Wizard Earl

Chapter 53 Refining (2)

Feeling that the green crystal had completely dissolved into his black and red liquid gold, Connor finally revealed a faint smile.

Three minutes later, when a thin layer of bubbles appeared in the black and red liquid gold in the alchemy furnace, Connor's eyes narrowed, knowing that the time had come.

"Rise!" Connor shouted, uttering a Byzantine syllable. As soon as Connor finished speaking, a faint greenish-black-red liquid rose from the alchemy furnace and abruptly hovered between Connor's hands, seemingly unaffected by gravity!

"..." While continuing to chant the incantation, Connor carefully pulled with both hands, and with Connor's movement, the golden liquid was stretched into the shape of a dagger about thirty centimeters long!

Seeing the liquid gold take shape, Connor's smile deepened, and he threw the dagger into the prepared cooling pool.

The fiery dagger came into contact with the icy cold water in the cooling pool, immediately producing a piercing "sizzling" sound.

After the dagger had been fully tempered and cooled in the icy water of the cooling pool, Connor flipped his hand and retrieved the dagger directly from the cooling pool!

"Excellent, excellent! With this, the technique in the Abyss Secret Arts that allows for remote manipulation of objects using mental power will finally come in handy!"

Stroking the blade of the dagger, feeling the chilling power of its killing edge, Connor's face broke into a satisfied smile.

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As dawn broke, in apartment number 16 on Rand Street, Connor, with slightly panda eyes, looked at the three shadowy daggers on the table in front of him, his eyes filled with excitement!

"rise!"

As Connor chanted his incantation, two of the three shadowy daggers on the table trembled slightly and then hovered in mid-air.

With a sudden impulse, Connor used his mental power to control the two shadowy daggers that were suspended in mid-air, and immediately attacked the cushion on the sofa in the distance.

"Rip!"

The cushion, which was lying obediently on the sofa, was immediately pierced by two daggers that came flying at it, leaving it riddled with holes, and the white down inside the cushion was scattered everywhere.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Seeing the power of the two daggers, Connor's face flashed with ecstatic joy, and then he burst into unrestrained laughter in his apartment!

After forging his first Shadow Dagger last night, Connor didn't rest all night and started forging all the raw materials he had bought. However, Connor was a little unlucky in the following forging attempts. Due to various problems, Connor forged two daggers in thirteen attempts. Including the one he forged earlier, he now has a total of three Shadow Daggers.

After finishing the work of forging the Shadow Dagger, Connor did not rest. He immediately set out to find the secret technique in the Abyss Secrets that uses mental power to manipulate objects remotely.

With the help of the chip, Connor spent three hours learning the basics of the secret technique and was able to use his mental power to remotely control the shadow dagger!

"Finally, it's all done!" With a thought, Connor carefully put away the three Shadow Daggers and slowly exhaled a breath of stale air. According to the chip's analysis, the damage caused by these Shadow Daggers was roughly equivalent to a bullet fired from a revolver. Although the damage was similar to that of a bullet, it didn't mean that the Shadow Daggers were equivalent to bullets.

If that were all, Connor's efforts to buy raw materials, alchemy furnaces, and learn secret techniques would be completely meaningless. Connor could simply go back to the black market merchant Vallejo and spend a few gold pounds to buy dozens of bullets!

If you really have to link the Shadow Dagger to bullets, then under Connor's mental power, the Shadow Dagger is like a bullet with eyes that can turn on its own!

"Fifteen attempts, three successes, a 20% success rate—my success rate is pretty good!" Connor stroked his chin with a touch of pride. According to the records in "Reyes Alchemy," as a novice, achieving such a high success rate on his first attempt, Connor fully deserves the title of alchemical genius!

"Regardless of whether Reyes has any ulterior motives towards me, it's always good to keep something in reserve, just in case. Besides, if Reyes asks me why, I won't be able to explain it!" Connor nodded heavily, determined to keep his abilities hidden and not tell Reyes that he had successfully forged the Shadow Dagger for the time being.

"With my current mental strength, wielding two Shadow Daggers simultaneously is already my limit. I will have to sell the third Shadow Dagger for gold pounds..."

This was a pre-determined strategy by Connor. He had memorized the methods for crafting enchanted items and the list of required raw materials from "Reyes Alchemy." Connor didn't recognize most of the required materials, but some of the items he did recognize from the list were enough to astound him. Items like adamantite and mithril were at least hundreds of gold pounds per kilogram.

To purchase these items, even if Connor had inherited the Ferguson family before, given the family's current continuously declining financial situation, it would be difficult for him to continue down the path of alchemy.

Therefore, if Connor wants to go further on the path of alchemy, his only way is to craft enchanted items, sell them, and profit from the price difference. As for who to sell this extra Shadow Dagger to, Connor narrowed his eyes, a "vampire" coming to mind.

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"Sir Surrey, you are truly a generous and selfless elder. I am really counting on you this time!" At the entrance of the Bournemouth Grand Hotel in the East District of Loen, the ruddy-faced merchant Vallejo was bowing and scraping as he carefully helped a richly dressed, white-haired old man into a carriage.

"Hiccup... Vallejo, I'm very satisfied with your hospitality... Don't worry, your wish to join the Valencia Chamber of Commerce... leave it to me... Just wait for my good news within a week... that's all!" Having settled into the carriage, the old man known as "Lord Sari" swayed and pointed a finger covered in age spots at Vallejo. However, he was clearly quite drunk and didn't realize that his finger was already poking Vallejo's smiling face!

(End of this chapter)