Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 154 Alchemy in the New Era (Part )
Offred Queen walked into his independent alchemy workshop.

The apprentices and alchemists stopped their work and bowed their heads to salute him.

"chief!"

"Hello, mentor!"

He waved his hand casually, "Don't worry about me, just keep working."

This alchemy workshop that belongs exclusively to Offrey was founded by him and Ed with the help of their family background and private funds. Although it is still affiliated with the Exploration Society, it is the private property of the two brothers both in name and in reality.

Therefore, this alchemy workshop does not accept alchemy orders from the Federation and the Wizarding Kingdom on a daily basis. It mostly customizes expensive alchemy products for secular nobles.

For example, the alchemical crossbow can be set up on the wall of the lord's castle. It can be operated by a magic apprentice alone. Injecting magic energy can instantly fire dozens of arrows. It is so powerful that it is widely favored by lords and nobles from all over the southern border.

Outside the alchemy workshop is the material sorting room, where the magic materials and alchemical minerals transported to Alayeh from all over the place are sorted, screened, and cleaned.

Nearly a hundred alchemy apprentices trained in the Quinn family are doing the most basic work here. They usually go through five to eight years of apprenticeship until they are familiar with the identification and processing of various alchemical materials. Only then will they have the opportunity to be promoted to apprentice alchemists and officially begin to learn alchemy.

Among them, there will also be some apprentices with stronger talents who will be directly selected by the Quinn brothers as chief disciples to follow them to learn alchemy. There are not many such lucky ones, and they are basically treated as being promoted overnight.

Ofrey walked through the material sorting room, then slowly walked around the storage room and entered the core working area of the alchemy workshop - the refining room.

Pushing open the heavy wooden door of the refining room coated with fire-resistant solvent, the view suddenly becomes clear. Several huge stone pillars serve as the base, supporting this extremely spacious room.

The four stone walls are painted with unique reinforcement alchemical inscriptions. This is to prevent accidents such as explosions or fires in the refining room from destroying the entire room and affecting other areas of the workshop.

The roof was made of special magical crystal panels, attached to the skylight and air vents to allow for daylight, making the room very bright. A long row of metal lab tables was piled high with a variety of alchemical instruments: crystal bottles, glasses, small metal scales, crucibles, grinders...

Each formal alchemist is responsible for a single refining process and carries out his work in an orderly manner.

Compared to the Exploration Society's alchemy weapons workshop, which was always filled with the pungent smell of dragon flame powder and the occasional explosion accidents caused by operational errors, Ofrey preferred his own independent small workshop, which was simple, orderly, clean and tidy.

This is the essence of alchemy: to combine various materials in an orderly manner, heat, distill, infuse, and refine... The final result is ever-changing and extremely fascinating.

In the process of change from disorder to order, finding a clear experimental direction, completing the idea according to the established process, and then obtaining the expected accurate results, this is a rare alchemical formula.

Those who could improve existing alchemy formulas were considered full alchemists, but only those who could create their own original formulas were eligible for advancement to higher ranks. To date, Offrey and Ed had created over a dozen alchemy formulas, earning them promotion to one of the twelve chiefs of the Alchemy Quest Society. Offrey casually called over several family alchemists, gently inquiring about their progress, and then offered them some businesslike encouragement.

He looked around and found that one of his disciples was busy at an alchemy table in the corner, performing an experiment that looked completely different from the others.

"Chris, what are you tinkering with again? Why don't you join others in making the products ordered by the workshop?" Overey frowned and scolded in a low voice.

Chris, a young alchemist who looked to be in his early twenties, quickly bowed to his mentor. "Mentor, the part of the process I was responsible for has been completed ahead of schedule, so I'm conducting some other alchemical experiments in my spare time..."

Offred glanced at the materials scattered on the lab table and asked unhappily, "You're going to make some useless stuff again. These ordinary materials don't have any magical properties. Even if you try to make them, they won't produce any alchemical reactions."

Chris was an apprentice he had accepted a few years ago, and now he was the youngest official alchemist in the workshop. Offrey admired his concentration and talent very much, and trained him carefully at the beginning, keeping him by his side so that he could observe and learn more.

Who knew that this guy's thoughts were so jumpy, and he would often come up with some bizarre ideas. He didn't follow the theoretical knowledge he taught and study and advance step by step.

Last year, he got some expensive stuff on the market from somewhere - soap. It was a bathing product exclusively for aristocrats and wealthy businessmen, and was quite popular in the upper circles. It was said that the workshop that produced it was in Orlando, and the production formula was strictly confidential.

After Chris got the finished product, he quickly cracked the soap formula, which was not challenging at all, and happily reported his achievements to him. However, Offrey did not praise him. Instead, he seriously warned him not to indulge in these folk alchemy tricks.

Chris smiled and handed his mentor a small crystal bottle filled with a light golden liquid. "Teacher, this is the inspiration I got from making that soap formula..."

Frowning, Offrey unscrewed the cork, leaned in close to the bottle mouth and sniffed. A delicate, not pungent, fragrance filled his nose. "Isn't this... perfume? The favorite of those noble ladies and wealthy wives. Even a small bottle can fetch a high price of several gold pounds."

The formula for making perfume has been around for a long time. It is made by distilling the essential oils rich in fragrant plants and mixing them with hydrosols. It is an ordinary alchemical product with an extremely simple production process and there is nothing special about it.

Offred rolled his eyes, too lazy to get angry at his disciple. "Hey Chris, this thing has already been invented by those low-end alchemy workshops. Is it worth your time and energy to re-invent it?"

Chris grinned and explained, "Teacher, haven't you noticed something special about this perfume I made? I added ingredients rich in magical substances. Hmm... they were originally magical plants used to nourish the soul and restore mental strength. When mixed into ordinary perfume, they can soothe emotions and relieve anxiety and anger..."

He pointed at the bottle that Offred had just sniffed and added softly, "Under normal circumstances, you would have yelled at me and scolded me severely. But after sniffing this bottle of perfume, you remained calm and didn't get angry at me directly. This is enough to prove its effectiveness..."

Ofrey held the bottle in his hand and froze on the spot.

(End of this chapter)