Mechanical Alchemist

"It's very troublesome!"

Chijo complained with disgust in his eyes.

But because it belonged to Su Lun, he didn't feel particularly uncomfortable.

After all, it is impossible to give this nasty guy a good face, otherwise he will definitely make an inch of it.

With a straight face, Qianjo stood up from the bathtub naked, and stood under the shower again, rinsing his body with splashing water.

Su Lun admired it with great interest, and only responded after listening to the complaint, "Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry~"

Although he said sorry in his mouth, there was a happy expression on his face that didn't deserve to be beaten. Usually there is no such opportunity, the "special acquiescence" just now made him play so comfortably for the first time.

Most importantly,

Chijo also offered to help just now.

This made Su Lun feel really good.

"snort!"

Qian Tiao caught a glimpse of his hateful smile from the corner of his eye, and let out a cold snort.

She turned away directly and didn't let this guy look any further.

Su Lun had an indifferent expression on his face. The figure of the gambling addict young woman was very attractive no matter the front or the back. The crystal drops of water slide down from the back, and then slide down on the gradually rising upturn, which is very pleasing to the eye.

But after a while, he also smiled and narrowed his eyes.

It was already a rare act of intimacy for Chijo to help him achieve this step.

It was just right.

Senjou felt that the eyes wandering on his figure suddenly retracted, and felt relieved inexplicably.

She looked down at her hand, as if thinking of something, a helpless arc emerged from the corner of her mouth, and she sipped it again.

It doesn't look like he's smiling, but he doesn't seem to be angry at all.

Su Lun felt refreshed as if he had solved the "sequelae" of Na Na's Pandora charm.

After Qianjo washed his body and put on clothes on the boat, Su Lun didn't soak too much.

After rinsing, he got dressed and didn't rush back to the laboratory. Instead, he took out an alchemy classic and sat on the sofa to read it.

Although no one in the room spoke,

But both enjoyed this alone time.

But looking at it, there was a knock on the door of the room.

Qiantiao was maintaining her precious long swords, when she heard Mr. Jing's footsteps, she yelled out the door: "Filo, the door is unlocked, just come in when you come back. Why? Knock."

As soon as this was said, there was the sound of the doorknob being twisted.

Looking again, Mr. Jing in a long black satin dress came in. She looked at the two people in the room, and casually responded to Qian Tiao's words just now, "Knocking on the door is afraid of disturbing your relationship."

Su Lun watched Mr. Jing come in, and also greeted: "Senior Sister."

Mr. Mirror nodded with a smile.

Qianjo gave her a blank look, "What is there to bother you?"

She didn't know what Mr. Jing was joking about, and she even smiled maliciously: "Philo, if you come back earlier, you can help me a little bit."

As soon as these words came out, Su Lun on the sofa heard his eyelids twitch suddenly, and quickly covered his eyes with a book, thinking that this young gambling addict can really say anything.

Fortunately, Mr. Jing is used to it, so he just smiled and said nothing.

She closed the door casually, walked towards Su Lun, gracefully retracted the hem of her skirt, and sat down on the sofa with her legs crossed.

Su Lun put down the alchemy book in his hand, and asked, "Senior sister, did you have information about yesterday's battle?"

She'll come around this time, and that's probably all.

"yes."

Mr. Jing nodded and said: "Yesterday, the news of our battle in the city-state of Moros has been spread. This morning, Lu Ying's side was on the headlines of the special newspaper. It is basically the same as the plan. But there are two. A little special information."

"oh?"

Su Lun also became interested when he heard this.

They were witnesses to the battle yesterday, no matter how detailed it was in the newspaper, it is impossible for them to know clearly. But if you can tell your senior sisters to be special, it must be very special.

Mr. Jing said directly: "The newspaper said that the thirteenth princess of Marfa "Princess Frost Moon" Skadi Harris was killed. "

Su Lun frowned suddenly: "Is that Princess Marfa dead?"

Even Qianjo put away the knife he was wiping in his hand with a "click" and looked over.

Mr. Jing nodded: "Yes. The specific cause of death was not written in the newspaper. But it is probably true. There has been news from Mafa that Emperor Mafa was furious, and he will definitely investigate to the end."

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Hearing this, Su Lun fell into deep thought.

It was only then that he realized why those mechanical warriors would suddenly retreat when they were chasing him.

It turned out that Stiga had been assassinated.

He wasn't too surprised.

I just thought it would have a big impact.

After all, it was the princess of a country who died.

Su Lun knew very well that the Dawn Regiment did not kill Princess Stiga in yesterday's battle.

But she died.

This is very subtle.

If you dare to kill the princess, there are only a few who are capable of killing the princess.

While Ekaterina was in the city, she summoned meteors to destroy the Temple of Agapanon.

Without thinking too much, Su Lun directly expressed his guess, and said lightly: "It should be done by the Lance family."

"Hmm. I thought so too."

Mr. Jing also nodded, his face as calm as Su Lun.

In the eyes of outsiders, the death of Princess Nastika must be a masterpiece of the Dawn Corps. It seems that their Dawn Corps have "taken the blame" for the Lance family.

But in fact, both of them knew that there was no difference in essence whether Princess Namafa died or not.

If Princess Stiga is not dead, the North Sea Fleet and Marfa won't want them?

Obviously impossible.

The essence of wanting to be wanted is not a contradiction, but an interest.

The "Void Secret Realm" was destroyed, and the foundation of the alliance between Mafa and Beihai no longer existed.

The purpose of the arrest is still to obtain the treasures and keys of the Void Secret Realm in the hands of the dawn group, as well as neuromechanical technology.

This is the most important reason.

As for the death of a princess, it was at best an excuse to act.

A princess married to a pirate has lost the most important function of marriage. Especially after coming to Beihai, instead of making any achievements, they frequently caused huge losses to the empire. This kind of "waste", even if she returns to the Marfa Empire, is of little value to those in power.

It would be better to use some waste heat.

It can be predicted that in the near future, the Marfa Empire will definitely put pressure on Lu Ying because of the death of the royal princess. Those politicians will find any excuse to send a large number of people to Luying to fish in troubled waters.

Chijo also became interested when he heard the news.

She hung a few knives on the knife holder, walked over, and sat down on the sofa with a big horse.

Right between Su Lun and Mr. Mirror.

She spoke more directly, and teased: "Hey, Su Lun, the noble lady friend you know, is really not weak in means and scheming."

Su Lun shrugged noncommittally.

Katyusha is his friend.

This Yekaterina is very strange.

But it cannot be denied that she secretly provided a great help in the previous battle.

Whether it is destroying the temple or Van Gogh, it is clear that snipers have greatly weakened the threat of the North Sea Fleet.

Even the act of assassinating Princess Stiga created conditions for Su Lun and the others to evacuate safely. This is also one of the most important factors for Liming to evacuate without any damage.

Cooperation is mutual communication, not one-way request.

So this "black pot" doesn't matter whether you recite it or not.

Obviously, the first piece of information just now had no effect on the Liming regiment at all, and the three of them didn't take it seriously.

At this time, Mr. Jing also smiled slightly, and said: "The second news is also related to this Miss 'Ekaterina'."

"???"

Su Lun looked over and always felt that what she said meant something, as if she was speaking specifically for herself.

Mr. Jing said: "There is also an important news published on the front page of today's newspaper. The Grand Duke of Lance in the north and the Regardi family in the south have reached a marriage agreement. Three months later, in Turington, Emperor of Luying, there will be a marriage ceremony. Empress Lu Ying personally presided over the blessed wedding."

Su Lun already knew the news.

Because this is what he personally agreed to.

It's just that I didn't expect that such a thing would be published in the newspapers, making the whole world know about it?

Hearing this, the fire of gossip in Qiantiao's eyes blazed, she hooked Su Lun's shoulders, and pulled her into her arms, "Oh, listen to Barrett, the family of the Duke of Lance That little princess is a great beauty, she is known as the 'No. 1 Beauty in the Royal Academy'."

After a pause, she smirked again and said, "What does that noble lady look like? Is it as good-looking as Philo?"

Su Lun responded: "It's really not bad. But I think it's far worse than Senior Sister Ye. You are not as good-looking as Sister Qiantiao."

Qianjo was quite satisfied with the answer, "Tsk tsk. You are really popular with women."

As he said that, as usual, he leaned almost his entire body on Su Lun, in a very intimate posture.

It was nothing at first, and Su Lun was used to it, but for some reason, he suddenly felt uncomfortable: "Again?"

This familiar feeling, he didn't understand that it was Pandora's charm that hadn't been solved yet.

Qiantiao caught a hint of embarrassment in his expression, and muttered in disgust: "Hey, restrain yourself."

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No matter how thick-skinned Su Lun is at the moment, he still feels embarrassed.

It's fine to be alone with Qianjo, and now I have my senior sister by my side.

Just trying to explain.

However, Mr. Wujing seemed to know something, and he was not surprised at all.

She glanced at it and said with a gentle smile, "Pandora's charm?"

When Su Lun heard her words, the embarrassment disappeared in an instant, and he asked, "Sister, do you know?"

Mr. Jing said: "Yes. Pandora came to say goodbye to me when she left. She asked me to tell you that the effect of this charm will last for about three days, and it will occur from time to time during the period."

Pandora is the alchemy work of Isaac and his wife, which can be regarded as half a daughter, and Mr. Jing is Isaac's own daughter. Although they didn't seem to communicate much before, this relationship is beyond the reach of outsiders.

three days?

It turns out it hasn't been resolved yet.

Su Lun was speechless for a while, and said expectantly: "Senior sister, is there a way to unlock this technique?"

Mr. Jing spread out his hands with a helpless expression on his face, "This is a mystic art, if you want to solve it, Pandora has to do it yourself. I can't help it."

Su Lun felt that this was very bad news.

Fortunately, Su Lun seldom shows up outside when he is free, and there is no one else except Mr. Jing and Qianjo who have seen his embarrassment.

Three days passed in a flash.

Su Lun has been in the experimental test.

After all, he is really busy.

The previous battle of the Moros city-state was indeed awe-inspiring.

Su Lun also tried for the first time his current extreme combat power of puppetry, causing tens of thousands of enemy casualties.

But at the same time, the battle damage was also very serious.

Thousands of rune puppets and mechanical armors were almost all damaged to varying degrees, and the ammunition reserves were exhausted.

The mechanical battle armor and the war workshop in the small void help to repair it, but Su Lun has to make and repair the rune puppets by himself.

The most urgent problem now is to make high-level puppets to make up for the lost combat power.

That battle also made him aware of various deficiencies in his puppet art.

In the previous battles, his puppet army had a good effect on dealing with low-level pirates, and almost all of them were harvested with low battle damage.

But for high-level professionals who are on the fifth or sixth level, they will almost be harvested in reverse.

Thinking that there would really be a thousand high-level puppets of the fourth and fifth ranks, Su Lun felt that he might kill even the seventh-level professionals!

The production process of advanced puppets is very cumbersome, and it takes a lot of time to make a puppet by hand.

Even with eight-armed spider lances, it would take several days for a fourth-order puppet to complete one.

So Su Lun has been pondering a new idea with the engineers in the war workshop recently, to see if it is possible to replace part of the production process of runes and dolls with machinery.

For example, some basic material screening, engraving, polishing, and coating.

Theoretically speaking, machines can make complex mechanical armor, and it is also possible to make ordinary rune puppets.

At that time, if a standardized assembly line can be produced, the output of rune puppets will increase explosively.

Achieving mass production is the basis of legion battles.

But now the problem comes again, making high-level puppets requires a lot of alchemy materials.

There are a lot of miscellaneous things in Su Lun's hands now, but some special materials controlled by the Lu Ying military are extremely scarce.

As a result, the production speed of rune puppets and mechanical armor is not fast.

So these days, the engineers in the War Workshop have been focusing on research and experiments, making various tests of the "Puppet Assembly Line" and "Titan Mechanical Octopus", modifying the blueprints of the armor to be suitable for puppet control... and so on. to the project.

In fact, only various alchemical ammunition are actually put into mass production.

In that battle, Su Lun deeply understood the concept of "firepower is truth".

As long as there is enough ammunition, top professionals will stay away.

And the materials for making alchemy bombs are relatively abundant, so we must concentrate our production capacity and make a bunch of them first.

At that time, even if you can't use it yourself, if you sell this "hard currency" in the adventurer's market, you can at least make two or three times the profit.

Moreover, the war workshop is placed in the small void, which is much better than in the submarine before.

Su Lun also plans to expand production capacity. Then you need to buy some mechanical factory equipment, such as some large smelting boilers, high-precision lathes, and research instruments.

But unfortunately, those things are still controlled products.

Fortunately, Su Lun is not alone, but the "Dawn Organization".

Through communication in advance, the Beluga Chamber of Commerce has already raised a lot of materials, and also found some black market channels to buy the machinery and equipment from those military factories.

All of them have to go to Lu Ying to get them.

The Eternal Night has also been heading south these days, sailing towards Luying.

Before the "Strange Oddity Assembly Line" was finished and the materials arrived, Su Lun faced another problem.

That is the number of manipulations of the puppet.

The limit of the number of puppets he can control is about a thousand, and it will be very slow to increase this number.

Mainly limited by mental power.

There is no accurate division of mental strength, but now Su Lun obviously feels that he has reached a bottleneck, probably the realm of "Puppet Master".

After entering this stage, it is very difficult to improve the level of mental power to make a qualitative change.

Relying on the [Death Harvester] talent, he quickly reached the current state. But it is very difficult to go up another level and reach the level of Pandora's "spiritual manifestation" and "void roaming". It is even more difficult than his previous work from zero foundation to now.

Unless he is a murderer, like the previous battle where tens of thousands of people were killed at once, there may be hope if he does it a few more times.

But only possible.

Su Lun never considered this idea either.

In the field of alchemy, all energies are balanced.

Killing for the sake of killing will be rejected by certain plane laws like "world will".

In layman's terms, it means "bad luck" and "retribution".

This is not some metaphysics.

Instead, Sir Isaac, who has mastered the talent of [Destiny], personally confronted Mr. Mirror's admonition.

Su Lun was not in a hurry.

After all, this is a super-big threshold. It is estimated that the mental power of this plane exceeds that threshold, and it will not exceed the number of hands.

He has only advanced to the fifth level, and there is still a long way to go.

There is also plenty of time.

What's more, Su Lun has an advantage over ordinary people.

That is the [eclipse] totem.

Su Lun had been mentally deformed before, and listening to whispers brought him a lot of negative mental power growth.

These negative spiritual powers have been absorbed by the [Eclipse] totem drawn by Uta with divine power.

He thought it was a burden before, but now he looks forward to helping him break through the spiritual realm after the totem is fully absorbed.

And not only mental power, but also the upper limit of "multitasking" ability also needs to be improved.

At least to achieve Su Lun's own ultimate goal, the picture of one person controlling tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of puppets requires stronger control.

Thanks to the magical alchemy, some alchemy equipment and advanced materials have similar abilities.

As long as you look for it with your heart, you may not be unable to meet it in the future.

The Eternal Night sailed through the wind and waves for nearly a month.

During the voyage, I encountered many waves of sea ships, including merchant ships, pirate ships, and reconnaissance ships of unknown forces.

Fortunately, seeing a Neptune-class warship like the Eternal Night, most of the ships automatically avoided it.

There were a few ships that wanted to hang and follow them, and some that came with bad intentions and wanted to intercept them, but Su Lun and the others caught up and sank them directly.

The Liming regiment has the world's top sea-going ships, and there are top-level powerhouses like Mr. Jing, the best navigators, so naturally there are no accidents.

During the nearly one-month voyage, Su Lun has been staying in the cabin.

The busyness of this period of time has almost completed some things needed for the battle.

Lu Yingdi is a holy place for alchemy, gathering all kinds of strange people and talents, and there are as many high-level professionals as a cow hair.

Su Lun was going to the Royal Academy to get the volume of "Isaac's Alchemy Manuscript", and also to go to Ekaterina's appointment. This trip would definitely cause some commotion, so naturally some preparations had to be made in advance.

On this day, a deserted island near the western coastline of Luying.

Su Lun took his two disciples, Karma and Albuquerque, to roast coconut crab leisurely on the beach.

They have been waiting here for half a day.

Half a day ago, Su Lun and Mr. Jing parted ways.

The rest of the Dawn Mission will go to Xenodia Province first. It is the territory that Mr. Jing's blood has operated for hundreds of years, and it is also the foundation of the dawn organization.

A large organization has to deal with many diplomatic issues, such as arrests, alliances, recruitment, cooperation...etc.

After the battle "Dawn" of the Moros city-state became famous last time, a large number of people will definitely come here.

There are also many difficult questions.

Mr. Mirror is going to deal with those things.

Su Lun wanted to go to Luying to get the materials first, and also to attend the appointment, so he planned to take the passing cruise to Lingdun.

Today's weather is sunny and sunny, the sea breeze is gentle.

On the white sandy beach, the waves crashed.

Su Lun sat under the shade of a tree and looked at the alchemy secrets he had harvested from the Void Secret Realm.

The coconut crab on the bonfire was already full of meat aroma, and the three masters and apprentices simply settled for lunch.

At this moment, Albuquerque, who was staying on the top of the coconut tree, discovered something, and excitedly said to Su Lun on the ground: "Teacher, the boat is coming! It says 'Queen Rodrika' on the hull!"

After hearing this, Su Lun stood up, jumped up a tree, and saw clearly a giant steam-powered steel ship slowly approaching from the end of his field of vision.

A look flashed across his eyes.

This is exactly the boat that was waiting.

This luxury cruise ship has circled more than half of Luying, and will arrive in Imperial Capital in half a month.

It happened to be Su Lun's destination.

It is one of them to take a ride with the wind.

More importantly, news came from Mr. Hei that top-secret information pointed out that there was an important leader of the "Priority of Giants" on this ship!