The most shameless alchemist in history

“We meant no harm, we just tracked the criminal here and had no intention of getting into a conflict with you. Now I want to know some things, can you tell me?” Nono was almost burned to death by the other party’s dragon flames before, and she was extremely angry at that time, but now she has calmed down and looks at her again.

Seeing her hostile gaze and the anxiety in her eyes, Nono suddenly felt a little sorry for her.

"I won't tell you anything you want to know," the other party said firmly.

“I really have no hostility. I know you hate men, but you can see that I’m a girl, and I’m different from them.” Nono pointed out the difference between herself and Dure and the others, and moved closer again. Although the other party was bound by the ice crystal cage, smoke was constantly rising from inside.

Clearly, her magical power is recovering. Once she is fully recovered, she will be able to completely melt the ice crystals and break the cage that binds her.

"Aren't you different from them? Right, you're a girl, so you're definitely different from them. Don't be fooled by them. They're all liars and villains." The other person relaxed their hostility towards Nuonuo slightly.

"Were you tricked into being trapped here? You can tell me anything, and I can help you." Nono tried her best to make it clear that she meant no harm.

"No, you can't help me. My sister is dead. She's dead forever. She can never come back to life." The girl smiled sadly, shaking her head repeatedly, her sorrow overflowing.

"Sister, did something bad happen to your sister? Since you know she's dead and can't come back to life, why did you still do such a thing? Killing won't solve anything, especially since these people weren't the murderers of your sister. Do you think your sister will be happy if you take your anger out on them like this?"

Nono spoke softly, though she still didn't quite understand what had happened to the girl, but at this moment she only felt sorry for her.

"Waaaaah, I told my sister so long ago not to trust that man. He's a complete liar, a total fraud. Trusting him won't end well. But my sister just wouldn't listen! No matter how much I tried to persuade her, she still went with him without hesitation."

The girl recalled the past with deep sorrow; it was the most vivid scene in her memory, and also the one she least wanted to recall.

"Is that so? Then how did you get to the Ash Tower?" Nono had already figured out that this girl was a high-level magical beast transformed into a human form. Magical beasts don't appear in human settlements, but now she has awakened in the Ash Tower, and she can also manipulate dragon flames.

This makes it hard not to suspect that she might be somehow connected to the destruction of the Ash Tower.

"I came here to save my sister, hoping to get her out of this cage, but I failed. I watched helplessly as she died in front of me. She could have left on her own, if she wanted to, but she chose to stay here." The girl spoke incoherently.

She was caught in a whirlpool of memories, countless images flashing through her mind, causing her great pain.

"You mean the Ash Tower? The Ash Tower's predecessor, the White Tower, was a cage? But wasn't this built by a king for his daughter? How could it become a cage to imprison your sister?" Nono was puzzled because what the girl said was different from what she remembered.

“Yes, this is a cage, a cage built to imprison my sister.” The girl nodded. She didn’t know where Nono’s information came from, but she was a witness to history, witnessing the birth and destruction of this tower.

203 Abyss Creatures

Under Nuonuo's open and honest attitude, the girl finally relaxed her vigilance and stopped attacking indiscriminately as before. This relieved Feiyu, who was still on guard, because he knew that he couldn't trap her with ice for too long.

Once she breaks free of the ice, they will be subjected to a new round of dragon flames. At this point, Flying Fish, Nono, and the others will be completely unable to resist and will only be left to wait for death. The girl then tells Dure and his group about the past that happened in the Ash Tower.

"So, the Ash Tower wasn't built by a king for his daughter, but for a beautiful girl from the forest?" Nono was surprised after learning the whole story from the girl, because it was quite different from the story she had known since childhood.

“Yes, that man encountered danger in the forest, and my sister happened to be passing by and saved him. He invited her to visit his country, and although I clearly advised her not to go, she still readily agreed.” The girl nodded, the memory of the past filling her with sorrow.

"But that man was the young king in history. Didn't he know your sister's true identity? Or has your sister been hiding it from him all along?" Nono asked curiously. The story she had heard many times since childhood had been overturned, which made her very unhappy.

But this also made her even more eager to uncover the truth of history; she didn't want to be deceived by false stories any longer.

“He knew, he knew from the beginning. My sister clearly told him, but even knowing this, he insisted on taking my sister back, saying he didn’t care about these things. Maybe it was these sweet words that deceived my sister.” The girl smiled sadly.

"So what happened next? He brought your sister back to the Ash Tower, which was probably called the White Tower back then. What happened after he brought her back?" Nono pressed for details about this long-buried past, a story that had accompanied her as she grew up, and she firmly believed that she had the right to know.

"In the beginning, that man was indeed very good to my sister. This was definitely a deception set up to lower her guard. My sister is such a smart person; she should have realized it long ago. But she was so foolish. Even knowing that the man was using her, she still refused to leave."

When the girl spoke of the past, she felt both resentment and deep hatred; that person was her only relative, someone she had grown up with since childhood.

"How do you use her?" Dure asked, frowning. Although he wasn't interested in this part of history, he still felt there were several suspicious points.

"That man is an alchemist," the girl told Duree directly, without any intention of hiding it.

"Alchemist" Dure was taken aback, not expecting the other party to have such an identity.

"What's wrong with your reaction? Are alchemists strange? Alchemy was at its most prosperous hundreds of years ago. Those who mastered alchemy stood at the top of the pyramid, becoming kings and such based on their alchemy skills. Isn't that normal?" Nono rolled her eyes at Dure.

"Is that so? Okay, then please continue." Du Lei nodded, realizing he had lost his composure, and gestured for the girl to continue.

"It's undeniable that man is a very talented and outstanding person, otherwise my sister wouldn't have liked him so much. But it's precisely because he's so outstanding that he engages in extremely dangerous alchemy, summoning terrible things into this world," the girl continued softly.

"What is this scary thing?" Dure asked again, seizing on the key words. He was very concerned about it.

"Could it be a creature from the Abyss?" Nono pondered for a moment before tentatively asking.

“That’s right, they are creatures from the Void Abyss.” The girl nodded emphatically in confirmation.

"What creatures from the Void Abyss? What are you talking about?" Du Lei's brows furrowed even more as he asked again.

"Idiot, how can you not even know this? As the name suggests, Void Abyss creatures are creatures that come from the Void Abyss," Nono said.

"So the key question is what exactly is the Void Abyss?" Du Lei asked, his face flushed and his expression darkening.

"Sigh, even Xu Yuan doesn't know how you actually listen in class," Nuonuo said with disdain, giving Du Lei a disdainful look.

"I only attended one of your classes, and I was on tenterhooks the whole time. How can you blame me?" Du Lei retorted, somewhat displeased.

"The so-called Void Abyss is something that doesn't belong to this world," Flying Fish explained from the side.

"Not of this world," Du Lei asked, putting aside his argument with Nono.

"That's right. Whether it's humans or magical beasts, they all belong to this world, while the creatures of the Void Abyss do not belong to this world." Flying Fish explained seriously, pointing out the difference between the two incisively.

"Alchemy can actually create something like this? If it doesn't belong to this world, then it shouldn't have been created by alchemy, right?" Cold sweat dripped from Du Lei's forehead. Although he had never seen what the creatures of the Void Abyss looked like, he could smell the terrifying aura between the lines.

"I'm not too sure about that. I'm a magic teacher, not an alchemy teacher. If you want to know more about alchemy, just ask Winster. Ugh, why do you keep interrupting? Don't disturb other people's stories, okay?" Nono said impatiently.

"Please continue," Nono said, turning to the girl and asking curiously, "After that man used alchemy to create the Void Abyss creature, I heard that whenever a Void Abyss creature appears, it will cause a great disaster. So what happened that time?"

“That’s right. That man reaped what he sowed. The Void creatures he created quickly destroyed his castle and country, turning the surrounding area into ruins and scorched earth.” The girl nodded. Although it was a story that had been buried for hundreds of years, it felt like it was just yesterday to her.

"So the reason why Ash Tower became like this, and the large area of ​​ruins nearby, was destroyed by the creatures of the Void Abyss, but you just said it was you." Dure clearly remembered that the girl said that she was the one who did all of this.

"Are you stupid? These are just words spoken in anger by girls. Although the dragon flames are powerful, the burn marks nearby and the dark aura that has lingered in the air for hundreds of years are definitely the work of creatures from the Void Abyss." Nono glared at Durei, speaking with absolute certainty.

The real history is vastly different from the stories she had known since childhood.

204 Spacetime Rift

After the girl's explanation, Nono, Dure, and the others finally learned about what happened at the former White Tower, now the Ash Tower. They learned that the culprit who caused the Ash Tower to be destroyed and turned large areas of the surrounding area into scorched earth was not the girl with dragon flames herself, but the creatures of the Void Abyss.

“I knew it. I’d heard from Professor Winster that there were traces of Void creatures near the Ash Tower, but other teachers, including Professor Charlotte, didn’t believe it. They thought our place was very stable and there couldn’t be a spacetime rift.” Flying Fish nodded thoughtfully.

"What does 'space-time rift' mean?" Du Lei seized on this point and asked, like a sponge absorbing new knowledge every second.

"Space-time rifts are one of the prerequisites for the appearance of illusory creatures. Didn't I just tell you? The Abyss doesn't belong to our world; it belongs to another space-time. To come to our world from a different space-time, two conditions are needed, the first of which is a space-time rift."

Nono paused for a moment and continued to explain, "It's like you want to escape from here. You need an exit, like a staircase or a window. You can't just blindly smash your way through the wall. You need a gap as a medium. Do you understand what I mean?"

She turned to look at Dure and asked, though she was verbally very impatient with him, she still patiently explained in detail.

“I think I understand, so what is the other condition?” Dure nodded, signaling Nono to continue.

"The other condition is alchemy," Nono said succinctly, this time only mentioning a few words.

Du Lei was somewhat confused by the word "alchemy," because Nono had been very wary of it since the beginning.

"That's right. Everything in the world is made of matter, repeating the three processes of analysis, decomposition, and recasting. For example, people find raw iron ore in iron ore, refine it, then smelt it in a furnace, and finally forge it into a weapon through a series of processes."

Nuonuo gave an example, saying that although this was not her specialty, as a teacher, her basic knowledge was still quite solid.

"In other words, for the creatures of the Void to come to our world, there needs to be a spacetime rift in this region, and someone needs to open the door for them. And that person is the alchemists, right?" Dure quickly offered his conjecture.

“You’re not entirely stupid. It’s roughly like this: for alchemists, opening the Gate of the Void is a taboo. Every time they do it, it brings disaster. But there are always people who knowingly break the law. Throughout history, there have been many catastrophes caused by the Gate of the Void.” Nono’s expression became serious.

“But since opening the Gate of the Void would bring so many harms, why would alchemists repeatedly make such a dangerous and terrible attempt? I think the only explanation is…” Dure was very doubtful about this. As far as he knew, those who could become alchemists were all intelligent people.

Intelligent people usually have a strong enough reason to support their actions, and Du Lei doesn't believe that intelligent people would do anything harmful and unprofitable.

"Don't be curious about the Gate of the Abyss. Too many geniuses in history have become obsessed with what's behind it. Let's leave this topic at that. By the way, what happened to the Tower of Ashes? If it was the creatures of the Abyss that were causing the trouble, the entire region would probably have been razed to the ground, not just like it is now."

Nono stopped talking about the Gate of the Void, clearly showing her apprehension. Instead, she asked the girl about what happened next.

“You’re right. If the creatures of the Void Abyss are allowed to run rampant, the entire mountain range will be razed to the ground. That man did something so dangerous, yet he didn’t get what he wanted, and he’s gone mad because of it. As the one who opened the gate to the Void Abyss, he will be the first to be devoured by it.”

The girl nodded and recounted what happened next. As a witness to history, she remembered everything clearly, even though hundreds of years had passed.

"So what happened to him? Was he just swallowed up by the Abyss?" Nono continued to ask, as she was very concerned about how things would develop.

"He wasn't swallowed by the Void Abyss. My sister saved him. Although he was a liar who deceived her time and time again, she couldn't bear to see him swallowed by the Void Abyss, nor could she bear to see the entire mountain range suffer an undeserved disaster. My sister shielded the creatures of the Void Abyss from the catastrophe."

The girl spoke softly, each character and syllable bringing her the pain of memories.

"They blocked such terrifying Void Abyss creatures, and they were actually blocked by a girl?" Du Lei found this a bit unbelievable, because according to the girl and Nono's description, Void Abyss creatures should be very powerful beings, enough to sweep away everything, but now they were talking about them so casually.

"Don't think this is an easy thing. You must have paid a heavy price. And you're not a pure-blooded dragon. Your sister..." Nono knew much more about the creatures of the Void Abyss and dragons than Dure. She looked at the girl with suspicion.

With her keen eyesight, she could easily see that although the girl possessed dragon flames and was incredibly powerful, her power was not pure. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been frozen here by their combined efforts. If she were a pure-blooded dragon, she would have already used her overwhelming power to completely destroy them.

“You’re right, I’m not a purebred dragon, but my sister is different. She’s a purebred dragon, and she’s much stronger than me. Compared to her, I’m really insignificant.” The girl nodded, readily admitting this, as it wasn’t something shameful for her.

On the contrary, I feel proud to have such a sister.

“That explains it. Although the creatures of the Void Abyss are powerful, there are different levels among them. Powerful Void Abyss creatures can destroy a city or even a country, while weak Void Abyss creatures are only equivalent to high-level magical beasts.” Nono nodded.

"So, as a girl from the dragon race, she shielded the people she cared about from the harm caused by the creatures of the Void Abyss. If that's the case, this place should be rebuilt. But you say he betrayed your sister. What is the truth behind this?" Du Lei asked in confusion.

"Yes, if it weren't for you, sister, that man and his people would have been destroyed long ago. It was you who saved him and drove the Void creatures back into the Void. But you also consumed a lot of magic energy fighting the Void creatures and can no longer maintain your human form."

The girl spoke with a sorrowful tone, her eyes filled with pain.

"Can't maintain human form?" Nono knew what it meant for a girl to be unable to maintain human form.

"After defeating the creatures of the Void, my sister reverted to her original form in front of everyone. Due to the corruption of the Void, she became ferocious and terrifying, but this was only an appearance. In her heart, she still cared about that man, but he, on the other hand, regarded her as a devil."

"Even his people, who protected her, regarded her as someone who destroyed their home. They threw stones at her and cursed her with the most vicious language." The girl's eyes were already filled with tears as she spoke.

That pain remained hidden deep in her heart, never truly gone.

205 Aren't you annoyed?

In the stories Nono had known since childhood, they were always beautiful tales of princesses and princes, as perfect and wonderful as fairy tales. But only today did she learn a different version from the people involved in the history, which was completely opposite to the beautiful story, and contained only darkness and resentment.

"How could this happen? These men are really no good. She gave everything for him. So what if she's a monster? Didn't he know that from the beginning? But in the end, not only did he not protect his woman, he made her suffer such injustice. What kind of behavior is this?"

Nono felt indignant on behalf of the girl's older sister, and she began to stand by the girl's side, joining her in condemning the man's evil deeds.

"Ahem, Nuonuo, you can't generalize. That's just an isolated case, it doesn't mean all men are bad. Um, what's your name again? Oh right, Du Lei, you think so too, right?" Feiyu coughed twice, defending men as a group.

“That’s right, that’s right. That’s just an individual’s behavior. It doesn’t mean that all men are like that. So what happened next? Since she successfully protected this place, why did it end up like this?” Du Lei echoed Fei Yu’s words and asked about the key point of the problem. He had been listening very carefully from beginning to end.

According to the girl, this place was destroyed by creatures from the Void Abyss, but it should have been stopped before it wreaked havoc.

"You ask why it turned out this way? This is probably that man's retribution. Hehehe, it's ridiculous. After they drove my sister away, some of the Void Abyss creatures were not completely destroyed and remained in this world."