Almighty Alchemist

Getting rid of Pierre is like getting rid of the spirit seed in the body in the valley, Gong Hao got rid of a big hidden danger.

And with Pierre's death, there was a huge power and technological vacuum in the alchemy castle.

Hines desperately needs an assistant who can help.

Not surprisingly, Gong Hao became the best choice, no matter from the perspective of his relationship with the princess, or the fact that he has done a great favor to Hines this time, he must show something, or from his own ability and wisdom, he deserves this reward.

Of course, Gong Hao replaced Andrew's position, just as he expected, from this day on, all the work of servants will be entrusted to him. And Andrew will take over from Pierre to be responsible for the management of apprentices.

Although there are still many top-level alchemy Haines who have not opened up to Gong Hao. After all, Hines cannot trust Gong Hao like he trusts Andrew and Pierre, but for most people, this is already a thousandfold grace.

As a lowly servant, after becoming an apprentice, he became an assistant. It was already a very remarkable thing for everyone to be able to get to this point.

It’s just that for Gong Hao, with Pierre’s secret records and the Electra’s notes, he no longer has to think about the issue of top-level alchemy—after Pierre’s death, Gong Hao came to his room openly and took those things.

So now he only needs to focus on the research of space magic.

In the dead of night, he would secretly study wind and soul spells. He had to seize the time to learn more about the mysteries of magic before Avril left. Otherwise, it would be difficult for him to get advice after Kloss left. As for Padgett, he went straight to the earth warrior and asked for some basic knowledge of warrior cultivation and a manual, planning to practice in the future.

Under the guidance of Cross, he can now master the four basic spells of the wind system and the two basic spells of the soul system.

Of course, no one except Lancelot knew he could do magic. Even Lancelot only knows that he knows a little bit of basic spells, well, isn't this what every alchemist should master?

For Gong Hao, there is no distinction between good and bad magic, only those who use it can distinguish between good and evil. On this island where life is precarious, not to mention taboo spells, even if he is asked to sleep with his arms around the puppet of the undead every day, to be accused by thousands of people, and to be hunted down by the world, he will not hesitate at all.

To his surprise, alchemy did have a fairly obvious effect on improving his magic power. When he consciously uses magic power to integrate into alchemy, he can clearly feel the obvious growth of his magic power.

The growth of this kind of magic power may not be faster than meditation, but for ordinary people who do not have magic talent, it is equivalent to really having a shortcut to become a magician. Gong Hao is not talented in soul spells, but he can use the soul magic beads needed to make flesh and blood puppets to exercise his corresponding sensing ability.

Since his main energy was concentrated on alchemy, the result was that although he had the induction talent of wind elements, in fact, his improvement in soul spells in the later stage was even faster than wind spells.

Gong Hao felt that if he continued like this, he might not have become a wind mage, but would become a soul mage first—even though his wind element talent was far stronger than soul talent.

Fate always likes to play tricks on people, such a situation is really ironic.

Six days after Pierre's death, it was finally time for Avril Lavigne to leave.

Although she already understood how she felt about Gong Hao, she still had no right to take Gong Hao away. Pierre's death made Gong Hao's status even more important, and Hines couldn't bear the price of losing another excellent apprentice and new assistant, and the empire couldn't afford such a loss either.

And the fables, fairy tales, and legends that Gong Hao told her also made the princess gradually understand the right and wrong of people's hearts and understand many truths. Make her no longer get angry easily, willful - at least in front of Gong Hao.

The night before she left, Avril Lavigne was lying on the bed, and Gong Hao was leaning against the bed. She was half nestled in Gong Hao's arms, listening to Gong Hao tell her the last story - Hamlet.

Hamlet is Shakespeare's later work. Although Romeo and Juliet may be more famous than it, Hamlet is more outstanding in terms of artistic value, philosophical perspective and social cognition.

The story is actually very simple. The pure revenge prince, the treacherous usurper king, the innocent infatuated girl, and those ministers with ulterior motives, staged a scene of tragedies and comedies in life on the scene of court gladiators. In the end, everyone died together, creating the most famous tragedy in history.

Shakespeare expresses the idea of ​​never-ending hatred and revenge in the simplest and clearest way.

He believes that forgiveness is a virtue.

"What a noble act it is to forgive the unforgivable!"

This is exactly what Shakespeare said.

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"To be or not to be, that is the question;

Should we silently endure the merciless blows of harsh fate,

Or should we fight against the endless suffering as deep as the sea,

and overcome it.

Which of these two choices is nobler?

Death is sleep, it is nothing more than that!

If a single sleep can end the pain of the mind and the troubles of the body,

Well, this ending is to be expected!

die, sleep...

But in sleep there may be dreams, ah, this is the hindrance;

When we are free from this dying skin,

What dreams come in death's sleep?

it makes us hesitate,

so that we willingly endure long-term disasters,

Otherwise, who would tolerate all kinds of torture in the world,

Such as the government of a tyrant, the pride of the arrogant, the pain of a lost love, the arrogance of laws and regulations, the insult of corrupt officials, or the humiliation of mediocrity,

What if he could simply kill it?

Who else would be willing to be an ox and a horse, and spend his life in labor,

silently enduring its sufferings, instead of flying far away, floating in the ambiguous realm,

Had he not been held back by fear of what was behind him?

This land is a country that no one knows, and no one has returned since ancient times.

So reason can make us cowards,

And worry can make our original brilliant ambition become dull, like a sick man.

Furthermore, these things can spoil big things, mess up big plans, and make them lose their courage. "

In the room, Gong Hao silently recited this classic line from Hamlet that has been sung for hundreds of years. Thanks to his college career, this is a classic line that is often used by a small number of mensao college students in contemporary courtship. Gong Hao is not immune, so he can reproduce it at this moment. The same is the dialogue between Romeo and Juliet in the small jungle. If he really asked him to record all the dialogues completely, then he would never be able to do it.

"It's really a poignant and touching love story. Xiu Yi, why do people want revenge?" Avril Lavigne asked.

"Because they have hatred in their hearts."

"Then why do people want love?"

"Because they also have love in their hearts."

"Which is more important, love or hate?"

Gong Hao hesitated for a moment, he shook his head and said: "I don't know, but I know that no matter it is love or hate, there is no reason. Everything that happens naturally has its cause and effect, but we cannot discover it."

Avril thought for a while, and snuggled Gong Hao even tighter: "I don't like this story, Xiu Yi, it's too sad. At least Romeo and Juliet still died for love, at least they died together. But Hamlet and Ophelia couldn't be together. He drove her crazy, he made her die...I hate him, I hate Hamlet, he is a madman who only knows revenge, and ignores the value of the lover around him."

"You're right, Avril, no one can hurt the one they love like this, but there are some things that must be done. Perhaps, it's just a matter of limits."

"Then if you were Hamlet, would you be determined to take revenge?"

"Hamlet insists on revenge because Claudius wants to kill him, and he himself has hesitated about the issue of revenge. If I were Hamlet, for the woman I love, I don't have to avenge Claudius, but the premise is that he must promise not to do anything to me."

Avril Lavigne nodded with a half understanding.

She didn't know that the reason why Gong Hao told himself this story today was not to promote forgiveness and kindness.

Because in the real Hamlet story, Hamlet’s fiancée is not the daughter of Claudius, the target of revenge, but at this moment in Gong Hao’s narration, he deliberately changed it to Ophelia as the daughter of the usurping king Claudius, which makes the story more similar to the situation between Gong Hao and Avril Lavigne, but the little princess herself will not understand it for the time being.

But at some point in the future, she'll understand all of it.

And this is what Gong Hao wanted to tell her.

An answer, an answer advanced to Avril Lavigne.

Gong Hao didn't know why he did this, subconsciously, he thought that he would not fall in love with this little girl, he was just using her all the time, but deep down in his heart, he always had a vague uneasiness. That's why he told this adapted story, hoping that Avril Lavigne would understand.

In other words, do you care about her feelings? Gong Hao was a little uncertain.

After the discussion, Gong Hao said: "Okay, Avril, it's time for you to rest. Go to bed early."

"Okay." The little princess lay back on the bed reluctantly. There were still tears on her face.

The tears at this time were still for Ophelia, a young girl who died innocently in the struggle between her lover and her father.

Early the next morning, Avril returned to the dragon boat.

Before boarding the boat, she shed tears again, and the tears at this time were for the boy who was about to leave the boy she had truly fallen in love with.

At the moment before she boarded the boat, she suddenly rushed into Gong Hao's arms, and pressed a kiss hard on his face.

A wet long kiss full of girl's fiery tenderness was imprinted on Gong Hao's lips.

This kiss made everyone bow their heads in fright, and dared not look up again.

Last year's parting, the little princess shocked everyone with her guardian knight.

This year, the little princess announced with her first kiss that her heart has been completely occupied by Hugh Iglesne.

When she left, all the servants, warriors, maids, mages, and housekeepers looked at Xiu Yiglaer with magical eyes.

Only Gong Hao himself was not moved at all.

His heart is like a rock.

Looking at the Wang Chuan going away, Gong Hao murmured: "Go all the way, my... Ophelia. This may be the last time we meet."