Conquest Chapter 35 Alchemy

Chapter 35 Alchemy

Translator: Tchu

Editor: Amaranth

Across the swamp there was a forest that gradually expanded from the foot of the mountain to top of the hillside was the dragon’s lair.

Just before they wanted to go on their way, Ada suddenly stopped on his track and looked around before quickly bypassing a big tree. Then, he suddenly stared at the ground while being lost in thought.

Wondering what was going on, Shaar walked next to Ada and looked at where he was staring to, surprisingly find a corpse lying on the ground!!

The corpse actually looked similar to the torched Shaar. The whole body was burned black and it was charred beyond all recognition. No one would be able to recognise its original appearance anymore.

Judging from this fellow’s appearance, he had also crossed this swamp and suffered from the flas. Afterwards, he died from the grave injuries.

When Ada made a sowhat strange expression, Shaar looked at him and asked: “Do you know him?”

“He was one of the magicians I et.” Ada unexpectedly sighed and his eyes showed a hint of sadness in them: “He was the one who proposed to bury in the ground.”

Shaar suddenly exclaid: “You can still recognize him after he was burned to this degree?!”

Ada snorted and looked at Shaar with a disdain look and pointed at the charred corpse: “First, although the clothes were mostly burnt, one can still identify the quality of the material. Only magicians would wear this type of fur lined robe. Secondly, beside the corpse there is a charred wooden stick made of walnut wood. This kind of wood is specifically used to make magic wands for magicians. Third, his right hand has only four fingers and these kinds of characteristics are easy to rember.”

When Ada suddenly smiled, his eyes seed to radiate an outwardly passive but inwardly evil-hearted aura as he said with an indifferent tone: “Fourth, anyone who did so bad things to , I would recognize them even when they turned to ashes.”

The look that Ada made while saying those words gave Shaar a small fright in his heart. He unexpectedly shuddered and felt that this Ada was giving him a strange stare. Not backing down, he quickly returned a fierce and firm stare back towards Ada.

Ada did not continue this staring contest, but smiled and walked next to the corpse. He squatted down and put his hand into the charred body while searching for sothing.

When Shaar saw what Ada was doing, his eyes imdiately lit up!

That’s right! Magicians were mostly rich people. Perhaps this dead guy had so valuable things on him. Just when he thought about this, he suddenly saw Ada fishing out a sheepskin bag from this corpse’s bosom.

This sheepskin bag was placed close to his body. Although this guy was scorched, the position covering his chest and belly had not been completely burned. So of the sheepskin bag’s outer layers had so burn marks, but when they opened it, the things inside were still intact.

Just when Ada opened two layers of the bag, Shaar imdiately snatched the bag from him and gave Ada a fierce stare while shouting: “Hey! You are my soso now and everything that you discover belong to !”

Not fighting back, Ada smiled a little and loosened his hand then stood at the side.

After opening all the sheepskins, Shaar found a yellowing booklet inside. It probably had dozens pages and was bind together by a leather cover. In addition, there was a thumb-sized transparent ball inside, which could be either made of glass or crystal.

Shaar decided to open that booklet first and imdiately discovered that those yellowing pages were filled with dense texts. So of the writings even had a charts labelled next to them – Not being able to recognize any of this writing, Shaar stared at it dumbstruck.

Ada who was standing nearby saw the distress in Shaar’s eyes and swept a look over the booklet in Shaar’s hand while smiling with disdain: “This is ‘Magic language’ and it is specially used by magicians of the Byzantine Empire. This language can only be taught by the church and therefore it is also called the language of god. Generally speaking, this language records notes of magicians, magic incantations and many classical religious doctrines of the church. An average person would not be able to learn this language.”

Shaar blushed a bit, but still stared at Ada with sceptical eyes: “Do you recognize it?”

“Hmpf.” Uncle Ada only gave back a grunt and decline to reply.

This guy could actually read it...... Shaar was sowhat annoyed while thinking about it, but right now he could not help but bite the bullet and to humiliate to the opposite party said:”You can read it so what. I have never studied before, but if I had, I would be able to read it as well. What’s so special about it.”

During that mont, the pitiful creature next to them finally cald down and timidly interrupted their conversation: “The...... Magic language, I can read it a little bit.”

“Oh?” Shaar’s eyes imdiately lit up and smiled happily while patting the pitiful creature’s shoulder: “Hahaha, very good. You are really worthily of being Uncle Shaar’s soso.”

Pitiful creature hesitated a bit and said embarrassed: “I can only read a little, since I have not read any books written about the magical aspect. I have only read so religious classics of the church when I studied it in the past.”

Forcefully pushing the book into the pitiful creature’s hand, Shaar generously replied: “Don’t worry, take a look first and let’s see what is written inside.”

The pitiful creature looked at the title on the front page and said hesitantly: “Ehm, the title seems to be “Magic Material refining techniques ......refining techniques......” stopping mid sentence, the pitiful creature’s face beca sowhat flushed and she obviously had so difficulties to read it.

“”Magic Material refining techniques manuscript – Alchemy Special-purpose Material Third Volu” replied Ada while standing there leisurely with his arms folded.

“What is alchemy?” Shaar asked excited with two shining eyes: “Is it a thod to refine gold with magic?”

Obviously, this hillbilly’s perception of magic was quite lacking......

Not even giving the pitiful creature ti to reply, Ada already could not bear it anymore and burst out laughing next to her: “Gold? Haha! If your words were heard by a magician that practice alchemy, he would kill you out of anger.”

Pausing for a bit, Ada sighed and looked at Shaar with a pitiful look: “Alchemy is a type of magic where gold was used as one of the magical tal ingredients. Generally speaking, ordinary tals were repellent against magic elents and only tal that had gone through a special refining technique could store magic inside. Broadly speaking, alchemy is used to refine or create various types of useful magic items. For example, giving tal a special magical enchantnt that in the end result would create magical weapons or armors.

On even more generalized terms, the concept of current alchemy has expanded. Now every thod of all manufacturing magical items is called alchemy. Such as making a magic cloaks, a magic rings and even creating a magic scrolls would be now called ‘alchemy’. Since 200 years ago, even ‘potions’ were included within the scope of alchemy. According to the legends, if an alchemist reached the pinnacle of knowledge, he would beco an Elental Archmage and could make the magic equipnts of such powerful force that their ranks would be beyond comparable to normal magical items. Unfortunately, I heard that there hasn’t been a powerful Elental Archmage on the continent for a very long ti.

Alchemy is amongst the most difficult to study in magic. One must practice alchemy, have learned all magic elentary theories and be very proficient in all the other types of magic. Only after having learned the foundation of all basic magic, one could use various magic materials to create all kind of magic items. In a general sense, a qualified alchemist must be theoretically skilled in several types of magic. At least he had to know all the characteristics and usefulness of magic materials. Therefore, this branch of magic is very difficult to study, currently I heard that the alchemists on the continent were getting fewer and fewer.

Most importantly, an alchemy master was generally speaking spending his entire energy on researching magic materials in the faculties so therefore do not possess strong combat capability. Moreover, if you cannot reach a profound rank, you are unable to produce powerful magic equipnts. Just to learn all the theories of magic in the different faculties would normally need the energy and the period of a lifeti for an ordinary magician. To be skilled is easier said than done and only soone with astonishing talents could achieve it, otherwise it is certainly difficult to beco an advanced practitioner.

Another important factor is, even if you can endure the loneliness and work hard to study alchemy, unless you reach the advanced level, you would not be able to manifest the true value of alchemy – If you cannot make powerful magical weapons and items you can only be regarded as a learned scholar of magical theory at most.

Right now there are fewer and fewer alchemy masters on the continent, because this magic is just too impractical. The ti of investnt is high, but the return is low. I heard that now only a few alchemy masters exist in the Royal Capital’s church headquarters teaching magic. Since they do not have strong fighting capabilities, they can only stay at the headquarters and becoming professors guiding the training of disciples in magic.

Currently, there are only so alchemy masters on the continent that can enchant so ordinary weapons with magic while creating so preliminary magic attribute weapons or equipnts. They also make so low end magic scrolls and so on. However, those have no actual value for real magicians and those enchanted magic weapons are often astonishingly expensive. Only a rich man and no ordinary warrior can afford it.”

When Shaar saw Ada speaking with such a high confidence, he could not help but beco dumbfounded and subconscious asked: “Then, doesn’t it an that alchemy would have no future anymore? Are there even people who are willing to study it?”

Ada looked at Shaar with an “idiot” look and said: “There will certainly be a future if the alchemist can practice until he becos a true master. You can create powerful magic weapons and unleashing terror on its opponent. However ......This is kind of like an illusion, resembling......

Resembling a maiden’s **. Everybody knows that such thing exists, but only a few people manage see it......”

Those words made the pitiful creature nearby blush.