Chapter 43, Fire in a Bottle
Some time ago, Fugate had a whim and discovered that someone was using astrology to check him.
Fugate originally didn't want to pay attention to it. If you want to check it, just check it. Fugate, who is already in trouble, doesn't care about the leakage of some information.
But this guy obviously went too far and actually tried to view something more private.
Fugate was furious.
Then, after using psychic energy to cover up his own information, he competed with the other party in astrology and prophecy for three hours.
Although he didn't beat the opponent to a pulp, he still picked up a lot of things.
For example, let's say the other party is a witch from the witch guild, but this guy is very bad. Seeing that astrology can't resist Fugate, he sells other witches, such as Witch Alice, [Gold] Reindot and so on.
These witches have more or less abilities in astrology and prophecy, so they also pursue Fugate.
Then neither party got a good deal, and then there was nothing more.
Fuquet eventually learned the astrologer's true name, Ashtomanthe Barbilos Trismegistus.
"Three times the greatest astrologer? Bah, so narcissistic." Fugate said at the time.
After that, Fugate used his prophecy on several other witches. Among them, Alice seemed to realize that Fugate did not obtain enough information.
[Gold] Reindot used alchemy to distort his own information, while Fugate's prophecy could only produce broken images and distorted information.
From this, Fugate knew the name of [Gold], and its attainments in alchemy far exceeded Fugate's imagination.
Fugate considers himself not mediocre in the field of alchemy.
Far more powerful than those guys who can only do some material splicing and sublimation.
But it is precisely because he is not mediocre that Fugate can know the difference between himself and [Gold] in alchemy, and understand the terror of [Gold] in the field of alchemy.
There are four levels of alchemy.
"Black soil" is the etymology of alchemy and its original state.
"Chalk" is the beginning of change.
"Chicheng" means the refining of emotions in alchemy.
"Gold", the final stage of alchemy. Valueless things finally find their meaning and become gold.
Then alchemists naturally have four levels.
Alchemist apprentices can only do some mixing of materials and use "black earth" level alchemy. They are the most basic alchemists and the largest number of alchemy users in the entire Teyvat continent. (Example: Timaeus)
Formal alchemists are able to transform substances into each other. They use "chalk" level alchemy. They are formal alchemists. They are rare in Teyvat. Scholars from the Suron sect who specialize in alchemy are generally Only after graduation can I achieve this level. (Example: Yayoi July)
Elite alchemists are able to add spiritual reactions to the preparation of materials. They use "red" level alchemy. If their skills are sufficient, they can be called masters of alchemy.
Generally speaking, there are only a dozen to dozens of people in a country. Fugate's apprentices, Kulu, Baanka, Batu, and Sameer, are at this level. The future Mondstadt Beast-Eared Girl Sugar It’s also at this level.
The master of alchemy is a true master of alchemy. The highest achiever in alchemy is the current Fugate level. He can use alchemy to create new or even imaginary substances. Naturally, he uses "gold" level alchemy. , Fugate has gone quite far at this level and created many new substances.
Logically speaking, this is already the highest level of alchemy, and [Gold] Reindot also uses this level of alchemy.
But there are also strong and weak ones at this highest level. The weak ones are like Hetara, who can only create new substances based on the laws of the world.
The more powerful ones, such as Charmian, can create a certain amount of overhead matter based on the laws of the world.
Continuing upward is Fugate's level, which can use overhead matter to construct substances that comply with Teyvat's law. The intelligence development potion is the master of this level.
Furthermore, according to Fugate's idea, overhead matter should be used to construct an overhead matter that conforms to and utilizes Teyvat's Law.
But [Gold] Reindot, her alchemy has gone a step further, reaching the point of using overhead matter to construct an overhead substance that is unable to be rejected by the Teyvat Law, and can also pollute the Teyvat Law.
Fugate's evaluation of her alchemy is "the [gold] among [golds], using alchemy to gain power that rivals the world."
That's why Fugate said that [Gold] Reindot was at least two versions ahead of them in alchemy.
It's like he is two versions ahead of Hetara.
Although they look similar, both are "golden" alchemy, but the conditions and effects are completely different.
It was precisely because of this that Fugate regained his energy and accompanied Charmian to learn alchemy again.
But Fugate gave up after two days, because he had reached a certain extreme in the field of alchemy, which could not be broken through in a short time. Going further up would no longer be a field that humans could touch, so contact was needed. The Laws of Teyvat.
Fugate found that he could improve his skills, but rarely. What was needed for qualitative change was not this kind of accumulation, but an opportunity, an opportunity to contact or even compete with the laws of the world.
After figuring this out, Fugate stopped worrying.
"Forget it, I'll just spend this time with you." Fugate said while hugging Charmian.
After two days of alchemy experiments with Fugate, Charmian, who felt that he still had a lot of room for improvement, quit.
Pulling Fugate to squeeze out all the remaining vacation time, Charmian's alchemy level has also made great progress in these few days. Although it still has not reached Fugate's level, it has not reached it. Far away.
After all, Fugate has reached the bottleneck and is standing still, and there is still room for her to continue to improve.
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"Oh~ I shouldn't study alchemy on a whim..." Fugate was speechless.
"Instructor, according to today's lesson, you should teach us alchemy." Femini looked at Fugate and said.
"We won't study alchemy today. Let's study herbal medicine." Fugate got angry when he heard about alchemy.
"Ah~?"
"Fontaine's unique medicinal herb, sea dew, is so blooming..." Fugate once traveled to Fontaine during his lifetime, and even met Egolia, the water goddess at that time (mainly because Fugate had the aura of the tree king in his body) , plus Fugate's alchemy is indeed superb, as the tree king's best friend, Egolia naturally came to take a look).
"You seem to be a little emotionally unstable lately." Arecino, who was leading a child back, looked at Fugate and said.
After handing the child over to Fimini and the others after class, Arecino and Fugate came to a secluded part of the courtyard. The other children and the instructor knew that Fugate and [Father] wanted to talk about something, so they all understood it. Didn't come.
"You know the power of 'Er Moon Blood Fire'."
"Is it the power brought by the blood in your body?" Fugate asked.
"Yes." Arecino said, "You may not know that 'Er Moon Blood Fire' can..."
"That is to say, the things I have seen recently are similar to ghosts, but very different. They are what you call residue?" Fugate said.
"Can you see it?" Arecino asked curiously.
"How new is this? There is one floating in front of us right now. No...this is the real Ah Piao. Boss, we are buying a haunted house." Fugate said in surprise.
"..." Arecino snapped his fingers and burned A Piao to death.
Poor Piao, but after confirmation by Arecino, Fugate's field of vision is indeed very wide and a bit scary.
It's wider than her X-shaped vision. At least Arecino can't see Piao without turning on the elemental vision.
But Fugate can see it normally.
"You are really a treasure." Arecino held his forehead and said, "To be honest, you still have so many abilities."
"I don't know about this either." Fugate said, after all, spiritual energy is very omnipotent, and he is the source of spiritual energy in this world, and the supreme heaven (subspace) also started from him.
"Not sure?"
All Warp abilities developed by psykers in this world are absorbed into the Warp itself.
In other words, Fugate knows all subspace abilities.
But Fugate himself may not be able to use it. After all, Fugate is still a human being and is not an omniscient and omnipotent god.
Besides, there is no such thing as a subspace god who is omniscient and omnipotent. They all have their own realm, and Fugate is no exception. His realm is the sublimation of his own essence, that is, nothingness, joy, forgetfulness and balance, and his outer appearance is manifested as water.
Therefore, Fugate's subspace will show its initial gray-black color and be very humid.
It is not a problem for intelligent spirits to survive and sleep in it, but living for a long time will feel very depressing, so that the memory will be forgotten, and the self will be swallowed by nothingness. This is how the first few generations of psychic priests in the desert lived. Perished in subspace.
"Yes, I don't know. I don't know how capable I am, but it is still very simple to solve most problems that are not caused by strength." Fugate said.
"Forget it, back to the original matter, I am going to study with [Doctor] the 'evil moon blood and fire' flowing in my blood."
"As for the purpose..." Arecino said with some confusion, "Do you know that there is no such thing as retirement in our Hearth House?"
"All Shneitsvna and Shneitsvich have only two choices: defection and being hunted to death, or dying in the mission."
"I want to give them one more option to 'kill' their past and burn their memories with the 'evil moon blood fire', so that they who have lost their memories will be reborn," Arecino said.
"Well~ It's a great idea, but if you cooperate with [Doctor], you also know the consequences." Fugate said.
"So [Doctor] only provided ideas this time, and we will complete the rest of the experiments ourselves." Arecino said, "He agreed easily. After all, he has been curious about my [blood] for a long time."< br>
Fugate nodded and said: "So you think of me?"
"Yes," Arecino said.
"Why don't you ask me if I can research it?" Fugate felt that he would not be weaker than [Doctor] in researching pharmaceuticals.
Arecino said with a strange look on his face: "I have read your information. Although this research is said to be about potions, it is more about the research on 'evil moon blood and fire'. Are you sure you can really do it?"< br>
"And can your potion remove memories at a targeted location? If not..."
"I can't do it." Fugate said directly.
"...You are too arbitrary, why don't you give it a try?" Arecino asked.
"This is related to pharmacological research, how about we discuss it?" Fugate asked.
"...Forget it." Arecino said, "That's it anyway. I need to trouble you to contact [Doctor] when the time comes."
"Okay." Fugate didn't refuse. He could see that Arecino was really embarrassed, otherwise he wouldn't come to him.
"By the way, have you finished 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 in the process of receiving it."
"As for the Inazuma branch, the situation there is a bit delicate, because the branch in the island country is relatively independent." Ararecino said, "We haven't started to accept the branch there yet."
The main reason is that taking over multiple branches at the same time requires too many subordinates, and Arecino does not have many subordinates.
Many of her subordinates are subordinates of the former [servant]. Although many are dissatisfied with the former [servant], there are also many who are die-hard loyal to the former [servant].
Arecino could not distinguish the composition of these people very well.
So just looking at the other branches already gave Arlecino a headache, and he really didn't have the heart to take care of Inazuma's branch in the distant island country.
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Although the cooperation with [Doctor] and [Servant] has been finalized, [cooperation] will not start so quickly.
And since this matter is hidden from other people, the progress of the project will be 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 begun.
During this period, the courtyard where they were located was finally completed, and this place located in the corner of the Fontainebleau was named Buffati Mansion.
According to the Fugate orderly, the atmosphere here is much better than the previous [Hearth House].
"How did your little guys' survival class go this afternoon?" Fugate asked.
The gray cat girl and the boy with ash-blond hair were startled by Fugate's sudden question.
Recently, in order to alleviate the financial constraints of the Buffati mansion, Arecino started a survival class.
The main purpose of the survival class is to let the orphans adopted by the Buffati Mansion learn a skill, at least to the extent that they can support themselves.
But it is not easy, and there are currently very few people who have succeeded in the Buffati Mansion.
"Reporting to the instructor, the survival class is currently going well. We have already hired a teacher." The boy with ash-blond hair said.
"That's really good. Although survival classes are very important, you can't give up basic training. Basics are the foundation of everything." Fugate said.
"Yes, we understand, Mr. Chief Instructor." The boy with ash-blond hair and the girl with gray cat said neatly.
"Well~ let's go train." Fugate nodded with satisfaction.
"Yes!" The two of them responded and quickly went to train.
"You...are finally back." When the freckled boy saw the two returning men, he quickly handed over the weapons for training. The training tonight was a dagger.
It is still the kind of short dagger specially used for assassination and self-defense. This is what all agents born in the Hearth House know. They have trained many times before, so they quickly entered the training state.
In addition to dagger training, they will also conduct boxing training, cane training and regular knife, sword and even spear training.
Among them, spearmanship training is the least. After all, spearmanship training is very expensive. The Bufati Mansion has limited funds and is not like a formal army of fools, so it cannot train a few times a year.
A few days later, Fugate and Arecino finally received some data and experimental ideas from [Doctor].
"How is it?" Arecino asked.
"According to the research above, it is indeed possible, but the requirements for you are relatively high." Fugate said, "Your control of the 'Er Moon Blood Fire' must be meticulous, and once If you make a mistake, it is very likely to endanger your life.”
"Not only the person who drank the potion, but also your own."
"... So, it is indeed similar to what I thought." Arecino said, "Then let's start researching. You will connect with [Doctor] for subsequent research and information."
Fugate nodded, took out a test tube, and Arecino released some blood.
Then came a short period of research.
"I have to say that when it comes to human body research, this boy Zandik is indeed a very talented guy. It turns out there is such a solution..." Fugate looked at the solution in front of him and fell into deep thought.
"It seems that the experiment is going well." said Arecino, who came to visit the laboratory again.
"Indeed, your will is very strong." Fugate praised, "As long as your will and control ability are up to standard, this potion is actually not something difficult to invent."
"However, Zandik's research progress in brain science is indeed a bit different. Combined with some drugs I added, it can be hypnotized to make the brain of the person who takes the drug automatically complete relevant memories through keywords."
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"I haven't seen him for more than a year. This guy's progress is really scary." Fugate said with emotion.
Although he can also achieve similar effects through psychic powers and potions.
But the other party's design perfectly matched Arecino's power. It's not that Fugate couldn't do it, but he was able to come up with this design in such a short period of time. This was indeed a bit scary.
"It seems that this is the benefit of multiple perspectives of slicing." Fugate said, "Do you have any requirements for the naming of this potion?"
"How about calling it Blood Fire?" Fugate was as incapable of naming as ever.
"Call it fire in a bottle." Arlecino said.
(End of chapter)