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Chapter 96 The Birth of White Sugar (Please add to your favorites, please read on, please vote!)

Alphonse did want Hilde to measure the value of activated carbon in monetary terms, but it didn't matter anyway, as Hilde had already helped out.

It would take a lot of effort for a blacksmith to forge these three vessels, and they might not even be as good as those made by Hilde using magic.

Hilde came to visit, and after a busy morning, it was lunchtime, so it was necessary to invite them to stay for a meal.

Taisi once again showcased her culinary skills, personally preparing crystal "jelly" made with dried slime and a large pot of walking mushroom soup.

With plenty of food, the slimes being raised multiplied and reproduced very quickly.

A lot of slime has already been dried.

Winter is coming soon, and slimes will go into hibernation, so they can no longer be used as food.

The lunch was a great success, with Hilde praising it highly.

He didn't have many hobbies; his favorite things were studying alchemy and food.

This is also one of the reasons for his obesity.

But he felt that he was only slightly chubby, not obese.

Compared to that guy Poseidon, he's really not that fat.

Alphonse felt that Hilde was very different from her father, Baron Auster. Baron Auster was a very cunning old fox who was very smooth in his actions, while Hilde was much more honest and more like a scholar.

It's still possible to be friends with him.

After the meal, Hilde didn't linger. He hurriedly left with a few subordinates, already preparing to make a trip to the capital to return to the academy and tell his teacher about the discovery of activated carbon.

Alphonse didn't forget to make him take the debt with him; leaving it there wasn't a good idea, and he'd always have to keep it in mind.

I also gave him some dried slime as a gift to take back with him.

As soon as Hilde left, Alphonse turned to Midio and said, "The recipes for the things we're going to make need to be kept secret. I need to sign a magical contract with you."

We don't have any magic contract papers on hand, but we can have the soldiers buy them from the Church of Justice when they go to the city.

Midio was taken aback. "No need for a magic contract, I'm a magician."

"You can also create magical contracts?" Alphonse asked in surprise.

Midio shook his head. "I won't, but I can swear an oath to the goddess of magic, Melio, and that oath will be bound by the goddess."

"Do magicians also have beliefs?" Alphonse asked with some curiosity.

"It's not exactly faith. A magician's goal is to seek the truth of the world. The goddess of magic, Melio, doesn't have a church, and she doesn't need believers to preach to her. It's just that magicians swear oaths to the goddess of magic and are bound by them," Midio explained.

Alphonse then began to understand what was going on.

This is quite good.

It can save you the cost of a magic contract.

Little did they know that Midio was thinking something else entirely.

He was telling the truth, but he was born with the blessing of the God of Light, which gave him affinity with all elements except darkness. With the protection of the God of Light, even if he swore an oath to the goddess of magic, Meliole, it would not bind him.

After all, according to legend, the god of light, Alkik, was the father of the goddess of magic, Meliole, and thus belonged to a higher social class.

The next day, Alphonse summoned Midio again.

They cleared out a room in the castle and moved the equipment inside.

Several soldiers had already purchased twenty pounds of sugar blocks to conduct experiments.

This is something I need to do myself.

Midio had sworn an oath to the goddess of magic, Melio, and Alphonse had witnessed the strange occurrence firsthand.

The scales represent Nazar, the god of justice, while the phantom of a staff represents Meliole, the goddess of magic.

The world with God is quite wondrous.

But for some reason, the gods do not interfere with anything in the world.

In the world of D&D, the avatars of gods often roam the earth, but this is not the case in this other world.

Alphonse took some of the sugar cubes and mixed them into sugar water.

It was filtered again with activated carbon.

Unlike clear water, after filtration, the sugar water is still yellowish-brown, but it looks much clearer and brighter.

Alphonse put the sugar water into a large iron barrel and cooked it at high temperature, making it into an extremely thick sugar paste.

The original sugar cubes were bright red, but when they turned into syrup, they became brown.

"Next, it's your turn. Use Whirlwind on the sugar syrup in the bucket. Be careful not to spill it."

Midio didn't understand why Alphonse would use so many steps to filter and boil the sugar, but he could only do as he was told. He picked up his staff, faced the sugar paste in the large iron barrel, and began to chant the incantation.

Midio gently waved his staff, and a sudden breeze arose inside the large iron barrel.

It spun faster and faster, and the wind became stronger.

It wasn't a fierce hurricane; this whirlwind was much gentler, but it was incredibly fast.

As the whirlwind magic was cast, the sugar paste was gradually stretched apart, as if being pulled, and moved in a vortex-like motion.

Alphonse watched the changes in the sugar paste intently, his eyes filled with anticipation.

Although Midio's magical power was not high, his ability to manipulate magic with finesse was quite remarkable.

Without scratching the outer wall of the bucket at all, it successfully simulated the effect of a centrifuge.

Just like a washing machine spin-drying process, the sugar paste underwent a wonderful transformation.

Under the influence of magic, the crystals in the syrup separated and scattered in all directions, while the molasses, still slightly brownish, slowly settled at the bottom of the whirlwind, forming two clearly visible layers.

"Yes!" Midio exclaimed in surprise.

This process actually caused the sugar cube to separate into tiny, translucent white crystals.

It's simply a miracle!

He began to understand the reason behind Alphonse's meticulous handling of the situation.

Under his deliberate manipulation, the crystals were carried by the whirlwind and washed to the corner of the large bucket, forming a pile of small, white, and sparkling rocks.

The magic gradually stopped.

At the bottom, a large pool of brown molasses remained.

Although most of the sugar has been extracted, these residues are still usable, as they are still rich in some sugar and can be used for cooking and making desserts.

According to the normal production method, there should be an additional step, which is to wash and blow away the molasses residue on the white sugar, and then dry it.

However, Medeo's whirlwind magic omits this step.

The separated white sugar is dry.

Pure white and crystal clear, like sand and snow.

I don't know if Song Yingxing made a mistake in recording the yellow mud water dehydration method recorded in "Tiangong Kaiwu". Directly rinsing yellow mud water cannot produce such fine white sugar.

But by using magic, they replicated the process of making white sugar and finally managed to produce it in this other world.

Midio couldn't resist dipping his finger in the sugar and putting it in his mouth. After sucking on it, he exclaimed in surprise, "Sweet! It even retains the sweetness of the sugar! How can sugar become so beautiful!"

I dare not hope for too much. If any of you readers have extra tickets, please give me some. Thank you so much! The data has been getting worse and worse lately, even worse than this winter. I humbly request that you all give me some warmth!

(End of this chapter)