Chapter 1406 Blood Moon (Forty-Eight)

Old Jack left decisively.

He devoted his entire life and energy to alchemy, and was willing to go bankrupt and even nearly lose his reputation.

But once he decided to give up, he had no regrets and cut it off cleanly!

After completing the property transfer procedures, Old Jack boarded the train to the south.

He will spend the rest of his life in the place where his ancestors once lived.

After sending Old Jack away, Ronan did not move to his new home.

Because the Old Port District is far away from the Police Academy and the surrounding environment is not good, he continues to live in the original apartment.

He took a lot of time to study Von Bryant's alchemy notes.

This note, which has a history of more than a hundred years, records a lot of experience and insights of this legendary alchemist, and even includes the confusion and distress he encountered in the pursuit of truth.

The so-called truth is actually the law of the world.

Through this note, Ronan's mastery and understanding of alchemy goes straight to the essence from the deep.

He thus realized how much he had taken advantage of.

If there was no alchemy notebook, Ronan could certainly master the laws of this world through long-term study and research.

But the price he paid must be very high.

The time and money saved are really immeasurable!

In comparison, Old Jack's house and alchemy laboratory are nothing at all.

Of course, Ronan also knew that this notebook was actually Old Jack's thanks for saving his life.

He spent half a month studying the notebook, and then began to use the laboratory to refine his first extraordinary work.

As the carrier of the first work, Ronan chose a dagger.

This dagger is not an ordinary item. It was made by the skilled craftsmen of Ceres and forged with tungsten-titanium alloy steel. It can be regarded as the highest achievement of the Kingdom of Invia in the manufacture of cold weapons.

Its surface has very beautiful patterns, and its texture is tough and sharp, and it can pierce heavy armor.

Its price is as high as 100 gold pounds!

However, no matter how beautiful and sharp this dagger is, it is just an ordinary item.

What Ronan had to do was to give it extraordinary characteristics.

First, he engraved fine and complex alchemical runes on the blade of the dagger.

Alchemical runes are the soul of alchemy. Each rune has a unique property, and then through different combinations of runes, one or more extraordinary characteristics are woven.

The extraordinary characteristic that Ronan gave to this dagger is: sharpness.

The sharp rune group consists of three alchemical runes. It is very difficult to engrave these three complex runes on the hard surface of the dagger even with a special engraving knife.

Any mistake may lead to the failure of the final refining.

In fact, there is another simple trick to etch alchemical runes, that is, transfer.

First write the alchemical rune on transfer paper, then stick it on the object and apply special potion to make it corrode.

However, compared with engraving, the alchemical effect of etching will be weaker and the effect time will be much shorter.

Despite this, most alchemists use etching to add alchemical runes.

Ronan, on the contrary, is much easier and more convenient to him than etching.

With a strong will and extraordinary control, Ronan can carve alchemical runes on rice grains with a small carving knife, not to mention a weapon like a dagger.

The sharp rune set was completed in one go, without any mistakes or breaks, and was perfectly carved into the dagger.

Then, Ronan smeared the entire dagger with alchemical potion.

This alchemical potion is extremely expensive, and a small bottle costs one or two hundred gold pounds. Its function is to protect the object to maintain stable characteristics in the alchemical array and better integrate the extraordinary characteristics.

After the potion dries, the next step is the last and most critical step.

Ronan placed the dagger on the alchemical table.

The alchemical table is the most important tool for alchemists. The alchemical array is set on the table, which requires mana to activate, and then complete the final process of transforming ordinary items into extraordinary items.

As an ordinary person obsessed with alchemy, Old Jack mastered all the prerequisites for alchemy, but he could not complete this last step, which resulted in decades of delay.

Of course, this descendant of pirates did not blindly stick to the horns. For many years, he tried to use scientific methods to solve the problem of not being able to activate the alchemy array without mana.

These methods include but are not limited to using fire, electricity, sound waves, and chemical substances...

The result was that all failed!

Ronan also had no mana, and could not use the means of a spellcaster to activate the alchemy array.

However, Ronan was different from Old Jack. The dimension he stood on was much higher than the latter, and of course he would not use his head to hit the iron wall to break the situation like the latter.

Ronan combined the knowledge of the laws he mastered to analyze the alchemy array. After studying its working principle, he used psychic energy to replace mana.

In fact, at this stage of research, whether it is mana or psychic power, or other extraordinary powers, or even non-extraordinary powers, they can all achieve the same goal.

Understanding the laws and understanding the truth are the reasons why Ronan invested a lot of money and time in studying alchemy.

On the alchemy table, runes were lit up one by one, and they intertwined and connected to form an extremely complex light network, completely wrapping the dagger placed on it.

The surface of this weapon forged from tungsten-titanium alloy steel began to glow red, and the alchemy runes engraved on it gradually disappeared until a shallow mark was left.

Suddenly, a ball of light golden light bloomed, illuminating the entire laboratory!

The next moment, all the light converged.

And the dagger on the alchemy table seemed to have been reborn. Not only did the color change from black and gray to dark gold, but the texture on the surface disappeared cleanly, appearing deep and restrained.

Success!

Ronan smiled slightly and reached out to pick up the re-refined weapon.

He could feel that the dagger contained a strange power and had a subtle connection with the external space.

It seemed to be alive and breathing!

Ronan held the dagger in his hand and waved it casually.

The sharp blade silently cut through the air barrier, leaving a faint afterimage.

A silver coin that had just been thrown into the air quietly split into two halves and fell to the floor.

The fracture was extremely smooth!

Interesting.

Ronan played with his first alchemical work, and gained a deeper understanding and mastery of the laws of this world.

He felt that the day when he would touch the source of the world was not far away.

Taking a box, Ronan put the dagger in it.

Then put it back into the original groove in the wall.

He would neither use nor sell this work, so he left it here as a memorial to Old Jack!