Returning from the abyss

Chapter 492 Alchemy Duel
Wumeng ran desperately.

"It's Heinz...Damn it, at least the news has to get out. After midnight, the mission should be considered complete. It's not that I don't want to save him, but I really can't save him this time..."

He jumped and jumped directly over a low building. Although the air ban banned means such as flying, there was no way to prevent people from jumping.And Wumeng—at least the main body—has learned a lot of strange little spells during his travels with Pablo.

"But the question is who to turn to? The people I know in this scene... Lu Ning? Zhuo Ye? Duan Yunxiu? Or go to Tokadev with the eyes of the black magician? Why do I always take this kind of communication job? ?”

While talking to himself like self-hypnosis, Wumeng quickly crossed the border between regions.

"There are no tourists in the Emerald District... Book Burning Officer!"

He rolled over, dodged a shot, and ducked into the shadows behind a house for a moment.At the same time, a man in a black burqa and mask came out with a shotgun in his left hand and a heavy hammer in his right.

"Running on the street in the middle of the night, it seems that there is something urgent."

The book burning officer let out a low laugh.

"Then, whether it has anything to do with us or not, it can only be considered unlucky for you."

Wu Meng took a peek at a small round lens, and heaved a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, it's just a great magister class... What am I happy about?"

He turned his head and rushed into the alley. In the case of being unable to fly, the great magister may not be as fast as him in terms of running speed.For Wumeng, finding a school to hide in or finding the secret guardian of this block are the solutions to the problem.

But he still has to deliver the message, and the most important thing for the message is timeliness. He has done this countless times, whether actively or passively, and he knows that there is not much time to delay now.After thinking for a moment, he made a decision.

At the same time, after Lu Ning in the Moonstone area asked Pierre to take care of Geoffrey, she went to the alchemy laboratory to continue dismantling the crystal.

The problems encountered by the library itself are no longer within her reach, and Lu Ning's principle is to leave it alone if she really can't reach it, and just concentrate on adding bricks and tiles to her own strength.After collecting the Crystals of Light and Crystals of Darkness, she is basically familiar with other tasks.

The dismantling work was not particularly smooth. The closer the crystallization was to the central area, the more heterogeneous its components were, and the more repeated refining was required.It is also thanks to Lu Ning who has long been proficient in the method of constantly adjusting the flow of magic power to change the refining standard, otherwise it would take longer.

When dawn came, she finally removed all the crystals outside the layer of fuzzy matter, and at this moment, Lu Ning activated the protection device of the alchemy table to prevent any dangerous reaction of the fuzzy matter.

But it was better than expected, the fuzzy lump just lay quietly on the alchemy table, without any abnormality.

"Lilian, it's morning." Pierre pushed open the door of the laboratory, "Do you want something to eat?"

"Well, I'll just wait. Is the commotion outside over?"

"No... It seems that there is something wrong with the library. Even the mages of the special operations team have not shown up. Now some book burning officers have dared to show up blatantly. The only good news is that they haven't attacked the school yet. .”

"What are they doing?" Lu Ning asked while looking at the last piece of matter.

"Burning books. Although they no longer have magic books in their hands, they seem to have a lot of rubbings, and they are now using them as fuel for their weapons. I'm afraid our place will not be peaceful for long."

"Has the leader of the opponent show up?"

"There seems to be a few emperors, and the guards can't control this kind of enemy. But they seem to be concentrating on burning books, and they haven't killed people wantonly. Many schools have opened defense nets, but the magic books released The number of monsters is also increasing, so I am afraid it will be difficult to support it."

"Okay, you pay attention to protect this place, I will go up after I analyze this."

Pierre sighed, turned his head and walked back upstairs.

Lu Ning continued to use various instruments for analysis.

"The Star Sequencer... he transformed himself into such a state, in order to become a perfect sacrifice, such a perfect sacrifice... tsk."

A large number of wrong marks appeared in the composition readings. Lu Ning immediately removed the tester, took out the scraper to scrape off a little from the mass, put it into the test tube and changed the method.

"No, this is not alchemy that I can accomplish."

After the next result came out, Lu Ning knew that this mass of matter had exceeded her level.No matter how concentrated she was, it was impossible for her to grasp and refine this mass of substance in an instant. Those reading errors were not a problem with the instrument, but rather that the substance itself contained quite a few unknown components.Usually the instrument will list the unknown ingredients separately, but once there are too many, the list of the instrument will also have an upper limit.

"Then...huh?"

A flash of light suddenly lit up on the alchemy table.

"what is this?"

Lu Ning heard the voice, but didn't see anyone. She took a step back and reached out to hold down the medicine bottles that had been refined on the table.

"So that's it. I searched for it according to the previous taste, but you are still doing alchemy. Ridiculous, ridiculous."

"You are Abel." Lu Ning quickly realized, "Are you still alive?"

"It's hard to define what I am now, at least my life has been freed from the usual shackles of the body." The voice responded, "But unfortunately, even this is the result of careful planning by others. I am special, and I am not .The invisible Abel is still subject to the visible today after all."

"You killed an alchemist before."

"Obviously so." Abel's voice was faint and indistinguishable.

"But you stopped at the last time."

"Because I met someone who told me something that made me care more. My alchemy can no longer be triggered by myself, but other than that I am a little free." Abel replied, "And Obviously you know my weakness."

"Alone." Lu Ning didn't know where he was, and simply said to the air in front of him, "You can't interfere with the attention of many people at the same time. Only when that person acts alone can he use his hand to perform alchemy. But you Why kill?"

"One of the meanings I was given back was to kill," Abel replied, "and now I understand what the meaning is. Because he needs a soul that has accumulated bad karma, and I am the chosen one." .Oh, maybe more than one soul."

"what?"

"You know my brother, don't you? Otherwise, after I wake up, I won't be the first to reach your hands."

"You mean Bollywell?"

"Yes, he actually has nothing to do with this matter. The only thing is that he is in Ewalong. Is this fate, or a deliberate arrangement? Forget it, it doesn't matter. Alchemist, tell me your name .”

"What do you want to do?"

"Don't you say it? Forget it. The next step is the battle between alchemists. My skills are not strong, the level of a senior alchemist. If you win, you will gain my invisible power, but if you If you lose, you die."

"What? Why suddenly..."

"I don't have time, so I have no choice. If you win, you will understand. If you lose, you don't need to understand."

Following Abel's words, a dazzling brilliance shone on the alchemy formation.Lu Ning had to pull out some golden staff and began to control the flow of magic power on the refining formation. Obviously, the flow of magic power began to change. The interference was not so strong that it could not be resisted, but it became more and more complicated.

She could feel that someone was standing in the same position as her, and was also controlling the changes in the formation.This is impossible in normal alchemy, but due to Abel's own intangibility, it forms such a strange "confrontation".

Lu Ning immediately summoned up all her energy. She knew that Abel's goal was that piece of fuzzy matter that could not be resolved, and he took this as a subject of competition between the two.However, Lu Ning didn't know how this substance would be refined and what would be refined.

With an unknown input on one side of the equation, what happens on the other side?
I don't know - no one has recorded such a thing in the history of alchemy. No matter how crazy an alchemist is, he will make a complete test on the substance before starting the alchemy work, unless he is desperate.

That's right, Abel seems to be desperate.

With a sinking heart, Lu Ning quickly began to snatch back the node where the magic power flowed from Abel.This is actually not too difficult. Abel was born in the Kading family where Bolivar was, and he studied alchemy with Bolivar, and his habits are very similar.At the same time, Lu Ning, who was a teacher of Abel's Suoyige, also read the notes that condensed Soigo's knowledge, and was very familiar with his alchemy methods.It can be said that Lu Ning is very familiar with Abel's two closest alchemists.

The gap between alchemists is purely due to knowledge and technology.It is true that Lu Ning is still unable to refine some high-level alchemy products at will, but at present, she has no disadvantage in competing for the alchemy plan.

The flow of magic power is constantly changing under the control of both sides, and it also wears down the quality of the mass of matter little by little.Lu Ning gathered all his energy, and the ring given by Percival glowed a little bit of light on his finger, clearing away the fatigue in his mind.

The two are different from each other's style.

Lu Ning is extremely regular, following a certain rule to guide her magic power. Her adjustments are methodical, and she always adjusts the next one after stabilizing one node, as if she is forming an army.Abel, on the other hand, puts pressure on many parties to let the magic flow self-disrupt and reshape, quite a bit of Soigo's "natural alchemy" style in it, and he never cares about a magic node, he will build more nodes to form more The complex model naturally took advantage of his senior alchemist.

Stable and swift, he launched an attack and defense staggered on an alchemy table.Neither of them spoke, because besides each other, there was one more important factor here, that was the piece of unknown substance on the table.

10 minutes——In just 10 minutes, Lu Ning was already dripping with sweat, but the unknown substance on the table was also refined during the confrontation. In this way, the first stage of alchemy has been completed, and the next step is to The final step is refining.

Lu Ning raised her hand and pressed the switch that controls the flow of magic power, and the flow of magic power jumped to the maximum value in an instant.Abel seemed very satisfied with this, and even said something softly, but Lu Ning didn't hear it at all under his full attention.In the high-output magic power flow, the strange magic power flow model woven by the two began to gather magic power at each node. On the left and right, two circular "bubbles" that were barely visible to the naked eye were being generated. Abel passed the invisible Lu Ning discovered the two bubbles at the same time through the deflection of the surrounding light.

The substances refined by both parties are the same.

At this moment, Lu Ning was astonished, and Abel was obviously the same.

Although alchemy has very rigid formulas, it also means that there is no absolutely identical alchemical process.Just as the potion will allow the 5.00% error, even if the substance exchanged by the target is the same, various factors such as raw materials, techniques, refining formations used, golden staffs and so on will always change the result.

But the two "bubbles" in front of them look exactly the same.

Lu Ning immediately took out two air circuit vibration detectors, which are purity detectors used to detect objects such as metals and artificial life. She aimed at the two air bubbles, and soon the test results were displayed.

"one hundred……"

"Unknown substance." Abel added.

For a single unknown substance, the detector will naturally not make a wrong reading, but directly calibrate it.However, this also shows that the composition of these two bubbles is extremely pure.

"The only person in this world who has mastered one-hundred-purity refining is Soigo. I don't think our level... can be reached." Lu Ning said.

"But what are these two things? It looks like bubbles, so hurry up and analyze the ingredients."

"Abel, the analysis tool has never stopped working." Lu Ning pointed to the side.

On all the tools, the current data has been uniformly changed to [unknown].

The unknown is the most frightening.

"Hey... look!"

After all, Abel's intangible perception is much sharper than visual capture, and he discovered the changes in the two bubbles earlier.As soon as Lu Ning was reminded by him, she immediately noticed that on the two bubbles, the opposite positions were being elongated, pulling out a very thin transparent filament, and slowly extending towards the other side.

"Refining is complete!" Lu Ning hurriedly checked the magic reading, no longer consuming magic power to prove that the exchange has been completed, the final size of the two bubbles is only about the size of an apple, but now this strange phenomenon makes her wonder to get out of here.

"If you want to refine it, find something safe! I don't even know what this is!" Lu Ning threw away the used gold stick, and ran to the door. She didn't know what would happen after the filament touched it. But it won't be a good thing in the end.

But before she opened the door, the door opened by itself.

"Ah... my lovely student, it looks like you have encountered a little trouble here?"

The first thing Lu Ning saw was the handsome face of the elemental mage Zafi, followed by Soigo who was holding Geer's collar with one hand, and himself was also disheveled, as if he had just been in a fight.

...Maybe it is necessary to take back the foreword. Although Zafi doesn't look as special as Geer and Soigo, the comparison at this time really seems more reliable.

(End of this chapter)