Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 104 The Alchemist and the Mattress

The conditions for camping this time were even worse than yesterday’s beach in the fjord.

The temporary camp on the fjord river beach has relatively better camping conditions, and the tents and other materials carried by the guards can also provide a better camping experience, so although the conditions were a little more difficult yesterday, they were still passable.

At least when sleeping, people with a certain status such as guard officers, knights, and Purficott can sleep on folding camp beds.

But today there are not such good conditions. Everyone can only sleep in sleeping bags, and even Purficott was only assigned a single tent. Unlike before, he could have a large tent to himself on the fjord beach. Tent treatment.

After all, although the camps on the fjord and river beaches are all tents, they are built according to the standards of field camps. The guards will also build walls and stronger wooden houses in the future, and the conditions are naturally not the same as their current wild camping conditions. comparable.

Even in the world before Purficott traveled through, materials were extremely rich compared to the technological level of this world, but camping in the wild was still a very challenging thing.

Richer material conditions only brought better tents, more convenient fire-making tools, and easier-to-heat food and water.

Of course, you have to talk about the kind of people who drive off-road vehicles, bring tables, chairs and benches, and set up a canopy in the wild. They regard outings as camping in the wild. That is not impossible, but it is impossible for such people to spend the night in the wild. of.

Purficott had experienced several real wild camping experiences before traveling through the desert, such as hiking through the desert, setting up tents on the grasslands, etc. But that was before traveling through time. At that time, she was also an adult and was strong enough. Build your physique to cope with the challenges of camping in the wild.

Now she is only a fourteen-year-old girl, and her body is not fully developed. Just hiking for a whole day is already a big test for her, let alone camping in the wild.

Purficott also followed the exploration team during the previous exploration sites, but because she could ride horses in those places, she was not as tired as now.

So when she lay down in her sleeping bag, the uneven and hard ground made her toss and turn, and she couldn't sleep at all for a while.

It was so unbearable that she had to take out her cane, then reach out and press it on the ground. After smoothing the ground with alchemy, she felt a little better.

But even so, the hard ground still made Purficott feel pain in his shoulders and back after sleeping for a while.

Although her sleeping bag was already thickened, before laying the sleeping bag on the ground, there was also a thick moisture-proof mat and a huge soft bear skin, and underneath there was a layer of soft leaves specially obtained by Foster. But these are still a bit uncomfortable for a little girl.

"At times like this, it would be great if there was an air mattress!" Purficott sighed helplessly, but then he realized that he was an alchemist and could use alchemy to make one for himself. Bed air mattress.

Taking out the Midas Philosopher's Rod inlaid with another Philosopher's Stone, and using it with his cane, Purficott opened up the bear skin and moisture-proof pad under him, and used alchemy on the layer of leaves. technique.

This is the first time that Purficott has used the power of both Philosopher's Stones. She usually either uses the Midas Rod when completing some alchemy experiments, or carries a walking stick with her when going out just in case.

I have never really experienced performing alchemy with the cane enlarging the range of my alchemical operations and reducing consumption, and the Midas Rod increasing the success rate of alchemy and replacing ritual materials.

But this time, with the help of two Philosopher's Stones, Purficott finally realized what an intoxicating feeling this was.

In this state, Purficott felt like a god, and the pile of leaves directly turned into a black mass of undetermined matter under the control of alchemy.

This is the first step to truly launch alchemy into a substance - blackening. It symbolizes the death and demise of all things, that is, the killing of all matter.

Black symbolizes the initial state of chaos, or primitive matter. Many alchemists regard the product of the blackening stage as the first substance and believe that it can generate any substance.

From the perspective of alchemists, many substances in the world are compounds rather than a single substance.

Therefore, alchemy requires breaking and killing the raw materials to return them to their original state.

This is the one to which all things are united, a single, formless, indivisible substance. It can be said that everything originates from this and returns to this at the same time.

After having the blackened essence, it needs to be combined. This step is called albino.

That is to dye the black original substance with color, that is, the positive substance and the negative substance are combined through magical affinity, usually using arsenic or mercury, through the fusion of "enzyme" or "silver seed" with the blackened chaotic substance. to fulfill.

Of course, for Purficott, she does not need to add any substances in this step, because the Philosopher's Stone has already paid the price and replaced the substances that need to be added in this step.

Therefore, she also obtained the purest albino product, a white substance like silver.

At this point, you can continue to add gold to this mass of compounds to yellow it.

Sow the "seeds of gold", or add the "form of gold", and introduce the aura of gold.

This process is like fermenting dough, and the golden seeds are like catalysts, removing impurities from the white substance and purifying it.

After yellowing is achieved, the substance is sublimated. This step is also the final step of alchemy and is called reddening.

The substance that reaches this stage is usually considered to have completed the great sublimation. This is the most mysterious, difficult and critical stage of alchemy. The end of reddening represents the completion of the great work and the birth of the Philosopher's Stone.

Because of this, for ordinary alchemists, all they can do is whiten.

That is, after killing substances, new compounds are obtained.

A more powerful master of alchemy can achieve etiolation, which is to remove impurities from a substance, purify it, and obtain a final stable product.

Because generally speaking, alchemists believe that gold is the most stable substance, so this step of yellowing is often called the Midas touch.

Only the truly most powerful alchemist can complete the ultimate sublimation of matter and turn it into the perfect Philosopher's Stone through reddening.

(End of this chapter)