Almighty Alchemist

The boat is docked on the shore, gently swaying in the turbulent water.

Simone sat on the bow, looking at the man who was as cold and hard as a stone, her soft eyes were as clear as water.

The work in her hand was done, she walked briskly: "Here you are."

It was a coir raincoat, which she had carefully woven for him.

The man didn't pick it up, and Simone wasn't angry, she knew his temperament like a piece of wood.

She put on the coir raincoat for him herself, just like a gentle wife.

Then she sat beside him: "Okay, let's continue your homework today. Come, tell me, the weather is fine today."

The man opened his mouth: "Today...the weather...is very good."

His pronunciation is a bit difficult, but it can be clearly felt that it is much smoother than before.

"Yes, that's it." Simone clapped her hands excitedly.

It has been a month, and Simone has been teaching this man to speak tirelessly every day. She found out that this man was not born stuttering, he just seemed not used to speaking, unwilling to speak, or even didn't know what to say. His vocabulary was so few and simple, his mind went blank, like a newborn baby.

Yes, it's just a baby, but it has the body of an adult, but it doesn't have the mind of an adult.

Simone felt she could change all that, that she could make this man talk like a real human being, normal.

For a whole month, she has been doing this.

She told the man about how the world exists, told him how to face life, told him many childhood stories, and encouraged him to talk.

The man no longer seemed to repel her, on the contrary, he was so interested in hearing this that he also began to accept Simone's education.

"You did a great job." Simone excitedly grabbed the man's hand and shouted: "Let's say another sentence: How are you? I miss you very much."

"Hello...are you...I..."

"Say it!" Simone was a little excited.

The man thought for a while and looked at Simone: "I miss you very much."

He said these four words very coherently.

Simone's face suddenly turned red.

"Well...very good...continue."

"You...why...stuttered?" The man was a little strange.

Simone blushed even more: "You learn from me... and I will... learn from you."

The man shook his head seriously: "Learn from me... not good... you... hello."

Simone burst out laughing: "Well, yes, you're improving so fast."

The man looked at the smile on Simone's face, and slowly, a smile appeared on his face.

Simone stared blankly, then suddenly yelled: "Ha, you can laugh, you can laugh! This is really a big improvement!"

Simone's yell attracted Grandpa, who glanced this way, then sighed, shook his head and returned to the cabin.

In the days that followed, everything started to go smoothly.

The man seemed to have accepted Simone completely, and he did what she said.

He studied hard and improved very fast, and gradually became fluent in speaking, but his mind still seemed a little unclear, and he still couldn't remember who he was and what his name was.

He accepted Simone's name, Brother Stone.

It is more difficult for a man to learn to live than to speak.

He can't do anything and always makes a mess of everything. Simone taught him how to fish, but he threw the hook on his own neck; taught him how to cast a net, but turned around and found that the man himself was caught in the net. She tried to free him from the net, but when he exerted the net the broken pieces of cloth crumbled to pieces.

Grandpa yelled angrily because of this-he was less and less afraid of this man.

The man was dull and unresponsive.

"Don't worry, let's take our time, you can learn." Whenever this time, Simone patted the man's hand and said to him.

As the days went by, Simone also gradually understood some characteristics of men.

She found that men seemed more accustomed to taking orders than requests.

Many times when you ask him to sit down on something, he will be indifferent, as if he didn't hear anything.

But if you give him an order directly, he will do it immediately, and often very well.

Just like a soldier, resolutely obey the orders of the chief.

So Simone also began to try to command men, and every time she would have a headache, what kind of man is this?

So after much thought, Simone finally made a decision. She said to the man: "You are not a machine, Brother Stone. You don't have to listen to anyone's orders, you are yourself!"

The man looked at her in confusion.

Simone's attitude is very serious: "You have to learn to have your own ideas, which is very important. You can't just follow orders to do things."

"So... is this an order?" the man asked.

Simone thought for a while, then shook her head: "No, this is a request."

"You mean...I...can do what I...want to do?"

"Yes!" Simone replied excitedly.

That night, Simone lay in her bed.

While tossing and turning, she was surprised to find a tall figure appeared beside her.

She was about to scream in fright, only to find that it was a stone.

In the shadows, the man looked at her without saying a word.

Simone wrapped herself in a quilt and looked at him nervously, only to see him slowly laying down beside Simone.

"It's... very warm here," he said.

He slept next to Simone, leaning on her shoulder, and fell asleep like a child.

Simone stayed up all night with her eyes wide open.

From this day on, the man has to sleep in Simone's bed and sleep with her every day.

As the days went by, Simone gradually got used to it.

Whenever a man was sleeping beside her, she would look at the man's eyelashes, and couldn't help but wonder what kind of story had happened to this man.

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Sido.

The land of wasteland, the land of chaos, the land of slaughter, the land of freedom.

There are too many names spread because of this land, but if you want to ask Xido people what kind of country they are, they prefer to call themselves the country of mercenaries.

This is a country of mercenaries for all the people, and almost every citizen is destined to be a mercenary from birth. They don't do production, hate intrigue and tricks, and sell their force for a living. The mercenary from Xiduo is known as the best and strongest fighter in the Northern Continent. The production rate of senior warriors here is the highest in the entire Fengming Continent. It has a population of one million, less than one percent of the Lance Empire, but has a number of high-level and peak warriors close to that of the Lance Empire, except that there are very few magicians.

Xido people believe in force, worship force, and rely on force. When people here are faced with conflicts, they are only willing and will only use force to solve the problem.

All the lords themselves are outstanding warriors, and even the king of Sidor must have a strong force to win the crowd. A weak man with no power to restrain a chicken, even if he becomes a king today, will be overthrown by those unruly warriors tomorrow.

Correspondingly, except for warriors, magicians and alchemists are not popular here.

If one compares the Reims Empire and Sido, then the former is like a prosperous American country, where people use morality and law to maintain everything, and at the same time attach importance to civil rights, while the latter is a backward and barbaric African society, where people use force to protect themselves, turmoil is the norm, and regime overthrow is even more common.

Therefore, when the vast majority of Lance people mentioned the place of Xiduo, the Metropolitan shook their heads to express their disdain. For them, this place is backward, primitive, barbaric, ignorant, with poor resources and meaningless.

When Raschel first set foot on this land, in the first four days, he saw three large-scale fights in a row.

The blood flowed on this land like a river, dyeing the earth red.

If it weren't for Udic and his four-winged tusk to protect him, he might have been snatched up on his first day in this country.

Although Xi Duo is cruel and vicious, he is definitely not stupid. They will also be afraid and shrink back when facing the strong, and they will never froze when they should shrink their heads. But in the face of the weak, they will turn into ferocious wolves in an instant, snatching all the merchants who come and go.

Usually people here have and only two identities: robbers and bodyguards. A few people have both identities.

"The town of Bike is ahead," Udyk said to Raschel.

The Spirit of Vengeance team is now in this town.

I heard that they have completely controlled the town, the whole town of Bike is under the control of the spirit of revenge, and Haley is the mayor.

This sounds a bit unbelievable, the low-level officials here are not appointed by His Majesty the King, but killed by himself. As long as you don't openly oppose His Majesty the King after becoming an official, then nothing else matters. As for the seal, Xido's fist is the seal. As for taxes, there are no taxes per se in such a poor place. The country's finances do not rely on tax revenue, but on some large mines controlled by the Sido regime. As for the guards... If you don't even have a soldier under your command, what kind of officer are you?

This is Xido, the naked power government.

Some people even say that Xido has no political power at all, only robbers, not without reason.

At last they came to Bike Town.

From a distance, the entire town has built a high wall, and soldiers of the Vengeful Spirit stand on the wall. Every ten meters or so of the wall is a tower. Inside the tower are archers and magicians, as well as an orb that casts a magic shield.

In addition, under the wall, there is also a cavalry team composed of Xiduo's specialty iron-backed beasts. They hold spears and wear rough armor to patrol the surrounding area, strictly checking every passerby.

It looks like a fortress here, but if you observe carefully, you will find that the defense measures here are almost exactly the same as the original Spark Prison.

This has to be said to be a rather ironic thing - after the prisoners escaped from the Spark prison and went to a foreign land, they rebuilt a new Spark prison with their own hands, and then trapped themselves in it with their own hands.

When Raschel came to the town, the soldiers guarding the gate sternly asked for his name and checked his identity. When he heard that the visitor was looking for Haili, he looked at Raschel suspiciously, and then said coldly, "Wait here."

Not long after, the door opened, and Hailey's sturdy body appeared.

Behind him were Chakle and Bailey.

"You're Raschel?" Haley looked at Raschel, then back at Chuckley.

Chakle nodded and said to Raschel: "When Huey told me that you would come here to help us, I almost thought he was crazy. But I didn't expect you to come here."

Raschel shrugged: "The changes in the world will always exceed our expectations. No one knows in which direction history will take a sharp turn. It's a big joke on us."

"Is the way here going well? Lord Raschel." Bailey said.

"Oh, there are some small troubles, but the impact is not too big. Udyk protected me very well. Oh, I think you know, he is Huey's student."

Chakle and Bailey bent down to Udyk at the same time, and made a standard salute: "Hello, Your Excellency Udyk." Udyk was relatively young, and accepted the salute with some trepidation.

Hailey, on the other hand, looked stubborn and did not express anything.

The difference between people can be clearly seen from this point. After all, Chakle and Bailey were royal warriors, and they were very good at talking to anyone. Udyk is Xiu Yi's student, no matter how he is, this alone requires everyone to be polite to him. After all, the Spirit of Vengeance belonged to Xiu Yi, there was no doubt about it, everyone including Hailey was just his subordinates, following his orders to do things. But Haley didn't give Udyk any special treatment because of this. Perhaps in his opinion, no one else needs special treatment from him except Huey himself.

This phenomenon flashed in Raschel's eyes, and the old fox just secretly laughed a few times in his heart.

On the way to the mayor's mansion, Raschel had a general understanding of the current situation of the Vengeful Spirit.

Vengeful Spirit came here half a year ago. At that time, it was ruled by a high-ranking warrior named Uhtred Braff.

After the Vengeful Spirit came to Bike Town, their mighty lineup quickly caught Braff's attention.

Obviously Braff didn't want such a powerful armed force in his town, so the Vengeful Spirit quickly fought with the defenders of Bike Town. In order to defeat the Vengeful Spirit, Braff borrowed troops from several neighboring towns, and started a life-and-death fight with the Vengeful Spirit.

The battle lasted for almost a month, and the six heavenly kings showed great fighting power in the battle, killing the coalition forces in Baike Town and fleeing. Hailey himself even advanced to the level of Sky Warrior, and Daniel Ainmunger, the Wolf of the Wind, also broke through to the seventh level, getting rid of the embarrassment of the only non-advanced warrior, the King of Heaven.

"In this case, why not launch a new attack immediately and take down the other towns as well?" Raschel asked Haley.

"Because we have encountered a very troublesome opponent." Haley replied: "Just before you came, we were holding a joint meeting to formulate a plan on how to deal with the opponent. Now Tina and the others are still conducting research. Maybe you can give us some good suggestions after reading the plan."

"I want to know who the opponent is first, and the situation in the vicinity."

"Actually, that's what gives us a headache," Haley replied, "because we don't know who we're playing against so far."

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