Marvel: The Alchemist Just Wants a Peaceful Life

Thinking about his own little bathhouse and then looking at this huge bathhouse, Sherlock had only one thought left in his mind.

want to!

And coincidentally, the golden retriever next to him, who was treating the Meowth Hammer like his wife, was the crown prince of this place and one of the richest people here. Sherlock hardly used his brains; he simply used the small gifts he brought to easily exchange with Thor for a promise to help him gather the medicine and the faucet.

Sherlock and Thor were both very pleased with this. Sherlock had the materials and herbs to rebuild his bathhouse, while Thor received a pink dress with Hello Kitty printed on it.

Thor even complained to Sherlock for a while about his father, Odin.

He also stated that the Thor armor he transformed into on Earth was his favorite armor set in his life, and even the design of the Mjolnir was his favorite design. The only drawback might be the twin ponytails that were forcibly tied to his head.

But what he considered such a perfect look was severely punished by his father after he defeated Loki. Not only was his most satisfying outfit destroyed, but his father also forcibly turned Mjolnir back to its original form.

Thor was depressed for a long time because of this.

Sherlock was genuinely curious as to why Thor was so fixated on that obviously garish outfit.

Thor's answer, however, seemed to reshape Sherlock's worldview.

First of all, even now, Thor's biggest dream is to become a so-called 'Valkyrie'! Secondly, even now, Thor genuinely believes that the skirt armor has a much greater range of motion than his own armor, and Thor quite enjoys the healthy breeze blowing on his buttocks.

Hearing Thor's words, Sherlock could only fall silent, his lips twitching.

Sherlock genuinely didn't know how to respond to Thor. Odin was really unlucky; his eldest daughter was a dark berserker, and his second son was not only illiterate but also a simple-minded brute who wanted to become a Valkyrie.

He even seems to have a bit of a cross-dressing fetish now! He might even become a spendthrift in the future.

The youngest son was full of clever tricks but lacked wisdom, and he always wanted to have a showdown with his second son.

Suddenly, Sherlock felt a pang of pity for old Odin; it was truly an unfortunate end to his life.

The three of them soaked in the bath for the entire morning, until lunchtime, when Frigga, having learned that Thor had brought Sherlock to the bathhouse, found them and dragged them away by the ear.

Who would have thought that Frigga, the dignified and elegant goddess in the movie, would behave like this when facing her foolish son, Saul?

Especially since it happened in front of Sherlock, it even gave Sherlock a feeling of returning to his classmate's hometown in Northeast China in a past life.

The vision of parents scolding their friends while cheerfully greeting him, and his classmates telling him to eat and drink well with tears in their eyes, only to turn around and get beaten up again, kept appearing before Sherlock's eyes.

It's no wonder Frigga was so angry. Putting aside Thor's 'rebellious' remarks in the hall, the fact that Thor brought Sherlock, an alchemist, to the bath was enough to infuriate Frigga.

When facing her son, even the dignified goddess is nothing more than an ordinary mother.

Sherlock didn't find this objectionable at all; in fact, he watched with great interest as Frigga dealt with Thor while telling him to drive the group back to the palace.

The reason Frigga was in such a hurry was quite simple: Odin had hosted a luncheon in the palace to entertain Sherlock, the alchemist, and the Ancient One, the Sorcerer Supreme.

However, when Sherlock, carrying Doro, followed Frigga and her son back into the hall, he was stunned by what he saw.

The Ancient One, who had been at loggerheads with Odin before leaving that morning, was now laughing and drinking with Odin, showing no signs of the previous animosity between them.

In particular, when the Ancient One saw Sherlock enter with Thor, she actually smiled and raised her glass to him!

Although the Ancient One's expression showed no sign of anything strange, still displaying the same unchanging smile of the Sorcerer Supreme, it still made Sherlock's heart skip a beat.

A bad feeling quickly spread through Sherlock's mind the moment he saw the Ancient One again.

Oh no, I'm afraid I've been sold out by that Ancient One again!

What frustrated Sherlock the most was that he had no idea what had happened, not even how the Ancient One had sold him!

Even if Sherlock wanted to retaliate, he felt completely helpless!

Chapter 101 Asgard's Cultural Discontinuity

One thing that must be said is that Western countries, or rather, the mythological systems based on Western cultural symbols, or even those real countries, really don't have much of a food culture.

Basically, every three sentences revolve around roasting meat and stewing vegetables, which are essentially just three cooking methods: roasting over a fire, stewing in water, or steaming.

Even a divine realm like Asgard cannot escape this curse, and even more so, it has implemented these three cooking methods more thoroughly. After all, Asgard did not have the culinary culture passed down from the rabbits, so it was impossible for them to know the essence of stir-frying.

This led to a situation where, in the eyes of the Ancient One and Sherlock, two Earthlings, the luncheon in Asgard was nothing special except for the unique ingredients.

What? You mean Doro? This little foodie never cares about surprises or anything like that; as long as it tastes good and he's full, that's all that matters.

What Sherlock found less pleasant was that Odin and Frigga's gazes were almost entirely fixed on Doro throughout the entire gathering, giving off an inexplicable feeling of grandparents looking at their granddaughter.

This made Sherlock feel extremely threatened, and he even began to regret bringing Doro to Asgard.

After the luncheon, Sherlock finally understood why he felt that flutter in his heart when he looked at the Ancient One.

It's true that the Ancient One came to confront Odin, but with Sherlock's alchemy skills, the Ancient One's negotiations were remarkably successful. Odin not only relinquished ownership of the Destroyer armor but also 'unreasonably' agreed to allow Sherlock to open the Asgardian library to him for a month.

Simply put, for a whole month, Sherlock could freely learn all the magical technologies of Asgard in the library.

No one can stop Sherlock from learning; even the core technologies of Asgard are fully open to Sherlock!

It will be a month later before the Ancient One comes to take Sherlock back to Earth, and throughout the entire process, no one in Asgard can do anything to stop him.

How could Odin, an old man, agree to such a treaty that Shylock considered 'humiliating and detrimental to the nation' without any objection?

Not only did they agree, but none of the Asgardians in the entire hall even noticed anything amiss!

Upon learning this news, Sherlock's uneasy feeling intensified, yet he couldn't find any reason to refute the unease he felt, as if he had been tricked.

This made Sherlock feel extremely uncomfortable.

In particular, when the Ancient One was about to leave after the luncheon, she jokingly told Sherlock to study hard, but she didn't tell Sherlock what had happened, which made Sherlock even more upset.

As for why Sherlock didn't refuse such a condition?

It's simple, Sherlock really can't refuse, because he's genuinely envious of the alchemy and magic runes in Asgard's magical technology.

What puzzled Sherlock was that after sending the Ancient One away, Odin almost immediately had Frigga and Thor take Sherlock to the library, even giving Sherlock a feeling of impatience.

Is this compensation really fair?

Sherlock's head was filled with more and more questions.

However, after Sherlock entered the library and secluded himself there for a whole week to study Asgardian magic and technology, he finally understood what this awkward feeling was all about.

"Gu Yi! You fucking screwed me over again!!!"

Early in the morning, a roar came from the library of the Asgardian palace, clearly indicating that Sherlock had finally discovered the truth inside the library.

The truth is actually quite simple: it was the scarcity of alchemists that made Odin value Sherlock so highly.

It is no exaggeration to say that there are only a handful of people in the entire universe who have mastered alchemy, and without exception, they have all become so-called masters.

Alchemists like Sherlock, who can easily perform human transmutation and appear to succeed, are fewer than a handful in the entire universe!

The so-called magical technology of Asgard is nothing more than a pseudo-alchemical product created by forcibly imitating alchemy through magical circuits.

When Sherlock analyzed the Mjolnir, the complex arrays and magical runes inside were essentially just imitations of alchemy.

Without understanding this magical technology, Sherlock would feel that the array of runes and magic patterns that constructed the Meow Hammer was extremely powerful.

However, after Sherlock spent a whole week learning systematically here, he realized that compared to real alchemy, the magical technology contained in the Meowth Hammer contained too much redundant and obsolete code.

To use a somewhat inappropriate analogy, if we compare a magical artifact to a computer, then alchemy can essentially modify 0s and 1s, while magical technology can only be modified using programming languages.

Its upper limit is locked; it can only be said to be infinitely close to the essence of 0 and 1 in alchemy, but it can never reach the level of directly manipulating 0 and 1.

Of course, this doesn't mean that magic technology is weak. On the contrary, the ideas and experiences that Asgard has developed over the years to become an interstellar civilization are definitely something Sherlock should learn from.

However, whenever Sherlock thinks about how he marveled at the advanced design of the Meow Meow Hammer when he was analyzing it, he feels an urge to smash his head against his own head.

It can only be said that he suffered from a lack of cultural knowledge. If he had been more knowledgeable back then and could have seen through the redundant designs in the Mjolnir, Sherlock wouldn't have been tricked by the Ancient One again like this today.

The reason why Sherlock said he had been tricked by that bastard Ancient One again is quite simple.

Inside the library, Sherlock discovered blueprints for a wide variety of things, from the overall structure of Asgard to the design of the Mjolnir and Stormbreaker.

Sherlock discovered that many of these items were covered in dust and had not been touched at all.

This means that many things here have not been maintained for a long time!

Sherlock initially thought he had guessed wrong. After all, a behemoth like Asgard couldn't possibly have a population of soldiers who were all muscle and thus lost their cultural heritage, could it?

However, to Sherlock's utter surprise, things really were just like that!

Odin was somewhat impatient because he wanted Sherlock to figure these things out so that he could carry out a maintenance of the entire Asgard.

As for why things turned out this way, we have to mention Odin's personality in his youth: he valued military prowess over civil affairs and loved to wage war everywhere.

In short, it's no exaggeration to say that it was all Old Deng's own doing.

Giving Sherlock access to Asgard's magical technology was simply one of the prices Odin paid to protect Asgard.

You might say, "Aren't the Meowth Hammer and the Stormbreaker weapons designed by dwarves?"

That's right, these dwarves are already considered the top 'technicians' in all of Asgard!

Or to be more precise, these dwarves were merely skilled workers.

Whether it's the design blueprints for the Stormbreaker or the already manufactured Meowth Hammer, they are all legacies left by their predecessors.

To put it simply, Asgard is now very much like NASA in the United States. It has the blueprints for a rocket that can land on the moon, but it ends up being unable to understand or build it.

Of course, at present, it is only Sherlock's guess that Odin wants to make Sherlock a laborer, but even if it is true, Sherlock feels that there is a lot of room for maneuver in this matter.

Chapter 102 Doro's Great Adventure in Asgard

After the luncheon, Sherlock went straight into the library to begin studying Asgardian magic and technology. Doro, who had brought Sherlock along, naturally followed him into the library as well.

However, the drawings and books in Asgard's library, filled with text and rigid lines, naturally did not arouse Doro's interest in the slightest.

While Sherlock was frantically learning Asgardian magic and technology, Doro was also embarking on his own grand adventure.

For Doro, the first step of this adventure was naturally to visit the library in Asgard where Sherlock was!

It must be said that Asgard's library is large, but it is definitely not so large that you can't see the end of it at a glance, so Doro quickly explored the entire library.

Furthermore, Doro discovered some 'treasures' tucked away in the corner of the library! Among them were blueprints for the Infinity Gauntlet and the Tesseract, as well as a true chronicle of Asgard.

Although the chronicle was richly illustrated, Doro, like Thor, was illiterate. Therefore, the uncultured Doro only looked at the pictures in the chronicle, fiddled with the portrait of Hela for a while, and then casually tossed the chronicle into a corner.

And this process didn't even take a whole morning.

Unable to contain his loneliness, Doro pondered for a while before finally deciding to go on an adventure! Brave Doro is not afraid of difficulties!

After checking the food and water reserves in his four-dimensional pocket, Doro carefully examined his two weapons: a mini version of the Meow Meow Hammer and a mini version of the Mark II armor that Sherlock had turned into a ball for quick wear.

With everything ready, Doro strode confidently through the library doors and began his exploration of the Asgardian palace.