When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 623 The Essence of Alchemy
"Well done, Robert, I'll remember your name." Horn patted him on the shoulder.

"It's all thanks to your and Her Highness Shilov's wise leadership." Robert touched his chest and bowed. "If it weren't for your Experimental Method and Controlled Variables Method, if it weren't for Shilov's Natural Theology theory, I don't think I would have found this method in my lifetime."

Horn smiled, shook his head and said to Shilov: "Since the technology is almost mature, we can put it into production."

"Don't worry, there will be other technological advances in the future. This is just the result of the Metal Salt Alchemy Institute." Shilov waved to Horn, signaling him to follow her to the second floor laboratory. "The Dragon Language scholars of the Crystal Alchemy Institute are trying to develop an electro-gold inlay plate."

"Electrical gold inlay? What is that?"

"The report I will show you later is actually about how to embed electro-gold into the terracotta crucible without conflicting with each other, so as to make a universal alchemical reactor." Shilov stopped at the stairs and opened her arms to Horn expressionlessly like a roc spreading its wings.

Horn picked her up, and Alfu carried the cart.

Although there is a special ramp on the stairs, it is obvious that the wolf girl is unwilling to wheel herself up the ramp with difficulty if she has a choice.

"If this peat reactor can be manufactured, it is expected that the recovery time of the alchemist priest can be shortened to about 1 hour, and the production capacity can be doubled." Being held in Horn's arms, Shilov's face flushed slightly, and her tail kept sweeping Horn's knees.

Although Horn was carrying her in a princess hug, since Shilov had no calves, he could only grab the edge of her thighs tightly to help the elastic thigh flesh squeeze out from between his fingers.

"Universal alchemical reactor, what is this?"

"Because this reaction vessel can be used in almost all alchemical reactions. If it is successfully developed, the efficiency of not only peat, but also mountain copper and slime juice can be greatly improved."

Horn carried Shilov all the way to the Demon-Eating Fungus Laboratory on the second floor, and then he put her down: "During the six months when I was away, your research and development speed was too fast."

"That's not fast." Shilov pushed open the door of the laboratory. "Many formulas were already known by predecessors. They just took them out and refurbished them."

To be precise, these old alchemical formulas were indeed possessed by our predecessors.

But renovation is not such a simple issue, otherwise these new outputs would not have to wait until Horn established the Holy Trinity.

The most important thing is that Horn provided a convenient and clean environment and sufficient funds, as well as a series of natural science methodologies such as "experimental method", "deductive reasoning method" and "control variable method".

The stable and well-safe research environment of the Holy Court allows them to conduct experiments and research without distraction.

After translating the "Emerald Record", Shilov provided a lot of research on the nature of alchemy.

Thinking of this, Horn immediately remembered the matter of the Lightning Furnace and immediately asked Shilov.

And Shilov drooped her triangular ears and shook her head: "It's not that easy. After you said that, we tried many kinds of substances, but there are very few substances that can have lightning alchemical properties, and they are quite expensive.

I even got a lightning-shaping wizard who was sentenced to death. His bones and some of his organs do have lightning alchemical properties, but the efficiency is too low and the cost is too high..."

Seeing Horn greet Kelben and others in the room, Shilov's tail stood up in dissatisfaction: "Are you listening to me?"

"I'm listening, but you're being too professional. I don't understand." Horn smiled and grabbed Shilov's wolf tail, softening instantly.

Shilov's wolf ears flickered. "According to the explanation in Amma's Jade Record, the essence of alchemy is the magic that stimulates the spiritual properties of matter."

Seeing that Horn was still confused, Shilov sighed, picked up the small blackboard and began to teach Horn: "Classical alchemists believe that the source of alchemy, what is it? It is the soul..."

Following Shilov's explanation, Horn gradually understood.

In other words, alchemy believes that all matter has "visible" materiality and "invisible" spirituality or alchemical nature.

The two are both separate and closely connected, with both spiritual and material attributes influencing each other.

Take the witch as an example. The witch is a person. She has a human appearance and can run, jump, eat and defecate. This is materiality. The witch can think, feel and have magic power. This is spirituality.

The process of a witch using magic, such as Jeanne using her magic power, is the materiality manipulating the spirituality, and the process of invisible magic power triggering visible lightning is the spirituality affecting the materiality.

Although the vampire annotated version of The Emerald Record was written hundreds of years ago, its view that magic power is a medium rather than an entity is consistent with the modern school of magic.

They all believe that magic power has no substance and its origin is nothingness.

The essence of all alchemy is that alchemists use magic power as a medium to graft, synthesize and sublimate the spirituality of matter.

The items refined in this way are called alchemical substances.

"Let's take peat as an example. According to the book, its alchemical reaction belongs to the sublimation ritual." Shilov picked up a piece of peat with a pair of tweezers, "It has the spirituality of burning, but it has not been activated.

Although it is not known why the soil has the spirituality to burn, the sublimation ceremony is to activate its spirituality to enable it to burn.

From this perspective, the burning of peat seems to be the same as burning wood, but the essence is different. It is more like peat casting a spell, which is consistent with the essence of a witch's use of spells.

So it is so small in size and weight, but it can burn longer and more vigorously than firewood.”

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Horn thought for a moment and suddenly asked, "Why not just sublimate the iron ore to make iron?"

"It's not that simple." Shilov turned her wheelchair and picked up a piece of iron from the workbench. "Different substances have alchemical activity. Natural alchemical products are substances with high alchemical activity. They can sublimate themselves under natural conditions.

Most metals are inert substances, and their alchemical properties are almost unchanged. You see, making orichalcum is a grafting ceremony, grafting the sublimated alchemical properties of the sunflower onto it. "

Hearing this, Horn couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

But in the final analysis, other things have developed rapidly before, but were suppressed by the empire.

Lightning refining is a new theory. Currently, no secret party that Horn knows of has been able to come up with technology in this area, so it is normal that progress is slow.

Thinking of this, Horn was suddenly stunned. He quickly walked to Shilov who was looking for the report on the electro-gold inlay plate and asked in a low voice:
"According to what you said, can't divine magic suppress magic? Since the process of alchemical substances taking effect is the same as casting a spell, why don't divine magic on the battlefield suppress alchemical substances?"

Shilov's hand that was turning the pages of the book suddenly stopped. She raised her head, and her wolf ears drooped to both sides, like airplane ears.

Horn immediately coughed lightly.

Pettier, who was originally standing in the room, reacted quickly. He coughed, dragged Robert and Kerben, and called all the others out of the laboratory.

When only she and Horn were left in the room, Shilov looked around before staring into Horn's eyes and speaking, "As for the nature of divine arts, the original author of this Jade Record did not say anything, but my mother left her own opinion on the blank page."

"What?" Horn asked quickly.

Shilov lowered her voice and tucked her tail between her legs: “She believes that the church’s divine arts are divided into two types.

The first one is to chant divine spells to suppress spellcasting and attack the witch's soul, which is a variant of mind magic and can only work on the spirits of intelligent creatures.

The second type is the knights, which are similar to blessing and consecration, and their essence is..."

Shilov hesitated for half a second: "It's necromancy."

(End of this chapter)