Almighty Alchemist

The road to Fragrant Leaf City has been rushing for more than ten days. The road blocked by heavy snow is not easy to walk. In addition, there are lines to be memorized on the way and rehearsals during breaks, so there is always very little time to hurry. On the fourteenth day, they finally arrived at Fragrant Leaf City.

After the Violet Song and Dance Troupe entered Fragrant Leaf City, they quickly found a hotel to stay.

"Okay, we're here. Lads, work quickly, Alec, you arrange everyone's room. Girls can go to the street to look around, but the time can't be too long. As for me, now I'm going to talk to the theater owners in this city about renting rehearsal venues, and find other song and dance troupes. We're going to start making money!" Clarice ordered loudly, attracting the attention of passers-by.

Then Clarice rushed into Xiuyi's eyes like a gust of wind: "Aren't you going to sell your medicine? Then you can come with me. I really want to see if your medicine can be sold at a good price."

Then, without any explanation, he took Xiuyi to the street, followed by a large group of girls from the song and dance troupe—they were going to consume, even though they had very little Kingwitt in their pockets.

Only at this time can Xiu Yi truly appreciate the cityscape here. Poor him, it was the first time he had the opportunity to come to a big city when he traveled to another continent for nearly four years.

Most of the buildings in Fragrant Leaf City are designed with round domes and spires, and the building materials used are mainly local specialty fragrant wood. Fragrant wood is an exceptionally hard wood, which is very suitable for processing into various household utensils. This kind of wood usually exudes a faint aroma. If it is burned with fire or watered by rain, the aroma will become more intense. When most of the houses in the whole Fragrant Leaf City use this kind of fragrant wood as the main building material, every rainy day, there will be a burst of tangy fragrance floating over the entire city, which is refreshing, and the name of Fragrant Leaf City is derived from this.

Xiu Yi noticed that most of the passers-by here were dressed in gorgeous clothes, and they looked carefree and lived a very leisurely life. There are a lot of shops on the road, and they are all well-decorated. The goods in the shops are also dazzling, dizzying.

Daisy, Randy and a group of girls kept running from one window to another, and then exclaimed fussily, either praising this one for its beauty, or asking for that one, and then said discouragedly that there was no money, or the sisters would give me some first.

"It seems that this city has a very good business atmosphere, and the people here are also very rich. To my surprise, Fragrant Leaf City is not a big city. It is an inland city with no port, no prosperous maritime trade, and its location is relatively remote. So what did it rely on to develop?" Huey asked Clarice.

"Oh, speaking of Fragrant Leaf City, its wealth is due to the special products here." Clarice introduced some information about Fragrant Leaf City to Xiuyi.

The prosperity of Fragrant Leaf City benefits from the fragrant wood produced here. This kind of wood that exudes a strong fragrance has always been the favorite of nobles, and has become a building material sought after by the empire and even the nobles of the entire continent.

In Fragrant Leaf City, the most developed business is probably the trafficking of fragrant wood, and the most outstanding industry is probably the coloring and processing of fragrant wood. Merchants from all over the world come and go here in an endless stream, gradually driving the economic situation of the entire Fragrant Leaf City.

As a result, Fragrant Leaf City has become the richest and most beautiful city in the Versa Group. It is said that it is likely to replace Old York City as the new city of Versa Group in the future.

Due to years of felling, the growth state of the fragrant wood has been seriously damaged, and now the fragrant wood forest has gradually decreased. People always know the rareness when they lose it, so the protection of fragrant wood has finally begun. As a result, the price of fragrant wood has soared, and people have begun to use stone instead of wood to build houses. Nowadays, people who own a fragrant wood building don't have to worry about economic problems. The high price prevented Fragrant Leaf City from reducing its income due to the lack of fragrant wood, and the enriched business further increased the city's economic status. Therefore, most of the residents of Fragrant Leaf City were wealthy, and people wanted to have fun when they were free, so it gradually became the premier entertainment center in the Versa Group.

Fragrant Leaf City is the territory of Gerola Ablit.

Another meaning behind the name Ablit is—the great magister of the sixth-level purple-robed space system.

This is a more noble status than a lord.

The fourth-level black-robed mage Erdoris who sent Xiuyi to the island was Ablit's student.

Since the space system is the most complex and profound magic among all the magic series, it is extremely difficult to improve the mage level of the space system. Ablit, the purple-robed mage, is already the highest-ranking mage of the same line in the Lance Empire. Although he is a purple-robed mage, he has the same status as the golden robe in terms of national treatment. The fiefdom given to him by the Lance Empire is a complete city.

Xiu Yi knew that the magic of the space system might be the weirdest of all the magic systems. There are pitifully few low-level space spells, and their practicality is poor, while there are quite a lot of high-level space spells, and they are extremely powerful. Therefore, the vast majority of space mages will practice at least one other type of spell at the beginning of their practice. Ablit is a fourth-level magician of the water department at the same time, while Erdoris is a fifth-level magician majoring in the fire department. I heard that his mentor once reprimanded him for this—the archmage of the space department taught a student who majored in the fire department and majored in the space department.

But to Xiu Yi, the attraction of space magic is far less than that of alchemy. The reason why Ablit deserves his attention, and the reason why Fragrant Leaf City is worthy of his stay, is entirely because of another thing—it is said that Ablit also owns a notebook from Electra.

This news was inadvertently learned when I made friends with Bailey.

Ablit regards this notebook as his most proud treasure in his life. Although he is not an alchemist himself, he still cherishes his broom and is unwilling to give it to anyone.

It is said that Hines once asked Ablit for this notebook, but Ablit mercilessly refused. This made Hines very angry. Later, in a deliberate trial by Huey, Huey found that Hines had a very bad impression of Ablitt and had a very bad reputation, which meant that the rumor was likely to be true.

This is the real reason why he sent himself to the Versa group in the first place.

For Xiu Yi, alchemy is the only magic method that can cast all kinds of spells from different schools at the same time. Although it is not a magic that can be used casually, it also has a powerful power that magicians do not have.

Before he can have the achievements of Electra, looking for Electra's notes, following his footprints, studying his achievements, and at the same time satisfying his desire to travel the world is actually the plan he has made for himself.

In Raschel's analysis of Xiu Yi, at least this point is correct. People like Xiu Yi cannot walk aimlessly. People like them will always set a goal for themselves, and then pursue and advance towards this goal until they reach the peak. However, it is clear that he understands what Xiu Yi's plan is, and it is beyond his ability to guess. The information asymmetry made Raschel miscalculate Xiuyi's destination even though he saw where he was going. After all, he couldn't have thought that Xiuyi would be a time traveler instead of Huey Glare in the true sense. This gave Xiuyi more time to do what he wanted to do—to get another notebook.

It's just that if you want to get that notebook, Ablit, the great mage of the space system, is destined to be an insurmountable barrier.

You must know that although there are very few types of space magic, every kind of space magic is extremely practical, and the power of space mages is also self-evident.

Instantaneous movement can make oneself come and go freely, making it hard to guard against like a ghost; breaking the barrier can shatter all barriers; the maze of light can make people permanently trapped in the maze of space; tearing the space can directly exile the opponent into the turbulent flow of space...

Almost all magic related to space spells equates to powerful, terrifying, and difficult to resist.

As a sixth-level space magician, Xiuyi has no doubt that Ablit can use at least three of the above spells proficiently.

It's just that to use such magic, the magic power to be consumed is also huge.

Magicians of the space department also complete their teleportation and space tearing behaviors by opening the space barrier, but they do not have the endless power of the teleportation circle, so every time they open the space barrier, they have to pay a huge price. And the farther you teleport yourself, the more energy you consume. Therefore, even a purple-robed mage like Ablit cannot teleport himself a long distance at once, let alone teleport infinitely every day. Generally speaking, the teleportation distance of the space system is limited by the visual field of vision, and it is impossible for them to teleport themselves to places that cannot be reached by their own field of vision, unless they have spatially positioned a certain place in advance.

Thinking of this, Xiu Yi suddenly had an extremely weird idea in his heart - can the energy circulation theory when making the teleportation circle be used in the practice of space magic?

As soon as this weird thought came up, it circulated endlessly in his heart.

Xiu Yi knew very well that after the magician broke through the space barrier, he needed to consume mana constantly to maintain it, so he had to teleport himself there immediately, otherwise the mana would be wasted, or the mana would be exhausted and then stop automatically.

But once he has the ability to circulate energy, it means that he can break through the space barrier, create a special channel that only belongs to him, and then use it at any time. He can even break through multiple space barriers during this period of time to create multiple space passages and connect them.

In this way, he can appear in different places many times in a row within a period of time, and he can go back and forth freely.

And this has never been possible for any great magister of the space system.

Of course, it would consume an astonishing amount of mana to break through multiple space barriers in a row, but if the distance was limited to a fixed small area, mana could be greatly saved. So if this method is used in battle——Xiu Yi can completely imagine that he disappears and reappears in a certain area in an instant, constantly moving positions without any hindrance. This means he will always have the initiative on offense. Even enemies stronger than him would probably be defeated by his stealthy style of play.

This is a bit like the phantom attack technique of a samurai when he has cultivated to a high level. It's just that the phantom attack is caused by the afterimage left in the human eye by high-speed movement, and it is not a real instant transfer. However, his own approach can allow him to have absolute control on the battlefield.

Of course, in the face of powerful surface-destructive magic, this approach does not have much effect, but in the face of opponents like high-level warriors, he has greatly improved his survivability.

When he was on Purgatory Island, in order to survive, he had no way to study grudge and magic hard, and most of his energy was spent on the research of alchemy. But far away from that hell world at this moment, he finally realized that he still has a lot to learn, improve, and continue to study and explore.

And now the flash of inspiration in his mind undoubtedly opened an important door for him to learn magic.

Xiu Yi once again thought of the mystery of Electra's achievement-to deepen the study of magic through the understanding of alchemy.

That's right, that's it. The energy cycle was invented by himself, and the magician didn't understand how it worked. But he understands, he fully understands the mystery of how it works. And what he has to do now is how to complete this theoretical idea in actual actions.

He was now really beginning to understand Electra, and there was no doubt that alchemy offered him exactly this theoretical direction of exploration.

Although Xiu Yi didn't have the talent to practice space magic, after mastering the principle of how things work, he actually stood at a higher starting point than anyone else. And this is actually more important than talent.

This is one of the mysteries of Electra's achievements.

When he was studying the flesh and blood puppet, he had a breakthrough in soul magic, and when he was studying the teleportation circle, he actually had the ability to learn space magic without knowing it.

After realizing this, Xiu Yi was extremely excited. He wished he could experiment with his ideas now, and then master the mystery of space movement, so that his magic in the space department would also have powerful power, becoming the third magic department he mastered after the wind department and the soul department.

If other mages know his thoughts, they may remind him that the price of failure in trying to innovate space magic is likely to be lost in the turbulent flow of space forever, and practicing multiple kinds of magic will also increase the risk of magic disorder.

But Xiu Yi ignored everything and completely put herself on this road full of hardships and dangers but also full of light.

This is the advantage and disadvantage of lacking guidance from a mentor—self-development may allow you to walk out of your own unique path and establish your own unique glory, but it may also go astray and enter a misunderstanding.

Risks and benefits always coexist.

"Hey, I said, what were you thinking, boy."

Clarice's yell pulled Xiuyi out of the ocean of thinking and back to reality.

He smiled awkwardly: "I'm just thinking about some things in the past. Freedom is really good, but somehow it always reminds me of the bad times in the past... I think it's not nostalgia, but just a feeling. Maybe my heart is trying to confirm my current happiness through this comparison."

"I thought you wouldn't think you were happy. You should have hated me for asking you a high price of twenty gold-witts. But I can't blame you for not countering the price."

"No, in fact, I am very grateful to you. You are a very kind woman, but you just put on a tough disguise for yourself, but compared to my former master, you are as lovely as an angel. And because I am with you, I am saved from the pain of a long journey. I prefer to understand this money as the hard work you paid for taking me on the road."

"Well said, you made me shy Fink, but I don't want to ask you for money anymore." Clarice said, "Anyway, you gave me a very good idea. If your potion can't be sold, I can buy it."

"No." Xiu Yi shook her head: "Actually, those medicines are of no significance to you. For the Violet Song and Dance Troupe, perhaps money is the most practical. After I sell my medicine, I will give you the money that should be given to you. You need it."

Clarice looked at Xiu Yi with some perplexity, and she asked, "Why? Why do you insist on paying me the money even though you know that the price I want is high? You're not even angry, angry, or scolding me? Let me tell you the truth, I only used less than two Kingwitters to repair a car roof."

"Why should I care? Just because of those twenty Kingwitts? That's not enough to make me hysterically angry. And I never think it's a manifestation of virtue to argue with a lady for some money, make a noise, or even fight. If we can, we should try to be magnanimous. I mean, for people and things that can be forgiven, we should try to forgive, understand and tolerate."

Clarice was a little surprised: "I never thought you were such a person."

"That's because the years I lived in were full of painful memories. I was facing a demonic master, and I was in a ghostly environment. I had to be cautious every moment. My friends would die one after another, but I kept smiling, as if it had no effect on me... Can you understand that feeling? For me, there is probably nothing more meaningful than life and freedom. In comparison, what you have done to me cannot cause any harm at all."

Huey replied with a smile. At this moment, he finally spoke his mind. Yes, when a person lives in hell long enough and finally returns to the world of light, he will find that every encounter in life is actually worth savoring and being happy about. When Clarice holds out her hand and asks him for money, that is the first shot of him reconnecting with the world.

He didn't have any reason to make this scene bloody, cruel, violent or anything else.

On the contrary, for him this moment is worth remembering forever, and if possible, it should be made as good as possible.

It's like a prisoner released after serving his sentence, greedily breathing the free air, even if he faces a provocation from a gangster on the street, he will only feel fresh, interesting and full of truth.

For those who have experienced life and death struggles, this feeling of happiness is even stronger. How could he take this kind of thing to heart, complain and care about it like a housewife?

Just throwing a tantrum at a girl trying to get some extra money out of him? This is ridiculous.

Xiu Yi asked himself if he was not so narrow-minded, even if he didn't have the ring that was so rich, it was just a bargain at best.

But now, when conditions permit, he is more willing to tip those twenty Gold Witts to the other party as a tip, as a consumption commemoration of returning to the real world for the first time and enjoying a beautiful life.

Clarice was silent for a long time before she nodded: "So it's like this...Fink, can you tell me how you survived such a death threat that can drive ordinary people crazy? I mean, what made you persist through those difficult years when you were young?"

"It's hope." Xiu Yi replied.