127. Sage's Stone
"What is that...gold thing?" Elena asked.
"That would be great." Joel said regretfully, "That is a technology of secret medicine refining and material construction."
"Same as a potion master?"
The magicians in this world combine various herbs with magic elements to create secret medicines with different effects. Some special medicines are even more effective than priests. Often these magic medicines have different effects.
Pharmacists will cooperate with the Adventurer's Guild and sell them in the Adventure House.
However, since the profession of a potion master requires the maker to have magic power and to learn it systematically, such secret potions are expensive luxuries for ordinary people. Ordinary adventurers need to spend several years to accumulate skills.
Buying a bottle of life-saving secret healing potion is an item that is not popular. Nobles often cultivate their own family potion masters so that they can have life-saving potions when some accidents occur. Naturally, the Duke Tobias family does not
Exception, so Elena is no stranger to this and has this question.
"It's different." Joel thought for a moment and said.
After a series of misunderstandings about the existence of "common sense", Joel accepted the popularization of common sense brought by the goblin elder Didylila at the suggestion of Crassus.
The experiences that a potionist encounters when he is dissociated are also included in them.
Unlike potions masters who are only proficient in making potions, the power of alchemy lies not in the production of secret potions, but in the structure of matter.
"A powerful alchemist can instantly construct substances that exist in the void, and some substances can even withstand the attack of the Dragon King."
"Combat profession?" Elena concluded from this.
"A profession that combines combat and assistance. It can be both combat and assistance. There are no rigid requirements." Joel continued to tinker.
"It must be a powerful profession to resist the Dragon King."
Just by hearing the name Dragon King, you can guess that he is the king among giant dragons, and the power possessed by such a king must be terrifying.
"It's not a very powerful profession. What they pay attention to is equal exchange. Whatever they gain, they lose. What really makes them famous is a creation, an object called the Philosopher's Stone. That thing has caused many problems in existence.
They coveted it, and even had conflicts and battles over it."
"...Philosopher's Stone?...Stone? What's there to argue about?" Elena was puzzled.
"That's why I say you are stupid. That is a good thing, for example, it can actually convert stones into gold." Joel thought with a sigh on his face.
The Philosopher's Stone, a thing that can tamper with the rules of the world,
The devil needs him, and it can continuously provide souls.
The gods need him, it is the purest praise and a steady stream of faith.
The Dragon King needs him, it can convert stones into treasure.
This was also the reason for the fierce fighting in the first place.
"But didn't you say that we should pay attention to equal exchange? Stone and gold are equal?" Elena questioned.
"It stole the power of the world in exchange, like a thief." Looking at Elena's half-comprehensive look, Joel explained, "In simple words, if I get gold coins here, disasters will happen elsewhere.
, earthquakes, tsunamis and the like.”
An item that transfers equal exchange to the world, but to the person who robs it, this is no big deal.
Dragons themselves are synonymous with plunder. They travel around the world, looting wealth.
"...is this kind of thing still called the Philosopher's Stone? I think it's more appropriate to call it the Disaster Stone." Elena condemned, looking at Joel's tinkering while talking, she couldn't help but think of a terrible thing.
He couldn't be tinkering with that thing, so he immediately asked: "Are you tinkering with the Philosopher's Stone?"
"I don't have this ability. I wish I had it..." Joel sighed, "That way I don't have to worry about gold coins."
"I don't know why you are so obsessed with gold coins."
"It's instinctive." Joel himself couldn't explain it clearly.
An unexplainable behavior, just like sleeping, more like an extra bodily instinct to resolve a long life.
"Are you afraid of anything? For example, career or something else." Elena suddenly asked.
This was a bold question. Taking advantage of the opportunity to talk to Joel, she calmly asked this question that had been bothering her for a long time.
"Of course, that is recognized as the most powerful profession in the dragon world." Joel did not shy away.
"What is it?"
"The Void Thief is a thing that can steal treasures across space and run very fast. No dragon wants to encounter that kind of thing... Once you encounter it, it means that the treasure you hid somewhere is lost.
"
Joel patted Elena on the head and apologized for saying such a terrible word.
Elena lowered her head.
Not sure if it was an illusion, but Joel felt that Elena's breathing was a beat faster.
"So what are you tinkering with?" Elena put the question on what Joel kept tinkering with, but when she said this, she couldn't help but think of a question.
Joel's claws grabbed the dirt, and then he patted her on the head so naturally.
"..you do this delibrately?"
"What?" Joel was puzzled, "I'm experimenting with materials that can build mud walls in the Gobi."
Elena's anger subsided, and she couldn't help but be attracted by Joel's words, and built a mud wall in the Gobi. This was an incredible idea.
The nobles of Duke Ridge, including her father, had tried to do this because it would allow them to better enslave the orcs and conduct surveillance at close range, but the soft sand and confusing rocks forced them to give up this plan.
Even the most knowledgeable court scholar once said that this was an impossible idea.
Now, this silly young dragon wants to overturn this idea?
It sounds incredible, but if it succeeds, it will be a cross-century creation and invention.
"Like a city wall?" Elena asked.
"No, I want to make them into cave shapes."
"It's not about the shape. Can you construct a mud wall on soft sand?"
"It's very simple, isn't it?" Joel wondered why Elena had such a big reaction. According to the information recorded in his inheritance, this was obviously a very simple matter. The stronger Silver Dragon even thought about how to stay in power.
In the void between the two sides, build your own nest to store treasures.
"...If it were simple, the orcs would have been completely enslaved by humans long ago." Elena couldn't help but wonder if Joel had some misunderstanding about the word "simple".
Chapter completed!