"You want it? If you buy it, I can make the decision to give you a set of designer bags. " Dave took out a black tool bag from somewhere and opened it. It was filled with all kinds of art tools. There were pens, rulers, brushes, knives, and some colored ink.
Angor gritted his teeth. "I'll take it!"
The balance on his bone card was almost empty. Angor had to take out seven magic crystals from his waist pouch to make up for the difference.
"Do you want me to deliver it to your door?" David asked with a smile.
Angor quickly waved his hand. "No need. I'll hire someone outside."
Angor spent 50 silver coins to hire five men. He carried the packed alchemy tools and hurried back home.
He placed the tools in the basement and hired the five men to go to the market in Apprentice Town to buy several tables and chairs made of special materials.
In the next half of the day, with the help of these men, Angor's basement was successfully turned into a lab. It still looked simple, but Angor was already satisfied with what he had.
The night was as cold as water. Angor looked at the tidy laboratory and suddenly felt a sense of belonging.
Angor's alchemy journey went smoothly for the next few days.
Three days later, he successfully crafted his first alchemy creation — a foldable fruit knife.
The fruit knife was one of the 3D printer blueprints stored in Jon's hologram tablet. Angor only needed to make three main parts and two spare parts to assemble the item.
Assembling alchemy items was the mainstream way of mechanical alchemy. Compared to the one-piece items, mechanical alchemy items lacked technical skills and were much less powerful. However, mechanical alchemy still enjoyed a certain status in the alchemy world because of its convenience and universal applicability.
Folding fruit knives, such as the handles of flower trees, had wood grains on them as decorations. When the knife was opened, one could clearly feel the coldness of the blade. If one looked carefully, one could even see some faint patterns on the blade.
The hardness of the Earth Fiend Copper, coupled with the sharpness of the Cast Water, formed a cold, hard blade when the two unranked materials were used together.
Angor took out a sharpness touchstone and gently scratched it. A faint mark appeared on the touchstone.
A touchstone was a special tool used by alchemists to test sharpness. Common weapons could not break its shell. Only weapons that could break the magic defense of apprentices could leave a mark on the touchstone.
Although this fruit knife did not have any special effects, its quality and sharpness were already much better than a normal weapon. The fact that the fruit knife could leave a mark on the touchstone meant that it was basically a weapon that could be used by supernatural beings.
Angor was satisfied with his work as a practice tool.
What's more, this weapon was the first alchemy product he had ever made, so its commemorative significance was greater than its original meaning. Just like the dagger he obtained from young Sunders in the Nightmare Realm. It was just a common weapon, but it had a special meaning to Sunders.
Angor decided to keep the fruit knife and happily put it into his inner pocket.
He held back his joy and meditated to recover most of his mana. Then, he began to work on his second creation.
For this work, he still chose the cold weapon or kitchen utensils from the 3D printing catalog.
Chinese Kitchen Knife.
He chose the Chinese Kitchen Knife as his practice tool because he wanted to see how it could be combined into one.
He did not plan to make the Chinese Kitchen Knife into an alchemy item. Instead, he wanted to create an item in one go using Thaw.
Creating an item in one go was much more difficult than he expected. Just the selection of materials already took him a lot of effort. Creating an item in one go did not mean using only one material. It meant that he could create an item in Thaw without limiting it to one type of material.
After several experiments, Angor chose dozens of material combinations from Material Synthesis recorded in the Nightmare Realm and began to test them one by one.
If it had been another alchemist, it would have taken at least half a year to match the materials and determine the weight of each material. Angor, on the other hand, had an alchemy legacy from an unknown school, which allowed him to skip many steps. More importantly, the items that he refined were all illustrated.
The hologram tablet projected the 3D blueprint, showing a 720-degree panoramic view with no blind spots. Sometimes, even if Angor did not understand how it worked, he could still draw a rough picture.
Five days later, Angor's Chinese Kitchen Knife finally took shape.
The hilt and blade of the saber, which had been integrated into one, flashed with a cold light. The knife still did not have any special effect. Angor never learned about runes or magic arrays. He also did not put any special materials or catalysts into it. It was almost impossible for him to create any special effect.
Angor waved his hand and the Chinese Kitchen Knife easily left a 1-centimeter mark on the touchstone.
"Creating an item in one go is better than assembling it," Angor thought to himself. He could feel the smooth texture of the knife just by holding it in his hand.
After successfully creating the Chinese Kitchen Knife, Angor's heart grew wild.
He decided to create a series of weapons in Chinese style.
He did this not because of his passion. He just wanted to practice and get familiar with the combination of materials.
Ten days later, Angor walked out of his underground lab with a cloud of dust. There were three weapons placed on one side of the lab.
A sword, a knife, and a stab.
The sword was a three-foot-long Azure Edge Sword, the knife was a sheathless Tang Saber, and the stab was a dual-wielding Emei Bayonet.
Apart from the Emei Bayonet, the knife and sword were only Foldable Fruit Knives. Angor estimated that he could sell them for one or two magic crystals. However, he did not plan to sell them yet. He was running out of time. These weapons were considered alchemy weapons, but they were the lowest kind. Even mortal blacksmiths could make them.
Angor felt bored in the basement for several days. He gave himself half a day off to relax and went back to the soundproof room.
The basics of alchemy were the mastery of heat, shape, and condensation. Angor already knew how to use them. The cold weapons he made a few days ago were actually the basics of alchemy.
However, learning them did not mean Angor was an apprentice alchemist. At most, he could be considered a top blacksmith in the mortal world.
True alchemy lay in the fact that the tools it refined had extraordinary effects.
So-called supernatural items included equipment with buffs, machines that could stabilize energy, weapons that could cast spells, items with special effects, and many more unspeakable abilities. Even space items and time items could be created through alchemy.
Of course, Angor's goal was to create such items.
To create an alchemy item with supernatural effects, there were several ways to do it.
First, Rune Study. During the alchemy process, one needed to match the properties of the materials and add the corresponding runes to enhance the effect.
Second, Rune Study. This belonged to the study of mageweaths, which was an upgraded version of mageweaths.
Third, Rune Study.
Of course, there were other methods, but these were the most popular ones.
The first two were also called "enchantment", while the third was called "synthesis".
In the alchemy world, enchantment was only a minor art. Synthesis was the most orthodox method.
If the synthesis was done well, the effect of the alchemy item would be much better than enchantment. Using Rune Study and Rune Study to enchant an alchemy item, one needed to match the properties of the materials. One could not simply carve whatever one wanted on the item. There were great limitations.
Synthesis, on the other hand, was to combine the materials to fully express the properties of a material. For example, Winter Gold and Frost Raven Feather could be mixed with dozens of different catalysts under certain conditions to induce the frost effect of the material itself.
An alchemy item created in this way could be applied to any material without being restricted by enchantment. The effect would be much better than enchantment.
If Angor wanted to go further on his path of alchemy, he had to choose the third method — synthesis.
However, to prepare for the upcoming challenge, he decided to take a shortcut — enchantment.
He took out Basics of Alchemy and began to learn how to enchant items step by step.
To learn enchantment, one must first understand Rune Study.
Rune Study had its own set of characters. In other words, each pattern in a rune was a character that represented many truths of the world.
For example, a rune used to accelerate the ripening of plants contained truths such as weather, moisture, soil, seasons, and so on. Weather, moisture, soil, seasons, and so on all represented a pattern. Arranging these patterns according to certain values would create a complete rune.
A true magic rune apprentice would definitely have to start from learning the meaning of every single line. There were over 60 million basic lines with different meanings, and there were even some that had the same meaning. However, due to the different seasons in which the principles were expressed, different lines would be derived from them. For example, the patterns that represented "sunset" would have different patterns because one represented a winter sunset, while the other represented a summer sunset.
Angor did not have the patience to memorize all 60 million basic patterns.
Alchemists usually forced themselves to memorize a complete rune pattern and copy it into an alchemy item without understanding the meaning of each pattern.
Generally speaking, they had to copy the pattern.
However, it was not easy to copy a pattern.
This was because drawing a mageweath also required stable mana and a long period of time. Moreover, there couldn't be any mistakes during the process.
For example, carving a complete rune — Wave Rune. In a large, circular pattern, there were tens of thousands of lines in different directions and corners. In the end, a Wave Rune was formed. Alchemists had to control their mana output during the process and carve the rune on an alchemy item, one stroke at a time.
Also, if there was even the slightest difference in the distance, direction, or size of the rune, it would mean failure.
For this reason, not many alchemists chose the path of "enchantment".
But for Angor, "enchantment" was perfect for him. Hermit Fox said, "I wrote so many settings because I wanted to use them to build my ideal alchemy system. But when I finished reading them myself, I felt like I was talking nonsense with a straight face. So embarrassing. (My cover is covered …)
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