Mechanical Alchemist Chapter 224: Jadoulante Port

The merchant ship that Su Lun and the two were traveling on was going to the port of Kadurante, just as Mr. Mirror was going to Senodia Province, a neutral place between the two empires, where he also needed to transfer to a cruise ship or buy a seagoing ship.

After asking Mr. Hei about the itinerary of his team, they found that they had also docked and were switching to land transportation to head north.

After all, the "Chengfeng" is a pirate ship, so there will be a lot of trouble.

It will take about two or three days.

It was almost the time Su Lun and the others arrived.

Su Lun himself also plans to visit the North Icefield. He needs experience and knowledge.

The original owner's Leijiadi family is in the south of Luying, and he has no plans to cause trouble there in the short term.

The Northland Icefield is a good choice.

Moreover, he is now preparing to advance to the third level.

Although the dark spiritual power is thin on the ground, he has [Isaac's Alchemical Heart], which seems to carry a dark spiritual power spring with him, which can fully meet the needs of cultivation. His mental power is also steadily improving, reaching the level of gold materials. [The Three-Colored Mask of the Life-Usurper] is only a matter of time...

Furthermore, he also needs to raise some Westward Journey materials for his third-level alchemy equipment.

It's just a good time to try your luck in Jiadurante, the largest commercial territory in the north of Luying.

Su Lun has now learned the secret method of mental power, and the direction of the third-level advancement is "multiple minds and multitasking", which is more towards mental power control.

So, he plans to get a special breeding equipment [spiritual tentacle] that is highly compatible with the newly awakened ability.

It was the same ability that Pestoya had when she traveled back in time and controlled the limbs of him and Bald Ivan in Storm Manor.

I didn’t know what the method was before, but now Su Lun knows that it is a method of mental manipulation.

Use mental power threads to block target nerve signal transmission, transmit your own will, and control other people's bodies.

The reason why the "Puppet Master" is cunning is not only that he can make all kinds of strange rune puppets, but more importantly, he has some mysterious mental power control techniques.

In the words of his teacher Seria: Are puppets an inconvenience? Controlling dead puppets is just the beginning, controlling living puppets is the advanced level, so in the end, everyone you see is a puppet!

The method of mental control will make up for Su Lun's shortcomings in puppet control.

Furthermore, because he had previously peeled off the memory fragments of "Forensic Doctor" Gerald and carefully studied his "Anatomy Notes", Su Lun now has an almost complete understanding of various nerve signal transmissions in the human body.

Once the equipment is finished, it can immediately form combat effectiveness.

When the time comes, the power of puppetry techniques such as [Puppet Theater] will also increase dramatically.

Su Lun does not need to have complete physical control like before him, he needs to wrestle with others.

Now the spiritual power is transmitted directly through the silk thread, achieving dual control of physical and mental power, and the human body can be easily controlled.

Even later,

As long as we have enough understanding of the target's neural signal transmission, we will not only be able to control humans, but even Warcraft and aberrations

Theoretically anything can be manipulated.

This is also based on his own conditions. After careful consideration, Su Lun felt that the most suitable breeding equipment for him to advance to the third level.

After advancing, his strength will skyrocket!

However, although the forging blueprints for the colonial equipment were obtained from Seria, the main materials were very rare.

He needs a complete and fresh brain of a third-level mental monster such as [Nightmare Spider], [Hundred-Eyed Evil Eye], [Nightmare Octopus], etc. The higher the quality, the better.

He read through these alternative targets in the classics, but after harvesting so many memories, no one had ever seen one of them.

So, it’s best to try your luck in places like the North Icefield where there are plenty of monsters.

It is said that in the depths of the primeval forest of the "Silent Forest", some ancient species that have become extinct outside are discovered every year

Since knowing that Su Lun is a "genuine" rune teacher, the fur merchant Benson and his son Jike have become very enthusiastic. In the surface world, teaching is one of the most respected professions among civilians.

Even for meals, someone will be specially sent to summon Su Lun.

After all, it is considered "rescued". It is difficult to refuse the invitation of the ship owner, and Su Lun will happily agree.

Through the small talk at the dinner table, Su Lun also learned some about the situation in the ground world.

The Bensen family is considered to be the middle class among the common people in the imperial capital of the Luying Empire.

What kind of monster furs are abundant in the "Silent Forest" in the North? These furs were a luxury item in the imperial capital and were used to make alchemy scrolls and clothing, which were very popular. The gross profit of such a trip is about 30 to 50 million liso, and after deducting taxes and labor costs, the net profit is about 10 million liso.

I can make two or three trips a year.

But if you occasionally encounter pirates, you will lose everything.

Benson has also made a lot of money through his own business in recent years, and he is considered a well-known rich man in the circle of fur merchants in the imperial capital.

Su Lun’s erudition also left a very good impression on Benson and his son.

However, Su Lun didn't know why. He occasionally felt some vague hostility from Benson's somewhat beautiful second wife Marianne.

And the guard captain named Raman

On this day, the seaport city of Kadurante is in sight.

On the deck, Su Lun was blowing the sea breeze and looking into the distance.

Beside him, Jike was holding his notes seriously and was carefully recording the questions he had just asked.

Su Lun would blow the wind on the deck every day. The fresh sea breeze would help him digest the newly received knowledge in his mind.

Jike is very studious and will take this opportunity to politely ask for some alchemy knowledge.

Su Lun thought this little boy had a good talent for learning and explained patiently.

We will arrive at the harbor in less than an hour. After getting off the ship, we will not have such a good teacher. Jike seems a little disappointed.

He carefully placed the notebook in the pocket of his vest, and followed Su Lun's example and lay down on the edge of the deck, because the grid was not high enough and his feet were still hanging in the air.

Jike sighed with emotion: "Mr. Nicholas, you really know everything. It would be great if I could hire you as a private teacher. Then I would have great hope of being admitted to the 'Imperial Royal War College'."

Su Lun smiled and said nothing.

Jike's eyes were shining like stars, and he continued: "You know, it is my dream to be admitted to the Royal Academy. In the entire empire, there are only less than 5,000 new students each year. We also have to exclude the nobles. Eighty percent of the students, we civilians need very high admission scores to be admitted. That is the highest institution that only the real elite can enter."

"Yeah."

Su Lun also listened with great interest, smiling and nodding from time to time.

This Jike taught him a lot of common sense about the ground world.

The best educational resources in the world belong to the children of nobles, but some opportunities are left to the common people.

Nobles are exempted from taking entrance examinations, while commoners need only one-in-a-thousand talents and high tuition fees.

Jike has become accustomed to this kind of class difference, and there is no complaint in his tone about injustice.

He seemed like a boy with great dreams, full of yearning for the highest institution of education, and said: "If I can get in, I will have access to the top masters and the best resources. There are also campuses of the Royal Academy There are many buildings from the Atria Empire era a thousand years ago, and the college library has the richest collection of books in the world! All kinds of unique collections of classics, manuscripts of various masters, and documents excavated from the ruins of various civilizations, such as There are manuscripts from Roger Bacon, Clement, Ramon Llull, and Theophrast von Hohenheim, master alchemists from all eras."

Su Lun nodded in recognition as he listened to the names of famous names in the field of alchemy.

The Luying Empire has existed for more than eight hundred years, and the documents collected by the Bona royal family are definitely a huge amount that ordinary people cannot imagine.

This statement made Su Lun really interested.

When it comes to acquiring alchemical knowledge, there is really no place more suitable than the Royal Academy.

After being taught by Seria, he now knows very well the direction of his future advancement. He must need a lot of knowledge as a stepping stone to touch the top field of alchemy.

However, a place like the Luying Imperial Capital where Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon gathers the top professionals in the entire empire.

The Leijiadi family, the original owner of the key, seems to have a mansion in the imperial capital

The thought flashed through Su Lun's mind, and he planned to take a look after he had some ability to protect himself.

"Oh, right!"

At this time, Jike seemed to suddenly think of something, and added excitedly: "There is also the relic storage room of the 'demigod' Sir Isaac from a thousand years ago. Last time our preparatory college organized a visit , I have seen it with my own eyes!"

When Su Lun heard this, his eyes suddenly froze, and he groaned unconsciously: "Sir Isaac's relics?"

Sir Isaac left behind many manuscripts. At the auction house in Old Town, one page can be sold for three to five hundred gold crowns.

The Raphael family has developed Old Town for hundreds of years, and many of the treasures in the underground city have flowed to the surface through them.

"Yes!"

Not everyone is qualified to visit the Royal Academy. Jike wanted to tell this rune teacher from a remote southern county about the prosperity of the imperial capital, and said: "Sir Isaac is the greatest in the history of modern civilization. Inventor, philosopher, biologist, and great alchemist, he created countless genius inventions. The library management of the Royal Academy has a dedicated library that collects jazz relics. There are also many autographed manuscripts and design drawings."

Su Lun thought of something and asked: "Is there a leather notebook that smells black and looks like a 'living thing' among those relics?"

Hearing this, Jimmy was surprised: "Hey, Mr. Nicholas, have you also seen the [Theosophical Manuscript]?"

He frowned and thought about it for a moment, then continued: "There is indeed such a notebook in the collection room! The teachers said that it was a research manuscript on a god-level breeding suit invented by Sir Isaac. Oh, I I still remember it very clearly. It was a very strange notebook. Unfortunately, I didn’t see the contents."

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Although Su Lun was a little unfamiliar when he heard the name of this [Theosophical Manuscript], he immediately guessed in his heart that the eighty percent is one of the five [Isaac's Alchemy Manuscripts]!

It turns out that there is also a copy in Luying Royal Academy?

Not surprisingly, there is another book in the Raigadi family

Including one and five manuscripts in his hand, Su Lun now knows the whereabouts of three.

"It seems that I really have to go to Luying Royal Academy"

Hearing this, Su Lun looked at the sea in the distance, his eyes gradually deepening

Not long after, the sailboat is about to dock.

"Jadoulante" is a huge seaport city built on the mountain.

Viewed from the air, it looks like a long boot.

The natural deep-water port is at the heel of the boot, with cliffs on both sides, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

From far away, you can hear the bustle of people on the pier.

Su Lun stood on the bow of the ship, looking at the city in the harbor in the distance, and murmured in his heart: "The technological level of cities in the surface world does not seem to be too high."

The city in front of you looks like a medieval castle complex, with a bit of ancient Greek architectural style, and is dominated by large areas of white and blue. Thick and textured white rock walls, tall pillars and blue spiers, the streets are crowded.

It seems that there is not much difference from the thousand-year-old architectural styles in the ruins of Dawn City.

However, there are many steel elements in this castle-style city.

Steam locomotives can be seen on the bridges between the islands, there are also various steel bridges in the city, and there are floating airships floating above the city

The most eye-catching thing is the various giant forts built on the mountain. Long and short cannons were densely packed, and the city was armed like a hedgehog. It looked like a mixture of magic and industrial society.

From the perspective of urban architecture alone, the level of civilization in Kadurante lags far behind the cyber-style high-rise buildings in the inner city of Old London.

At this time, Su Lun suddenly heard Mr. Jing's comment coming from beside him: "It has been a thousand years, and the city is still like this. The backward aristocratic centralized system has long proven to be a stumbling block to the development of social civilization. These For the sake of power and enjoyment, the nobles did not want to make progress, and actually allowed the development of civilization to stagnate for a thousand years. Are we really not afraid that the plane channel will burst and humans will be enslaved by the strong men from another plane?"

Her tone was calm, but Su Lun could hear a hint of anger and lamentation.

Sure enough, people standing in different positions see completely different things.

People like Mr. Mirror, who fought on the frontline to protect the plane space a thousand years ago, see the entire human and alchemical civilization.

From what Su Lun knows, the aristocratic centralized system of the Luying Empire is indeed quite backward.

The nobles concentrated more than 90% of society's resources.

In addition to the population expansion, both alchemy and technology have not improved much compared to a thousand years ago.

No!

Even worse!

At least, in the field of alchemy, no one is now where Sir Isaac was a thousand years ago.

On the side of the Marfa Empire, changes have only occurred after the mechanical revolution of the last hundred years.

Mr. Jing shook his head and didn't say much.

At this time, the sailboat passed by a reef with a lighthouse built on it, and Sulendo took a look.

Because the lighthouse is like hanging thousands of flags, hundreds of pirate flags of various kinds are hung, some are new, some have faded after being exposed to wind and sun, and it seems that they have been hung for a long time.

There are also several dried corpses!

Looking at the costumes of the corpses, are these pirates?

Because the ship was about to dock, Captain Benson also stepped onto the deck.

Seeing the confusion on Su Lun's face, he explained: "That is "Bloodhand" Stewart, the leader of the 'Blood Skeleton Pirates', a fifth-level professional and a great pirate who was once active in this sea area. , committed many murders in his hands, and the crimes were extremely heinous."

What merchants hate most are naturally these pirates who burn, kill and loot.

After a pause, his tone was not polite, and he said: "These **** pirates were sent to the gallows instead!"

Su Lun also understood this warning "landmark building". Is this a warning to people about the consequences of becoming pirates?

The body of a fifth-level pirate was hung up and dried like this?

He suddenly thought of Qian Jiao.

After the gambling-addicted young woman got off the ship, she stopped following Mr. Hei and the others, saying she was going to form her own pirate group.

Although she wants to be a "gang robber", robbers are also thieves, and those caught will be sent to the gallows

The ship entered the harbor and stopped among a dense sea of ​​ships.

Su Lun and the other two said goodbye to Benson and his family, and walked into the city first.

There used to be a thick high wall at the pier, and identity registration and verification were required to enter the city.

There was a long queue outside the city gate, and soldiers wearing silver-gray armor were showing their identities as people entering the city.

The process is not complicated. Just take out your ID card, show it, and then put your hand on a crystal ball.

It's a bit like going through immigration inspection in a previous life. The soldiers guarding the city would ask a few questions casually, and after passing the review, they would stamp the document.

Su Lun was also prepared.

Forging documents is not difficult for him.

What's more, except for the cities near the imperial capital that have unified identity certificates, each other territory of the Luying Empire has its own certificate of place of origin. Most of them are backward pure paper certificates. The only anti-counterfeiting certificate is the one representing the lord. Gilded heraldic pattern.

But looking at the crystal ball, Su Lun raised his eyebrows slightly and made an appraisal.

[Inferior energy measuring crystal]

Detailed explanation: We can only roughly judge the level of elemental crystals.

It seems that they are sneaking into the city for high-level pirates, or for some other purpose

But if you just detect the level, it won't be a big problem.

Su Lun, the second level, is not very eye-catching among professionals.

After paying the tax, he glanced at Mr. Jing, who was holding his hand. If the seventh or eighth level was detected, it would probably cause a sensation immediately.

Mr. Jing was very calm and responded with a faint smile.

Obviously she doesn't care about this energy-measuring crystal.

The two of them lined up and slowly entered the city.

While lining up, Su Lun also made a point of observing most of the group of adventurers passing by.

Most of them are dressed in traditional professional attire, with a lot of firearms, but not many robotic arms.

Even if there is, looking at the mechanical device, it is about the same technological level as the outer city of Old Lingtown.

This was the first city that Su Lun came into contact with in the surface world. It gave him the feeling that the Luying Empire was that kind of ancient empire with a "twilight spirit", like an old and sleepy one. lion.

Not long after, it was Su Lun’s turn to review.

The soldiers guarding the city have to check tens of thousands of people coming in and out every day, and their expressions have long been numb: "Show your ID, take off your hat, and put your hand on the crystal ball!"

As he got closer, Su Lun saw that there were wanted notices hanging on the notice boards on the city wall.

In the vast North Sea, in addition to the infamous "King of the North Sea" fleet, there are also countless other pirates, large and small.

Most of the people on this bounty list are pirates.

Suellen took off his hat.

He was wearing a plain white suit, probably because of his attire, and the tone of the guards guarding the city was quite polite.

Then he put his hand on the crystal ball, and the crystal ball gave off a faint blue light.

The guard on the side took a look at Su Lun's face. He didn't see any wanted criminals, so he stamped his household registration certificate: second-level professional.

Su Lun passed the customs smoothly, but Mr. Jing on the side took off the wide-brimmed hat that covered half of his face, and the guards immediately looked straight.