The Void Walker Starting from Xumi

Chapter 43, Fire in a Bottle

Some time ago, Fugate had a sudden inspiration and found that someone was using astrology to investigate him.

Fugate didn't want to care about it at first. If you want to check it, just check it. Fugate, who has already given up, doesn't care about the leakage of some information.

But this guy obviously went a bit too far and actually tried to look at something more private.

Fugate was furious.

Then, after using psychic powers to conceal his own information, he competed with the opponent in astrology and prophecy for three hours.

Although he didn't defeat the opponent completely, he did manage to dig out a lot of information.

For example, the opponent is a witch from the Witch Guild, but this guy is very bad. Seeing that astrology cannot withstand Fget, he sold out other witches, such as Witch Alice, [Gold] Rhinedot and so on.

These witches all had some ability in astrology and prophecy, so they also chased after Fuget.

Then neither side got what they wanted, and then nothing happened.

Fugate eventually learned the astrologer's real name, Astromancer Barberos Trismegistus.

"A three-times-great astrologer? Pah, so narcissistic." That's what Fugate said at the time.

Afterwards, Fuget used his prophecy on several other witches, and Alice seemed to realize that Fuget did not obtain enough information.

[Gold] Rhinedort used alchemy to distort his own information, and Fuget's prophecy could only produce broken pictures and distorted information.

From this, Fuget learned the name of "Gold", and its attainments in alchemy far exceeded Fuget's imagination.

Fuget didn't think he was a mediocre person in the field of alchemy.

It is much better than those guys who can only do some material splicing and sublimation.

But it is precisely because he is not a mediocre person that Fuget knows the difference between himself and [Gold] in alchemy, and knows the horror of [Gold] in the field of alchemy.

There are four levels of alchemy.

"Black earth" is the origin of alchemy and also the original state.

"Chalk" is the beginning of change.

"Red Cheng" means the refinement of emotions in alchemy.

"Gold" is the final stage of alchemy. The worthless things finally found their meaning and turned into gold.

Then there are naturally four ranks of alchemists.

Alchemist apprentices can only do some mixing work on materials and use alchemy at the "black soil" level. They are the most basic alchemists and the most numerous alchemy users in the entire Teyvat continent. (Example: Timaus)
A formal alchemist, who can transform substances into each other, uses the "chalk" level of alchemy. He is a formal alchemist, and is rare in the entire Teyvat. Generally, scholars of the Sulun School who specialize in alchemy can only reach this level after graduation. (Example: Yayoi Nanatsuki)
Elite alchemists are able to add spiritual reactions to the creation of matter using "Red Success" level alchemy. If their skills are good enough, they can be called masters of alchemy.

Generally speaking, a country has only a dozen to dozens of people. Several of Fugate's apprentices, Kulu, Baanka, Batu, and Samel, are at this level. The future Mondstadt beast-eared girl, Sucrose, is also at this level.

The master of alchemy is a true master of alchemy, the one with the highest achievement in alchemy, which is the level of Fuget today. He can use alchemy to create new, even imaginary substances. He naturally uses the "gold" level of alchemy. Fuget has gone quite far at this level and has created many new substances.

Logically speaking, this is already the highest level of alchemy, and [Gold] Rhinedort also uses this level of alchemy.

However, even within this highest level there are strong and weak ones. The weak ones, like Hetala, can only create new matter based on the laws of the world.

Some who are a little more powerful, such as Xia Mian, can create certain imaginary matter based on the laws of the world.

Continuing up is the level of Fuget, which is able to use fictional matter to construct materials that conform to the laws of Teyvat. Intelligence development potions are the culmination of this level.

Furthermore, according to Fuget's idea, it should be possible to use fictional materials to construct fictional materials that conform to and utilize the laws of Teyvat.

But [Gold] Rhinedort, her alchemy has gone a step further, to the point of using imaginary matter to construct imaginary matter that the laws of Teyvat cannot resist even if they reject it, and that can also pollute the laws of Teyvat.

Fuget's evaluation of her alchemy is "Gold among golds, she gained power that rivals the world through alchemy."

That's why Fuget said that [Gold] Rhinedort was at least two versions ahead of them in alchemy.

It was like he was two versions ahead of Hetala.

Although they look similar, both are "golden" alchemy, the situations and effects they display are completely different.

It was because of this that Fuget regained his spirits and accompanied Xia Mian to study alchemy again.

But two days later, Fuget gave up, because he had reached a certain extreme in the field of alchemy, which could not be broken through in a short period of time. Going further was no longer a realm that humans could touch, and it required contacting the laws of Teyvat.

Fugate found that he could improve his skills, but only very little. What he needed to achieve qualitative change was not this kind of accumulation, but an opportunity, an opportunity to connect with or even rival the laws of the world.

After figuring this out, Fuget stopped worrying about it.

"Forget it, I'll just spend some time with you." Fuget said while hugging Xia Mian.

After accompanying Fgett on alchemical experiments for two days, Xiamian, who felt he still had a lot of room for improvement, quit.

Pulling Fget to squeeze out all of his remaining vacation time, Xia Mian's alchemy level has made great progress in the past few days. Although it has not reached Fget's level, it is not far away.

After all, Fugate has reached a bottleneck and is standing still, but she still has room for further improvement.

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"Alas~ I shouldn't have had the urge to study alchemy..." Fugate was speechless.

"Instructor, according to today's course, you should teach us alchemy." Femini said to Fuget.

"Let's not study alchemy today. Let's study herbology." Fugate got angry when he heard the word alchemy.

"Ah~?"

"The sea-dew flower, a medicinal herb unique to Fontaine, is in full bloom..." Fuget had traveled to Fontaine before he died, and even met the water goddess Egolia at that time (mainly because Fuget had the aura of the Tree King, and Fuget's alchemy skills were indeed superb. As a good friend of the Tree King, Egolia naturally came to see him).

"You seem to be a little emotionally unstable lately." Alechino, who came back with a child, looked at Fugate and said.

After handing the children over to Femini and the others after class, Alechino and Fuget came to a secluded place in the courtyard. The other children and the instructors knew that Fuget and his father wanted to discuss something, so they tactfully did not come over.

"You know the power of 'Evil Moon Blood Fire', right?"

"Is it the power brought by the blood in your body?" asked Fuget.

"Yes." Alecino said, "You may not know that 'Evil Moon Blood Fire' can..."

"So, those things I've seen recently that are similar to ghosts but very different are what you call residue?" said Fugate.

"Can you see it?" Alechino asked curiously.

"How fresh! There's a ghost floating in front of us right now. No... this is a real ghost. Boss, we've bought a haunted house." Fugate said in surprise.

"..." Alechino snapped his fingers and burned the ghost.

Poor ghost, but after confirmation by Alechino, Fugate's field of vision is indeed wide and a bit scary.

The field of vision is wider than that of her X-eyes. At least Alechino cannot see ghosts without opening the elemental vision.

But Fugate can see it normally.

"You are really a treasure." Alechino held his forehead and said, "Tell me the truth, how much ability do you have?"

"I don't know about that either." Fugate said. After all, psychic power is extremely omnipotent, and he is the source of psychic power in this world. The Supreme Heaven (subspace) also originated from him.

"Not sure?"

All Warp abilities developed by psykers in this world will be absorbed by the Warp itself.

In other words, Fuget has all the subspace abilities.

However, Fuget himself may not be able to use it. After all, Fuget is still a human being, not an omniscient and omnipotent God.

Besides, the Warp Gods were not omniscient and omnipotent. They all had their own domains, and Fuget was no exception. His domain was the sublimation of his own essence, namely nothingness, joy, oblivion, and balance, and its external appearance was water.

Therefore, the subspace of Fugate will appear in its original gray-black color and be very humid.

It is not a problem for intelligent spirits to survive and sleep in it, but living there for a long time will make them feel extremely depressed, to the point that their memories will be forgotten and they themselves will be swallowed up by nothingness. This is how the first few generations of psychic priests in the desert perished in the warp.

"Yes, I don't know. I don't know how capable I am, but it is very easy to solve most problems that are not caused by strength." said Fugate.

"Forget it, let's get back to the original topic. I plan to study the 'Evil Moon Blood Fire' flowing in my blood with the Doctor."

"As for the purpose..." Arlechino said in a daze, "Do you know that there is no such thing as retirement in our Hearth House?"

"All the Xuenetsevnas and Xuenetsevichs have only two choices: defect and be hunted down to death, or die on the mission."

"I want to give them an additional option to 'kill' their past and burn their memories with the 'Blood Fire of the Evil Moon', so that they who have lost their memories can be reborn." said Alechino.

"Well~ It's a great idea, but you know the consequences of cooperating with the Doctor," said Fugate.

"So the Doctor will only provide ideas this time, and we will complete the rest of the experiments ourselves." Alechino said, "He agreed very easily. After all, he has been curious about my blood for a long time."

Fergate nodded and said, "So you thought of me?"

"Yes," said Alecino.

"Don't you ask me if I can research it?" Fugate felt that he was no worse than the [Doctor] in researching potions.

Alechino said with a strange look on his face: "I have read your information. Although this research is about potions, it is more about the research of 'Evil Moon Blood Fire'. Are you sure you can do it?"

"And can your potion remove memories at a specific point? If it can't..."

"I can't do it," Fugate said bluntly.

"...You are too arbitrary. Why don't you try it?" asked Alecino.

"This is about pharmacological research. How about we discuss it?" asked Fugate.

"... That's all." Arlecino said, "Anyway, that's it. I'll need you to liaise with the Doctor when the time comes."

"Okay." Fugate did not refuse. He could see that Alechino was really in trouble, otherwise he would not have come to him.

"By the way, have you completed taking over the power of the former [Servant]?"

"The Fontaine headquarters has been completely taken over, and the Xumi branch, Liyue branch, Mondstadt branch, and Nata branch are all being taken over."

"As for the Inazuma branch, the situation there is a little bit delicate, because the branch is relatively independent because of the island country." Alechino said, "We have not started to take over the branch yet."

The main reason was that the number of subordinates needed to take over multiple branches at the same time was too large, and Alecino did not have that many subordinates.

Many of her subordinates were former servants' subordinates. Although many of them were dissatisfied with the former servants, there were also many who were loyal to the former servants.

Alechino couldn't tell the composition of these people very well.

Therefore, the other branches alone were enough to give Alechino a headache, and he really had no time to care about the branch in the distant island country of Inazuma.

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Although the cooperation with the Doctor and the Servant has been finalized, the cooperation will not start so quickly.

Moreover, this matter was carried out without telling anyone else, so the progress of the project was even slower.

Fugate had no choice but to continue doing his job as chief instructor.

This kind of thing is relatively simple for Fugate.

After all, he is currently only responsible for some basic training, and specialized training has not yet started.

During this period, the courtyard where they lived was finally completed. This place located in a corner of Fontaine Garden was named Buffati Mansion.

According to the Fugate orderly, the atmosphere here is much better than the previous [Heatstone House].

"How did your survival class go this afternoon, little guys?" asked Fugate.

The gray cat girl and the gray-blond-haired boy were startled by Fugate's sudden question.

Recently, in order to ease the financial difficulties of the Buffati Mansion, Alecino started a survival course.

The main purpose of the survival class is to enable the orphans adopted by the Buffati Mansion to learn a skill, or at least to the extent that they can support themselves.

But it is not easy, and there are currently few successful people in Buffati Mansion.

"Reporting to the instructor, the survival course is currently going smoothly and we have already found a teacher." said the boy with gray-blonde hair.

"That's great. Although survival courses are important, you can't give up basic training. The basics are the foundation of everything." said Fugate.

"Yes, we understand, Mr. Chief Instructor." The gray-blonde-haired boy and the gray cat girl said in unison.

"Well, let's go train." Fugate nodded with satisfaction.

"Yes!" The two responded and hurried to training.

"You... are finally back." When the freckled boy saw the two people returning, he quickly handed over the training weapons. Tonight's training was with daggers.

It was the kind of short dagger specially used for assassination and self-defense, which all agents from the Hearth House knew. They had undergone many trainings before, so they quickly got into the training state.

In addition to dagger training, they also conduct boxing training, cane training and regular knife, sword and even gun training.

Among them, spear training is the least. After all, spear training is very expensive. The funds of the Buffati Mansion are limited. Unlike the formal army of the Fatui, it can only train a few times a year.

A few days later, Fuget and Alechino finally received some data and experimental ideas from [Doctor].

"How is it?" asked Alecino.

"According to the research above, it is indeed possible to achieve this, but it will require a lot from you." Fugate said, "You must control the 'Evil Moon Blood Fire' with great care, and if you make a mistake, it is very likely to endanger your life."

"Not only for the person who drank the potion, but also for yourself."

"...Is that so? It's exactly what I thought." Arlecino said, "Then let's start the research. You can communicate with the Doctor about the follow-up research and information."

Ferget nodded, took out a test tube, and Alecino released some blood.

Then came a short period of research.

"I have to say that when it comes to human body research, this guy Zandik is indeed a very talented guy. It turns out there is such a solution..." Fugate fell into deep thought as he looked at the solution in front of him.

"It looks like the experiment is going well," said Alechino, who was visiting the lab again.

"Indeed, your will is very strong." Fuget praised, "As long as your will and control ability are up to standard, this potion is actually not difficult to invent."

"However, Zandik's research progress in brain science is indeed somewhat unconventional. With the addition of some drugs I added, the brain of the person who takes the drug can be hypnotized to automatically complete the relevant memory through keywords."

"It's been just over a year since we last met, and this guy's progress is really scary." Fugate sighed.

Although he can achieve similar effects through psychic powers and potions.

However, the opponent's design perfectly matched Alechino's power. It was not that Fuget could not do it, but he was able to come up with this design in such a short time. This was indeed a bit terrifying.

"It seems that this is the benefit of slices with multiple perspectives." Fugate said, "Do you have any requirements for the naming of this potion?"

"How about calling it Bloodfire?" Fugate was as bad at coming up with names as ever.

"Let's call it Fire in a Bottle," said Alecino.

(End of this chapter)