Wizard Earl

According to Reyes's account and Connor's own research, historical records indicate that eighty years ago, a powerful alchemist named Paye emerged in the Odin Empire, leaving a significant mark on the wizarding world.

Although the Odin Empire is the largest country on the Byzantine continent, due to its geographical environment, about 50% of its land is unsuitable for human habitation. This unsuitability for human habitation naturally makes it a paradise for wild beasts and magical creatures. As a result, the Odin Empire is rich in magical creature materials, which are much more affordable than other alchemical materials such as metals.

For this reason, alchemists in the Odin Empire generally preferred to use magical beast materials as the main material for alchemy. Paye was a master of using magical beast materials for alchemy. According to Reyes, he met Paye a month before Paye's death and discussed alchemy with him.

Although Reyes didn't elaborate on his conversations with Payer in "Reyes Alchemy"—he glossed over this detail—Connor could still discern Reyes's admiration for Payer's alchemical methods through his writing, a rare occurrence for Reyes.

As a master alchemist, Reyes was very proud. In his book "Reyes Alchemy" for Connor, he mentioned many alchemists, but among them, only a handful, such as Southgate and Payet, received his praise. This shows that Payet's alchemical skills were extremely high.

Regarding the use of magical beast materials, Paye once conducted a very mysterious research project, named after himself, titled "The Synthesis of Paye's Artificial Magical Metal."

In the wizarding world, mage metal, a metal capable of carrying and storing energy, has thousands of known types. Some wizards prefer to classify mage metal according to its properties and energy intensity, but alchemists, as the primary users of mage metal, typically divide it into two main categories: artificial mage metal and natural mage metal.

Natural magic gold is easy to understand; it is magic gold that forms naturally under the influence of energy changes in space. Artificial magic gold, on the other hand, is magic gold that has been refined by alchemists through alchemy techniques.

After the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, cultivation resources on the Byzantine continent gradually became scarce. Therefore, in order to meet the cultivation needs of modern wizards, the concept of artificial magic gold emerged two hundred years ago and has developed significantly over the past two hundred years. However, to date, compared with natural magic gold, the artificial magic gold refined by alchemists still has many shortcomings.

As mentioned earlier, the Odin Empire is rich in magical materials. However, due to its poor economic development, the Odin Empire's technology in mining and mineral exploration is also below the average level of the Byzantine continent. The lack of technological expertise in the mining industry directly results in a low output of various natural magical metals in the Odin Empire.

Magic gold, as the main component of enchanted items in the hands of wizards, is an indispensable part of wizarding cultivation. The demand for magic gold in the entire Odin Empire wizarding world is very high, but its own production of magic gold is insufficient. This has led the wizards of the Odin Empire to try to import magic gold from other countries on the Byzantine continent, such as the Kaman Empire, the Fast Empire, and the Persis Empire. However, for various reasons, these countries not only charge high prices for magic gold exported to Odin, but also impose many restrictions.

In this context, the alchemists of the Odin Empire did not want to be forever controlled by other countries in the field of magic metal, so they began to try to develop artificial magic metal technology, attempting to use a technological revolution to free their country from this embarrassing situation.

Alchemist Paye was the pioneer of this project. He took advantage of the abundance and low price of magical beast materials in the Odin Empire and chose them as the starting point for his artificial magic metals!

As an alchemist, Connor had always been very interested in Paye's artificial magic metal synthesis and had been trying to find more information on this subject. Unfortunately, what Connor collected were just rumors and lacked any real alchemical technology.

However, in the Wizarding World, all the rumors and information about Paye's artificial magic metal synthesis are similar, with a few common points.

Firstly, the first common point is that Paye's method of synthesizing artificial magic gold is extremely bloody and cruel. In each experiment, dozens or even hundreds of wild beasts and magical beasts lose their lives. In order to achieve the desired effect in the experiment, Paye is not satisfied with using wild beasts and magical beasts as test subjects. He even uses humans as part of his experiments!

The second commonality is that Paye's research on artificial magic metal synthesis technology has achieved a significant breakthrough. Magic metal refined using his alchemy methods is significantly superior to other artificial magic metals in many aspects, including energy conductivity, energy storage, and durability. However, because Paye's artificial magic metal synthesis method is extremely cruel and bloody, the finished product emits a bloody and foul odor!

The third common point is that after Paye achieved phased results in the synthesis of artificial magic metal, a mysterious and powerful wizarding organization realized the enormous value it contained and wanted to recruit Paye. However, Paye resolutely refused. This wizarding organization also acted very domineeringly. Since you can't be used by me, I would rather destroy you than let someone else have you. So one day, they raided Paye's alchemy laboratory, killed Paye, and took away all his experimental results.

From that time on, no one in the wizarding world ever saw Paye again. Only the occasional appearance of a few types of Paye magic metals could remind people of the cruel and bloodthirsty alchemist Paye of the Odin Empire. And the artificial magic metals refined using the alchemy methods created by Paye are collectively known in the wizarding world as Paye magic metals!

The reason Connor went to Robbie today to ask about Prince Boateng was an adventure after he learned that Robbie's backer was Fabian Boateng. As he told Robbie in Arshavin's optician's shop, the feud between Prince Boateng and Fabian Boateng was an open secret in Odin's wizarding circles, and it wasn't difficult to find out if one was willing to investigate.