reaction of acid and base to produce salt. He could write more than a dozen such formulas in one breath.
Kyle Sichi sighed and put down the letter. His eyes moved to the "Elementary Chemistry" book that had been flipped through several times on the table.
The thing that changed everything was the 'ancient book' that Her Highness had given him. If it wasn't for it, perhaps he would still be like Chavez, still searching for the surface soil in the chaos and confusion, and treating it as a treasure.
He took the book and flipped to the last page.
It was a table that was neatly divided into more than a hundred squares.
Every time he saw this form, he couldn't help but get goosebumps. He felt an indescribable reverence … and fear.
The upper left corner of the grid was marked with a small serial number. Until the end, there was a total of 118. In addition to the first two rows, most of the grid was blank, but there were some in the middle that were filled with symbols. For example, number 26: Iron, number 29: Copper.
The table's name was "Periodic Table of Elements".
The chief alchemist had shakily held the book and asked Roland about the contents of the blank spaces. The answer he got was that it was originally filled, but he couldn't remember.
If the other side wasn't His Royal Highness, what he wanted to do the most was to slap the whole book on his face.
According to the book, this table included all the elements in the world. If alchemy existed in the Holy Bible, there was no doubt that it would be the most dazzling chapter in the Holy Bible. But what made him afraid was, in the end, what kind of person would be able to draw such a chart? If they had already reached this point, then what about alchemy? It was nothing more than a crooked castle built by a group of children in the mud.
Kyle suddenly remembered His Royal Highness' promise, if he could also call Chavez over, and also pull a group of apprentices that he didn't have enough time to take with him last time, maybe there would be hope to fill up the three new laboratories. In this way, the yearning "Intermediate Chemistry" would also be in his hands.
Thinking of this, he immediately took out a piece of white paper and began to write a reply.
In fact, during the meeting, His Royal Highness had asked him whether he had a clue about large-scale acid production, but he didn't tell him the truth, because the content was complicated and lengthy, and it would be a waste of time to talk about it. Most importantly, he didn't know whether this plan would work or not. After all, the method he had conceived was completely based on the elements and reaction principles in the book.
Compared with the previous alchemy experiments, this hypothesis was even a bit like a child's ravings in his dreams. Using materials that had never been seen before and reactions that had never been heard of, to produce something that seemed to have nothing to do with the raw materials, just because they had the same element.
However, Kyle Sichi had a faint premonition that this method might work!
After all, the previous hundreds of replacement experiments all proved the correctness of the content in the book.
With a preliminary plan, the next step was to complete a full set of theoretical experiments in the laboratory, because His Royal Highness had said that the process of large-scale production of products could also be reproduced in the laboratory.
He quickly finished writing the letter. He didn't try to persuade Charles too much, but directly told this former disciple about the knowability, measurability, and attainability of alchemy. Kyle believed that any wise man who was interested in alchemy would not let go of such an opportunity to see the truth.
He folded the letter, put it into an envelope, and sealed it with wax. Then he just had to wait until tomorrow to give it to a merchant who was willing to deliver the letter.
After finishing all this, his line of sight once again moved to the periodic table of elements.
If the blank space on the table could never be filled up, Kyle would only feel that life would be boring in the future. Fortunately, the last words of His Royal Highness Roland made him excited, and those words still lingered in his ears.
Don't show that expression, each element on the periodic table is arranged according to a rule, you can completely rely on yourself to fill it up.
Rule … arrangement? Do you mean that unknown elements can also be derived, just like the derivation of alchemy formulas?
Yes, even if you have never seen them, you can still describe their appearance and characteristics.
Then … what is this rule?
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